From North Carolina’s Weather Authority on FB 11:30 am edt: NC Emergency Management is asking people to turn off and turn back on their phones across Western NC to try to connect to new cell towers and temporary towers.
From North Carolina’s Weather Authority on FB 11:30 am edt: NC Emergency Management is asking people to turn off and turn back on their phones across Western NC to try to connect to new cell towers and temporary towers.
if you zoom out, Trump being the president was the worst thing that ever happened to my dad, to my family, and to our nation’s modern history. The consequences will only be more severe—and irreversible— a second time around… Trump destroys everything he touches. I saw it happen to my family. Don’t let it happen to yours, or to our country.
if you zoom out, Trump being the president was the worst thing that ever happened to my dad, to my family, and to our nation’s modern history. The consequences will only be more severe—and irreversible— a second time around… Trump destroys everything he touches. I saw it happen to my family. Don’t let it happen to yours, or to our country.
An agreement is not a contract. NATO is a treaty [The North Atlantic Treaty Organization] a treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement governed by & enforceable under international law.
@Nonilex "The #UnitedStates is not contractually obligated to actively defend #Israel as it is not a member of #NATO — which is essentially a contract between allied nations."
This makes no sense. NATO is about NATO members in agreement. The USA is entirely able to make agreements outside of NATO. Japan isn't in NATO and USA has agreements with Japan.
The #UnitedStates is not contractually obligated to actively defend #Israel as it is not a member of #NATO — which is essentially a contract between allied nations.
Iran is likely aware that at no other time has there been more support in the US for Palestinian civilians, making active defense of Israel politically complex, especially just before an election.
#IDF says it has been conducting secret raids over #Lebanese border for months Israeli forces have been conducting raids in southern #Lebanon for months, Rear Adm Daniel Hagari, an IDF spox, said Tues. He added that #Israel’s incursion into southern Lebanon would represent a continuation & broadening of those attacks.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that the #Biden admin was “carefully” following the situation in the #MiddleEast. “We’re, of course, tracking events in the Middle East very closely, & the #UnitedStates is committed to #Israel’s defense,” #Blinken said ahead of a meeting w/ #Morocco Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. “We’re watching developments, as I said, very carefully at this moment.”
“This cycle of violence will not end well—for anyone,” Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert said, adding: “A sliver of opportunity remains for #diplomacy to succeed.” The #Biden admin has encouraged #Israel to pursue diplomatic solutions to the conflict rather than #military action. “The question now is whether it will be seized or squandered,” she said.
“What we feared has materialized,” the #UnitedNations special coordinator for #Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said in a statement Tues. “With strikes throughout Lebanon, including in the heart of #Beirut, & incursions across the Blue Line, violence is spiraling to dangerous heights.” She referred to a line, mapped by the UN, that separates Lebanon from #Israel & the occupied Golan Heights. #geopolitics#MiddleEast#war#Hezbollah#Gaza#Hamas
“A short time ago, our #US partners informed us that they have identified #Iran’s plans to fire #missiles at the State of #Israel in the near future,” Israeli #military spox Daniel Hagari said in a statement Tues. “At this point we do not detect an air threat launched from Iran. We have faced this threat in the past & we will face it now.”
#Iran is preparing an imminent #ballistic#missile attack against #Israel, a #WhiteHouse ofcl said Tues. The #UnitedStates is “actively supporting” Israel’s “defensive preparations…A direct #military attack from Iran against Israel will carry severe consequences for Iran.” The warning of a strike came after an Israeli security ofcl said Israeli troops crossed into south #Lebanon to “remove threats & to deal w/ #Hezbollah strongholds.”
"The United States must prepare for a "long-term" confrontation with Russia that won't end when authoritarian President Vladimir Putin departs from the political scene"
Reason not to have a cat: I enjoy sleeping in past 4:47 AM without my face being gently pulled off my head. Reason to have a cat: furry snuggly-wuggliness
Much of the world has #FireDepartments and #Ambulances for medical problems, but what is lacking in 2024 is #HateVsHate response teams and assistance. Clergy has occupied itself with #BookSupremacy teaching, saying that a single Holy Book is better than all the Public Library. Hate is a threat to the whole world, Teaching compassion is critical to the whole world.
Regardless of what religion names and brands people go by, even atheists and agnostic people can have a common faith in hate. Hate others, hate people is the faith people are showing all over the world. Hate upon strangers, hate upon community, hate upon nations, hate upon this or that.
"For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does." - Martin Luther King Jr.
#Israel#IDF has a pile of nuclear bombs and ability to attack #Iran with them. Israel has demonstrated that they are no longer going to tolerate terrorism and constant rocket attacks. The USA is trying to avoid Israel dropping a nuclear bomb on Iran.
#DonaldTrump believes in Russian hate and mass dehumanization memes. Surkov cracked the monomyth in 2011 and all the world is being saturated in hate out-group patterns of messages. It isn't Donald Trump alone, it is hundreds of millions of people.
“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
