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Comment You have no idea (Score 1) 302

Because it's impossible to write a definition of terrorism that doesn't place the US and Israel as the worst terrorists the world has ever seen, followed by Saudi Arabia.

Shock and Awe? Bush's torture program? Obama's drone fetish - bombing weddings and then bombing responding EMS? Israel bombing TF out of Gaza for a murder in the West Bank?

Comment mostly fascist (Score 2) 51

This is as much nonsense as the Five Eyes all spying on each others citizens and then sharing the ill gotten gains from their intel to get around domestic protections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

See also, "fusion centers" in the US where illegally obtained information is then laundered through local law enforcement. Like this trooper who shadowed and then pulled over and searched a vehicle for going 3mph under the speed limit:

https://www.thedickinsonpress....

Comment Re:Self selection (Score 1) 496

War crimes like launching missiles at civilian areas?

No such thing as a civilian invader. Especially when the invader government mandates military service for Israelis reaching adulthood, and then reservist status until 40 years old.

Everyday for decades? Like those war crimes?

Yes, what Israel does to Palestinians is horrible indeed. Like bombing TF out of Gaza - to which Israelis literally broke out the lawn chairs and beer kegs to watch - for a murder in the West Bank. Or murdering several kids on a beach and then clearing themselves in an internal investigation. Using a severely wounded six year old girl on a cell phone - Israel live monitors all calls in Gaza - to lure in medics who were promptly murdered by the IDF. Two days before Oct 7th, settlers and soldiers attacked a Palestinian village in the illegally occupied West Bank with bullets and tear gas. They murdered a young man. Then, the day before Oct 7th, they again attacked the funeral for the guy they just murdered, again with bullets and tear gas.

But not much better is expected of the racist ethnostate that murdered clearly marked reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, then attacked her funeral procession including the pall bearers carrying her coffin.

Go touch some grass and get some perspective.

You first, Hitler.

Comment Re:It's quite antisemitic of you (Score 1) 496

Distinction without a difference. There are also buttloads of secular Jews who oppose Zionism, as anyone with a brain or morals does.

Because Zionism is a romantic notion no different from Manifest Destiny, except for the fairy tales used to justify it. But to do it in practice is inherently racist AF and utterly dependent on war, ethnic cleansing and Apartheid to make it happen.

No different from Apartheid South Africa, except no fairy tales and Israel is a thousand times worse.

Comment Non-response (Score 1) 496

That's only in the English version.

You say that like it's supposed to mean something.

In the Arab version they

Take it up with the people who created Hamas in the first place: Israel.

make it clear that they want the Levant "free from Jews"

Hamas has zero problem with Jews. Palestine was a peaceful cosmopolitan area for hundreds of years under the Ottomans where a tiny Jewish minority got along just fine with Muslims and Christians.

The problem they actually have is the same problem the Maori, Zulu, Sioux had: racist European invaders killing them and stealing their land. Europeans that have no more claim to the land than if you or I can violently seize a couple homes in China if we convert to Confucianism. Zionism was invented by an atheist, Zionists first looked at making an Israel in Africa or South America before deciding to invade Palestine for a second time according to their own book.

https://www.nbcnews.com/scienc...

That's why we call it ethnic cleansing.

It's not ethnic cleansing when home invaders get kicked out. It's what your home invaders are committing. Openly talking of building luxury real estate on Gaza beaches and trying to bribe Egypt or Congo to take in millions of Palestinians. Millions who will never be allowed to return home, just as millions of Palestinians forced into Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan etc have never been allowed to return after your pogroms.

Comment Re:13 times current _onshore_ renewables (Score 1) 220

You're not in the slightest interested in the data, or the conditions in the UK.

You have yet to present ANY data except anecdotal evidence. I repeat: you have presented ZERO evidence and when reminded about that, you got upset.

I'm done with you.

So you will never admit you have zero evidence. That seems indicative of a denier.

Comment Re:Let him keep the debris (Score 1) 57

Arguably, the homeowner may not want to give it up -- the debris is likely to be worth way more to a collector than the damage it caused, especially since there's video of the crash.

Of course, then the question of "who owns it?" comes up -- the ISS *clearly* discarded it, and by chance it ended up in the homeowner's possession.

Typically, meteorites belong to the land owner where they fall, and this isn't debris from a crash like we had with Columbia -- it's literally trash from space.

So, maybe the lawyers will be arguing about it for a while, or maybe the homeowner will just give it to NASA without any drama -- I know that the previous article says that NASA now has it, but that doesn't mean they get to keep it. Or maybe NASA will analyze it and then return it without any drama.

Either way, I imagine that the homeowner will file a claim with their own insurance, who will then file a claim with NASA or Japan (or both?) and if they recover the money, the homeowner will get their deductable back.

Comment Re: Israeli Fanboys (Score 1) 496

They don't get to claim the moral high ground.

True, and neither does Hamas. For that matter, neither the Israeli nor the Palestinian people get to claim the moral high ground, since both overwhelmingly support the actions of their governments. Both are in the gutter, and digging downward. A pox on both their houses, and I don't think we should support either one. I am okay with humanitarian aid to starving people, though.

Comment Social engineering has been happening for a while (Score 1) 14

At my former company someone emailed HR posing as the CEO. They wanted a copy of every employee's W-2 in PDF form emailed to them by the end of the day. Thankfully HR had many, many questions and called the CEO directly. The first question is why does the CEO need W-2s instead of asking an assistant for whatever information he needed directly (like salary information, etc). Also why does the CEO want thousands of PDFs emailed to an outside inbox, etc.

Comment Re:Sure thing, Adolf (Score 1) 496

Nope. I have a Jewish acquaintance; he says he's 100% Jewish but a DNA test shows all but .5% of his ancestry is eastern European. Many of Israel's PM's have come from Poland, Ukraine and Russia.

European Jews are just like Latin American Catholics: they are converts to a religion. It doesn't mean Hondurans/Brazilians/Columbians etc are entitled to a slice of Palestine as it's the birthplace of their religion.

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