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Biden to Jews: ‘No’ to Defending against Iran’s Nuclear Weapons

If there is one rule under international law that is unequivocal, it is that a state that has been attacked by another state has the right to defend itself.

“Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations,” states Article 51 of the United Nations Charter.

This is true for every country – except it seems for Israel. When it comes to the world’s only Jewish state, apparently, the rules do not apply.

I feel a little embarrassed when someone implies Biden is in control. I don’t know who is running the US but it certainly isn’t Joe Biden.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", USA

US to give Israel ‘compensation’ if it hits acceptable targets in Iran – report

The US has reportedly offered Israel a “compensation package” if it refrains from attacking certain targets in Iran, according to a report in Kan11 on Sunday.

Amichai Stein told them that he had received reports from US officials that the US had offered Israel a “compensation package” if it refrained from hitting specific targets in Iran.

I don’t think Joe is being consulted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", USA

The Russians had money. The Canadian had far-right influencers. The U.S. Department of Justice says it has a criminal case

If it were a movie, it might feel a little too cliched: Russia funnelling money through a maze of shell accounts, a ploy to push stories favourable to a foreign power, and a supergroup of telegenic stars of the right wing media-sphere.

At least, that’s if the allegations laid out in an explosive 32-page American indictment are proven true. The claim is this: that a fledgling Tennessee-based media company took $10 million (U.S.) — provided by Russians who they all claimed was a fictional European businessman — in order to recruit a gaggle of high-profile YouTubers and post videos that, at best, inflamed existing American social divides and in some cases pushed untrue version of news events designed to paint the Kremlin in an advantageous light.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", Canada, USA

Botched Plea Deals with 9/11 Plotters Get Worse for Biden Administration

By attempting to renege on the deals, the administration may have taken the death penalty off the table for some of the plotters.

The botched plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists is a signature Biden-Harris administration moment: a scheme, apparently double-wrapped in incompetence, to spare the Democrats’ presidential candidate — first the senescent one, then the vacuous one — from an unpopular political decision.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in9/11, USA, WTF?

Hurricane Helene is America’s Chernobyl moment

The tragedy exposes the weakness of the US military

Hurricane Katrina looms large in American cultural consciousness. As one of the defining events during George W. Bush’s second term as president, the scale of the devastation that struck Louisiana — combined with the inadequacy of the relief effort — earned notoriety even outside the United States. Almost 20 years after the levees broke, another storm has swept in an unprecedented catastrophe: the economic and human cost of Hurricane Helene might be even greater than that of Katrina. So why, then, are so few people acting like that is the case?

In Appalachia, one of the poorest regions in the country, the common belief is that the mountains protect the locals from storms. Unfortunately, this is true only up to a point: when a hurricane like Helene hits — bringing once-in-a-thousand-years levels of rainfall — the mountains become a curse rather than a blessing. Helene has brought the mountains down, triggering mudslides and rockfalls that have destroyed entire towns and obliterated almost every road in a vast radius.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You", USA

Elon Musk for President?

The Constitution limits eligibility to natural-born citizens, but that’s what constitutional amendments are for.

Need a made-in-the-U.S.A. reusable space rocket to end NASA’s reliance on Russia to access the International Space Station? Go to Musk. Need to bolster your party’s war on fossil fuels with a stylish made-in-the-U.S.A. electric car? Go to Musk. Need to develop a functional commercial space program? Go to Musk. Need a low-orbit satellite system to bring internet access to isolated and underserved populations? Go to Musk. Need a rapid relaunch option in case Russia or China starts shooting our satellites out of orbit? Go to Musk.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

SpaceX Engineer In North Carolina Has Dire Warning: Biden-Harris’ FEMA “Actively Blocking Shipments” For Relief

A shocking firsthand account from a SpaceX engineer in storm-battered North Carolina reveals that Biden-Harris’ Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) blocked shipments of critical goods for relief efforts into the region. There have been numerous reports this week of FEMA actively hindering relief efforts in the western part of the state, including threatening private helicopter pilots with arrests for conducting rescue missions. We also learned that the Biden-Harris administration drained FEMA funds to support illegal aliens, prioritizing non-citizens (future voters) over American citizens.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, USA, WTF?

