When the U.S. gives military aid to Israel, the Israeli government is not putting that money in its pocket. The vast majority of the money that the U.S. allocates to Israel each year must be spent on American weapons. That is true, in general, for American military aid to other countries, such as Ukraine.

Those American weapons that Israel purchases are produced in factories across the U.S. So, many American lawmakers have an interest in sustaining that aid because that money ends up flowing into their own states and providing local jobs.

They use taxpayer money to give business to the defense contractors that they’ve invested in. It’s a kickback, to themselves.

“It isn’t crime because it’s the use of violence to create intimidation, to spread fear. That is terror,” he wrote, describing how the campaign had “significantly expanded” in the absence of an adequate police response and with the connivance of some national leaders. The militants had gone from using “cigarette lighters to the weapons of war”, the security chief said, adding that some of those weapons had been provided by the state.

Wow. Leader in the isreali military saying that violent terrorists are using weapons provided by isreal expressly for the purpose.

Remember kids, you only get state sponsored terrorists from terrorist states. isreal is, by its own admission, an apartheid state engaging in terrorism.

Meanwhile, the democratic nominee for president is forced to re-assert that she believes “isreal has a right to defend itself and we will continue to support them with weapons to do so,” specifically because the terrorist state peddles its influence over seas via dark money super pac AIPAC. A terrorist state is legally abusing campaign finance laws in order to sway our elections and politicians. Thanks citizens united! Thanks republican supreme court! Now we’re ALL sponsoring the ongoing isreal terrorism!

Trickle down economics would only work if you gave them a tax cut, and then forced them to spend whatever money they saved. And then they’d have to ensure that the money is being spent in ways that benefit the working class, like supporting a small business or union shop. But they never take it that extra step, so it will always fail. it’s only ever been a handout to the wealthy, designed to inspire loyalty and garner future favors.

Incidents of riders clashing with security guards in China have made headlines in the past.

In January this year, a delivery rider in the eastern city of Qingdao was stabbed to death by a security guard for entering a building without authorisation.

Just another story about how even the tiniest mote of power can corrupt.

A summary of the story, scene breakdown and scripts should be distributed to all cast members in advance.

performers should be able to request a closed set where access is kept to a minimum.

A competent intimacy coordinator should be engaged.

These are not big asks.

In one recording for a major game she first learned it was explicit only when she turned up for work.

“This was actually a full-on sex scene,” she said.

"I had to [vocally] match the scene and through the glass in the booth was the entire team, all male, watching me.

“It was excruciating… at that stage I had been in the games industry a while, and I had never felt so shaken”.

Not unreasonable to say that this situation should not be repeated.

now do isreal!

oh 100%. Him appointing the general to act as a diplomat, which provided him with immunity from prosecution, was a nod to the effectiveness of the plan. You can tell that Zelensky was like “oh yeah, SURE I’ll put a stop to that plan that will financially cripple the country invading mine. [puts hand over the phone, yelling to no one] Hey guys would you pretty please not blow up putins cash cow? ok? ok. [takes hand off phone] See, I’ve done all I can do.”

Thanks for including an archive link, interesting story. It’s crazy to think about how something of such consequence can happen, despite all these official government efforts to stop it, all with a team of just 6 people on a boat with some diving equipment and explosives.

An MoD spokesperson said: “We do not tolerate abuse, bullying or discrimination of any kind and encourage any personnel who believe they have experienced or witnessed unacceptable behaviour to report it. All allegations of unacceptable behaviour are taken extremely seriously and are thoroughly investigated. If proven, swift action will be taken.

“The MoD settled this claim with Kerry-Ann Knight in June, with no admission of liability.”

“We’ve investigated ourselves, found nothing, done nothing, admitted to nothing, but here’s a nice PR-friendly answer and some money to fuck off.”

While I think the Netherlands has a commendable approach to prison and rehabilitation, This dude should not be a representative for your country. If you say he’s served enough time, we can disagree (because he absolutely did not), but the choice to put him in Netherlands Orange and on international TV was a colossal mistake.

pretty dumb point imo

goin the ol’ kissinger route

you’re wrong. I’m not interested in explaining why you’re wrong, maybe someone else will.

then where all the wealth came from

are you being serious right now, is this a real question? In the age of cryptocurrency you’re asking this question.

Most experts do not classify Nipah virus as airborne, though there is consensus that transmission can—and does—occur from short-range exposure to NiV-infected respiratory droplets in close contact settings.[10]

Indirect transmission of Nipah virus via contaminated fomites is likely responsible for many cases in which there was no known direct contact with a NiV-infected person or animal.[

Capitalism, like every other form society takes, is inherently flawed. Power pools, and every system eventually falls into oligarchy. The only way to prevent this, is strong social welfare programs enacted with regularity. This is proven mathematically, here.

The only reason capitalism works there is because of their strong social welfare programs.

You’re wrong.

Ok, so you’re not allowed to try to help people unless you help everyone. And if you’re just a regular person doing what you can, you’re actually in the wrong and deserve to be stabbed whilst trying to break up a fight. Gotcha. Great point, dude.

I don’t have sympathy for a man who literally put himself in harms way using untried methods to make himself judge and jury over vulnerable people.

he did something dangerous and he paid for it with his life.

He tried to help keep his community safe by treating poor, disadvantaged folks like human beings.

Hey but you had to walk past addicts, so we all know you had it worse, and clearly have the moral high ground 🙄

Point out the elected democrat official who was openly calling for violence against republicans? What rhetoric are they even talking about? Us calling them an existential threat to our democracy? If it wasn’t true, we wouldn’t say it. Saying that isn’t calling for violence, and proposing that it does is engaging in the same whataboutism that republicans always do. It’s BS. Republicans shooting republicans and somehow it’s progressives fault 🙄

When Sandy Hook happened and we didn’t even get universal background checks, I saw conservatives plainly that day.