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US carries out air strikes in Syria targeting Iranian backed militia structures


The US military struck a site in Syria on Thursday used by two Iranian-backed militia groups following rocket attacks on American forces in the region in the past two weeks, according to a US official.

The strikes mark the military's first known action under President Joe Biden. The site was not specifically tied to the rocket attacks, but were believed to be used by Iranian-backed Shia militias operating in the region.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that the strikes took place "at President Biden's direction" and were authorized not just to respond to recent attacks against American and coalition forces, but to deal with "ongoing threats to those personnel."

Kirby said that Biden conducted the strikes after consulting with US allies, including coalition partners.

"Specifically the strikes destroyed multiple facilities located at a border control point used by a number of Iranian backed militant groups including Kait'ib Hezbollah and Kait'ib Sayyid al Shuhada," Kirbry said. "The operation sends an unambiguous message; President Biden will act to protect American coalition personnel. At the same time, we have acted in a deliberate manner that aims to deescalate the overall situation in both Eastern Syria and Iraq."

The site is believed to be used as part of a weapons smuggling operation by the militias. The strikes were carried out to degrade the ability of the groups to carry out future attacks and to send a message about the recent attacks, the US official said.

The decision to target the site in Syria was made from the "top down," a defense official said, and was not because of a specific recommendation from the military.

President Biden authorized the dropping of a single missile on a single building. He choose to select the smallest airstrike possible so as not to escalate the situation. The response was intended to let the USA adversaries in the region know that you cannot attack the US military with impunity.

[BillyCarpenter]

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One day you'll be able to afford a new car. Until then.....

[BillyCarpenter]

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President Biden authorized the dropping of a single missile on a single building. He choose to select the smallest airstrike possible so as not to escalate the situation. The response was intended to let the USA adversaries in the region know that you cannot attack the US military with impunity.

Just last week the liberals were denying that Iran was behind the attack when I posted the information. Deny, deny, deny...until the very end.

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President Biden authorized the dropping of a single missile on a single building. He choose to select the smallest airstrike possible so as not to escalate the situation. The response was intended to let the USA adversaries in the region know that you cannot attack the US military with impunity.

I wonder if it is like when President Clinton had a baby milk plant in Iraq bombed thinking it was a biological weapons plant?

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Go. dare YOU protest

you guys believe the dumdist stuff

DUMBEST not Dumdist Dummy



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President Biden visits Texas to survey the damage from devastating storm


Biden visits Texas to survey the damage from devastating storm - YouTube

Marshaling the power of their office and the resources of the federal government to help Americans in the wake of a natural disaster is a key responsibility of a president. That brought President Biden on Friday to Texas, which is still recovering from a rare winter blast this month.

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One day you'll be able to afford a new car. Until then.....

That's what YOU call a car in Mississippi or is that your trailer

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Tesla, GM Could Crush Competition If Electric Car Tax Credit Is Renewed

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About time we have a President with Balls

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POLITICS FEB. 25, 2021
$15 Minimum Wage Is Dead for Now Thanks to One Unelected Official











We may yet see how far the impetus for raising the minimum wage advances, both in Congress and in the states, but the relief that was in sight for low-income workers just got further away after tonight.

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Mr. Potato Head (SalesServiceGuy) should be embarrassed. He's not, though and that's why he's Mr. Potato Head!!!


India makes deal with Trudeau for Vaccine. India's leader views Trudeau as Weak and Desperate





India, Canada and thenew vaccine politics


As a pharmaceutical powerhouse, India finds it now holdsthe cards over Canada and what it sees as its irksome PM.



The threat of wealthy countries hoarding vaccines for themselves and denying access to smaller and poorer countries has become the world’s primary cooperative concern. Yet how vaccine nationalism also attaches itself to pre-existing relationships between countries may become another part of this equation.


As vaccines have become the new diplomatic currency, India’s position as the world’s vaccine superpower is providing it with a foreign policy tool that now exceeds its power by traditional metrics.


India produces about 60% of the world’s vaccine output in normal times, with the Pune-based Serum Institute being the dominant manufacturer. There is no solution to this pandemic that doesn’t have India as a central player. India obviously has an enormous domestic need for vaccines, but despite this it has used its capability wisely to donate doses to neighbouring and Indian Ocean countries: Bangladesh, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal and the Seychelles.


Yet a recent phone call between India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed that India’s powerful new instrument also provides it with influence over wealthy Western countries, a striking example of how this other strain of vaccine nationalism might materialise.


Due to a complex web of events, Canada lacks the capabilities to manufacture Covid-19 vaccines itself, leading it to scramble to secure a consistent supply from foreign sources. Initially Ottawa had done well procuring vaccines and administering their rollout, but in recent weeks, supply hit a wall. In terms of vaccines administered per 100 people, after initially being one of the leading countries, Canada has now dropped to 47th in the world. This has led to some embarrassing vaccine sub-nationalism, with Manitoba province circumventing the federal vaccine supply program and securing its own source.

