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"A Florida man accused of killing two children and injuring four other kids in a hit-and-run while he drove with a suspended license, caused a disturbance during his first court appearance Wednesday.
Sean Charles Greer, 27, was hit with several charges, including two counts of leaving the scene of an accident involving death, for Monday's fatal incident, which claimed the lives of Andrea Fleming, 6, and Kylie Jones, 5.
Greer, who has a seven-year-old child of his own, is currently on probation for burglary for breaking into a home in Oakland Park in September 2018 and stealing a PlayStation 4.
Greer's criminal history also includes arrests for trespassing, shoplifting, marijuana possession, driving without a valid license and resisting arrest.
According to prosecutors, Greer's Florida drivers license has been suspended since 2016.
His court-appointed public defender said Greer suffers from asthma, depression and insomnia, the South Florida SunSentinel reported.
In 2017, Greer's estranged girlfriend filed for a restraining order against him after he destroyed her furniture, claiming that he has anger issues. "
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Ok...... What seems to have happened......ready?
It took me ages to figure this out because it is really complex.
She suffered abuse as a child.
She developed a split personality based in guilt as a result......she has a confusion about her name, her identity, her boyfriend, her address.....
She looks like totally different people in many photos.
SO,... inside her is an unresolved, dualistic violence of some kind that made her create sort of a false identity "Ezra Mccandless" ......from Ezra Pound and Chris Mccandless......?
Ezra/Monica fell in love with Jason.....got pregnant......terminated the pregnancy and that broke Ezra/Monica and Jason up.
That terminated pregnancy sent her into a deep depression and is basically the reason for the 2nd act of human death against Alex.
After the termination the relationship between Ezra/Monica and Jason became a minefield of sexless suspicion, frustration, anger etc.....
Alex was lost in his own mental world in a different way.
Alex fell in love with Ezra and often referred to her as male....which she isn't.
Jason hated Alex ......he was a rival for Monica.......
Jason was angry at Alex and believed he took advantage of Monica/Ezra when she went to talk to him about the (fake) rape which she went to the Police about.
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Ezra told Jason she was raped because if she said "I changed my mind"...
she would lose him
She was going crazy on the final day basically.......Jason was ready to attack Alex for stealing and "taking advantage" of his girlfriend when she had just been raped (fake)
She portrayed herself as a victim to Jason but was the aggressor.
Alex told the Police the truth that there was no rape with John and it was consensual.
By telling the truth it destroyed her games.
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What happened when the car broke down is likely Alex seduced her, they had sex, there was Alex's DNA on her leg, he went out to pee after and she stabbed him in the back of the head.
Why?
She had lost control.
Controlling people = tricky Fox
Having sex with Alex again......after leaving Jason standing on the sIdewalk angry... made her crazy......she wanted to be with Jason.
She dud a drawing of herself as a fox stabbing her problems away with a box cutter.
She released her neurotic anger at the abortion, the break up with Jason who she loved, Alex's obsession with her (she drove him to attempt suicide previously and Jason fixed his wounds) into the attack......
which was like a dysfunctional, neurotic sexual release........
In a sense she was acting out Jason's hatred of Alex as a love rival.
That is what happened it seems.....
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People are sick of Boris (Boris is a stage name, a TV persona, his grew up as Al but changed it as PR).
Instead of self protection the UK has created a massive increase in a Police an surveillance state, similar to China, where people are treated like farm animals.
Massive economic decline, orchestrated by a basically illegal yet legitimised, tax haven "The City of London" made it increasingly beholden to China unfortunately.
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Now the same Government that created the greatest economic decline in 300 years is using any reason it can to attack society to recreate the fake class system it was borne from.
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ie a stray dog yesterday resulted in 8 Police vehicles, 2 van and armed patrols,.....even though the dog attacked nobody.
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The Government's fake hierarchy, that the US wisely exited from, has become a witch hunt looking for a witch, when the real witch is it's own deeply corrupt financial process.
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I looked it up
"On May 28, 1998, she killed her husband in his sleep, shooting him three times with a revolver. Around 2am or 3am, she drove to her friend Ron Douglas' house, and confessed, but he did not believe her. At 6:20am, the two of them drove back to the Hartman home where Douglas discovered the body. Douglas subsequently called the police, who arrived on the scene to escort the two children out of the house. Before the police attended to her, Hartman went back into the bedroom and killed herself with a second revolver, shooting herself in the right eye.
Phil Hartman's divorce attorney, Steven Small, stated in a CNN article that Brynn's anger management problems may have contributed to the murder/suicide. In a 1998 People Online article, Small also stated that the couple argued over her alcoholism, her addiction to cocaine and the impending divorce. Each was unhappy and accused the other of not allowing a divorce. According to an article on the website FranksReelReviews.com, she combined cocaine, alcohol, and Zoloft at the Hollywood restaurant Buca di Beppo the night of the murder/suicide."
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"The plant's last Ford engine was the "Dragon" EcoBoost engine, produced from 2018 until February 2020. During its final months, it only made Jaguar AJ-V8 and AJ-V6 engines, themselves discontinued in September 2020.
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By mid-2019, according to Wells, the Bridgend plant had become clearly uneconomic due to its under-utilisation, in turn arising from lack of demand for the engines made there.
Ford decided against manufacturing batteries at Bridgend due to the plant's distance from their vehicle assembly factories, which are all located outside the United Kingdom, hence beyond a customs frontier from January 2021.
In the first half of 2019, Honda and Jaguar Land Rover had already announced UK job losses, and Nissan had cancelled a planned investment in the UK
Amid a global cost-cutting drive and citing a lack of demand for its manufacturing capacity, Ford closed the plant on 25 September 2020"
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@emilyflotilla931
It's a Bible quote
John 4:4-12
8. This we have said in the case where the things done are similar. In the case where they are diverse, we find a man by charity made fierce; and by iniquity made winningly gentle. A father beats a boy, and a boy-stealer caresses. If you name the two things, blows and caresses, who would not choose the caresses, and decline the blows? If you mark the persons, it is charity that beats, iniquity that caresses. See what we are insisting upon; that the deeds of men are only discerned by the root of charity. For many things may be done that have a good appearance, and yet proceed not from the root of charity. For thorns also have flowers: some actions truly seem rough, seem savage; howbeit they are done for discipline at the bidding of charity. Once for all, then, a short precept is given you: Love, and do what you will: whether you hold your peace, through love hold your peace; whether you cry out, through love cry out; whether you correct, through love correct; whether you spare, through love do you spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.
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Stern parted ways with CBS Radio in 2005 to join SiriusXM, and soon after an explosive legal battle began when CBS filed a $500million breach of contract lawsuit against the acclaimed radio host.
Since then, Stern has let his listeners know about his disdain for Moonves, who stands accused of sexual misconduct by six women in a recent New Yorker exposé.
'Les tried to ruin my life,' Stern said, calling Moonves 'Tony Soprano.'
'I had done a pretty good job for these guys, kept their stations afloat, quite frankly, and made them a lot of money, and it was a nice way to end,' he said of his initial parting with CBS.
'Les and Joel Hollander came in and even brought champagne which was lovely, they said we wish you luck' adding they told him 'You gave everything to this company.'
However, once he landed at Sirius he says that he was 'socked' with the suit.
'How do you defend against a corporation? You know they have endless money to f*** with you with lawyers,' Stern said.
'I was so panicked because this is scary. ... I knew this was just some sort of bad, like, ''We're going to f*** with you because you're leaving us.'' It's like a stalker who says, ''You know what? You left me, we broke up, but I'm going to f*** your life up.'' And I didn't do jack sh** to Les Moonves, except make him money, and I was pissed and upset and scared.'
He went on to add: 'I don't have the kind of funds. They were trying to drain me financially. He was trying to f*** me. You think he was f**ing women? He was going to f** me right up the a**, with no lube.'
In the suit, CBS accused Stern of promoting his upcoming gig with Sirius on his CBS Radio show.
Stern said that during a meeting with Moonves, in which he tried to explain to the CEO where he was coming from, he became emotional over the ordeal with his former employer.
'When I say emotional, I start crying in front of Les. I've never really admitted that before. I start crying, actual tears,' Stern said.
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"Now, she’s been accused of scamming her lawyers as well, who are asking to be removed from her employ because she hasn’t been able to pay them for their services.
In a recent court filing, Holmes’s lawyers, who are representing her against the plaintiffs of a class-action fraud lawsuit, are attempting to remove themselves from the case, claiming that they hadn’t been paid by Holmes in almost a year. According to the Washington Post, three lawyers at Cooley LLP, the Palo-Alto-based litigation firm representing Holmes in the suit, are trying to remove themselves from the case, claiming that the firm “has no expectation that Ms. Holmes will ever pay it for its services as her counsel.”"
Rolling Stkne
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What a deeply, fake, ignorant condescending comment.
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Jesus is a myth, Buddhism is a SPECIFIC experience that 99% of the people are blind to and appears in deep meditation.
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You are a parrot or ignorance by your own conformity and illusions.
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You know NOTHING about Jesus and never will, It was likely invented, just as the Bible was amalgamated from Babylonian myths, and Roman cults such as Mithraism.
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Have you seen the Dead Sea Scrolls.
None mention Jesus. Why ?
Jesus was a PROTEST figure to usurp Roman occupation, decadence and abuse..........he could be as real a Santa or Uncle Sam...............it was a protest cult.
Then Rome absorbed it.
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It was all lies because they had no truth.........no real spirituality.........only barbarity, disease and death,
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Buddhism is the only real religion on the planet.
Maybe Christianity is ethics BUT IT IS NOT A RECIPE.
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Enlightenment is the most profound experience a person can have............a person does not know it's there until in deep meditation the Universe takes over the heart, mind body and soul and reclaims itself...........
it is like the appearance of a third arm.
Where "self" preciously was is a glowing orb of light beyond physical form that is the source of intelligence, deep and insight and ALL BEING are connected to it.
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After Enlightenment a person is shown how the universe truly operates.......... it is the real living revelation, not parroting quotes chosen by the Council of Nicea.
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EDUCATE YOURSELF. FREE YOURSELF.
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Free the bondage of ignorance and reciprocation if you want to experience the true depth and REAL MEANING of being human.
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"The man who allegedly pushed a random passerby in front of an oncoming truck has been charged -- and he's accused of attacking two others this week, as well, prosecutors said.
Garrett Boldt, a transient, was arrested for a series of attacks in Los Angeles this week which appeared to be "random and unprovoked," the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said Friday."
".... transient charged with pushing a man into the path of a truck on a downtown Los Angeles street pleaded not guilty to attempted murder Friday, Dec. 7.
Garrett Joseph Boldt, 41, is due back in court Dec. 20. He’s suspected of pushing a man into a downtown Los Angeles street, where the manwas struck by a box truck, and also accosting two women.
The attacks appeared to be random and unprovoked, prosecutors said."
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@sos71800
Watch the full video.
There is a DISTINCT moment when the dogs indicate.
It is not fake.
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"Dogs' sense of smell overpowers our own by orders of magnitude—it's 10,000 to 100,000 times as acute, scientists say. "Let's suppose they're just 10,000 times better," says James Walker, former director of the Sensory Research Institute at Florida State University, who, with several colleagues, came up with that jaw-dropping estimate during a rigorously designed, oft-cited study. "If you make the analogy to vision, what you and I can see at a third of a mile, a dog could see more than 3,000 miles away and still see as well.""
-PBS
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Nearly three times as many people are now dying from flu and pneumonia than coronavirus as Covid-19 deaths drop to the lowest levels in England and Wales since a fortnight b
July 21 2020
Nearly three times as many people are now dying from the flu and pneumonia than coronavirus in England and Wales, official statistics revealed today.
Covid-19 fatalities have dropped to the lowest levels since well before lockdown, with 283 people succumbing to the life-threatening infection in the week ending July 10.
By contrast, 418 coronavirus deaths were recorded in England and Wales in the seven-day spell before and more than 8,000 were registered during the peak of the crisis in April.
It is the lowest figure since the week ending March 13, 10 days before Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the draconian measures to curb the spread of the virus.
For comparison, 917 influenza and pneumonia deaths were registered in the same week. The number of Covid-19 deaths registered — which is always slightly higher than how many occurred — in the same time-frame was 366.
Most recent data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also show the number of fatalities has fallen in all regions of England and Wales as the virus continues to peter out in the UK.
And deaths of any cause are now the lowest they have been all year, with promising statistics showing the number of fatalities has been below average for the past four weeks in a row.
ONS experts explained that Covid-19 likely sped up the deaths of people who would have died of other causes, meaning the year's fatalities have been front-loaded. As a result, fewer people are now dying of causes such as heart disease and dementia because they have already succumbed to the coronavirus.
Separate data last week showed infection levels in the UK have stabilised and scientists suggest the death rate may fall because of warmer weather. There are growing concerns, however, that the virus could return and cause more death and disease in the winter when people are more susceptible.
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@bmc9504
"London needed destroying"
Do you need "destroying" for writing worthless, offensive troll comments?
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The topic is 1973 not future cities.
Can you not read?
Did not bother to watch the video you are commenting on?
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"Greed is a benefit?"
Meaningless rhetoric.
The UK has unprecedented personal and national debt, the Chinese Communist Party is using weaponized manufacturing, elite capture, Confuscious Institute, IP theft and other soft war tactics to control British society by exploiting hierarchy, polarisation of capital and greed.
"3 Oct 2018 · More than 20,000 commercial properties in the capital have been empty for at least six months, with 11,000 of those vacant for two years, according to Centre for London."
16 estates own around 1,453 acres of central London.
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I want to start with a story about rock bands and record companies, and do some recording-contract math:
This story is about a bidding-war band that gets a huge deal with a 20 percent royalty rate and a million-dollar advance. (No bidding-war band ever got a 20 percent royalty, but whatever.) This is my "funny" math based on some reality and I just want to qualify it by saying I'm positive it's better math than what Edgar Bronfman Jr. [the president and CEO of Seagram, which owns Polygram] would provide.
What happens to that million dollars?
They spend half a million to record their album. That leaves the band with $500,000. They pay $100,000 to their manager for 20 percent commission. They pay $25,000 each to their lawyer and business manager.
That leaves $350,000 for the four band members to split. After $170,000 in taxes, there's $180,000 left. That comes out to $45,000 per person.
That's $45,000 to live on for a year until the record gets released.
The record is a big hit and sells a million copies. (How a bidding-war band sells a million copies of its debut record is another rant entirely, but it's based on any basic civics-class knowledge that any of us have about cartels. Put simply, the antitrust laws in this country are basically a joke, protecting us just enough to not have to re-name our park service the Phillip Morris National Park Service.)
So, this band releases two singles and makes two videos. The two videos cost a million dollars to make and 50 percent of the video production costs are recouped out of the band's royalties.
The band gets $200,000 in tour support, which is 100 percent recoupable.
The record company spends $300,000 on independent radio promotion. You have to pay independent promotion to get your song on the radio; independent promotion is a system where the record companies use middlemen so they can pretend not to know that radio stations -- the unified broadcast system -- are getting paid to play their records.
All of those independent promotion costs are charged to the band.
Since the original million-dollar advance is also recoupable, the band owes $2 million to the record company.
If all of the million records are sold at full price with no discounts or record clubs, the band earns $2 million in royalties, since their 20 percent royalty works out to $2 a record.
Two million dollars in royalties minus $2 million in recoupable expenses equals ... zero!
How much does the record company make?
They grossed $11 million.
It costs $500,000 to manufacture the CDs and they advanced the band $1 million. Plus there were $1 million in video costs, $300,000 in radio promotion and $200,000 in tour support.
The company also paid $750,000 in music publishing royalties.
They spent $2.2 million on marketing. That's mostly retail advertising, but marketing also pays for those huge posters of Marilyn Manson in Times Square and the street scouts who drive around in vans handing out black Korn T-shirts and backwards baseball caps. Not to mention trips to Scores and cash for tips for all and sundry.
Add it up and the record company has spent about $4.4 million.
So their profit is $6.6 million; the band may as well be working at a 7-Eleven.
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@josephlupo8969
The Russian Rules of International Sovereignty
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1. If I like it, it's mine.
2. If it's in my hand, it's mine.
3. If I can take it from you, it's mine.
4. If I had it a little while ago, it's mine.
5. If it's mine, it must never appear to be yours in any way.
6. If I'm doing or building something, all the pieces are mine.
7. If it looks just like mine, it is mine.
8. If I saw it first, it's mine.
9. If you are playing with something and you put it down, it automatically becomes mine.
10. If it's broken, it's yours.
11. If it's broken, but you are having fun playing with the pieces, it's mine again.
12. If there is ANY doubt, it's mine.
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There was no "Jesus" it's another Anglicization of Jewish and Arabic.
it's just word games. The closest name is Joshua.....aka yeshua.
Bethelehem doesn't really exist either, it's Beit Lahm...... a storage area for food possibly ; aka House of Bread.
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You think an ant, or a bee, or a butterfly or a bird knows anything about a Jewish man ?
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Jesus is irrelevant.
What is relevant is reality.
The daily experience and connection to a universe that defies human understand...
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For years people said Jesus was buried in the Church of the Sepulchre.
They dug the tomb up recently.
it was empty.
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Stop copying the words of other people and wake to reality.
Buddhism is not fake......it's not even a religion...............it's a recipe.
It is like baking a cake.
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If a human mind is clear of the clouds of that past and sits in concentrated silence an event happens to the mind ; it is like pressing reboot on the computer.
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I'm not explaining to you your own life.
It's up to your to stop mimicry and find yourself instead of projecting lies and ignorance,
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After it fails..........and after the ignorance has gone, reality returns.
Don't look to old books and names................look to reality.................meditate and after months of practise, if you are truly innocent of mind and heart, there will be an eclipse that with vibrate every atom in the unveiorse.
That will be your triumph, your conquest over your ignorance and reality, the truwe prescen will have returned ...........
otherwise it's deferment, lies, confusion and mimicry.
The Dharma has only one path.
Eucharist was Mithraism.
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FIND REALITY FOR YOURSELF....IN YOUR EXPERIENCE.. ...
I am empty handed.
I have nothing to give you.
Only you can undo the conformity and confusion.
Stop lying to people about Jesus or some other name..
Buddhism isn't lies....... it's a path, a real path, with a real meaning.
Learn to mediate. Concentrate in one tiny spot,, breathe through the nose.......
Wait.... for months for years in silence....staring at the dot until the mind is silence of emptiness.
Then....like mercury resting into place, an experience will occur that shatters everything you previously knew.
A new energy is focused and it is permanent.
THAT is Buddhism
It is like invisible spiritual lightning.........static electricity........birth and death.............
People have been to that place of unity and beyond.
This is where the truth of the Dharma was forged.
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@Rodrick Evans
"You have fundamental"
Delusional self projection.
Your mind is projecting.
You know nothing about me in reality.
You are talking about yourself.
Try addressing the topic.
The topic is polarisation of society by wealth, disconnection from nature through human made things (cars houses, vanity etc.....) and over socialization.....
the result is a life of vanity not humanity.
This is the result of capitalism, it becomes disconnected from labour.....consequently disconnected from creativity, joy, natural reality etc.....
See how people function in South and Meso America.
Their ancestors have been there for thousands of years.
They are in tune with family and natures.
Some tribes live in the jungle and have ZERO contact with the outside world.
They are real people, not egotistical fakes, projecting their own psychological issues and latent hostility on others through snide attempts at insult that are ultimately projections.
"You have fundamental innate soul issues." = laughable and meaningless.
It's a silly, childish attempt at an insult, for what?
"fundamental, innate" = tautological
Google cognitive dissonance.
Figure out why you are angry.
See a psychiatrist?
Learn meditation.
EVERYONE should learn meditation.....
Good luck!
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Christopher Hitchens said during a 1993 panel discussion:
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“You all hear it in the everyday practice of Washington. Why should it be that the word partisan is an automatic pejorative in Washington discussion?
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Have you noticed that the word partisan is always an insult and the word bipartisan is always a compliment? If these words, as used, meant what they normally mean, what the consensus would be saying would
be the following: If it goes on like this, partisanship, will end up with a two-party system. Now I don’t believe that this is what they mean to say, but it is the journalism that they actually commit. Always look
to the language. Alway look to what is staring you in the face.
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Always look at the obvious.
In any other discourse the same people would say its the proudest boast of he US, that it is the most politically
pluralist country in the world - but its discourse gives away the secret. The secret is bipartisanship is to be feared because it would mean two parties and the secret is, there is one party - that is a
beltway party, a Washington party, a permanent party, the party of those in power and most of those in the leadership of the Washington equipe of the press are members of it and proud of it and lucky and afraid of
the possibility of falling out of favour.”
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People need to start to be honest about what is going on.
My sister, British, has a Peruvian husband who is an international
banker, .. who lives in London as director of some sort for major banks.
Our family grew up in the US. I'm not biased.....
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People need to understand what the "war on drugs" and the hypocrisy of
cocaine and cannabis laws have had in South America especially Mexico.
It is rife with corruption, kidnappings, murder, and torture of the most
sadistic kind.
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The only solution is make cannabis and cocaine legal; that is an
extemist statement but it is the underlying issue that divides North and
South.
these are just medicines basically, and need to be regulated.
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The cartels are absolutely ruthless and are worse than any substance.
..
I randomly clicked on "man with face peel - cartel" on Liveleak.....I
didn't know what it meant............... and it was these cartel member
who had peeled off a mans face like Xipe Totec (Mexico has a long
history of human sacrifice and cannibalism) .
Don't watch it. It must be the worst thing on the internet and the
killers need to be in jail for the rest of their lives.
The man had no hands, stumps and was stuggling to speak, his eyes were
cut out and he was still alive.....he had no face.....
It traumatised me. I couldn't watch it. I watched a few seconds and that
was it.
I strongly advise not watching it..... it's not a movie...... it's
misery, pain, torture, depravity normalised and murder.
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A bunch of Mexican men were standing around doing this to him to inflict
the most brutal pain possible before killing him.
Apparently he owned some money....who knows.....
It's sick, he looked like a living skeleton with no eyes and was still
alive as they tortured him more.
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I wasn't clicking though some weird internet sites...... this is on
liveleak
I didn't know what face peeled meant and it meant exactly that.
The cartels are perverse in gruesome Aztec like torture.
The worst part is that it has become normal. They do that often.
They stuck one flayed face on a soccer ball.
"The Mexican Drug War - a sustained, violent conflict between powerful
drug cartels and the Mexican government - has claimed an estimated
164,000 lives over the past decade. This rampant bloodshed has torn
apart cities and
communities across Mexico, often taking the lives of the innocent along
with those directly involved. The grim headlines are splashed across the
news on a daily basis: "59 bodies found in eight mass graves near San
Fernando," "9 bodies hanged from bridge and 14 decapitated heads found,"
"Bone fragment found amid ashes and burned tire confirms 43 students
were murdered by Mexican drug cartel."
The endless death can seem hard to truly comprehend in its staggering
totals, but it's way more gruesome than you could ever imagine. The
cartels in this drug war have a penchant for one-upsmanship. In their
mission to send a message to their rivals, the cartels (The Sinaloa, Los
Zetas, The Gulf Cartel, and the Knights Templar, most notably) continue
to escalate their violence in new and horrifying ways, often recording
it to be shared across the web."
https://www.ranker.com/list/brutal-execution-methods-used-by-mexican-drug-cartels/harrison-tenpas
South America is the same continent...... the US is going to have to solve this situation with Mexico not against Mexico.
Violence will not stop it or walls or hypocrisy.
Deep strategic solutions will stop it.
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So I'm not convinced a wall will work...... the solutions are different.
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The people on the march are normal people who would help society and the economy.
The criminals and killers need to be brought to justice
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@Digizzzzs
@Kevin Mas
You must have the intelligence of a chicken
Research the article.
It is FAKE NEWS........it is media manipulation.
Sensational? Yes. True? No.
Bell was the one who was rehearsing her short program, not Lim, which means Bell had the right of way on the ice and it was Lim’s job to get out of her way. Videotape shot from the stands shows Bell skating backwards at a relatively rapid pace near the boards with Lim in her path. At that point, Bell would not have been able to see Lim -- but Lim had the responsibility to see Bell and move out of the way.
This is protocol for every skater at every competition, where six skaters share the ice on practice sessions and warmups.
What’s more, because Lim trains with Bell, she certainly should know Bell’s short program after seeing it on training sessions for months. All skaters get to know what their training partners and competitors are doing, including where they are headed and where their jumps, spins and other moves are placed on the ice.
As Bell went by Lim, she started to turn to go forward, and apparently her skate blade slightly cut Lim’s leg. Both skaters were able to compete in the short program later in the day, and both did very well, with Lim finishing fifth with a personal-best score and Bell sixth.
This is not the first time there has been a collision involving two skaters in a competition. In fact, it would be unusual for an event like the worlds or Olympics to go by without a practice collision. The same day as the Bell-Lim scrap, there was a much more spectacular crash: French pairs skater Vanessa James was skating backwards when she and Italy’s Matteo Guarise slammed into each other at full speed during the warmup before the pairs competition."
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"After issuing an appeal to the public, police arrested Chiengkham 'Cindy' Vilaysane, 31, who was taken into custody on suspicion of child endangerment, child neglect and being under the influence of controlled substances.
The child wandered away from Vilaysane while they were in the Riverside store together on Sunday.
When another shopper brought her daughter back to the her, Vilaysane said to 'just leave her', according to police.
Vilaysane then continued her shopping, checked out at the cashier's desk, and exited the store without her daughter.
The girl was found around 5pm at the Food-4-Less on Van Buren Boulevard, unharmed but alone.
Vilaysane's social media pages list her as being 32 years old and say that her daughter's name is Danica.
She posted a number of loving photos of the two together, but posted on March 2 that she was 'ready to leave whenever' with her 'husband to be'.
Vilaysane also has an older daughter, who lives with her father, police said."
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@spiritwalker9903
Yes.... relationships can be tumultuous occasionally, but her issues of denial (denial of motherhood, denial of biologicsl gender gender, denial of intimacy, denial of truth etc...) combined with Jason's extreme hatred to John (and likely Alex) for a preceived betrayal...
seemed to create a volatile situation.
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People should be wary sbout getting mixed up in broken relationships IMO.
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She went crazy....
They all were smokers..... Alex, Jason and Monica/Ezra.
The cigarette addiction, as with other addictions, create a passive/aggressive destructive aspect in people's characters..... an unfortunately that can be projected on others.
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IMO if she did not terminate the pregnancy she would likely have resolved many previous issues.
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It us a sad story.
Alex was in love with her too....
which makes the situation even more sad and shocking.
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I noticed on her Instagram page she was a fan of horror movies.
Maybe there was a role play aspect to it ?
She obviously had issues but I don't blame her parents...... except in the dact that they should have all seen psychiatrists.
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IMO meditation, silence, breathing, exercise, laughter and nature are vital to healthy minds.
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No, it's more troll factory BS.
Notice how a bunch of similar comments appeared immediately ?
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That is the first time it has been stated on here and a bunch of the same comments pop up one after the other ?
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there is an organized group on social media as part of a Russian war strategy to influence public opinion.
Whether this guy is part of it ....who knows.......
LEARN TO READ AND ADDRESS THE REALITY
the Syrian volunteer rescue workers known as the White Helmets have
become the target of an extraordinary disinformation campaign that
positions them as an al-Qaida-linked terrorist organisation.
The Guardian has uncovered how this counter-narrative is propagated online by a network of anti-imperialist activists, conspiracy theorists and trolls with the support of the Russian government (which provides military support to the Syrian regime).
The White Helmets, officially known as the Syria
Civil Defence, is a humanitarian organisation made up of 3,400
volunteers – former teachers, engineers, tailors and firefighters – who
rush to pull people from the rubble when bombs rain down on Syrian
civilians. They’ve been credited with saving thousands of civilians
during the country’s continuing civil war.
They have also exposed, through first-hand video footage, war crimes including a chemical attack in April. Their work was the subject of an Oscar-winning Netflix documentary and the recipient of two Nobel peace prize nominations.
Despite this positive international recognition, there’s a
counter-narrative pushed by a vocal network of individuals who write for
alternative news sites countering the “MSM agenda”. Their views align
with the positions of Syria and Russia and attract an enormous online
audience, amplified by high-profile alt-right personalities, appearances
on Russian state TV and an army of Twitter bots.
The way the Russian propaganda machine has targeted the White Helmets
is a neat case study in the prevailing information wars. It exposes
just how rumours, conspiracy theories and half-truths bubble to the top
of YouTube, Google and Twitter search algorithms.
“This is the heart of Russian propaganda. In the old days they would
try and portray the Soviet Union as a model society. Now it’s about
confusing every issue with so many narratives that people can’t
recognise the truth when they see it,” said David Patrikarakos, author
of War in 140 Characters: How Social Media is Reshaping Conflict in the
21st Century.
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Vox Populi
"Of the world’s 100 most polluted cities, 99 are in Asia
The world’s filthiest air is in India, but weighted by population it’s worse in Bangladesh. China’s notoriously unbreathable air is improving, while Jakarta is in danger of out-smogging Beijing, data from air monitoring stations all over the world has revealed.
Of the 100 most polluted cities in the world in 2018, 99 were in Asia, according to a global report on annual air pollution levels by Beijing-based monitoring firm AirVisual
Half of the world’s 50 most polluted cities are in India, and 22 are in China, with Pakistani and Bangladeshi cities making up the rest. In the top 100 smoggiest cities, 33 are in India, and 57 are in China."
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MAY 2019
Australia is the second largest exporter of thermal coal in the world, with 208m tonnes worth $26bn exported last year. About 20% of that went to China.
In 2016, Australia was the biggest net exporter of coal, with 32% of global exports (389 Mt out of 1,213 Mt total), and was the fourth-highest producer with 6.9% of global production (503 Mt out of 7,269 Mt total). 77% of production was exported (389 Mt out of 503 Mt total)
Buyers = mass polluters ....China, India etc....
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@sprocket-YT
via CNBC
China—Not Wall Street—Caused 2008 Crisis: Study
According to a new study, China, not Wall Street bankers, was responsible for the global crisisand the ensuing recession (learn more).
The study from the Erasmus Research Institute of Management said the saving frenzy of the Chinese created the cheap money, which fueled the U.S. housing bubble and its collapse.
Heleen Mees, writer of the study and adjunct associate professor at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, said that exotic mortgage products could hardly have been the cause of the U.S. housing market bubbleand its ultimate collapse.
According to the study, mortgages with those special features — like mortgage-backed securities (learn more) and CDOs (learn more) — accounted for less than five percent of the total number of new mortgages from 2000 to 2006.
Mees, who also is the author of three books and contributor for Foreign Policy magazine, says it was the “loose” monetary policy of the U.S. Federal Reserve (learn more) at the beginning of the decade which sparked a refinancing boom in the U.S. in 2003 and 2004 and a growth in personal spending. This U.S. spending binge fueled economic growth in China and in turn boosted total savings in that country.
The study, which compared financial market responses to U.S., Chinese, and German quarterly gross domestic product (learn more) from 2006 through 2009, shows that the Chinese have been saving more than half of their GDP during that time. Those savings were heavily skewed towards fixed-income assets, like government bonds, and depressed interest rates worldwide from 2004 on.
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@kevinmas19
You must have the intelligence of a chicken
Research the article.
It is FAKE NEWS........it is media manipulation.
Sensational? Yes. True? No.
Bell was the one who was rehearsing her short program, not Lim, which means Bell had the right of way on the ice and it was Lim’s job to get out of her way. Videotape shot from the stands shows Bell skating backwards at a relatively rapid pace near the boards with Lim in her path. At that point, Bell would not have been able to see Lim -- but Lim had the responsibility to see Bell and move out of the way.
This is protocol for every skater at every competition, where six skaters share the ice on practice sessions and warmups.
What’s more, because Lim trains with Bell, she certainly should know Bell’s short program after seeing it on training sessions for months. All skaters get to know what their training partners and competitors are doing, including where they are headed and where their jumps, spins and other moves are placed on the ice.
As Bell went by Lim, she started to turn to go forward, and apparently her skate blade slightly cut Lim’s leg. Both skaters were able to compete in the short program later in the day, and both did very well, with Lim finishing fifth with a personal-best score and Bell sixth.
This is not the first time there has been a collision involving two skaters in a competition. In fact, it would be unusual for an event like the worlds or Olympics to go by without a practice collision. The same day as the Bell-Lim scrap, there was a much more spectacular crash: French pairs skater Vanessa James was skating backwards when she and Italy’s Matteo Guarise slammed into each other at full speed during the warmup before the pairs competition."
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North America over commercialized then moralized the plant.....yuk.......
Historically the Spanish persecuted of killed those that refused to abandon traditional beliefs.
"Many traditional groups preserved their spiritual practices within a Christian framework resulting in a religion that worships plants, fungi and Catholic saints simultaneously"
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He was refused by two shamans who did not believe his intentions were pure.
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"It's not a drug to us. It's a medicinal plant"
"The appropriate way is to drink them, it is called the shepherdess" said the Shaman lady.
"The plant is called Pastora and when it was planted for the very first time Mother Earth vibrated itself."
"These leaves are sacred, we must treat them with respect".....
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The Mazatecs drink and juice of the leaves and eat rolled leaves which are chewed and swallowed.
He is a give a large size cup full of salvia juice, and the lady gives him a blessing like the Eucharist :
"in the name of the father, the son, the holy ghost, make him find peace in these leaves. Make the leaves enlighten him....from here to infinity. Bless him pastora"
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then she says
"Hail Mary full of Grace, our Lord is with thee and blessed is the fruit of they womb, Jesus, blessed is your son Jesus, blessed be the Holy Ghost, Holy Father, Holy God, Mighty God"
and gives him ANOTHER large cup of Salvia
Then she wafts him with a wand of leaves.
"Pastora Mother, brighten him up, give him wisdom, mother of my sons. Cure him Pastora Mother.
Help him, Help him to understand. Give him strength and maturity.
Healing water you must help him. Help him Pastora mother."
then she marks the center of his forehead and strokes his torso down as he sits with his eyes closed.
The drinking didn't give him a strong effect.
Chewing did due to "prolonged contact with the mucus membrane"
"So serene, so earthly father, that he be healed, that his veins be healed, that his kidneys be healed, that he formulates beautiful words, that he speaks, that he talks, that he shows his speaking and breath, with calm father, with calm and peacefulness, Hamilton, with calm and peacefulness. Bless him everywhere. Just heal him that he reflects dear Pastora"
The she sings gently........
"with serenity, so earthly, so cool, give life give goodness, which we demand of you,"
"all the good, all the soft, Mother, all the good, slowly, calmly, we can find what we have, in our minds and in our body, this is what we can see, through this experience, the way heaven is, the wonder of this world"
"patiently Lord, ever present, bless him, from above, bless him everywhere, give him wellness and life calmly, successfully as on the earth, little Pastora mother, peacefully, bless him from above, bless him everywhere, father ever present help him"
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Then he lays on the floor and she gently sings over him
"God bless him from above, bless him everywhere father of heavens, help him father help him, give him your wellness and his.
The she rubs his chest and he lay on the floor with his mouth open to summon the spirit of the plants. Then she summoned him to dance and he "reached a transformed state of being"
She gently sings......."That was beautiful Pastora"
"You are wonderful Lord, give him peace of heart and mind, Lord,
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He finally says something..... "it's the greatest plant"
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She massages his head and says " he is being healed"
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He said it was "one of the best experiences of his life" and thanked the Shaman for the wonderful songs.
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Maybe Shamanism is really the original religion of the Americas ?
Maybe a lack of connection and respect for nature is responsible for many problems in North America and the world ?
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@Longtack55
"Looking for evidence"
"The Wuhan-based doctor who first raised the alarm over the coronavirus outbreak in China has reportedly gone missing.
Ai Fen hasn't been seen for days and some fear she could be the latest high-profile person critical of Beijing's handling of COVID-19 to disappear without a trace, "60 Minutes, Australia" reported."
"They posted videos online, shared pictures and dramatic stories from inside the quarantined city that has been virtually cut off from the rest of the country.
Now, they are nowhere to be found.
