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RTH10260 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:56 am NO! I understand that their potential to further enrich uranuim has been hampered by sabotage on their centrifuge system (one to two years back?). Also too, before having a functional bomb there must have been some nuclear explosions tested.Those get noticed.

Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:47 am Any indications from sane/reliable sources that Iran's got nukes or is about to get some?

Uninformed wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 12:22 pm "I can confirm that I did not, at any time engage in perverted sexual behaviour including the hiring of prostitutes to engage in 'golden showers' in the presidential suite of a hotel in Moscow.”

Did the dossier say that he had “hired” anyone?

noblepa wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 4:15 pm

Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:47 am Any indications from sane/reliable sources that Iran's got nukes or is about to get some?

I have heard no such claims from reliable sources.

It is true that, after TRUMP HIMSELF cancelled the agreement that the US had with Iran, that country began taking steps to develop nuclear technology. Prior to that, Iran had been abiding by the agreement. Among other things, they allowed international inspectors into the country to look for evidence of nuclear research.

Iran has shown no willingness to discuss re-instating the agreement, or to negotiate a new one.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is scheduled to be questioned under oath Tuesday as part of lawsuits from two former FBI employees who provoked the former president's outrage after sending each other pejorative text messages about him.

Peter Strzok, who was a lead agent in the FBI's investigation into ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign, has alleged in a lawsuit against the Justice Department that he was wrongfully fired for exercising his First Amendment rights when he and a colleague traded anti-Trump text messages in the weeks before he became president.

Lisa Page, the FBI lawyer who texted with Strzok and had also been assigned to the Russia investigation, has sued as well, alleging that the Justice Department violated her privacy by disclosing copies of her messages with Strzok to members of the news media. She voluntarily resigned from the FBI in May 2018, and Strzok was fired several months after that.

Uninformed wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 8:23 am “The Debate Over How Dangerous Trump Is Rages On”:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/opin ... blatt.html

An interesting (?) opinion piece on the fragility of democratic institutions and the possible flaws in a perhaps outdated Constitution.

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 8:42 am re article: as i like to say, Democracy is tyranny of 50.1% over 49.9%. Of voters. it's actually worse, cause it does not reflect the non-voters and the inelligible.

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 8:42 am re article: as i like to say, Democracy is tyranny of 50.1% over 49.9%. Of voters. it's actually worse, cause it does not reflect the non-voters and the inelligible.

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 9:07 am Eligible non-voters make a choice.

tfg wrote:Statement from the Trump Campaign on Crooked Joe Biden’s Address to the Nation
October 19, 2023

The horrific catastrophes taking place in Israel as well as the chaos on our Southern Border and in hotspot after hotspot around the world, all have one thing in common: they were caused by Crooked Joe Biden’s deadly combination of incompetence, radicalism, and weakness.

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When Biden gives his Oval Office address tonight, he is desperately hoping Americans will forget that it’s Biden himself who is responsible for these disasters. As America stumbles ever closer to World War III, Joe Biden is Neville Chamberlain trying to pose as Winston Churchill. He is an arsonist promising to rescue us from the world he set on fire. Europe and the Middle East are ablaze because of Crooked Joe Biden’s failed presidency. His credibility is shot, and our enemies and allies alike regard him as a pathetic joke.

President Trump has said repeatedly in the wake of the evil terrorist attacks on Israel that the United States must support Israel 100 PERCENT. Israel is one of our closest and most cherished allies—and they must have everything they need to defend themselves from those who want to wipe Israel from the map.

But that is just the beginning. The United States must immediately return to the Trump policies of completely and totally defunding each and every one of Israel’s mortal enemies, starting with Hamas and their terrorist sponsor, Iran.

If Biden’s speech does not include absolute commitments to economically isolate the Iranian regime and support the Israelis in defeating, dismantling, and permanently destroying the terrorist group Hamas, then Joe Biden does NOT stand with Israel—he funds and finances the barbarians who slaughter Israeli men, women, children, and infants, and he supports those who are committed to eradicating the Jewish state from the face of the earth. This is no time for weakness and neutrality. Joe Biden’s appeasement of Iran and Hamas must end.

Under the Trump administration, we imposed crippling sanctions on Iran and drove their accessible foreign currency reserves—their terror piggy bank—down from over $70 billion to just $6 billion by the time President Trump left office. Iran was essentially bankrupt. President Trump also zeroed out funding for the Palestinians because they were using the money to fund violence and terror.

From his first days in office, Joe Biden made it his personal mission to enrich those who are trying to kill Israel. Biden restored hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to the Palestinians’ terror slush fund. He gutted Trump-imposed sanctions on Iran and gave the wicked Iranian regime tens of billions of dollars to fund their terrorist proxies, including Hamas and Hezbollah. Sadly, Israel is now paying the price for these Biden policies in blood.

Just this week, Joe Biden was in Israel offering a gift of $100 million dollars to the Palestinians without even demanding the release of American hostages. Meanwhile, he lectured Israel to fight with both hands tied behind their back. His performance in Israel was a disgrace to America and an insult to the Israeli people.

But perhaps Biden’s most shameful betrayal of all was his reported attempt to hold $10 billion in funding for American and Israeli hostages against a demand for $90 billion for his open borders agenda and his bottomless appetite for endless war in Ukraine. This is a hideous exploitation of the pain and suffering of the Israeli people. The American People MUST be allowed to support Israel without being forced to fund the invasion of millions of illegal aliens into the United States and without starting World War III in Ukraine.

Finally, Joe Biden has a moral duty tonight to declare that Hamas sympathizers and Israel-hating radicals have no place in the Democrat Party.

Just yesterday, Democrat members of Congress were cheering on an illegal pro-Hamas occupation of a House office building while repeating disproven terrorist propaganda falsely claiming that Israel bombed a hospital. Joe Biden must forcefully condemn and completely disavow the support of every Hamas sympathizer in his Democrat party, starting with Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and AOC. Until he does, his words are meaningless and his foreign policy is run by the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, “Squad.”