Trudeau sought out Modi to ask if Canada could buy vaccines. Modi responded that India would “do its best” to fulfil Trudeau’s request, language that indicated the leverage India now has, but also left enough wiggle room should Modi choose otherwise. Last week, the Ministry of External Affairs India approved the export of vaccines to 25 countries, as they are subject to export controls. Trudeau’s request came too late to make the list, and while diplomatic calculations will continue to be built into the process, the Serum Institute’s CEO has stated shipments to Canada would be made by the end of the month.

But in the meantime India’s nationalist press have been revelling in the imagery of the phone call, of a desparate Trudeau going cap in hand begging Modi for help. Although India and Canada are friendly countries, there is a permanent thorn in the relationship that consistently irritates New Delhi: India believes that Canada is harbouring Sikh separatists, and Canada cannot stop giving India the impression that this is true.

Issues of national security are, of course, hypersensitive, but there is no longer any serious movement inside India to create a separate Sikh state, known as Khalistan. The idea now only exists within the romanticism of a minority of the Sikh diaspora, and as a tool Pakistani intelligence uses to annoy New Delhi. The Indian government gives outsize weight to these factors.
Working against – or in unison – with this are Canada’s democratic realities. Around 1.5% of the Canadian population is Sikh, but as a publicly engaged and well-organised group, they play a major role in Canada’s domestic politics. There are currently 18 Sikh politicians in the House of Commons, 13 more than in India’s lower house. A number of vital electorates in Toronto and Vancouver simply cannot be won without the support of the Sikh community.

This often leads Canadian politicians to make attempts to engage with the Sikh Canadians, only to aggravate New Delhi. Trudeau himself has been a master of this, whether it has been attending a Khalsa Day parade in Toronto in 2017 where Khalistani flags were waved and images of Sikh militants were put on display, or inviting a man convicted of terrorist charges to receptions in Mumbai and New Delhi on his disastrous trip to India in 2018.

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Mr. Potato Head (SalesServiceGuy) should be embarrassed. He's not, though and that's why he's Mr. Potato Head!!!


India makes deal with Trudeau for Vaccine. India's leader views Trudeau as Weak and Desperate





India, Canada and thenew vaccine politics


As a pharmaceutical powerhouse, India finds it now holdsthe cards over Canada and what it sees as its irksome PM.












Due to a complex web of events, Canada lacks the capabilities to manufacture Covid-19 vaccines itself, leading it to scramble to secure a consistent supply from foreign sources. Initially Ottawa had done well procuring vaccines and administering their rollout, but in recent weeks, supply hit a wall. In terms of vaccines administered per 100 people, after initially being one of the leading countries, Canada has now dropped to 47th in the world. This has led to some embarrassing vaccine sub-nationalism, with Manitoba province circumventing the federal vaccine supply program and securing its own source.

Trudeau sought out Modi to ask if Canada could buy vaccines. Modi respondedapprovedstated shipments to Canada would be made by the end of the month.

revelling in the imagery of the phone call, of a desparate Trudeau going cap in hand begging Modi for help. Although India and Canada are friendly countries, there is a permanent thorn in the relationship that consistently irritates New Delhi: India believes that Canada is harbouring Sikh separatists, and Canada cannot stop giving India the impression that this is true.

Issues of national security are, of course, hypersensitive, but there is no longer any serious movement inside India to create a separate Sikh state, known as Khalistan. The idea now only exists within the romanticism of a minority of the Sikh diaspora, and as a tool Pakistani intelligence uses to annoy New Delhi. The Indian government gives outsize weight to these factors.
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This often leads Canadian politicians to make attempts to engage with the Sikh Canadians, only to aggravate New Delhi. Trudeau himself has been a master of this, whether it has been attending a Khalsa Day parade in Toronto in 2017 where Khalistani flags were waved and images of Sikh militants were put on display, or inviting a man convicted of terrorist charges to receptions in Mumbai and New Delhi on his disastrous trip to India in 2018.

Your continued assertions that anyone within this forum has any power over vaccine acquisition and distribution is, to put it mildly, quite idiotic. We all realise how you love to feel superior, but even you must see how ridiculous some of your statements are. I'm not talking about the news reports you post, just the personal comments you choose to include with them. Anyway bigdog, have a good one.

[BillyCarpenter]

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Your continued assertions that anyone within this forum has any power over vaccine acquisition and distribution is, to put it mildly, quite idiotic. We all realise how you love to feel superior, but even you must see how ridiculous some of your statements are. I'm not talking about the news reports you post, just the personal comments you choose to include with them. Anyway bigdog, have a good one.

Once again, you fail to grasp the nature of the situation. It's not me who think's I'm superior. No. It's the USA that is superior to Canada. That's why we produce our own vaccine and your PM, Justin Trudeau, is going around the world begging for vaccine and making a laughing stock of himself. You're too much of a Trudeau bootlicker to admit it and and Mr. Potato Head has nothing between his ears but mush.