Fang Bin and Chen Qiushi were both determined to share what they could about the crisis, reporting from Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, and sending what they found out into the world.
As a result, they racked up thousands of views on their videos. But their channels have now gone quiet, and those who followed them online fear they may have disappeared for good."
"Chinese Tycoon Who Criticized Xi’s Response to Coronavirus Has Vanished
Ren Zhiqiang appears to be the latest government critic silenced by the Communist Party as it cracks down on dissent over the epidemic."
""Li Zehua, 25, a citizen journalist in Wuhan, is being chased. Wearing a facemask underneath a baseball cap, he quickly records a video while driving. “I’m on the road and someone, I don’t know, state security, has started chasing me,” he says breathlessly. “I’m driving very fast. Help me.”
Later, Li posts a live stream of himself in an apartment, waiting for those same agents to knock on his door, probably to detain him. In an impassioned monologue, he explains why he quit a stable job at China’s state broadcaster, CCTV, and how he came to Wuhan on his own.
“I don’t want to remain silent, or shut my eyes and ears. It’s not that I can’t have a nice life, with a wife and kids. I can. I’m doing this because I hope more young people can, like me, stand up,” he says. The live stream, posted on Weibo, where it was later deleted, and on YouTube, shows two men in plain clothes entering the apartment and then cuts out.""
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@OakedRS
an average year ie 2012
259 justified homicides?
259 justifiable homicides with the theft of about 232,000 guns each year, about 172,000 of them during burglaries.
That's a ratio of one justifiable homicide for every 896 guns put in the hands of criminals.
Those 259 justifiable homicides also pale compared with, in the same year, 8,342 criminal homicides using guns, 20,666 suicides with guns, and 548 fatal unintentional shootings, according to the FBI's Supplemental Homicide Report.
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justin holmes
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As any American student can tell you, Independence Day in a nutshell was the rebellious, teen-aged colonies finally having it out with their overbearing mother country. And France helped too.
It's probably more helpful to look at the war through the lens of the power struggle between France and England. The Revolution was, in many ways, more of an episode in their drama, as opposed to an earth-shaking event, in and of itself.
The Revolution took place on the heels of the French and Indian War — one of the theaters of the Seven Years' War between the two European powers.
That North American clash provided a prelude to the Revolution, launching George Washington's military career and prompting a victorious but cash-strapped England to raise taxes on its colonies.
France's eventual decision to dive into the fight on the side of the colonists was a chance for payback.
That being said, it's understandable why the American Revolution is a bigger deal in the US than other countries— it is our history, after all. Plus, it's probably fair to say that the rebellion, along with the spread of the Enlightenment, sparked future global changes, including the French Revolution. "
National Geographic
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justin holmes
Myths of The American Revolution
France began providing arms and ammunition as early as 1776 (the war started in 1775). In early 1777, months before Saratoga, the French sent American colonists 25,000 uniforms and pairs of boots, hundreds of cannons, and thousands of muskets -- all stuff that the colonists would've had a hard time surviving without, and all stuff they had no access to on their own. And that was just the tip of the iceberg: From supplies to advice to military reinforcements, France exercised all the fiscal restraint of a drunk businessman at a strip club when it came to funding the American war.
France provided a whopping 90 percent of the rebels' gunpowder. Let that sink in for a second. Without France, the entire American Revolution would have devolved into a bunch of dudes swinging their muskets as clubs within weeks.
Still, the most important French contribution to the revolution (or, if you're British, their ultimate dick move) was the least visible to Americans. As mentioned, the reason France pampered the Patriots was always selfish. They were out to weaken the British forces -- particularly their naval strength -- in order to take the fight to them, perhaps even conquer them. That's why, for much of the Revolutionary War, the British ships tasked with kicking America's ass had to survive 12 rounds with the French navy before they could even think of crossing the Atlantic. France gleefully fought the British, eventually teaming up with Spain, declaring a war, attacking from all sides, and even setting up an invasion force. In those battles, America's independence was a fart in the desert.
So, when the Colonial army was fighting for dear freedom, history books tend to conveniently forget that they did so with French money, equipment, and backup forces, while France and its other allies were busy pummeling the empire from every other side.
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Photos.com
The Myth
The American Revolution is an 18th century David and Goliath tale. The Americans defeated the mightiest army of its time -- a force that was vastly superior in every way, except for their love of freedom.
The Reality
When war broke out, the Colonies boasted a population of 2.5 million. Even with just a third of them actively supporting the revolution, and just, say, a quarter of them able-bodied men, the British still had a hell of a crowd to contend with ... especially when you consider the fact that just 40,000 British soldiers were expected to subdue them. That's 40,000 soldiers facing 2.5 million people, spread out over thousands of miles, each of them a potential enemy until proven otherwise.
Colonists never, ever faced the fearsome British army of the late empire. For the most part, the field armies tasked with suppressing the rebellion were softened units that hadn't seen combat in a decade. As for asking for backup, no matter how belated: There was none to send. In 1776, the total manpower of British military might reached 96,000. That was their entire worldwide strength. With these men, the British were fighting the Patriots, while holding Caribbean possessions, while manning their stations at Gibraltar and Minorca, and Ireland, and Gold Coast territories ... and defending England itself.
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justin holmes
"why don't you"
ad hominem fallacy
"Ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument,"
Back on topic.
In the past 200 years, the Constitution has been amended 27 times. The 13th Amendment, in 1865, forever banned the practice of slavery
If the constitution cannot be changed to improve society...... AS YOU REACTIVELY IMPLY
why has it ALREADY been changed so many times ?
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Removing or clarifying the second Amendment towards the NOW EXISTING army (as it was intended) would make families, homes, workplaces, Police and schools far safer.
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That is what happened in Australia.
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via Daily Mail
"group of men who threw 40 kicks and punches at an American student during an 'unprovoked' attack which left him with post-traumatic stress disorder have been jailed for more than 15 years.
U.S. student Francesco Hounye, 23, had only been in Britain for three days when he was left permanently scarred after being attacked by the gang as he walked home following a night out in Shadwell, east London.
Mr Hounye suffered a fractured eye socket and was left needing 23 stitches after being kicked repeatedly in the head by the five men, who also grabbed a bottle of Jagermeister liquor from his hand and smashed it over his head.
According to police, Mr Hounye was assaulted simply because he was 'obviously not local'.
Samad Uddin, 25, Shaleem Uddin, 21, Shadhat Hussain, 20, Kamrul Hussain, 23, and Masoom Rahman, 22, were today jailed at Snaresbrook Crown Court for the attack"
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@magalipearl7
Recreational indignation?
Contrarianism?
Wearing a mask in a bank is also completely innocuous?
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Sometimes people have many identities, ie schizophrenia
That is normal too?
Sometimes people use many disguises and different names to different people.
"In psychology, identity crisis is the failure to achieve ego identity during adolescence. The term was coined by German psychologist Erik Erikson. The stage of psychosocial development in which identity crisis may occur is called the identity cohesion vs. role confusion."
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If someone behaves to you in a certain way and uses a certain name, then behaves to another person in another way with a different name....... that would not be a red flag?
The woman denied her birth name and birth gender.....
that is normal ?
She is not a lesbian.
Why did she carve "boy" into her arm?
Why a denial of reality?
She is not a boy, or a cauliflower, or a marsupial, or a fish......
The anxiety of duplicity, lies, manipulation, fakery etc.... exploded into a reflection of her violent, unstable upbringing ?
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@jenntip
Yes !
Let's keep this thread going!
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"France provided the lab's design, biosafety training, and much of its technology before the BSL-4 level lab - now at the centre of storm over an alleged lab leak - officially opened in 2018.
And under the agreement between Paris and Beijing, some 50 French scientists were sent to help train the Chinese lab workers and supervise the work of the researchers.
But cooperation between France and China came to a halt in 2017 when the French scientists were "kicked out", prompting concerns about China's motivations, Asher said.
And French security and defense experts had already opposed the collaboration between the two countries, the newspaper Le Figaro reported.
National security officials did not want to share sensitive technology with China as they feared the lab could one day be transformed into a "biological arsenal", according to Le Figaro.
The US State Department has already claimed that the Wuhan institute had engaged in classified research on behalf of the Chinese military since 2017.
Asher said US federal funding to the lab should have been halted when the French warned the US State Department in 2015.
"The Chinese basically sucked State into its honey pot operation to gain access to US technology, knowledge, and material support. Classic. Just as they have done in every sector," Asher said.
He said the State Department officials "in charge of nonproliferation should have shut down all cooperation".
Between October 2009 and May 2019, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) provided $1.1 million to the US-based EcoHealth Alliance for a sub-agreement with the lab, according to USAID.""
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@Moabi4
"Britain’s manufacturing sector has shrunk in the past decade by almost 600,000 jobs to leave fewer than 3 million workers employed in the sector.
A study by the GMB union found that every region in the UK has suffered a decline in manufacturing employment over 10 years, with London, Scotland and the north-west the worst affected.
In 2007, the UK supported 3.5m permanent and temporary manufacturing jobs – more than 12% of the all British employment – but by 2016 that had slumped to 2.9m , or 9.2% of the total, the union said. "
"the US had hemorrhaged manufacturing jobs, losing close to 5 million of them since 2000. "
"In the four decades between 1960 and 2000, US manufacturing employment was basically stable, averaging around 17.5 million jobs. Even during the 1980s and 1990s, as Korea and other smaller Asian nations joined the ranks of Germany and Japan to threaten the dominance of US factories, the absolute number of manufacturing workers stayed mostly flat. That’s why what happened next is so alarming.
Between 2000 and 2010, manufacturing employment plummeted by a third. Nearly 6 million American factory workers lost their jobs. The drop was unprecedented—worse than any decade in US manufacturing history. Even during the Great Depression, factory jobs shrunk by only 31%, according to a Information Technology & Innovation Foundation report. Though the sector recovered slightly since then, America’s manufacturing workforce is still more than 26% smaller than it was in 2000."
"China’s accession to the WTO in 2001—set in motion by president Bill Clinton—sparked a sharp drop in US manufacturing employment. That’s because when China joined the WTO, it extinguished the risk that the US might retaliate against the Chinese government’s mercantilist currency and protectionist industrial policies by raising tariffs. International companies that set up shop in China therefore enjoyed the benefits of cheap labor, as well as a huge competitive edge from the Chinese government’s artificial cheapening of the yuan."
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@Dressage Man1
"The Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization. Most of these climate changes are attributed to very small variations in Earth’s orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives.
The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere.4 Most of the warming occurred in the past 35 years, with the five warmest years on record taking place since 2010. Not only was 2016 the warmest year on record, but eight of the 12 months that make up the year — from January through September, with the exception of June — were the warmest on record for those respective months.
The oceans have absorbed much of this increased heat, with the top 700 meters (about 2,300 feet) of ocean showing warming of more than 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass. Data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment show Greenland lost an average of 286 billion tons of ice per year between 1993 and 2016, while Antarctica lost about 127 billion tons of ice per year during the same time period. The rate of Antarctica ice mass loss has tripled in the last decade
The number of record high temperature events in the United States has been increasing, while the number of record low temperature events has been decreasing, since 1950. The U.S. has also witnessed increasing numbers of intense rainfall events."
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@zhangbaweiba9033
Orwell : Animal Farm
it's a metaphor for Chinese Communist Party destroying the real Chinese culture
""Gentlemen," concluded Napoleon, "I will give you the same toast as before, but in a different form. Fill your glasses to the brim. Gentlemen, here is my toast: To the prosperity of The Manor Farm!" There was the same hearty cheering as before, and the mugs were emptied to the dregs. But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemed to them that some strange thing was happening. What was it that had altered in the faces of the pigs? Clover's old dim eyes flitted from one face to another. Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three. But what was it that seemed to be melting and changing? Then, the applause having come to an end, the company took up their cards and continued the game that had been interrupted, and the animals crept silently away. But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously. Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
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@bmc9504
"Asian Africa"?
"London needs destroying"?
Off topic. Meaningless.
TOPIC:
Income inequality is significantly greater in London than elsewhere in England. ... 50% of London's wealth is earned by the richest 10% of its households, while the bottom 50% own just over 5%. And someone just inside the top 10% in terms of wealth owns 295 times more than someone just inside the bottom 10%.
Income inequality among working-age people has risen faster in Britain than in any other rich nation since the mid-1970s, according to a report by the OECD.
the dramatic rise in inequality has been fuelled by the creation of a super-rich class. The share of the top 1% of income earners increased from 7.1% in 1970 to 14.3% in 2005.
Just prior to the global recession, the OECD says the very top of British society – the 0.1% of highest earners – accounted for a remarkable 5% of total pre-tax income, a level of wealth hoarding not seen since the second world war.
At the same time as accumulating great wealth, the rich have seen tax rates fall. The top marginal income tax rate dropped from 60% in the 1980s to 40% in the 2000s, before its recent increase to 50%.
The buildup of riches was partly economic: the higher-paid worked longer. Since the mid-1980s, annual hours of low-wage workers remained stable at around 1,050, while those of high-wage workers rose almost 10% to 2,450 hours.
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@ComeFlyWithMe2011
"nothing new"
In January 2014, Motorola Mobility was sold by Google to Chinese computer corporation, Lenovo, which means that the nation that invented smart phones is just about entirely out of the business of producing smart phones in America. This acquisition will give one of China's most prominent technology companies a broader foothold in the U. S. Lenovo is the same company that bought IBM’s line of personal computers in 2004.
Through strategic purchases, China is positioning itself to be our energy supplier as well. Since 2009, Chinese companies have invested billions of dollars acquiring significant percentages of shares of energy companies, such as The AES Corp., Chesapeake Energy, and Oil & Gas Assets. In 2010, China Communications Construction Co. bought 100% of Friede Goldman United, and in 2012, A-Tech Wind Power (Jiangxi) bought 100% of Cirrus Wind Energy.
In a Fortune article titled “The Biggest American Companies Now Owned by the Chinese,” Stephen Gandel provides the following list of American companies acquired by Chinese investors in 2016:
Starwood Hotels acquired by Anbang Insurance, a Chinese insurance company that is rapidly buying up U.S. hotels...It is the latest hotel acquisition by the Chinese insurer, which last year bought the company that owns New York’s Waldorf-Astoria. Starwood would add 1,300 hotels around the world to Anbang’s portfolio.
Ingram Micro, which is No. 62 on the Fortune 500, bought by Tianjin Tianhai Investment Development Co., a Chinese firm that specializes in aviation and logistics.
General Electric Appliance Business was bought by Qingdao Haier Co.
Terex Corp., an 83-year-old Connecticut-based company that makes machinery for construction, agricultural, and industrial purposes, was bought by Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science.
Legendary Entertainment Group, which has co-financed a number of major movies like Jurassic Park, Godzilla, and Pacific Rim, was bought by Dalian Wanda
Dalian Wanda also bought AMC Entertainment Holdings, the U.S.’s second largest movie chain at the time of purchase, but now #1.
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You stand alongside Alex Jones and paid Russian trolls trying to undermine help for the injured.
TRY READING : This is Wired since you have educational difficulties in reading The Guardian.
"Syria Civil Defence is a volunteer corps of 3,300 first responders, fighting a losing battle in a devastated nation. You've likely seen its members—known as White Helmets—in photos on social media, carrying dusty, injured children out of bombsites. They've saved nearly 100,000 Syrians who otherwise would have been fatalities of the country's ongoing civil war. They were nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize last year.
And simply by listing those facts, this story has become "fake news."
While the White Helmets might seem like the poster children for feel-bad humanitarianism, they've in fact become the target of a internet smear campaign, one designed to bolster the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and undermine its opponents, including the United States. Various White Helmet "truthers"—who range from Assad and his supporters to Russian embassies, and even to Alex Jones—accuse the group of staging rescue photos, belonging to al Qaeda, and being pawns of liberal bogeyman George Soros. The story of how that conspiracy grew is a perfect distillation of how disinformation can spread unchecked, supplanting fact with frenzy where no support exists.
Start With Lack of Information
Like any conspiracy theory, this one feeds on ignorance. Most outside Syria only know the conflict's broad strokes, and thus have little reason to doubt seemingly authoritative sources. "Disasters are an opportunistic social media moment," says Brian Houston, director of the Disaster and Community Crisis Center at the University of Missouri. "If you heard about a storm and you saw someone tweeting pictures of a tornado, why wouldn't you believe it was the right one?" That presumed trust provides the perfect growth medium for disinformation, like when Reddit erroneously treated an art project like a news dispatch.
It also gives bad actors fertile ground to sow disinformation—actors like ISIS, which has already leveraged the power of shareable content. "Jihadists are translating their core ideas into pictorial memes, like the one-finger salute that stands for the oneness of God and the destruction of the West," says Jytte Klausen, who teaches courses on terrorism and international relations at Brandeis University. In the war for hearts and minds, a photo beats a big block of text any day.
But in the cast of the one-finger salute, it's also a prime opportunity for fueling a conspiracy theory. After all, you see even non-ISIS members raising a single finger all over the place. Like, say, Obama. Or even the White Helmets:
First, though, let's go back to the beginning. Syrian and Russian pro-Assad groups first seeded the brouhaha by suggesting that White Helmets were faking photos of the bombing victims they rescue.
These images went viral after a pro-Assad reporter who often writes for Kremlin-sponsored RT claimed that the White Helmets were "recycling" victims to make the Assad regime look bad. (The claim has since been debunked.) Still, facial comparisons—especially low-res photos of people covered in dust—remain a powerful propaganda tool. "People think images are a language they automatically understand," Klausen says. "But they often get it wrong."
From Al-Qaeda to NATO
The next link in the chain came courtesy of Assad himself. *"*White Helmets are Al-Qaeda members and that's proven on the net," Assad told RT. White Helmets do operate in areas controlled by Islamist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, which used to be a division of Al-Qaeda, but claims of any connection between the two groups have also been debunked.
The fact that NATO has been consistently anti-Assad and pro-sanctions against Russia makes clear why Assad and Putin supporters might want to connect the White Helmets with NATO—but when a US-based website propagates that link, it also raises the specter of a far-right classic: the great globalist conspiracy. Enter Alex Jones' Infowars, which claims that not only are the White Helmets potentially responsible for the recent sarin gas attack, but also linked to George Soros. (Liberal billionaire Soros, according to many corners of the far-right internet, is actually a nefarious Jewish puppet master trying to sell out the average American.)Thus closeth the loop: From al-Qaeda to NATO to George Soros. All of which has created a wholly unfounded cloud of doubt over the organization. "I have seen people uninvolved in the Syria conflict calling them 'the controversial White Helmets,'" says Joey Ayoub, Middle East editor for Global Voices, who has worked with the White Helmets. "That in itself is a victory."
Even if only semantic, allowing that doubt to linger justifies not only Russia's support of Assad, but also its pro-Assad military tactics—which includes targeting the White Helmets themselves. "Russians have used the 'double tap' strategy against the White Helmets," Ayoub says. "They bomb an area, wait a certain amount of time until the first responders come, and bomb it again."
That's war. That's terrible. And that's what the White Helmet controversy is distracting from. Questioning everything on the internet is a good axiom, but only when people question accusations as much as they do adulation. If no one—not even a first responder—is worth saving in Syria, it makes it awfully easy to justify killing them."
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Seriously, look at the crime and corruption in Russia, look at the mass killings of the STalin purges, look at the assassination today in Britain of a former diplomat and understand why Russia is regarded as a dysfunctional "Mafia State".
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If you don't think there are trolls, under fake names, like "Nahuatl" trying to influence news media "love your site", as part of a warfare in Syira .........then you are wrong.
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Bob Woodward has had an impressive career in journalism, with many notable achievements. Here are some of his key accomplishments:
* Pulitzer Prizes: Woodward has won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his coverage of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein, and another for his reporting on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
* Bestselling books: Woodward has written numerous bestselling books on American politics, including books on the last ten presidents and insider accounts of key moments in American history, such as the Iraq War and the Trump presidency.
* Innovative reporting: Woodward is known for his deep background reporting and his use of innovative techniques, such as knocking on doors unannounced, to get interviews with key sources.
* Influence on journalism: Woodward's work has been influential in shaping modern investigative journalism, and his methods have been widely studied and emulated by other journalists.
Overall, Woodward's achievements have made him a key figure in American journalism, and his work has had a lasting impact on American politics and society.
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That is the result.
The result has context.
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.“Boris, well, he’s the life and soul of the party but he’s not the man you want driving you home at the end of the evening.”
Cabinet minister Amber Rudd, speaking during a 2016 debate before the Brexit referendum
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“It is a common mistake to suppose Johnson a nice man. In reality he often behaves unpleasantly.”
Max Hastings, Johnson’s editor at the Daily Telegraph, in a 2018 column for the Times
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“[He is] much diminished in terms of integrity, in terms of political courage and in terms of credibility… I used to think he would be fantastic at Number 10 but those days look a long time ago.”
2018 BBC interview with Guto Harri, director of communications for Johnson’s mayoral administration, 2008-2012
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“I wanted to help build a team behind Boris Johnson so that a politician who argued for leaving the European Union could lead us to a better future. But I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.”
Michael Gove, launching the leadership bid that derailed Johnson’s attempt to become prime minister in 2016
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“[Johnson is] a man who waits to see the way the crowd is running and then dashes in front and says, ‘Follow me’.”
Michael Heseltine, Good Morning Britain interview in 2018
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“The Johnsonian creed [is] that it is, in his own words, acceptable, sometimes desirable to lie. Certainly that approach has been advantageous to him. But it must come at a price.”
Sonia Purnell, Johnson’s biographer and one-time deputy in the Telegraph’s Brussels bureau, writing after he withdrew from the leadership race in 2016
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“He’s lied his way through life, he’s lied his way through politics, he’s a huckster with a degree of charm to which I am immune. As well as being mendacious he’s incompetent.”
Conservative former minister Chris Patten in May interview with Bloomberg
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“I’m afraid he’s shown, especially during his period as foreign secretary, that he doesn’t have the necessary skills and capacity [to be leader].”
Conservative MP and former attorney general Dominic Grieve in May interview with LBC
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“He’s an enormous character but not a team player… And he doesn’t know if he’s a journalist or a politician, but he does know it’s all about him. The more he repeats what everyone can see is not credible, the more his own credibility disappears.”
Former foreign office colleague Sir Alan Duncan, 2018 interview with the Times
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“The worst foreign secretary we’ve ever had... Disinterested and out of his depth he cared nothing for our situation. Good riddance.”
John McKendrick, attorney general of Anguilla, bidding farewell to Johnson as foreign secretary with criticism of his response to the British Overseas Territory’s devastation during Hurricane Irma in 2017
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“I think he honestly believes it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.”
Johnson’s Eton housemaster, Martin Hammond, in 1982 school report
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"Reformer"
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stringing them up by toes?
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"Among those arrested on allegations of corruption is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, the Saudi King's nephew who is worth more than $17bn according to Forbes, and owns stakes in Twitter, Lyft and Citigroup.
DailyMail.com's source claims the crown prince lulled Alwaleed into a false sense of security, inviting him to a meeting at his Al Yamamah palace, then sent officers to arrest him the night before the meeting.
'Suddenly at 2.45am all his guards were disarmed, the royal guards of MBS storm in,' said the source.
'He's dragged from his own bedroom in his pajamas, handcuffed, put in the back of an SUV, and interrogated like a criminal.
'They hung them upside down, just to send a message.
'They told them that "we've made your charges public, the world knows that you've been arrested on these charges.'""
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@WofulAverage8
With the US Police, from the few times I was pulled over and a lot of what I have seen on COPS TV show etc....., is that being polite, apologetic and deferential is the correct way.
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Maybe if kids from certain areas were taught how to correctly respond in school class, there would not be so many mixed signals, creating dangerous situations?
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"yo get off me bro.......back off" isn't the correct way to respond.
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I grew up in the US the majority of my adult life.
"Killadelphia" documentary emphasizes the huge disconnect in communities with authorities.
Authorities are seen as residues of systemic racism, which isn't really true generally.
The problem is the Police MO, created by politicians, should try and focus on social, preemptive solutions as much as possible.....to harmonize with society and Visa Versa.... instead of an absolutist escalation, which can sometimes happen.
Everyone is American. Everyone is human.
