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I'm in the U.S., and yes, we've exported behavior, no question, as I rode the train into Nice, France, I saw "Crypts and Bloods" gang graffiti on walls and railway bridges, I recognized them from my neighborhood in the 1980s, This export is now world-wide, reaching Brazil and East Africa, sorry for the export, even worse than the Disneylands.
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@nvmtt I'm in California, we pay for those Canadian planes. They're leased each year. Mexico sent 72 firefighters, looked good for the press.
California, particularly the Los Angeles County Fire Department, leases *two Canadian Super Scoopers* each fire season from Quebec's provincial government. The cost for leasing these aircraft is approximately **$4-5 million for a three-month period**. Additionally, there is an hourly flight cost of around **$515**.
The U.S. does not directly pay Canadian firefighters for their assistance. However, there are *mutual aid agreements* and *international support arrangements* in place. For example, during record-breaking wildfires, the U.S. has sent firefighters to Canada, and vice versa, to help manage and contain fires. These arrangements are based on cooperation and resource sharing rather than direct financial compensation.
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Section 185 of the German Criminal Code INSULT LAW
Law states: "An insult shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine and, if the insult is committed publicly, in a meeting, by disseminating content (Section 11(3)), or by means of an assault, with imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine."
This means that insulting someone—whether through words, gestures, or other actions that express disrespect or contempt—can lead to criminal penalties. The severity of the punishment increases if the insult occurs in a public setting, such as in front of others, through media, or involves physical action. The law doesn’t explicitly define what constitutes an "insult," leaving interpretation to the courts, which typically consider it an intentional attack on someone’s honor or dignity, evaluated in context.
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I was draft age in 1972, my protest was in self-interest. I knew nothing of the civil war and proxy war in Vietnam, neither did the majority of my peers. I did not protest Apartheid, it appeared to be an internal political issue for a sovereign nation/state. Mandela was a terrorist, he supported other terrorist groups around the world, was friends with Castro and Khadaffy. SA is today a failed state under the ANC, but again, that's the internal politics of a sovereign nation state.
There is slavery in Yemen and brutal treatment of women all through the Arab states and Iran. There's a genocide in Sudan against non-Arab peoples supported by Turkey, the UAE and Iran. Where are the "protests"?
..."an ethnic cleansing campaign against the ethnic Massalit and other non-Arab populations". From late April until early November of last year, the RSF and allied militias "conducted a systematic campaign to remove, including by killing, ethnic Massalit residents", according to HRW
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Thank you Fred Rogers, Big Bird, and the neo-Marxist, Post-Modern PhDs saturating our educational system. Our news media is now overwhelmed with "mommy talk", the Evening News is now the Evening "Feelings". Oh, the kitten is so cute, Oh my, I hope that puppy doesn't get hit by that car, etc etc. It's over, two generations lost, but realism is coming back, none too quick. The serotonin receptors are blown, like a runners knee, but there are no replacements for those neurons. Oh well, mommy, not your fault, really.
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United Nations Now Reporting
Having previously reported that 9,500 women and 14,500 children had died during the war (some 69% of all fatalities), OCHA is now reporting far lower numbers, stating that among “identified” deaths, 4,959 women have died, along with 7,797 children (or 52% of the total number of identified deaths in the war).
Of note, the Hamas ministry counts all those under the age of 18 as children, while commentators note that a not-insignificant number of combatants are in their teens.
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capitolemiproducer: Sorry, I worked with pressing plants at JVC in Japan, and Telefunken in Germany, both worked the same, and at my plant in Burbank CA, using Toolex Alpha presses, our vinyl was equal or even superior to JVC Japan. The main difference in Japan was quality control and the vinyl PVC they used.... extreme CLEAN ROOMS, where the records were pressed, and because of U.S. environmental restrictions, the chemical stabilizers in the Japanese vinyl made them better, too. U.S. vinyl could not use the same chemical catalyst after 1974 or so, and why U.S. vinyl prior to that is still so good. A lot of this history is lost. If you are at all connected to Capital Records pressing, then you should know this guy, he hired me, and taught me the pressing business:
https://patents.justia.com/inventor/csaba-k-hunyar
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The Norse predate the Inuit in Greenland
The *Inuit* first inhabited Greenland around **1200 to 1400 CE**. They are descendants of the **Thule people**, who migrated from the Canadian Arctic to Greenland. This migration marked the beginning of continuous Inuit presence in Greenland, and their culture has thrived there ever since.
The *Thule people* began to inhabit Greenland around the **13th century**. They migrated eastward from Alaska across Canada, eventually reaching Greenland and replacing the earlier Dorset culture. The Thule culture is considered the direct ancestors of the modern Inuit.
The *Dorset culture* was a Paleo-Eskimo culture that existed in the Arctic regions of North America, including Greenland, from around **500 BCE to 1500 CE**. The Dorset people are named after Cape Dorset (now Kinngait) in Nunavut, Canada, where the first evidence of their existence was found.
The Dorset culture is characterized by its distinctive artifacts, such as **triangular end-blades**, **oil lamps (qulliq) made of soapstone**, and **burins**. They primarily relied on sea mammals like seals and walruses for subsistence and used small hand sleds to transport materials since dogs and sleds were not yet in use.
The Dorset culture disappeared around 1500 CE, possibly due to climatic changes or interactions with the Thule people, who migrated eastward from Alaska and eventually replaced the Dorset culture.
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Indonesia is one of the world's largest producers of palm oil, a versatile vegetable oil derived from the fruit of oil palm trees. Palm oil is used in a wide range of products, including food, cosmetics, and biofuels, due to its high productivity, versatility, and relatively low cost.
The palm oil industry has been a significant driver of economic growth and development in Indonesia, contributing to job creation, export earnings, and investment in rural areas. However, the expansion of palm oil plantations has also been associated with various environmental and social challenges:
1. **Deforestation**: The expansion of palm oil plantations has been a major driver of deforestation in Indonesia, particularly in ecologically rich regions such as Borneo and Sumatra. Deforestation contributes to habitat loss, biodiversity decline, and carbon emissions, exacerbating climate change.
2. **Haze**: The clearing of land for palm oil plantations often involves the use of fire, which can lead to widespread forest fires and the release of hazardous smoke and haze. These fires have significant health impacts on local communities and contribute to regional air pollution.
3. **Land Conflicts**: The expansion of palm oil plantations has led to conflicts over land rights between companies, local communities, and indigenous groups. In some cases, communities have been displaced from their ancestral lands without adequate compensation or consultation.
4. **Labor Rights**: There have been concerns about labor rights violations in the palm oil industry, including forced labor, child labor, and poor working conditions on plantations.
In recent years, there has been growing international pressure on Indonesia to address the environmental and social impacts of the palm oil industry. The Indonesian government has taken steps to improve sustainability and address deforestation, including implementing a moratorium on new palm oil plantation permits in certain areas and committing to sustainable palm oil production through certification schemes.
However, challenges remain in ensuring the sustainable and responsible production of palm oil in Indonesia. Balancing the economic benefits of the industry with environmental conservation and social justice concerns requires continued efforts from governments, companies, civil society organizations, and consumers both domestically and internationally. - ChatGPT 3.5
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No genocide except by Arabs themselves, like in Syria and the Sudan. Crime in California is out of control, the mayor of Los Angeles just had her residence broken into, the candidate for Senator, Adam Schiff, just had luggage stolen at San Francisco Airport, and a couple of years ago former Senator Barbara Boxer was attack on a street in Oakland, CA. I live in a city where my drug store is about to close because of a lack of policing, made possible by the voters in my State, who now complain about lack of police. We voted for chaos and got it. The police don't make the laws, and they don't even control how they are enforced.
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@valentintapata2268 I think your response supports my assertion. No question we in the US are guilty of genocide against indigenous populations, and broke promises, but these "tribes" were not Nation/States, and would not exist today if most of the promises were not kept. The 31st Vice-President of the US, Charles Curtis, was native American, Native "tribes" fought for the South in the Civil War, one chief was a brigadier general in the Confederacy, Stand Watie, owned slaves, a number of "tribes" became oil rich in Oklahoma because treaties were honored, and the Ho-Chunk are now very rich through gaming and other real estate endeavors, they've been a client of mine, so have first hand experience. You have a narrow view of life and human nature.
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@jamespatterson6972 I followed Watergate in real time, evidence of his crime was broadcast nightly, the public, at least the public that cared, had the information, and just wanted to move on, that's why Ford pardoned Nixon, and well done. Transcripts of the tapes were public. You make it sound like there was a "cover-up" after the base one was exposed? I hated Nixon, was of that age, but now look back and see many positive results from his two-terms. Jail would have sent a poor message to both our allies and enemies. Ford made the correct choice, perhaps his only one.
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In physics the rainbow displays SEPARATION, not UNITY, and singles out the dangerous EXTREMES of ULTRA VIOLET and INFRA RED. The rainbow, as shown, is also not fully inclusive, but selective, leaving out X-Rays, Gamma Rays, etc.. It's also ironic that the unity of colors shown in the LGBTQ+ rainbow would shine as White Light, a symbol most likely abhorrent to that group, and others captured by "Woke" ideology.
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@tonycatman I have issues with the Rosa Parks narrative, as I was taught in the 1960s she was an exhausted domestic who just wanted to sit down, and only 30 years later did I find out she was an activist who was testing of segregation on buses for the NAACP, others had been doing same, only her action gained traction in the news. Rosa Parks deserves accolades, but they should be based on facts. BTW, whites could sit in Black section if bus filled up, and in some cases, like that of Jackie Robinson and his wife, a Black person could be bumped from a flight to allow a white person to board. There was no equivalent to that in the Jim Crow South for White people, so I disagree.
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Really, Saudi Arabia, no trees, very hot, no mass shootings, Palm Springs, CA, few trees in Desert, very, very hot in Summer, no mass shooting, and the list goes on and on. Individual behavior is the cause of mass shootings, you don't need to plant trees, you need to hold children accountable so they grow up with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
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SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL [Lyrics]
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long years
Stole million man's soul an faith
And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
Stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed Tsar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out
Who killed the Kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's confusing you
Is just the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
'Cause I'm in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politnesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste, mm yeah
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, mm yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, mm mean it, get down
Woo, who
Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah
Aah yeah
Tell me baby, what's my name?
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name?
Tell me baby, what's my name?
I tell you one time, you're to blame
What's my name
Tell me, baby, what's my name?
Tell me, sweetie, what's my name?
Songwriters: Mick Jagger / Keith Richards
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@timc5768 I watched the entire speech, and found him endearing, sometimes self-deprecating, something you guys say he doesn't do, and even saw Schumer laughing and clapping. The only fully stone face I saw was Michael Bloomberg, who has a full case of TDS. Again, this morning he was live for an hour and on to many more campaign stops. His energy beats mine, and I'm only 70. LOL I also thought the interaction with NYC Mayor Adams quite funny, too.
I understand your full emotional disdain, I feel the same about the Clintons. Bill just did a campaign speech for Trump, inadvertently, "they need to be vetted", and even Biden is now working for Trump, kneecapping Kamala on the Hurricane, the port strike, and going on the View pretty much saying he thought he could have beaten Trump. I hope Biden is vindicated. He was the victim of a political coup.
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@tmapache "a lot more" is not very descriptive. I used US Govt published stats.
Your question about Iraq, now that does sound like sarcasm. I'm 69, Vietnam was part of my coming of political age. I protested, argued for 18 year olds to get the vote, and took in much of the anti-American rhetoric of my peers and the progressive left.
The rhetoric of the "Woke" left is off the rails. It blames White European Men, Capitalism, and even Science, for the coming Mass Extinction of the planet. They have flipped to an Armageddon narrative to condition people into compliance. Chomsky called it "Manufacturing Consent", it is now called "Nudge Theory", check out the "Behavioral Insights Team".
The US has never been very good at being the policeman for the world, even worse at covert intelligence work. What nation on the planet would be better at it?
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@nonameissafer.8457 Not just one issue, but many. This is a trend in Universities across the US, the UK, and to some extent, the EU. Women seek partners/mates who are in their same educational class. This disparity is having wide social impact, and it's not just me saying it, look at the literature from Psychology and Sociology. I'm in no position to start this discussion on any substantial scale, and will be gone before its impact is felt, as I'm 67, but if you are under 35 years old, you'd be best advised to look at it, and ask, WHY?
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UCSD, the birthplace of WOKE, where the father of these idiots was a full professor, Herbert Marcuse, his most famous student, Angela Davis.
Appointment of Dr. Herbert Marcuse as Professor of Philosophy
November 6, 1964
Dr. Herbert Marcuse, Professor of Politics and Philosophy at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, has accepted an appointment as Professor of Philosophy on the San Diego campus of the University of California,
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San Francisco, 1985, gay man says to lesbian woman, "let's start a movement called GL", lesbian woman, "no, men are always 1st, let's call it LG", bi-person says, "what about us?", gay man says, "nonsense, no such thing as bi, but okay, let's call it LGB". I was there, it started just so; both gender and ID politics were injected at the get-go.
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In physics, the rainbow reveals SEPARATION, not UNITY, and singles out the dangerous EXTREMES of ULTRA VIOLET and INFRA RED. The rainbow, as shown, is also not fully inclusive, but selective, leaving out X-Rays, Gamma Rays, and the quantum rainbow of a single photon. It's also ironic that the unity of colors shown in the LGBTQ+ rainbow would shine as White Light, a symbol most likely abhorrent to that group, and others captured by "Woke" ideology.
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That's true, but in the context he's using that phrase, a phrase common in both sports and academia, it's meant to produce excellence, not killing and street riots, which existed in America prior to Trump being president. Trump is paraphrasing the 5th Century BCE writings of Chinese philosopher, Sun Tzu, titled in translation, "The Art Of War". Lot's of good stuff in it, Trump probably listen to part of the audio book. Lot's of things you can criticize him for, why do all'yall just make stuff up?
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To combat the recent wildfires in Los Angeles, several aircraft were deployed, including:
1. **Super Scoopers**:
2. *C-130 MAFFS Aircraft**: The **Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS)*-equipped C-130 aircraft
3. **Helicopters**: Various helicopters, including the **Sikorsky UH-60**, were used to drop water on the fires.
4. *DC-10 aircraft* was indeed used to fight the Los Angeles wildfires. The DC-10 Air Tanker, operated by *10 Tanker Air Carrier**, played a crucial role in dropping **fire retardant* over the affected areas. These aircraft can carry up to **12,000 gallons of fire retardant**, making them highly effective in wildfire suppression efforts.
The Pacific Ocean, Stone Canyon reservoir and the Encino reservoir were used, all fully functional.
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@ajs41 I was in SF 1989 at time of Earthquake, it took a decade to recover, which was spurred by the Dot Com boom in the late 1990s. It was not "perfect", and every night in the Western Addition and Fillmore there were guns shots, drug deals and danger, the area around 7th and Market, UN Plaza, was a drug taking shooting gallery. Is it worse today? Yes, but not perfect in the 1990s. BTW, in the 1980s I drove a DeSoto Cab in SF, so got a pretty good view of the place.
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United Nations Now Reporting
Having previously reported that 9,500 women and 14,500 children had died during the war (some 69% of all fatalities), OCHA is now reporting far lower numbers, stating that among “identified” deaths, 4,959 women have died, along with 7,797 children (or 52% of the total number of identified deaths in the war).
Of note, the Hamas ministry counts all those under the age of 18 as children, while commentators note that a not-insignificant number of combatants are in their teens.
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@jabbermocky4520 Why would Peter bring him in? Yale Law school, where Vance first met Peter? Vance heard the speech Peter gave at the Law School, sought him out, and a mentorship began. Vance also received financial support from Marc Andreessen, a Democrat supporter of the Clintons. Rachel didn't mention that.
Vance enlisted and was never an officer, made rank of corporal, GI Bill to Ohio State, very smart, earned Yale Law entrance. Didn't really want to practice law, didn't want to be venture capitalist, came back to the rust belt to invest there. I first learned that in one of his Ted Talks before he became Senator. He's too immature to be VP, he needs seasoning, but he will wipe the floor with Kamala.
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@JimmyJaxJellyStax In my city they already have tax-exempt status and will be designating my neighborhood an historic LGBTQ-ii Zone, we already have tax payer paid rainbow crosswalks, $165,000, and my former Mayor, now congressman, just gave tribute to RuPaul on the floor of congress, now part of the congressional record. It's religion, with a dogma and catechism if not supported, leads to excommunication. It's now insinuating itself into government, not funny.
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700,000, not 750,000, at least get the quote correct. You have completely misrepresented his book, and I suggest you read it again. Benny Morris served in the 1967 war and in the Golan Heights. Has studied and lived the issue all his life.
What would the region have been like if the UN partition had been welcomed by the leadership of the 700, 000? Choices have consequences.
Post-WW2 there were 100s of millions displaced people around the world, borders being moved and some created anew, example would be India, Pakistan, and East Pakistan.
The USA used an A-Bomb on Japan and are now close allies, the USA carpet bombed Germany and are now allies, the USA warred on Vietnam and lost, but now have diplomatic relations and strong economic ties. Gaza has 40 kilometers of Mediterranean coastline, could be a rich paradise, but instead, the people teach hate, resentment and violence to their children. You can be "pissed off" without resorting to barbarity and evil. T.E. Lawrence was correct.
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In physics, the rainbow reveals SEPARATION, not UNITY, and singles out the dangerous EXTREMES of ULTRA VIOLET and INFRA RED. The rainbow, as shown, is also not fully inclusive, but selective, leaving out X-Rays, Gamma Rays, and the quantum rainbow of a single photon. It's also ironic that the unity of colors shown in the LGBTQ+ rainbow would shine as White Light, a symbol most likely abhorrent to that group, and others captured by "Woke" ideology. 3;->↷
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@empathry I'm in California, you don't know Kamala, she is about to be retested, she failed many times, but failed up, not unusual. Vance is not "weird" for those who will vote for him in the rust belt, and Trump "convicted" in lawfare coup.
Kamala had an affair with a married man 30 years her senior, she is not "young", officially a baby boomer born in 1964 who spent her teen-years in a private religious school on Canada.
I'm in California, we don't need America to be California, we are a republic and not turn into a Woke Monarchy.
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@smilingfox8978 I read the books in 1972, own the trilogy, recently watch a documentary on Tolkien narrated by his son who confirmed the notes about the ring. The documentary also speaks to Tolkien's allegiance to old English, anglo/saxon myths and the the Beewolf poem/saga, not to mention the language alignments with Finish. The Doc is on utube, worth checking out.
"Tolkien did indeed express concerns about what would happen if Gandalf possessed the One Ring. In his letters and notes, Tolkien discussed the implications of giving the Ring to powerful characters like Gandalf or Galadriel. He feared that characters with good intentions, like Gandalf, might become corrupted by the Ring's power and turn into tyrants seeking to impose their will upon others. This concern reflects Tolkien's deeper themes about power, corruption, and the nature of good and evil in his works." - ChatGBT
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@honestjohn6418 Yes, and I wish we could expand the dimension of our understanding on how, what you so eloquently described, is being turned into a dogmatic ideology at best, and an alternative religion at worst. We can't solely blame Marx, it's not the tip of the spear, what you just described, is. I am 65 and watched this regressive "Back to the Garden" message flower since Woodstock. We are faced with several generations now believing there's a Unicorn Utopia just waiting for them if this, that, and the other occur. Their foundational precepts are flawed, so the framework will collapse, no doubt. I'd like to see John focus on this, perhaps with an anthropologist and social scientist. Go for it, John. Pandora needs a spanking.
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@mrt445 False, even if you were a Catholic but had a Jewish grandmother you could end up in the gas chamber, and racial determination was also made by how you looked. Just search "nazi racial charts". Amazing, with all the documentation so easily available, such willful ignorance as yours is still in full flower. Even Polish children were profiled for physical characteristics, if Aryan, they were sent to Germany to be with German families, if not, they ended up in slave labor camps, or worse. PBS just had a documentary about a Polish family who went through the Aryan racial test. Why do you want so strongly to believe otherwise? Mine is not a belief, documented facts abound, and there are people still alive who experienced it, but you want to believe otherwise, why?
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Tax Cut = Debt, now, there's some bad math. "Taking Guns", is a metaphor, the legal war on the 2nd amendment is not, and a brute fact. Harris is not an "ideologue", she, like Stalin, is a political predator. I am a registered Dem in California voting for Trump. Bizarre as it is, Trump is the common-sense, moderate choice this November.
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Donald Trump IS German, his paternal ancestry is traceable to Bobenheim am Berg, a village in the Palatinate, Germany, in the 18th century. Johann Trump, born in Bobenheim in 1789, moved to the nearby village of Kallstadt where his grandson, Friedrich Trump, the grandfather of Donald Trump, was born in 1869.
At one time America was 20% German, that is no longer true, so you have nothing to be worried about.
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BBC "Cherry Picking" again. $400m is peanuts in multi-use development, those of us in RE finance know this, leverage is the power to build buildings, and the debt is in the property, just like a home, if you own one. In America, 20% down means you owe 80%. In commercial real estate, it ranges from 35%-50% down, and the rest is debt. Honestly, regardless of how owns the debt, it is regulated by the laws in the State where the money was lent, and by Federal law, Trump cannot be personally compromised by it, that's just nuts.
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@RankinMsP The 1948 Arab-Israeli War began when Israel declared itself an independent state following the United Nations’ partition of Palestine. Five Arab countries, including Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, attacked Israel in protest of this move. The war ended in January 1949 after an armistice was signed. No mention of the Nabaka created by this attack. 130,000 Arabs remained and became full citizens of Israel and now number 1.8 million, 20% of the Population. The 710,000 displaced were poorly served by their leaders who expected them to fight, but most did not, and were never forgiven for that act.
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@RuckFussia I post in good faith, and hope for good faith responses, but they are rare. I'm a California Democrat, have been since 1973, and even before I could vote help run a McGovern for President office in the SFV of Los Angeles with my step-mother who was later a delegate to the Democratic National convention in 1980. Jerry Rubin, former Yippie, Eldridge Cleaver, former Black Panther, and David Horowitz, former editor of the leftist radical Ramparts Magazine, would today all be MAGA Republicans. Things, and people, change.
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@HandgunSafe I received the Sabin polio vaccination in 1961, however, the 1st release of the Salk vaccine caused 40 000 cases of polio, leaving 200 children with varying degrees of paralysis and killing 10. "Cutter Incident". Children got polio, children are not getting SarsCov2. "People", like Biden and Harris who said they would not take a "Trump" vaccine? If you look at Los Angeles County where I live, it's not the political Right unvaccinated, where both White and Asian populations have the highest vaccination rates. I'm a registered Dem, have been since 1973, and consider myself a moderate pushing back on both extremes, but finding FACTS and bundling them into truths has become a difficult task. Mandates are not working, for good and bad reasons, so we must face that and change our public health message.
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Joni, I love you, but you are wrong. JRE is not distributing misinformation, but a variety of ideas and opinions not available from corporate media, you should understand that, as you, like me, are from the 1960s. Neil Young was always an @ss, so expected, but not you, say it isn't so?
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@Chewy921 I was born and live in California, both my parents were born in California in the early 1920s. My great-grand parents left the Russian Pale of Settlement in the 1880s. Some of my cousins walked from Odessa to Haifa. Odessa is closer to Haifa than much of the Arabian peninsula. Each year my grand-father would make a toast, one made for over 1,000 years, "Next Year In Jerusalem" Jews in Israel are not "foreign", not fake, and were there to greet the first Muslims to enter the city, of course they slaughter them.
In 1948 250,000 Arabs stayed in the new state of Israel, they now number 1.8 million, 21% of the population. They serve in the Knesset, on the Supreme Court and in the IDF. An Arab/Muslim women is a featured newscaster on Israeli TV. Show me the comparable in the region. .
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Cities Highest crime rates per-capita. Majority BLUE and 3 in California, none in Florida.
St. Louis, MO (2,082)
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Baltimore, MD (2,027)
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Lansing, MI (1,136)
New Orleans, LA (1,121)
Minneapolis, MN (1,101)
Chicago, IL (1,099)
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The *Inuit* first inhabited Greenland around **1200 to 1400 CE**. They are descendants of the **Thule people**, who migrated from the Canadian Arctic to Greenland. This migration marked the beginning of continuous Inuit presence in Greenland, and their culture has thrived there ever since.
The *Thule people* began to inhabit Greenland around the **13th century**. They migrated eastward from Alaska across Canada, eventually reaching Greenland and replacing the earlier Dorset culture. The Thule culture is considered the direct ancestors of the modern Inuit.
The *Dorset culture* was a Paleo-Eskimo culture that existed in the Arctic regions of North America, including Greenland, from around **500 BCE to 1500 CE**. The Dorset people are named after Cape Dorset (now Kinngait) in Nunavut, Canada, where the first evidence of their existence was found.
The Dorset culture is characterized by its distinctive artifacts, such as **triangular end-blades**, **oil lamps (qulliq) made of soapstone**, and **burins**. They primarily relied on sea mammals like seals and walruses for subsistence and used small hand sleds to transport materials since dogs and sleds were not yet in use.
The Dorset culture disappeared around 1500 CE, possibly due to climatic changes or interactions with the Thule people, who migrated eastward from Alaska and eventually replaced the Dorset culture.
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@honestjohn6418 I want to more fully respond to you later, but quickly, I lived in a prosperous suburb of Los Angeles, and at 15, in 1970, our household included a Jewish mother and black step-father, so I don't have the "guilt/shame" nexus of my white peers, drives them crazy. In 1971 Jazz became sort of a religion to me, and through the 1970's to the year 2000, I made my living at it, not as a musician, but in the business. The "hipster" friends you described is not new, and predates the Carnaby Street of even your parents youth. Check out this essay by Norman Mailer from 1957, "The White Negro" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Negro
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Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, friend of Eichmann, who met with Hitler to discuss his "final solution" for the Jews, and father of the Muslim Brotherhood. Even before WW1, the local Arab elites wanted Jewish money, but not the Jews. In 1921 they wrote to Churchill telling him as much, and promised to side with the enemies of the UK if they allowed more Jewish immigration. You can read this report in the original:
Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921. - available as a PDF at the Library of Congress website.
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@lmarsh5407 ? Israel is a secular State, not a theocratic ethno-state. Jordan (Palestine) did become a theocracy, it's even on their flag, and there are restrictions on Christians in government and academia, and no Jews. King Hussein fought for a religious Caliphate which would have included all of Syria-Palestine, Iraq and what is now Saudi Arabia. Hussein lost the Hejaz to Ibn Saud in the 1930s, then given Jordan and Iraq as consolation prizes. The Arabs were not "peaceful" and warred against each other as well as the Jews. That continues to this day, as evidenced by the ongoing civil war in Syria which has taken more Arab lives than anything Israel has done. Of course, you may believe all these conflicts are directly caused by collusion between the UK and the Zionists, I'd argue against it, and so would TE Lawrence.
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rhinnawi95 5 Arab countries went to war, they were asked to stay and fight, 710,000 instead fled, another 300,009 fled north. But 130,000 stayed in the partition and became Israeli citizens and now number 2 million. Yes, in 1948 there was gun pointing on both sides, and at least one terrible atrocity committed by the new state of Israel, one they admit to, but the other side admits nothing,.Did not 5 Arab countries declare war on the new State of Israel? The "Nakba" happened during a state of war not declared by Israel.
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No, that's not what "self-evident" meant.
Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence began with the line, "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable". However, when Benjamin Franklin edited the draft, he changed the line to "We hold these truths to be self-evident".
There were 5 in the draft committee to the Declaration of Independence. The committee included Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman, with the actual writing delegated to Jefferson.
One of the committee members, Roger Sherman, did not own slaves. Throughout his life, Sherman opposed the institution of slavery due to his personal beliefs and his Puritan religion. He did not call for a legal end to slavery, however, believing in states rights.
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@walter1932 W.E.B. Du Bois had a complex relationship with eugenics. Early in his career, he was an advocate for eugenic ideas, largely because he saw them as a way to uplift African Americans and improve their social status. In the early 20th century, eugenics was often associated with social reform and was supported by some progressive thinkers who believed that controlling reproduction could lead to a better society.
However, Du Bois's support for eugenics was not uncritical. He believed in the improvement of society through education and social reform rather than through the more radical and harmful measures advocated by some eugenicists. As time went on, Du Bois became increasingly critical of eugenics, recognizing its potential for misuse and its racist underpinnings.
By the 1930s and 1940s, Du Bois had distanced himself from eugenics as the movement became more associated with racial discrimination and pseudoscience. He became more focused on civil rights and social justice, critiquing ideas that promoted racial hierarchies and discrimination. His later writings reflect a more nuanced understanding of race, genetics, and social policy.
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Illustrative: Hitler hosts Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini in 1941 in Germany. (Heinrich Hoffmann Collection/Wikipedia)
The following is an official German record of the meeting between Adolf Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, on November 28, 1941, at the Reich Chancellory in Berlin. (Source: Documents on German Foreign Policy 1918-1945, Series D, Vol XIII, London, 1964.)
GRAND MUFTI:
The Grand Mufti began by thanking the Fuhrer for the great honor he had bestowed by receiving him. He wished to seize the opportunity to convey to the Fuhrer of the Greater German Reich, admired by the entire Arab world, his thanks of the sympathy which he had always shown for the Arab and especially the Palestinian cause, and to which he had given clear expression in his public speeches.
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Altadena/Eaton fire under LA County Fire, that chief is a White, Male, 38 years of service, and under LA County supervision, not LA, same outcome. We are missing the point by dumping on Karen Bass. I'm a Trump voter, supported Caruso, and agree DEI is now a California State religion, but Bass is not it. Eric Garcetti was Mayor of LA before Bass, and was Mayor for 9 years. This is an issue at least a decade in the making, and we also need to look at LAFD, LA County FIRE, and CAL-FIRE union activism in local and state government.
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@Rosie05610 12,000 years ago there was an ice sheet and no humans in NYC, if you get your history from the Bible, oh well, just reminds of those folks 1100 years ago who thought the same as you, didn't plant crops because the "end was near", and it was, for them, because they starved to death. 2,000 years+, still waiting, that's persistence for you.
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I live in California, too, we are in a La Nina, already record rain and snow in the Sierras, and predicted by NOAA to continue for a cycle of a few years, normal. Weather is not "climate change", and while there's no doubt overall temps increasing around the globe, the models on WEATHER cannot predict what will happen in California, or anywhere else, nor the effect of increased C02 on Redwood and Sequoia growth, which may be substantial, and positive. That's science.
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Oliver, I believe JBP's use of the word "Post-Modern" specifically relates to how it is used by Social Justice Warriors (SJW) as a thin veil for Neo-Marxism, and that it represents Nihilism. JBP believes we still live in the Modern Age of rationalism and logic, which we do, but is concern that at the university level, and now through both provincial and federal legislation in Canada, the Nihilistic forces are hell bent on Chaos, which they are, As the Neo-Marxist take over the educational system in Canada, which they show every evidence of doing, there is real danger, and he is stepping into the breach.... risking both his life and career.
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I agree, and it is also unreported that after full scale attacks by the Media, Academia, and the Professional Politicians, not to mention Covid-19, Trump's numbers remain equal or greater than 2016. Any objective analysis would deem him one of the GOAT. I'm a registered Dem in California, if you can believe it, but can differentiate optics from action and content. He is an A-Hole, but a great President, apparently, the two ARE mutually exclusive, as proven by Obama, who I voted for twice, to my regret.
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@Sovereign24 I did not say it was "less lethal", I said I hoped it was. I don't know if it will be, do you? The flu is deadly, 12,000–52,000 deaths annually. The yearly flu causes 9 million–41 million illnesses, and 140,000–710,000 hospitalizations. Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the flu kills 290,000 to 650,000 people per year.
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@ziljanvega3879 I was born in Burbank, California 1955, registered as a DEM in 1973, voted the first time for Jerry Brown. My step-mother was president of the West San Fernando Valley Democratic Club and helped Tom Bradley become mayor of Los Angeles, when she remarried, Mayor Bradley was at the wedding along with Maxine Waters, this was 1980, my step-mom was a delegate to the 1980 Democratic Convention. I'm a 2nd generation "red-diaper baby", but the moral corruption and lies of Bill and Hillary turned me away from my roots in the Dem party. I still keep the affiliation for primary voting. California is now a de-facto one party State, not good. I am no "bot", and there are many self-censoring Dems who voted Trump 2020 then you think, and you will see that in the 2022 mid-Terms.
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@ulsia6740 There will be selective enforcement. As an example: "In a move which provoked anger in Moscow, Armenia's parliament voted Tuesday to join the international criminal court (ICC) - ratifying the treaty it had so far only signed, at its 1998 inception. Citing the will to address alleged war crimes committed by Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Armenia's prime minister has sought to assure the Kremlin that joining the ICC is not a change of course aimed at its traditional ally Russia." ICC
Many countries have signed but not ratified, others have neither signed nor ratified, and some have pulled out. If the court is used for selective enforcement, more will pull out, or join temporarily to use its services. Really a mixed bag, nice try, and I agree with having a meta-Court system over the framework of nation/states, but we are not there yet, not in the evolution of human beings.
Look at a map of those who have not ratified or even signed. Pretty telling.
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@heatherlinnette189 They did NOT live peacefully, that is nonsense. There were pogroms in the Galilee in the 18th Century, 100 years before Russian Zionists started coming in the mid-19th century. Read the story of Safed. The issue was migration, that's funny, and the money which came in during the British Mandate that the Arabs also came for but had little success getting. What "peace" was there in the 1920s between Ibn Saud and Sharif Hussein, or "peace" the Christian Armenians had in Turkey when they fled into Jerusalem in early 20th Century to escape genocide. The Arabs were traitors to the Ottomans in WW1, they fought with the British, and when they didn't like what the British did, they fought with the Nazis, when the Nazis lost, the hooked up with the Soviets and lost again. Choices have consequences.
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@atulkumar2465 I'm an empiricist and skeptic, but the impeachment articles in the American constitution are not a scientific method or framework, it is all about opinion and conjecture, but ultimately, about a consensus of "feelings" and "belief" by a majority in the Senate. Ken Starr, in his response to a question from the audience, referred to the articles of impeachment as being "lacunate " meaning deficient or inadequate, which is true. As a tool, it is imperfect, and should rarely, if ever, be used. i agree.
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Trump's action in Syria saved millions according to people on the ground there. He authorized several military actions in Syria, including airstrikes against the Syrian government in response to the use of chemical weapons and targeted strikes against ISIS targets. Proponents argue that these actions were necessary to deter the use of chemical weapons and to combat ISIS, which had committed numerous atrocities against civilians. By the time of the pullout the ISIS forces were severely degraded. Kurds have it tough everywhere in the region.
After the US withdrawal, Turkey launched a military operation into northeastern Syria, targeting Kurdish forces. This operation, known as Operation Peace Spring, resulted in clashes between Turkish and Kurdish forces and raised significant humanitarian concerns. The Kurds accused Turkey of human rights abuses and targeting civilian areas, while Turkey claimed it was targeting Kurdish militants it considers to be terrorists.
Turkey is a member of NATO, what is the US role in that situation?
In 2023, the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been involved in fighting with Arab tribes in northeast Syria. The SDF are the armed force of the Autonomous Administration of North and East of Syria (AANES), which is supported by the US. The SDF have been fighting against ISIL (ISIS) in Syria since 2016.
The US never stopped supporting the Kurdish SDF, as reported by both Syria and al-Jazeera. Destiny has no grasp on the issues in the Middle-East whatsoever.
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@C.D.J.Burton Don't see the oxymoron, and would admit to one, please describe. Yes, my comments related to American Jurisprudence, something with deep roots in Parliamentary Privilege, as outlined in the English Bill of Rights in 1689.
I looked for my comment you mentioned, it is gone, but not by me?
@nuqwestr
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@C.D.J.Burton Yes, I would agree, as I'm into moderation and reasoned action. The American Constitution is clear, your right to swing your fist stops at the end of my nose. Civilization and Total Freedom are not compatible.
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The word "ISRAEL" means the opposite, "To Struggle with God" as Jacob struggled with the angel. Jews don't force or coercn conversion, it's against their scripture, while Islam does, and for those they allow to live, a tax must be paid and submission to the authority of all Muslims, the law is Dhimmis, applies to both Jews, Christians, and all non-Muslims. It's a religion of Superiority, so quite ironic the Woke Left has allied with a Patriarchal, Supremacist religion.
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@RichLuciano1 Our perceptions and judgements are subject to error by deception and misinterpretation. A bee does not see a flower the same way we do, it can perceive light wavelengths we do not. Our sense of touch, taste, sight, hearing, can all be fooled. We perceive patterns our brains interpret as reality, most of the time this perception has a common coherence, sometimes, and for different reasons, that coherence is disrupted, and the perception of reality becomes somewhat deformed.
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Elizabeth Holtzman, a former Democratic Congresswoman, I'm a Democrat in California, Trump is not "unintelligible", he does lie, he is a clown, but not suffering from late stage dementia. Biden will not get better in the next four years. I feared Trump's "policies", but no longer do, he proved himself in 4 years. I only wonder how much better we would be had the Democratic Party not mounted a soft-coup against Trump for 4 years, that's on them. Barr and Pompeo, the highest two people in Trump's administration will be voting for him, and so will I.
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@anyazubova1518 Yes, I understand about Waqf, Israel authority needed to do some work under the Dome of the Rock, finally got permission from them to excavate, and did find some artifacts which date back to Solomon's time. I'm a non-Religious Jew in California, interested in ancient history, but don't conflate that with modern issues. In March 1921, the 3rd Arab Congress of Palestine wrote a report to Churchill. The original report is available online at the Library of Congress. The current rhetoric is not just echoed in this document, it's almost verbatim what we here from Jihadists today.
The man who hit Paul Kessler in the face, killing him, at a pro-Palestine rally near my teenage home, had on his facebook page: " ‘O Allah, release the captivity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque... Sooner than later........Oh Allah, don't deprive us of praying in it before we die..." It reminded me of the 1,000 year old toast my grandfather made, "Next Year in Jerusalem".
The West continues to be grossly ignorant of the issues, and the Woke Marxists here in California take full advantage of that. Ironically, it was my relatives from the Russian Empire who brought socialism to Los Angeles in the 1910s, started social programs which led to one of the largest free hospitals in the country, "The City of Hope" in Duarte, CA, which serves mostly immigrants and hispanic people, but the Jewish history of the place is almost erased. My mother was born 100 years ago this week in East Los Angeles, I'm no longer welcome there, would be seen as a colonizer in the place both my parents were born.
Glad to see the UAE still on board with Abraham Accords, that Jared Kushner is still working with the Saudi's on possible investments in Israel, it appears Lebanon is going ahead with agreements to license natural gas exploration off the coast with Israel, which gives me hope the rational still exists over there. I rarely talk internal politics of Israel, none of my business.
I can't tell you how much I appreciated your original comment. The ratio is normally 100:1, but when the Jihad bots hit, it's 1,000:1
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"Trump is not ideologically driven in the same way as the Fascists". Noam, thank you for clarifying your view of Trump's base as being not the same as Fascism. Noam, you should be able to differentiate between your emotional perception and the empirical evidence of Trump's actions. Noam doubts humans have a future, I get that, but don't agree. Noam, you lived thru the pandemic of Polio and the creation of a vaccine that eradicated it worldwide. Capitalism, the rich countries, America, produced that vaccine. Hitler scared you as a little boy, you have not grown beyond that fear, and your great intellect is still driven by that scared little boy.
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@marknicholson2281 I never said anything about "support" for Canada? I was making a size comparison with California.
In fiscal year 2021, the federal government provided approximately $143.7 billion to California. This funding supports a wide range of programs and services, including infrastructure, education, healthcare, and public welfare. California gets Tax dollars from Red MAGA states, and the Central Valley of California, along with Eastern and Southern farmland, is MAGA country. We are a representative form of government, not a pure democracy of the tyrannical majority.
Pierre and Donald will work well together, the PM of Alberta, too, she's smart.
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@jamuraisack5503 Yeah, term limits good, but that's not the primary point, which he risked nothing, and had nothing to gain, and the vote was prearranged by both the Dems and GOP for it to pass, that's how the sausage is made, and it was a big win for the minority GOP, so no compliant, the IRS provision was taken out, as was parental leave, looks good for 2022 red wave, all good.
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*Chris Rocheleau* is currently serving as the Acting Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). He has a long history with the FAA, having served in various roles over a span of more than 20 years. Here are some key points about his career:
- **Early Career**: Rocheleau joined the FAA in 1996 and held multiple roles, including Chief of Staff, Assistant Administrator for Policy, International Affairs, and Environment, and Executive Director for International Affairs.
- **National Business Aviation Association (NBAA)**: In June 2022, he became the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the NBAA, overseeing aircraft and flight department operations, as well as administrative, financial, and human resources functions.
- **Return to FAA**: Rocheleau returned to the FAA as Deputy Administrator in January 2025 and is currently serving as the Acting Administrator following Michael Whitaker's resignation.
Rocheleau is known for his extensive experience in aviation safety and regulatory compliance, making him well-prepared to lead the FAA during these times.
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17:23 Cortes had help from more than few dogs, when he landed on the Yucatan, the local people who were descended from the Mayan hated the Aztecs and helped Cortes, even freeing a Franciscan Friar who spoke the local language so acted as interpreter. The Aztec's were not "weak", but very young, the alliances which ruled were perhaps a century old. Dr. Taylor gives the tale short, and an inaccurate tell.
I'd add that many surnames that ended in "S" or "Z" may have been descended from Jewish Conversos, and while it was against Spanish Law from conversos to travel to the new world, we know of course they did. Ironically, horse husbandry came to the new world with Jews and led to the cowboys north and south, and the culture of the plains Indians.
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@davidh4374 The Philistines were indeed part of the **Sea Peoples**, a confederation of maritime raiders who appeared in the Levant around **1200 BCE**. They settled along the southern coast of Canaan, establishing city-states like Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, and Gath.
After their arrival, the Philistines engaged in trade with various neighboring civilizations, including the *Phoenicians* and later the *Carthaginians* -
The Phoenicians, known for their seafaring and trading prowess, had significant interactions with the Philistines, and Carthage, a Phoenician colony, continued these trade relations
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But she was wrong, it WAS ALSO about what you LOOKED like, her apology only made it worse. Germans had charts and diagrams to determine what race you were by physical characteristics. The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 make that clear, you can read them, I'm the same age as Whoopi, I was taught that in High School, she knows, but in the last 20 or 30 years a change has occurred, and kids are being taught that WW2 in Europe was just about White people killing White people, I hear it on the street, it's dangerous to rewrite history that way.
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Ape Smasher Perhaps we misunderstand, I am a registered Democrat from California for Trump 2020, and walked away from my Dems as I watched the lies about Trump. Trump placed his business in the hands of his son, and earned $1.9 BILLION since 2016, and I admire that. I am mature enough to look past Trump's clownishness, and pay attention to action and deed, which I agree with. There was a coup mounted by the Democrats, the FBI, and the MSM, which has continued for 4 years. All the more remarkable that Trump still has a narrow chance of winning in November. He needs Florida, Pennsylvania, and 2 of these 3 states, which is doable, North Carolina, Wisconsin, or Michigan. Too close to call, but you would not know that from MSM.
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@declaringpond2276 I was born in the SFV, both my parents were born in Boyle Heights in the early 1920s, my grandparents came to SoCal in the 1890s with their parents who fled the Russian Empire. My step-mother was instrumental in getting Tom Bradley elected Mayor, and before that we worked together on the McGovern presidential campaign. I never made a "defund" the police claim in my statement, but the current mayor of LA has budget issues which for all intent and purpose is a hiring freeze which she denies, claiming only open positions will just not be filled. I live in LA County, my city has 200+ positions on the police force unfilled and a mayor who allied with "defund" the police activists. My former mayor, now congressman, also onboard with limits to police enforcement in my city. I'm actively involved in my local community, speak directly to officers on duty, and they are demoralized by the administration, the veterans just waiting out their retirement, and tell me how tough it is to hire new, competent, recruits. California also passed a law allowing non-Citizens, and even the undocumented, to be police officers. "California Made It Legal For DACA Immigrants To Work As Police" Sen. Nancy Skinner
I'm no BOT, but a bonafide native Californian, born across the street from Disney Studios in Burbank, CA
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@TheRiggz666 UV Catheters are real, Trump was correct, see the provided link. Bleach main ingredient is Sodium-Hypochlorite, used by dentists for 100 years to irrigate after root canal to kill infections, also correct statement by Trump. Why no one fact checks, just assumes a lie, is what is so malevolent, it is conscious ignorance, with the information is so close at hand, it just illustrates your bad faith, and makes me sad. https://www.bioworld.com/articles/434719-uv-light-respiratory-catheter-for-covid-19-from-cedars-sinai-seeking-emergency-use
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@strigoiu13 "area"? I was specifically speaking of East Jerusalem, which was majority Jewish at the end of the Ottoman Empire, "Area", perhaps 8-12% under Ottoman rule. Guess why?
By the late 19th century, the Ottoman Empire had an estimated Jewish population of 300,000–450,000. However, by 2002, demographer Sergio DellaPergola estimated that the Jewish population of Turkey, was between 15,500–21,000. "Ethnic Cleansing"?
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@sbvish2000 Robert Caro wrote a multi-volume work on LBJ. Johnson was ill, too, but it was his policies that conflicted with high ranking members of his party, not his health. Nixon was campaigning on ending the war, Dems with Johnson couldn't do that, but wanted to, like Eugene McCarthy and RFK Jr.
While we can make analogies and comparisons to the past, on so many levels this cycle is quite unique.
If the DNC is able to get Biden to step aside, leaving Harris as the candidate, they can have an energetic convention with the choice of a new VP. This would also put Harris out of danger of debating Vance, something she would most likely lose, and pits her directly against Trump, which she has a chance of winning. I don't think the race is over at all. Who would you pick as a running mate for Harris? That's what I'm thinking about.
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@AliAliAli9Ali Janissaries began as elite corps made up through the devşirme system of child levy enslavement, by which Christian Albanians, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks, Romanians, Serbs and Ukrainians were taken, levied, subjected to forced circumcision and conversion to Islam, and incorporated into the Ottoman army.
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@1133saginaw I'm no billionaire, am 66, and my IRA has more than doubled in value since the pandemic. I invested in main street, it's paying a 5.5% dividend, but since Biden came into office, my portfolio has gone down by 6%, and with inflation, I am not better off than before. I did not say "competent", but "for competence", as my state of California has new standards for education that do not require "competence", quite the contrary, my state now rewards academic incompetence and incoherence in K-12, all made possible by the Democratic party.
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Trump, "a life of ease", LOL LOL, he revels in the chaos, and is one of the most hard-working, energetic politicians in American history. He is also a narcissistic opportunist, but he did not need to be president to be rich and famous, he already was, which the Clinton's or Obama's can't say. I dislike him, did not vote for him, but he was elected, not by fools, not be the brainwashed, but by people who wanted to disrupt the two party system in the US. If the Dems had a decent candidate for 2020, impeachment would be moot. Our 2 party system is breaking down amid a culture war, evident in the UK, too, and in other democracies around the word. Trump is not unique, not a mass hypnotist, and the more the Dems misunderstand the 2016 election, the more they will loose.
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ACA was imperfect, and Trump, who has kept his promises, will not take that protection away, you are either being lied to, or you are lying to us. Even the upcoming court case will take months, if not a year to get a decision, and even then, there are protections in ACA which can be retained. I am a registered Dem in California who is self-employed and could not afford ACA, and my choices became less, not more, then I faced an IRS penalty, which Trump took away, so thanks to Trump, and why this Dem is voting for him in Nov.
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I'm a California Dem and former member of Pacifica Radio in the 1970s, that institution was captured in the late 1980s and I moved away, 5 years ago NPR showed similar signs of being captured, which is now complete. Fox News is also rooted in a sort of institutional capture, so what we are now seeing is a culture war between the too "Big Lies", it's close to a religious conflict of dogma, perhaps akin to the constant warring between Catholics and Protestants in the 17th century. So we are in a very dangerous time. I first came to Fox when the "Big Lie" appeared against Trump in 2015/16, looking for facts not present in corporate media on the left, but had to sometimes factcheck Fox, too. Now that the news cycle has somewhat equalized, there's been a resurgent of the "Big Lie" from Fox, and it's difficult to pull facts from either stream. The new tech has presented us with a great challenge, and we are in it.
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The Enlightenment may have killed G_D, but Nietzsche went on to say that the G_D idea would be persistent, and re-emerge. We are watching a new religion taking shape, and bureaucrats and professors cloistered in the humanities are becoming the new clerics producing the canon and catechism we must all live by. If you don't ally with the framework of this new religion, an inquisition is already in place to deal with you, and you will banished, excommunicated, or eventually, something worse. Murray is correct, this has happened before, human behavior has been pretty consistent for the last 120,000 years. Our pre-frontal lobe is often quite dangerous.
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Herbert Marcuse, one of the founders of the Frankfurt School, taught here in California for years, and one of his star pupils was Angela Davis, who was later fired from UCLA for being a Communist. You can't say there is "zero" connection. I was in school in the 70s and 80s watching the mutations happen. No, there is a connection, but a distortion, no doubt. It's simple, class was changed to race, all the rhetoric is the same, as is the strategy, a long march into the institutions. Gramsci. Read the intro to the proposed NEW MATH curriculum for California. It's soaked in American Deconstructionism and European Critical Theory.... it is the framework, if not the content, for CRT.
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@ryanmarlin2974 I'm a non-religious Jew but have listened to the interpretations of "scripture" from all three faiths. I've been told many times, since I do not read arabic, I can never truly understand Islamic scripture. But thank you for trying to educate me. The difference is clear in the current conflict. Jews don't require conversion, and in fact, have scripture against it. Israel is a secular state, there are Arab Christians and Muslims serving in the Knesset, the Supreme Court and the IDF. And while these rights have been conferred on occasion to non-Muslim in Muslim countries, it is a very rare thing. The word Israel means "To Struggle with God", very much like Jihad, only it is an internal struggle, and does not force others into the battle.
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@ralphbernhard1757 No, no, that was true systemic racism, it existed, and did until the civil rights act of 1964, and subsequent laws both written and upheld. But the "War on Drugs" fell on my head in 1975, as I was convicted of Felony possession for sale with cultivation, and had the LAPD lie in court about the arrest. So, that was not a good place to start for me. What about you, ever arrested on a drug charge? Of course, my felony is now legal, mostly.
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@lmncsay Just to add, this is from a Berkeley professor:
"The United States found it much harder than expected to control the Indians in their newly acquired territory. Cross-border raiding actually surged after the war, peaking in the mid-1850s. Raids would, in fact, continue in diminished form for decades, at least until the surrender of Geronimo and his Chiricahua Apaches in 1886. But despairing of its ability to honor the terms of the treaty and threatened with massive lawsuits from the Mexican landholders who had lost so much to raiding after 1848, the United States bought its way out of Article 11 in 1854 as part of the Gadsden Purchase." - Brian DeLay associate professor of History at UC Berkeley.
Look for the full article, it tells a complete history, not just a cleaving of fact to support some bogus analogy about Arabs and "First Nation", who were also slave owners and fought for the confederacy, including the Cherokee.
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@ken__2526 "Slowly Claimed"? I believe Jordan declared war on Israel in 1967. I believe Egypt closed a port against UN rules and began sending troops into Sinai for an attack on Israel in 1967. Those Mirage Jets came in handy in Syria, too, the Golan Heights are a necessary defense location and will be kept.
Golda Meir was a Palestinian from 1921 to 1949, her passport said so. She did not maintain that political fiction born of the Mandate. Why take the "cultural name" from the West? The name is not semitic, it is indo-European, assigned to the area by Imperial Rome and kept by another Imperial power, the Ottomans.
Western and "White". I'd check the DNA of the current King and Queen of Jordan, and while you are at it, the 10th Century Caliph of Cordoba, Rahman III, blond hair and red beard.
You comments are straight out of a 20th Century Soviet propaganda book, something Abbas studied at a university in Moscow. It's stale rhetoric.
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@NiskaMagnusson All of us sitting in front of a computer or smartphone are getting 2nd hand information. It's difficult to source these days, as both search engines and now AI are heavily biased. I spend way too much time digging deep to find prime sources, then often compare and contrast, like with English al-Jazeera against The Times of Israel.
I have some life experience to tie things together. al-Shifa is no doubt a command and control for Hamas, and Marwan Issa was working out of what was left of it. The IDF got intel on what he was doing and went in, there was a gun battle, Marwan was killed, confirmed by the US State Dept, and perhaps 50 more combatants of unknown affiliation.
Let's see if this action produces results, like greater food distribution in Gaza City.
You know very well this is a PR war for Hamas and Iran. Israel is losing the PR war, but winning on the ground. Which do you suppose will be more effective in the long run?
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@fairdinkum977 He down played it in February 2020 by following advice of experts, including the CDC and the WHO, those experts turned out to be WRONG! By April he was rolling, calling it the "silent enemy" and going to WAR on it, again, what do you think he did that was not inline with what all the other 1st world leaders knew at the same time? Sweden appears to have gotten it right, and our own CDC wrong. I am not a science denier, but a science skeptic, which is a good thing. Science is not a religion, it only delivers best case scenarios and it is up to our leaders to implement them in the context of many other priorities. I do this in my own life everyday, why expect your leaders to be anything else but human, I do not.
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@Dylan Murphy Add this to your list of Facts, I am with you. Another cause of death, which will be used at the trial, is Excited Delirium Syndrome, one of the symptoms is sudden death, and the transcript shows Officer Lane was concerned Floyd had ExDS, so the use of MRE (Mechanical Restraint) was indicated, and the transcripts show they were attempting to do that prior to EMS arrival. I'm just afraid, because the Media showed such irresponsible reporting, that when the verdict comes in, people are going to be pissed off: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/7070-exhibit-final07072020/4b81216735f2203a08cb/optimized/full.pdf
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Bill has TDS, had it since the 1980s, he's not willing to say the quiet part out loud. I've lived in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, the NGOs funded by our tax dollars have an incentive to maintain their political power by keeping homeless on the street. It's not because of directives from on high, but from those within the bureaucracy who are there to bring down the American system; The enemy within. I attended San Francisco State University in the 1980s, Angela Davis was there, and that's what was being taught. Resistance to the oppressor from within, and you, as a resistance fighter, are morally obligated to le to the oppressor. Bill Murray is a rich, useful idiot for the enemy within,
Like HAMAS, our enemy from within uses the innocent as martyrs for PR and defensive shields. Evidence of that is the current resistance to ICE being supported by local media and the Associated Press.
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@bandanakabana4494 Really, you might want to check out how the British created Jordan.Too bad they backed Hussein instead of Ibn Saud, Saud ended up with the oil and the Americans.
"Settler Colonialism" is a trope out of the Marxist playbook taught by the Soviets to liberation nationalists post-WW2. Lots of nasty stuff came out of that, including Libya and genocide all over Africa and Asia. Abbas, the PA leader, even got his PhD equivalent in Moscow. The stale Soviet dialectic has to end, too. It's failed everywhere it has been evoked, including Egypt.
I'm dealing with a brand of "settler colonialism" myself here in California. In the town my parents were born in the early 1920s, over 100 years ago, they rarely speak English anymore. Some say it's a "return" to a homeland called Aztlan.
The majority population in Israel is not European, but just so you know, Odessa is closer to Jerusalem than Oman.
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@bandanakabana4494 Soviet-era propaganda often portrayed settler colonialism, particularly in the context of Western powers, as a tool of imperialism and exploitation. The Soviet Union used various mediums, including posters, literature, and films, to condemn colonialism and depict it as a form of oppression and injustice.
Here are some common themes and messages found in Soviet-era propaganda regarding settler colonialism:
1. **Exploitation of Indigenous Peoples**: Soviet propaganda frequently highlighted the exploitation and suffering of indigenous peoples under settler colonial rule. Images and narratives depicted indigenous populations being displaced from their lands, forced into labor, and subjected to cultural assimilation.
2. **Imperialist Aggression**: Settler colonialism was portrayed as a manifestation of imperialist aggression by Western powers. The Soviet Union emphasized the expansionist motives behind colonial endeavors, framing them as part of a broader strategy to dominate and exploit territories and peoples.
3. **Resistance and Liberation**: Soviet propaganda often celebrated the resistance efforts of indigenous peoples against settler colonialism. It portrayed them as heroic figures fighting against oppression and colonial rule. The Soviet Union supported various anti-colonial movements around the world and depicted them as allies in the struggle against imperialism.
4. **Solidarity with Colonized Peoples**: Soviet propaganda aimed to foster solidarity with colonized peoples by highlighting shared struggles against imperialism. The Soviet Union positioned itself as a champion of decolonization and supported independence movements in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
5. **Critique of Capitalism**: Settler colonialism was frequently depicted as a product of capitalist exploitation and inequality. Soviet propaganda emphasized the role of capitalist interests in driving colonial expansion and portrayed socialism as a progressive alternative that prioritized social justice and equality.
Overall, Soviet-era propaganda on settler colonialism sought to delegitimize colonial practices, condemn Western imperialism, and promote the idea of national liberation and self-determination for colonized peoples.
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@coreydailey4939 Luke Serna was interviewed by the Coronado Times and said he spoke to the coach about the tortillas before the game. The coach, JD, is quoted in the SD Union calling it a racist act. the school rushed to judgement and fired JD, the CIF has taken the win away from the team and sanctioned them for a "racist" act, and the Coronado school district is looking into an appeal and has hired their own investigator to find out what happened, something everyone already claims to know. I think a documentary could be done of this event showing how the media, the spineless bureaucrats, the self-righteous and MSM, all rushed to judgement. It's possible that JD deserved to be fired, I don't know, and nothing on YouTube or the legacy press has informed us YET of what really happened. The word "racism" has been weaponized, lost any logical meaning, and is now something of a religious totem people touch, feel, and pray too, it's got to stop.
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@coreydailey4939 I agree, and thank you for bringing the "facts" into the discussion. Luke says in his interview the coach knew in advance, but the SD Union story appears to make it look like he did not, and quote him saying it was a "racist" act. Luke's action is an issue, poor judgement, perhaps even unintended incitement to riot. It's also possible the tortillas diverted a more physical altercation after the game, which went into overtime, and it seems the staff of both teams started to "go at it". I think the actions of the Oak Glen coach also needs to be looked at, and the "tortillas" look more like a side-show for the media and culture war than the primary issue at the end of the game, which was poor sportsmanship. I just saw last night a pro basketball player push an opposing team member hard in the back as he was walking away. I don't think the culture values "sportsmanship" at all, and in fact, seems to reward it. The sanctions by the CIF were over the top, and show cowardice by that agency in the face of a political response by some, egged on by the media. I believe a true investigation would show bad acts by both team staff at the end of the game, and based on that, JD should perhaps be fired, but the team should retain the win.
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markmierzejewski9534 It's the individual's right in that State, not the State itself, as stated in the US Constitution, when it came to ROE. Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the wrong constitutional argument was made in Roe.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg believed that the Roe v. Wade decision was based on the wrong argument, and that it would be better to have based it on gender equality instead of a woman's right to privacy.
"Privacy" applies to rights conferred, and in 22 States the fetus has legal rights, too. It's not settled law, and we as a society of civil law need to work it out. When does life get inalienable rights. as stated in the Constitution?
Soon, there will be mass produced artificial wombs that will make life viable at conception outside the gestational parent's body. We as a people will need to deal with that reality. I honestly don't have an answer, but it is a real question. Do we confer the right to life and death to the gestational parent. Maybe we do, so the homicide becomes justifiable. I'll never agree that it is a right, or "healthcare", or something to be celebrated.
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@embreis2257 Not snow "I saw", but record snow in those mountains, easy to google. The most recent "devastating wildfire" was the result of poor building codes and electric transmission line failure, not "climate". No question C02 and Methane release an issue, and man made, but the policies being made at the top, and the effort to scare people at the bottom, will, I predict, be counter-productive. Bjorn Lomborg has a good idea. Let's rank prioritize future policies based on analysis, not "feelings".
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"strain", I would agree, but why do you paint a broad picture when Asimov did not. Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Cal-Tech, the Mt. Wilson observatory in my hometown, which Hale used to see, for the first time, beyond our Galaxy, occurred here in the U.S. America holds 385 Nobel Prizes, more than any other country on the planet. Your assertion is ridiculous. What Asimov saw as "anti-intellectualism", can also be seen as "skepticism" of so-called "experts" who are often just wrong, something we a living with contemporaneously.
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@Sam-bl8vj Sorry, 5th and Main, Skid Row, is less than two miles from East LA and Lincoln Heights, you are talking about my personal history, paternal and maternal, which go back more than 100 years. Grand Central Market is at 3rd and Hill, in the heart of the new downtown, near high-end hotels and museums, two blocks from City Hall. Again, you are incorrect.
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@elliotlewisham1138 You are clearly a racist based on the current definition of that word, making an argument for one tribe against another. After WW2 there were 100s of millions displaced all over the world. The United Nations was tasked with making the world anew, and many borders and boundaries were created, including Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. Israel was created as a secular, liberal democracy. That's the issue, the tribal Arabs and their medieval kings, like in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, wished for the old world, and Israel represented the new one. Couldn't handle it then, or now.
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"Atheists", if you discount, or are unaware of, the influence of Aristotle, Plato, the philosophies of Stoicism, Skepticism, Cynicism, and Epicureanism, on the early Christian Church Fathers, including St. Paul, and later St. Augustine, then you have no real understanding of your own faith, and little business criticism others who do.
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@stefanbernhard2710 Not sure what you mean, however, the Rogan exchange with Peterson was not good, and I didn't watch all of it. It was a boring as watching a tennis match between a pro and a child. Peterson and Lomborg have rigorously studied data sets, and clearly the "error rate" of climate change models, which project 100 years out, is significant and should not be denied. If we want the greatest good, for the greatest number, we need to rank prioritize by cost/benefit and act in accordance to that data set. No question CARBON has been weaponized by anti-Capitalists and that extreme view should be pushed back on. Dr. James Hansen, the father of Climate Change Science, has made it clear Next Generation Nuclear must be in the picture, but the anti-Capitalist don't want it, so his voice has been cancelled. Very dangerous. There's a windfarm in Mexico which has polluted the ground water because of the deep concrete piers needed, and the water no longer flows to the fields of indigenous people there, they are suing. How ironic.
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A green card holder (lawful permanent resident) can be deported if they commit certain types of felonies. In 2011 the older brother was part of a triple murder on the anniversary of 9/11.
1. **Aggravated Felonies**: These can include serious crimes such as murder, rape, drug trafficking, and certain firearms offenses.
2. **Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude (CIMT)**: These are crimes that involve dishonesty or immoral conduct, such as fraud, theft, or assault.
3. **Drug Offenses**: Convictions for drug-related crimes can also result in deportation.
4. **Domestic Violence**: Crimes involving domestic violence, child abuse, or violation of protection orders can lead to removal proceedings.
5. **Other Serious Crimes**: Other serious offenses, such as human trafficking or gang-related activities, can also trigger deportation.
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The book mentioned does not agree with "Cops Killed Him Because He Is Black", that quote is taken out of context, in the book, the parents CORRECT that assumption, tell the child their uncle is a police officer, some are black, some are white, and mostly good. FOX and the the police union meme distorts the theme of the book. It's actually quite good, you should read the sample online before passing judgement. BTW, CRT and KENDI X are terrible, and should not be taught in K-12, nor the 1619 project, but the book mentioned is not ALL THAT.
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@taissapereira2578 Thank you, he does not deny there's probably climate change, he doesn't believe we've past a "tipping point" or that the world will end in 10 years, as Greta's speech's proclaim. He's pragmatic about what we can do, that's all. How do you stop China, India, and Brazil from obtaining cheap energy to grow? Dr. James Hansen, the father of climate change science has some solutions, and one of them is Breeder Reactors, nuclear, the other side denies the science that shows nuclear is a big part of the answer to replacing Carbon as a fuel. The CENTER must hold, and not listen to the noise coming from either extreme.
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@Youtubecensorstruth I find nothing to disagree with, the 17th century concept of nation/states, as first defined by the Westphalian Agreements, have lost favor among the Western diplomatic elites, as Americans, we are ill-served by leaders I once supported, like John Kerry, who I first saw on TV in 1971 when I was facing the Vietnam War draft. "No Fly Zone" is an act of war, as you know, since it requires ground targets to be taken out, so engagement would happen immediately. I'm no war-hawk, and really have no good ideas at this point. If this is a replay of Putin's Chechnya, the EU will have a front row seat, and I doubt they will sit for it, the hawks will be there, as a history buff, the idea of German troops marching through Poland to Russian territory is mind-boggling.
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@crispinrocha5148 Oh, "skin, not kin", that's racist and bigoted, and I hope never to live in a reality created by you. I am something you will never understand, having lived in a mixed-race household in 1970, when interracial marriage was still illegal in 11 states. I self-identify, and the more you push everyone into collective intersectional boxes, against their will, the uglier it's going to get. You did not answer my question, but only deflected by saying can't just be "skin", it must also be "kin", this is the same old "class" distinction made by a failed ideology from 150 years ago. Good luck with that.
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@crispinrocha5148 I am a member of a tribe which only has a current world-wide population of 15 million, we've been decimated by genocide, on and off, for 5,500 years. You may have been stopped, but I have been arrested and convicted of a Felony, which is now legal, and had guns drawn on me in a dark alley by plain clothes officers. I've also been refused service because of my appearance, and harrassed at the border in Canada, also because of appearance. I was profiled, and can now see it was justified. You have narrow eyes, with a myopic focus, and are part of the problem, not the solution.
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I'm at the beach in Southern California, it is foggy and damp, one of the coldest Summers in memory, it's because of a high pressure system to the East bringing up monsoonal moisture, so not hot and dry everywhere in California. "Ravage" is too strong a word, the fire in the Eastern Sierra is very rural. I love the area, travel Hwy 395 all the time, feel for the people, it is horrendous for them, but, as usual, DW pushes the emotional language for $$$.
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Not assassination attempt, this man well-know to authorities, he's an anarchist:
The "sovereign citizens" movement is not a formal organization with a single manifesto, but rather a loose collection of beliefs and ideologies. Generally, adherents claim that they are independent of the authority of the government and legal system, often asserting that they can declare themselves exempt from laws and regulations. Some key tenets include:
1. **Personal Sovereignty**: Belief in individual rights and self-governance, often rejecting government authority.
2. **Misinterpretation of Law**: They often use misinterpretations of legal documents, such as the U.S. Constitution, to justify their beliefs.
3. **Creation of Legal Documents**: Many create their own legal documents to assert their status, such as "affidavits of sovereignty" or "notices of default."
4. **Anti-Government Sentiment**: A general distrust of government and its institutions, viewing them as corrupt or illegitimate.
While some members engage in peaceful advocacy, others have been involved in illegal activities and confrontations with law enforcement. The movement has been associated with various forms of extremism and has been monitored by law enforcement agencies.
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@GeryonA The first draft of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, which is not a Constitution, has no force of law, was written by, Zvi Berenson, an "indigenous" Jew to the region, his family was there for hundreds of years and faced "ethnic cleansing" in the city of Safed.
The Muslim Brotherhood and Arab League have made those "Arab State" claims, and have done so for more than 100 years, including their opposition to any Jewish majority in the region. Read this: "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress PDF.
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@freedommatters3176 I was part of demonstrations in the 1960's, was facing the draft, etc. etc., among other things. I don't see how our demonstrations had much impact on the political process. In fact, the chaos of Chicago in 1968 helped give Nixon the victory, and in 1972, the Dems were in such internal disorder they gave Nixon a 2nd term. Only his own character flaws ended his presidency. I am no pacifist, be "Civil" in your disobedience, all good, but come in my home, act out in an uncivil manner, and I will defend my property, my family, and myself. This is all a lot of noise, which we've had one cycle after another of, with little change. Real change comes from the inside out by individuals, not collectives.What change are you about? Global Warming, I'm with you, systemic racism, no, the stats clearly show the police are not systemically racist. If you are a black man in America, you have less than a one in a million chance of being shot dead by a police officer. That's from a study of 20 years of statistics gathered by a Black tenured professor from Harvard. There are science deniers on the right, but science deniers on the left, too. https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/empirical-analysis-racial-differences-police-use-force
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ChatGPT. So, Ben, not entiely "wiped out"
"In 2019, Senator Kamala Harris was often identified as one of the more liberal members of the U.S. Senate. Her policy positions and legislative proposals generally aligned with progressive priorities, including advocating for Medicare for All, climate action, and criminal justice reform.
Her voting record and public statements positioned her to the left on many issues compared to her colleagues, though the label of "most liberal" can be subjective and dependent on the specific issues or metrics being considered. For example, other senators like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren also had strong progressive records and might have been considered more liberal on certain issues.
Overall, Harris was a prominent voice in the Senate pushing for progressive change, which was reflected in her campaign platform during her run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020." - ChatGPT
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Allison Bauch Hum, I am in Los Angeles County, a registered Democrat, middle-class, voting for Trump. The Boiler Makers Union of PA, and most, if not all, Police Unions are for Trump, not "poor", and my 401K has increased 67% under Trump. The demographic is wide ranging, and I predict an upswing in male African Americans for Trump. Trump is going to get FL, PA, NC, WI, and wins.
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I also live in the area, and have taken photos of the rig for years, as it falls in a line of sight for the sunset from dog beach, the cargo ships are north/west of the platform, but an interesting idea. 3,000 barrels is nothing, the cargo ships are dumping more waste everyday than that spill, the diesel runs 24/7 and I clean the black soot off my windows everyday. That's a bigger environmental concern than the spill, and the Mayor of HB knows it, she will sue over lost revenue for the Air Show being shut down, and why all the press conferences.
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@RaoulPrompt69 So, why no impeachment inquiry? We've had criminal Presidents in the past, some of the most celebrated, in fact. We have an election next year, and I wish the DEMS would provide candidate who is as strong, energetic, and compelling as Trump, so I have someone to vote for, YANG, maybe, but nothing else. Impeachment is a poor excuse by the DEMS for not being able to offer the electorate a candidate they can get behind, only one they want to destroy.
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Read a little of the book yourself, and make an informed judgement, please, thank you:
"Something Happened in our Town" - Sample
After school, Emma asked her mother: “Why did the police shoot that man?”
“It was a mistake,” said her mother. “I feel sad for the man and his family.”
“Yes, the police thought he had a gun,” said her father.
“It wasn’t a mistake,” said her sister, Liz.
“The cops shot him because he was Black.”
Emma was confused. “He is brown, not black,” she said.
“Some Black people have dark brown skin,
and some have light brown skin,” Emma’s father explained.
“‘Black’ usually means African American.
Most of their ancestors were brought here from Africa as slaves.”
“That White policeman who shot the
Black man,” said Josh. “Will he go to jail?”
“What he did was wrong,”
said his mother. “But he won’t go to jail,” said his father.
“Why not?” asked Josh.
“Cops stick up for each other,” said
Josh’s brother, Malcolm. “And they
don’t like Black men.”
Josh was confused. “Why not? Some
police are Black.”
“You’re right,” said his mother. “Uncle James is a police officer,
and so is my friend Kenya.”
“There are many cops, Black and White, who make good choices,”
said his father. “But we can’t always count on them to do what’s right.”
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@kasper7203 "Officials at the U.S. Department of Education last month released findings in their investigation into Georgetown University, Texas A&M, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, Rutgers and other universities over billions of dollars in unreported funding from the oil-rich Gulf kingdom of Qatar. Much of the known Qatari funding has gone to Texas A&M, Georgetown, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern and Virginia Commonwealth, all of which maintain campuses subsidized by the royal family-linked Qatar Foundation.
Between 1986 and 2018, Middle Eastern countries donated more than $6.6 billion to U.S. universities, but reported less than $3.6 billion to the federal government as required by law. Of the roughly $5 billion donated by Qatar to various institutions, less than $2 billion was reported properly, according to federal records and seven years of research by experts and investigative accountants at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP).
According to these findings, some of which were presented at a summit on contemporary anti-Semitism hosted by the Department of Justice in July 2019—which in part spurred the Department of Education investigation—inadequate federal oversight procedures failed to keep track of funding coming into the United States from abroad, and universities failed to report more than $3 billion given by Qatar and the Gulf States.
The bulk of Middle Eastern donations coming into the United States emanates from Qatari donors (75 percent), while the Qatar Foundation accounts for virtually all of the donations from Qatar. These funds have a significant impact on universities, especially with regard to attitudes toward Israel. ISGAP's research identified a direct correlation between the funding of universities by Qatar and the Gulf States and the active presence at those universities of groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which foster an aggressive anti-Semitic atmosphere on campus. In addition, the ISGAP project assessment found a correlation between funding and the ideological bent of scholarship, including anti-Israel and anti-Zionist sentiment, at departments and institutes at some of America's leading universities, publishing houses and academic professional associations. There is also a disturbing connection between this funding and the silencing of institutes and publications by scholars that are critical of the prevailing ideology." - Newsweek, 2020
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Livingthedream I agree, and want AZ to go all RED. My cousin in AZ will not vote for Trump, so just trying to get her not to vote for Biden, but she is suffering from TDS, much the same way I felt about Hillary, so I understand. We need McSally, hope she pulls it off, but we don't need AZ for a Trump win, we need PA, FL WI, MI NC, all doable. The "long count" just got struck down in MI, so looking better.
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@EasyEight3674 I am a former resident of San Francisco, lived under both Feinstein and Pelosi, used to shop at the Safeway on Webster with Willie Brown (loves fresh fruits and veggies) in the 1980s/90s. I watched the debate and relieved at what a poor showing Newsom made, even though the bootlickers say he won, but most don't believe it. I'm still a registered, pre-partisan, Democrat now living in Southern California, where my congressman, Robert Garcia, is great friends with Newsom, and recently on the floor of congress praised RuPAUL as a great American. The middle left and middle right need to stand up, not just to vote, but to SERVE. We need better choices at the ballot box, just as we need better teachers in the schools.
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14:56 The AOS changed names of "racist" birds, like Anna's Hummingbirds.
The Anna's Hummingbird, named after Anna Masséna, Duchess of Rivoli, announced that it would rename birds currently named after people, including those linked to historical figures with problematic legacies, to make birding more inclusive and to remove names associated with racism or other forms of discrimination.
Reasons for the Name Change:
Inclusivity: The AOS aims to make birding more welcoming to a diverse audience by moving away from names that might exclude or offend people, especially those linked to historical figures known for racist or exclusionary practices.
Decoupling from Human Names: The initiative isn't solely about removing names associated with negative historical figures but also about shifting towards names that describe the birds themselves, their habitats, or behaviors, which can be more informative and engaging for bird enthusiasts.
Historical Context: Anna Masséna, after whom the hummingbird is named, was a European noblewoman with no direct connection to the bird's natural habitat or characteristics. The naming tradition in ornithology often honored individuals, sometimes without regard for their actions or the implications of such honors.
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7 Arab countries: Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen
Benny Morris writes not all were "into it" and at different times had few significant troops. Iraqis were already in the fight in 1947, some at Deir Yassin in April 1947.
What you describe is one story, there are perhaps 3 main narratives. Some say Arab leaders ran away to Beirut while calling on others to fight, some say Arab radio told them to leave, temporarily, until we win. It's a mixed bag, and as Oren has told us, 160,000 remained and now number 1.9 million. 21% of Israeli population are Arab. None comparable in the 22 Arab league states.
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) utilizes non-competitive hiring practices to meet certain goals related to inclusion and diversity. Here's how this works:
Schedule A Hiring Authority: The FAA employs this authority to hire individuals with disabilities without the need for competitive procedures. This is part of a broader federal effort to increase the representation of people with disabilities in the workforce. The FAA specifically targets individuals with "severe" or "targeted" disabilities, which include conditions like hearing, vision impairments, missing extremities, various forms of paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism.
Veterans' Preference: The FAA also uses non-competitive hiring for certain veterans, particularly those with service-connected disabilities of 30% or more. This helps in fulfilling goals to support military veterans and increase diversity within the agency.
Direct Hire Authority: While not exclusively for inclusion, this authority allows the FAA to hire quickly for certain positions where there is a critical need or shortage, which can indirectly support diversity by opening up opportunities that might not be as accessible through traditional hiring routes.
On-the-Spot Hiring: For both veterans and individuals with disabilities, some positions allow for immediate hiring if the candidate meets all qualifications, which is part of the FAA's strategy to meet diversity and inclusion goals.
The rationale behind these practices includes:
Meeting Federal Mandates: The FAA, like other federal agencies, is subject to laws like the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which mandates affirmative action for the hiring of individuals with disabilities.
Fostering a Diverse Workforce: By employing non-competitive hiring, the FAA aims to create a workforce that reflects the diversity of the nation, which is seen as beneficial for innovation, problem-solving, and serving a diverse public.
Addressing Underrepresentation: Certain groups, including those with disabilities, have historically been underrepresented in federal employment. Non-competitive hiring helps address these disparities.
However, these practices are managed with an eye toward maintaining the rigorous safety and qualification standards necessary for aviation. Here's how inclusion and safety are balanced:
Qualification Standards: Even under non-competitive hiring, candidates must meet all relevant qualifications for the job. For safety-critical positions, this might mean extensive training, medical evaluations, and other rigorous standards.
Reasonable Accommodations: The FAA provides accommodations where possible to ensure that employees with disabilities can perform their duties, but these accommodations do not compromise safety.
The use of non-competitive hiring practices for inclusion goals has been a point of contention, particularly following incidents like the 2025 crash near Washington D.C., where critics questioned if these practices might affect safety. However, the FAA maintains that all hires, regardless of how they were brought into the agency, must meet the job's qualifications and safety requirements.
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Patrisse Cullors is a "straw-person" in this, her BLM chapter does not have tax exempt status, but the BLM Foundation does, and she is not an officer of that chapter. There are over 50 listed by the IRS. Patrisse is being used, not a good person, but not the brain behind the cabal. The principal in the BLM Foundation received $62,500 for tax year 2019 for services, with donations of around $225K. 2020 was the watershed year, but the IRS 990 has not been filed yet, due this summer, unless they get another extension, which is most likely. FOX and the other news outlets not covering the real story here, and that's the IRS tax exempt status being used by all these chapters, it's appalling they've handed out tax exempt status like candy to them.
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@meretricioussimp7759 F-150 in Sweden costs between 50-100,000 euros. In California same models between $37-75,000 dollars with a 10% sales tax.
The comprable model in Europe is the Toyota Hillux, but the F-150 offers so much more;
The Ford F-150 and Toyota Hilux are both popular pickup trucks, but they have some differences in capacity:
1. **Towing Capacity**:
- **Ford F-150**: The F-150 has a towing capacity ranging from 8,200 to 14,000 pounds, depending on the engine and configuration.
- **Toyota Hilux**: The Hilux has a towing capacity of up to 7,700 pounds.
2. **Payload Capacity**:
- **Ford F-150**: The F-150 has a payload capacity of up to 3,325 pounds.
- **Toyota Hilux**: The Hilux has a payload capacity of up to 2,240 pounds.
3. **Engine Options**:
- **Ford F-150**: Offers a variety of engine options, including turbocharged versions that provide ample power and towing capacity.
- **Toyota Hilux**: Known for its dependability and off-road capability, the Hilux offers diesel engine options.
Overall, the Ford F-150 has a higher towing and payload capacity compared to the Toyota Hilux. However, the Hilux is renowned for its reliability and off-road prowess.
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@DarkAngel2512 "We", since Coleman's birth in 1996, almost 10 years after CRT began to be academically formalized by Crenshaw, et al, have recategorized race yet again. I use Jazz as an example of something I experience directly and know about. Jazz is now formally an ideological ghetto captured by race essentialists, which has rendered it artistically moot. We had a momentary flowering in the mid-1980s, but that's long over. I currently live in a Gay ideological ghetto with rainbow crosswalks, rainbow lifeguard stations, rainbow flags in business windows, even my local 7-11 displays a "safe place" rainbow flag in the window, which includes its corporate logo. "We" are humans, only the long and tedious process of evolution will alter our endemic bigotry and narrowing of perception based on tribal affiliation. This is why we need to teach young people both CIVICS and CIVILITY, something no longer considered relevant. It's Nietzsche's "Will to Power" for the 5% Hughes and others have identified.
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@WholeHolyHole Nope, much more. A Transatlantic Festival
Liberté d’expression, Free Speech, and “Cancel Culture”
Friday, April 23–Sunday, April 25, 2021
LIVE Online • In English
Co-presented by La Maison française of NYU, The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US, and FIAF
This April, three leading French cultural organizations based in New York bring together more than a dozen thinkers from the U.S. and France for a transatlantic festival investigating the state of liberté d’expression or free speech in the age of what has been called “cancel culture.”
Festival features three in-depth conversations, each one centering on a hot-button issue: Religion on Friday, April 23 at 1pm ET; Sexuality on Saturday, April 24 at 1pm ET; and Race on Sunday, April 25 at 1pm ET.
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@ Math Standards have been dramatically lowered in CA.
Controversial math standard in California for K-12 education was adopted in July 2023 by the California State Board of Education.
Equity and Access: The framework emphasizes making math education more equitable and accessible to all students, particularly those from historically marginalized groups.
Delayed Algebra: One of the most debated aspects is the recommendation to delay Algebra I until 9th grade rather than offering it in 8th grade, which has traditionally been the path for advanced students. This is intended to ensure a more uniform educational experience but has been criticized for potentially holding back gifted students.
Social Justice and Real-World Relevance: The framework incorporates social justice themes into math lessons, making math more relevant to students' lives. This includes using culturally relevant contexts for math problems. Critics see this as an ideological overreach, potentially politicizing education.
Teaching Methods: There's an emphasis on inquiry-based learning, productive struggle, and collaborative problem-solving, which some see as progressive but others view as potentially diluting math education's rigor.
Critics, including many from the academic math community, argue it lowers educational standards and disadvantage students in the long run, particularly those aiming for STEM careers.
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@evanboettger1834 I don't think so, his talk is still prescient, valid, and tells us impeach is an unfair, ambiguous tool that should not be used. The select Senate Committee that took out Nixon, with GOP Senator Goldwater carrying the water to Nixon, is our best cast scenario. At this time, it is still electioneering by the Dems afraid of loosing 2020. There is no bipartisan support of "people of good will" to remove Trump. I am a registered Democrat in California. Let the people vote, it is little more than a 1 year away. You suffer from an emotional distortion if you think Trump is, as Hillary said during her campaign, and again a few days ago, a clear and present danger to America. Trump is certainly a narcissistic opportunist with a personality disorder, but his social non-conformance is not reason to remove him from office, and overturn an election.
