Democracy Dies in Darkness, right?..
Democracy dies in sanctimonious hypocrisy. It's quite ironic, that a profession that's protected by the 1st amendment, trying to stop the rest of the people from having the same protections.
Democracy Dies in Darkness, right?..
United States chose a uranium/plutonium based nuclear energy program specifically to have material to make weapons as well. Thorium would have been a better choice, not perfect, but the half lifes on the waste wouldn’t have been so long.
Nuclear energy always came with a promise of “we will get better technology to deal with the waste” that never has materialized.
I’ve lived within ten miles of one in the past, friends dad spent his whole career there, it’s a superfund site now because it maxed out its storage, has above and below ground storage.
Israel has had them for decades. how many suicide bombers in the middle east were Jewish? write down that number. now, how many have been Muslim? okay, now...think real hard. who is more likely to use a bomb if they have one? this is not a trick question. yeah, i know, i'm holding past behavior up as what future behavior might be. profiling is a terrible thing, isn't it?
Contrast this with Iran's position on nuclear weapons:We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: 'Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.' I consider it all hopeless at this point. We shall have to try to prevent things from coming to that, if at all possible. Our armed forces, however, are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under.
"In the case of the key and very beneficial nuclear science ... when it was paired with a thirst for more power, it resulted in the creation of the nuclear weapon and turned into a major threat to the world and humanity," Khamenei said. "Although we have always had the ability to tread this path, we declared it haram [forbidden by religion] according to the verdict of the beloved Islam, and therefore there is no reason for us to expend our resources on developing and stockpiling a weapon that is absolutely prohibited [by Islam] to use."
Who would have thought The Intercept had standards? And now for the record, The Wall Street Journal, Fox Business, and now The Intercept has rejected your Hunter Biden is a Chinese prostitute or whatever he is story
You mean the same Washington post that is owned by Jeff Bezos and recently took a 600 million dollar investment from the CIA?
https://hangthebankers.com/washington-post-owner-receives-600-million-cia/
Perhaps you'll consider the perspective of someone involved:
Contrast this with Iran's position on nuclear weapons:
I don't!Seriously, man. It's crazy, isn't it? Censorship! Who would think so many would support it? There's bigger issues at stake than which asshole wins the election. I guess some disagree...
Treason!Embezzlement, money laundering, tax evasion, not registering as a foreign agent, bribery, whatever you call it when you let foreign nations pay you to under the table to sell out your country, and more, I'm sure.
Yep, the very same one.
I know the first part is right. Jeff Bezos owns the post. As for the second you gonna have to source a little bit better to prove your point. One of the countless companies he owns, a tiny one called Amazon (280 billion in retail sales last year)...has a contract with the CIA. Almost everybody has a contract with Amazon, myself included. Oh my! I guess that's why he's a billionaire and I'm not.
But that's not what you said. You said the Washington Post took a $600 million contract. You implied the Post is crooked, taking a bribe, when a separate company, Amazon, owned by the same guy made some money. That's why we gotta fact check statements like the one you just made. We get it, you don't like billionares, but you don't need to slant the facts. The internet is out there... and we can read.
i have already considered that perspective. it has long been viewed that Israeli nukes were a "doomsday" possession, that if so under siege that they were going to be overrun, would just launch their weapons at regional capitals AND themselves, going out with a bang as it were.. considering some of their neighbors stated intentions, i can't say much that i blame them. Irans' "position" on nuclear weapons... LOL! pretty words designed to lull the gullible into relaxation. "oh, look over THERE!" i think i admire the open threat versus the distraction maneuver. no doubt about intentions, eh? JMHO
We believe that besides nuclear weapons, other types of weapons of mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons also pose a serious threat to humanity. The Iranian nation which is itself a victim of chemical weapons feels more than any other nation the danger that is caused by the production and stockpiling of such weapons and is prepared to make use of all its facilities to counter such threats.
We consider the use of such weapons as haraam and believe that it is everyone's duty to make efforts to secure humanity against this great disaster.
So you're saying its ok that the Washington Post does not disclose its ties to the CIA when it publishes about them?
Just look at this article, published after news came out that the Post had been publishing lies about Trump at the direction of Obama. Not one mention of their relationship even to Amazon.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...king-multiple-providers-massive-new-contract/
They do this constantly: publish articles where they really should be disclosing ties to the CIA/Amazon but mention neither. They have no problem disclosing their relationship to Amazon in other context, but when it comes to anything involving the CIA they just don't bother coincidentally enough.
If they aren't taking bribes or letting it affect them; they sure are acting strange about it.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...oaded-personal-porn-including-family-members/
Read the comments to figure out wtf is going on...
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
You seem to think that Jeff Bezos has day to day control of either of those companies. He doesn't. Both are publicly held companies, owned by stockholders. Their functions don't overlap. The Post won't see a penny of the money the CIA allegedly spends at Amazon. One doesn't influence the other. Hell, Jeff also owns Whole Foods. Using your logic he should disclose what the government spends there on food? What about all his other companies? Close to fifty of them. Let's disclose what the government spends there too. That's gonna be alot of wasted newsprint explaining who owns what and how much of what.
Now let's talk about FOX news owner Rupert Maggot. That guy controls over 800 separate companies, one of which is FOX. I don't see any full disclosure over there either. Because it just isn't done. There would be no time for news, because it would take 45 minutes out of each hour to cover all the potential conflicts of interest.
All these companies have one thing in common, They must answer to their shareholders. Not one of them, all of them. The Post won't lose money so Amazon will make it. And that keeps them as honest as you can expect when you deal with the moneylenders.