US supreme court will rule on $10bn suit Mexico filed against US gun makers

The US supreme court said on Friday it will decide whether to block a $10bn lawsuit Mexico filed against US gun manufacturers and distributors that argues that their negligent and illegal commercial practices have unleashed bloodshed in the country.

The lawsuit, filed in Boston in August, names Smith & Wesson, Barrett Firearms, Beretta, Colt and Glock, as well as Boston-area wholesaler Interstate Arms.

The Mexican government says it wants to “put an end to the massive damage that the Defendants cause by actively facilitating the unlawful trafficking of their guns to drug cartels and other criminals in Mexico”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights, Mexico, USA

Unchecked Immigration Has Transformed America

The wall of silence surrounding the harm to low-wage workers has begun to crack.

The United States is deep into a season of severe discontent. Our politics are polarized, our Congress is moribund, and our purchasing power has tumbled. A Gallup poll in early 2024 showed that only 20 percent of Americans are satisfied with the “way things are going.” Nearly 70 percent believe the country is on the “wrong track.” 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration is Class War", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", USA

Massive surge of illegal migrants, including suspected terrorists, crossing border from Canada to US

It’s well-known that millions of migrants have illegally entered the United States, crossing over the country’s southern border with Mexico. What isn’t as well-known is migrants are also crossing illegally into the US over its northern border with Canada.

And while it’s very much shy of the numbers coming in from the south, the number of migrants crossing from the north has increased 50-fold under the Biden-Harris administration, according to the US Border Patrol.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Canada, USA

Canada to US Immigration Hits Ten-Year High

Recent data from the US Census Bureau has revealed that more than 126,340 people emigrated from Canada to the US in 2022 – a 70 percent increase from 2012 in a move many have attributed to the country’s increasingly high cost of living. However, as a nation that granted permanent residency to 2.5 million people in just eight years and thousands more expected to settle south of the border in the coming years, it’s an alarming trend that has the potential to undermine the country’s robust immigration policy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Anti-Muslim hate in US rises since 7 October say advocates of Israel’s destruction

Anti-Muslim hate in US rises since 7 October but advocates praise community resilience

Arafat Issa hangs Palestinian flags across a pedestrian bridge in Durham, North Carolina, almost every week. But on 28 July, a man in a baseball cap pulled out a knife and cut the flags down from the steel railing. Issa says the man cursed at him and his family before waving the knife in their direction. They had two small children, including Issa’s four-month-old daughter, with them.

“He told us: go back where you came from,” Issa says. “I was scared … it’s not like we were doing anything wrong. We were peacefully protesting.”

Issa is a 42-year-old Palestinian American barber who has lived in North Carolina for more than a decade. His parents and siblings are in the West Bank, where settler violence against Palestinians is escalating. His experience is one of many examples of anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim hate documented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) since 7 October of last year. “We are seeing an uptick in violent vigilante response to peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters,” said Nicole Fauster-Bradford, a community advocacy director at Cair.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA, WTF?

Destroying America from Inside the Movies

The Damned is a Trojan horse critique of modern America.

Roberto Minervini’s The Damned is titled after Luchino Visconti’s awesome, harrowing 1969 epic about Nazi decadence, The Damned. Minervini is an Italian immigrant (not a “migrant,” as the media and politicians like to misname the illegal invaders) who arrived in the U.S. at age 30 in 2000 — during the Bush-Gore electoral conflict, he recalls. Since then, Minervini graduated from New York City’s socialist university The New School, eventually settling in Texas, where he chose native white locals as the subject of his semi-documentary filmmaking.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA