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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
However, the strike detonated explosives that militants had placed in the building, Cent Com said.
Civilians sheltering in the lower floors were killed when it collapsed.
Cent Com said the death toll included four civilians in another nearby structure.
In all fairness the amount of explosives stashed to do such amount of damage is big and no one really expects snipers to be sitting on top of them and finding out the location of those explosives isn't trivial.
The headline makes it look like they deliberately caused 105 civilian casualties as collateral damage to kill two snipers.
Inter arma enim silent leges
x5 Here you go
http://headwaterseconomics.org/wp-content/uploads/NatlMon_Summary.pdf
https://headwaterseconomics.org/public-lands/protected-lands/national-monuments/
http://wilderness.org/blog/national-monuments-have-monumental-impact-us-economy
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thinkprogress.org/amp/p/f62f1f0bff85
here's a really good analysis of the situation: https://gearjunkie.com/national-monuments-analysis
edited 25th May '17 2:32:02 PM by megaeliz
People interested in national monuments may also be interested in David Bernhardt, Trump’s pick for deputy secretary of the Interior
. A former lawyer for one of California's most vicious water districts - including lawsuits to get fish protection laws weakened - and a lobbyist for an absurd plan to pump (most likely non-renewable) water from a desert in southern California to the big cities. Typical Trump conflicts of interest seems like.
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May the ghosts of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John Muir, and Gifford Pinchot haunt all of these people for the rest of their days.
(Gifford Pinchot was appointed by Theodore Roosevelt as the first director of the modern National Forest Service, which helped introduce the concept of conservation to the US, and the first agency specifically founded to promote responsible forestry and resource management.)
edited 25th May '17 5:59:52 PM by megaeliz
1/ A federal appeals court will not reinstate Trump’s revised travel ban.
2/ Lieberman withdraws from consideration for FBI Director job.
3/ Trump condemned “leaks of sensitive information” after complaints From Britain.
Well, all three Baltic states are part of the EU, and France does have a nuclear arsenal, so yes. Not to mention that even if the UK is undergoing a messy divorce with the Union, they don't want an aggressive Russia depriving them of trade partners.
The question is whether or not there's a political will to defend the Baltic states with nuclear arms.
edited 25th May '17 3:50:00 PM by math792d
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.Pretty much, if Trump goes full isolationist, then a handful of French (and hopefully British) submarines with the capability of turning Western Russia into a smoking parking lot are the only thing keeping Putin out of the former Soviet Union and War Pac states.
Well, that and the prospect of a prolonged insurgency and more economic isolation.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/867831459427504128
edited 25th May '17 4:08:14 PM by sgamer82
Disheartening but not really surprising. Probably from the same type of people who liked Trump more after "Pussygate".
Edit: Either that or people who think "the whole thing was staged" or whatever, and don't consider the audio and eye witness accounts as "real" evidence...
edited 25th May '17 4:10:07 PM by LSBK
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Still pales in comparison to both the independent donations to Quist and the Millions Gianforte got from Lobbyists.
But it is despicable that people would give money to the guy after body slamming a news reporter. We've gotta do something about this in the future...
edited 25th May '17 4:06:29 PM by DingoWalley1

Apparently only once, as the next time Trump offered a handshake in public, Macron apparently decided to ignore it and go talk to Merkel instead.