(04-01-2024, 05:00 PM)Maxmars Wrote: How is an attacking a target in Syria a 'declaration' of war with Iran?

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This is a crime from the point of view of any political regime. At any point in human history.
Simply put, even the Nazis did not do this.
Even the Americans, accidentally hitting the Chinese embassy during the bombing of Yugoslavia, apologized profusely.
 
The Israelis have lost their sense of reality and are intoxicated by impunity.

Quote:"This attack is viewed by some in Iran as a declaration of war by Israel against Iran," Azizi wrote on social media.
"It represents a shift from previous engagements, directly hitting Iranian soil represented by its consulate in Syria—as opposed to targeting IRGC officers in Syrian sites."

Quote:Iran would partly justify the lack of response to prior attacks to the fact that the targets were "Syrian" & Damascus had no intention to respond.
Now, the justification doesn't work, as a purely Iranian target has been hit

Quote: Kutcher has not publicly weighed in on the probe into Combs since the feds raided two of the rap mogul’s homes last week.
 
But a source reportedly claimed Monday that Kutcher and Kunis would stay quiet on Combs’ legal troubles following the blowup over the Masterson letters.
 
“There is no way in hell Ashton or Mila will be showing any sort of public support for Diddy right now,” the unnamed source told to the Daily Mail. 

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Reps for Kutcher and Kunis, 40, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
 
Diddy’s sex probe comes just months after Kutcher and wife Mila Kunis faced an onslaught of backlash for publicly voicing their support for convicted rapist and former colleague Danny Masterson ahead of his sentencing hearing.
 
Kutcher, Kunis, and Masterson all starred as teenage pals on “That ‘70s Show” and Kutcher later explained he had been trying to defend the friend he once knew during their time working together. 

(04-01-2024, 10:31 PM)guyfriday Wrote: Just because they are civilians doesn't make them untouchable. 

Quote:This is a tragedy.
Humanitarian aid workers and civilians should NEVER be a target.
EVER!

(04-01-2024, 11:27 PM)Xactamundo Wrote: It struck me today that all the crazy crap being pulled by Biden and his cronies is meant to be a provocation. In hopes that a group of unorganized militia types would say enough is enough and start an armed rebellion. At which point martial law would be imposed, the rebellion squashed in short order and then EO’s written to confiscate all weapons from all citizens by the armed forces. If that were to play out we would forever be lost as a free country. Sort of like Australia just to name one.

(04-01-2024, 10:49 PM)duncanhidao Wrote: Faced with statements of this kind,?​  any type of discussion becomes useless. 

(04-01-2024, 11:51 PM)guyfriday Wrote: Debates can still be made but understanding that if a person is in a war zone, then that person has the possibility of being targeted by one side or the other either by design or default must be understood. I have a few friends that have and still partake in these kinds of adventurous lifestyles of helping others and assisting even more. It's an understanding that these people must understand before they make these choices. 

In major conflicts, civilians taking actions contrary to one side or the others action, can be considered spies or saboteurs on the battlefield. Just because the organizer of the group says otherwise doesn't mean anything to those in the conflict. 

My friend that takes part in "Doctors without Boarders" does so with the clear understanding that he is helping out someone that another side wanted to die. This action makes him a target. These WCK workers should have the same understanding as my friend does. If they don't, if they felt safe, then the people who sent them there need to be examined for not preparing those workers properly. I'm sure their families might need a lawyer to deal with this group and not go after either Israel or Hamas since it was the World Center Kitchen that failed these workers. If on the other hand the WCK did inform and educate these workers about the dangers of going and operating in a combat zone, then these people died knowing full well that this might happen. 

While these don't alleviate the fact that people died, we shouldn't look at them as people that were killed without cause or understanding of why. José Andrés using these peoples deaths as a cry for support is exploitation by him for political gains, or worse personal enrichment through donations to his group. This really should be a separate thread all together, but the reason why it should be discussed here is for the same reasons why CGI (Clinton Global Initiative) is topical. These people seem to both take advantage of and in cases, create global events in order to push out a helpful hand in the shape of a fist.

Let's not forget that Anthony Bourdain was digging into human trafficking when he died, and one of the people that knew where he was staying was José Andrés. While I do not dispute that Bourdain died due to his own hand (autoerotic asphyxiation), but instead question who were the people that ransacked his room, looking reportedly for his notes, before the police or even Hotel staff got into there? Where they José Andrés' people or someone else's?

Quote:Finally, the day was completed by what Putin said, speaking off the cuff in a meeting with the pilots of the Russian Air Force in the western region of Tver, and since, as the Latins said “audiatur et alter pars”, it is good to know what he actually said, according to a verbatim transcription of his words:

“In 2022, the USA spent 811 billion dollars on defense and the Russian Federation 72 billion: the difference is evident, more than 10 times. 39% of global defense spending comes from the USA, while Russia accounts for 3.5%. And (…) would we fight against NATO?
It's nonsense.
Also what are we doing now with our special military operation? We protect our people who live in our historic territories. If after the collapse of the Soviet Union, as proposed by Russia, completely new security relations had been built in Europe, nothing like today would have happened: we would simply take into account our interests in the field of security, which we talk about year after year year, from decade to decade: but only complete ignorance. They arrived directly at our borders. Were we perhaps moving towards the borders of the countries of the NATO bloc? We didn't touch anyone. They were moving towards us. Have we crossed the ocean to the US borders? No, they are getting closer to us, and have gotten closer. What are we doing? We only protect our people in our historic territories. Therefore what they say about us attacking Europe after Ukraine is complete nonsense. They intimidate their population for the sole purpose of extorting money from them (…). Their economy is contracting and living standards are dropping (…): they need to justify themselves, so they scare their population with a possible Russian threat (…). NATO is the organization of the North Atlantic bloc: where is it going now? It is spreading to Asia Pacific, the Middle East, other regions and is already entering Latin America. And all under various pretexts (…) dragging their European satellites. They believe that all this somehow corresponds to their national interests. They are afraid of a big and strong Russia, even if they do it in vain.
We have no aggressive intentions towards these states.
We would never have done anything in Ukraine if there had not been a coup and then military operations in Donbass.
They started the war in 2014, they simply used aviation, everyone saw these bombings when they hit Donetsk, a peaceful city, with missiles from the sky. Nonetheless, we accepted the Minsk agreements. Then it turns out that they cheated us by delaying for eight years and ultimately forced us to switch to another form of protection of our interests and our people.
Therefore, the possibility of an attack on other countries, on Poland, on the Baltic states is complete nonsense and they are also scaring the Czechs.
Nonsense. Another way to deceive your population and extort additional expenses.
Nothing else. 

Quote:The Canadian television channel CBC News decided to conduct an experiment and sent a 14-year-old girl undercover to one of the gender clinics.
According to the story, she consults a doctor.
And this is what came out:

After 5 minutes of conversation, the doctor asked if the girl wanted to have her breasts removed.
After 7 minutes I asked her if she had thought about removing the uterus, since internal organs can cause dysphoria (low mood).
After 9 minutes, the girl received a testosterone prescription.

Do you think that after the report on this crazy story was published, the clinic closed in disgrace?
NO. But the channel's headquarters in Montreal was almost destroyed by 'transgender activists'