No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, you'd think keeping the government accountable of their spending would be a generally agreed upon thing?
The government should be accountable for its spending.
People often misunderstand the problem with the Pentagon and accounting. A good example is around 9/11 an audit failed and people thought the money was 'missing' That 9/11 was to hide the missing money.
That is rubbish. The issue is they just can't properly account for it in all the systems. Nothing was 'missing'. they just couldn't get it to all line up to do crappy information systems and processes.
System A didn't talk to system B and things had to be moved over by hand, etc. Things were not properly coded, etc.
I fully support our military spending but the accounting for all of it is horrible.
I also hate government accounting. It confuses the average person. They see a coffee cup for 1200 and think the coffee cup cost 1200. Instead of realizing it was assigned a value based on the total project cost. That shouldn't be allowed either. Every item should be accounted for against it's true cost.
Bombing brown children and lining the pockets of the wealthy, that's where, but you know that.
That's where you want it to go instead of offering a better education to the children of this country, elevating people out of poverty, protecting/
enriching our environment, improving our fucking drinking water, etc.
Ya'll really are a bunch of clowns with your disingenuous confusion and bad faith arguments. Hate and fear run your lives.
This might actually have a Streisand effect, in that many people who were looking to buy an electric car may not have heard of this, and so will now factor this in to their purchasing decisions and pick something else.
I can get the annoyance with how the economy has been... but jeez, what is the real solution here? I can't see much of anything positive coming out of this.
Completely indefensible for Hamas to be anywhere near a hospital containing civilians. Completely indefensible for Israel to bomb that hospital. Monsters fighting monsters.
Israel knows it's a war crime but they try to use a loophole by crying out about Hamas tunnels etc.
Under international humanitarian law, hospitals and other medical facilities are considered to be protected civilian objects. Unless they are used for military purposes, they shall be protected at all times and may not be the object of attack.
So that's why they're so happy to show us some 9 rusty old weapons. Witnesses say they stripped and tortured 9 men already inside the hospital... I wanna make a bet here they found shit and are now torturing people to find shit. They blacked out communications so they even dig those tunnels themselves to show us for all we know.
Also I would like to point out that they don't allow outside sources in to confirm, investigate or even verify all their claims. So it's not true until they do that for me personally. I don't care what Daniel from IDF 'claims', I want it verified by unbiased sources.
Maybe AFTER there is legitimate proof provided, verified by independent outside sources instead of just 'IDF says.' Nothing they say after the last month of indiscriminate killings will be believed. They're met with the same kind of criticism and disdain the Hamas military brigades get.
Even then, patients and civilians still have the right to be evacuated in a humane way and timespan.
Yeah this is gonna be a no. They just simply did not come close to proving specific intent, which was what Wallace said she needed to see on day one. You are going to need physical evidence for that. I really think they should have figured out how to get evidence from the GA and FL cases admitted. I think this was not well done.
I mean... this is probably good for the world as a whole since China is the new "near peer" bogeyman for the most funded standing military on the planet.
But... unless we can get some guarantees for Taiwan... this is not good. And Pooh Bear ain't going to be backing off of his strong man military invasion to bleed his entire military dry.
RIYADH, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries called on Saturday for an immediate end to military operations in Gaza, rejecting Israel's justification of its actions against Palestinians as self-defence.
Saudi Arabia has sought to press the United States and Israel for an end to hostilities in Gaza, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's de facto ruler, gathered Arab and Muslim leaders to reinforce that message.
A baby died in an incubator at Gaza's largest hospital after it lost power, and a patient in intensive care was killed by an Israeli shell, the Palestinian health ministry said.
The war has upended traditional Middle East alliances as Riyadh has engaged more closely with Iran, pushed back against U.S. pressure to condemn Hamas, and put on hold its plans to normalise ties with Israel.
Qatar's emir said his country, where several Hamas leaders are based, was seeking to mediate the release of Israeli hostages and hoped a humanitarian truce would be reached soon.
At a press conference in Tel Aviv, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Arab leadership to "stand up against Hamas."
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While an immediate cease-fire is in order, maybe Saudi Arabia can just shut the fuck up. There is no word they can utter that will improve the situation at all, as usual. Everything they say is manipulation or deception. Saudi Arabia is incapable of good faith discussions or commentary on any topic. Their words can only cause further harm.
Instead, let's have a cease-fire because it's the right thing to do.
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