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Ponietz's JournalHegseth announces Qatar will build air force facility at U.S. base in Idaho
Source: CBS News
Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday announced a finalized agreement that will allow the Qatari Emiri Air Force to build a facility at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.
The agreement, which Hegseth announced alongside Qatari Minister of Defense Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani at the Pentagon, will allow Qatari pilots to receive training alongside U.S. soldiers. There are no foreign military bases in the U.S., but some foreign militaries do maintain a presence for training. The Singaporean Air Force also has a presence at the Mountain Home base.
Hegseth said he is "proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force Facility at the Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho."
"The location will host a contingent of Qatari F-15's and pilots to enhance our combined training, increase lethality, interoperability, it's just another example of our partnership," Hegseth said. "And I hope you know, your excellency, that you can count on us."
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-qatar-air-force-facility-us-base-idaho/
Sorry for the CBS link but I got paywalls for others.
Close to a half million civilian deaths from US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Wars started by Republicans btw. In war civilians die. Hamas could crawl out from under women’s skirts and baby diapers, surrender today, and aid would pour in.
Israel is blamed for a war it didn’t start. Palestinian protesters pissed away their US assisted prospects tearing down Democrats and strengthening the malignant Lump. One of history’s most spectacular self-owns. In fact, Arabs have been scoring own goals since Israel’s inception in 1948.
Please direct future inquiries to the Lump administration.
90 million non voters might consider fulfilling their civic duty
The Leopards Eating Faces Party is feasting on nonvoters and can’t survive without them.
I reconsidered my frustration with Schumer. When Schumer says it will take time to show the contrast he’s talking about non voters realizing there is a contrast.
There’s a catch-22 in Democratic ideology. We advocate for everyone, even the large bloc that doesn’t vote. We’ve had to move to the center to survive, but that will change if and when non voters get motivated.
Why do people cling to conspiracy theories?
https://democraticunderground.com/100220269626The title is absolutely misleading and infers the opposite of what science has proven and the author writes
Race is a social construct without a scientific basis. The “biological reality” is that social constructs have biological implications, for example, in life expectancy.
From the article:
and later:
So, going further, the question is: how to eliminate or ameliorate this most pernicious social construct? Or should the social construct be reinforced? In my opinion classifying a person as white, black, or whatever only reinforces the social construct.
Sure they're aware. As am I.
Thanks for your post. This is it. The crux.
The train we saw coming a mile down the track is upon us. It was 125 degrees in Delhi this year. Eggs will be $10 each in the near future. Where I live we’ve had 2” of snow this winter. Normal is around 18”. Our forests were already ravaged by wildfires and pine beetle infestations. Without the snowpack, they’ll all burn.
The unspoken subtext in this last election was how to address it. We Democrats KNOW all of humanity is in this together but don’t really have a coherent vision of how to proceed. Touting the capitalist economy just kicks the can. Electric cars and windmills don’t cut it.
Republicans, on the other hand, are in it for themselves, and are content when other people die. Some of them are not averse to doing the killing themselves. They’ve been preparing, since 2017, to tell the rest of the world to fuck off while Russia becomes our only ally. (I’ve pointed this out here since joining in ‘18.) Let Vlad have Ukraine, the Baltics, and Finland. Republicans aspire to drive their Teslas around Baffin Island to play golf when all the nasty people are out of the way. An Education department is superfluous in an apocalypse.
Already, since January 20th, fuck off Panama. Denmark. Canada. Mexico. China. Palestinians. We’ll see tomorrow if he tells the Saudis to FO. It seems to me that Musk is using military grade artificial intelligence to map his steps.
China has a different plan. I don’t believe Covid originated at a fish market.
Some here ask “what is their end goal?”
Behold. Human sacrifice.
Schlump should have been toast in 2021
Leaving Wray as FBI Director was a monumental mistake. Wray was Schlump’s hand-picked successor to Comey.
Appointing Garland as AG was a monumental mistake.
