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Except there is strong evidence that Western powers (predominantly France, the UK and US) created the fiction of Gaddafi being a global supervillain and then used NATO forces to enact regime change in Libya, under the pretext of “preventing civilian casualties”. In fact, the real objective was to secure Libyan oil reserves and open the country up to western markets.
NATO is often used an extension of Western foreign policy. To pretend it is solely a benevolent peace keeper is just as simplistic and naïve as saying that everything the West does is pure evil.
Yes but the difference is that there were reasonable grounds to suspect that prolonged exposure to RF waves might possibly cause some harmful effects. The WHO didn’t categorize radio frequency radiation as a potential carcinogen based on no evidence at all:
https://www.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/pr208_E.pdf
The possibility of there being a link was not absurd, per se.
To be fair, the evidence about a link between cell phone radiation and cancer has been inconclusive for quite some time. After all, a series of inconclusive or null results doesn’t mean there is categorically no link – it could equally mean that more research is needed.
That said, I do agree that if there were a casual link in this case then it would have made itself apparent by now, given the huge increase in cell phone usage over the past few decades.
Ear buds or IEMs typically have a much higher sensitivity than full sized headphones. The higher the output power of your PC’s headphone out, the louder your earbuds will be at any given volume %.
There isn’t anyway around this except to manually change the volume whenever you use your earbuds.
Actually, it’s nothing more than lazy slander pepetuated by duopoly apologists.
There’s zero proof Stein is “Putin backed”. She once sat at the same table at an international conference and barely spoke to the man. That’s it.
Meanwhile, AOC has been publicly performing as a genuine progressive for her voters and constituents all while voting and acting like a corporate Democrat behind the scenes.
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Israel primarily needs air strike capability, and lots of it. No other country could provide Israel with bombs and planes on the scale that the US currently supplies them. A US arms embargo would force Israel to use up its current stockpiles, and could seriously affect their war effort.
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Despite the fact that Israel has initiated all of the recent military strikes in Iran, Syria, and Lebanon, none of its neighbors, not even Iran, want escalation to a full scale conflict. The idea that they would all suddenly attack Israel following a US arms embargo is sheer fantasy.
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The suggestion that the US is actually managing to restrain Israel’s conduct in Gaza and the West Bank seems pretty naïve. The US has continually refused to impose any meaningful limits on Israel’s use of its weapons or sanctions on specific units of the IDF even though the State Dept had to basically acknowledge that yes, Israel had “most likely committed war crimes but no, we are unable or unwilling to elaborate further”. They’re pretty obviously having to spin the reality on the ground so it sounds like war crimes are not being committed, even though they so clearly are, just so that they can continue to bypass the Leahy law.
Sure, because our current economic system creates governments and laws that protect private capital and short-term exploitation at the expense of the natural world.
I do see hope in the book, though. Once you look beyond the human scale, it shows us that trees are always going to outlast us, no matter how hard we try to destroy our environment. The question is - can we learn from their patience and adaptability before we screw ourselves beyond the point of no return?