A strong, functional society is vital to National Security IMO.
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Hopefully technological solutions may prevent escalation into deadly violence.
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"While the words "fealty" and "loyalty" are often used interchangeably, they do have some subtle differences in meaning and connotation:
* Fealty: Fealty refers to a formal pledge of allegiance or loyalty to a lord, ruler, or superior. It often involves a public declaration of loyalty, such as swearing an oath of allegiance. Fealty implies a sense of obligation and duty, and is typically associated with a hierarchical social or political system, such as feudalism.
* Loyalty: Loyalty refers to a more general feeling of devotion, allegiance, or faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief. Loyalty can be expressed through actions, words, or attitudes, and can be motivated by a variety of factors, such as affection, respect, or shared values. Unlike fealty, loyalty does not necessarily imply a formal or legal relationship, and can exist between equals or peers."
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Lord Chamberlain: Can I present Commander Lucy D'Orsi, who was gold commander during the Chinese state visit.
Queen: Oh, bad luck.
Lord Chamberlain: And who was seriously, seriously undermined by the Chinese, but she managed to hold her own and remain in command. And her mother, Judith, who's involved in child protection and social work.
Ms Judith Copson: Yes, I'm very proud of my daughter.
Lord Chamberlain: You must tell your story.
Ms D'Orsi: Yes, I was the gold commander, so I'm not sure whether you knew, but it was quite a testing time for me.
Queen: Yes, I did.
Ms D'Orsi: It was… I think at the point that they walked out of Lancaster House and told me that the trip was off, that I felt…
Queen: They were very rude to the ambassador.
Ms D'Orsi: They were, well, yes she was, Barbara (Woodward) was with me and they walked out on both of us.
Queen: Extraordinary.
Ms Copson: I know, it's unbelievable.
Ms D'Orsi: It was very rude and very undiplomatic, I thought.
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At first glance, this question may seem like a no-brainer. After all, aren’t guns made to kill, while pepper spray (so-called “bear spray,” when it comes in big cans) does not? Unlike an attack by a human assailant, who may be able to use your own weapon against you, that safety/survival argument for using pepper spray doesn’t apply to a human-bear encounter... or does it? When it comes to self defense against grizzly bears, the answer is not as obvious as it may seem. In fact, experienced hunters are surprised to find that despite the use of firearms against a charging bear, they were attacked and badly hurt. Evidence of human-bear encounters even suggests that shooting a bear can escalate the seriousness of an attack, while encounters where firearms are not used are less likely to result in injury or death of the human or the bear. While firearms can kill a bear, can a bullet kill quickly enough -- and can the shooter be accurate enough -- to prevent a dangerous, even fatal, attack? The question is not one of marksmanship or clear thinking in the face of a growling bear, for even a skilled marksman with steady nerves may have a slim chance of deterring a bear attack with a gun. Law enforcement agents for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have experience that supports this reality -- based on their investigations of human-bear encounters since 1992, persons encountering grizzlies and defending themselves with firearms suffer injury about 50% of the time. During the same period, persons defending themselves with pepper spray escaped injury most of the time, and those that were injured experienced shorter duration attacks and less severe injuries. Canadian bear biologist Dr. Stephen Herrero reached similar conclusions based on his own research -- a person’s chance of incurring serious injury from a charging grizzly doubles when bullets are fired versus when bear spray is used.
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Rev GC
it's really about cultural context and education.
Prople are not separate firm the cilture and the environment they are raised it.
There never used to be terrorism.
What happened ?
The US started supporting Israel and Israel is treating the Palestinians badly.
The US military has been militarily engaged for many years in regions that offer no reward.
i.e. Vietnam, Lais, Somalia
the list is long
"In Osama Bin Laden's November 2002 "Letter to America",[5][6] he explicitly stated that al-Qaeda's motives for their attacks include: Western support for attacking Muslims in Somalia, supporting Russian atrocities against Muslims in Chechnya, supporting the Indian oppression against Muslims in Kashmir, the Jewish aggression against Muslims in Lebanon, the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia,[6][7][8] US support of Israel,[9][10] and sanctions against Iraq.[11]"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives_for_the_September_11_attacks
Obama dropping 26,000 bombs ibw 2016, where 80% of the deaths are not militants, is not winning hearts and minds.
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@hunterpark1221
The EU is the European version of the United States.
The idea California is symbolic of US states is false.
"The median sales price for homes in California is $370,000, well above the national median price of $183,465. The state's rate of property ownership, where the owner or a co-owner lives in the property, is below the national average, at 55.3 percent in California versus 64.9 percent elsewhere in the U.S.
Over one-third of rental units in California, at 36.7 percent, cost between $500 and $1,000 every month, compared with 51.9 percent for the U.S. as a whole.
Income: About 27.3 percent of the state's population lives in households considered upper middle class, with an annual income between $75,000 and $150,000, compared to 25.1 percent elsewhere nationally. The second-most common income level per household was lower middle class, with 21.4 percent of California households bringing in an annual income of between $25,000 and $50,000.
Jobs: Unemployment in California is 1.8 percent higher than the national jobless rate."
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more details on the main story
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Political Insanity: Outgoing President Obama’s “Operation Atlantic Resolve” against Russia: US Sends 3,600 Tanks Against Russia – Massive NATO Deployment Underway.
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"According to US Army Europe, 4,000 troops and 2,000 tanks will arrive in three US transport ships to Germany next weekend. From Bremerhaven, US troops and huge amount of military material, will be transported to Poland and other countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
USA is sending to Russian borders 3rd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division. Overall, more than 2,500 pieces of cargo are shipped to Germany, where those will be unloaded in the period January 6-8. US military material and troops will continue to Poland by rail and military convoy’s. Massive US military deployment should be ready by January 20.
“Some 900 cars with military materiel will be transported by train from Bremerhaven to Poland. There are also about 600 pieces of freight that will be transported by train to Poland from the military training ground at Bergen-Hohne. Nearly 40 vehicles will travel directly by road from Bremerhaven to Poland,” told Bundeswehr press office."
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/outgoing-president-obamas-operation-atlantic-resolve-against-russia-us-sends-3600-tanks-against-russia-massive-nato-deployment-underway/5566679
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this has a list
http://voxday.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/what-alt-right-is.html?m=1
What the Alt Right is
In the interest of developing a core Alt Right philosophy upon which others can build.
1: The Alt Right is of the political right in both the American and the European sense of the term. Socialists are not Alt Right. Progressives are not Alt Right. Liberals are not Alt Right. Communists, Marxists, Marxians, cultural Marxists, and neocons are not Alt Right.
2: The Alt Right is an ALTERNATIVE to the mainstream conservative movement in the USA that is nominally encapsulated by Russel Kirk's 10 Conservative Principles, but in reality has devolved towards progressivism. It is also an alternative to libertarianism.
3: The Alt Right is not a defensive attitude and rejects the concept of noble and principled defeat. It is a forward-thinking philosophy of offense, in every sense of that term. The Alt Right believes in victory through persistence and remaining in harmony with science, reality, cultural tradition, and the lessons of history.
4: The Alt Right believes Western civilization is the pinnacle of human achievement and supports its three foundational pillars: Christianity, the European nations, and the Graeco-Roman legacy.
5: The Alt Right is openly and avowedly nationalist. It supports all nationalisms and the right of all nations to exist, homogeneous and unadulterated by foreign invasion and immigration.
6: The Alt Right is anti-globalist. It opposes all groups who work for globalist ideals or globalist objectives.
7: The Alt Right is anti-equalitarian. It rejects the idea of equality for the same reason it rejects the ideas of unicorns and leprechauns, noting that human equality does not exist in any observable scientific, legal, material, intellectual, sexual, or spiritual form.
8: The Alt Right is scientodific. It presumptively accepts the current conclusions of the scientific method (scientody), while understanding a) these conclusions are liable to future revision, b) that scientistry is susceptible to corruption, and c) that the so-called scientific consensus is not based on scientody, but democracy, and is therefore intrinsically unscientific.
9: The Alt Right believes identity > culture > politics.
10: The Alt Right is opposed to the rule or domination of any native ethnic group by another, particularly in the sovereign homelands of the dominated peoples. The Alt Right is opposed to any non-native ethnic group obtaining excessive influence in any society through nepotism, tribalism, or any other means.
11: The Alt Right understands that diversity + proximity = war.
12: The Alt Right doesn't care what you think of it.
13: The Alt Right rejects international free trade and the free movement of peoples that free trade requires. The benefits of intranational free trade is not evidence for the benefits of international free trade.
14: The Alt Right believes we must secure the existence of white people and a future for white children.
15: The Alt Right does not believe in the general supremacy of any race, nation, people, or sub-species. Every race, nation, people, and human sub-species has its own unique strengths and weaknesses, and possesses the sovereign right to dwell unmolested in the native culture it prefers.
16: The Alt Right is a philosophy that values peace among the various nations of the world and opposes wars to impose the values of one nation upon another as well as efforts to exterminate individual nations through war, genocide, immigration, or genetic assimilation.
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@72SeasonsGone
He wasn't valuable.
That is North Korea.
You know what odd BS happens there?
no, me neither
I do know that other US prisoners have gone there for similarly crazy "crimes" which are not reallg crimes.
Google Matthew Miller.
He said
“This might sound strange, but I was prepared for the ‘torture’. But instead of that I was killed with kindness, and with that my mind folded and the plan fell apart,” he said, speaking from his home in California."
After he was formally tried, convicted, and sentenced on 14 September to six years of “hard labour”, he was moved again to a more conventional prison facility on the outskirts of Pyongyang. “It was kind of a farm place,” Miller said. “They had all control. I would go out to work to move stones, take out weeds.”
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He was released after a few months......after getting many years in jail.
NK is a crazy place.
If they wanted to sentence Warmbier to death they could have.
The situation seems likely he committed suicide and was resuscitated too late.......
It was a sort of prank, and when he realised he was not returning to his nice lifestule, university etc......instead he was sentenced to what he was assumed would be living hell for 15 years.......he gave up and wanted to be free......
now his spirit is free
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@john doe
Why state the obvious?
The people indicted are Russian nationals:
Viktor Borisovich Netyksho, Boris Alekseyevich Antonov, Dmitriy Sergeyevich Badin, Ivan Sergeyevich Yermakov, Aleksey Viktorovich Lukashev, Sergey Aleksandrovich Morgachev, Nikolay Yuryevich Kozachek, Pavel Vyacheslavovich Yershov, Artem Andreyevich Malyshev, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Osadchuk, Aleksey Aleksandrovich Potemkin and Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev,
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DT gave The Clintons money for their campaign.
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"Members of Trump’s immediate family also gave money to Clinton over the years. His wife, Melania, gave one donation of $2,000 to Clinton’s Senate campaign in 2006. His daughter, Ivanka, gave three donations totaling $4,400 to Clinton’s Senate campaign in 2006 and 2007. And Donald Trump Jr. gave three donations worth $6,100 in 2006 and 2007, minus a refund of $1,700 in 2008. On net, the younger Trump gave $2,100 in donations to Clinton’s Senate campaign and $2,300 to her presidential campaign."
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this is ignorance sure....
....judging the past from modern condescension is also a form of ignorance
but slavery was not cause by racism, it was and is, caused by economics; the new slavery is debt
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Race is irrelevant to how slavery functions.
SLAVERY IS STILL GOING ON. IT IS NOT RACE BASED.
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Africa has had slavery for far longer than the Europe and thousands of
years before the US existed.
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This is not a false identity in reciprocal guilt.
Understand reality and history.
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RE-READ THE COMMENT INSTEAD OF SETTING UP STRAW MAN FALLACIES TO
DISTRACT.
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Slaves were made of all races.
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In South America when the rubber barons needed workers, they used
natives, who become slaves.
The Domesday books lists slaves at chattel. Those were white Europeans
who were slaves by other white Europeans.
The Romans brought it in.......
It's the fallout from wars and imperialism.
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The hierarchy of medieval society was complex,.....
Peasants, freemen, noblemen, serfs, peasants, slaves......
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The process is reciprocal violence between groups : feudalism. Minor
wars create winners and losers.
The winners get the resources, the losers become slaves.
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There were many slave owning black people.
There are lots of lies and myths modern Americans are falsely accepting
as the reality of US history instead of reading the real history books.
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In South and Meso America, there were slaves who could become
sacrificial victims.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_slavery
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This is what happens when reality and history become subverted by false
condescension and modern ignorance, it becomes something else.
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It becomes white versus black and white were the only people who ever
had slaves and the white people are now all guilty.
It's a lie and another myth.
Only about 30% of Americans had slaves.
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Today : slavery continues.........in debt slavery..............in the
cheap products of Asia and ......................in migrant workforces
of exploited illegals collecting crops..................to the chocloate
picking on the Ivory Coast.
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See the Dark Side of Chocolate,
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In fact, slavery could be said to be fundamental to capitalism.
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MORE MYTHS
The majority of African captives came to what became the United States.
Truth: Only a little more than 300,000 captives, or 4-6 percent, came to
the United States.
Myth Three: All Southerners owned slaves.
Truth: Roughly 25 percent of all Southerners owned slaves.
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Slavery existed in the US not by racism but economics : if there was
cheaper farm machinery available then, they would have used that.
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Joe Mamma
The Geneva Summit of 1955 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Held on July 18, 1955, it was a meeting of "The Big Four": President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain, Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France
The US is a signatory of the Geneva Convention.
What it has not ratified are Protocols I and II , which are essentially expansions to the underlying treaties.
The rationale given by President Reagan to the Senate for not pursuing ratification was that the protections of the Protocols would be afforded to irregular forces regardless of whether those forces had made an effort to “distinguish themselves from the civilian population.” In effect, they would oblige the U.S. to protect persons who, in the U.S.’ view, violated traditional norms of humanitarian law and safety of civilians.
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Joe Mamma
"The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for humanitarian treatment in war. The singular term Geneva Convention usually denotes the agreements of 1949, negotiated in the aftermath of the Second World War (1939–1945), which updated the terms of the two 1929 treaties, and added two new conventions. The Geneva Conventions extensively defined the basic rights of wartime prisoners (civilians and military personnel), established protections for the wounded and sick, and established protections for the civilians in and around a war-zone. The treaties of 1949 were ratified, in whole or with reservations, by 196 countries.
Moreover, the Geneva Convention also defines the rights and protections afforded to non-combatants; however, because the Geneva Conventions are about people in war, the articles do not address warfare proper—the use of weapons of war—which is the subject of the Hague Conventions, and the bio-chemical warfare Geneva Protocol"
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@OKBI6969
“Trauma is extremely common,” says Kristen R. Choi, PhD, a registered nurse and researcher at UCLA who studies trauma.
It can cause stress or be linked to grief, but it’s not the same thing as either. Instead, it’s an emotional response to a surprising and terrible event.
“It involves a risk to your physical safety or [well-being],” says Yuval Neria, PhD, a professor of medical psychology at Columbia University and the director of trauma and PTSD at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Trauma can be physical (like being in a car crash) or emotional (for example, having someone threaten to kill you). Other examples of traumatic experiences include:
War
Physical or sexual abuse
Living through a natural disaster, like a hurricane or wildfire
“It may be a one-time event, or something that’s chronic and ongoing, like domestic violence,” Choi says. Sometimes, just witnessing a terrifying event can be traumatic.
Signs of Trauma
“Trauma is different for everyone,” Choi says. But two of the more common reactions, she says, are feeling very strong emotions or feeling little.
“You might have overwhelming negative emotions or not be able to stop crying. On the other hand, you might feel numb and unable to experience pleasure, pain or cry,” she says."
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GHudson65
Not statistically.
Parsing 2012 numbers, the center counted 259 justifiable gun-related homicides, or incidents in which authorities ruled that killings occurred in self-defense.
That's in a nation in which there are some 300 million firearms, nearly one for every person "
"Those 259 justifiable homicides also pale compared with, in the same year, 8,342 criminal homicides using guns, 20,666 suicides with guns, and 548 fatal unintentional shootings, according to the FBI's Supplemental Homicide Report. "
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Conservative Party = Confirmation bias = the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values.
"People display this bias when they select information that supports their views, ignoring contrary information, or when they interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing attitudes. The effect is strongest for desired outcomes, for emotionally charged issues, and for deeply entrenched beliefs. Confirmation bias cannot be eliminated entirely, but it can be managed, for example, by education and training in critical thinking skills."
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@catearth8864
The key to understanding Boris Johnson, Britain’s new prime minister, is not the befuddled onstage act he performs or the inner personality he possesses — if indeed there is one — or even the politics he claims to support. It’s the vacuity. Once you peel away everything else, you find nothing there: no substance, no convictions, no plan. That’s the ultimate Boris punchline. It’s like going on an adventure for buried treasure and finding a whoopee cushion.
The Boris persona itself is fake. Johnson cultivates a carefully crafted, bumbling clown act, one in which the character always turns up late or pretends to have forgotten his lines — a beleaguered journalist-politician-intellectual who just tumbled out of bed. But those who have watched his speeches multiple times realize that the entire presentation, including seemingly off-the-cuff jokes and stories where he appears to lose the thread halfway through, is replicated word for word. It’s all pretend.
Then again, the persona is not supposed to be real. The act is not the act; it is the recognition of the act even while it is taking place. “Boris” is a postmodern invention. For it to work, you have to know that he is not really the bumbling fool but actually a highly intelligent strategist using the bumbling fool persona to advance his career. Even his closest allies endorse this view. The usual comment you will get from them is that Boris is “clever,” or “a man of intelligence.” In other words: He knows exactly what he’s doing.
So who is the Boris behind the clown? Not Boris at all, actually. The prime minister’s first name is Alexander, or “Al” to friends and family. Boris, his middle name, is effectively the stage name.
What’s Al like? What’s his real personality? What are his politics? We simply don’t know. He is a political mirror: He reflects the views of whichever group he needs to win over to advance his career.
When he ran to be London mayor, he was a multicultural, open-minded, cosmopolitan, centrist Tory. When he campaigned for Leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum, he was a Euroskeptic who dabbled in racially tinged anti-immigration propaganda. When he was running to be Tory leader this summer, he was the most hard-line Brexiteer imaginable, who even flirted with shutting down Parliament and putting British democracy on standby so he could force through an exit from the European Union with no deal in place to govern Britain’s departure.
Former London mayor and now new British prime minister, Boris Johnson is seen as a nontraditional politician. Here’s why. (Allie Caren/The Washington Post)
Even on Europe, the subject that now dominates all others, Johnson has no real conviction. In the 1990s, reporting from Brussels for the right-wing Daily Telegraph, he pioneered a subgenre of “news” stories about made-up European regulations. Later in his career, though, he seemed to warm to Europe. He sang the praises of the European single market — before deciding that it was “increasingly useless.” And then, not long before the referendum, he wrote two op-eds: one supporting E.U. membership and one opposing it. Only later did he decide to campaign to Leave.
That was, in the end, the right decision for his career. After all, it triggered a series of events that propelled him to the top. In terms of political strategy, Johnson is quite accomplished. But in terms of political convictions, they do not seem to exist.
It’s similarly hard to pin down Al’s personality. We don’t know much about him. We don’t even know how many children he has because of the trail of broken relationships he has left in his wake. There are some glimpses of the man underneath: Occasionally, you can see a powerful sense of arrogance, a lack of willingness to let anyone else talk and a chuntering discontent at the notion he might not get everything his way.
He seems to have a total inability to grasp detail. In a crucial BBC interview, he relied extensively on a provision in Article 24, Paragraph 5B of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to suggest that Britain could have a standstill arrangement with the E.U. even in the case of no deal. Then the following extraordinary exchange occurred between him and interviewer Andrew Neil.
Neil: “You talk about Article 5B in GATT 24 . . .”
Johnson: “Paragraph 5B. Article 24. Get the detail right. Get the detail right, Andrew. It’s Article 24, Paragraph 5B.”
Neil: “And how would you handle Paragraph 5C?”
Johnson: “I would confide entirely in Paragraph 5B, because that is . . .”
Neil: “But how would you get around what’s in 5C?”
Johnson: “I would confide entirely in Paragraph 5B, which is enough for our purposes.”
Neil: “Do you know what’s in 5C?”
Johnson: “No.”
He also seems largely indifferent to telling the truth. He was sacked from his first newspaper job at the Times for making up quotes. The Brexit referendum campaign he helped lead was stuffed full of inaccurate claims, including a massively promoted overestimation of the cost of E.U. membership, which was condemned by the UK Statistics Authority, and the objectively false proposition that Britain had no veto to stop Turkey from joining the E.U. And even his leadership run saw him insist on legal or trade arguments that were outright false. In a typical moment of absurdity, he at one point brandished a smoked fish in front of a large crowd, insisting that there was a pointless European regulation mandating that it be transported with a “plastic ice pillow.” In fact, the regulation is British, and it has a very specific point — namely, to protect consumer health.
You get the sense that nothing that comes out of the mouth of the clown persona should be treated as strictly true, because, after all, it’s only acting. Johnson carries a kind of fictitious conceit around him, like a fuzzy membrane, which objective reality rarely permeates.
But that’s it. All we get are these glimmers of the individual behind the broad, well-worn act. Britain really has no idea who its new prime minister is.
Until this past week, he was quite an easy politician to predict. Johnson would do anything to be prime minister, and every action he took was comprehensible on that basis, designed to bring him closer to that goal. But now he is actually prime minister, so that no longer holds. God knows what happens next.
Certainly, we have no idea what his Brexit policy will be. The options he has promoted are mutually incompatible. He says he wants a deal with the E.U., but he has ruled out the key requirements of what such a deal would entail. He says he will force through a no-deal exit if necessary, but parliamentary opposition makes it highly unlikely he can do so. He says he won’t hold a general election before the Brexit deadline of Oct. 31, which would at least give him a chance of getting past the parliamentary deadlock. And he says he won’t countenance another referendum, which might allow him to get his Brexit plan through. He’s ruled out all his options. At least one of these promises is going to be broken, but it’s not immediately clear which one it will be. (On Thursday, in his first speech to the House of Commons as prime minister, he blithely assured the nation that all was well: Soon, Britain would enjoy “the greatest and most prosperous economy in Europe at the center of a new network of trade deals.”)
Here, then, is a person with no convictions, delivering a political project he does not believe in, with a plan that does not exist.
It’s proper, next-level postmodern politics, and there are numerous layers of understanding. But it no longer seems quite so clever.
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@OakedRS
If you didn't reply to the original comment then you are off topic.
What is the NRA response to school shootings?
The NRA is illogical because giving society mass weapons based on an ancient law for an ad hoc, musket based militia, before cars, electricity and an army appeared..... to over throw a "tyrant".......is an ANACHRONISM.
The second amendment is currently not being used to overthrow tyrants.
Can you see that?
The deaths equivalent to eleven WTC attacks occur each year.....how?
by giving gun to people, susceptible to mood swings, revenge desires, drunken actions, greed, road rage, suicidal depression, mental illness etc......
The NRA doesn't want printed guns because they don't get money.
The NRA a scam based in greed, fear and misery........not a defence against a non existent "tyrant".
THE 2ND AMENDMENT IS AN ANACHRONISM.
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Every year in Australia...... hotter and hotter and hotter while Australia exports unprecedented amounts of coal?
In 2016, Australia was the biggest net exporter of coal, with 32% of global exports (389 Mt out of 1,213 Mt total). It was still the fourth-highest producer with 6.9% of global production (503 Mt out of 7,269 Mt total). 77% of production was exported (389 Mt out of 503 Mt total).
Source ABC news Australia
An alarming report has found temperature increases from climate change and urban growth will make Brisbane "a difficult place to live" within the next 30 years, and more people will be at risk of dying from extreme heat.
*"The bureau’s monthly report said the heatwaves were unprecedented in their scale and duration. The highest temperatures of the month were recorded in Port Augusta in South Australia, where thermometers registered 49.5C , but the most relentless heat was in Birdsville, Queensland, which endured 10 consecutive days above 45C.
Tasmania, where emergency services have been battling bushfires throughout the past month, had its driest ever January. Watkins said Borrona Downs in north-west New South Wales broke the record for hottest minimum temperature, registering one night at 36.6C. This has a major impact on ecosystems that have not been able to cool down during the night as is normally the case.*
This was compounded by drought. Large parts of Australia received only 20% of their normal rainfall, particularly throughout the south-east in Victoria and parts of NSW and South Australia."
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@ihl0700677525
Scientific fact is not idealism.
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Why not educate yourself on the topic?
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Why write in bold face to create a fake sense of power?
ANYONE CAN WRITE IN BOLD...... NOT JUST SCIENCE DENIERS USING COGNITIVE BIAS TO JUSIFY MASS ANIMAL ABUSES BY MIMICRY
FACT IS......Unhealthy food makes people slowly ill.
Sausages, chicken and other processed meat linked to cancer should be served with health warnings and information on animal treatment or preferably banned.
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Human didn't evolve to eat such things that is why there is an obesity epidemic.
Why do lions, cats, dog and hyenas not cook with stoves in the Serengeti?
EDUCATION NOT COGNITIVE BIAS IS REALITY
Sausages, red processed meat and chicken are classed in the same category of carcinogens as tobacco by the World Health Organisation.
If humans are "omnivorous", which is an invented word, humans would not develop cancer from red meat and chicken etc....
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Human DNA is 98% similar to gorillas and other great apes, aka hominids, which are vegetarians that extract by digestion, minerals from rock licking, and B12 from insects etc.....
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Humans have a COMPLETELY different alimentary canal to carnivores.
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If you believe you are omnivorous go to the woodland tonight, or a field....... catch a rabbit or a squirrel with your bare hands (impossible) and eat it all raw.....including fur.
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Guess what will happen?
You will require hospitalization and may die.
How is that omnivorous ?
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Meat, like tobacco is sold for profit not health.
The accumulative result is an obesity epidemic and mass cancers.
Humans can digest very small amounts of meat ....it is the same as smoking a few cigs a day except it involves callously treating living creatures like objects.
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@cayrick
Which is good.
Israel is surrounded by many countries that declared animosity.
April 11, 2006 - Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran's former president, states that Iran has increased the number of functioning centrifuges in its nuclear facilities in Natanz and has produced enriched uranium from them.
February 22, 2007 - The IAEA issues a statement saying that Iran has not complied with the UN Security Council's call for a freeze of all nuclear activity. Instead, Iran has expanded its uranium enrichment program.
June 21, 2007 - Iran's Interior Minister Mostapha PourMohamedi claims, "Now we have 3,000 centrifuges and have in our warehouses 100 kilograms of enriched uranium." ..."We also have more than 150 tons of raw materials for producing uranium gas."
January 29, 2017 - Iran launches a medium-range ballistic missile, its first missile test since Donald Trump became US president,
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@donhuang8956
Iran violated the deal.
"February 18, the head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency visited Israel to discuss Iran’s nuclear activity. Amid concerns that Tehran may be preparing to breach the conditions of the 2015 agreement, the visit may have been prompted by the new information about the country’s nuclear program. On January 22, in an interview with Iranian TV, Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), revealed that “Iran has not removed the core of its Arak heavy water reactor nor poured cement into it.” It seems Salehi’s revelations could have been unintentional; Iranian media have since removed the interview, followed by a complete silence from the government.
In accordance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran was required to fill the calandria — the core of the nuclear reactor — at the Arak facility with cement to render it unusable. Iran was also prohibited from acquiring metal tubes that can make reactors suitable for plutonium production. As such, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors released a report by its director general, confirming that Iran had removed, and rendered inoperable, the Arak facility’s calandria. At the time, Iran announced that Arak’s heavy water nuclear reactor had been filled with cement.
However, according to Salehi, “Iran removed the calandria from the Arak reactor and poured cement into metal tubes contained within fuel bundles.” This contradicts the terms of the nuclear deal that stipulated the removal of calandria and covering the core of Arak reactor with cement in order to curb Iran’s ability to advance its nuclear ambition. Moreover, according to the negotiations, Iran was prohibited from purchasing new calandria."
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Tacitus and the Roman invasion of Wales at Anglesey
" On the beach stood the adverse array, a serried mass of arms and men, with women flitting between the ranks. In the style of Furies, in robes of deathly black and with dishevelled hair, they brandished their torches; while a circle of Druids, lifting their hands to heaven and showering imprecations, struck the troops with such an awe at the p157 extraordinary spectacle that, as though their limbs were paralysed, they exposed their bodies to wounds without an attempt at movement. Then, reassured by their general, and inciting each other never to flinch before a band of females and fanatics, they charged behind the standards, cut down all who met them, and enveloped the enemy in his own flames. The next step was to install a garrison among the conquered population, and to demolish the groves consecrated to their savage cults: for they considered it a duty to consult their deities by means of human entrails. — While he was thus occupied, the sudden revolt of the province7 was announced to Suetonius. "
Tacitus Annals Book XIV
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@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808
The study used data from Denmark, however, two of the authors Professor Roger Webb and Dr. Pearl Mok argue that the “results are relevant to the UK, whose population demographics are similar, as is their health system”.
The research was conducted by the University of Manchester and funded by the European Research Council. Using Danish national registers of over one million young adults, the study analysed 21,267 patients who presented to hospital with self-harm episodes and 23,724 people who were convicted for violent crime aged 15 to 33. Professor Webb explained, “income inequality in Denmark is one of the lowest in the world, so we’d expect these findings to be even more pronounced in countries with greater levels of income inequality, such as the UK. We would also imagine that ten years of austerity in the UK would escalate and entrench these problems.”
The research showed that children who remained in the top 20 per cent of wealthiest families over their first 15 years of life were the least likely to harm themselves or commit violent crime between the ages of 15 and 33. While those from families who remained in the least affluent fifth of society were seven times more likely to harm themselves and 13 times more likely to commit violent crime as young adults.
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@davidwatson8118
If you understand what a platitude is, why write so many?
You obviously don't understand Maori either....., a general term.....Maori do not live in Wharenui and cook from Hāngi every night.
Maori are COMPLETELY part of modern society.
Maori have houses, drive cars, go to grocery stores, use hospitals and go to schools where they are educated.
Any guilt of progress, and inevitable evolution, is based in a specious condescension and moralization of history without context.
You benefit from all aspects of modern life, so should Maori people!
Maori don't want a NZ circa 1600
Example.....
If all people of European and other ancestry left the United States, and it was entirely left to Native American tribes, the US would economically collapse......then it would be invaded, most likely by China under a euphemistic auspice of "protecting the people" or something.
Such a process would not be progress, it would be devolving.
Ultimately the obsession with ownership is delusional.
People die. New people take over.
People change. Language changes etc.....
Middle English is basically a different language.
The Maori court has ruled over this island many years ago.
Any question of ownership of White Island, Australia, NZ etc.. is based in recreational indignation fuelled by ignorance, not legal facts.
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"Natasha Exelby has spoken about the "dark place" she faced after her unceremonious sacking from a now defunct Channel Ten breakfast show after just 16 days in the job.
The news journalist, who was also involved in a viral on-air TV gaffe while presenting ABC News 24 in 2017, told her camp mates Angie Kent, Richard Reid and Justine Schofield on I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! on Thursday's episode that she was told of her axing from Wake Up in a carpark by the show's executive producer, Adam Boland, 45 minutes before it was publicly announced.
"The ratings were terrible, I don’t think I was particularly glowing, so 16 days into it something had to give and that was me," Exelby said."
Speaking at time, Boland said Exelby didn't gel with her co-presenters Natarsha Belling and James Mathison.
"Chemistry is everything at breakfast and, right now, I don't think the balance is correct. It's up to producers to fix those things," he said."
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"in metric kilo means thousand, so there are 1,000 grams in a kilogram, 1,000 liters in a kiloliter and 1,000 meters in a kilometer. In imperial, there are 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 1,760 yards in a statute mile (international), 2,025 yards in a nautical mile and 1760.00352001 yards in a survey mile (aka US statute mile)."
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People sometimes transform history into what they need in the present............ not revealing what the history really was.
The life and appearance of Jesus was not accurate.
Saint Nicholas a became Santa Claus.
Martin Luther King became symbolic of a "spiritual bridge" between the duality of a racially identifiable rich and poor created by hunger for wealth in the absence of farm machinery.
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Unfortunately slavery still exists and capitalism in an accumulated sense promotes it : from the chocolate picking children from Mali, brought into the Ivory Coast plantations, to pick beans for international chocolate companies.........to the clothing manufactures of India and Vietnam etc... using child labor...... .to the slaves in Libya, recently created sadly, by Hillary and Obama's destabilization
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/11/27/clinton-ponders-2020-run-lets-not-forget-her-real-libya-scandal-glenn-reynolds-column/895853001/
All men and women maybe "created equal" but they certainly don't live equal lives, or have equal opportunities, and certainly and not paid the same.
Saying all men are created equal not just ignores half the population but states the obvious.
Slavery was never a race issue.
Slavery was done by blacks on blacks and whites on whites.
The latest slaves are debt slaves....created by economic Machiavellian behavior : see INSIDE JOB by Charles Ferguson.
Africa still has slaves.
68% of Africa of is without electricity.
The average per capita income (excluding South Africa), inflation-adjusted, is $315, lower than it was in 1960.
Africa's population is more than twice that of the U.S., but its total income is not much more than Belgium's.
Unless people can solve the ECONOMIC issues of extreme, meaningless inequality......... instead of focusing on celebrities and bankers and projecting cognitive dissonance on to Trump, then the problems will continue by being ignored.
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It's interesting to see inside Mar A Lago.....
the room has Oriental and Art Deco decor?
Marjorie Merriweather Post, daughter of C. W. Post, sought to create a European-style estate, naming it "Mar-a-Lago," Spanish for "sea to lake".
Design and Architecture:
Inspiration and Style Post drew inspiration from her European travels, combining Spanish, Venetian, and Portuguese styles.
The design features Spanish Mediterranean Revival architecture, including barrel-vaulted roofs, loggias, fountains, tiles, metalwork, and arcades.
Key Features The estate includes a 75-foot tower and observation deck.
A crescent-shaped arc lined with double cloisters overlooks Lake Worth, and a patio is paved with surf-polished stones that Post discovered on Long Island.
Materials Three boatloads of fossil-bearing Doria limestone were imported from Genoa, Italy, for arches and sculptures.
Additionally, Post acquired 36,000 15th-century Spanish tiles, some with Moorish designs, and about 20,000 roofing tiles to complement the pink stucco exterior.
A set of 2,200 black and white marble floor blocks was brought in from a Cuban castle.
via PERPLEXITY
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Lindsay Bull = trainer
"Luckily, Bull’s training kicked in. She rolled with the alligator twice to avoid losing her arm.
“If he really wanted to rip my arm off it would be gone,” according to Bull. She was able to wrap her legs around the alligator when he paused in the midst of the attack.
“I got into that position and I was just kind of staring at amazement at his face. I don’t know — his mouth is there and my arm is in it, and I just go, please please don’t roll again. That’s the only thing I could think,” Bull said.
At that point, an attendee of the tour, Donnie Wiseman, jumped on the gator’s back to save Bull. An act that Bull herself has only done once in training.
“At that point, Todd’s wife stepped in and started doing first aid. And she was really amazing, just took control over the whole situation and made me feel really comfortable,” Bull explained.
Bull said she thinks she’ll be forever friends with Donnie and Todd.
Bull did sustain injuries and had to have surgery on her hand but is expected to make a full recovery. "
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via Pi
"No, the Strawberry model by OpenAI is not equivalent to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The Strawberry model is a language model developed by OpenAI, designed to generate human-like text. While it is an advanced AI model, it does not possess the breadth of capabilities required for AGI.
AGI refers to a hypothetical AI system that can perform any intellectual task that a human can, with the ability to learn, reason, and adapt across a wide range of domains. Currently, no AI system, including OpenAI's Strawberry model, has reached the level of AGI. However, ongoing research and development in AI may eventually lead to the creation of AGI in the future."
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via Pi
Pi, the conversational AI app, was created by a company called Inflection AI. Inflection AI is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, with a mission to redefine human-computer interaction. The company was founded in early 2022 by Mustafa Suleyman, Reid Hoffman, and Karén Simonyan.
Mustafa Suleyman is a co-founder of DeepMind and former VP at Google, known for his contributions to AI ethics and safety. