(04-13-2024, 08:17 PM)rothschild Wrote:  I'll probably end up on the terrorist watch list and/or the no-fly list.

I know you probably say that in jest, but I can totally see that happening.

I try not to be shocked or surprised at what I see going down everyday, but I'm not always successful.

(04-14-2024, 01:30 AM)Clang McFly Wrote: A guy I know on the dark web or was the dork web(?) swears that all that stuff can be used to build bombs.

I did not know that, but if true, that would explain a lot.

Yesterday I was reading what went down in one of the hospitals in Palestine and it was so fricken barbaric. Is it true, is it propaganda, I don't know!

(04-14-2024, 08:22 AM)Duchess Wrote:

(04-13-2024, 08:17 PM)rothschild Wrote:  I'll probably end up on the terrorist watch list and/or the no-fly list.

I know you probably say that in jest, but I can totally see that happening.

I try not to be shocked or surprised at what I see going down everyday, but I'm not always successful.

We've been moving towards the Chinese version of "democracy" for a good long time. The "war on terrorism" is a war on the citizenry, as far as I'm concerned. The people at the top of the food chain are psychopaths. The good news is that people are starting to wake up to the danger this poses to the 99%. We'd best fight now while we still have some of our freedom left.

A photographer won the World Press Photo of The Year with this picture from Gaza.

rothschild, today I read our SoS is days away from announcing sanctions on IDF for their human rights violations and this was based on their (IDF'S) actions taken BEFORE Hamas targeted Israel last October. IDF didn't need a massacre for them to engage in fuckery.

(04-20-2024, 06:58 PM)Duchess Wrote: rothschild, today I read our SoS is days away from announcing sanctions on IDF for their human rights violations and this was based on their (IDF'S) actions taken BEFORE Hamas targeted Israel last October. IDF didn't need a massacre for them to engage in fuckery.

I think it's damage control because of the cratering of world opinion re Israel. What they've done has undone decades of propaganda portraying Israel as a peaceful democracy. The mask is off and the world is filled with revulsion.

I don't see them putting the genie back in the bottle.

Israel's streets were filled again tonight with citizens protesting Bibi.

War, what is it good for?

(04-20-2024, 07:57 PM)Duchess Wrote: Israel's streets were filled again tonight with citizens protesting Bibi.

Yup.  

They blame him for being unaware of the impending Oct. 7^th attack, failure to get the hostages back and postponing elections.

They're tired of this conflict being drawn out and not feeling safe under his leadership.

As to the starving Palestinians . . . I don't believe the Israelis falafel about that.

No pita  . . . no pita at all.

(04-20-2024, 09:54 PM)BigMark Wrote: War, what is it good for?

Making money.

(04-20-2024, 10:36 PM)rothschild Wrote:

(04-20-2024, 09:54 PM)BigMark Wrote: War, what is it good for?

Making money.

And that is exactly what Blinken said, during his closing remarks at the G7.

Paraphrasing:  This funding to Ukraine will help our economy by creating jobs.

Actual quote: "And finally, virtually all of the supplemental, will be invested in the United States in defense production, in our own defense industrial base, and that means good jobs in the United States." 

Unfortunately, unlike Israel, Ukraine is under no obligation to repay.

Easy credit you can get it!

(04-20-2024, 10:49 PM)BlueTiki Wrote:

(04-20-2024, 10:36 PM)rothschild Wrote:

(04-20-2024, 09:54 PM)BigMark Wrote: War, what is it good for?

Making money.

And that is exactly what Blinken said, during his closing remarks at the G7.

Paraphrasing:  This funding to Ukraine will help our economy by creating jobs.

Actual quote: "And finally, virtually all of the supplemental, will be invested in the United States in defense production, in our own defense industrial base, and that means good jobs in the United States." 

Unfortunately, unlike Israel, Ukraine is under no obligation to repay.

Easy credit you can get it!

I've heard that most of the power generation in Ukraine has been destroyed. Come winter most of the country will be uninhabitable by civilians.

Is the "aid" going to prevent Russia from taking Odessa? Doubtful, so why not negotiate an end to the annihilation of Ukraine? What's really going on?

There are people here in Australia some of them quite well organised large groups that absolutely do not support Israel and have watched in horror at their rampant genocide.

When they killed the Aussie aid worker the gloves came off. Enough was enough and Netanyahu's response to Australia was perceived as pissweak and that he was laughing at us. It made people more angry. I have seen some grotesque pictures of their murdering. It seems as though they are enjoying it. It is such evil. After the holocaust and what happened to them that they would then turn into the same murdering machine is unimaginable, but it's real.

Jewish students and professors were advised to stay away from campus because the school said they couldn't keep them safe, sounds like a solid recommendation to me, but Jews are losing their shit! They are pissed and referring to it as antisemitism. 

There is no in between for Jews right now, you are either with them or against them, it's one or the other. Why can't I be horrified by the indiscrimate bombing of Palestine without being thought to be antisemitic?    

(04-22-2024, 04:07 PM)Duchess Wrote: Jewish students and professors were advised to stay away from campus because the school said they couldn't keep them safe, sounds like a solid recommendation to me, but Jews are losing their shit! They are pissed and referring to it as antisemitism. 

There is no in between for Jews right now, you are either with them or against them, it's one or the other. Why can't I be horrified by the indiscrimate bombing of Palestine without being thought to be antisemitic? 

Many Jews see Israel as a threat to humanity, including students and professors.

The ADL asserts that criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic, and for good reason -- apartheid is a crime against humanity:

Quote:The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime".

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

Muslim cleric suggests using atomic bomb to defeat Israel.

(04-23-2024, 02:59 AM)rothschild Wrote: Muslim cleric suggests using atomic bomb to defeat Israel.

Sounds like he never learned in school the lesson of the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

We prefer the term commercial company.

Atomic bomb? Jesus Christ.

Israel is running amuck. I have never seen a man revel and enjoy death and run a death machine the way Netanyahu does. It's really sick and evil. When he gave his 'apology' video to Australia it made the situation much worse. Just the smiling looked like he was trying to pull the wool over our eyes. Trying to con us.