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happy to share some good news: dirty bombs are fear porn

in order to build a bomb with enough highly radioactive material to do any substantial damage, you need a facility with the same kind of hi-tech robotic gear and lead-lined walls that you'd need to build a real atom bomb. otherwise, you'd be dead by the time you made the thing. maybe before. no terrorist organization has that kind of facility (unless you count likud and they already have the other bomb)

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I have seen over the years, but cannot find, reports that a nuclear-warhead signature emanated from The Israeli embassy in the late 1990s, for whatever that might be worth.

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Some days I simply cannot digest the news.

The incident in Germany is one...

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"Natural consequences" is what I would call that.

It seems to be the clearest possible form of justice to me.

Germans have become most rigid in enforcing control-narratives recently.

It has gone too far.

Something like this might be some sort of a "bottom", but you might go to jail for tweeting it.

;-/

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It's not like there's no validity whatsoever to the idea that stabbing a person in the chest and killing them isn't a proportionate response to getting groped in public where the danger of a major sexual assault is next to zero. Right?

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It was in a closed elevator. She had no recourse.

He grabbed her again after she pulled the knife, which was a clear warning.

I wonder if he was drunk. He let a 20 year old girl he was going to rape stab him in the heart in an elevator.

He obviously had it coming. He has learned his lesson now.

;-/

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I went back to the article and it was as i said and not as you said. We are also not privy to the cctv footage. The quality of the article can be characterized as xenophobic tabloid 'journalism.' what liberals would call red meat.

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Apparently in skimming the article i misread it because i thought it said escalator and not elevator. Nevertheless ive never been in an elevator that allows you to keep the doors closed. The article also said groped and i do not recall reading attempted rape. My comment was limited to judicial proportionality; i dont disagree with you that if you start something with someone then you must accept responsibility that you may have it coming back at you proportionately or disproportionately. I just dont believe in sexual politics anymore than i believe in any other kind of politics. Its not as if the Elites arent making sexual politics a central part of the neo(-woke conservative peopleherding platform. They are. Rinse and repeat.

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“It showed that as much as 96 percent of the territory’s children felt that their death was imminent, and 49% actually wished to die.

The assessment also revealed that 92% of the minors were “not accepting of reality,” 79% suffered from nightmares, and 73% displayed symptoms of aggression.”

If Trump does not stop this, we will have the measure of the man. Elon will take that measure. I believe they will be decent men when the day comes soon. This is such an agony among so much agony. I must believe God is moving in the hearts of these men and women to crush the serpent. Our younger generations will never forget and the theme will bake into their collective consciousness. Among the things we have learned is the significance of a vessel like the Scofield Bible to poison the psyche of humanity by false teachings and appeal to the basest selfishness to seek one’s own salvation at the cost of the innocents. From the beginning, the serpent cast G-D as a withholder of doubtful love for His children. This is the same plan to alienate us from the love of the Creator G-D. Woe unto them... Paul was very clear that no matter how conformable one’s works were in appearance, if they were without LOVE then they were nothing. I also have hope in the First Lady.

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Love and Wisdom... follow Divine Guidance.

Practice compassion.

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I'm sticking with my wild guess from back at the beginning of the SMO. If you draw a line from Transnistria to Chernobyl everything west of that will be what is left of Ukraine. Even that part now looks as if Romania and Poland might be jockeying for bits of it. To the east will be Russian with perhaps a DMZ running the length of the line. Kiev and Odessa were traditionally Russia and I suspect Russia would like them back. Just my opinion. I don't expect that line to be perfectly straight of course just generally.

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And im sticking with my wild guess from well before the smo ever started, that russia would reclaim all of ukraine because the grid-dependent soviet nuclear power industry is russias legacy responsibility during collapse because ukraine is incapable of managing them. The two plants out west requires russia goes all the way. When the ukrainian dam breaks it'll go like syria.

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I think Russia doesn't want Galicia, or any region where the people don't want to be Russians. We'll all see.

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Well you know my DA theory isn't about wants it's about needs, with the ultimate need being the decommissioning and disposal of the global nuclear power industry. This extended war of attrition on Ukraine makes holding Galicia possible. People without electricity won't be hard to manage. Russia really only needs to control Ukraine until the decommissioning job is done. Obviously the DA sees to it that no foreign countries meddle.

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We'll see...

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Nichinichi kore kōnichi. John Cage believed in it. That is a good sign.

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"Every day is a good day": Zen proverb

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I feel putting this into practice is important.

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Every day is a good day to do what I can to help.

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Help thyself first and be kind to the man who then can be kind.

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I'm already "fine"; don't need anything much.

The good which might pass through me helps me as well.

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You may recall Ramana Maharshi explaining to journalists how meditation in a cave does impact the world. Practicing meditation is being kind to oneself. And thereby all others. Pity Zen became so martial.

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There is more than one path, because we are not all the same.

;-)

Helping "self" through helping others seems to work for me. Yes, "prayer is carrying your water". It does matter and shifts "reality".

Compassion is the guide to right-action.

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I had this thought in the back of my mind. Human is loyalty and we are all human. https://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/HistoricalZen/Zen_of_Japanese_Nationalism.html

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Zen & Dzogchen, less scripted paths of drive and intention, are still Bodhisattva paths. It's personality-dependent, right?

I seem to want to learn by trying-to-do.

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I agree that human is loyalty. Loyalty to the groper and the groped. Loyalty, above all, to all of our brother and sister species and every other living thing that we evolved beyond but never left behind. With loyalty there can be no separation.

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