They both played patty cakes when Lady Liberty screamed for justice.
Biden believed a message of unity would win MAGA over.
He was wrong and bowed out too late for a meaningful Democratic primary.
God bless Joe Biden but he miscalculated.
The strangest insult in US politics: why do Republicans call it 'the Democrat party'?
On Tuesday, the former presidential candidate issued his latest condemnation of the “Democrat party”, endorsing a bizarre linguistic tradition among haters of the institution. As Donald Trump told a rally in 2018: “I call it the Democrat party. It sounds better rhetorically.” By “better”, of course, he meant “worse”, as he explained the next year: he prefers to say “the ‘Democrat party’ because it doesn’t sound good”.
In removing two letters from “Democratic”, the former president is adopting a jibe that’s been around since at least the 1940s. Opponents of the party long ago decided, for some reason, that this brutal act of syllabic denial would shame their opponents. Democrats don’t seem particularly devastated by the attack, but Republicans and those who love them have stuck with it. We hear it regularly from party luminaries such as JD Vance, Mike Johnson and Nikki Haley; pragmatic independents like RFK Jr; and media voices across the vast spectrum from Fox News to Infowars. Last week, even Tulsi Gabbard, once a Democratic presidential candidate herself, wrote an op-ed proudly describing her departure from the Democrat party and support for Trump.
But even if the misnaming doesn’t exactly leave liberal snowflakes in tears, it does serve a purpose, says Nicole Holliday, acting associate professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. It’s a marker of affiliation – an indicator of the media a person consumes and the politicians they listen to. She recently heard a friend remark on “Democrat party” policies and asked why they used the term; the friend wasn’t even aware they had done it. “Language is contagious, especially emotionally charged political language,” Holliday says. “Most of the time, we don’t have the cognitive bandwidth to think very hard about every single word that we’re using. We just use it because it’s what other people do.”
That lack of awareness “shows how normalized it’s become”, says Larry Glickman, Stephen and Evalyn Milman professor in American studies at Cornell University, who likens the term to a “schoolyard taunt”. It suggests the party is “outside the mainstream of American politics so much so that we’re not even going to call them by the name they prefer. We refuse to give them that amount of respect.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/05/democrat-party-republicans
Repubes works for me.
NM Forestry Division giving free trees for Arbor day
https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/nm-forestry-division-giving-out-free-trees-for-arbor-dayThe second Friday in March is recognized as Arbor Day in the Land of Enchantment. This year it will be March 8. “Urban and community forests provide a multitude of critical benefits to residents such as cooling shade, improved mental and physical health, reduced air and noise pollution, and cleaner water,” Alyssa O’Brien, Urban and Community Forestry Program manager said in a news release. “Trees even have economic benefits by drawing more visitors to businesses, raising property values and lowering crime rates.”
Applications for the Arbor Day Celebration Trees are available here, or email Alyssa O’Brien at Alyssa.obrien@emnrd.nm.gov.
The nation's top law enforcement officer sat on his ass during the mayhem
It’s the Trumpstank.
Curious his former law firm represented Rosneft and Gazprom during his tenure there. If he were a lawyer today in civil private practice, imputed disqualification rules prohibit his taking a materially adverse position to the scope of his firm’s former representation. Ethical rules impute disqualification because of a lawyer’s continuing duty to former clients to maintain confidentiality. Those Russian energy giants would disqualify him in a civil case. I presume Putin would disqualify him in a criminal case.
In the criminal arena that appearance generates suspicion in a reasonably prudent person. Hand-picked successor to the castrato Comey, Mueller, spies, interfering in investigations, Gaetz and Jordan hiding their tracks by summoning him to testify, accusing him of politicizing the FBI to help Biden. That appearance of impropriety, at the very beginning, is a certainty, for me, 7 years later. He’s also a member of the Federalist Society.
Didn’t Wray watch events on TV about the same time as the human canker on 1/6/21? He failed to protect our nation’s capital during an emergency; that’s unforgivable.
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