I can guarantee I know history in this region better than you. — BitconnectCarlos
Since I notice no people at all falling down stairs, I have to ask: Does Mikie live or work in a building with exceptionally perilous stairwells? — Vera Mont
That is the point: without US support, Ukraine, Korea, Vietnam, the Iraqi government, Israel, etc., wouldn’t have lasted too long. US support is crucial. Okay, then we ask: so what? Given this fact, the further question is: Why Korea and Ukraine and Israel or Nicaragua, but not Sudan or East Timor or Nigeria or Haiti?
— Mikie
So what?
What do you have against K-Pop? Of having South Korean electronic gadgets and cars? Of them being wealthy and not on the verge of famine? — ssu
Here is a large report that explains some of the tipping points and what we might expect and what we ought to be doing about it politically. It's fairly up to date, and well researched. Seems mightily optimistic to me about the ability/possibility for human society to find its own transformative positive tipping points in terms of world governance and mitigating technologies and lifestyle adaptation. But hope springs 'til the last minute. — unenlightened
And they have here the agency. We are just giving them support. What's so wrong with that. — ssu
So what's your point? — ssu
It's not just the US fighting a war through it's proxy. — ssu
But do notice that Europe combined has actually given more than the US. — ssu
Statement of opinion, no reason for your opinions given in this paragraph. — Sir2u
About wankers that have taken an introduction to philosophy course in high school and thought that the 5 ideas they got from reading about ten philosophers were the only ones that counted and everyone else was dumb because they did not agree with them. — Sir2u
If you did not have your head stuck so far up your arse that you can lick your own cerebellum you might have responded more reasonably when I posted this. — Sir2u
one cannot colonise the land to which one is indigenous to. — BitconnectCarlos
IOW, almost a genocide! — RogueAI
Everything is genocide — BitconnectCarlos
obviously genocide — RogueAI
That's the most compelling argument I've read today. — Vera Mont
I asked because I read you as saying that the 2008 interpretation was finally the correct and original interpretation, which I disagree with. — tim wood
That's it? What the Ukrainians wanted has nothing to do with it? — jorndoe
My invitation to you was for you to make the bridge, not to refer me to a video. — tim wood
And original intent is in itself absurd. — tim wood
Hamas — BitconnectCarlos
Iran launched a broad aerial attack on Israel from its territory on Saturday, in retaliation for a deadly Israeli airstrike in early April on the Iranian Embassy complex in Damascus, the Israeli military and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps said.
Just before 2 a.m. local time, air-raid sirens sounded across southern Israel. The government sent out dozens of warnings about possible missiles and aircraft arriving in the Negev Desert, where there are several military bases.
Scalia's reading of the 2A as guaranteeing a right to guns for self-defense is simply a brutal misreading of the plain English of its 27 words - as well as the intentions of the founders. And one wonders why he did it. — tim wood
To insist on zero civilian deaths — BitconnectCarlos
Otherwise we have what the something like the OP is and claims to be against, just a bunch of statements. — Sir2u
There are 400 million+ guns in America. It's easy for criminals to get their hands on one. Law-abiding citizens should have access to guns to counter the threat and that requires gun manufacturers. — RogueAI
I invite you to be the very first to build the bridge that connects the 2A with any modern interpretation of it. — tim wood
I think that's why Bibi's initial reaction to the attack was so extreme. This was certainly no blessing. — Tzeentch
Did you hear about the 14 year Israeli shepherd boy abducted and murdered in the West Bank yesterday? — BitconnectCarlos
You have no good response to this one. — BitconnectCarlos
Are you an American, Mikie? Would you be a fair target for a terrorist angry at America's actions? — BitconnectCarlos
It's not a proxy war to them — ssu
For me the enemy is always the enemy combatants, fighters or servicemen. Legal or illegal. Not the civilians. — ssu
With you, nothing is certain even with the emoji. — L'éléphant
Russia proposed to give back all the territory they conquered during the invasion in exchange for Ukrainian neutrality. It's the West who blocked that deal. The Ukrainian delegation put its signature under it, whether you like it or not.
The "Russian territorial greed" narrative is swept off the table, and so is the narrative that the West is preoccupied in any way with the well-being of Ukraine. — Tzeentch
For the first time since 1920, the government has raised the rates that companies pay. The fossil fuel industry says it will hurt the economy.
Supporters say the changes announced Friday will better compensate taxpayers for fossil fuel extraction on federal lands, and that they will prevent taxpayers from footing the bill for cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells. After ending their drilling operations or going out of business, fossil fuel companies have walked away from thousands of wells, leaving the sites leaking greenhouse gases and toxic substances such as arsenic and benzene.
The bipartisan infrastructure law of 2021 provided a record $4.7 billion for states’ efforts to plug these “orphan” wells. But the federal funding may make only a small dent in the problem, with some experts estimating that there could be millions of undiscovered orphan wells across the country.
“There are costs of doing business, and the industry should shoulder the costs of cleanup for their operations,” said Autumn Hanna, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan watchdog group. “They’re extracting oil and gas from public lands for their own profit, and those resources are owned by taxpayers, who should not be left to shoulder the cleanup costs themselves.”
Kate Groetzinger, communications manager at the Center for Western Priorities, a conservation group, said the changes are “only fair” after the country’s largest oil and gas companies reported their biggest annual profits in a decade last year. ExxonMobil reported $36 billion in earnings, while Chevron netted $21.4 billion.