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The Way: JBP makes it clear that order and chaos are in 'tension', and that there is more suffering and failure in the world than contentment and success. I don't see him as optimistic, but realistic, and something of a Taoist. It is our personal responsibility to at least attempt balance, and to sometimes resist the gravitons of entropy and chaos, but also to occasionally promote them. The dynamic balance of yin and yang, JBP often evokes the Tao.
I watched as my compatriots were sure Obama was the Manchurian candidate and would order marshal law and not leave office at the end of his term. Now another set of compatriots are saying the same of Trump. I lived through JFK, LBJ, Nixon, and Ronald Reagan. I'm suffering, but not so much.
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@robertlongwill8856 I want to vote in the primary system we have here in California, and the Republicans are too "religious" for me, cringe worthy, and being Dem I get at least some voice in my local government, as a Republican, I would not, that's how divided it is. Both sides, off the rails. I like Trump, not Republicans, and that's why I think he will win in November, and wish Kimberly well, too. I think she has a great future ahead of her, and since I am 65, hope to be around when she makes it. BTW, I contributed to Andrew Yang, also, because he was not afraid to tell the truth, but understood he never really had a chance.
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@AnnaBeeeeee Similar goals, a Pan-Arab state and a Caliphate are not dissimilar, just different leadership. If I remember correctly, it was a Jihadist rockets that failed and hit al-Shifa Hospital, but Hamas was on the phone with them at the time. Interesting, it's quite possible Jihadist have hostages and why the talks with Hamas are not enough. I'm reminded of TE Lawrence's famous quote "So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are."
The Third Arab Congress in 1921 made their goals quite clear in a report to Winston Churchill. It's online: "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921"
Answer me this: Is Tel-Aviv occupied Palestinian land?
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@robertcortez2976 I don't know what happened between the two teams after the game. It was a playoff, it went into over-time, and Coronado won at the buzzer. Emotions were very high, and it appears possible the tortillas may have actually deflected something even more serious from happening. But I don't know, so don't have an opinion about "firing" or "justice" in the matter. What motivated me was how both the legacy and new media ran with a story of "racism" in order to manipulate emotions for money, just like a Disney motive, and we fall for it, over and over again, perhaps because we want to. That's not progress. As for "Mexican" heritage, what does that mean to you? In Jr High I had a Jewish girlfriend who was born in Mexico, and during the Mexican-American war there's the famous San Patricios Brigade, whose ancestors are honored and march in Mexican parades, there was also a large immigration of Germans in the 1880s, and after the genocide of the native population, the Spanish imported Chinese and Filipino labor into Mexico, too. And of course, there are the hidden "cyrpto-Jews" of Mexico, who often have an "EZ and ES" at the end of their surname, but this is only a clue, and those with "EZ and ES" should look deeper into their heritage.
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@will3150 What about pulling out of Northern Syria? Finally moving embassy to Jerusalem, funding traditionally Black colleges, releasing felons with drug only offences, his actions on the border, actions on Mexico and new trade agreements, and so much more. I find his personal, at least visual, character abhorrent, but find myself agreeing with his policies, and 4 years was not enough to play out changes to globalization that took 60 years to put in place, but his work with Europe and China was a good start, too bad it could not be finished.
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Trump/Vance 2024. It always pops up since "tube" skews left. "Fascist"? Trump has a Jewish daughter and grandkids, his other daughter, Tiffany, married an Arab, and his VP has a multi-Racial family. Read Mussolini's "Doctrine of Fascism 1932" for primary source history, where he derides individual freedom, saying the individual is the state, and the state is the individual. Dems are projecting, they are the ones promoting Fascist statism, not Trump. Mussolini hated classic-liberalism, it's in his manifesto.
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@mehere8038 I was there, we had evacuated horses and goats in our backyard. I was 15, and there were many more after this. It is normal
The **Clampitt Fire**, also known as the **Newhall Fire**, was one of the largest wildfires in Southern California's history. It started on **September 25, 1970**, in the Newhall Pass area and quickly spread due to strong Santa Ana winds, eventually merging with the Wright Fire in Malibu. The combined fires burned over **157,058 acres**, destroyed **183 structures**, and tragically resulted in the deaths of **four civilians**.
This fire went from the area now burning in Santa Clarita all this way to Malibu, burning homes on the beach. It's where we live.
Firefighters from various parts of California, including Ventura County, CalFire, and the U.S. Navy, were involved in battling the blaze.
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@mehere8038 You have strong opinions but weak knowledge and experience.
2017 Spain and Portugal fires destroyed over 1,000 structures, including 263 residential homes. The fires burned more than 45,000 hectares (111,120 acres) in Portugal alone. The combined death toll from both countries was 49 lives lost (45 in Portugal and 4 in Spain).
This death ratio is higher than our recent fires
Fire codes in Spain and California have some similarities, but there are also notable differences due to regional regulations and building practices.
In Spain, fire safety regulations are governed by the *Technical Building Code (CTE)* and other specific decrees like the **Fire Safety Regulations for Industrial Buildings (RSCIEI)**. These codes focus on ensuring buildings are designed and constructed to minimize fire risks and facilitate safe evacuation.
California, on the other hand, follows the *California Building Code (CBC)* and *California Fire Code (CFC)**, which are part of the broader **International Fire Code (IFC)* adopted with local amendments California's fire codes are particularly stringent due to the state's high wildfire risk, and they include requirements for fire-resistant materials, defensible space around structures, and specific landscaping guidelines to reduce fire spread.
While both regions emphasize fire prevention and safety, California's codes are more tailored to address the unique wildfire challenges faced in the state.
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@brand8590 She's an "intelligence asset" alright, you are correct, "Trump Crimes" reveals you do not value logic, only the subjective feeling of your socially constructed position in the power structure, not unlike Fiona herself. I do not think she should be silenced or "cancelled", as you do others, but she should be the subject of direct counter-point. I would love to see her in conversation with Pompeo in long-format with regard to the current NATO/Russia/Germany/Ukraine nexus. That's not what we are getting, and I doubt you'd want that anyway. Blinken and Sullivan are feeding us in America a "wag the dog" story to deflect from domestic issues, and sending the VP into a trap to further defame her as they did sending her to the border. We are in a period of disruption being choreographed by academic elites, one that Fiona is part and parcel of, along with those promoting the "Great Reset".
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@CarolDonnelly9358 This is a question that cannot be answered, only assumed. It's up to each of us to answer that question, or not to ask it at all. An ethical approach might be to assume all humans have a "soul" until proven otherwise. Hitler had friends, he liked children, his dog liked him, and he was married just before losing the war and committing suicide. Both Hitler and Mussolini claimed Fascism was a "spiritual" philosophy of life. Mussolini's "Doctrine of Fascism" is online in the original. I like the "Golden Rule", which is not only fundamental to most Abrahamic religions, but also to the work of Confucius who wrote 2,500 years ago about ethics and integrity.
Israel is a secular state, created out of the framework begun by the 17th Century's Westphalian Agreements, which eventually led to the international legal framework of the United Nations. Jordan was created about the same time as Israel, under similar circumstances. Zionism is statism, and so is Pan-Arabism. The Arab League has 22 member states with a population of almost half a billion. Israel is one tiny nation/state of less than 9 million.
In 1921 the Arab Congress made it clear to the West no Jewish majority state would be allowed to exist in the region. In the report they promised terror and death, including a threat to side with the enemies of Britain if a Jewish state was created, They kept that promise and sided with Hitler during WW2.
If you have time, please read this document in its original available on the Library of Congress website. It answers the question of who is the oppressor and who is the victim. "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress
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@ruthhenry9577 Difference? The suffering is self-inflicted. Peace was possible in 1947 when partition was voted on, but was not, peace was possible when Israel declared a state in 1948, but was not, Nasser did not have to blockade Israel and send tanks to the Sinai in 1956, but he did, and again in 1967, and then Egypt and Syria again attacked in 1973. Egypt and Jordan made peace, other Arab nations have recognized Israel.
Jews control the Temple Mount. There is no peace for some in that, and I doubt there ever will be. Make Jerusalem an international city open to all? I'd bet Islam would war on that, too. Islam needs to internalize the Jihad, stop killing others when it is yourselves you hate.
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@gravel7614 Sorry, if that's all you can focus on, that's a problem.
The Mike Pompeo plan in Afghanistan would have kept assets in country to help balance the reality of the Taliban winning the war, which they did, something they could not have done without the will of their own people. The Soviets learned that lesson, as we should have in Vietnam.
"Remain in Mexico" did have issues, Mexico did not handle them well. When you say "asylum seekers" we may have a different definition. Is Mexico a place of danger? Are there any safe places other than Canada and the United States in the Western Hemisphere? Does that mean you would be open to taking the almost half a billion people in those regions in? As far-fetched a question as that is, we need to start the conversation there. Why is Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Panama, not safe? Guatemala and Nicaragua are failed states, no question, but the others mostly suffering economic conditions.
Perhaps we are guilty of social justice crimes like colonialism and "manifest destiny" so should just open the borders wide and take our justice?
Trump is from Queens, NY. His character is a cultural norm in some parts of that city, and recognizable to those familiar with it. He's also a Real Estate Developer. Although I'm California born and raised, I work in that industry directly with C-Suite execs who lend and build in the 5 Boroughs of NYC. That's how they roll; they are wanna be cowboys always pushing the edges of legality. He's not unique in that way.
Lastly, my vote is less for Trump and more against the DNC and Nancy Pelosi. I'm not alone in that motivation this cycle. She disturbs me more than Trump, so does Obama, who said crap things about Trump in 2011 that motivated Trump to run.
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A Felony can also be expunged, which means you are not guilty. RFK Jr WAS, past tense, a felon. Agreed, Pardon does not overturn the conviction but does allows the person to petition for reinstatement of full rights.
Someone who has been pardoned can petition for the reinstatement of their rights. The process and eligibility criteria for reinstatement can vary depending on the jurisdiction and the specific rights in question. Generally, a pardon restores certain civil rights, such as the right to vote, hold public office, or serve on a jury. However, additional steps may be required to fully restore other rights, such as the right to possess firearms.
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@masakazuishiguro8525 "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes" - Orwell. Is that not what we were told, not only by the Dem Party, but all their media outlets, too?
Two Dem senators, one form Ohio and one from Georgia have both ask the administration to not only continue the Trump tariffs, but to increase them. Easy to fact check
Trump negotiated with the then president of Mexico, Obrador, a remain in Mexico policy which was working well, and the Biden admin ended but brought back in some part.
Trump negotiated a ceasefire with the Taliban which saved the lives of American Servicemen and women, but Biden did not follow the plan and people died, both ours and theirs.
Trump negotiated the Abraham Accords which even after Oct 7 still stand, and will be expanded when he gets back into office.
Trump/GOP messed up 2022 with bad candidates, that's been fixed, and they will take back the Senate in 2024, not sure about the House, though.
James Clyburn and Nancy Pelosi stole the 2020 election using a fake impeachment and the C-vid pandemic to change voting rules, and then finally the Orwell "reject what your eyes see" on Hunter's laptop.
I'm a registered Dem in California. When Pelosi tore-up Trumps State of the Union Address, that was it for me, and Trump has had my support ever since.
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Sec of State Griswold did not file the Petition, it is ANDERSON vs GRISWOLD, the Sec of State is the defendant, not the plaintiff, who are mostly Republican. Included are: Krista Kafer, a Republican activist and political commentator in Colorado; Norma Anderson, a Republican who was formerly the majority leader in the Colorado Senate; Michelle Priola, the wife of state Sen. Kevin Priola, who switched his party affiliation to Democratic from Republican in 2022; and Chris Castilian, former chief of staff for then-Gov. Bill Owens, a Republican.
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@cohenkhan69 cohen - khan, not equivalent, please explain
Khan (/xɑːn/) is a surname of Turko-Mongol origin, today most commonly found in parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Iran. It is derived from the historic title khan, referring to military chief or royalty
The Cohen surname indicates a family descent from Aaron, brother of Moses and the first high priest, from the Hebrew kohen or kohein, meaning "priest."
Aaron spoke for Moses, I'm of that line, not of Khan.
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@russetbulba3199 39 were innocent workers from Thailand. Two sons were shipped hom to father.
The data reveals that on October 7, 38 children lost their lives, with three of them aged between 0 and 3 years old, and four between 3 and 6 years old. Additionally, 42 children were abducted in the Gaza Strip
Hamas terrorists brutally murdered 39 Thai nationals, and kidnapped 31 Thai nationals to Gaza,” Hagari said. “Like them, other foreign nationals were abducted, including from Tanzania, Nepal, Mexico, the US, and France
ICC Warrant charged Hamas leadership with Kidnapping, R@pae and T@rture, not Israel.
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@Si_Mondo "ethics" is an abstraction of civilization. War is an abrogation of civilization. Both Marxism/Leninism and Fascism are related to Nietzsche's ideas of Beyond Good and Evil, they both claim classical liberalism is a failure, and ethics is for weaklings.
Judaism is the foundation of Western ethics, as found in the 10 commandments and the "Golden Rule", both Marxism and Fascism considered these ethical foundations to be a kind of "opiate" of the masses. (Read Mussolini's Doctrine of Fascism 1932).
Attempting to frame war in ethical terms is necessary, but without consequences, it is only an academic exercise.
War is Hell. The US armed forces did not act "ethically" in WW2, neither did my classmates in Vietnam. The Japanese were not ethical, nor were the NVA/DRV. The US now allies with the Japanese and has trade relations with Vietnam. Peace is possible, even without calls to "ethical" behavior in war.
We need more grown-ups in the room, not throwback Yippies from the 1960s.
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Yes, and it was a full year before the Ambassador was removed, exonerating evidence that Trump did care about Ukrainian corruption and was working on it before Biden was a candidate, and it also supports the defense in he Senate which lays out Trump's anti-corruption campaign, something he ran on in 2016, and carrying out around the world. If he'd asked the new president of the Ukraine to fake something on Biden, I'd be with the Dems, but there's no need to fake anything on Biden, he's dirty, and so is Hunter, the evidence will roll out if Biden is the Dem choice. I predict an open Dem convention this summer. No more super delegates, HA. Will Michelle Obama be drafted and save the day for the Dems?
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@grmpEqweer Agreed, however, if Trump feeds on Fear and Chaos, then why do the Dems and MSM keep feeding him fear and chaos? The strategy would be to ignore a narcissist with a personality disorder. I did not vote for Trump, being in California, my vote for him would not matter, anyway, but at this point, based on what the MSM is doing, and my own party, I may just vote for him anyway. And to E4T6, "sociopath" is not an excepted term in psychiatry these days. To see how Trump would fare on the PCL-Revised HARE, check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_Checklist
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No, it is not accurate to say all evil is ignorant of its malevolence, or that Stalin was "noble" in intent. Read Stephen Kotkin's book on Stalin. Trump does not equate with the other three, as his self-delusion is more in the pattern of a PT Barnum or Ray Kroc. Also, you left out Napoleon, evil, good, a soldier in the battle for Enlightenment, and still revered with a massive tomb in France. Kissinger did not think himself "Noble" when he made many calculated decisions as Secretary of State, he understood they were not noble, but pragmatic, and was willing to shoulder the consequences.
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Yeah, Trump is a Queens, NY guy, streetwise, ready to do battle with anyone who attacks him. They don't get it. Trump had to work with politicians, unions, crime bosses to build not just here in America, but around the world. He's not an ideologue. He likes winners and doesn't care the identity, just so long as they are fighters. A reporter asked Trump to say something positive about Kamala, he said "She's a survivor", he respects that. The Woke/Left missed it again.
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@jamesw17 Great question! I've been thinking about writing a counter-factual novel like Phillip Roth's "The Plot Against America" about that very subject. If John Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglas were of different mind, and instead of Lincoln, a Quaker had been elected president, what would America have been like. But I realized the novel would have been really, really boring. Perhaps if John Brown had spent time with the shamans of the American Southwest, partook in the Peyote rituals, and then brought a transcendent, mystic message to the slave states instead of a Jeremiah, hum.... that might work.....
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@Null Pointer I don't disagree, and agree climate is affected by human action. I don't agree on the remedies being presented, or the hyper-rhetoric on the subject asserted by activists and the media. My part of the world, and for perhaps the next 100 years, regardless of what is done related to carbon emissions, will be most affected by two WEATHER events, El Nino and La Nina. It's quite possible it will be warmer, but in some areas of California, it may be colder and wetter, which would benefit areas like our Central Valley and Northern Coastal regions. We don't know, and to say we do, is dangerous policy. I follow the Copenhagen Consensus of Bjorn Lomborg. Let's rank prioritize our policies and don't allow grifters like Al Gore and his partner Blood to profit from our fears, which in many cases they promote.
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@rinneganitachi4840 US Navy just ordered new SB-6, 1,000 of them, already able to launch from ships, drones, and small fighters. If "glide path" missiles are next gen, it's a battle of cost and R&D, who will better afford it, Russia and India, or US, UK, and EU? You are on a fool's errand.
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@jihenfrikha5056 I'm in the correct thread, and as someone of 69 years, have a good understanding of history which is wider than the one you just described. There are now Moroccan Jews who migrated to France very unhappy and looking to emigrate to Israel, too. I am not a religious Zionist who believes in scriptural predictions, but the "history" of Jerusalem predates the label "Palestine", which is not a semitic word. In Arabic there is no "P" or "P" sound. The Foundation Stone of the First Temple is a material fact. The "Rock" of accession is pure political fantasy. Ask yourself why so many Palestinians are named "Marwan".
No question it is not easy to live in Israel. I'm happy there are now no restrictions and a Jew can emigrate to Morocco. There are now direct flights from some Arab countries to Israel. That was progress, which has now been upended by an Iranian proxy attack on a sovereign state. I fear we are about to see another one with Lebanon. Ask how Palestinians live there.
Israel is not a colony of any sovereign nation, it is itself a sovereign nation, and recognized as such. The Arabs wanted their own "ethno-State" which they termed Pan-Arabism, and resisted a Jewish majority state in the region. That resistance fomented violence using lies about Jews, not just Zionism. You can read about it, if you enjoy inquiry as do. This report is available in its original form as a PDF. "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress
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@JoaquinCorreaDrums John is a crazy conspiracy theorist. US AID to Israel comes in many, many forms, including loans, grants, and through the FMF.
U.S. military assistance to Israel, primarily provided through Foreign Military Financing (FMF), often comes with certain conditions and stipulations. These conditions can vary depending on the administration, Congressional directives, and the specific nature of the assistance. Here are some key points about these conditions:
1. **End-Use Monitoring**: The U.S. government requires end-use monitoring to ensure that military equipment provided to Israel is used for its intended purposes and remains under U.S. control.
2. **Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)**: The U.S. and Israel have a long-standing MOU that outlines the terms and conditions of U.S. military aid. The most recent MOU, signed in 2016, is a ten-year agreement providing Israel with $38 billion in military aid. This MOU generally stipulates how the aid should be spent, such as purchasing American-made defense equipment and technology.
3. **Restrictions on Weapon Use**: There are often restrictions on how the weapons and equipment can be used. For example, the U.S. may place limits on the deployment of certain advanced systems or ensure they are not used in ways that could exacerbate regional conflicts.
4. **Human Rights Considerations**: Sometimes, conditions are tied to human rights considerations or international humanitarian law. This means that U.S. assistance can be subject to review based on Israel’s adherence to international norms and standards.
5. **Congressional Oversight**: Congress has a role in overseeing military aid and can impose additional conditions or restrictions through legislation or during the appropriations process.
These conditions are designed to balance support for Israel with broader U.S. interests and values, including promoting stability in the Middle East and ensuring that aid aligns with American foreign policy goals. For the most current and detailed information, it's best to refer to recent Congressional records, official statements, or government reports.
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i see you are broadcast on KPFK, same station that broadcast Lowell Ponte in the 1970's, who promoted the coming new ice age... very scientific, at the time. I have his book, "The Cooling".
http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/ponte.html
Like you, Ponte is a Libertarian, and was totally, and completely wrong about the science, but still holds to his idea, and believes an ice age may very well be a consequence of global warming, sometime in the future.
I believe JBP is saying global warming is true, but perhaps not man made. While the science clearly shows human correlated effect, there is no consensus on how much, or what can pragmatically be done about. It's going to be good for some, bad for others... and that's more about JBP's message than you are willing to take in.
Granted, I've also found "irregularities" in his facts, but he admits to still working it out. You, OTOH, believe you have it ALL WORKED OUT. I prefer to engage with his thinking, rather than your dogma.
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Mueller made it clear, if there had been a conspiracy, the co-conspirators could have been charged with a crime, but not the president. No co-conspirators, no conspiracy, no crime, get it. Obstruction, let congress impeach, but again, if there had been a conspiracy to obstruct, Mueller would have charged the co-conspirators. I am not a Trump supporter, but it is clear the DEMS have gone loopy on this issue and will lose 2020 on that basis. I will vote for Andrew Yang, but with little hope of him winning. DEMS, there own worst enemy, not unlike the UK Labor Party, LOL.
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@dominikvonlavante6113 Nixon had two cases of Executive immunity, one was civil, and cited a number of times in the SCOTUS opinion, Fitzgerald v Nixon (1982)
""In exercising the functions of his office, the head of an Executive Department, keeping within the limits of his authority, should not be under an apprehension that the motives that control his official conduct may, at any time, become the subject of inquiry in a civil suit for damages. It would seriously cripple the proper and effective administration of public affairs as entrusted to the executive branch of the government, if he were subjected to any such restraint."
It is this concept of "prior restraint" that Fitzgerald v Nixon spoke to and the court just cited in its concept of "presumptive immunity". The Executive Branch has been protected in this way a number of times, all the way back to Aaron Burr, also cited in Trump v United States.
Nothing was changed, only affirmed based on prior cases. The rest was sent back down to the lower court for clarity. SCOTUS said in the opinion it is NOT the "first view" but the "final review". This is not over.
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@theophany150 "Money"?, again, you have no idea what you are talking about, as if Trump as an individual has cash he's protecting, not the game he's in, never has been. Freud's nephew did not invent "propaganda", it goes back to the 17th Century and Catholic missionaries who spread Christianity. Propaganda comes from the Latin propagare, meaning to spread or propagate,
Trump did not say he would have rivals murdered, it was a legal speculation by lawyers, so who is now spreading "propaganda"? Obama killed a 16-year old American citizen in a drone attack.
Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki was a 16-year-old United States citizen who was killed by a drone strike on October 14, 2011, under a policy approved by U.S. President Barack Obama. An example of presidential immunity.
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@TheWunder I've read the research on this quote, it is not confirmed by him, it is still only from 2nd hand sources. The policies have been complex and nuance, always in the internist of Israel. There are also pressures from allies in this regard.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has faced criticism over Qatar's funding of Gaza, a deal that was approved in 2018 by Israel and which Netanyahu defended at the time². However, he has recently denied accusations that he intentionally bolstered Hamas through greenlighting the Qatari funding³. Netanyahu has vehemently denied allowing Qatar to fund and strengthen the militant group Hamas in order to divide Palestinians into rival political camps, dismissing such claims as "ridiculous"⁴. While there have been debates about the impact of Qatari money on Hamas, it is essential to recognize that the situation is complex and multifaceted. Israeli policy toward both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas has evolved over time, and various governments have taken different approaches¹. Netanyahu has maintained that these actions were part of a broader strategy to maintain calm and prevent a humanitarian crisis⁵. The situation remains contentious, and interpretations vary, but it is clear that Netanyahu's policies have had significant implications for the region.
Source: Conversation with Copilot, 5/28/2024
(1) Israel created and "funded" Hamas, says EU's top diplomat. https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-01-20-24/h_4e542b6c91fa6b423bae6789075d8358.
(2) Israeli PM 'missed chance' to cut off Hamas cash, says ex-spy chief - BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68318856.
(3) Netanyahu: Don’t accuse me of boosting Hamas with Qatari money. https://www.politico.eu/article/benjamin-netanyahu-hamas-qatar-money-war-israel-gaza-palestine/.
(4) For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces. https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/.
(5) Netanyahu: Money to Hamas part of strategy to keep Palestinians divided .... https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Netanyahu-Money-to-Hamas-part-of-strategy-to-keep-Palestinians-divided-583082.
(6) Getty Images. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/prime-minister-of-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-gives-thanks-to-news-photo/1041875640.
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@michaelstanwick9690 Hurwitz made the point Ronald Reagan, a "conservative", preordained his selection to be a "Woman". If you dig further you will find Sandra Day O'Conner was less qualified to be on the court than Brown, as O'Conner never served on a Federal bench. O'Conner was well aware she was an Affirmative Action choice, and spoke widely about it. Also, the first non-White on the court was Justice Louis Brandeis, appointed over 100 years ago. The first African-American on the court, Justice Thurgood Marshall. was appointed in 1967, 55 years ago. Most Americans alive today were born after Marshal's appointment and live in that America. Both O'Conner and Brown were political choices by the ruling party, no question, part of the foundation of being a Republic and not a pure democracy.
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LOL, Bobby's run against the incumbent Johnson will long be remembered as a turning point in American politics, so will Ted's run against Carter in 1980, which turned the DNC far to the left, something I will always remember. You comment is absolute nonsense. We can go further back to old Joe's take on Hitler, that is still studied as a major part of WW2 history, and would be even without his sons later political involvement. BTW, Bobby's 1st cousin, Caroline Kennedy, is now the American Ambassador to Australia working for the Bidens. Your comment, again, nonsense.
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@peterfromgw4615 "Mate", I was born in 1955 and had a draft number, both my older brothers served, and I was an activist involved in demonstrations against Nixon, one of my closets friends fought in the illegal war in Cambodia. Trump does not have any deep ideological foundation, he is a creature of Post-Modernism and the corporate media that now condemns him. National Socialism was "Collectivism", the total anti-thesis of American Liberalism based on the inalienable rights of the individual, however flawed it's been in action, that nature has to parallel to what happened to Germany in the 1920s. I despair in America, but have no fear of Trump following the path of "Blut und Boden", he lacks certain attributes for that level of organization, you said so yourself.
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Israel is a nation/state, just like Jordan, and can set their own immigration law. Jordan is a Palestinian state, do they have the right of return to Jordan?
Starting in 1948, nearly 1 million Jews came, not from Brooklyn, but from North Africa, Egypt, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, even India and later Ethiopia. Israel welcomed Vietnamese refugees into Israel and naturalized them. 160,000 Arabs did not leave the new state of Israel and now number 1.8 million, 21% of the population. War has consequences, and the Arabs declared war on the new State, something they promised to do as early as 1921.
The Arab League has 22 States encompassing almost 450 Million people. Israel has less than 9 million, and less than 6 million of those are Jews. Why is statism okay for Arabs but no for Jews?
BTW, during the last days of the Ottoman Empire Jews were the majority population in East Jerusalem, and before Israel was made a state Jews were half the population of Haifa. They are as indigenous as any Arab, never left, and in fact, were conquered by Arabs 1400 years ago, not 3,000.
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@pankakesnotstellar It made sense then, about an orphan virus running through the population killing like a wildfire, but not now, which is only about "feelings" being triggered. I was working at SF General Hospital in the old building next to the quarantine ward when transmission was still not fully known. I had dinner with men who had KS on their tongues and inside their mouths which you could see when they ate, I watched men dropped dead on the street from malnutrition and pneumonia, diseases related to HIV infection, I understand much from that time, lived it, and only wish others learned that facts matter, and fantasy is not sustainable. Kathleen Stock, even after being cancelled by her own ideology, continues to believe it is correct, only administered by the wrong people. Just like some say Communism is correct, but never correctly applied. Nonsense.
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@grannyannie2948 And you have something we don't have, BIRDS that spread fire. The "Fire Hawk", which also predates human arrival. more than 60,000 ago on your continent.
HOWEVER, I live in the region fired and in the Pacific Palisades we planted Blue Gum Eucalyptus all over for the last 120 years. They, as you know, explode in a wildfire. We are working at removing them in some areas. No koalas have been harmed.
The coastal region was not in SEVERE drought. We have a drought monitor with ratings from 1 to 5. We just became a 1 in November, the lowest level of drought. The month of December was all fog. I'm a surfer in Malibu, we had a big winter swell and you couldn't see the outsiders coming for the deep marine layer. We just had a snow storm in Los Angeles County which closed roads, too. California, surf in the morning ski in the afternoon is true, and has been for all of my 70 years here.
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@jamesbarnes3832 LOLOLOOL
Trump just appointed a Catholic/Zionist to be Ambassador to the UN, an Evangelical Zionist to be Ambassador to Israel, we are seeing conservatives gain support in the EU, and Canada is about to have a new conservative PM. The new President of Mexico is a Lithuanian Jew and Javier Milei of Argentina supports Israel. Trump's son-in-law, a Jew, his own daughter converted to Judaism so Trump's grandkids are Jews, is in business with MBS in Saudi Arabia. The Shia are all but gone and even former HTS terrorist Ahmed al-Shara has become a local populist, not a global jihadist. The Kurds at this point have a better chance of autonomy than UNRWA defined Palestinians. UNRWA is about to be kicked out of the UN, not Israel.
Javier Milei, the President of Argentina, has shown strong support for Israel. During his time in office, he announced plans to move Argentina's embassy to Jerusalem, joining a small group of countries that recognize the city as Israel's capital.
Several countries have recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Here are some of them:
- *United States* (2017)
- *Guatemala* (2018)
- *Honduras* (2019)
- *Kosovo* (2021)
- *Malawi* (2021)
- *Marshall Islands* (2021)
- *Micronesia* (2021)
- *Nauru* (2021)
- *Palau* (2021)
- *Papua New Guinea* (2021)
- *Paraguay* (2021)
- *Russia* (2021)
- *Serbia* (2021)
- *Togo* (2021)
- *Ukraine* (2021)
- *Vanuatu* (2021)
These countries have established diplomatic missions in Jerusalem, recognizing it as Israel's capital.
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@ScholarsRest Milton now Cat 3. I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment, but Milton is now no longer comparable to the 1921 Hurricane, it's not even close.
My point was to trigger those with an almost religious belief in human caused "climate change" ideology. Vast majority of replies were in that category, not yours. Rapid, accelerated warming has been going on, but the predictions of climate change are on a 50/150 year time scale, not this year, or even 10 years, and the error rate of predictions 100 years out is quite high. How do we plan when the error rate is that high. Should we prioritize now on predictions with an error rate that high, or focus now of issues we can impact right away.
I life Bjorn Lomborg's take on it, although don't always agree with his presentation of data.
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Started over 100 years ago when elite Arabs didn't want Western values immigrating to their region and began pogroms against the Jews, not just the Zionists. The Arabs are the oppressors and the occupiers, have been for 100s of years, and ethnically cleansed the indigenous Jews in the Levant, applying the law of Dhimmi, making them 2nd class citizens, a true apartheid. Why did 900,000 jews leave North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Iran and India to come to Israel in 1949? Massive ethnic cleansing.
160,000 Arabs stayed in the new State of Israel. They are now 1.9 million, 21% of the citizens, they serve on the Knesset, the Supreme Court and in the IDF. Show me the comparable in the region.
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A study at an Ivy League school on IQ and success showed that at the graduate level, no matter how hard someone with an IQ of 130 worked, they never caught up with those with an IQ of 160, in fact, they lost ground, and fast. We, as a culture and society, are going to at some point face the fact that all people do not experience reality in the same. I don't know what the answer is, what social structures we need to accommodate this fact, but it we must face it, not hide it.
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Chris Goldthorpe: Yes, I agree... the science is in, the issue is a PR one, not science. I wonder if anyone will ever apologize to the family of William Shockley, he was correct, just ahead of his time, and oh so politically uncorrect. The FACTS are dangerous, no doubt, and at the recent Munk debates with Jordan Peterson and Michael Eric Dyson, the issue of IQ came up, but was not discussed. Dyson tried to pull JBP in, but he wouldn't go there.
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CueballB: What does a modern, technologically based society due when 17% of its population have an IQ of 85 or less. The US Armed Services have a policy that rejects them from service. In the US, that works out to more than 50 million people who are only marginally employable, and will require social services all their life. IQ is a damn important issue, and with science reaching the point of identifying IQ in DNA, we are going to be faced with some very difficult moral and ethical decisions, so it must be discussed. The issue is not about individual value, or slight differences between individuals who may have had a bad day when testing, but the larger set of social values IQ represent, and we face as a society.
In the 1950's academia did research, and that research was stopped because of "political correctness", and went underground, to some degree. It is making a comeback, because experiments like Head Start did not work. IQ is going to push back in as a public issue, and it's not like it has not been in the past. Time to revisit:
Flowers For Algernon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charly
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@avomaxo I disagree, any denial by FOX had little or no impact on climate change, which fundamentally was caused by actions starting in the late 19th century, and peaked in the 1970s, well before FOX existed. Your assertion of causation is not factual. You should look into the process the US went through with OZONE depletion and the "HOLE", and how Ronald Regan saved the planet, as opposed to Al Gore, who was deeply invested in becoming a "Carbon Credit" broker and billionaire. Follow the money. No one denies real science on FOX, only those who market in fear and chaos for their own enrichment. However, both FOX and MSNBC do that, which is why the chickens have come home to roost, and Al Gore has his dirty hand in that, too, in the way he and his friends commercialized the Internet, when it would have been better for humanity as a Utility, not a profit center. The hypocrisy works both ways. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, the facts are just a few keystrokes away, and why info corruption and willful ignorance is epidemic.
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No "HACK", No "INFILTRATION", 3rd party contractors were BRIBED to hand over DATA DUMPS from Trump servers going back to 2014, which includes data when Trump was in the Executive Office of the President EOP. Yes, worse than Watergate, Democratic Party, Hillary, the FBI and NSA, with Obama in the room. FOX needs to be PRECISE at this point, if not, they will muddy the waters we need to be fully transparent.
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Wow, if you read this thread, Jerry lives in Los Angeles, Hollywood, the Hamptons, the Berkshires, etc. Of course he does, and has a place in Manhattan, too, with his money, he can live in all those places. He's at heart a NYC guy, Yankees, etc., but you know that.
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@hemaccabe4292 I agree, LATIMES died in 1996, I was there. This is not about the "parties", it's about a culture war on values, not unlike the Reformation/Counter-Reformation wars which lasted more than 100 years, we are early into it, and I have no side to join, my values don't align fully to either. California had a GOP Gov from 1983 to 1991, and LA had a GOP mayor from 1993 to 2001. I see little difference in outcome between the two parties, other forces are at play in California, as they are elsewhere.
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@esobed1 Perhaps, but Bezos and Musk are exiting the planet, paradigms may shift, but as Ovid said: "The this becomes that, and the that becomes this, but the sum of all things remain the same".
I have no specific ideology, but you are unwilling to accept that, so label and categorize me against my will. Without TRUST there is no Peace. Justice is a product of Trust, not the other way around. Your ideals are aspirational, but premature, as mine were in the 1960's. Trump 2020.
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@thebeggarsdice6020 Again, you just restated my "Trump Perfect" use of the word, "homeostasis". My background is molecular biology and astrophysics, I first subscribed to SA in 1971 when I was just 16. I've lived through many "End of World" scenarios, but still calmly await the inevitable entropy of my individual life cycle. "Facts" often blind us to the "Truth", as the saying goes: "Can't See The Forest For the Trees". I am by no means a "science denier", but am a "science skeptic", as all good scientists are. Science is not a religion, however strongly some folks would have. So, no "weeping Jeremiahs" masquerading as scientists for me, thank you.
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@Bamboodonutz Jordan was created a State in 1946, after WW2, many new nation/states were created, the Partition was not a "gift" by European Powers or the US, but voted in by 33 nations of the United Nations from around the globe, including South America and Asia. When partition was voted in, and the British left in 1948, more Jews were forced out of Arab/Muslim countries than fled/forced out by the Nakba, 50,000 Jews alone had to leave Iraq. Jews were THERE, never left, and the current state of Israel is NOT majority European, but in fact 20% Arab, descents of the 130,000 who stayed.
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@jacobtrost5048 None of these "sides" is allowing for an "independent investigation" while a war is going on.
“Independent investigators must be given the necessary resources, support and access required to conduct prompt, thorough and impartial investigations into crimes allegedly committed by all parties to the conflict,” the experts said, calling on Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the de facto authorities in Gaza to cooperate fully with investigations." - UN
Why do you demand access from Israel but not the other parties involved, like the "de facto authorities" in Gaza
14 June 2007 Hamas took over Gaza from the PA in a military coup and built a military platform to attach Israel. There can be no "independent" investigation without the cooperation of Hamas in Gaza. That is not possible, not during active conflict. Never has been. How can there be an "investigation" when Hamas is firing rockets from Rafah. How safe would that be?
Evidence is being maintained, that is a responsibility. Who is more responsible, Israel or Hamas? Your answer will be a picture of good faith, or not.
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@jacobtrost5048 A LACK OF INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
The duty to investigate in situations of armed conflict is implied, but not mentioned directly in international law sources. States tend to rely on their domestic legal frameworks when it is deemed that an investigation is necessary, yet there is little uniformity of practice across states and no agreed international standards by which to assess these domestic procedures. Clearer guidance would appear to be of use in several areas, including: the circumstances that should trigger an investigation, who should carry it out, what its nature should be, the principles that should underpin it, and what an appropriate outcome would be.
IDENTIFYING A SET OF GUIDELINES
This project, initiated in 2014 by the Geneva Academy and joined in 2017 by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), intended to identify, via expert meetings and research, a set of guidelines based on law, policy and good practice that states should apply when they investigate alleged violations of IHL in situations of armed conflict. " - Geneva Academy
While they set forth the "obligation" to investigate, the reality is the cannot while armed conflict is happening, you can't "investigate" a fire-fight or a bombing attack in real-time. I've read the material for the UN and the IHL. Israel is a "pariah" state to these organizations, we can argue if that is valid, but not the fact, so giving access during a conflict when the other side refuses would be against the best interest of the full picture of reality.
The UN just reduced the number of women and children killed by 42%. They've been using Hamas numbers, but now, because armed-conflict has ended in much of Gaza, the truth is coming out. Who lied? Hamas.
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@renanasanders No, the Tongva are considered indigenous to the area, sometimes called Garbialenos, there are other tribes in SoCal, too. I'm Jewish, my great-grand parents came to Los Angeles in 1910 to the eastside called Boyle Heights where this Mariachi park is today. The street near where both my parents were born was called CHICAGO, it has been renamed after Cesar Chavez, who only spent a short-time there. Our synagogue has been vandalized many times, the cemetery has been hit with graffiti and headstones knocked over. If I attempted to purchase my grandfather's former home, I would be considered a "gentrifier" or worse, especially since I am a Jew.
Ironically, most of the Jews who moved there in the early 20th Century were socialists and anarchists from Russia and Poland, they started unions and struck for an 8-hour work day and healthcare. The City of Hope in Duarte, California was started by these Jews, it now serves a mostly hispanic community, but very few know the history.
I'm fascinated by lies and deception, and how they are molded into fact and truth in people's minds. This video shines some light on that, especially with the first speaker's hat, you can see the Red Star of the Marxist, who was himself, a Jew.
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I'm a California Democrat who voted from Trump in 2020. Nothing "mystical" about it. No problem saying Trump is a liar and a clown, but he's the most transparent liar ever, with a wink and a nod knowing the left will just not get the joke. TDS will get him reselected. Face facts, if not for Covid, Trump would have coasted to a 2nd Term, as 60% of Dems were able to vote by mail under Covid rules. Trump only lost the electoral college by less than 50,000 votres, and gained minority male voters over 2016, but lost educated white males, which he is now getting back. Go Woke, Go Broke.
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I'm 66 years-old, was 16 in 1971, of my group of friends, perhaps 20 in number, count more than half dead, only a few were addicted, the others died because drugs opened their "minds" to dangerous behavior they could not handle. I was also convicted of felony possession for sale in 1975. I understand the issue, understand "turning off" how ironic, the area of the brain that generates "depression" is a good thing. Does science yet know what percentage of people with clinical depression have an "organic" disease of the brain that requires such invasive treatment, a treatment that will have to be monitored for years and years? I often feel this is a regression back to the NEW AGE thinking of Power Pyramids and Magic Crystals. Dr. Tim Leary, before he was kicked out of the academy, ran tests on habitual criminals with psycho-active drugs, he had good results, but didn't play the game, and even Huxley told him not to be the "Pied Piper" of this stuff, but here we go again.
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@lordsneed9418 "alternative", is that I don't believe math can be used to value individual suffering. It's a poor argument. There is no "alternative" explanation.
The principle of proportionality in warfare is primarily concerned with balancing military advantage against potential civilian harm. It's rooted in international humanitarian law and aims to limit the impact of armed conflict on non-combatants. Israel has kept to that standard, and I believe it would stand up to scrutiny in an international court.
KK's most egregious historical error was the conflation of European acts toward Native Americans and the issues of land in the Levant. Not equivalent.
Regardless of the "math" question, which is a red herring at this point, Jews fought alongside the British in WW1 to free the region from the Ottoman/Turk. The Arabs also fought. The Jews were willing to share, the Arabs were not, even after they received the largest share of the British Mandate, Trans-Jordan. Proof? Here it is: "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress
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@mohamedali2858 Look, it's in the census, and Jews made up between 8-12% of the Region. The author of the Israeli Declaration of Independence was Zvi Berenson, born in Safed, 1907, his family had been there for 100s of years. The ethnic cleansing reduced the population of Jews under the Turks and Arab elites.
1896 Jerusalem Ottoman Census
8,748 Christian
8,560 Muslim
28,112 Jews
45,420 Total
62% Jews
The Arab propaganda add Nablus and Acre in 1878 which reduces the number, but it does not erase the fact Jews never left. You cannot compare the region to SA or say it was a colonializations project. The Temple of Solomon is there, regardless of what Arafat said.
The Taqiyya is a collusion between Pan-Arabism and the KGB project, not Zionism.
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Israel considers Area C to be fully within its control, and some parties have proposed annexing it. The Oslo II Accord of 1995 divided the West Bank into three administrative areas, including Area C, which was to be gradually transferred to Palestinian jurisdiction. However, negotiations have stalled and stopped, and Israel still has full control of Area C.
Oslo failed, the security concerns of Israel were not met, the PA never had political control of Islamist terror groups, proven in June 14, 2007 by the takeover of Gaza by Hamas and the continued support for the Lions' Den on the West Bank. Area C is required then for security, as is the Golan Heights.
Destiny's arguments depends on the ignorance of others. Do you own fact checking.
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@1shoedog1 We live here, some are very emotional and not listening to facts. Newsom/Bass are not my choice, not at all, and I post against DEI all the time. We've had this fire/wind issue for decades, and it spans both parties.
If the homes down the hill that burned, many built in the 1950s, had made their own clearances, clearances by ordinance that come with $500 fine, hardened their Eaves and Vents with products available for retrofit, most would not have burned.
You will see photos of one block built in the 1950s burned out while the next block over homes built in the 1980s not touched. At some point we have to look to ourselves, not the politicians.
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I lived in the Bay Area, specifically San Francisco, for a decade, and born in California almost 70 years ago. There's more than a 100 year legacy of counter-Western philosophy and theology in the Bay Area of Northern California. In the late 1960s my favorite was Alan Watts, who broadcast from a radio station in the area, KPFA-FM, who aligned in the Buddhist tradition of Gary Snyder and those anti-Western intellectuals who were published by Ferlinghetti's "City Lights Books", think of Jack Kerouac. But it goes back further, as Yusuf described. I used to buy books at Yusuf's grandfather's store, Fields, it was a Mecca for counter-Western intellectuals in San Francisco, no pun intended.
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Thank you so much, it gives me hope when people get the historical context of where we are at with the new "gospel" coming from the progressive left, it is taking on the shape of a religion, complete with dogma, catechism, inquisition, and excommunication. It's easier not to have to think, though, and just follow rules. Your brain does not use energy with automatic thinking, so we are wired by evolution not to think... unless we have to. Sad, but true.
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@paolo-n2000 I said NO SUCH THING. Los Angeles County is 5,000 square miles, 9 million people. There are many, many reservoirs and underground catch basins. We also get water from the SWP, The Owens Valley and the Colorado Water Project.
The Santa Ynez reservoir was taken down Feb 2024. It had a capacity of 117 million gallons, but the main reservoir for the Palisades is Stone Canyon which was/is full, 3.4 Billion Gallons. It was used for the Palisades fire.
The *Upper Stone Canyon Reservoir* and the *Stone Canyon Reservoir* are two adjoining reservoirs located in the Westside region of Los Angeles, California, within the Santa Monica Mountains. They are situated in the Bel Air neighborhood, south of Mulholland Drive and west of North Beverly Glen Boulevard.
### Upper Stone Canyon Reservoir
- **Size**: Much smaller and cone-shaped.
- **Purpose**: Supplies water to the Westside water subsystem, including Pacific Palisades, the Santa Monica Mountains, and West Los Angeles.
- **Construction**: Built using the hydraulic sluicing method pioneered by William Mulholland.
### Stone Canyon Reservoir
- **Size**: Larger of the two reservoirs.
- *Capacity**: Originally had a capacity of **8,000 acre-feet* (9,900,000 m³).
Both reservoirs play a crucial role in supplying water to around *400,000 people* in the Pacific Palisades area and beyond.
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@mjc42701 Candidate Trump is President Trump. Clearly, no one was fooled, or gaslighted. He's guileless and transparent in a way you will never allow yourself to understand. You see a criminal and morally corrupt human being who was worthy of impeachment on his first day in office. I, like Pogo and Shakespeare would, see US ALL in Trump. He is the perfect existential man of our times, a creation of our times, and just what we deserve, both Dem and GOP. That's why he will win in 2020, and when he leaves office, the Southern District court will not touch him. Trump's a winner in perfect touch with the moment, and Steve Bannon is a genius: https://youtu.be/pm5xxlajTW0
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@mjc42701 I'd hire him in a NY minute, every attorney should be the perfect advocate for their client, guilty or innocent... don't you think? I believe in the rule of law, and take the advice of the Supreme Court, "never talk to the police", they are professionals, you are not, hire an attorney. For the same reason, President Trump should not speak to the House, or allow his people to speak, let the courts decide, that's the rule of law. This is just what Starr says it is, a war of power, and it is clear the new left does not want to have a president at all, they'd much prefer something like a religious tribunal, or mob rule.. The Westphalian Peace remains intact, if we can keep it.
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Allen Dulles was 70 years old in November 1963, out of favor, out of power, so was his brother, John Foster Dulles. I'd look more closely at their sister, Eleanor Lansing Dulles, she was also involved, and forced to resign from the State Dept after the Bay of Pigs. This is not new information, I have a 1978 copy of Leonard Mosely's book, "DULLES", and better still, a pre-JFK assassination book on the CIA, "THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT" by Dan Smoot, which gives an account of the CIA inspired coup in IRAN and many others. Not new material, not new at all.
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CALIFORNIA WATER (DAVE STOP THE LIE)
*Sites Reservoir* project is a collaborative effort led by the **Sites Project Authority**, a local agency established in 2010.
- **State of California**: Through Proposition 1, which provided $2.7 billion for water storage projects.
- **Federal Government**: Over $100 million in federal funding under President Biden's Investing in America agenda.
- **USDA**: A $449 million construction loan.
- **Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act**: An additional $205.6 million in federal funding.
The Sites Project Authority is composed of member agencies from the Sacramento Valley, including counties, water districts, and irrigation districts. The project aims to enhance water reliability for California by capturing excess stormwater and storing it for use during dry periods.
When completed, it will have a surface area of *14,000 acres (56.66 square kilometers)* and a maximum storage capacity of *1.8 million acre-feet (2.2 cubic kilometers)**. The reservoir will be about **13 miles (21 kilometers) long* and have a maximum depth of **310 feet (94 meters)**.
It's designed to capture and store stormwater from the Sacramento River, providing a reliable water supply for California's communities, farms, and environment during dry periods.
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In physics, the rainbow reveals SEPARATION, not UNITY, and singles out the dangerous EXTREMES of ULTRA VIOLET and INFRA RED. The rainbow, as shown, is also not fully inclusive, but selective, leaving out X-Rays, Gamma Rays, and the quantum rainbow of a single photon. It's also ironic that the unity of colors shown in the LGBTQ+ rainbow would shine as White Light, a symbol most likely abhorrent to that group, and others captured by "Woke" ideology.
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@Emre Mutlu Well, perhaps some, but it's really an effect of winds dipping down from the north bringing in cooler air, again, happens every year, and we get these "cut-lows" and "eddys", so it's hot for few days, then it can drop 20-30 degrees overnight. I live near the ocean and there's now dense fog, that moisture moves inland and helps firefighting, too. DW hates Trump, and so makes everything he does look bad, it's not.
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@Laythh FALSE: The region was controlled by the Ottoman/Turk who lost a war to the Allied Powers in WW1. Both Jews and Arabs fought with the British in that war. The Turks ceded the region to the Allied Powers in a peace treaty, all legal. The Allied Powers created temporary mandates in the region until modern, nation/states could be created. One was Jordan, another was Israel. Jews were willing to share, the Arabs were not.
Israel did not get "half", Gaza was occupied by Egypt, Jordan annexed the West Bank. It wasn't until both Egypt and Jordan, again, declared war on Israel that the territory came under control by Israel. That wasn't until 1967, What did Egypt and Jordan do for the people in the 20 years between 1947 and 1967?
In the 19th Century Jews were the majority in East Jerusalem, perhaps 8-12% of the Ottoman region called Palestine. They fought and died to free the land from the Ottoman/Turk. Are you saying they don't deserve autonomy in a region which is their homeland?
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@Laythh "Useful"? LOL. The Jews fought with the British in WW1 to free the land from the Ottoman /Turk. There were Jewish battalions before the Arabs joined in the fight. "Land" yes, nation/state, no. As I believe you know, the temporary mandate agreed to at San Remo in 1920 was part of The League of Nations plan to create modern, democratic nation/states in the region. This plan had three levels depending on the current state of development in that region. Palestine was at the bottom of that level. LOL The Arab-Revolts you called "resistance", delayed the creation of these modern, nation/states, which were more delayed and complicated by WW2. Further, the Arab-Revolts were not just against the British and Zionist project, but against each other, like the battle for the Hejaz between the Hashemites and the House of Saud. Too bad, a few year later oil was discovered and the leases went to America and not the British. Brits made so many mistakes.
I've studied this for 55 years. I've distilled my thoughts to a concise frame. The Jews and Arabs fought in a war, they both won, the Jews were willing to share, the Arabs were not. Proof? Here it is:
"Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress.
A quote from the report: "A Jew is a Jew the world over". Pure hate, the blood libel, written in 1921.
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@noxoir3350 Luke Serna used poor judgement, but should the entire team, few if any knew in advance, have their win taken away and team sanctioned? That's not justice. Both team staffs went after each other after the game, that's the real issue, not the tortillas, which was immature and insensitive to bring, but everyone has overacted to that, and not speaking to the violence of the two team staffs after the game. When you look at the video of the end of the game, it appears tortillas were thrown and not fists, better tortillas than fists, don't you think?
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You say "much higher levels", when was that, and what did the earth look like then? The variables in you model are not sufficient to predict something in 11 years, let alone 1,000. There is an oscillation to climate, but temps have spiked quicker in the last 50 years than anytime recorded, except perhaps the last time a massive amount of C02 was released by basaltic lava flows a couple hundred million years ago. We are doing it, and there's something we can do about it. The issue is really about who and what, not if we should. Maggie Thatcher, a pure conservative, was the first head of state to sound the alarm about greenhouse gases and global warming, too bad this issue has caused a split, it should be something we can all agree on.
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@originaljazzgirl I live in California, and understood what Trump said when you did not. The reporter was asking a "gotcha" question, as THEY always do with Trump, and he answered with sarcasm, not "stupidity". I've lived with the fires since 1955. We live in a fire plain, not unlike a flood plain. The reporter was making assertions that are politically motivated, and I only WISH we could all talk about the science, and rank our priorities without the rhetoric, but we are a long way away from that, and the BBC just contributes to the noise and heat, as do you, more's the pity.
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@StandinOnBuniss ? The Japanese monarchy was ended, their institutions abolished. What "infrastructure". It was fire bombed and Hiroshima was not just a civilian target,
At the time of the atomic bombing in 1945, Hiroshima was a significant military and industrial hub. The city housed various factories and facilities that produced military supplies and equipment, including:
- **Military Headquarters**: Hiroshima was the site of the Second General Army Headquarters, which coordinated the defense of southern Japan.
- **Shipyards and Docks**: The city had shipyards and docks that were crucial for the Japanese navy.
- **Armament Factories**: Factories in Hiroshima produced weapons, ammunition, and other military equipment.
- **Industrial Facilities**: The city also had various industrial facilities that supported the war effort, including steel and machinery plants.
These factors made Hiroshima a strategic target for the atomic bomb.
As part of Japan's unconditional surrender at the end of World War II, the country underwent significant institutional reforms under the Allied occupation, led by General Douglas MacArthur. These reforms aimed to transform Japan into a peaceful and democratic nation. Some key reforms included:
1. **Demilitarization**: The Japanese military was disbanded, and the country was disarmed to prevent future military aggression.
2. **Democratization**: Political reforms were implemented to establish a democratic government, including the creation of a new constitution that limited the emperor's power and guaranteed civil liberties.
3. **Economic Reforms**: Land reforms were carried out to redistribute land to tenant farmers, and efforts were made to rebuild Japan's economy.
4. **Social Reforms**: Measures were taken to improve education, labor rights, and social welfare.
These reforms laid the foundation for Japan's post-war recovery and its transformation into a stable, democratic nation.
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@nicholasjohnferriman8283 Here are just a few violations by Hamas over the years: 15 July: Israel accepted the ceasefire initiated by Egypt and stopped all fire at 09:00. However, terrorists fired more than 50 rockets at Israeli communities. Only after six hours of continuous rocket attacks did the IDF respond.
17 July: Israel agreed to a five-hour humanitarian ceasefire. The terrorist organizations rejected it and fired rockets, including at the city of Be'er-Sheva.
20 July: Israel approved a two-hour medical/humanitarian window in the area of Shejaiya, following an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) request. Forty minutes after the ceasefire began, Hamas violated it. Nevertheless, Israel implemented the ceasefire, even extending it for two more hours.
26-27 July: Israel respected an UN-requested humanitarian ceasefire from 08:00-20:00 on Saturday, 26 July. Israel announced its readiness to prolong the ceasefire until midnight, but a few minutes after 20:00, Hamas renewed firing rockets at Israeli civilians.
On the same day (26 July), Hamas announced a 24-hour humanitarian ceasefire, at 14:00. Hamas violated its own ceasefire a short time later. Despite Hamas’ continuous fire, Israel decided to extend the humanitarian ceasefire a second time, from midnight Saturday to midnight Sunday.
28 July: Israel accepted Hamas' request for a ceasefire in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. The IDF was instructed to cease military attacks, but Hamas continued to launch rockets at Israel.
30 July: Israel announced a temporary humanitarian ceasefire between 15:00-19:00. A few minutes after the ceasefire began Hamas fired rockets at the southern cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon, as well as other Israeli communities.
1 August: Israel accepted the UN/US proposal for a 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire beginning 8:00 Friday (1 August). Hamas violated the ceasefire an hour-and-a-half later when, at approximately 09:30, an attack was executed against IDF forces. Hamas terrorists, including a suicide attacker, fired at the IDF forces. During the attack, two IDF soldiers were killed by Hamas fire and Israel suspects that Second Lt. Hadar Goldin was kidnapped during the exchange of fire and dragged into a tunnel. (He was declared dead on 3 August based on forensic evidence found in the tunnel).
4 August: Israel authorized a 7-hour humanitarian window in Gaza, from 10:00-17:00. Hamas kept firing rockets throughout the lull.
5-8 August: Israel accepted the Egyptian proposed 72-hour ceasefire, beginning on Tuesday, 5 August at 08:00. Israel had already pulled out all its forces from the Gaza Strip. Prior to its expiration on 8 August, Israel notified Egypt that it accepted a 72-hour extension but the Palestinian delegation was not willing to renew the ceasefire. At approximately 04:30 on Friday, 8 August, two rockets fired from Gaza hit southern Israel, in violation of the ceasefire that was set to expire at 08:00. Terrorists increased the rocket fire immediately after 08:00, injuring a number of Israelis. Israel held its fire for hours, but eventually was forced to react.
10-13 August: A 72-hour ceasefire began at midnight between 10-11 August. Despite the firing of several rockets towards the end of the 72-hour ceasefire at midnight on Tuesday, 13 August, the ceasefire has been extended for five days, until midnight on Monday, 18 August.
19 August: Although the ceasefire was extended for an additional 24 hours, at about 3:30 pm, three rockets fired from Gaza hit Beersheva and Netivot, violating the ceasefire. In response, the IDF struck terrorist targets in Gaza. Throughout the rest of the day, a total of 50 rockets were fired from Gaza, strikingthroughout southern Israel, including a shopping center in the Ashkelon coast region, as well as in Tel Aviv and, shortly before midnight, the Jerusalem area.
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@jascrandom9855 I was in high school in 1970, we were taught the "ugly", and the library had books about it. I read one written in 1962 called "The Invisible Government", a best seller, which tells the story, among others, of the Bay of Pigs and CIA involvement in IRAN. It's not about the facts, it is about the context in which they are placed, which is right out of Das Kapital, I know, because I was once par of the Marxist strategy to change the world. The "ugly" is not a secret as it is in other countries, like Russia and China. History should be taught in an age appropriate manner, the good, bad, and the ugly, but not in a doctrinaire manner, telling kids to believe this or you will be a heretic and shunned, which is what is going on.
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@jascrandom9855 Not true, look at their case list, here's one: Collin Community College District: Professor Unconstitutionally Fired for Unionizing, Criticizing the College’s COVID-19 Response
Jones v. Collin College, If free speech is conservative, then I am conservative, even though I've been a prog-Dem since 1973 in California. You didn't mention the Psychology Today article from just last summer, hardly a conservative journal. Today, the doctrine, the dogma, the coerced conformity, it is wrong, and not progress.
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In 1968, just weeks before his murder, King said, “At the very same time that America refused to give the Negro any land, through an act of Congress our government was giving away millions of acres of land in the West and the Midwest, which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor.”
The Homestead Act did not bar "Negros" from the West, in a recent episode of the PBS show "Finding Your Roots", Henry Louis Gates found a woman, former slave, who homesteaded in Oregon and gained ownership of the land, not an easy task, as the majority of homesteads failed. MLK Jr went on in the speech to expose the racism of the Agricultural Department of the Federal Government, which is well documented.
"Homesteaders included citizens, immigrants seeking naturalization, women, men, African Americans, and whites. American Indians, who were not recognized as U.S. citizens, were excluded."
H.R. 125, The Homestead Act, printed House bill with Senate changes, March 3, 1862
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The 4 stages of cognitive development of Piaget have not changed, the time it takes for a human brain to fully develop has not changed, the distribution of human characteristics in any given population has not changed, and has not, for perhaps 60,000 years. It's one thing to pull out of a bundle of facts the pieces which no longer function, or found to be false, but to throw the entire bundle into the flames and start over, is ludicrous, has never worked, and in fact, creates the very dystopia you are fearful of. Stop it.
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Sounds crazy, put understand the topography of Southern California is grass, light brush and chaparral, the fires run fast and far, but over unpopulated areas, the grass comes back in a year or two, and the brush soon after that, it's a regular cycle. I lived through the 1970 fire season in California when the population was half what it is now, 50 years ago, and we burned 580,000 acres, or 234,717 hectares, and this was before the power lines were put up in Northern California that have been starting so many fires they shut power down in those areas during high winds. California has not cleaned up the debris, we have a large population increase building in fire plains without pragmatic permitting or retrofitting, so it is not unreasonable we've seen that much acreage go up. California has 40 million people, few are directly affected by the fires. Check out the 1970 fires, I was 15, will never forget being surrounded by the inferno. Oh, and two weeks ago, we had a 4.5 earthquake, one of many I've lived through, but listen, I live a block from a beautiful beach and I love it here. BBC loves to exaggerate this stuff: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2020-08-30/california-fires-1970-legacy
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Capt777harris Yes, I did downplay your area, which is more wooded, while we are mostly grass and brush. I lived for 10 years in San Francisco, and can remember sitting in an office in West Oakland watching the hills above Caldicot Tunnel go up, and then the entire range, I think it was 1995? I push back on the BBC exaggeration. We build in fire plains, but don't control for it, when the rebuild comes, hope they use these new self-closing attic vents, should help the suburban homes, but the rural areas are another matter. Severe, but not an apocalypse, and we will recover, as before. I was in this one 50 years ago. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2020-08-30/california-fires-1970-legacy
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Capt777harris No question, smoke from Bearcat fire here in LA County reached me in Long Beach, 40 miles away, I took a picture of the red sun and dark gray sky at 8am posted to my photo website, and we even had a little ash. I just read about the flare up of the Glass Fire, and Sonoma is a mess, I have friends in Healdsburg. It is different here in SoCal, the fires that rage in the San Gabriels and San Bernardinos end up in unpopulated areas, although, a lot of building going on now, we should have stricter building codes. I won't down play it with you, but our friends across the pond don't have the perspective we do, anymore than we do when something happens in Europe. I've lived in the fire plains, and was at Pine and Front in SF on October 1989. It's nature, not some apocalyptic fantasy. The Tunnel Fire was 1991, but there was another one, because I would not have been in that office, it was Fantasy Records on the border between Oakland and Berkeley, but I now remember the Tunnel Fire, too, you could see it from the Embarcadero in SF where I worked. Hang tough, looks like rain for you next week.
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SIX YEARS AGO: "VaquitaCPR, the $5 million last-ditch effort by the Mexican government and conservationists to capture a rare porpoise called the vaquita, will formally announce the end of the project. The team captured two vaquitas: One, a calf, had to be released because it was stressed; the other, an adult female, died before it could be released. Since that death on 5 November, the 67-person team stopped trying to capture this diminutive cetacean. Instead, it has focused on trying to get detailed photographs of the 15 or so animals that still exist in the Gulf of California, their only habitat, so they can keep better track of the animals."
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@rasmuslampposselt3564 I registered as a Dem in 1973, but even prior to that I worked on the campaign of George McGovern in 1972. I first voted in 1974 for Jerry Brown to be governor of California. In 1976 my home hosted Dem Presidential candidate Sen Fred Harris and his wife LaDonna, in 1980 mayor Tom Bradley came to a family wedding because we were all Dem workers, I met Maxine Waters, she was just a junior Congresswoman, hate in her eyes even then, I much preferred Yvonne Braithwaite Burke. My step-mom was a delegate to the 1980 democratic convention, the one Kennedy tried to coup Carter, I also met Willie Brown about that time. I'm a Dem, and rattled that off top of my head, easy to fact check the timeline.
The Dem party moved away from reality about 35 years ago, especially here in California when Willie Brown took over the State House Leadership. I lived in Pelosi's district in 1986 when Kamala attended school at Hastings, used to shop with Willie Brown at the Safeway in the Fillmore District.
I did not vote for a King/Dictator, but for active leadership, someone aligned with my nation/state values, and against globalist/socialist elites that hate America and want to see it weak and side-lined. Trump fits that bill for me. I'm about to turn 70, good luck, I'm about to leave the playing field, all yours.
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@adelbenelachhab The region of Morocco was part of several Islamic caliphates throughout history, though it also saw the establishment of its own independent dynasties and empires. Here's a breakdown of the key periods:
Early Islamic Period (7th-8th Century): After the Islamic expansion in the 7th century, the region that is now Morocco came under the influence of the Umayyad Caliphate (661–750), based in Damascus, Syria. The Umayyads expanded their rule into North Africa, and Islam spread to the Berber tribes in Morocco. However, during this time, the area was largely governed by local Berber leaders under the Umayyads' broader control.
Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258): Following the fall of the Umayyads, the Abbasid Caliphate took control of the Islamic world, including North Africa, although the caliphal authority was less direct in Morocco. Local rulers in Morocco often acted independently or in semi-autonomy while recognizing Abbasid spiritual authority.
Almoravid and Almohad Dynasties (11th–13th Century): In the 11th and 12th centuries, the Almoravid and Almohad dynasties, both of which were founded in Morocco, established powerful empires that spanned much of North Africa and into Spain (al-Andalus). These dynasties were significant in the Islamic world, and although they were not caliphates in the strict sense, they exercised immense political and religious influence similar to that of a caliphate.
Merenid and Saadi Dynasties (13th–17th Century): After the decline of the Almohads, the Merenids and Saadi dynasties ruled Morocco. The Saadis, in particular, became prominent in the 16th century. While these were not part of the larger caliphates of the Islamic world, they were still important Islamic states with religious and political power.
Modern Period: In the 19th and 20th centuries, Morocco was divided into spheres of influence between European powers, but it retained a degree of independence. It was not a caliphate during this period, although the monarchy claimed to uphold Islam as part of its identity.
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Children are "detained" in Western countries when they commit adult crimes. The age of responsibility is TEN in the UK, TWELVE in the US. Why the double standard, why the Taqiyya, bibbi. We know why.
Gaza was taken over by a military coup in June 14, 2007 by Hamas, who threw the PA/Fatah off rooftops in Gaza City and massacred them at the Rafah border. Since then, Gaza has been a failed terrorist state, a platform for military action against Israel, which is in violation of UN international law. No, it did not start on 7/10, or 2007, but when Nasser invaded the Sinai and blocked Israeli ports in advance of invasion. Egypt lost the Gaza in a war, but did not want it back. Why not?
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@Johnny._C According to Amnesty International, at least 149 countries have executed juvenile offenders since 1990, including countries outside of the United States: China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Yemen.
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@ralph12d No, this is not about real "babies" but the avowed PR propaganda which exploits the ignorance of some and the willful ignorance of others. People lose children everyday, everywhere in the world.
As of 2024, the infant mortality rate in Great Britain is 3.251 deaths per 1,000 live births.
As of 2024, the infant mortality rate in Jordan is 12.507 deaths per 1,000 live births
No war in Jordan but 3X higher than the UK.
The UN reported in August 165,000 pregnancies in Gaza, I checked. While there are no infant mortality rates listed, 6 out of 1,000 births would not be abnormal.
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@PeterNining-gg9fh Again, no "P" in Arabic or Semitic language, no mention of Palestine in Qur'an, the word is Ancient Greek in origin, how ironic, as they colonized the area themselves at one point. Solomon's Temple is a material fact, the "Night Journey", even the Crucifixion, is just myth. Greeks named the region in "literature" about 2,600 years ago, but there were no Arabs there at the time, nor in Egypt. Islam only dates to early 7th Century. When the British Mandate began, and the money and jobs began to flow, many Arabs rushed in to get what they thought was promised to them but screwed it up. Read this in the original online: Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921
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Both the Jordanian and Palestinian flag are symbols of the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turk, Pan-Arabism, the BLACK, WHITE, GREEN represent the three Caliphates and the RED chevron the unity of the three. The Jordanian flag has a 7-Pointed Star on the red hoist chevron, it stands for the seven verses of al-fatiha in the Qur'an.
During the Ottoman Empire’s rule, the region flew a plain red flag with a five-pointed white star and a crescent moon. The Ottomans ruled the region until the First World War when the Arab Revolt overthrew them in 1916. The young Arabs designed a flag that represented their aspirations in a Turkish-dominated empire. The Arab Revolt used a black-green-white horizontal tricolor flag, which had a red triangle at the hoist to symbolize the Arab revolution and their conquest of the Ottoman Turks between the years 1916 to 1918. The Arab Revolts raised their flag for the first time in Jerusalem in 1916.
I doubt any of my young students in American wrapping themselves in these flags know the history, the "short" history, or that a Jewish Legion was also in the fight against the Ottoman Turk. The Jewish Legion saw action during the Sinai and Palestine campaign, where they fought at the Battle of Megiddo before being reduced to one battalion, nicknamed the "First Judaeans".
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I'm your age, felt the same way you did then, but later learned more, and it was LBJ and McNamara who caused more damage than Nixon, Henry opened China which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. No question horrible events happened in the illegal war in Cambodia, I have friends who committed those acts and live with them to this day, (MACV-SOG) just kids from suburban high schools unprepared to act as adults in that situation, that was a crime, no doubt, but can't be laid at the feet of Kissinger, but to war itself.
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@CarterKey6 Not sure what you are referring to. Israel is a secular state with civil law, but with some protections for religious law, not just for Jews, but other religions, too. How did the soldier know the age of the boy with the fireworks? Is there a history of children carrying deadly weapons in the area, is there a history of armed and violent resistance? Are Israeli citizens dying on the front lines of the war against Hamas and Jihad?
I'm in California, a childhood friend, a high school football hero, joined the Army in 1969, 81st Airborne, Green Beret, MACV-SOG: Secret Operations in Vietnam. I don't know first hand, but spent many hours with my friend as he unloaded what he and his buddies did during the secret war in Cambodia. I just had my windows replaced by a man who escaped the Killing Fields of Pohl Pot, and right now in Tigray, Ethiopia, children are dying of starvation in the aftermath of a civil war supported by Turkey, Iran, and the UAE. The behavior described in this video, the behavior of both sides in this, is an expression of ubiquitous human behavior.
The 2 Talmuds are not the word of G_d, not what Moses brought down from the mountain. My belief is based on the human responsibility to G_d, yourself, and to other fellow human beings, in that order. The Talmuds, as well as the Sunnas, are frameworks of how to behave in the World. They are aspirational, something to strive for, but something we will never achieve in the frame of this reality.
We are here to "Receive, Transform, and Transmit" That's my belief.
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@Chewy921 "Racist"? Here's a RACIST report to Winston Churchill made by the 3rd Arab Congress over one hundred years ago that kicked all this off " Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921."
The Marxist "Woke" are winning the education and PR battle, but will never win the Truth. It was the Arabs who hated the Jews, did not want the migration, and threatened the UK with violence, which they then carried out through the Muslim Brotherhood and people like Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who befriended both Eichmann and Hitler, agreeing to a "final solution" after the Nazis one the war. The Pan-Arab movement then sided with the Soviet Union. Nasser failed, but the lie continues.
European and American leadership know this history, so they will continue to ally with Israel against a traditional and historic enemy. Ibn Saud sold out to America in the 1930s, learn something about that, and the failure of the Hashemites in the Hejaz.
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@freedombug11 The "Document" is available online in its original form, written by the 3rd Arab Congress to Winston Churchill. It is filled with lies, ones that continued to be told. Jews "took" nothing, that's the BIG LIE, the one which continues to force suffering and death on innocent humans who believe it. No Israeli with the power to do so is calling for the "extermination" of an entire people. OTOH, Iran, with a nuclear bomb, while have the leadership and power to do just that. FREE IRAN
The first major Nazi camp to be liberated was Majdanek, located in Lublin, Poland. It was liberated in the summer of 1944, not 1945. Mate was perhaps 5 months old, do you remember being 5 months old?
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@rosedudesert4389 Anecdotal, the pro-abortionists then and now say as many as 5,000 died each year from back-alley abortions, this turned out to be a "guess" from 1942. After anti-biotics the actual number was perhaps in the two-hundreds. We need perspective and facts, not stories and emotion. Abortion is a medical procedure, of course, and is sometimes indicated, but should be called what it is, murder, as it ends a life. If you kill a pregnant woman, you are charged with a double homicide, our laws should be consistent.
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) utilizes non-competitive hiring practices to meet certain goals related to inclusion and diversity. Here's how this works:
Schedule A Hiring Authority: The FAA employs this authority to hire individuals with disabilities without the need for competitive procedures. This is part of a broader federal effort to increase the representation of people with disabilities in the workforce. The FAA specifically targets individuals with "severe" or "targeted" disabilities, which include conditions like hearing, vision impairments, missing extremities, various forms of paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism.
Veterans' Preference: The FAA also uses non-competitive hiring for certain veterans, particularly those with service-connected disabilities of 30% or more. This helps in fulfilling goals to support military veterans and increase diversity within the agency.
Direct Hire Authority: While not exclusively for inclusion, this authority allows the FAA to hire quickly for certain positions where there is a critical need or shortage, which can indirectly support diversity by opening up opportunities that might not be as accessible through traditional hiring routes.
On-the-Spot Hiring: For both veterans and individuals with disabilities, some positions allow for immediate hiring if the candidate meets all qualifications, which is part of the FAA's strategy to meet diversity and inclusion goals.
The rationale behind these practices includes:
Meeting Federal Mandates: The FAA, like other federal agencies, is subject to laws like the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which mandates affirmative action for the hiring of individuals with disabilities.
Fostering a Diverse Workforce: By employing non-competitive hiring, the FAA aims to create a workforce that reflects the diversity of the nation, which is seen as beneficial for innovation, problem-solving, and serving a diverse public.
Addressing Underrepresentation: Certain groups, including those with disabilities, have historically been underrepresented in federal employment. Non-competitive hiring helps address these disparities.
However, these practices are managed with an eye toward maintaining the rigorous safety and qualification standards necessary for aviation. Here's how inclusion and safety are balanced:
Qualification Standards: Even under non-competitive hiring, candidates must meet all relevant qualifications for the job. For safety-critical positions, this might mean extensive training, medical evaluations, and other rigorous standards.
Reasonable Accommodations: The FAA provides accommodations where possible to ensure that employees with disabilities can perform their duties, but these accommodations do not compromise safety.
The use of non-competitive hiring practices for inclusion goals has been a point of contention, particularly following incidents like the 2025 crash near Washington D.C., where critics questioned if these practices might affect safety.
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@DG-ie5ip Ah, there it is, been hearing that since I was six years old. Never a resolution, never a reconciliation, constant conflict, it's their way, and why our political culture is so messed up. In football, whether American or soccer, there is a time limit, a winner, and a loser, but FCT but an end to that, so conflict is never ending.
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We were warned of the winds, Southern California Edison sent out warnings, the city shut-down Topanga Canyon ahead of winds. Santa Monica Canyon and the Palisades have been a brush time bomb for over 50 years. Anyone who drove Temescal Canyon or Chautauqua knows that. The Getty Villa was prepared and survived. It's not just the city/county at fault. There's personal blame, too.
There are HUGE GOP donors who live in the Palisades and Brentwood. Former Gov Arnold is a resident, even former member of Trump's admin has kids there with an ex-Wife, we know them. I understand Justine's frustration, but we also have to look in the mirror. We like the narrow fire roads we hike and bike in, don't want them denuded, we like the cozy feel of brush and trees surrounding our homes that give us privacy.
Some perspective: LA County is 5,000 square miles with a population of 9 million. The Palisades is a small area with a population of 24,000. It will come back, and quickly. There are deep, deep pockets there.
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Has for me, water, lights, roads, hospitals, markets, all good, running 24/7, and poverty has been reduced more in the last 50 years than anytime in history, you have it wrong, and why there are no widespread worker revolutions. We, the bourgeois, win again and again, LOL.
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The budget for public safety in Los Angeles tends to be high for several reasons:
Size and Population Density: Los Angeles is the second-most populous city in the United States, with a diverse population spread across a large area. Managing public safety in such a densely populated and expansive urban environment requires substantial resources.
Crime Rates: Historically, Los Angeles has faced significant challenges related to crime, including gang activity, drug trafficking, and property crimes. Addressing these issues requires robust law enforcement efforts and investments in crime prevention strategies.
Complexity of Urban Challenges: Large cities like Los Angeles often face a variety of complex urban challenges, including homelessness, mental health crises, and traffic congestion. Public safety agencies are frequently called upon to respond to these issues and provide assistance to vulnerable populations.
Emergency Preparedness: Los Angeles is susceptible to natural disasters such as earthquakes, wildfires, and floods. Ensuring readiness and effective response to emergencies require dedicated resources and investment in emergency management capabilities.
Labor Costs: Public safety personnel, including police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical responders, typically command relatively high salaries and benefits due to the demanding nature of their work and the need for specialized training.
Equipment and Technology: Maintaining modern equipment, vehicles, and technology infrastructure for public safety agencies requires significant ongoing investment to ensure effective operations and response capabilities.
Legal and Regulatory Compliance: Compliance with state and federal regulations, as well as legal settlements related to past incidents or lawsuits, can contribute to the overall cost of public safety services.
Overall, the combination of these factors results in a substantial budget allocation for public safety in Los Angeles to ensure the safety and security of its residents and visitors.
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@magyarmainer4692 Sorry, when you said she would come home and only say nice things about her day, that did not seem realistic, and perhaps sarcastic. I can't imagine someone with her busy life not having a bad day and expressing it to her spouse, she's human, after all. I am a registered Democrat in California, and she may not share all of my views, but I support her nomination, there are 2 liberal female Justices, I think having a conservative female voice on the court is fair, and a good balance.
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@foufoufun Yes, that's a better definition of Science, an assertion or hypothesis must be testable, peer reviewed, and sometimes even recreated by others. Trump asked for both Bleach and UV Light to be tested. I read the transcript of the press conference, although I also heard it live. Both his comments about Bleach and UV light therapy made me CRINGE. But I decided to fact check, and found out there was a team at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles testing UV light inside the body for gastrointestinal pathogens asking for emergency permission to modify the catheter for Covid use. Fact Check = True. I then checked the ingredients in Bleach, and found that the base ingredients has been used for 100 years by Dentist to clear infection after root canal, and a 1-3% solution in a spay might be worth at least testing. Fact = Partly True. I did not vote for Trump 2016, he was never on my radar, I am not into the "celebrity" thing, but when it appeared he would win the nomination, I researched, and found he was REAL, and had substance, if not depth. I still did not think he could win, but he did. I've found myself agreeing with his policies and deeds, so discount his asinine personality, and pay attention to what he does, not what he says. I think mature voters should do that. He gets my vote, and also because I think the Democrats, my party, have not played fair in 4 years and do not deserve the office. Thanks for the civil engagement, people call here have called me fake, and empty account, and a liar. Seems no room for moderates to engage these days.
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Youcanvids Both my parents were born in California in the early 1920's, and I just turned 65. If you are low-income and 65, you qualify for both Medi-Cal and Medicare. I've made good choices and been lucky, so no health problems, I live and own in a nice area, did not use any equity passed down to me for purchase, and was able to maintain a middle-class lifestyle I am content with. I'm a block from the beach, and surrounded by people of varying levels of income, lifestyle, and political persuasion. I started to look at leaving before Covid, but unable to find something, even with the equity I have, to suit me. I walk and bike most places, rarely need to drive these days, do remote consulting, but can remember traffic jams in the 1960's/70's, too. I have the feeling if I move to another state, I'd just be taking myself with me, so not sure that's in my best interest at this point. You should watch a documentary called: The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Galapagos_Affair
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Youcanvids LMAO, in 1980 we all thought Ronald Wilson Reagan, Mr 666, was the anti-Christ who was going to start Armageddon for the evangelicals. Didn't happen, Ronnie did some bad things, but the system survived and prospered. I was wrong, and so are you. The State, by any other name, is just The State, and occupied by human beings, so can be easily understood. Grow-up.
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@stephengarner8628 Trump did not say to use these therapies, he said that scientists were working on their efficacies, which was true, but widely reported as false, and laughed at by commentators and late night celebrity hosts. The jokes about them went viral, and are still being repeated without thought, and in bad faith. It is a demonstration of malevolence to repeat them, something meant only to cause pain and suffering in the world. When I see the new-left do this, it gives me pause. I will not support these bad actions. I did not vote for Trump in 2016, but by has actions in the last 4 years, he showed me, that although he lies to the press, and acts the clown and buffoon, his actions align with the promises he made to those who voted from him, which means he has integrity, and of the kind that I respect. He gets my vote on Nov. 3.
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@Evan.01 In the context of Islam, a madresa (or *madrasah*) refers to an educational institution, often associated with Islamic religious education. Traditionally, madrasas provide instruction in various subjects, including theology, jurisprudence, Arabic language, and sometimes broader subjects like mathematics and science.
Madrasas can vary widely in their curriculum, governance, and teaching methods. Some focus exclusively on Islamic studies, while others may offer a more comprehensive education that includes secular subjects. In many Muslim communities, madrasas play a crucial role in the education of children and young adults, helping to preserve and transmit Islamic knowledge and values.
While the term itself is neutral, some contemporary discussions may associate madrasas with different ideological leanings, depending on their curriculum and the political context of the region.
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@paladinbob1236 False equivalence, the issue predates the holocaust, something Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was involved with, and even celebrated for today.New film out in Egypt. How can it be denied there was a Muslim Waffen SS Brigade in WW2 that al Husseini was involved with, or that Himmler sent him a telegram, all before 1947. It's recorded history, not in dispute.
The UN has reduced the number of women and children killed by 42%. Is the UN a "denier"? Investigation will go on as to what happened, like the rockets that hit al-Shifa first said to be Israeli. Do you believe they were? Right now the ration to combatant to civilian is 1:1. Few conflicts in modern history can claim that.
Again, the promise was made in 1921 by the 3rd Arab Palestine Congress. No Jewish majority nation in the region or else. We have been experiencing the "or else" for over 100 years.
"Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Primary Source, not fantasy.
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@whistlingchickenleg
(ATC) facilities, controllers often manage more than one position due to staffing needs, operational demands, or facility size.
Radar Facilities: In large TRACONs or en-route centers (ARTCCs), controllers might be responsible for several sectors at once.
These facilities have more complex systems for managing airspace, and combining sectors is a common practice to match staffing with current traffic levels.
More experienced controllers might take on multiple roles, or newer controllers might work under direct supervision while being trained on additional positions.
Safety Protocols: Even when positions are combined, protocols ensure that controllers are not overwhelmed.
Regulatory Oversight: The FAA and international equivalents have guidelines on controller workload to ensure safety isn't compromised. Facilities must maintain a balance between efficiency and safety when deciding to combine or split control positions.
While combining positions is a common practice, it's managed with strict attention to safety, ensuring that controllers have the ability to handle the combined workload effectively. The exact practices can vary significantly based on the specific facility, its traffic patterns, and the capabilities of its controllers.
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@troygaines2193 Trump is a liar, a fraud, and an A-Hole, but not an insurrectionist. And even if he were, our system would have not allowed it. Considering the 5-year long "coup" against him by Hillary and the progressive Left, I consider his reaction mild. I believe AG Barr is correct, Trump failed to hire a legal team in advance of the 2020 election to push back legally against Dem tactics in certain states and districts. Trump only has himself to blame for the loss. This does not exonerate my party, they played dirtier than Nixon, Haldeman, and Mitchell ever did, including corrupting the FBI.
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@christopherwall2121 I'm not an Israeli, you talk about internal politics of Israel. I won't do that. The preposition that the Likud Party 20 years ago funded the original Hamas organization, when it was a spiritual and humanitarian group, has some validity, but to say that is still true is utter nonsense.
The Right-Wing no doubt is done with a two-State solution, no question, since in 2008 the Arabs again walked away from a deal. When the Arab/Muslims lie to others, to each other, and to themselves, there is no trusted partner for a solution. Arab/Muslims need to take the Jihad inside and look at themselves, not blame everyone else for their problems. We have groups in America who make the same mistake.
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@jackgross2499 Apparently, he is not so transparent to you, it appears to me you are the one that's been "conned" by political predators like Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi. I am non-religious, so do not see him as a "god" anything, he's no doubt an a-hole, a narcissist, even an amateur, not someone I like very much, but I am mature enough to set aside my personal feelings and look at his actions, like not going to war with Iran, funding the Historically Black Colleges, developing economic zones in impoverished areas, prison reform, getting the EU to pay up on NATO and the UN, brokering a deal for Peace in the mid-east with Israel and the UAE, saving perhaps a million lives in Idlib, Syria, then pulling out when the left said it would be genocide, but it was not, and best of all pushing back on the CCP and trying to bring jobs back to America. I could go on. A mature person knows that two things can be true at once. Trump is an a-hole, but with great policies and actions for America. Grow-up.
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Really? You should read the proposed NEW MATCH FRAMEWORK for K-12 in California. It's online CAL DEPT OF ED. Full blown CRT agenda, and teachers have to write a DEI statement to be hired. ASU Diversity Statement: We recognize that race and gender historically have been markers of diversity in institutions of higher education. However, at ASU, we believe that diversity includes additional categories such as socioeconomic background, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, nationality and intellectual perspective.
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Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921. Available in its original form from the Library of Congress online.
The lies, the blood libel, the proof of Arabs as traitors who threatened England with allying with the Germans and Russians, a threat, and an acknowledgement the Arabs were traitors to the Ottoman Empire, and would be traitors again if the British allowed for a Jewish Homeland.
Arafat said in 2001 Solomon's Temple was a fantasy and only the Dome of the Rock was real. Over 100 years ago the Arabs stated there would be no peace if Jews had access to, or control of, The Temple Mount. The Foundation Stone vs The Accession Rock.
The Hashemites lost Mecca and Medina to Ibn Saud, they lost Jerusalem to the Jews, and are still crying about their loss and taking no responsibility themselves, or helping their own people, not on the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, or Syria. The Jihad must look inward, not make external excuses by blaming others for failure.
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@graham7176 That's not true, the Ancient Greeks and Babylonians used place words which are similar/same to the Greek name Palestine. Hadrian only expelled the Jews from Jerusalem, the name of the city was changed to Aelia Capitolina but the Jews never left the land. The Romans took the name Syria-Palestina, they did not invent it.
Going by the archaeological evidence found so far, Jerusalem was founded about 6,000 years ago, and it may have had roughly that name from the beginning. A city "Rushalimum" is mentioned as an enemy of the pharaoh in an ancient Egyptian list dating from the 19th century BCE, about 4,700 years ago. If it is indeed Jerusalem, it is the earliest reference.
When Muslim armies conquered Jerusalem from the Byzantine Empire in 638, they called it “Iliya,” a shortened version of the ancient Roman name Aelia Capitolina . Another name that began to gain currency after the Muslim conquest was Bayt al-Maqdis, a translation of the Hebrew name of the Jerusalem Temple – Beit HaMikdash (Literally “Holy House”).
So, what's in a name?
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@graham7176 No, it's an Indo-European word, not semitic. Arabic has no "p" in the alphabet, and even when they say it now, it's with a "PH" sound. In ancient greek "Palē " is the word for "Wrestle". I get the Syria-Palestina naming, but the Romans took it from the Greek, which again, is indo-European, not semitic.
I don't really care, I'm non-religious on the matter, but love the stories, as they are a repository of human cognition.
Arab Muslims and Christians didn't much care about Jews one way or another until they started returning in the 1880s from Central and Eastern Europe. Then the German and Austrians started coming with money, the Arabs who had some political control in the region welcomed the money, but then saw too many might arrive and change the political balance. When war broke out between the West and the Ottoman Empire, the Arabs flipped on the Ottomans, who they say they liked, and went with the British, they were traitors. The Arabs got a shock when they learned a promise was made for a Jewish Homeland, they felt betrayed by the British, and said so to Churchill in a 1921 report, one that I have a copy of. The report is full of hate for the Jews and the British, and threats they would side with the Germans or Russians in the next conflict, which they did, by siding with the Nazis. I have compassion for the Arabs, but don't trust them, they lie and change sides too easily. They made poor choices, and choices have consequences. They're still crying about what happened, but have never taken any personal responsibility for their choices. T.E. Lawrence was correct.
Israel has to deal with a petualent and immature neighbor who will not grow-up. I don't have an answer to that.
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@gusescobedo Nixon, the biggest crook in American history, and a Republican, signed the landmark 1972 Clean Water Act which continues to be the primary law protecting the nation’s fresh surface water. Ronald Reagan, a Republican, signed legislation that fixed the Ozone hole, he he was a liar, too. Life is full of subtlety and nuance, I don't base my voting decisions on RAH RAH RAH, for one side or the other. America is in a balancing act, and the Green New Deal will throw us out of balance, which is the goal of many who are promoting it, like you. Your unicorn "return to the garden" utopia is in practical terms a dystopia. We can moderate our actions, design solutions, but we don't need to commit Harakiri in the process. I don't believe Trump's metaphorical rhetoric, he's an ass, but I can see the action, and I approve. You don't, so we disagree, that's what the vote is for, but the Dems showed bad faith and did not except the last election, so I no longer trust them. Trump 2020.
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Doctor from UC San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi's district and right next door to where Senator Feinstein lives, Doctor, how many patients do you release before 10 days, THE MAJORITY, you are biased, no question, and a liar for your ideology. The sooner you can be active, better and quicker the recovery: ‘The sooner rehabilitation started and the longer it lasted, the faster and better was the improvement in patients’ walking and breathing capacities and muscle gain.’— Yara Al Chikhanie, Ph.D student at Dieulefit Santé, a clinic for pulmonary rehabilitation.
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Not rubbish, and video shown to reporters from the around the world, It is Hamas that lies, as recently reported by the UN
United Nations Now Reporting
Having previously reported that 9,500 women and 14,500 children had died during the war (some 69% of all fatalities), OCHA is now reporting far lower numbers, stating that among “identified” deaths, 4,959 women have died, along with 7,797 children (or 52% of the total number of identified deaths in the war).
Of note, the Hamas ministry counts all those under the age of 18 as children, while commentators note that a not-insignificant number of combatants are in their teens.
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To Hijab, justice is "From Water to Water", and the end of Jews on the Temple Mount. We know, the WEST is grossly ignorant, but we know, the final solution Hijab has in his heart and mind, and why he practices, for now, taqiyyah, in Islam, the practice of concealing one's belief.
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@philipbenjamin4720 "Personal Responsibility", yes, we are not far apart on that, or the power of agency, which the majority gives up in return for safety and social cohesion. It is not a requirement that a Justice be formerly a judge. Kagan never sat on the bench, and we've had non-lawyers on the bench before. The "religious test" was no "enshrinement", it is there as a response to bloody conflicts in Europe which were fresh in the minds of those who wrote the founding documents. Distributed, balanced power, is still our framework, and has withstood many challenges, the one you described is yet another one. I am non secular, but see the "Long March" of the new-left a threat to everyone's freedoms, as you do, and tracking changes in the UK, with its attacks on free speech and personal freedom, is quite disturbing, and why the decline of the BBC is so sad.
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I am not a conservative, but a California DEM, and from everything I've read so far, without anyone actually getting her side, it appears to me she was "debating" and "discussing" the very problematic new Texas law that would allow holocaust denial material into school libraries, not CIRRICULUM. And I agree, it's BAD LAW, with perhaps good intention. But vilifying this woman without all the facts, or her own qualifying statement, is defaming, and I hope she sues.
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@Alumnikiid look at the totals, KH lost. the total votes between 2020/2024 are not significant.
Harris (D) Trump (R) Total
75,005,605 77,289,119 155,236,443
2020
Biden Trump Total
81,283,501 74,223,975 155,507,476
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@jasonmehlhorn4359 Marx and Friedrich Engels, his collaborator, contributed immensely to socialist theory through their works, most notably "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital."
Marx's contributions helped to shape and define modern socialist thought. Perhaps I would have better stated it as "modern socialism".
Norman has in many interviews called Chomsky his mentor, both believe Capitalism should be ended.
Chomsky is critical of capitalism, he advocates for alternative economic models based on principles of social justice. He has expressed support for libertarian socialism, cooperatives, and participatory economics as potential alternatives to capitalism.
Norman is framed in this belief, which informs his opinion on the current state of Israeli. Both Chomsky and Norman believe Israel is "Capitalism", and as such, perpetuates social injustice in the region. This is the Soviet narrative which was taken up by the PLO in the 1960s. It is a brand of Liberation Theology, a viralent form when combined with Islamist theology.
Israel is fighting this weird Chimera of Marxist dialectic fused with Islamic Jihad. A fusion wishing for one form of Armageddon or another.
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@AliAliAli9Ali "Arabs"? in Andalusia ruled, you should check the DNA of Abd al-Rahman III, his hair was so red he had to paint it Black. LOL. You should also check the current DNA of the King of Jordan and his wife. There are crazies in every religion and ethnicity who seek power based on identity,, which is a very powerful emotion, and why it's a trick played by almost all tyrants and dictators. If you want to check on an identity trickster who captured a city and then pissed on it like an animal marking its territory, then learn about the Umayyad Caliph 'Abd al-Malik bin Marwan or the earlier and longer Trans-Saharan slave trade sourced from different places in sub-Saharan Africa, destined for locations north of the Sahara Desert, the Mediterranean shores, and the Middle East. This method of turning humans into communities has been reborn in Libya and some of the Gulf States.
Russia held Crimea before the "Golden Horde" of Tartars, check YOUR history, and before that Greeks and Romans.
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@AliAliAli9Ali Yes, Said did fall under the spell of the Western/Marxist philosophy of oppressor/oppressed and its victimology. The "Orientalists" have learned it well and now using it as a public relations tool across the Western World. It's a sickness, one that is only now being diagnosed. Again, look at this document, read it. Everything you just described was written by Arabs against Jews. All the fear and disgust for Jews was written in this document, and the threat of violence, too, all before the 1922 White Paper calling for two-States. "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress
I'd add the subjugation of Jews was written into Islamic Law in the 9th Century. Dhimmi, a true Apartheid.
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@honestjohn6418 Um, Jazz was a true convergence of culture, it transcended culture, and expressed something wholly spiritual, like Indian Classical music. In the late 1950's that changed, it became fractured, categorized, politicized, and some white jazz musicians referred to this as "Crow Jim", or reverse discrimination, since they said only Black people could play jazz. That is not an academic statement from me, it is one I saw first hand, and have listened to stories from musicians who both perpetrated it, and were affected by it. It killed Jazz, and I mark its death as 1967, with the passing of John Coltrane, everything since is just an echo of what he did. The full franchise expression of American Black music since then leaves me empty and disgusted. I often apologize to foreign visitors for its virulence which has overtaken the globe. It is, that bad.
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@WildwoodClaire1 I am 65, just got on Medi-care, and full social security next summer. I am not "wealthy" and got help from the Fed and State which keeps me in my home. Since the "dollar" is not backed by anything except "good faith" at this point, and it is the standard currency in the world, unlikely to change in the next 30 years, you are right, I am not worried. Stop the globalists from "flattening" the world, become a populist American proud of its exceptionalism, and you, too, may enjoy retirement as I am. Trump 2020
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@oldineamiller9007 No, YOU are wrong, and as I posted in reply to you, I am not only well aware of "The Cooling", I purchased the book of the same name in 1976. Trump was not referring to the almost 50 year ago discussion on a new ice age, which is possible, but not probable, in the next 100 years. He was talking about what happens every year, on the West Coast, we have fires during heatwaves, the heat "cools", the winds die down, and the fires are contained. I live here, and that's what he was talking about, you are just having some fun with the old "Ice Age" speculation from 50 years ago. Not helpful.
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@oddvardmyrnes9040 There have been academic studies on the politics of teachers, both in K-12 and higher education. In college, those who go into sociology and education identify as left in numbers that reach 70%, that group graduates and become teachers in K-12 and administrators at school who are responsible for hiring practices, including demanding DEI statements be written by incoming teachers. Overall, teachers skew a bit left of center, but in the two disciplines which focus on education and behavior, they skew far to the left. This is a problem Check out Jonathon Haidt. In America the biggest challenge is attracting MEN to K-12 teaching positions, it is out of balance, and is a disservice to young males, the current outcomes makes this self-evident.
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@darrenjamrock2677 ? Jordan kicked the PLO out after they fomented a civil war and assassinated their PM. they fled to Lebanon where they do not have civil rights. Jordan restricts the number of Christians in government and academia and is an Islamic state. When a Christian was elected PM of Lebanon, Islamists assassinated him.
20% of Israeli citizens are Arab; some Christians, some Druze, some Muslim. They serve on the Knesset, the Supreme Court and in the IDF. One of the most popular news readers on Israeli TV is an Arab/Muslim/Palestinian woman. Show me the comparable in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon or Syria. Syria has killed more Arabs than any IDF soldier. Look in the mirror.
In WW1 both the Jews and Arabs fought with the British to free the region of the Ottoman/Turk. The Turks ceded the region in a peace treaty with the Allied Powers who were given a temporary mandate to help create new, modern nation/states. One of those was a Palestinian state called Trans-Jordan, which became Jordan in 1946. The Jews were willing to share, the Arabs were not. No land was stolen, that is false.
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@idonuttylikezenorship4547 "Jews Finance the British Civil War Red Revolution- 1639 - 1653"
RED"? not used, and the "Great Rebellion" covered not one war but several, and include the Welch, the Scots, and the Irish.
Jews had been expelled from England in the late thirteenth century, but during the English Civil Wars, there were efforts to allow their return.
Oliver Cromwell presented a petition advocating for the readmission of Jews. Puritans like Cromwell supported Jews and the Jewish bible, that's why so many early American colonists had names like Abraham and Isaac.
Despite their small numbers, Jews participated in the English Civil Wars. Approximately 8,000 to 10,000 Jews, mostly recent immigrants, donned uniforms, and some even rose through the ranks to become officers.
Your "facts" don't align with well documented history.
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Cities Highest crime rates per-capita. Majority BLUE and 3 in California, none in Florida.
St. Louis, MO (2,082)
Detroit, MI (2,057)
Baltimore, MD (2,027)
Memphis, TN (2,003)
Little Rock, AR (1,634)
Milwaukee, WI (1,597)
Rockford, IL (1,588)
Cleveland, OH (1,557)
Stockton, CA (1,415)
Albuquerque, NM (1,369)
Springfield, MO (1,339)
Indianapolis, IN (1,334)
Oakland, CA (1,299)
San Bernardino, CA (1,291)
Anchorage, AK (1,203)
Nashville, TN (1,138)
Lansing, MI (1,136)
New Orleans, LA (1,121)
Minneapolis, MN (1,101)
Chicago, IL (1,099)
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Too bad Ibn Saud didn't take the deal when it was offered by Churchill, so goes life in the big city. Too bad Ibn Saud made a deal with the devil and usurped the Hashemite birthright and stole the holy lands from its rightful heir in exchange for an oil lease. Too bad the West helped Ibn Saud invade and steal the homeland of the Yemeni peoples. Too bad Ibn Saud did not take in Palestinian refugees after the UN Resolution. Want to talk Armenian genocide by the Turks and Kurds? Buddy, Israel is a postage stamp of a country, and was and is before and after the 1967 war, but perhaps you want to believe the return of Jews is in reality just another imperial, European conquest of an oppressed people. Fine if you do, but as I said, that's war talk. Something the region has about 5,000 years of history with, war after war after war. Looks like a way of life to me.
The only true, and rather effective, invasion of the Middle East in the 20th century came at the hands of Standard Oil of California and Texaco, who set-up the entity named ARAMCO. Check it out. It all follows that pied piper, and still does.
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@michelewalburn4376 Trump didn't say they did, he said he was being told they did, and so was Vance. I watched community meetings where people were upset and saying wild things, including geese and ducks being taken from parks. That wasn't the real issue, it was the number of refugees being enticed into the city and given preferential treatment over the citizens, including free housing and other services. The most serious issue seemed to be lack of driving skill and the danger to trash cans. That made me laugh. Trump speaks the way the real people of that city spoke about the issue, whether it was true or not, it was how they were feeling. Why does the woke/left only recognize "My Truth" when it is something they agree with?
I've checked some crazy things Trump has said that turned out to be true, like during Co-19 he said put an Ultra-Violet light inside people. Turns out Cedar-Sinai Hospital was already doing that for another illness and applied to test it for Co-19. Sounded crazy but UV Catheters are real, easy to fact check, even on the NIH website.
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Christians use many names for G-d, including the personal name YHWH, which is pronounced as Yahweh or Jehovah. They also use other titles, such as Elohim, El-Shaddai, Adonai, Ancient of Days, Father/Abba, and "Most High". Some Christian teachings interpret the Ten Commandment to respect G-d's name as a directive to avoid improper use and to exalt it through praise and good deeds. However, some people may have been influenced by Jewish traditions to avoid using the name altogether, perhaps out of fear of desecrating it.
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@Free-SpokenMedia The Ford libel case is well-known, Ford's grasp of engineering was genius, but he was practically literate when it came to history and current events. In 1938 he accepted a birthday gift from Hitler. “Acceptance of a medal from the German people does not, as some people seem to think, involve any sympathy on my part with Nazism,” Ford said.
“Those who have known me for many years realize that anything that breeds hate is repulsive to me.” Ford did not write "The International Jew", do some research, it was written for him, and by some very bad human beings. Hitler even mentioned Ford in Mein Kampf, Ford was a "useful idiot", and is still be used today, as your comments confirm.
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@earthdweller5136 "Reputation" with, Serbia, Kosovo, UAE, Turkey, Iran, Bahrain, Mexico, Boris Johnson UK, we sent PPE to EU countries and they don't like us because of Trump, sounds odd. "Kid", been there, done that, on my way out, it's all yours "kid".
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JD Vance did not flatter him by calling him Hitler. Marco Rubio didn't flatter him by publishing a website with all his bankruptcies, RFK Jr certainly was not a Trump "flatterer". I believed what you believed, but no more. Trump is a pragmatist, first and foremost, wants anyone who can perform competently and do the job. He's only flattered by does and winners.
Look at Pierre Poilievre, the next PM of Canada, also a populist pragmatist. They will get along well. The EU is also moving toward a more pragmatic system, Germany especially.
Serving "big business", no, the Socialist/Academics were doing that, attempting to steal the means of production for themselves. Trump will deregulate and free business from the socialist ideologues.
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Cities Highest crime rates per-capita. Majority BLUE and 3 in California, none in Florida.
St. Louis, MO (2,082)
Detroit, MI (2,057)
Baltimore, MD (2,027)
Memphis, TN (2,003)
Little Rock, AR (1,634)
Milwaukee, WI (1,597)
Rockford, IL (1,588)
Cleveland, OH (1,557)
Stockton, CA (1,415)
Albuquerque, NM (1,369)
Springfield, MO (1,339)
Indianapolis, IN (1,334)
Oakland, CA (1,299)
San Bernardino, CA (1,291)
Anchorage, AK (1,203)
Nashville, TN (1,138)
Lansing, MI (1,136)
New Orleans, LA (1,121)
Minneapolis, MN (1,101)
Chicago, IL (1,099)
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@ItsArcticVision The Qur'an. Jesus was saved from shedding blood on the cross and submitted to Allah.
Quran, chapter 3, verse 55, also known as sūrat āl ʿim'rān (The Family of Imrān), Allah says to Jesus, "O Jesus, indeed I will take you and raise you to Myself and purify you from those who disbelieve and make those who follow you [in submission to Allah alone] superior to those who disbelieve until the Day of Resurrection".
Quran describes the end of Jesus’ existence on Earth. Muslims believe that Jesus was neither killed nor crucified, but was raised alive up to heaven. The Quran states in Chapter 3, verses 52-55: “When God said, ‘Jesus, I will take you to Me and will raise you to Me, and I will purify you of those who do not believe.’”
And in Chapter 4, verse 157: “And because of their saying, ‘We killed the Messiah Jesus son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah,’ — but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but it appeared so to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts.”
Islam stole the blood of Christ in a deception they brag about.
According to orthodox Muslim theology, God transformed Simon of Cyrene to look exactly like Jesus and have him crucified instead of Jesus, who ascended to heaven without being put on the cross. This is one of the different views that various sects of Islam have on Jesus's death. Ahmadi Muslims, for example, believe that Jesus survived the crucifixion and continued to preach in India until his natural death.
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What we are still fighting: Soviet Era Propaganda
Soviet-era propaganda often portrayed settler colonialism, particularly in the context of Western powers, as a tool of imperialism and exploitation. The Soviet Union used various mediums, including posters, literature, and films, to condemn colonialism and depict it as a form of oppression and injustice.
Here are some common themes and messages found in Soviet-era propaganda regarding settler colonialism:
1. **Exploitation of Indigenous Peoples**: Soviet propaganda frequently highlighted the exploitation and suffering of indigenous peoples under settler colonial rule. Images and narratives depicted indigenous populations being displaced from their lands, forced into labor, and subjected to cultural assimilation.
2. **Imperialist Aggression**: Settler colonialism was portrayed as a manifestation of imperialist aggression by Western powers. The Soviet Union emphasized the expansionist motives behind colonial endeavors, framing them as part of a broader strategy to dominate and exploit territories and peoples.
3. **Resistance and Liberation**: Soviet propaganda often celebrated the resistance efforts of indigenous peoples against settler colonialism. It portrayed them as heroic figures fighting against oppression and colonial rule. The Soviet Union supported various anti-colonial movements around the world and depicted them as allies in the struggle against imperialism.
4. **Solidarity with Colonized Peoples**: Soviet propaganda aimed to foster solidarity with colonized peoples by highlighting shared struggles against imperialism. The Soviet Union positioned itself as a champion of decolonization and supported independence movements in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
5. **Critique of Capitalism**: Settler colonialism was frequently depicted as a product of capitalist exploitation and inequality. Soviet propaganda emphasized the role of capitalist interests in driving colonial expansion and portrayed socialism as a progressive alternative that prioritized social justice and equality.
Overall, Soviet-era propaganda on settler colonialism sought to delegitimize colonial practices, condemn Western imperialism, and promote the idea of national liberation and self-determination for colonized peoples.
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How do these things happen? A good example is the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre, where you can see how just everyday individuals can be pulled into action. It's no mystery, human behavior is transparent for those with eyes to see. I remember JFK being assassinated, I was home from school and watched the reports on a B/W TV, and later owned Mark Lane's book, Rush To Judgement, in the 1990's, I even had a private conversation with the foremost JFK conspiracy theorists, Mort Sahl, and with a tired and crazed look in his eye he stared at me and said "They killed him, you know". But I no longer know, and think most likely it was a lone gunman, who made a lucky shot and later shot by another lone crazy, and that event is now part of a history of bizarre coincidences that happen in human history.
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@billbarthel5224 Atlantic water cooler in 2024 due to Saharan dust, and Gulf temps 10 degrees cooler than last year, you can check NOAA, I did. There was a lull this hurricane season, storms fell under prediction into below, or at normal levels, and the peak season ends in early October. Again, I checked NOAA and NOLA. Easy to fact check.
Hurricane Rita (2005) had lower MB 19 years ago, and Hurricane Michael (2018) was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that became the first Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United States since Andrew in 1992. It was the third-most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United States in terms of pressure, behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane and Hurricane Camille in 1969.
I don't see the "freakish" pattern you described, but one that falls statistically in the normal range based within our period of record keeping.
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I drove a cab in SF in the mid to late 1980s, wasn't safe then, homeless tent encampment at 7th and Market, gun shots every night in the Western Addition and the Filmore, cabs wouldn't take calls in Hunter's Point. Oh, and who was Mayor then? Diane Feinstein, then Art Agnos who was later hired by Clinton for HUD. We then tried the former Police Chief, Frank Jordan, but that didn't work, either. I left in 1995, Willie Brown came next, along with his girl toy, Kamala Harris.
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@OmarAhmed-jo1cf Egypt got rid of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood and does not want another insurgency in Egypt, same reason Jordan does not want them either, they fought a deadly civil war with the PLO and exiled them to Lebanon. Israel is not a single voice, and while some plan was floated about the Sinai, that is NOT what is wanted, not at all. The Nakba was a self-inflected catastrophe, 130,000 stayed and became full citizens of Israel, they now number 1.8 million.
Gaza has 24 kilometers of Mediterranean Coastline, it could be a paradise full of life, yet the people chose destruction and death.
It wasn't the election which caused the "blockade", but the 2007 coup by Hamas and the sight of the opposition being thrown off roofs.
Habibi, lie to yourself, not to me.
August 9, 2007
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA (Reuters) - For Gaza taxi driver Tamer Ammar, the internal fighting became all-out civil war when militants started killing their rivals by throwing them off 15-storey buildings and mutilating their bodies.
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I would have called out the neighbor, too. I should not be forced to join your party, or listen to your music. That's not civilized, that, in fact, makes you a hypocrite. At this moment, at the building next to mine, is a WOOFER so vibratory, it is shaking my walls. I have all the doors and windows closed, my air conditioning running, and wearing full coverage headphones, but the bass response comes through. Dave, is that expectable? These days, just talking to your neighbors can get you shot, people are scared and anxious to say anything, even to the police. This will have a bad end.
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@marieiles8324 We elected a non politician, an amatuer, someone no one expected would, or could win, me included. We were all shocked in 2016. I have since learned two things. 1) The Clinton campaign engaged in dirty politics, the Obama administration was informed, and then colluded with the intelligence community to try and impeach the newly elected President. It was a soft-coup. I think Obama and others really believed Trump was a threat, and were doing their duty, but they broke the law, and violated their oaths of office. 2) I learned that Trump kept his promises to the people who voted for him. He is the same person he was before the election, however flawed, and no matter how many silly lies he tells the press, he has acted on good principals in the world and got a lot of good things accomplished. I never paid attention to Trump the celebrity, did not vote for him in 2016, but my party, the Democrats, have not played fair with him for 4 years, their lies are much more substantial than the fantasies he tells the press, and so I will vote for him in 2020. He is not the monster everyone says, he is no Hitler, a clown, yes, a buffoon at times, yes, but not a clear and present danger to America, or the world.
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China is the largest global importer of cobalt, nickel and manganese, as well as lithium, despite having large reserves of its own, and it is the largest producer of graphite (RCS Global, 2017). Many of the minerals required for "GREEN TECH" are in "conflict zones" and under federal legislation banning importation. Another example of the Left's pretend reality. California, in the Coachella Valley, has one of the largest deposits of Lithium in the world, we also have the tech and materials to do 3rd gen mod nuclear, and new gen molten salt reactors, but the Left's pretend reality will not allow it.
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The Aztec origin myth centers on the concept of Aztlán, which is often considered the ancestral homeland of the Mexica people, the dominant group within the Aztec civilization. According to Aztec tradition, Aztlán was a mythical, idyllic place from which the Mexica migrated to eventually settle in the Valley of Mexico.
Aztlán: Aztlán is described as a mythical, paradise-like place. The name "Aztlán" means "Place of the White Heron" or "Place of the Herons" in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. It is often depicted as an island or a series of islands in a lake.
Migration: The myth states that the Mexica people were guided by their god Huitzilopochtli, who told them to leave Aztlán and search for a new homeland. The sign they were looking for was an eagle perched on a cactus with a snake in its beak, which was a divine signal indicating the site of their new home.
Journey: The journey from Aztlán to the Valley of Mexico was long and arduous. It is said to have taken many years, with the Mexica encountering various challenges and other peoples along the way.
Founding of Tenochtitlán: The Mexica finally saw the promised sign on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco, where they established the city of Tenochtitlán around 1325 CE. This site would eventually grow into the powerful Aztec Empire.
Cultural Significance: Aztlán represents more than just a physical location; it is a symbol of the Mexica’s divine destiny and their connection to their gods. It serves as a cultural and spiritual touchstone that reinforces their identity and legitimacy as rulers in their new homeland.
The legend of Aztlán is part of a larger corpus of Mesoamerican myths and reflects the importance of migration stories in establishing a group’s origins and their right to rule.
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@nickwyatt9498 If that were mostly true, there would not be much to worry about. I have a neighbor who is a PhD, not from Harvard, but a state University in California, which he obtained in 1983. His focus was "Ethnic Studies", and he went on to chair a department at a large institution in Texas. He calls himself a "Social Democrat", but in hanging with him, casually, a little drinking, he spilled the beans, and he is fully franchised in the different aspects of the Frankfurt school, Gramsci, etc., and began waxing poetic about "Critical Theory" and "Deconstructionism", and how "we" Marxists are taking back the institutions that was stolen from us by Scientists and Technocrats. I could see the sparkle in his eyes, which then glazed over in an almost religious ecstasy. I believe you underestimate what's going on, and how the infiltration is almost complete.
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@gobigoatherd96 i gave no ratio, that was the point, it is not about ratio, but "proportion" to military necessity, that is how it is defined in international law.
Your number of children killed as been halved by the UN.
"The United Nations has begun citing a much lower death toll for women and children in Gaza, acknowledging that it has incomplete information about many of the people killed during Israel's military offensive in the territory.May 15, 2024" - UN News Service
On May 6, the UN published data showing that 34,735 people had reportedly been killed in Gaza, including over 9,500 women and over 14,500 children. On May 8, the UN published data showing 34,844 people had reportedly been killed, including 4,959 women and 7,797 children.
OCHA did not explain its actions
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Israel: Gaza civilian death toll is ‘historically low’ Israel is doing something no other nation ever has, and in a good way. But no one cares, because everyone hates the Jews.
That assessment was corroborated by Maj. (ret.) John Spencer, an expert on urban warfare at the United States Military Academy (West Point). In an in-depth article for Newsweek, Spencer also stated that the IDF had established a new “gold standard” for urban warfare, and lamented that rather than applaud Israel for this effort, the international community was condemning it.
Earlier this week, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, acknowledged that the figures had overcounted the number of women and children killed in the conflict by a staggering 42 percent.
FORTYTWO PERCENT REDUCTION in deaths of women and children, and no APOLOGY from the UN, only the vague excuse, "FOG OF WAR". More double standard.
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@lukasz1154 HaHa, Kirk Douglas, blonde hair, blue eyes, a son of European Jews, what "genetic" differences, and whatever they might be, the Germans could not have know about it, DNA had yet to be decoded. The "science" was false, and determination was done by family tree and physical appearance, all they had to go on. Whoopie seems to hold the same bias.
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@Tearsofsoil Symbols, yes, but not religious, unless you are using that as metaphor. "Hypnotize", don't see that in the history, either, In the 1920s the largest group to support the Nazis were primary school teachers, who promoted nationalism and collectivism, and helped create the Hitler Youth organizations for both boys and girls. By 1940 there were 8 million members, 10% of Germany's total population. Evil is most often just banal and very human, no need to "hypnotize", when you have so many willing and enthusiastic participants. Hard to tell who is hypnotizing whom.
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@lisacimarik7315 There are less than 9 million Israelis, 1.8 million of those are Arabs, they serve on the Knesset, the Supreme Court, and the IDF. Show me the comparable Muslim country in the region? There are almost 2 Billion Muslims worldwide, so I agree, there must be "some" Muslims who believe in peace, but I wonder how they define, "Peace".
In the 7th Century, Muslim armies forced conversion of both Jews and Christians under penalty of death. Some Christians did convert, some Jews did convert, but many did not. Muslims got tired of killing us, so they created the law for non-Muslims, Dhimmis. Check it out.
In Spain, during the Muslim Caliphate, many Christians converted to Islam. The Emir Abd al-Rahman III was born of a Christian Frank mother, whose mother was also a Christian Frank. The Ottomans were known for stealing Christian boys and circumcising them into Islam.
Until Jihad is no longer externalized, and looks inward, as both Jews and Christians have done with their struggle to be in the image of G_d, the human family will have a dangerous enemy in our midst. Both Winston Churchill and T.E. Lawrence were correct.
Asad in Syria has killed 10X as many Palestinians as Israel has. The Sudanese Arabs are right now killing non-Muslim Black Africans. In Libya there are open slave markets where women and children are sold to the highest bidder. Yes, I'd like to know how "some" Muslims define "Peace".
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@maximilianadair3237 Yes, "Tucker" is not journalism anymore than Reid in my estimation, but both often give me enough information so I can do my own research. Canada has taken a turn toward doctrinaire governance in more than one way, including a recent constitutional crises as described by former MP Brian Peckford. Your description of "covid disinformation" and mine would be different, and I am saying this after being jabbed thrice. I lived in San Francisco during the 1980s AIDS/HIV epidemic, Fauci spread disinformation then, just as he is doing now, and most recently as of last week. You are much more of a conforming conservative then you think, you are just conserving leftist/progressive talking points, that's the only difference. Lock step, but still a false consciousness,, no different than those you oppose.
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@maximilianadair3237 Fauci and Collins indeed had something to hide, it is called "gain of function" research they helped finance when trusted institutions recommended not doing it, especially not in China. The CDC was wrong during the AIDS/HIV pandemic and WHO has deep political ties to China. I am not a conspiracy theorists, but all large institutions like the CDC and WHO are political in nature, they are less science and more public policy makers, which means they are political. If you've ever attempted a grant to do science, you'd know that writing a grant proposal is excruciatingly political, and if not done in alignment with current dogma, will be rejected. No conspiracy theory, just the way of the world. It's both good science and good public policy to question the institutions, something I learned as an activists in the 1960s, and now being lost to a new orthodoxy which you, and many like you, say can't be questioned.
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@Tsimy876 "guide over the rights"? Never said a "woman" by whatever definition, should lose any rights, certainly not all rights. All citizens give up some level of autonomy living in the framework of a democratic system. The famous line, your "right" to swing your arm ends where my nose begins. That's the legal and constitutional question I'm asking. Where does the right of the "host" end and the fetus begin? Right now 21 weeks is a clear line. In 10 years it might be 10 weeks, in 50 years it might be conception? In fact, it is right now if another "host" is willing to take the fetus to term.
As a man, my individual code is part of the fetus. A man provides material for the conception, which does not end at conception. My DNA is unique and coded into that fetus. I have some rights, too.
Don't forget, it's also now possible for two women to contribute DNA to a fetus.There are some fertility treatments that can allow same-sex female couples to have a child that is genetically related to both parents:
Technology and the law has always fascinated me, and does in the case of "rights" under the constitution It's getting weird.
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@enderkool No, or anyone else, and would not do it outside of the context of this video, since it was meant as a joke, and needs the context here, and should not be used anywhere else unless the full context is provided in some way. I agree. It's still funny to me, so stands. I was in San Francisco during the AID/HIV epidemic in the mid-1980s, and didn't trust the flip=flopping Fauci then, how he survived that is not a story of science, but of politics, as it is today.
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@napoleonbonaparte4396 I checked before posting anything. Easy to fact check. USAID directly funds NGOs in foreign countries. It also gives directly to countries like Jordan, who receive $1bn a year. Why? We recently cut USAID to UNRWA. Why?
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has faced significant challenges with fraud in its humanitarian aid programs in Syria. Investigations by the USAID Office of Inspector General (OIG) have uncovered complex fraud schemes, including **bid-rigging, bribery, collusion, kickbacks, and product substitution**. These fraudulent activities have affected the quality and effectiveness of humanitarian assistance delivered to Syrians affected by the conflict.
In response to these findings, USAID has taken several actions, including debarment of companies and individuals involved in the fraud schemes, suspension of program funds, and personnel resignations and terminations. The investigations have led to *$239 million in suspended program funds* and **$19.6 million in savings for USAID**.
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@Andre-qo5ek Yes, electric vehicles (EVs) have the potential to reduce the number of internal combustion vehicles (ICVs) on the road over time. As EV technology continues to advance and become more affordable, more people are likely to choose electric vehicles over traditional gasoline or diesel vehicles. This shift can be attributed to several factors:
1. Environmental Concerns: Many people are increasingly concerned about the environmental impact of traditional vehicles, especially their contribution to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. EVs produce zero tailpipe emissions, making them a cleaner alternative.
2. Government Policies: Governments around the world are implementing policies to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles, such as subsidies, tax incentives, and regulations aimed at reducing emissions from transportation. These policies can make EVs more attractive and affordable for consumers.
3. Technological Advancements: As battery technology improves, EVs are becoming more competitive in terms of range, performance, and charging infrastructure. This makes them a viable option for more consumers, leading to increased adoption.
4. Consumer Preferences: As awareness of EVs grows and more models become available, consumer preferences are shifting towards electric vehicles. Factors such as lower operating costs, quieter operation, and the convenience of home charging contribute to this trend.
While it may take time for EVs to fully replace ICVs, especially in regions where infrastructure and consumer acceptance are still developing, the transition to electric vehicles is expected to accelerate in the coming years. This transition will contribute to a reduction in the number of internal combustion vehicles on the road and help mitigate the environmental impact of transportation.
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Dak Lamerbusch No basements in California. In 1972, Journalism professor and magazine editor Robert Stein wrote the book, Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?
, and had a chapter "The Truth as Property". This was the pivot point when the invisible, objective reporter disappeared and the new journalist as embedded social advocist began, at least in the context of the modern era. Our media is a combination of self-indulgent social activism and corporate greed, seemingly incompatible values, but Paddy Chayefsky said it long before I did, and in a much more poignant and funny way, with his script for the movie, "Network".
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@piotrtrebisz6602 Can't agree, I am in California, in 1970, I told my high school guidance counselor I was going to patent the names "Acapulco Gold" and "Panama Red" for when cannabis became legal, which I thought was only a few years out. In the last 50 years I've changed my views on both cannabis and "d"emocracy. The recent election in NYC and the recall here in California has been chaotic and unproductive, a pure democracy is anything but pure. I marched in the streets to get the vote lowered to 18, and was in the first wave of 18 year-old voters in 1974. I now believe the voting age for Federal elections should be raised to 25, and also the age to consume cannabis; the science is clear, the human brain, especially the judgement neurology, does not fully mature until that age. Males, especially, should not be consuming cannabis until after age 25, or better, 30. If you look at the data, and the science, and not your feelings, these restrictions would be productive. The Westphalian Peace agreements are still valid, and a hierarchical system of decision making still fits the human animal as currently configured by evolution.
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"Mass Hysteria". Please, most of the burning was for the media, not on any grand scale, that's nonsense, just go to any comic book convention, although sometimes rare, comic books from that era are not rare, because they were not "burned" in some mass event. You are incorrect. My favorite riot/burning was held at the end of a major league baseball game in Chicago 1979, it was called, "Disco Demolition Night". Your narrow view of history is the true danger in any classroom, hope you are NOT a teacher.
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@aurelo54 Yes, that's a rather rambling definition of "Manifest Destiny". Many cultures throughout history had similar myths about their origins and destinies. Pre-Columbian Aztec/Mexica had a similar myth called Aztlan.
France had a "manifest destiny" myth which led to the "reign of terror" and a love for the National Razor, a symbol of the extreme mob democracy which allowed Napoleon to later sway this mob into an Army which swept across half of Europe and the Middle-East.
Napoleon has a nice resting place in Paris. I've been there, although I enjoyed the Latin Quarter a bit more.
Ronald Wilson Reagan shared this "mystic" vision of America, "a shining city upon a hill" which echoes back to our Puritan origins. In his 1989 farewell address, he said:
"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life. But I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. In my mind, it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds, living in harmony and peace."
The Puritans got some things very wrong, like the climate of NE North America, and believed if they could pray hard enough, G_d would change it for them. The climate didn't change, the Puritans adapted and turned it into one of the richest most successful places on earth. At least until the Irish arrived. [just a joke].
Trump is no different than those Puritans, he will pray for peace but prepare for war. NATO will pay its fair share to protect all democracies from enemies, both foreign and DOMESTIC, that's in the oath of office.
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@aurelo54 Sure, I get the "settler colonial" ideology which has morphed into a self-righteous religion of virtue signaling fanatics. I get the same vibe from them I got from fundamentalist Christians in the 1970s, predicting the Satanists will be vanquished by the coming of the Lord.
I'll go with Solzhenitsyn, and he was really a narrow minded Christian himself, but wrote this universal truth about humans: "The line between good and evil does not run between states, nor between political parties, but right through every human heart."
Shakespeare said it, too: "The Fault, Dear Brutus, is not in the stars, but in ourselves".
Pogo, the cartoon, 1970: "Sir, I've met the enemy, and he is us".
Charity begins at home, and so does personally responsibility.
"The State is the Individual, The Individual is the State" - Benito Mussolini, Doctrine of Fascism 1932. Sounds woke/Marxist to me.
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Anarcho/Syndicalist, claims Chomsky, and Norman claims "mentorship" with Chomsky:
Maoism and anarcho-syndicalism are both ideologies that fall under the broader umbrella of socialism, but they have significant differences in their principles, methods, and goals.
1. *Theory and Ideology:*
- *Maoism:* Maoism is a political and social theory derived from the teachings of Mao Zedong, the founding father of the People's Republic of China. Maoism emphasizes revolutionary struggle and guerrilla warfare as means to achieve a communist society. It focuses on the mobilization of peasants and the rural poor, advocating for a protracted people's war against capitalist and imperialist forces.
- *Anarcho-Syndicalism:* Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism that emphasizes the organization of workers into decentralized labor unions as a means to overthrow the capitalist system and establish a stateless society. It rejects hierarchical structures, including the state and capitalism, and advocates for direct action, solidarity, and worker control of the means of production.
2. *Role of the State:*
- *Maoism:* Maoism typically advocates for a transitional socialist state, led by a vanguard party representing the interests of the proletariat. This state is seen as necessary to carry out the revolutionary transformation of society and defend against counter-revolutionary forces.
- *Anarcho-Syndicalism:* Anarcho-syndicalists reject the idea of a transitional state, viewing all forms of government as inherently oppressive. Instead, they aim for the immediate abolition of the state and the establishment of decentralized, self-managed communities and workplaces.
3. *Economic Organization:*
- *Maoism:* Maoism traditionally advocates for a centrally planned economy, with the state controlling the means of production and distribution. However, Maoists have also experimented with more decentralized economic models, such as agricultural communes during Mao Zedong's rule in China.
- *Anarcho-Syndicalism:* Anarcho-syndicalists envision a decentralized economic system based on worker-owned and -managed enterprises organized into federations of labor unions. Production and distribution would be coordinated through voluntary associations and mutual aid, without the need for central planning or market mechanisms.
4. *Approach to Revolution:*
- *Maoism:* Maoism emphasizes the need for a disciplined revolutionary party to lead the struggle against capitalism and imperialism. It sees armed conflict and mass mobilization as essential tactics for achieving revolutionary change.
- *Anarcho-Syndicalism:* Anarcho-syndicalists believe in direct action, such as strikes, boycotts, and sabotage, as the primary means of challenging the power of capital and the state. They emphasize building grassroots solidarity and worker empowerment to create a revolutionary counter-power from below.
While both Maoism and anarcho-syndicalism share a commitment to socialism and the overthrow of capitalism, they diverge significantly in their strategies, organizational models, and visions of a post-revolutionary society." ChatGPT 3.5
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@allangibson8494 We agree, the States can, however, SCOTUS can weigh in on each decision to determine if the law was properly applied. In Colorado the Chief Justice dissented, stating the Colorado qualification law did not provide enough time for due process.
The lawsuit was first heard in Denver District Court, where Judge Sarah Wallace ruled Nov. 17 that while Trump incited an insurrection on Jan. 6, he can still appear on Colorado’s 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot because he is not an “officer of the United States.”
In an 11-page dissent, Boatright, the chief justice of the state Supreme Court, wrote that Colorado’s election code was “not enacted to decide whether a candidate engaged in insurrection.” Instead, the state code lays out qualifications based on “objective, discernible facts,” such as a candidate’s age, time previously served as president and place of birth.
Those all “pale in comparison with the complexity of an action to disqualify a candidate for engaging in insurrection,” Boatright wrote .
Boatright said the Colorado law requires that any challenges to a candidate’s eligibility be heard at a “breakneck pace,” giving the defendant little time to prepare a defense and making the statute ill-suited for a claim of such gravity. “This speed comes with consequences, namely, the absence of procedures that courts, litigants, and the public would expect for complex constitutional litigation,” he wrote.
Samour, building off of Boatright’s dissent, wrote in his 43-page dissent that he worries about due process given the speed of the case.
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In the 1970s, as a teen-ager, I was told women would bring cooperation and civility to the political process, but it appears, and I've watched this now for 30 years, women have actually brought character assassination, cancelling, tribal group bullying, and and unwillingness to debate in good faith, along with other characteristics which prevent settlement or solution, but just keeps the conflict going, on and on. I believe I was lied to in the 1970s, something I believed, but can now see is terribly wrong with our political process.
Some mourn the days when our representatives on both sides of the aisle broke bread and discussed issues in a collegial atmosphere. With the "Feminist" ethos of RBG, "Take Your Boot Off My Neck", the collegial atmosphere is not possible, and the fractured process is evidenced in this committee meeting with every dismissive "smirk" on Sarin's face. Why do the women all "smirk" and roll their eyes, we see it on Hillary, on Harris, and on Sarin... do they teach the smirk and eye roll at Yale and Harvard?
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2:56 "Genocide"??? Even the ICC didn't charge genocide. The population of Gaza has increased in the last year based on the UN's own stats, with 165,000 pregnant women in Gaza as of August 2024. Assad killed 40,000 in one day, over 600,000 in the civil war, add in Saudi/Yemen conflict and you reach well over 1 million.
There are 1.9 million Arab citizens of Israel, 20% of the population. In the West we've learned about the deception, al-Taqiyya. The Soviets had their own brand of propaganda which somehow melded into the "resistance" of those who dream of a pan-Arab region free of Jews. Even PA Leader Abbas earned his PhD equivalent in Moscow. Arafat said Solomon's Temple was a "Zionist Fantasy". No, the night ride on a donkey to Jerusalem was the fantasy. Al-Aksa is the symbol of "settler colonialism", not the Jews.
I challenge you to read this:
"Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress (primary source digitized as PDF)
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@lmarsh5407 1. False, the British Mandate was sanctioned under the Allied Powers at San Remo in 1920, it was a temporary administrative region, never an organized state.
2. Modern states have their origin in the 17th Century Westphalian Agreements which lead to the the organization developed after WW1, The League of Nations. The League helped to create many modern Arab states like Jordan and Iraq. Why the double-standard?
3. Pan-Arabism wanted to subjugate both Christians and Jews under Shari Law, which was being done all through the region prior to WW1, and why so many fled Muslim held regions for the new State of Israel. Not all were Zionists, and even among Zionists, there were different types with different goals. There are currently 450,000 Yemini Jews in Israel. Imagine what their life would be like today in Yemen? Coexist?
Jordan, Syria and Iraq do not "coexist" with Christians and Jews in their newly created States. Jordan was created in 1946, it is an autonomous nation/state, but a Muslim theocracy. Why the double-standard.
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@lmarsh5407 Yes, Southern Plantation owners said they didn't "hate negroes" and that they were happy being slaves until agitators from the North came.
Jew and Zionist are used interchangeably in the document. There is no difference, the report is clear. No Jewish migration and only Arab/Moslem autonomy in the region. Equals Apartheid.
"Palestinians are losing their birthright to Jewish migration" - (page 14).
"Jews have been among the most active advocates of destruction in many lands, ..." - (Page 22)
"We have seen the book 'The Jewish Peril" (Page 22)
"The Jew, moreover, is clannish and unneighborly, and cannot mix with those about him" - (Page 23)
"The Jew is a Jew all the world over" - (Page 24)
Jew and Zionist in this report is the same. It repeats the blood libel and many other lies which are still expressed today. Perhaps you believe them?
The report speaks of Arabs allying with the British in the war against the Turks. The Jews also allied in this war. There were Jewish battalions who fought and died, and actually entered the war before Arabs. King Hussein did get a Palestinian nation/state, it was called Trans-Jordan, in 1946 renamed Jordan.
Jews fought to free the land from the Ottoman/Turk. The Jews were willing to share, the Arabs were not. This document from 1921 makes that clear, and that the Arabs both hated and feared "The Jew" and were unwilling to allow them full citizenship in the region. Not in 1947, but in 1920.
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In the late 1920s The Supreme Muslim Council demanded something similar, but with a monarchy headed by the Saud family, since they had already taken by force the Hejaz, which included Mecca and Medina, from the Hashemites. We often talk about Judeo/Christian history in the region, but not about internal Arab conflict. I often think of the famous quote of T.E. Lawrence: "So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are. He said that more than 100 years ago.
It's time for the Arab/Muslim world to internalize the Jihad. The struggle is truly within.
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@mapetlv That's fair, I did get the quote from Amnesty's website directly, but you are now saying they are concerned specifically about the "Joe Rogan type of misinformation", where can I find that on their website? And as so many have asked, what specifically has JR presented as "information" rather than "opinion" which is false, fraudulent, or given with malicious intent? The UK and Canada have also passed laws restricting free speech, why did you not include those countries, or that the U.S. is under threat of losing its 1st Amendment, as polls on campuses show. Check out the organization called FIRE. I'm sure Amnesty would not want to be associated with JR, too bad, their words apply to him, just as much as they apply to the people they support. That's social justice.
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Palisades homes that retrofitted for fire did not burn. The California State Fire Marshall's office website has the information. The "elites" in the Palisades who could afford the retrofit didn't do it, now we are all going to pay.
The California Fire Marshal has indeed provided recommendations for retrofitting homes to harden them against wildfires. Here's a detailed look at some of these recommendations:
Vents:
Attic and underfloor vents should be replaced with California State Fire Marshal-approved flame and ember-resistant vents. Vents with openings larger than 1/8 inch are particularly susceptible to embers. These modifications might reduce airflow, so consider this when making changes.
Roof:
Replace combustible roof coverings like wood shake or shingle roofs with Class A-rated materials such as asphalt shingles, tile/cement shingles, or metal panels. This is because the roof is one of the most vulnerable areas due to its large surface area and exposure to embers and flames.
Windows:
Ensure all windows are securely closed during fire hazards. Consider double or triple-paned windows or tempered glass for better heat resistance. Vegetation in front of windows should be removed to decrease radiant heat exposure.
Miscellaneous Structures:
Structures like gazebos, RVs, boats, and playground equipment, which are often combustible, should be either hardened with noncombustible or ignition-resistant materials or relocated away from the main residence. Create an ember-resistant zone around these structures.
Siding and Decks:
Non-flammable siding is recommended, especially where vertical wood meets the roof, as these areas are particularly vulnerable. Decks and fences should be made from fire-resistant materials or retrofitted if possible.
General Hardening:
The California Fire Safe Council and other organizations provide guides for homeowners on how to retrofit homes to withstand wildfires. These guides include recommendations on creating defensible space, using fire-resistant building materials, and ensuring proper maintenance like clearing debris from roofs and gutters.
Pilot Programs and Assistance:
There's also mention of the California Wildfire Mitigation Program, which provides assistance for home hardening, particularly aimed at low-income high-risk communities. This program helps with the financial aspect of retrofitting homes, focusing on both defensible space and structural improvements.
-Grok
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@NickFrom1228 "The Bowery Boys"? I'm a big fan of the movie "Dead End" where they got their start. Same with 3 Stooges, got their start in a Clark Gable movie, 1933. Marx Brothers is not mentioned, not comedians, but musical comedy performers, who performed on Broadway, and spoke the lines of writers. Some you mentioned, like Carlin and Rickles, would qualify as "comedians" in a modern sense. They were auteurs. Red Foxx was "blue" as a comedian, and I wondered if you'd ever heard his early work, pretty nasty stuff. You can find it online.
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@moodyonroody5313 Jews were the majority in East Jerusalem under the Ottoman/Turk. Ask yourself why Jewish populations shrank in areas like Safed in the Galilei and even in Gaza over that few hundred years. Jews made up perhaps 8-15% of what became the British Mandate, the vast majority of that land became Trans-Jordan. Jews didn't take a disproportionate amount of the region ceded by the Ottoman/Turk. Beginning in 1948 close to one million Jews from other than Europe came to Israel, and along with Arabs, now make up the majority of Israeli population. You do understand Israel is not a majority European nation colonizing the region?
Jews fought with the British in WW1, there were Jewish battalions, Jews gave their lives to free the land from the Ottoman/Turk, just as Arabs did. Jews were willing to share, Arabs were not, and still don't. Proof? Here it is: "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921."
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@lmncsay "Controlling"? Defending against, not controlling. If Hamas was under control, the attacks by Hamas since 14 June 2007 would not have occured.
"First Nation"? There were many peoples in the Western Hemisphere before Europeans arrived. Those "first peoples" waged their own genocide. You think war came to the Western Hemisphere with Europeans?
If the US waged a genocide against the "First Nation" as you call it, they did a very poor job. The 31st Vice-President of the United States, Charles Curtis, was a native "first nation" human. Many tribal nations within the United States are wealthy, and not just from Casinos. The Apache and Comanche required extermination, not only did the US believe this, but Mexico, too. The Mexican Government would not agree to Peace terms without a guaranteed security agreement with the US over these two "first nations", who, by the way, culturally appropriated the Horse from Europeans and used that technology against their own people. If you think there is any parallel between the US treatment of Indians and Israeli defense against Arabs, that's crazy. The Arab elites, educated in Europe and the Ottoman Empire, are the ones who failed their people. The Hashemites turned on their Muslim brothers, the Ottoman Turk, and fought with the Christians and the Jews against their own kind. They were traitors. That's not just me saying it, get out of this silo and listen to what Muslims tell each other about it.
There are 22 Arab Nations, a population of 450 million. Israel is one nation, with a population of less than 10 million. Do the math, which nation is more at risk from "Genocide"
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fran bran The Daily Mail UK, 24 hours after Floyd's death, posted actual images of his arrest record and detailed police reports of his actions in Texas. Took me some time to pull that out of Google, since almost all the SEO was BBC style reporting, we are getting duped and scammed, for sure. We should not have to source all these facts ourselves, and push through the lies of both commission and omission. On Covid-19/SarSv2, I was also feed a link about the new CDC report, and found my way to the actual report. It's difficult reading, but not surprising, NO TRUST, NO PEACE, should be the real mantra of the day. The BBC is complicit, as is my own American NPR/PBS... to safe place in the media to go, SAD.
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@SpreadGuts Yes, I agree, the "frozen assets" are seen as a "threat", and for good reason, supported by EU, UK, Sweden, Finland, and over 100 other countries. It's been used before, and proof the "rule of law" is what secures us all, not just the $ as reserve currency. Not changing any time soon.
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@jasonbrown372 Part of myth making is calling anything counter to them, "lies", which is what you are doing. The Blackfeet, the Mandan, and other plains tribes had guns and horses, where did they get them? The Blackfeet and Mandan waged war on their neighbors, took slaves, and both bought and sold women. Bad acts did not arrive with Europeans. There were massive changes in population, pre-Columbian, due to many factors, including climate change. Only self-serving myth makers would say otherwise.
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1970 "Newport Harbor", Orange County, CA (Laguna Beach) was the epicenter of LSD manufacturing and distribution. There's documentaries on AMZ about it. I was 15 and in Los Angeles County, the "Jesus Freaks" were a cult stealing children from their parents. I see an analog between the woke/left today and the "Jesus freaks" of the early 70s, many of whom believe the Grand Canyon was the result of the biblical flood, and still do.
Greg, I went into the same mountains to do the very same thing, changed my mind, but not because of a revelation from G_d, but purely out of a burgeoning maturity and common-sense. My neighbor jumped off a 60-foot cliff into a mountain stream on LSD and died. Sorry, Bill, that was stupid.
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The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General, may designate foreign individuals or entities that he determines have committed, or pose a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the U.S.;
Marwan Issa is listed on the above US Department of State website as HAMAS. They have confirmed his death by IDF airstrike on March 11, 2024.
"White House confirms Israel’s targeted strike kills Hamas leader Marwan Issa" - Al Arabiya Network.
"Numerous clans, civil society groups and factions - including Hamas's secular political rival Fatah - have stepped in to help provide security for the aid convoys, according to the Palestinian officials and Hamas sources." - Nidal al-Mughrabi
Tue, 19 March 2024 CAIRO (Reuters) This is accompanying photos and video for this story.
On the ground is so much more complicated than what is reported in the PR war. More than two sides in this, to say the least.
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@MineralGPK Sure, but both, including Rhode Island, profited mightily from the slave trade, and would not exist in their current configuration otherwise. I don't buy into the 1619 project, and it is possible there were people born in 1789 who lived to see Slavery ended, so it ended in America within the beginning of America and lifespan of one human. But it was "wide-spread", in both actual terms, and its economic impact. Slavery was at an end of its economic usefulness anyway, with technology, we made a slave of the carbon molecule, and labor then needed to be skilled and educated so they could be good consumers. I wonder what that would have looked like? Southern elites and carpetbaggers did figure it out, and it was called "Jim Crow" and created vagrancy laws that made indentured servants out of former slaves. Just because all that is true, does not mean I have to put up with acts of revenge by their descendants, and neither do you.
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@XanderBeckett1 Look, I don't like what BLM stands for, but I don't like LYING more. Patrisse-Kahn Cullors filled as a charity with the IRS as BLM Global Network and submitted an IRS 990 in 2019. I read it, the mission statement is horrible, but this is not the BLM charity taking in the massive donations, that's the BLM Foundation, which filled in 2019 and this summer will file 2020, many nonprofits get extensions. Her's didn't even have tax exempt status yet. The IRS publishes all 990 forms online, I've been researching them for years, so can you. 56+ BLM charities, but FOX makes it sound like there is just one, and Cullors runs it, just not true.
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@billg6166 I turned 69 a couple of months ago, if I could spend the rest of my life not hearing or seeing Hillary, it will be wonderful.
I never gave Trump a moments notice, like most of the people in my life, we thought in 2015 he was a joke, but I then listen to an hour long interview with him, and realized he could win. He still can. Why? I've been a California Dem since 1973, worked for McGovern before I could vote, but Trump has my vote. He's a liar and a clown, but he is transparent. What you see is what you get, unlike the Clintons, the Obamas and the Bidens. Sometimes civility is just a mask for deception.
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@ScorpIron58 "starving to death", really, no, that's happening in the Sudan, supported by a number of Muslim countries including the UAE and Turkey. 33,000 by what count, are there no combatants in Gaza, not Hamas battalions? 500,000 dead by the Alawite Assad with his Western Blue Eyes, English education and British wife. Check out the King of Jordan and his wife, too.
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@yurei8 "CRT only about the law". I'd go back to Bell, and say yes, mostly, but when Crenshaw and crew started the actual CRT movement, and it is in the literature collected by Lindsay for his book "Race Marxism", the goal became a fundamental change to the entire framework of culture and required that change be taught to children, where culture begins. It's not about "skin color", and why a political candidate like Larry Elder can be called "The Black Face of White Supremacy" or when Biden said, "if you don't vote for me, you ain't Black", what we are seeing is a reformation of the old Marxist's "class-struggle" theory as advocated by post-WW2 Marxists like Marcuse and Gramsci before him. I'm for individual sovereign rights, but the CRT crowd believes identity is achieved through social group identity. This is leading to a sort of resegregation which the CRT might call "creative destruction" of systemic Racism, which is their goal. I think it's wrong, and empirical evidence and experience is showing that it is.
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@Kepri The non-Covid assertions aside, Masks were mandated in my state last June. Fauci downplayed masks as late as March 27th, and the science is still mixed, plus, as a republic, we give a lot of power to counties and states. I am in Los Angeles County, which has a population TWICE of the ENTIRE country of New Zealand. We've been locked down, social distancing, and wearing masks since the first week of April. Your assertion about Trump do not rise to the level that he's responsible for all the deaths, or that he should die himself. It's just not how all this worked out in the US. BTW, I don't give a damn about the UN or the ICC, and won't be until their concept of justice and equity is fair and balanced, and not full of self-indulgent bureaucrats and hypocrites. Brexit all the way. Trump steps in and their is the beginnings of peace between Serbia and Kosovo, the ICC did bubkas, but that's an aside.
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@Nathan Conway In fact, you can die from your immune system overreacting to an invasion, or your immune system just attacking healthy tissue, as the auto-immune disease Lupus does, causing severe inflammation, one of the symptoms of Sars-v2, If you look at why it is prescribed for Lupus and other autoimmune diseases, makes sense to use it for Sars-v2. Having an anti-inflammatory drug in your systems may very well be a prophylactic, since it keeps the inflammatory response to more normal levels. I'd take if working on the front-lines. Nathan, we can't fight this tsunami of willful ignorance, which is as virulent as the virus itself.
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I understood clearly how JBP defines "value", as did Shakespeare when he wrote, "To Be, Or Not to Be", or Sartre when he wrote, "Being and Nothingness". You may think you have chosen a different path than an "endless pursuit of an undefined value", but for you, as with all of us, the pursuit will most assuredly end. Make Hay while the sun shines my organic cell based friend, who cannot help to grow, change and pursue value by choosing life over death.
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Again, 1.9 million Arab citizens of Israel, 20% of the population. The Muslim population is growing at 2% a year. There are no Jews in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Yemen or Iraq. Apartheid? There are 22 Arab states, 450 million in population, 1 Jewish state, less than 10 million, and only about 6 million of those Jews. Apartheid? Quote out of context Taqiyya, it does not change the current facts on the ground.
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@bnic9471 The Orthodox are mostly on Fairfax Blvd below the Hollywood Hills, I was Bar Mitzvah'd at Chabad across from Cantor's Jewish Deli on Fairfax. That sounds like where you were ar. The "Brentwood" area is father to the West, closer to Santa Monica. My cousin, a different one, currently works at Warner Bros in Burbank. My step-mom was president of our California Democratic Club and delegate to the 1980 Dem Convention. California has been captured by the Marxists, we are no longer a classic, progressive liberal State. Harris will win here with a +15 or better margin . You have a better chance to swing the vote than I do.
"Brentwood" is no joke, it's really a power center, my nieces went to private school there with the daughters of former Secretary of Treasury, Steven Mnuchin. It's where the entertainment industry live and party with the rich politicos. Lots of fundraising goes on there.
Most don't know about Tim Walz's connection to Wellstone Action, named after Senator Paul Wellstone, someone next door to your state, and few know the progressive history of Wisconsin, either. American Civics isn't taught much anymore. The Marxists don't want to be "burdened by the past".
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US in cold war with Soviets since 1945, the real cost, not Israel. In 1973 F4's went up against Soviet MIGs, US pilots got intel from that, and other operations.
The 34 Trillion is mostly public debt held by nations like Japan and the UK. Even the Saudis bought in, not for the cost of supporting Israel, but the cost of Vietnam, another Cold-War cost you fail to include. Saudis bailed Nixon out.
The US has a military industrial complex, something Eisenhower called, "imperative", and which you ignore. It's not about "Israel", never has been. Our tax dollars well spent in the defense of freedom around the world.
If Nasser had not declared war on the Middle-East in his dream of being a Pan-Arab superpower, funded by the Soviets, Israel would not have been in the mix.
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@dabankarim3795 175,000 Palestinians stayed in the new nation/state of Israel. They now number 1.9 million, 20% of the population. They serve in the Knesset the Supreme Court and the IDF. The Palestinian state of Jordan was created in 1946, it restricts the number of Christians in government and academia, and there are no Jews.
In 1920, at the time of the San Remo conference and the creation of the temporary British mandate, Jews were willing to share, it was some Arabs who were not, and still don't. Proof? Here it is:
"Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress.
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Really, I thought Jefferson signed the Act ending the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in 1807? If you said 1896, I might agree, with the Plessy v Ferguson ruling. The decision was 1st successfully challenged 50 years later in the Mendez v. Westminster case, not far from me in Santa Ana, California, a decade before Brown. The "systemic" system was never monolithic, and was constantly being fought and challenged. Sounds like basic human behavior to me, not some Deep State conspiracy. Are there after effects, absolutely. Should there be some form of repair? I believe so, but what would that be, and how would it be applied? Many communities and individuals suffered "systemic" exclusion, how should that injustice be repaired?
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@justtocomment6261
The budget took effect July 2024 but was adjusted after UNION CONTRACT was negotiated in November 2024.
The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) budget for the fiscal year 2024/25 presents a nuanced picture where, despite initial cuts, the overall budget increased due to various adjustments.
Initial Proposal and Cuts: Mayor Karen Bass initially proposed a budget for 2024/25 that included a cut of approximately $23 million for the LAFD. This was later revised by the City Council to a cut of $17.6 million from the previous fiscal year's budget.
Union Contract and Increases: However, following negotiations and the approval of a new union contract in November 2024, the LAFD's budget saw significant increases to cover salaries and benefits. This adjustment resulted in the fire department's operating budget growing by more than $58 million compared to the previous fiscal year, bringing the total budget to $895.6 million for 2024/25.
Specific Allocations: Despite the initial cut, there were allocations for salary increases, new equipment, and technology updates, which contributed to the overall increase. For instance, $76 million was allocated to cover the costs associated with the new union contract, which was initially placed in an unappropriated balance before being transferred to the LAFD's budget.
Impact and Public Perception: There has been considerable debate and public scrutiny over these budget changes, especially in light of wildfires and other emergencies. Critics pointed to the cuts as potentially hampering emergency response capabilities, while city officials and budget documents highlighted the overall increase, arguing that it supported critical services.
Specifically, *$2.5 million* was set aside for new equipment and technology updates. This decision was partly influenced by the aftermath of the fire beneath the Santa Monica (10) Freeway, which highlighted the need for updated resources.
In summary, while there was an initial reduction in the LAFD's budget for the 2024/25 fiscal year, subsequent adjustments, particularly related to salary and benefits under a new union contract, led to an overall increase in the department's budget from the previous year.
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Robby, Hillary lost certain districts to Trump because of Stein, Hillary just didn't campaign hard enough in those districts, this has all been thoroughly analyzed. Trump made the same mistake in 2020, assumed he'd win in certain districts and didn't get out the vote there, Bill Barr wrote about it, so did Pompeo. Robby, relax, not everything has to be in emotional crisis mode, I know that's what producers tell you, but it's bad for us, even the Weather Channel is in constant "crisis mode" now, all for eyeballs and streaming ads. Got to stop.
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*DeepSeek data distillation* and *MPEG data compression* are related in that they both involve reducing the size of data, but they serve different purposes and use different methods.
- **DeepSeek Data Distillation**: This process involves training a smaller, more efficient AI model (the "student") using knowledge extracted from a larger, pre-trained model (the "teacher"). The goal is to retain the performance of the larger model while reducing computational requirements and improving efficiency.
- *MPEG Data Compression**: MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) standards, such as MPEG-4, use various algorithms to compress audio and video data. Techniques like **motion compensation**, **spatial compression**, and **advanced audio coding* are employed to reduce file sizes while maintaining acceptable quality.
In summary, while both processes aim to optimize data, DeepSeek focuses on AI model efficiency, and MPEG targets multimedia file compression.
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@ammertyantey714 I don't know, I'm in America, to the North are Canadians, to the South the former Spanish, in China the Han rule over many lands formerly held by others. Jews are not Palestinian, Jews are indigenous to the land, held a majority in East Jerusalem prior to 1900. Solomon's Temple is a FACT, you can touch the Foundation Stone, the Accession Rock is a religious fantasy about a flying ass. The Qur'an doesn't even mention Jerusalem. Ibn Saud won the Hejaz from the Hashemites, the British Colonial Office then created two colonies, Trans-Jordan and Iraq. Those represent European colonialism, not Israel.
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@Dbdb00-i7q Allied forces dropped 3,400 tons on Dresden in just a few days, not 10 months, and very different kind of bomb. Hiroshima was 15 kilotons = 16,534 tons. Nagasaki 21 kilotons = 21,000 tons, So, in 5 days 40,000 tons. So the equivalent of that in 10 months would be more than 2 million tons, not even close to 65,000. US dropped 7.5 million tons on Vietnam in about 6 years.
During World War II, the Allies dropped an estimated 1.5 million tons of bombs on Berlin.
Organized lies by you, sometimes called Taqiyya.
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@Ondolite LOL, Kisin knows more than the average Westerner, to be sure, but that's not much.
Here's what I know. The early 20th Century Pan-Arabists did not want a Zionist nation/state in the region. They were okay with Western European Jewish money, just not Western European Jews. They said as much in a report to Churchill in 1921.
There are less than 6 million Jews in Israel, and about 450 million Arabs in the 22 nation Arab League. Oppressor? Victim?
Read the report to Churchill in 1921. It's full of hate and threats of violence if a majority Jewish state is created in the region, however small. That's as true today as it was over 100 years ago. It's the Arabs who have been suing for ethnic cleansing, just as they are doing now in the Sudan.
"Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress
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@Pink-Rubix ? I went to UNI, lived at Barrington and Mayfield. My cousins went to Pali and I have family in the evacuation zone. It's easy to check on what Stone Canyon serves. Just Grok, ChatGPT or Co-Pilot. Why do you want to believe the lie?
"Yes, the main water supply to Pacific Palisades, including Stone Canyon, is provided by the **Stone Canyon Reservoir**. This reservoir, along with the smaller Upper Stone Canyon Reservoir, supplies water to the Westside water subsystem, serving around 400,000 people in the area.
Is there something specific you'd like to know about the water supply or the reservoir?" Co-Pilot
Even Wikipedia says the same.
I was born in LA mid-century and old enough to remember the Bel-Air fire in 1961 which jumped the Sepulveda Pass and took out homes near my cousins on Tigertail. Again, why do you want to believe the lie?
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Soviet Propaganda Lives
Soviet-era propaganda often portrayed settler colonialism, particularly in the context of Western powers, as a tool of imperialism and exploitation. The Soviet Union used various mediums, including posters, literature, and films, to condemn colonialism and depict it as a form of oppression and injustice.
Here are some common themes and messages found in Soviet-era propaganda regarding settler colonialism:
1. **Exploitation of Indigenous Peoples**: Soviet propaganda frequently highlighted the exploitation and suffering of indigenous peoples under settler colonial rule. Images and narratives depicted indigenous populations being displaced from their lands, forced into labor, and subjected to cultural assimilation.
2. **Imperialist Aggression**: Settler colonialism was portrayed as a manifestation of imperialist aggression by Western powers. The Soviet Union emphasized the expansionist motives behind colonial endeavors, framing them as part of a broader strategy to dominate and exploit territories and peoples.
3. **Resistance and Liberation**: Soviet propaganda often celebrated the resistance efforts of indigenous peoples against settler colonialism. It portrayed them as heroic figures fighting against oppression and colonial rule. The Soviet Union supported various anti-colonial movements around the world and depicted them as allies in the struggle against imperialism.
4. **Solidarity with Colonized Peoples**: Soviet propaganda aimed to foster solidarity with colonized peoples by highlighting shared struggles against imperialism. The Soviet Union positioned itself as a champion of decolonization and supported independence movements in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
5. **Critique of Capitalism**: Settler colonialism was frequently depicted as a product of capitalist exploitation and inequality. Soviet propaganda emphasized the role of capitalist interests in driving colonial expansion and portrayed socialism as a progressive alternative that prioritized social justice and equality.
Overall, Soviet-era propaganda on settler colonialism sought to delegitimize colonial practices, condemn Western imperialism, and promote the idea of national liberation and self-determination for colonized peoples.
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You just said this country is "low on humanity and kindness", and then said we are "not so much" different, which is it? Your assertion is incoherent, America is the most philanthropic country on the planet, we even sacrifice our lives in defense of others. BTW, I had symptoms in April very much like the President, I'm 65, and was fine in a few days. We are NOT all the same, and our life experiences are not the same, that's why we have "the rule of law" in a civil society, because we do not all act the same. I am a registered Democrat for Trump 2020.
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@GraysonKade BTW, I once lived on top of Signal Hill in California, and was surrounded by pumpers and rigs. I'm now within view of offshore rigs in Long Beach, CA. Yes, Santa Barbara Channel has a natural seep of tons of oil every day into the Pacific Ocean, let's tap it, and frack for more. Energy is security, it's just that FOX did not give a clear picture of what's going on, not at all, nor does CNN, we're not being well served.
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Tesla's Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, located in Grünheide, Germany, produces the Model Y.
Gigafactory Texas - Austin, Texas, USA: Produces Model Y home of the Cybertruck.
Fremont Factory - Fremont, California, USA: Produces Model S, Model 3, Model X, and Model Y.
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24:22 "System 1, System 2"
"Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman is a groundbreaking exploration of human cognition. Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, introduces two systems of thinking: System 1, which is fast, intuitive, and prone to biases, and System 2, which is slow, deliberate, and analytical. "
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The world economy has been using a system of national fiat currencies globally since President Richard Nixon suspended the dollar's convertibility to gold in 1971. You can blame De Gaulle for that, and the French dumping the Vietnam crisis on the US.
As of June 7, 2024, the US Treasury yield curve was still inverted, meaning that short-term interest rates were higher than long-term interest rates. This inversion has been ongoing since early July 2022, and as of March 2024, it was the longest in history, surpassing the previous record of 624 days set in 1978.
A strong recession has been predicted since 2022, two years ago, but has not happened. Why?
BENGALURU, March 12 (Reuters) - A key indicator of an oncoming recession implied by the U.S. bond market is no longer reliable, according to nearly two-thirds of strategists polled by Reuters.
Since the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, the Federal Reserve has on multiple occasions conducted aggressive buying of Treasury securities as part of is stimulus program, meaning it owns a much larger proportion of the market in its own portfolio than it did before.
This time the "inverted curve" is managed and moderated by periodic rate changes, easing us out of both inflation and recession sometime in late 2025. Markets have already corrected and figure this in to pricing. You are incorrect.
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@natenae8635 The conversation on The View was about the book, "Maus", which was specifically about the Sho'ah, Whoopi denied it was about "Race", even pushed back on those who attempted to rebut her assertion. She later went on Colbert and redoubled her slur, stating WW2 in Europe was "White People Killing White People", a slander I've been hearing on the streets for more than 50 years. Search on nazi racial charts, how you LOOKED also determined RACE, and could either save your life, or get you killed. It's so easy to confirm that statement, just a few keystrokes away, try it.
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@AH-qh9xw False equivalent. No Israeli law excludes or forces conversion to a religion. However, just like American Naturalization law, new citizens take an oath to support and defend the values of America. Israel is a secular, nation/state, not a religious caliphate.
""I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America". - US Government
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@cncit It was also Jewish homeland. Did they not deserve a nation/state after fighting alongside the Allied Powers in WW1? Is that not what the Hashemites did, too, fighting against their Muslim brothers alongside Christians? Many Muslims think those Arabs were traitors.
In the 1900 census Jews were the majority population of East Jerusalem, and about 8-12% of the region. Jews fought with the British at Gallipoli, then established the Jewish Legion with 3 brigades in the war. Again, Jews willing to share, Arabs were not. They told Churchill they would side with Germany next time there was a war, and they did. Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, allied with the Nazis, became friends with Adolf Eichmann, and met with Hitler to discuss his "final solution". There's both photo and film evidence of these facts, even a new movie out in Egypt about it in praise of al-Husseini.
"Displace Palestinians", Jews were Palestinians under the British Mandate, Golda Meir had a passport which said as much.
After WW1 and WW2 there were 100s of millions of people displaced all over the world. An equal number of Jews were displaced in Arab lands like Algeria, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, and even India. Why the double standard?
160,000 Arabs stayed in the new nation/state of Israel. They are citizens, serve on the Knesset, the Supreme Court and even in the IDF. Show me the comparable in the region. Jordan is a theocracy, they even limit the number of Christians who can be in government. Again, why the double standard?
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@SvalbardSleeperDistrict Facts are that both Jordan and Israel have very similar immigration policies, but Israel is not a theocracy like Jordan, which has a 7-pointed star on its flag of War.
Facts, again, 160,000 Arabs remained in 1948, became full citizens of the new state of Israel, are now 1.9 million, 21% of the population, serve on the Knesset, the Supreme Court, and in the IDF. That's not apartheid. Lebanon and Syria are apartheid states who do not give refugees citizenship.
You want a sovereign state for those who call themselves "Palestinians". Prove it.
Jews fought with the British to free the region of Palestine from the Ottoman Turk. What say you?
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@DSound74 Hunter is not a "socialist" and I don't hear that line from Fox, only that he's corrupt and perverted, which appears to be true. Hillary rant is she's a crook, and that Biden is incompetent, both have a basis in truth, I only wish FOX was less rhetorical and hyperbolic, and would lay-out facts in rational order, but that's not what people want and pay for, not from any source these days. It's all entertainment, or like a sports franchise. "FOX, the team I love to hate", is your motto and chant.
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@zekayman Jerry hated being in LA, he is still quite vocal about that, Seinfeld was not filmed in "Hollywood", but the San Fernando Valley on Radford Street in Studio City, very middle-class, can't even see the Hollywood sign from there. My Aunt and Cousin were at the wrap party for the show, I have pictures of them with Jerry and Larry. Jerry is NOT a LIBERAL, not by a long shot. He hangs out with Jay Leno, another conservative, and BTW, Jay was working class, used to tune cars for a living. Jerry never went to college, he's pure stand-up. Do you have any idea how HARD that is? People die from it. Want me to give you a list of suicides and overdoses? LMAO
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‘Steering’ is Illegal under the Fair Housing Laws
(1968)
The Federal Fair Housing Act makes it illegal for an agent “…to make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.” (See 42 U.S.C. § 3604(c))
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Yes, BLOOD and SOIL, whose blood, whose soil, I get it, but one is based on the book, Mein Kompf, the other, based on the Ten Commandments and the first 5 books of the bible, which have more than a 1,000 years of annotation and correction. Which do you prefer?
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No Jewish man in America would describe themselves in that way, LOL, and Bassem is a hyperbolic polemicist and bigot. I'm a Jew, a registered Democrat in California, both my parents were born here, my great-grand parents came to America, not as Zionists, but as Socialists, and helped create the 40-hour work week and hospitals for workers and the poor. Even a Socialist summer camp, naming streets after Karl Marx and Eugene Debs. Easy to fact check early 20th Century socialism and its roots in Southern California. If you are a Jew, then research the origin story of the Dome of the Rock and Umayyad Caliph 'Abd al-Malik bin Marwan's political fantasy. Solomon's Temple is a material fact, the Night Ride on a Donkey to Jerusalem is NOT. Jerusalem is not even mentioned in the Qur'an.
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@half-breed Trump does not have an "accountant", he has a number of accounting firms with their own self-interest. I invest in Net Lease CRE, we took a hit with inflation and rising interest rates, but by the end of last year made an 80% recovery, and 2024/25 is looking really good, as it will be for Trump. I work with multi-use developers like Trump, some in the 5 Boroughs of NY, he's of a type, acts very much like they all do, and just maligned by the ignorant media and justice department. Those lenders got their money with interest, in an evaluation game we all play.
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@farapipsqueek636 The issues related to Hutu and Tusti predate colonialism and "class struggle", as does your view of Jewish history in Europe. I take a longer view of history and the behavior of humans, as well as all biological life. The Hutu and Tusti was but one example of perceived differences leading to oppression and genocide, another would be the Han Chinese treatment of ethnic groups like the Uyghurs and Yao people, and recent violence against Africans after an outbreak of African swine virus that decimated the Chinese pork industry. If you investigate the history of antisemitism in the U.S., you will see it also breaks down into perceived differences between Spanish Jews of the Iberian diaspora who arrived in North America in the middle of the 17th century, the later German Jewish migration in the mid-19th century, and then the Eastern European Jew flavor of the later part of the 19th and early 20th Century. Read Carey McWilliams work on this: A Mask for Privilege, Anti-Semitism in America, written in 1948. I like that it was written prior to 1970, when the failed Marxists took the issue over and related everything to class struggle and the social injustice of capitalism. I just don't see this issue in that narrow framework, partly because that framework has failed to be effective, doesn't fully explain the issue, and I believe, needs to be to put it aside. If we are forced to reduce our perspective to a Marxist system of reality, human progress will fail.
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@LS-td3no Yes, I have seen it, and the broader story, too, about the birth of the Israeli Air Force and the irony that many flew Czechoslovak-built German Messerschmitt in 1948. It was available on Amazon Prime. BLM supports DD, BDS, and considers Israel and illegal state. BLM was founded by Marxists who are atheists. One of the founders was born of a Black father and Jewish mother, brought up as a Zionist, but in college renounced all religion and became a devout Marxist intent on ending Capitalism around the world. I have neighbors who are Christian BLM supporters unaware of the atheism of this movement, not reported on MSM. I am a non religious Jew, and do not support all the policies of Israel. Here's a speech by former Black Panther Party member Eldridge Cleaver that tells the "past is prologue" story of BLM: https://youtu.be/-MPxlemtm90
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*DeepSeek data distillation* and *MPEG data compression* are related in that they both involve reducing the size of data, but they serve different purposes and use different methods.
- **DeepSeek Data Distillation**: This process involves training a smaller, more efficient AI model (the "student") using knowledge extracted from a larger, pre-trained model (the "teacher"). The goal is to retain the performance of the larger model while reducing computational requirements and improving efficiency.
- *MPEG Data Compression**: MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) standards, such as MPEG-4, use various algorithms to compress audio and video data. Techniques like **motion compensation**, **spatial compression**, and **advanced audio coding* are employed to reduce file sizes while maintaining acceptable quality.
In summary, while both processes aim to optimize data, DeepSeek focuses on AI model efficiency, and MPEG targets multimedia file compression.
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@HScarlet What about this is not true? All this was reported by Al-Jazeera and other regional media outlets. Easy to fact check
Events of June 14, 2007:
Hamas fighters took over key security installations and government buildings in Gaza, effectively ousting Fatah officials.
The violence included the execution of Fatah members, with reports of summary killings, throwing individuals off buildings, and public displays of captured Fatah fighters.
President Mahmoud Abbas, aligned with Fatah, responded by declaring a state of emergency, dissolving the unity government, and appointing an emergency government, which was rejected by Hamas.
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@AutobahnBuilder ChatGPT definition of the origin and meaning of "Based"
Lil B, also known as "The BasedGod," is a rapper, songwriter, and internet personality who popularized the term "based." He often uses it in his music and social media presence. The exact meaning of "based" can be somewhat subjective and has evolved over time, but generally, Lil B has explained it as being true to oneself, expressing positivity, and being confident in one's individuality.
The term "based" is thought to have originated from the word "basehead," a slang term for someone addicted to crack cocaine. However, Lil B transformed its meaning into something positive and empowering. He has said that "based" means being yourself, not caring what others think, and staying true to your beliefs and values. It's about embracing who you are and spreading love and positivity.
Since Lil B popularized the term, it has gained widespread usage, especially in internet culture and among younger generations, to describe someone or something as authentic, genuine, or unapologetically unique.
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@henrydobson9419 Are you saying the primary intended use, by both the United States and Israel is to kill children in their beds?
The goal is defense of the free world, a responsibility the US took on, reluctantly, after WW2. It's performance has been a mixed bag, some failure, some success. Israel is a success. It's a liberal democracy in a neighborhood with few liberal friends. The US indeed uses Israel as a proxy for war, as it did in the 1970s with the F4s sold to Israel that engaged Soviet MIGs in 1973.
The US is about to ship offensive weapons to the Ukraine as Russian drones bomb areas where children are going to school 18 feet underground, with more than a million Children displaced outside the border of their homes, and 10s of thousands kidnapped by Russia and forced into adoption in Russian homes. In the Sudan, non-Arab children are dying everyday from violence and malnutrition. The world is a tough place to be a kid, and why I'd rather America had the premier MIC than any other nation/state in the world today.
Down the street from me last week, at University of California @ Irvine, a professor was arrested for refusing a legal demand to leave the property; he was wearing the Red Scarf of the Communist "Young Pioneers". America has a viral infection on its campuses, the takeover by anti-American, anti-Capitalist ideologues who teach hate against classical liberal values. These protest will get Donald Trump elected, just as the protests in the 1960s and early 1970s got Nixon elected. The Marxist Dialectic equals chaos, always has.
Marx predicted a transition phase where there would be a dictatorship of the proletariat. The post-Stalin Marxists like Marcuse predicted that transitional dictatorship would actually be women and other marginalized groups in the West. That's the real battlefront here in America, and to some degree, because of the weird allegiance between the neo-Marxists and Islamists, Israel, too.
There are 22 Arab states in a League which emcompasses almost half a billion people. Israel is less than 9 million, with almost 2 million of those Arab citizens. Why is statism evil for Jews by not Arabs?
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@henrydobson9419 Iran would be fighting with Sunni tribes regardless of Israel. Tribal warfare is endemic, look at the recent carnage in Syria, 500,000 civilians dead, or the ethnic cleansing of non-Arabs in the Sudan, or civil war in Yemen.
The Hashemites controlled the Hejaz until the war with Ibn Saud in the 1930s. Both Churchill and TE Lawrence were correct about the place.
Israel is a pimple they cannot pop, to that I agree, but it is not the central issue, which is the incursion of Western Liberal Values into the region. Worth the fight.
9/11 was Wahhabi inspired, enemy of Iran. Motivated by what happened in Afghanistan, not so much Israel.
Again, why is it okay for there to be Pan-Arab statism but not Jewish statism in the region? The 1st and 2nd Temples are material fact, Jews there first, never left.
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@henrydobson9419 The "proxy" was cold-war in origin, as I mentioned, Egypt turned to the Soviets and flew MIGs in the 1973 war against US F4s. Lot's of good intel from that.
See below, the internal conflicts in these failed states dwarf the conflict with Israel. Check out Black September in Jordan and the recent trial is Swiss court of Bashar Assad's uncle, Rifaat al-Assad.
Defections in Soviet MIGs
On 15–17 August 1968, the pilots of nine Syrian MiG-17s and three MiG-21s defected to Jordan after failing in a coup attempt
On June 14, 1976, A Palestinian pilot in the Syrian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant Mahmoud Musleh Yasin, defected to Iraq with his MiG-23 Flogger.
On July 27, 1976, Syrian pilot Captain Ahmed Abdul Qadar Al-Termanini, the "October war" hero, defected to Iraq with his MiG-21 fighter jet.
On October 11, 1989, Syrian pilot Abdel Bassem landed his MiG-23ML in Israel.
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@brandonborgerding182 "more sustainable"? Not sure what that means. The current GDP of Israel is quite impressive. The amount of direct aid from the US is not substantial, and an equal measure goes to Egypt, Jordan, and many other countries around the world. If the 22 Arab League states, numbering 450 million in population, were to make peace with Israel, recognize its nation/state borders, there would be little need for the US to aid any of the countries in the region, which is really tantamount to a bribe. Syria is still in civil war, Yemen, too, and Turkey, the UAE and Iran are financing genocide against non-Arabs in Sudan. The planet remains a dangerous place, my American tax dollars are being spent in defense of my self--interest, so okay by me.
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@afRolowkey "Taxation without Representation", not about being taxed, but about not being an equal member of the community. I learned that in 4th grade in 1964 and never forgot it.
Franklin and Washington were VERY different people. Franklin was over 6 feet tall, a body builder, a womanizer, and most likely an agnostic. He invented two genius devices, one of which saved 100,000s of lives in Europe, the "Lightening Rod", and a energy conserving stove, still in use, called appropriately, the Franklin Stove. He did not patent either device, he was already rich, and gave these inventions freely to the world. Franklin is on the same level as Newton, Einstein and Di Vinci. One of he great minds of the last 500 years.
Washington was not particularly well educated, he failed at a number of early attempts to make a life, but developed a mature ethical and moral stand in the world. He could have been KING of America, he was offered that, or President for LIFE, but turned it down, walking away from power after two terms. Really, first time a revolutionary leader ever voluntarily gave up power, setting a strong moral and ethical precedent for the world.
These are the more seminal things to know about those two men.
BTW, the majority of slaves in the Washington family were not his, but his wife's through her first marriage, You can fact check that.
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@aconcernedworldcitizen236
"In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire
into the President’s motives. Such a “highly intrusive” inquiry would
risk exposing even the most obvious instances of official conduct to judicial examination on the mere allegation of improper purpose. Fitzgerald, 457 U. S., at 756. Nor may courts deem an action unofficial
merely because it allegedly violates a generally applicable law. Otherwise, Presidents would be subject to trial on “every allegation that
an action was unlawful,” depriving immunity of its intended effect. " Trump v US
Again, this protects the office, not the person holding the office, who will still be liable for "official actions" if evidence show a criminal or unconstitutional act, but holds the president immune for shear allegation of motive without evidence. The president, like all citizens, have the constitutional right to be presumed innocent.
The lower court is now forced to show that evidence, not just a mere "thought crime". Jack Smith will not be able to do that.
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@pudgethefish5180 Yes, Sweden may have had the correct approach, after all, but we've seen it politicized in the UK, the EU, and to unseemly levels, here in the US by both sides. That's what makes me most sad. My life spans the years of Polio, the Hong Kong Flu, HIV, and now Sars-cov-2. As Ovid said 2,000 years ago, "The this becomes that, the that becomes this, but the sum of all things remains the same. Cheers!
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@OneOuttaOne The article was produced by a religious organization which is authoritative, Chabad.org. I view scripture from a historical and evolutionary perspective, not a religious one. It's more important to me how humans have interpreted the story of Babel down thru the centuries, and what the context was at each interpretation. Often the "assumptions" are as telling as the story itself. 4,000 years may seem like a long time, but it is only about 50 people ago. 50 x 80 years is 4,000. Not much has really changed in human behavior over that time. I think it is safe to make the assumption on how they lived, and how they thought. Babel is an excellent metaphor describing the challenges of diversity in a population. Read Roman and Byzantine history, too, and you will find similar challenges.
Borders are essential to all living beings. Your skin is a border, it allows good things in, and bad things out. The cells in our body have membranes that act as borders, and do the same thing, let the good in, and the bad out. If they fail to recognize the bad, and let them in, they die, and so do we. Nations require smart, functioning borders, or they die, too.
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HMS/Hamas at the beginning professed to be a spiritual and social program for the people. Israel supported that, but after the election, in which Hamas did not get a majority, but entered into a coalition with Fatah, they started a war against Fatah, won, and became dictator, no elections since. You always blame others, never yourself, no self-examination, to consideration for the harm you do. Israel does that, you do not.
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@niloticnya Decades? Almost 20,000 Gazans a day were coming into Israel before October 7th. Billions of dollars going to UNRWA to support Gaza, but instead, money used for violence. Focus on that, children dressed in military uniforms and toy guns, focus on that, throwing LGBTQ+ people off roof in Gaza City, focus on that, no elections, focus on that. The Jihad is inside, focus on that.
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@meegz149 Here, let me help you, it's in how you engineer the prompt
Silicon Valley has been at the forefront of developing several significant large language models (LLMs). Here are some specific examples:
GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) Series - Developed by OpenAI, which is based in San Francisco, California. The series includes models like GPT-3 and its subsequent iterations. These models are known for their ability to generate human-like text and have been pivotal in advancing natural language understanding and generation.
Llama Series - Meta's Llama 3.1 is another example, although Meta is primarily based in Menlo Park, which is part of Silicon Valley. This model has been highlighted for its performance capabilities, challenging industry leaders and promoting the democratization of AI technology.
Mistral Large 2 - While Mistral AI is a French company, the impact of their models, including Mistral Large 2, has been significant in Silicon Valley due to the global nature of tech influence and the shared platform of development and discourse in AI. This model matches or surpasses existing top-tier systems in various benchmarks.
DeepSeek's Models - DeepSeek, although a Chinese company, has made waves in Silicon Valley with its open-source models like DeepSeek R1, which has been noted for outperforming some leading American AI models in certain benchmarks. This model has been discussed extensively in Silicon Valley circles for its efficiency and performance.
These models represent a cross-section of both proprietary and open-source developments, showcasing Silicon Valley's role in both nurturing new AI technologies and in the discourse around AI ethics, accessibility, and innovation.
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@pauliunknown8118 Yes, it is the same document, thanks for reading it. It also repeats the blood libel and requires the subjugation of Jews in a Sharia state which practices Dhimmi. That's Apartheid.
I'll state my position again. Both Jews and Arabs fought for autonomy in the region with the British in WW1. The Jews were willing to share, the Arabs were not.
The document is clear, with a warning if the British allowed a Jewish homeland to be created they would fight, even join with the enemies of England in the next war, which they indeed did. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem befriend Adolf Eichmann and spent WW2 in Nazi Germany, even helped create the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS.
If you want to get more granular into the various Arab intermural conflicts between the wars, we can. It's a shame they rarely enter debates like this. TE Lawrence was right.
Israel is a fact. Time to move on. Disband UNRWA and its descent rule. As long as that stands, no two-state solution is possible.
Funny, I live in California. Mexico controlled it for less than 30 years, the US for 175 years, there are still some in resistance to that fact. LOL
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When Reagan took over from Jimmy Carter the economy was one of double-digit inflation and interest rates near 20%.
Reagan reduced the inflation rate (under 5% for the remainder of the administration), lowering interest rates, and added discretionary income from tax cuts sparked record economic growth, and produced one of the lowest unemployment rates in modern U.S. history (unemployment hit a 14 year low in June of 1988). As Reagan left office, the nation was experiencing its sixth consecutive year of economic prosperity.
The economic gains, however, came at a cost of a record annual deficit and a ballooning national debt. The budget deficit was exacerbated by a trade deficit. Americans continued to buy more foreign-made goods than they were selling.
The Board of Trustees of the Social Security Trust Funds reported that the program had a very serious long-range deficit. Same for Medicare, as Boomers retired.
We know why the deficient grows and grows, we print money to pay for Medicare it's the second largest program in the federal budget, and social security has been running at a deficient since 2010.
While you are factually correct, it clearly only tells a sliver of the full story of our growing debt. Lower medical costs and bring jobs back to the US, increase energy production, and we can balance the budget, regardless of what party is in office.
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Niall, Niall, In the federal election of July 1932, the Nazis won 37.3% of the popular vote, they did not have a majority of the people behind them. On March 7, 1936, Hitler repudiated agreement on the Rhineland and ordered the German armed forces (Wehrmacht) into the demilitarized zone in 1938. Austria welcomed Hitler in, next stop the Sudetenland. This began the reassertion of German power the PEOPLE wanted, and so did much of the World, including some in England and America. Naill, shame, shame on you. Trump is not HITLER, he's PT Barnum.
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Cities Highest crime rates per-capita. Majority BLUE and 3 in California, none in Florida.
St. Louis, MO (2,082)
Detroit, MI (2,057)
Baltimore, MD (2,027)
Memphis, TN (2,003)
Little Rock, AR (1,634)
Milwaukee, WI (1,597)
Rockford, IL (1,588)
Cleveland, OH (1,557)
Stockton, CA (1,415)
Albuquerque, NM (1,369)
Springfield, MO (1,339)
Indianapolis, IN (1,334)
Oakland, CA (1,299)
San Bernardino, CA (1,291)
Anchorage, AK (1,203)
Nashville, TN (1,138)
Lansing, MI (1,136)
New Orleans, LA (1,121)
Minneapolis, MN (1,101)
Chicago, IL (1,099)
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@AppraisersOffice I'm in no way part of the radical right, at least by what I imagine your definition is. I am a registered Dem in California. 10Xs the Executive was held by one party and the Senate was held by a different party. NINE of those TEN nominees were rejected by the Senate, just like Garland was rejected. Your complaint is not valid. Trump may lose, but may win, if he holds FL and PA, then wins 2 out of 3 of these, which he won in 2016, WI, MI, NC, he wins a 2nd term. It's razor close, again, which in and of itself is a remarkable accomplishment for Trump.
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@AppraisersOffice Just what the polls said 2016, I agree it will be tight this year AZ will be Blue, but he does not need it to win, and he may flip NV. I'm being realistic, he gets FL and PA, with 2 of these 3, WI, MI, NC, he's got it, and the map will look almost exactly like 2016. Just look https://www.270towin.com/maps/bRgO6.png
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@AppraisersOffice No, that gif was not the prediction, it was actual. Even though Biden is slightly ahead in popular vote, it still comes down to FL, PA, and 2 of these 3, WI, MI, NC, and not state popular vote, but by county. Just count for yourself. Tight, so tight no one believes we will know the outcome until weeks afterward.
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She's an Educated, White, Suburban Mom, just the demographic Trump needs in OH, PA, WI, AZ, and MI, Texas, too, but I don't think that's why.
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Curtis LeMay was not a welcome part of the Kennedy administration, and was laughed at by McNamara and the "Whiz Kids", LeMay was due the job of Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, the highest military position in the Kennedy cabinet, but that REWARD went to LeMay's junior, Gen. Maxwell Taylor. LeMay retired in 1965 without reward, and even his VP campaign with Wallace was laughed at and derided. Gladwell is a culture war warrior and liar. Don't believe this crap, go learn for yourself, and do not absorb this social experiment indoctrination. The Fire Bombing of Tokyo was a tactical measure to save lives, you can argue the result, but not the intent.
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@stephensonjoe No exaggeration, easy to check Cal/Nev Snow Precipitation average already about 200% above the "mean". so is Arizona, and this recent storm has yet to be counted, Let's circle back on April 1st, season end, to see. La Nina ends, so perhaps El Nino to come, the "new normal" we've been hearing about is nonsense, but climate change is not. Funny, I've not heard any news media here in California referring to "climate change" during the storms except for a few weeks ago when Al Gore did a diatribe on "atmospheric rivers" and the end of time, he should grow long hair, a beard, and carry a staff for his Jerimiahs.
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20% of Israeli population is Arab, 1.8 million, they serve on the Knesset, the Supreme Court and the IDF. European Jews are not the majority. Close to one million Jews were forced out of North Africa, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, many fled to the new state of Israel. Israel is not a European colony of fake Jews.
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Michael Wuj Agreed, the left keeps trying to tell me I am conned by him, in love with him, think he's some sort of "god". Ridiculous, he's often a clown and buffoon, I never thought twice about him in the past, and he often makes me cringe with his adolescent rhetoric, but then I look at his polices and actions, and find that I agree. A mature person can set aside personal feelings and make a considered decision which doesn't take into account a persons "appearance". Ironically, the fact the new left hate his "persona" is actually the very brand of bigotry they "riot" against. Judge the man by his actions, not by your feelings about his personality. That's pure hypocrisy.
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All those granted the rights and privileges of "Whiteness" are racist. Racism is built into the framework of "Whiteness". so not an aberrant feature, but normal, and in fact, essential to the structure of "Whiteness". When you hear someone say "Systemic Racism", they are really saying, "Structural Whiteness", which they assert is an exceptional evil as expressed by the patriarchal Western European values of the Enlightenment and Christian religion. John Lindsay's new book: "Race Marxism" documents this new "religion", which has it's own catechism, inquisition, and excommunication system, one on public view as I write this.
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Explain that. That's a Dem talking point, but I don't see what leverage Trump has at this point, he needs them more than they need him. In fact, for swing state Senators, it's better if Trump stays out of their race. If Trump is that popular in OK, then that's the leverage, which is our political process, are you against it? HA, that leverage has always worked both ways in our two-party system, the king of it was LBJ, and Dem.
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@Sam-bl8vj Look at a map, it's easy walking distance, but the "who" doing this can be seen on the streets along the tracks, which are lined with RVs used as homes, there are also tents etc., along the streets that parallel the tracks, you can even see them in the news converge pictures of the tracks. I live near the port of Long Beach/Los Angeles, and the containers are hit here, too. BBC does not do a very good job covering the USA, they used to, but not any more.
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@Skaoutis Yes, lots of scholarship over more than 1,000 years on the "Good News", much conjecture. The copying, over and over again, also produced many variations which scholars convene and write books about.
Scholars like Bruce Metzger and Bart Ehrman have documented numerous textual variants in biblical manuscripts. and the differences which arise from copyist errors, regional dialects, and theological motivations.
What happened to the library of Alexandria? I believe the Christian Theodosius had a hand in its eventual destruction sometime in the 4th century, a few decades after the Council of Nicaea set out the creed/dogma which had the force of civil law. The Creed became a State sponsored religion. That had more effect on text than anything Paul may have written as a Hellenistic Jew. Some say there are letters attributed to Paul and not his.
Muslims love to bang on about the Bible's lack of authority since it is full of contraction and not first hand. Muslims also believe Christ did not die on the cross, shed blood, or saved anyone from sin. It is written.
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@Hamzay-n9s Yes, the intent is in the Hamas charter and even the Qur'an. It's true, some call for a "Greater Israel" just as the other side calls for a "Greater Palestine". It is FALSE that Israel is "growing" in size each year. There are those in Israel who want peace and a two-State solution. Do you trust that aspiration on the part of some Israelis?
Read this, you can google it and read the original online from 1921. "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921."
It's clear Jews have not been welcomed by Arab/Muslims for at least 200 years. That has not changed. Look at the history of the city of Safed.
The majority of Jews in Israel are not European/Ashkenazi, are what some Arabs call "fake Jews", but both old and new Yishuv. The Nobel Prize winning author, John Steinbeck, had family members murdered, raped, and land destroyed by Arabs who hated them being there in 1853, 50 years before the bulk of Zionist immigration began. You can read that online in its original, too.
I'm in California, my parents were born here in the early 1920s, my great-grand parents came to America from the Russian Pale of Settlement in the 1880s. Jews were an oppressed people with no right of citizenship and used as canon fodder by the Russian Army. Some did not fight against the Ottomans in the Crimean War but walked 1,000 miles to Yafo to start new communities. They were not welcome. More's the pity.
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@Hamzay-n9s No, as the former head of Hamas recently stated, the killing of Gazans is a cleaver strategy by Hamas and they should keep doing it. Check out the full quote by Khaled Mashal. You can also read what the "Mandela" of Palestine writes, Marwan Barghouti.
The children of the West have been lied to by Marx/Maoists in school, but the truth is coming out and the tide is turning away from the "Oppressed Indigenous" storyline, it's FALSE. Jews are more "indigenous" than what you call Palestinians. That is not even an Arabic word, there is no letter "P" or "P" sound in Arabic. It is an ancient Greek word which at root means "PALE", TO WRESTLE, which is the english translation of ISRAEL, to WRESTLE. Pale(stine, steen) refers to the 2nd Century BCE people and place of Israel, the JEWS. The Arabs stole that, too.
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@griz063 Sure, but no secret, BLM is on record as Structural Marxists, which is no "evil", just human, and not so "neo", or "post-modern" as coined by the so-called "Dark Web". But as in my day, there are very few Marxists on the streets, almost all are in Academia. Ironically, "sinister" is defined as something "evil" on, or coming from the left", look it up LMAO. : "Sinister has an etymology that might seem a bit biased against the left-handed portion of the population, as this word, which has had naught but disagreeable meanings for over five hundred years now, comes from a Latin word of the same spelling that means “on the left side.” We find this root in other English words, such as the adjective sinistral (“left-handed”) and the adverb sinistrad (“toward the left side”). "
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@griz063 I won't debate the "post-modern" part of your equation, since it encompasses Art, Music, Literature, and only secondarily, politics. As for "neo-Marxism", I see what's on the street more in line with autonomist Marxism, and within Academia, as the Empiricist took power from the clerics, a kind of 3rd Wave Christian reformation took place, with Karl Marx as God-Head, his only begotten son, who died for our sins, Che Guevara, as the new Christ. You can see that iconography all over campuses in the Western world. It is a religion, with Dogma, Catechism, Inquisition, and Ex-Communication. People like JBP and Haidt see its beginnings in the 1990's, but in my experience, it began about 1968, and started gaining real bureaucratic power with my peers in the mid-1970's. The bitter seeds of the "Long March" are just now bearing fruit. But the fruit is puny and lacks energy. Herbert Marcuse was right, no revolution for America, got to get to the kids.
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@griz063 Sure, I have a neighbor in my condo who is a PhD at a major university, he's been in "ethnic studies" since 1982 and became chair of his dept 15 years ago. We've discussed critical theory many times, and one of the tactics of the new "clerics", is Qualitative Methodology" which is purported to be the EQ of empirical evidence, except the human subject can change their data at anytime, and for any reason, even in a longitudinal study, because that's only "ethical". So they are now pushing anecdote as scientific evidence. My neighbor gave me an evil smile and said, "just wait, we are making inroads in the STEM courses, too. And they are.
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@griz063 Yes, and I totally agree, the idea of "Other Ways of Knowing" crept into Academia with the New Agers during the 1970's, and hopefully, without blowing a dog whistle, 2nd Wave Feminism. Feminist Theory is 3rd rail subject matter, but will have to be addressed if the tide is to be stemmed. I am currently not focused on issues of Ontology or Truth. My focus is on the moment, as we are lucky to be conscious beings at a time when the crack in our cosmic egg has begun. For some, it's an ending, for others, it's a beginning, both are true. We have the agency to choose which truth to act on.
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@commonsense6967 Agreed, but that's not what I was responding to. RBG never thought Roe good law, this is going to hit the Court again at some point, which I don't think it should, the consensus needs to either be at State level, or Federal law. We will live with this for years to come, because we will not agree on what consciousness is, or is not. I argue consciousness is partly a material extension of the mother and father, so should come under the jurisdiction of both, perhaps by contract, just like consensual sex has to be negotiated these days. This would give material rights to the father, something missing now, and a gross social imbalance tearing us apart.
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@commonsense6967 You make a scientific claim as to what life is, same as I do, and we both have just an opinion. "Heartbeat" is really just another abstraction. If life, or consciousness, does not begin at conception, but is an extension of life given by both the mother and father, we have a more productive framework for social cohesion. The agreement doesn't have to be marriage, it can be a contract, a pre-conception agreement. Our society will become more secular, not less, so rule of law will be what settles this question. 6 weeks is not the answer, it's just another abstraction, not unlike Roe.
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@tuff947 No, I've researched this for years, the name is ancient greek, the romans were greekophiles, they copied them like crazy, architecture and art, too. When the 2nd temple was destroyed, the Romans just changed the name, as they did in many other regions of their empire, nothing special, the greeks had referred to it as Palestina long time before romans got there. i don't believe the literal word of the bible, but cherish it as a repository of cognitive human history. there is no archeological evidence of jesus, not in the roman record. Tacitus makes a claim, but it was most likely a political myth in its time.
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@jensphiliphohmann1876 Ottomans called the region Palestine. But agree it was not a "people" but a place. The 710,000 people who were displaced/forced/fled, whatever your description, became refugees of the place, Palestine, and took the name after 1948. 130,000 Arabs stayed and became Israeli citizens, Israelis, and now number close to 2 million. The conflict is with Jihadists, Islamicist, something Churchill and T.E. :Lawrenced warned against.
Again, I have the original document from March 1921 from the 3rd Arab Congress called "STATE OF PALASTINE" [sic] It's available online to read as a PDF
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@yoodleyoda6228 I don't disagree, you did. ACB said Roe was not super precedent, which is correct, and an answer Klobuchar would not accept as true, but it is true, and RGB agreed. Whatever you think about abortion, it should be decided by legislation, not the court. That was both ACB and RBG's opinion, and I agree. Klobuchar was way out of line, and breaking down emotionally, when ACB calmly held her ground. She gets my vote.
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Sam assumes "Eleusinian Mysteries" were psychedelic, a fact not in evidence, or that they were available to everyone, which they were not, or the effect was universally the same, which I doubt.
Does Sam think Donald Trump or Adolf Hitler would have benefited from a psychedelic experience? Scary thought. Really didn't help the realistic and pragmatic judgement of Dr. Tim.
I would like to add, since Sam has such disdain for the value of organized religion, the great franchiser of Christianity, Saul/Paul of Tarsus, had what is described as a psychedelic transformation while on the road to Damascus searching for his donkeys. Ironic, in that Saul/Paul meets Sam(uel) on that journey.
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@Metonymy1979 Despite legal protections provided by the Weimar Constitution, discrimination against Jews was evident in various aspects of public life. For example:
Economic Discrimination: Jews faced discrimination in employment, education, and access to certain professions. Many businesses openly displayed signs indicating they didn't serve Jews, and Jews often encountered barriers to advancement in their careers due to anti-Semitic hiring practices.
Social Exclusion: Jews were often excluded from certain social clubs, organizations, and events. Social discrimination was pervasive, with Jews facing ostracism and exclusion from mainstream society.
Violence and Harassment: Jews were targeted in acts of violence, vandalism, and harassment by anti-Semitic groups. Synagogues, Jewish-owned businesses, and homes were sometimes attacked, and Jews faced physical threats and intimidation.
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Rosy: OMG, haven't heard the name Marcuse in decades, it was almost as prevalent a name on campus from the 30's to the 50's as Che, is today. Your are correct.
I think he places too much emphasis on Marxist theory, because most of the SJW I run into don't look that deeply into the fuller context of cultural development, they just don't care. I think their views are much more degenerative than that, and go back before the Enlightenment, and to what we had in Medieval times, pure dominance of one peoples over another.
I live in a Condo in the US, and in 2016, a new HUD housing law came into effect that requires HOA boards to set up an "Inquisition" to police the rights of the "9 protected" classes of people. If you look at who is protected, well, everyone.... you can be fined by this law, which could lead to jail time. This is bad, very bad, and needs to stop.
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Vir, you think Rosy is Jew bating, did cross my mind, since many in the Frankfurt school were Jews... good question. oh, i am sorry,, some people may not know that "khazrarian" is code, used by antisemities, for eastern Europeans, who they claim to be "fake" Jews, but are not, something that's been totally debunked. Go ahead, try the 13th tribe, it's a no go..
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Nixon grew-up on a farm as a poor boy with limited experience. You are exploding an off-hand comment by an ignorant person into something beyond common sense, and is in fact a neurosis itself. Nixon was obsessed with global strategy during the cold war, and your trying to be a back-seat "psychologist", asserting that his and Kissinger's global strategy and action were based on these petty comments, is quite bizarre. Nixon said similar things on those tapes about a wide variety of peoples and behaviors, including my people. You may consider his policies negative to India, but with a crashing economy due to the war in Vietnam and the action of the oil cartel, Nixon and Kissinger were able to maneuver world events which assured the survival and success of America. They did their job, whether it was at the expense of Bangladesh, that's a different question, and one we might agree on.
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Calling Chomsky a "Jewish Professor" is nonsense, another logical fallacy only meant to fire emotion and violence. UN voted a partition, two states, some Arabs did not accept it, did not want to live in Jewish homeland, waged war, and LOST, not once, but many times. Jordan is where the right of return is, but they don't want them, nor does Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, or Iraq.
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@wasdwasdedsf "we", don't include me. I don't know, and in no position to know. What I know is the Dems were willing to do anything, as now, to keep DJT out of the WH. Nancy is on record, again, saying so, just last week. Donald is correct, there is a danger here, but I understand that's his instinct, which lacks real knowledge to understand the full scope of the danger, or how baked in it is at this point.
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The virus is still a "flu" virus, not a super-bug. It is 10x more communicable because it is NEW, there is NO community immunity, there's been no previous vaccination, and the virus can shed to another person before infected person shows symptoms. It's still just a flu bug. I agree with the measures being taken, but wish the news will not make it sound like a super, world ending, bug, it is not. Since approx 30,000 people die each year from the flu, is Facui predicting 300,000 will die from this virus?
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"Cretin"? No, I'm a Litvak Jew born in Los Angeles, not a Christian from the Swiss Alps, or, a "Cretan" if you misspelled the word, which I learned about from a lovely professor of Western and Greek Literature while attending San Francisco State in the 1980s. I'm a skeptic of "stories", regardless of where they come from, and look for coherent meaning, not subjective "goodness". Your story lacked a coherent center, missed the mark, so was not "good" at all, and your response seems out of alignment to your asserted ethics and morality.
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@tistelnilsson On May 6, the UN published data showing that 34,735 people had reportedly been killed in Gaza, including over 9,500 women and over 14,500 children. On May 8, the UN published data showing 34,844 people had reportedly been killed, including 4,959 women and 7,797 children.
OCHA did not explain its actions but the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies did:
The UN attributed its original, higher figures to the Hamas-controlled Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza, whose figures OCHA has cited continually for the past two months. The UN gave no source for the lower figures in its May 8 update, but the figures precisely match those in a May 2 report from a different Hamas-controlled organization, the Gaza Ministry of Health.
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@shypshyna787 "Happy to be Russians" I will always see as pretext. I'm listening to news media in my country, U.S., and it aligns with our domestic issues, energy costs, military expenditure, and presidential politics. Few know the history of Ukraine and Russia, or care, so BOTS are just not effective. If I asked the average American about nuclear weapons and the Minsk agreement, they'd have no idea. I see Putin's situation, NATO or no NATO, and get it. NATO charter will not allow Ukraine in with this ongoing conflict. The GREAT GAME is not in public view, not at all.
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@MichaelBrewick I had symptoms in April 2020 before vaccine, took an NASID and was fine the next day, 6 months later did the same with equal result. I am 66 with low thyroid, so prone to infection. I wish there had been a full-study on NASIDs as early treatment, there are other candidates, too, but we went all in with vaccines. This was not a failure of science, but of public health policy, and reminiscent of the failures during the HIV/AIDS pandemic of the 1980/90s, Fauci and Collins players at that time, too. The WHO and NIH have played more of a political role than a scientific one.
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OXFORD REFERENCE: A radical movement within jurisprudence that traces its origin to a conference held in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1989. Sometimes called outsider jurisprudence, it sets out to challenge the conventional liberal approach to civil rights issues, in particular the notion that there can be a colour-blind view of social justice. CRT regards the privileged position occupied by mostly White, middle-class academics as a major obstacle to a comprehensive exposure of the racism that is seen to permeate the law, its rules, concepts, and institutions. Adherents generally argue that only those who have themselves suffered the indignity and injustice of discrimination can be the authentic voices of marginalized racial minorities. The law's formal constructs reproduce, it is claimed, the reality of a privileged male White elite, whose culture, way of life, attitudes, and norms constitute the prevailing “neutrality” of the law.
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@SibusisoMaseko1 We have many reciprocal agreements:
U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement (FTA):
Benefit: Eliminates duties on many products traded between the two nations, significantly boosting bilateral trade. It was the first FTA the U.S. signed and has been in effect since 1985.
Security Cooperation Agreements:
Benefit: Through various defense pacts, including a $38 billion military aid package over a decade (2019-2028), the U.S. supports Israel's security needs while fostering joint military research, development, and interoperability. This includes programs like the Foreign Military Financing (FMF), which supports Israel's defense capabilities and contributes to U.S. defense industry through purchases.
Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agreement (STA):
Benefit: This agreement promotes collaboration in science, technology, and innovation, leading to mutual benefits in research and development. It establishes a framework for joint projects, intellectual property protections, and academic exchanges.
Binational Foundations (BIRD, BARD, BSF):
Benefit: These foundations facilitate cooperation in industrial research and development, agriculture, and science. Each has contributed significantly to technological advancements that benefit both countries' economies, with returns on investment far exceeding the initial funding. For example, BARD has returned an estimated $12 in economic value for every dollar invested.
Memorandum of Understanding on the Extension of Reciprocal Privileges and the Visa Waiver Program (MOU on Reciprocity):
Benefit: This agreement, signed in 2023, aims to extend reciprocal privileges to all U.S. citizens traveling to or through Israel, facilitating easier travel, business, and tourism while aligning with the Visa Waiver Program requirements. It also addresses entry issues for Palestinian-Americans, enhancing people-to-people connections.
Joint Economic Development Group (JEDG):
Benefit: This group explores economic cooperation, addressing trade impediments and fostering new commercial opportunities, supporting economic growth and stability in both nations.
Water and Energy Cooperation:
Benefit: Israel's expertise in water technology, particularly desalination and water management, has been shared with the U.S., notably in states like California. Conversely, U.S. investments in Israeli tech companies and joint projects like "BIRD Energy" support clean energy initiatives that benefit both countries environmentally and economically.
Cultural and Educational Exchanges:
Benefit: Programs like Fulbright have strengthened educational ties, fostering mutual understanding and cooperation in academic and cultural spheres, which indirectly supports economic and diplomatic relations.
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@nvmtt ? There are NO FORESTS in Pacific Palisades, I've lived there. The first arson fire was at the Skull Rock Trailhead on Jan 1, there was no wind event, so LAFD put it out right away, A 2nd fire was set on Jan 7th when winds were above 50mph, no stopping it in those conditions.
On January 9th, in Woodland Hills near the Kenneth Fire, and illegal alien was detained by residents, he was setting small fires with a blow torch. Video on YT of him being detained and then arrested by LAPD. New York Post has full details. I also once lived in Woodland Hills, CA
The Eaton Fire appears to be a spark from a Power Utility Tower. A lawsuit against SCE power company has been filed. Also video on YT of that.
Neither fires were in Forests, neither fire was natural. The main Palisades reservoir, Stone Canyon, was full and functional. 3.3 billion gallons of water. No Forests, not a water issue, the natural part of the wind. The Santa Ana Winds term was coined in 1886, long before the term "Climate Crisis" existed.
All the above is easy to fact check. The internet cuts both ways: FANTASY and FACT. Your choice.
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On January 9, 2025, a man was arrested in Woodland Hills, CA, following reports of him using a blowtorch in the area. Here's a summary based on available information:
Incident Details: The man was seen riding a bicycle while carrying a large blowtorch, allegedly attempting to set fire to old Christmas trees and garbage cans. Residents of Woodland Hills detained him through a citizen's arrest before law enforcement arrived.
Citizen's Arrest: Neighbors pursued the man after he tried to flee, and they managed to restrain him, even using zip ties at one point. This was captured in videos and reported by multiple news outlets.
Arrest: The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) took the man into custody around 4:30 p.m. near Arcos Drive and Galendo Street. Although he was arrested, there was initially not enough evidence to charge him with arson or suspicion of arson; instead, he was arrested on suspicion of a felony probation violation.
Legal Outcomes: As of the last update, the man was not charged with arson due to insufficient evidence. However, investigations were ongoing, and there was mention of an ICE detainer being placed on him, suggesting he might be an undocumented immigrant.
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I have a book, purchased in the 1970s, "The Cooling" by Lowell Ponte, spoke to Lowell by email in 2002.
"The cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people in poor nations... If it continues, and no strong measures are taken to deal with it, the cooling will cause world famine, world chaos, and probably world war, and this could all come by the year 2000". Lowell Ponte, The Cooling, 1976
Chapter 1: "Our planets climate has been cooling for the past three decades. Most experts agree on this, for it has been carefully measured by scattered monitoring stations throughout the world. Climate in the southern half of our planet has been warming rapidly, according to the few measurements available. But in the half of our world north of the equator, where most human beings live, the annual mean atmospheric temperature has plunged by 0.7 oC, more than enough to offset the southern warming and to lower the average temperature of the whole planet by 0.5 oC." - The Cooling
The number of monitoring stations has increased since the 1970s, but there's controversy as to their change in position on the ground and where they are located. The models are just that, models and the variables inherent in the models make long term predictions unreliable. Should we spend trillions on a prediction so unreliable?
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Hizb ut-Tahrir has been banned in Bangladesh, China, Pakistan, Germany, Russia, Turkey, Indonesia, and all Arab countries except Lebanon, Yemen and the UAE .In July 2017, the Indonesian government revoked Hizb ut-Tahrir's legal status, citing incompatibility with government regulations on extremism and national ideology.
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The Churchill White Paper of 1922 was a significant document in the history of British policy towards Palestine and its Jewish inhabitants. Issued by Winston Churchill, who was then the Colonial Secretary, it aimed to address the tensions arising from conflicting promises made to both the Jewish and Arab communities during World War I.
The White Paper affirmed Britain's commitment to the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which expressed support for the establishment of a "national home" for the Jewish people in Palestine, while also recognizing the rights of non-Jewish communities in the region. However, it also sought to reconcile this commitment with the concerns of the Arab population.
Key points of the Churchill White Paper included:
1. **Partition**: Churchill proposed a partition of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab areas. This was one of the earliest instances of such a proposal, though it did not come to fruition at the time.
2. **Limitation of Jewish Immigration**: The White Paper introduced restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine, stating that it should not exceed the economic absorptive capacity of the country. This was a response to Arab concerns about Jewish immigration overwhelming the indigenous population.
3. **Land Sales**: It recommended the control of land sales in Palestine to prevent the dispossession of Arab peasants.
4. **Protection of Rights**: Churchill emphasized the need to protect the rights of all communities in Palestine, regardless of religion or ethnicity.
The Churchill White Paper was criticized by both Jewish and Arab communities. Zionist leaders objected to the restrictions on Jewish immigration and land acquisition, which they saw as betrayals of the Balfour Declaration. Arab leaders, on the other hand, felt that the paper did not go far enough in addressing their grievances and aspirations for self-determination.
Overall, the Churchill White Paper was an attempt to navigate the complexities of the situation in Palestine at the time, but it ultimately failed to satisfy either side and did not lead to a lasting resolution of the conflict.
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@idonuttylikezenorship4547 Documented Patton quote very different; ""In my opinion, the American Army as it now exists could beat the Russians with the greatest of ease, because, while the Russians have good infantry, they are lacking in artillery, air, tanks, and in the knowledge of the use of the combined arms, whereas we excel in all three of these. If it should be necessary to fight the Russians, the sooner we do it the better. The unprepared fight would be a slaughter, and we should lose more men in the first six months than we lost in all our other wars.
I wonder whether I have fought on the wrong side." - 1945 George Patton.
He made this statement during a conversation with General Walter Bedell Smith, Eisenhower's chief of staff, in May 1945. Patton expressed his concerns about the Soviets and their expansionist goals, particularly in Eastern Europe.
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@CarbageMan Colorado has a specific law which allows citizens registered to vote in primary to challenge the qualification of anyone on the ballot, that's what ANDERSON vs GRISWOLD did, it was legal, and it went through the courts, it was denied in the lower court, they appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court and won a 4-3 decision. It was LEGAL. I've read the petition, you can, too. It's online. I don't agree with the decisions, as I don't think the Colorado court has standing in a General election, only the primary, which may be how SCOTUS overturns the decision, but just a guess. Republicans brought the petition, the Chief Justice dissenting based on the "speedy" ness of the law, which he felt did not allow for due process. All very technical.
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@olicoasters "crazy" is, I believe", not new, just not "progressive", at least conservatives make no pretense at change. Mayor Pete also referenced "Puerto Ricans", but that great migration did not occur until the 1950s, 30 years after those bridges were built. Robert Moses was still a power broker, and had great control over urban renewal projects, but Mayor Pete conflated two events more than 30 years apart and stated them as fact. I find that disturbing, and more so because few care he did it. It's about character, and values, and the future, not about "bridges".
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Aid to Israel is not "lifestyle" money, but for arms manufactured here in the US. These provide good paying jobs to 100s of thousands of workers building F-35s, F-15s, F-16s, Blackhawk helicopters, and munitions. You may not like the military industrial complex, but Eisenhower in his famous speech opens with "they are necessary". The aid comes back to the US, unlike aid to some Muslim countries. We have over 40,000 troops in the region, even based in Qatar. Money well spent, money that provides jobs here in the US.
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Cities Highest crime rates per-capita. Majority BLUE and 3 in California, none in Florida.
