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The pagers were distributed to a terrorist organization for the sole purpose of communicating orders of command, orders of war. The pages are not for innocent civilians to learn about what time supper is served. Civilians are using cell phones not taking command instructions to shoot rockets at civilians via pages. Not receiving pages to show up to build rockets or drive trucks into Syria to haul explosives. It was a brilliant, targeted strike at an enemy combatant funded by Iran. Whose sole purpose is to support Iranian terrorist interests. Hezbollah has zero interest in helping the Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank. If they did they would have done more with the 30,000 rockets that they have in Lebanon now. Taken more actions against Israel over the last eight months. Instead they have listened to their Iranian masters biding their time till Iran has their nuclear weapons ready. If you want to rationalize Israel terrorism upon the innocents and put them on a leash. Here it is: Seizing the West Bank: Extremist settlers in power - BBC World Service Documentaries Its a 59 minute BBC video and is reason alone for the US to cut funding and limit support to Israel.Its also very difficult to watch.

Absolutely agree. I don't see evidence of that. IMO its more of birds of a feather flocking together. " Her former boss James O’Keefe, the ousted CEO of Project Veritas, described her in the foreword to Loomer’s 2021 memoir, Loomered, as “[not] wired like other people.” It’s as if, he writes, she is in possession of a brain that “doesn’t process information like the rest of us.” O’Keefe also notes that “she appears to be functionally immune to fear, to shame, and to embarrassment.” All she would have to do is flatter trump and they would be going at it like rabbits in the warrens that they both call home.

IMO education and advanced degrees will change broadly as a result of AI. Philosophy, history and the so called liberal arts will have to emphasize critical thinking skills. Partially because mathematics and mechanical problem solving are natural areas of address for AI. But AI will also exploit the gullibility and trust of people W/O a broad area of skeptical thinking.

I'll leave that up to the US state dept, as of Oct. 8, 1997 it was. US attacks including the suicide truck bombings of the US Embassy in Beirut in April 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut in October 1983, and the US Embassy annex in Beirut in September 1984, as well as the hijacking of TWA 847 in 1985 and the Khobar Towers"

Likely because cell phones can be tracked and intercepted. Pagers have no transmission. Hezbollah probably used the old Osama Bin Laden training manual.

Israel has attacked Hezbollah either killing or wounded over 1,000 Hezbollah members and leaders. They provided exploding pagers to the organization and sent out the termination of service notice today. Iran's ambassador to Lebanon is reported to be among the wounded.

This has been playing out for quite a while. Oct. 2022 "A global building materials manufacturer and its subsidiary pleaded guilty today to a one-count criminal information charging them with conspiring to provide material support and resources in Northern Syria from 2013 to 2014 to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and the al-Nusrah Front (ANF), both U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations. Immediately following the defendants’ guilty pleas this morning, U.S. District Judge William F. Kuntz II sentenced the defendants to terms of probation and to pay financial penalties, including criminal fines and forfeiture, totaling $777.78 million." It may have led to the corporate world abandoning Russia when it invaded Ukraine. As profits from other western companies could have been subject to seizure for aiding Russia.

Trump recently announced a new project to supply California with water from Canada. Evidently a 'very large faucet" of a Canadian river that flows into the ocean and is thus wasted can be rerouted to California. As the "greatest builder" in US history trump enterprises will get the water to flow uphill and over to the thirsty US S.W. Genius, his supporters cheered.

After trump's accountant went to jail the obvious benefits of crypto to evade taxes, avoid tracking of bribes, etc. May also have something to do with his sudden epiphany.

Accountability is for the peasants. For those with gold bathroom fixtures and private jets there is the golden rule. Those with the gold, rule.

All very good points but I'd hope that the assassination "attempts" would stop. He gets sympathy, fund raising and attention off each attempt. When you call upon your base for violence. When you promise to pardon your coup partners. When you act as a mafia boss, you have to keep cool to sustain the Teflon facade. Then there is the trump underlings calling for retribution: "Hours after what the F.B.I. called a second attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump, Elon Musk wrote on his social media site — and then deleted — a post suggesting it was odd that nobody had tried to kill President Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris. Mr. Musk said the post on X had been intended as a joke."

Killing the Iran nuclear deal was one of Trump's biggest failures "IAEA, the United Nations watchdog, said Iran’s nuclear-fuel levels rose between June and August, enough to fuel a handful of warheads should Iran make a political decision to pursue weapons." Russia sharing nuclear secrets with Iran fuels U.S.-U.K. worries in exchange for the recent shipments of ballistic missiles from Iran to Russia to be used in Ukraine. The above is just another example of Trump's stupidity that has effected the whole world. So: as a clear and present danger to the entire planet. Are you sure about that?

So billvon was right except for the popcorn. It should be good bourbon or even champagne.

Trump described himself as "not a fan" of cryptocurrency. In 2019, he tweeted that cryptocurrency "can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity." Like father like son.

Pessimist! Only "According to the project's white paper obtained by CoinDesk, 70% of the company's tokens will be reserved for company insiders," trump's youngest son Barron is leading the project."Trump's 18-year-old son Barron, a first-year student at New York University, is identified as the project's "DeFi visionary," according to a white paper on the project obtained by cryptocurrency news site CoinDesk. DeFi, short for "decentralized finance," is a term that refers to financial services offered through public blockchains." Untold billions in wealth will be created right before the election. It is rumoured that Barron himself will have his own image on the new coins.

Coming soon to a GOP supporter near you is an new trump endorsed crypto currency. "In a video posted on X, Mr. Trump said he would introduce the crypto platform, World Liberty Financial, in a livestream at 8 p.m. on Monday. “We’re embracing the future with crypto, and leaving the slow and outdated big banks behind,” he said." Anybody here want to get in on it with "Two of his sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., have promoted World Liberty Financial in recent weeks, posting links to a channel on the messaging app Telegram that provides updates on the project." Since the US is going to hell in a handbasket this is the perfect way to help trump and his family out.

A barbie in Springfield with fresh road kill on the rotisserie.

Trump can't resist an attractive mark, or bait. If it looks easy he grabs it and Kamala had the whole bait shop.

After watching the debate RFK Jr is getting back in the race.

To add insult to injury a Black woman. The ketchup must have been flying by the bucketful last night.

Just had another quarter of under $1 million in revenue.

Trump loves the poorly educated and they love him. W/O a dept of education evangelicals can teach everyone Jebus and the American Taliban will rise bible in hand.

Trump is eliminating the department of education so there will be $224 billion in savings there. Elon and RFK jr. will come up with other savings programs.

In order for the elite to save the poor tax cuts are necessary. Corporations and billionaires need tax cuts. The additional trillions in debt will be spread to every taxpayer ensuring equality for all. As the elites and rich get richer they will drag the poor into the middle classes. Executive jets and luxury yachts need mechanics and stewards. Which are well paying jobs for the average peasant. AI and climate change will have huge detrimental effects on the rich. More storms will require larger yachts for stability. Hence more investments in longer vessels and more jobs.