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What right will we have to criticize Putin if he kills Ukrainian president Zelenskyy?
From a legal standpoint, the US has illegally killed the leader of Iran in an illegal war which our leaders are not even criticizing. They are just accepting that the US takes out a leader they do not like, thereby destabilizing a nation of 93 million people.
International law does not allow this, but if we do not uphold international law, what boundaries do we have left to limit dictators like Putin?
Even though our knowledge has greatly advanced over the decades, I must say the #planetary literature was much more exciting during the Mariner program
#Mars
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And my own commentary before that clown became a ghoul:
"Never forget: whenever Elon Musk walks up to a podium to bullshit you about colonizing Mars or whatever, he is walking on the bodies of dead children. He yanked their food and medicine away while telling lies and cracking stupid jokes."
From: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/last-year-and-year-come
Why is so much news focused on the ‘operation’ and the ‘logistics’ of the Venezuela invasion?
More is needed on the illegality, casualties, reasons for absent and lukewarm political reactions, precedent setting, and implications.
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Near Venezuela, recently:
The US military has been summarily killing people in boats.
They then started seizing cargo ships.
They have now abducted a political leader from his home in the night.
These are not part of an armed conflict - there is no war between the US and Venezuela, and the targets were not soldiers.
These are murder, piracy, and kidnapping.
The military personnel who carried them out have made themselves criminal henchmen with no legal defence.
#NoWar #Venezuela #USpol
i'm always kinda surprised and disappointed when i see fellow canadians pull out their phones to check the weather, and i see the default weather app pop up. these default apps rely upon US weather models, which are different than the Canadian local weather models. they contain different data, make different predictions, and lead to different outcomes. the canadian weather data is tuned for our winters especially, with important information like windchill.
the official canadian weather website is:
https://weather.gc.ca/canada_e.html (english)
https://meteo.gc.ca/canada_f.html (french)
the official apps:
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/weathercan/id1334221563 (iOS)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.gc.ec.weather_app_android.ops (android)
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