St. Louis, MO (2,082)
Detroit, MI (2,057)
Baltimore, MD (2,027)
Memphis, TN (2,003)
Little Rock, AR (1,634)
Milwaukee, WI (1,597)
Rockford, IL (1,588)
Cleveland, OH (1,557)
Stockton, CA (1,415)
Albuquerque, NM (1,369)
Springfield, MO (1,339)
Indianapolis, IN (1,334)
Oakland, CA (1,299)
San Bernardino, CA (1,291)
Anchorage, AK (1,203)
Nashville, TN (1,138)
Lansing, MI (1,136)
New Orleans, LA (1,121)
Minneapolis, MN (1,101)
Chicago, IL (1,099)
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Glenn, Glenn, it's clear, and fully articulated by the left, since no "revolution" is viable, the security apparatus must be taken from the inside. The long march into the institutions, and both Stacey and Kamala are prime advocates, ironically, both have background in a French orientated education, Kamala as a high-school student in Montreal, Canada. Damn French again.
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@erikanders3343 Petition GRANTED. The case is set for oral argument on Thursday, February 8, 2024. Petitioner’s brief on the merits, and any amicus curiae briefs in support or in support of neither party, are to be filed on or before Thursday, January 18, 2024. Respondents’ briefs on the merits, and any amicus curiae briefs in support, are to be filed on or before Wednesday, January 31, 2024. The reply brief, if any, is to be filed on or before 5 p.m., Monday, February 5 2024.
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@MariaReyes-gv8ui I'm a native Californian, born in Burbank across from Buena Vista Studios in the same hospital Disney died in. Both my parents were born in the early 1920s in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles. I lived in San Francisco from 1986 to 1994 near Turk and Van Ness, just a few blocks from UC Hastings in the Civic Center and shopped with Willie Brown at the Safeway on Webster in the Fillmore District just before he became mayor and was dating the 30 year younger Kamala Harris.
Kamala is an empty pants suit who is not qualified to be President, she's "failed up" all her life.
I also lived in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles, many relatives still live there, and spent many years in the Jazz business, something Doug, Kamala's husband, was also connected to, and why his son is named "Cole" after John Coltrane. I worked with John's son, Ravi, back in the late 1990s.
I have direct lived experience about which I speak.
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I read the 990 on the IRS website, Patrisses' organization, BLM Global Network, does not have Tax Exempt status yet, it is pending. There are 56 BLM related charities listed on the IRS website, many are Tax Exempt, and the BLM Foundation takes donations and reported $163,253 in receipts for 2019, 2020 filing has been extended. Race griffters yes, but FOX, please don't LIE.
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@annajorgensen1627 I am a Jew, and understand, and often fear those who make symbols of people. We've seen it here in the U.S. with George Floyd and others. Yes, symbols are often used in the service of malevolence. As you, I do my due diligence, but perhaps focus on other areas which concern me as an American. America has a solid framework that I trust in, but it's not Trump chipping away at it, quite the contrary. I believe we are still in an age of the Westphalian Peace, with nation/states as the best political form we can have. Perhaps someday humans will evolve past that, but not yet, and just hoping and imagining it's true, is foolish. Europe waged a 30 years war, which was more like 100 years, based on religious symbols, one, a single G-dhead, the other, with Three. America learned from that horror, and I want the framework against that to stand. Trump is not an ideologue, he is "in the moment", and extenstialist of the first order, although he wouldn't know what that means. He is not religious, either, and has no pretensions in that regard, and it's unkind to think so.
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@annajorgensen1627 I am 65 and have health issues, and pre-existing conditions will not be touched. I've not paid any attention to Trump in the past, but as President have watched closely. I find it difficult to listen to him, no doubt, but I agree with the policies and actions this administration has taken. I was facing the Obama Care tax because I was self-employed, as were many of my friends, it was terrible, and Trump stopped that tax, and gave me a tax break which added $1500 to my yearly income, and I'm middle-class. My retirement account, which is not huge, has increased 67% under Trump, and if it stays stable, will provide for me in retirement. I am so afraid of a Biden win, am considering cashing out of my equity position and sitting on the cash, as are many other small investors who fear a Biden/Harris win. Sorry, I don't see what you see, and in my neighborhood in Los Angeles County, I can't put a Trump sign in my window, because I'd get a brick through it. It's the extremes from both sides pushing in, and I don't want to see the new-left have power in the House, the Senate, the Presidency, and the Court. that would be very, very bad. I don't see the same issue with the GOP today, and remember, I am a registered Democrat in California, and have been a social activist since 1971 when I first marched against the war in Vietnam. Trump is not "evil", he's just a human being, with a personality disorder, to be sure, but I know many high functioning people just like him who are not evil, just a pain to deal with.
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@MJ BL Trump brokered peace deal between Israel and the UAE. Trump sent in troops to Idlib, Syria and saved perhaps a million people, then pulled out, although the Dems cried there would be a genocide of the Kurds, there was not. When Iran fired on our ships, Trump did not start a war, but still maintained a position of strength in the region without it, killing Iran's top general, which the Dems said would start a wider war and end our friendship with Iraq, that also did not happen. Dems said Tariffs against China and bad mouthing North Korea would start a war, it did not. Trump made a promise to bring troops home, not send troops around the world, he's pretty much done that. You can't have it both ways. Yes, his surface character is of an a-hole, in a number of ways he's a blustering fraud and clown. Those are REAL criticisms, but you and the left feel the need to make stuff up, to lie, and say he is 100% irredeemable. That's just not true, so YOU are the bigger liars, because you lie both in words and deeds.
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@DennisM12 In 2015 I never gave Trump notice, thought his run for president was "the joke". I was ignorant of who he was. As it appeared he'd be the GOP candidate, I listened to a two-Hour interview with Trump and started telling my friends and co-Workers, watch out, he's the real deal. I still didn't think he could win, but he did.
I then watched the TDS become ugly and dangerous. Even before he sat at the resolute desk, Dems were calling for impeachment and FBI Director Comey was looking for ways to entrap him due to his inexperience. I'm not making that up, Comey bragged about it at a 92y interview. When Pelosi tore up the state of the union address, that was it for me. Dems don't deserve political power at this time. Trump is a liar and a clown, but lesser of the two evils, sad but true. Trump 2024. Hope he brings in Elise Stefanik as VP, she can then run with the next GOP Prez, too.
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The IRS lists over 50 BLM nonprofits, all file an IRS 990, as did Patrisse, which is public record on the IRS website. I read it, and it lists the officers, how much they get paid, and who prepared the tax return. the IRS 990 for 2020, which would have been the tax year of the "millions", has not been filed yet, as they got an extension, and now due this July. All this is a rush to judgement. The real BLM mystery is not with Patrisse, but another BLM organization called The BLM Foundation, but no one seems to be picking up on it, preferring to bash Cullors instead. Why?
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@michaelsorensen7567 I believe the "questioner" was in favor of "safe places" where free speech is regulated by the group, and that there should be a limit on "privileged speech". He asked Jordan to agree with him, and he did, but went on to qualify his answer, which was brilliant.
In 1987 I began research on a subject that was not well published, and I would wait weeks for a book to arrive on inter-library loan, which I then had to return in 2-weeks. That drove me in 1994 to become one of the first WWW publishers, and to promote services like Wiki and search algorithms. Hypertext was a revolution in publishing. Unfortunately, there have been many unintended consequences from that revolution yet to be rectified and corrected. In 1994, Al Gore officially commercialized the WWW, and in doing so, pushed an economic model of EYEBALLS for sale. This was not the only choice at the time, but one forced on us by both government officials and economic predators, neither would consider the consequences of their actions. We tried, there was a "White Paper" suggesting a "public utility" version for bandwidth delivery, and a model of commerce less driven by "the mob", but it was ignored. EYEBALLS, 30 years later, are the product, more's the pity.
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@RoninDave Yemenite Mahras are the purest Yemenis with the least foreign admixture besides a few individuals having SE Asian ancestry.They also have the most Natufian DNA. The deserts of Arabia did not come into being until 6,000 years ago. The Natufian lived in rather lush surroundings, every different from what's there now.
About 14,400 years ago in the Black Desert of northeastern Jordan, someone was tinkering with the recipe for the perfect pita. This auspicious moment in culinary history has been captured by researchers who sampled the contents of two stone fireplaces at the site of Shubayqa 1. The team, led by University of Copenhagen archaeobotanist Amaia Arranz-Otaegui, found that the people living at this small campsite, hunter-gatherers who belonged to a culture known as the Natufians, were making unleavened bread-like products at least 4,000 years before the dawn of agriculture.
Canaanites were a mixture of Zagros/Caucasian migrants and ancient Levantine farmers. Quasi-Canaanite ancestry is a major genetic source for Jews and Palestinians alike, though Palestinians have had less European admixture over time.
I'm not one to point to the bible for justification of a nation/state for one and not the other, nor DNA. The current framework for civilization is the Westphalian agreements from the 17th Century and the concept of nation/state sovereignty. That framework is under attack by some Arabs and some Western Europeans, but for different reasons. Live in peace, share the land, let each have sovereignty.
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@YesBruv105 No, as you know, there are many forms and sects of "Marxism", often ripe with intermural conflict, Trotsky was assassinated, for Pete's sake. There's a brand of American Marxism fathered by a member of the Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse, along with Gramsci, who saw that violent revolution would not come to settled democracies, and the only option was a "soft-Marxism" with a long march into the institutions from the inside. This 3rd wave is using race instead of class as the wedge issue, and doing it very successfully, but I don't believe it is sustainable, because as mixed race children start asking their parents if they should "hate" grandpa for being "white", the end of this tactic is near.
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@emilianosintarias7337 Again, Mormons think of themselves as Christians, but few Christians consider Mormons Christian. The foundation and framework of CRT is Marxist, as stated by those who both created and promote it. What's wrong with Marxism? At base it asserts human behavior is a cultural construct, which I believe is fallacious. It's possible to function quite well in a fallacious framework, like believing the world is FLAT, something which works just fine in a limited context, but is not correct. Marxism is not unlike the Flat Earth societies of today, they make what sound like good arguments when you hear them, but further research proof them to be laughable, if not dangerous.
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@Malachor8091 Endorsement is one thing, many don't do that for political reasons. Barr, Pompeo, even Gen McMasters not "endorsing" but are voting for him. Pompeo was CIA director then Sec of State, perhaps the best cabinet choice Trump made, but late in the game. Trump faced a soft-coup by people like FBI Comey even before he sat at the resolute desk.
I'm a California Dem. Trump is an exaggerator and clown, but Pelosi, Schiff, and the DNC never supported the office, and when Pelosi tore up the State of the Union address, I switched to be against the DNC and those complicit in MS Legacy Media. My concerns have proven out. The true fascists are on the woke/left. Trump/Vance 2024.
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@souetrejeremy 21% ARE Arab, 160,000 out of the 900,000 didn't leave, and now number 1.9 million. It's not "IF", it is a fact. Arabs server on the Knesset, the Supreme Court and in the IDF. Show me the comparable in the region. Jews fought against the Turks and won. The Arabs didn't want to share, and I have the proof (see below)
"transferred from the Ottomans, to the British, and then to Israel." LOL "Transferred" in a peace treaty after a World War the Jews fought in to free Palestine from the Ottoman/Turk. British NEVER held title to the region, it was an Allied Power TEMPORARY administrative mandate. Israel was a creation of the United Nations, a vote was taken. Jordan was a creation of the Brits, Iraq was a creation of the Brits, not Israel.
Should "The Land" go back to Turkey? They lost it in a war.
"Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress.
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@Rockster-q1m 95% Sephardic is nonsense, the Umayyad Dynasty took Christian wifes from the north, Abd al-Rahman III had reddish blonde hair and blue eyes, forced to dye his beard black to look more Arab. The Alhambra Decree of March 31, 1492 not only kept Jews out of the New World, but conversos, too. Even 3rd generation conversos like those who accompanied Pizzaro required attestation they were not formerly Jews. In 1569, Philip II, king of Spain, issued the decree that ordered the establishment of the Inquisition in South America, Jews and crypto-Jews were hunted down. Some claim both Pizarro and Cortes as Crypto-Jews, too.
No doubt Sephardic Jewish blood flowed to the New World, and DNA evidence has turned up as far north as Denver, CO., but 95%?
Many Ashkenazi Jews arrived in Brazil during the period of Dutch Protestant rule in the early 1600s, setting up in Recife the first synagogue in the Americas, the Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue, as early as 1636, but the Dutch were run out by the Portuguese in 1654 and the Jews had to either hide again, or leave.
By 1750, out of 2,500 Jews in the American Colonies, the majority was Ashkenazi. They were Yiddish-speaking Jews from Holland, Germany, Poland and England. The first United States Ashkenazic synagogue, Rodeph Shalom, was established in Philadelphia. 1819.
Your statements have element of fact, but are grossly exaggerated and do not include the German and Polish Jews who began to arrive in the New World early in the17th Century.
I often tell people horse husbandry came to the Western Hemisphere as a Jewish technology, and the 1st Cowboys were in fact Jewish, but everyone laughs.
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@thecasualfront7432 I'm a native Californian, as are my parents, who were born here 100 years ago. Each state is apportioned delegates based on population, then each state votes with that number of delegates to the Electoral College. Trump lost the popular vote, but was a clear winner in the Electoral College, which again, is apportioned by population. However, each State gets only two Senators, and yes, that's a very good thing, because the Constitution was designed to PROTECT THE MINORITY FROM THE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY. This fundamental principle of constitutional democracy, majority rule coupled with the protection of minority rights, is embedded in the constitution. All diversity is lost without it.
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Yes, lots of nuance, however, Poland was a "Nation-State", the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were extended to Poland after 1939, which meant both German and Polish Jews were not citizens of any State. Makes the power dynamic very different. All the resistance movements included different political factions, from Trotskyites to Royalists, lots of infighting. Even Jewish organization in the U.S. fought bitterly on how to resist the Nazis. My Great-Grandfather's home in Poland is gone, the land is still there, but we are not welcomed to return, not really. 1.9 million non-Jewish Poles died in WW2, Poland was officially at war with Germany, the Jews never declared war on either Nation-State. I hope you see the difference.
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Don't take it too seriously, small potatoes, U.S. has 300 million people, these protests and riots are only a few hundred, but the video keeps playing over and over again, it's an illusion. Home sales in the U.S. are up, the stock market is back to same level it was at end of 2019, even with Covid, and dollar is still the standard currency for the world, and no other economy is close to challenging that. You believe what you want, but those are the brute facts.
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Rubin has turned into THE VIEW - LIE LIE LIE (I voted for Trump)
The "Smelt" fish protection is 600 miles away in Northern California
Los Angeles County is 5,000 square miles, 9 million people, Pacific Palisades small, 24,000
Los Angeles captured 93 billion gallons of storm runoff, enough for 2.4 million homes
Newsom cut red tape to allow storm runoff to fill aquafers, easy to fact check
Prop 1 from 2014 has dozens of completed projects many across SoCal
The hydrants lost pressure, not water, which is supplied by the LADWP not the State.
LA has home brush clearance ordinances but only a $500 fine, so people ignore them.
I moved from MSM because of lies about Trump, now Rubin doing same about Newsom and Bass. Both not my choice, but Dave is feeding you the same brand of misinformation Whoopie gives on The View. Nasty.
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I wrote some of the first HTML code on the WWW in 1994. Thank Al Gore for the "eyeball" economic model. We wanted the pipeline regulated more like a utility. He handed it to PacBell and other monopolists who moved in and bought up all the bandwidth. That's when the neo-Robber Barons took over, I was there, being part of some of the early IPOs in the late 1990s, most of whom have crashed.
I grew up in the 1960s, the Beatles were a manufactured pop boy band, in 1964 you could buy Beatles notebooks, Beatles clothes, there was even a Beatles cartoon show on in the afternoon after school, and they sold Beatles style baseball cards. Yeah, think again. My generation was flush with money and the capitalists went after it. Disneyland opened in 1955 and Mattel's Barbie came out in 1959. I had a Ken doll in 1963. My dad threw it out the car window. LOL I just wanted to play with the girls, not be one. Sorry Dad.
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@trignal As someone born to the "progressive" , I've heard your "one day wake up", or, "if they only had the information" myth of self-delusion before. If you believe the "woke" myth, or the "revolution is near", or the "messiah is soon to return" refrain, you are the sleep walker, just residing in a different room. Human character has been consistent for the last 120,000 years, or so, and no amount of wishing and hoping will make it different. BTW, Trump has never been convicted of anything, and the 2020 election will be proof of a full acquittal.
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@trignal I did not vote for Trump in 2016, I wrote in a vote, my recently deceased brother's name. I previously voted for Obama, twice. I am a registered Dem in California, even if I vote for Trump, that vote would be wash-out. I may vote for him in protest against my parties 3 year long delusional rampage, though. The focus should be on why Trump keeps winning, and gaining support, and why the progressive Dem agenda is loosing. Demographic changes are not having the predicted impact, why? You have failed to look inward for that answer, and instead look for demons and devils to blame, the definition of a witch-hunt.
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@trignal Your comments are patronizing, and characterizing Trump's rallies, or his recent prayer breakfast as a form of pure "Hatriotism", is itself hateful and fear-mongering. Did you watch it in it's entirety? I did, it was full of warmth and humor. When Steve Bannon told Trump he was a populist, Trump replied, "Yeah, I'm a POPULARIST", when Steve tried to correct him, Trump ignored that and continued with the misconstrued word, POPULARIST. Trump is the most transparent, guileless liar ever in the White House. It's Pelosi who cloaks her vindictive and hateful character behind a veil of patriotism and religion, not Trump. With him, what you see is what you get. He landed in DC in a what amounts to a UFO, with career politicians and MSM yet to figure it out. I believe Trump has a personality disorder, is something like an idiot savant. I ignore his external personality characteristics as I would someone with Tourette syndrome. He is incapable of being a Hatriot, because he is a true believer in his cause, not a deceiver. A serial liar, yes, but it's not a lie when you believe it yourself. You are clueless as to Trump's true nature. He is a Clear and Present Danger, but only to the progressive, social democrats, not the nation. All of this is churlish, and totally partisan.
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@dthomas9230 No, I was alive in 1963, been down that rabbit hole. Oswald just another lone wolf, we just experienced two of them again this month. Oswald first shot a general, the Kennedy just happened to come to town. All Oswald.
The CIA was then, as it is now, very bad at covert operations. They failed to get Castro for years.
President John F. Kennedy and Catholic Cardinal Francis Spellman both played significant roles in the early stages of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Kennedy supported Ngo Dinh Diem, the leader of South Vietnam, and significantly increased the number of U.S. military advisors in the country. When Kennedy took office in 1961, there were around 800 U.S. military advisors in Vietnam. By the time of his assassination in 1963, that number had grown to over 16,000
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@user-s1o3nr532 Jews wee there in 1900, 1909, 1914, 1918, Several Jewish Brigades fought in WW1 to free the region from the Ottoman Turk. In 1948 seven Arab countries declared war on the new, legal, nation/state of Israel. They won in 1948, 1956, 1967, a draw in 1973 and attempted peace in 1999/2000 with Oslo. The Arabs have never negotiated in good faith, and said so in 1921, more than a quarter century before 1948
"Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921."
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@ayubk2638 Taqiyya, since 14 June 2007 there are have been conflicts created by Hamas with death tolls higher than 2023.
2014 Gaza War, Operation Protective Edge, after Hamas kidnapped and murder of 3 children by Hamas affiliated group on the West Bank. IDF went into Gaza, located and neutralized 32 cross-border assault tunnels, and an unconditional ceasefire was agreed to, something Hamas NEVER kept their promise to do. They dug more tunnels and conducted more attacks, the IDF had to "mow the lawn" because of the broken promise by Hamas.
In the 2014 conflict Gaza 2,310 Palestinians killed (70% civilians), with 10,626 wounded.
Don't tell us there were more killed in the first half of 2023 than 2014, Taqiyya.
Not kidnapping and killing children will save Palestinian lives is the message to Hamas, not the IDF.
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@OGSAFUNKATEER1901 No, Hamas did not gain a majority in 2006, PA/Fatah had seats but were murdered 14 June 2007
June 14, 2007, Hamas executed a military coup, leading to their total control over the region. Here's a brief overview:
Background: Following the Palestinian legislative elections in 2006, Hamas had effectively taken over all Fatah security positions in Gaza, including the headquarters of the Preventive Security Service, which was one of the last strongholds of Fatah.
The coup resulted in a split in Palestinian governance. Hamas controlled Gaza, while Fatah (backed by Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian National Authority) maintained control over the West Bank.
The international community, including the U.S. and European Union, condemned the violence, this led to a blockade of Gaza by Israel and Egypt, with restricted movement and goods entering or leaving the territory.
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90% of this thread is pure troll by DEMS, this was a win for GOP. Neither side has a mandate, we are in a 50/50 split, but GOP, the minority, was able to separate the two bills, have the Senate bill voted on first, (votes were counted by both sides ahead of time), and sent directly to Biden. The Social Spending bill will not make it, folks, it was a win for GOP, and only DEM trolls and extremists are kicking about it.
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@dwreal1717 Sure, the firestorm hit with baseball size embers travelling at 50mph more than a mile. The embers get inside homes which then burn from the inside out. In the Palisades, whole blocks went up at one time, 100 homes burning at once with 20-30 hydrants on one line open at same time. As the homes burned, the water lines inside the homes opened with no one there to shut off the main. How much pressure can be maintained with that many hydrants open? Later, for various reasons, the LADWP turned of both power and water to the areas affected.
Also, for hillside fires, firefighters bring their own water on trucks with water tenders to refill them.
There's a video on YT called "Design for Disaster" about the 1961 Bel-Air fire. Our Santa Ana Wind brush fires in narrow canyons produce their own weather systems. If the brush is burning on two sides of the canyon, the air temp can be so high windows will burst open and embers fly in.
For the last 50 years firefighters have a mission to save lives first, then property.
Having said that, the California Fire Marshall has programs and materials for homeowners to retrofit their homes to be hardened to fire. Those who did that still have homes in the Palisades. VULCAN VENTS is one product, inexpensive, which would have saved many homes in the Palisades.
Water was not the main story of this fire.
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@matthewogorman7291 Kamala oversaw Obama's "21st Century Policing Working Group" in California and supported Prop 47, both led to unsafe conditions in California. I know, I live here:
Police unions have voiced several criticisms of the 21st Century Policing Working Group and its recommendations, reflecting their concerns about the impact on law enforcement practices, officer safety, and labor relations. Here are some common criticisms:
1. *Perceived Threat to Officer Safety:* Police unions argue that some recommendations, such as restrictions on the use of force or changes to pursuit policies, could jeopardize officer safety by limiting their ability to respond effectively to dangerous situations.
2. *Lack of Input in Policy Development:* Union leaders often criticize the Working Group for not adequately consulting with law enforcement professionals during the development of its recommendations. They argue that policies affecting policing should be crafted in collaboration with those who understand the complexities of law enforcement firsthand.
3. *Impact on Collective Bargaining Rights:* Police unions assert that certain recommendations, particularly those related to disciplinary procedures or civilian oversight, infringe upon collective bargaining rights. They argue that such measures should be negotiated through established labor processes rather than imposed from external sources.
4. *Unfunded Mandates:* Many of the reforms proposed by the Working Group require resources and funding to implement effectively. Police unions criticize the federal government for advocating changes without providing adequate financial support, which they argue places an undue burden on local law enforcement agencies.
5. *Effectiveness and Accountability:* Some unions question the efficacy of the reforms recommended by the Working Group, expressing concerns about whether these changes will actually improve police-community relations, reduce incidents of misconduct, or enhance accountability without compromising officer effectiveness.
6. *Political and Public Perception:* Police unions often perceive the Working Group's recommendations as influenced by political agendas or public pressure, rather than grounded in practical considerations of law enforcement practice and safety.
Overall, police unions' criticisms of the 21st Century Policing Working Group reflect their concerns about the potential impacts on officer safety, labor rights, and the effectiveness of law enforcement operations. They advocate for policies that they believe will support officers in fulfilling their duties while maintaining public safety and accountability. - ChatGPT
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@999NINE99 The budget increase? It's public record. Use Co-Pilot, Chat-GPT, GROK-X, or even Google.
There is clear evidence that the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) budget increased for the fiscal year 2024/2025. Initially, Mayor Karen Bass proposed a *2.7% reduction* in spending for the LAFD. However, after closed-door negotiations, the City Council approved a new union contract in November 2024, which included *four years of raises and other financial incentives* for the city's firefighters. This added more than *$53 million* in additional salary costs.
Additionally, the City Council approved *$58 million* for new firetrucks and other department purchases. When these salary increases and equipment purchases were factored in, the LAFD's operating budget grew by over *7%* compared to the previous fiscal year.
SOUCE: LATIMES, ABC7 NEWS
January 16, 2025
By David Zahniser
Los Angeles Times
Dave and Adam are lying to you.
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LAFD budget for the fiscal year 2024/25
Despite initial cuts, the overall budget increased
Initial Proposal and Cuts: Mayor Karen Bass initially proposed a budget for 2024/25 that included a cut of approximately $23 million for the LAFD. This was later revised by the City Council to a cut of $17.6 million from the previous fiscal year's budget.
Union Contract and Increases: However, following negotiations and the approval of a new union contract in November 2024, the LAFD's budget saw significant increases to cover salaries and benefits. This adjustment resulted in the fire department's operating budget growing by more than $58 million compared to the previous fiscal year, bringing the total budget to $895.6 million for 2024/25.
Specific Allocations: Despite the initial cut, there were allocations for salary increases, new equipment, and technology updates, which contributed to the overall increase. For instance, $76 million was allocated to cover the costs associated with the new union contract, which was initially placed in an unappropriated balance before being transferred to the LAFD's budget.
Impact and Public Perception: There has been considerable debate and public scrutiny over these budget changes, especially in light of wildfires and other emergencies. Critics pointed to the cuts as potentially hampering emergency response capabilities, while city officials and budget documents highlighted the overall increase, arguing that it supported critical services.
In summary, while there was an initial reduction in the LAFD's budget for the 2024/25 fiscal year, subsequent adjustments, particularly related to salary and benefits under a new union contract, led to an overall increase in the department's budget from the previous year.
GROK-X
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@ImperialDemocracy Are you saying 750,000 people were turned out of their homes by Israeli guns while the Israelis were fighting a war against 5 Arab nations in 1948, one they were losing until arms arrived from the Czechs? Doesn't seem like a plausible explanation, more like Arab leaders told these families to leave and come back after they won, but they didn't. Again, 130,000 stayed, now number 1.6 million, are 21% of Israeli population, and have shared in bettering the land, much of which was only sand and marsh. Gaza has 24km of Mediterranean Coastline, the world has given Billions to the Gazans, but instead of making the world a better place, they've chosen to use the money to teach their children suffering, death, and to hate the Jews. I've seen the educational material produced by UNRWA schools. It's horrific.
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@JJRM8 What "warming". The "dry" is an 01, rated Moderate by US Drought Monitor, I checked. I live on the coast, it's been exceptionally cool since February of last year with deep fog banks, very deep this last month when the high surf hit at Sunset and PCH.
Our weather oscillates with ENSO. The high winds are normal, although a little late this season. The native plants have adapted to the wind and fire, Manzanita requires it to propagate, and have done so since before humans arrived. "Warming" had nothing to do with it, it's more connected to population and direct human activity.
The total global temp may reduce temps in some areas of the globe while heating up others. It's a mean temp, not localized. Over the past century, the global average temperature has increased by about 1.2 degree. That did not cause this fire.
The predictions have an error rate so high I would not make plans based on them. Check out Bjorn Lomborg and the Copenhagen Center.
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@TheNaturalust Egypt blocaded the Straits of Tiran and moved armor into the Sinai ahead of attack. The brilliant tactical move by the IAF saved Israel from destruction by Egypt and Syria, which was proven to have been planned. Even Jordan has admitted that. Israel did not start the war in 1967. The Pan-Arabist military coup leader of Egypt, Nasser, did.
The Golan Heights is a necessary military territory for defense. Has been for 1,000s of years. LOL. Israel begged Jordan not to attack in 1967, but they did, weakly, and the consequences were occupation, not by Jordan, but Israel. Most didn't want that job, but some extremists took advantage of poor choices by the Jordanians, who themselves were faced with a civil war created by the PLO, who assassinated their PM, Black September, and then kicked them out.
It's time for the Arabs of the region to give up the KGB propaganda of the 1960s. It didn't work.
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@TheNaturalust Blockade in Tiran was an act of war, as all blockades of this sort are.
"Nasser remained adamant, and on May 22, after UNEF withdrew, he announced that he would close the Straits. In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower had promised that the United States would treat the closure of the Straits as an act of war." - US Government
You can debate, but my government considered Nasser's blockade an act of war.
I'm in Real Estate, chain of "Title" is a very important aspect of my profession. The last title holder was by the Ottoman Turk. Both Jews and Arabs fought with the British in WW1. The Ottoman Turk ceded TITLE to that region as part of a Peace Treaty. Administrative Mandates were created, which were TEMPORARY, until autonomy was possible in the region. Jews were promised autonomy for being in the fight, were willing to share, the Arabs were not. That's AS RELEVANT as it GETS.
Every "war" since 1948 has that unwillingness to share at its root. The Arabs promised unending war in a report to Churchill in 1921. They've kept their promise.
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Dennis Manson it was not an "admission" of a false statement, that's ridiculous, he acted in a publically calm manner as people panicked, stripping shelves of toilet paper, and I applaud that. In action, he moved to close the country, quarantine the cruise ship people, sent hospital ships to both coasts, ramped up manufacture of PPE of all kinds, and said we were at WAR with a silent enemy, AT WAR, how is that playing it down, either in deed or word. Your conscious ignorance is malevolent.
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@tonycatman yes, and in my post I mentioned Rosa Parks was part of an organized effort by the NAACP to challenge segregated buses, that was my point, I was not taught that, came out much later. She still deserves great credit, but it was the luck of the draw that her case got published while others did not. The myth of her being this poor, tired domestic just wanting a seat on the bus is pure fantasy. Her real life is more compelling than the myth, glad it is finally being told.
Oh, same true for colored drinking fountain, if white one did not work, whites could use the colored, but not vis versa.
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@kaybrown7733 Public Television Show "Finding Your Roots, Season 3, Episode 1"
Ty Burrell [star of “Modern Family”] had heard a family story that his maternal great-grandmother was black, a woman named Susanna Weeks, who managed on her own to make her way from North Carolina and Tennessee all the way to Oregon, and then to stake a claim, again, all by herself, under the Homestead Act.
Women Homesteaders
The Homestead Act of 1862 created opportunities for women that had not existed before. Single, widowed, divorced, or deserted women were eligible to claim up to 160 acres of federal land in their own names. According to the act’s stipulations, these women could take ownership
only after five years, when they had successfully demonstrated that they were able to “prove up,” or improve, their properties. Thousands of women took advantage of this opportunity, and an estimated 10–12 percent of all homesteaders were women." - PBS California Teacher's Lesson Plan
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@kaybrown7733 "Jim Crow" is a late 19th Century term, the racial segregation laws were on the books for decades before that. You want the "whole" history, you got it Black women could legally Homestead Land in 1862, the historical record shows they did, and successfully. Why is that a bad thing?
Another whole history, the first person of color to be Vice-President was not Kamala Harris, but Charles Curtis, a member of the Kaw Nation, a registered Native indigenous person and member of the GOP.
One of the largest slave owners in the south was Black, William Ellison Jr.
Stand Watie was a Native American who achieved the rank of Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, Watie was a Cherokee chief and soldier who commanded the 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles at Pea Ridge, and later led a brigade of Native American troops. His Cherokee name, De-ga-ta-ga, means "he stands". They fought for the south and slavery.
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"Molten salt reactors (MSRs) are a type of nuclear reactor that use molten salt as both the fuel and the coolant. One of the key advantages often attributed to MSRs is their inherent safety features, including what is commonly referred to as "walkaway safety."
Walkaway safety refers to the ability of a reactor to shut down safely and cool down passively in the event of a malfunction or loss of power without requiring human intervention or external power sources. This is achieved in MSRs through several design features:
1. **Passive cooling mechanisms**: MSRs are designed to use natural processes such as convection and passive heat transfer to dissipate heat in case of emergency shutdowns.
2. **Negative temperature coefficient**: Many MSR designs feature a negative temperature coefficient, meaning that as the temperature increases, the reactivity of the reactor decreases. This inherent feedback mechanism helps prevent runaway reactions and promotes stability.
3. **Freeze plug or drain tank**: Some MSR designs incorporate a freeze plug or a drain tank as a safety mechanism. In the event of a power loss or other emergency, the freeze plug melts or the drain tank is activated, allowing the molten salt fuel to drain into a passively cooled containment vessel where it can safely dissipate heat.
4. **Chemical stability**: Molten salt fuels have high chemical stability, reducing the risk of chemical reactions that could lead to accidents.
These features collectively contribute to the reputation of MSRs as being inherently safer than traditional light water reactors. However, it's important to note that while MSRs offer promising safety features, they are still under development, and practical implementation will require rigorous testing, regulatory approval, and adherence to strict safety protocols to ensure their walkaway safety claims hold true in real-world scenarios." - ChatGPT -3.5 (walkaway safe prompt)
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You have it backwards. Nazis, like Hamas, came to power with only a minority vote, Nazis, like Hamas, then killed off its opposition, then, like Hamas, declared a final solution for the Jews. Yeah, you have it backwards, Hamas are the Nazis.
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@fleatactical7390 I think the court is in error, but everything was legal. Colorado law allows Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington to file the insurrection charge, a lower court ruled against them only because "President" was not written into the 14th Amendment, but the higher court "interpreted" the amendment to include the President.
The elected Secretary of State in Michigan, a Democrat, agrees with us, no standing. Even my governour, Gavin Newsom, doesn't think Trump should be taken off the ballot.
I've been reading comments on different platforms, the real danger to our democracy is from those unwilling to use the tools at hand to research facts, and instead feed on the emotional high of social clicks.
I wrote some of the first HTML code for HTTP in 1993/4. I thought people would be hungry for facts, but I was wrong, they are satisfying a very different appetite.
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@bryang9290 "The 4-3 decision by Colorado's higher court was made in response to a lawsuit filed in September, Anderson v. Griswold, which argued that Trump should be disqualified as a candidate under the basis of the Fourteenth Amendment. Section 3 of the amendment states that anyone who "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the US Constitution cannot hold office.
The lawsuit's petitioners include six people: Norma Anderson, Michelle Priola, Claudine Cmarada, Krista Kafer, Kathi Wright, and Christopher Castilian.
All but two of the petitioners are Republican voters, according to the lawsuit. Wright and Castilian are unaffiliated, the lawsuit said.
That's per Colorado law, Donald Sherman told Business Insider. Sherman is the executive vice president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a watchdog group that helped file the lawsuit." - Business Insider
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THE CHARGE:
Before the 2020 election, Donald Trump lays the groundwork to reject the election results
if he loses and deploy political violence to stay in power. ................................................13
II. After the 2020 election, President Trump refuses to admit defeat and inflames his
supporters with the lie that the election was stolen from them..........................................22
III. President Trump leads a broad-based effort to pressure, coerce, and intimidate state and
local officials to unlawfully overturn the 2020 election results.........................................29
IV. President Trump oversees a scheme to send fake slates of presidential electors to
Congress and pressures Vice President Pence to unlawfully obstruct the January 6th
certification proceeding based on those fake electoral slates. ...........................................37
V. President Trump summons tens of thousands of enraged supporters, including violent
extremists, to travel to Washington, D.C. for a “wild” protest on January 6th to “Stop the
Steal.”.................................................................................................................................41
VI. A violent mob summoned, incited, and aided by President Trump attacks the U.S. Capitol
to stop the lawful transfer of presidential power. ...........................................................
DISTRICT COURT, CITY AND COUNTY OF
DENVER, COLORADO
1437 Bannock St.
Denver, CO 80203
▲ COURT USE ONLY ▲
Petitioners:
NORMA ANDERSON, MICHELLE PRIOLA,
CLAUDINE CMARADA, KRISTA KAFER,
KATHI WRIGHT, and CHRISTOPHER
CASTILIAN,
v.
Respondents:
JENA GRISWOLD, in her official capacity as
Colorado Secretary of State, and
DONALD J. TRUMP.
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@Communist-Doge Again, there were two major schools of Judaism at the time of the 2nd Temple. School of Hillel and the School of Shammai. Just like today, people are fluent in more than one language, and in the crossroads of Jerusalem, many languages were spoken and known, especially those Jews steep in Hellenism like Flavius Josephus. The life of the scholar at that time was not some illiterate carpenter in some backwater in the Galilei, which is being shown to be much more of a suburban area than previously thought.
I have no believe in a historical Jesus, but do enjoy the history of the region in that time. The region was very cosmopolitan, in fact, that was one of the reasons the Jews were often in revolt. The leadership was well versed in Hebrew.
Jesus would have read the commentaries in both Hebrew and Aramaic.
Hebrew was used for the Mishnah, while Aramaic was used for the Gemara, the commentary on the Mishnah that together with the Mishnah forms the Talmud
Unless you believe Jesus was just some sort of idiot savant imbued with his own word of god, he would have been bi-lingual. The New Testament is rife with analogs to the Hebrew text. Scholars agree.
Scholars generally agree that the New Testament contains many linguistic terms with origins in the Hebrew language. While the New Testament was written in Koine Greek, it was heavily influenced by Hebrew and Aramaic. This influence is evident in the vocabulary, idioms, and expressions used throughout the New Testament
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@Communist-Doge That's conjecture about Jesus, since there is very little if any evidence of his existence, or Moses for that matter. I look at the history of the region, going back to the Akadians, and it's clear this area's language shifted and changed over time. No question Aramaic was dominant in the 1st Century. I live in a very multi-lingual area of Southern California. Some people live here without ever learning English, with Spanish as their primary language. That's human behavior, something that hasn't changed for perhaps 120,000 years.
If you adhere to the biblical Jesus, it's clear he was a scholar, and most likely part of one of the dominant Jewish schools of the time. There's a debate as to which one. My current guess would be House of Shammai but some say the "Lord's Prayer" is more aligned with Hillel.
500 hundred years later the Byzantines and Persians went to war again, Jerusalem being right in the middle of the conflict. Jews migrated South into the Sinai and Negev where a new Abrahamic religion was born. The timeframe is not a coincidence.
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I agree, freedom is personal, it exists as the power of your individual agency, but as social animals, we need to make good faith agreements with each other, and the best way we've invented to do that is the vote. But we've learned a pure democracy breeds tyranny, and so requires moderation, and that's why America is a Republic, as Ben Franklin said, "If We Can Keep It". Democracy comes FROM the Freedom of the individual, not the other way around. That's what this Bolshevik doesn't want you to know.
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@mohamedm.el-sawymd2325 Dhimmi, Jizya, is not living in "peace", it's being a 2nd class citizen with few rights. I've read much history but willing to learn more. You?
After World War I, there was a narrative within the Ottoman Empire, including elements within the Young Turks movement, that blamed Jews for the defeat and the subsequent collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Here's a nuanced look at this historical phenomenon:
Background: The Young Turks, officially known as the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), were a coalition of reformers who sought to modernize the Ottoman Empire. They took control during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, leading the Empire into World War I on the side of the Central Powers.
Post-War Scapegoating: After the Ottoman Empire's defeat, there was a search for scapegoats. The conditions of the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) were particularly harsh, leading to significant territorial losses and political instability. This environment fostered conspiracy theories and blame-shifting.
Anti-Semitic Propaganda: Some Young Turks and nationalists propagated anti-Semitic theories, claiming that Jews, particularly those in influential positions within the empire or abroad, had conspired against the Ottomans, aiding the Entente Powers. This included claims that Jewish bankers funded the allies or that Zionist movements in Palestine were part of a larger plot against the Ottoman state.
Examples:
Avram Galanti: A Jewish Ottoman intellectual, was accused of spying for Britain due to his Zionist affiliations, despite his loyalty to the Ottoman state.
Newspapers and Pamphlets: Various publications of the time blamed Jews for the economic and military woes, echoing similar anti-Semitic sentiments seen in Europe.
Historical Context: This scapegoating was not unique to the Ottoman Empire; similar sentiments were present in defeated Germany, contributing to the "stab-in-the-back" myth, where Jews were blamed for Germany's loss.
Impact on Policy and Society: These narratives influenced the early years of the Republic of Turkey under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, although Atatürk himself pursued policies more focused on modernization and secularism rather than anti-Semitism. However, the seeds of such conspiracy theories contributed to the broader historical anti-Semitic currents in the region.
Modern Historical Analysis: Historians today view these accusations as part of a broader pattern of xenophobia and nationalism that emerged from the trauma of war and collapse. The narrative was not universally accepted among all factions of the Young Turks or within the broader Ottoman society but was significant enough to influence some political discourse.
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Not about "climate deniers" but those who emotionalize climate to modify human behavior based on models with a very high error rate.
Dry high wind shear is disorganizing Milton. Now moving East, storm surge predictions for Tampa Bay have dramatically decreased since winds will come from the East, not West. Cat 3 still big, still dangerous, and is producing tornado cells, but to conflate this with catastrophic, man-made climate change happening now, is nonsense. Milton is not a record, it ranks 5th in the last 100 years.
My ex-wife is in Clearwater FL, just west of Tampa, so I've been monitoring the weather geeks on the storm. They give facts, not emotion.
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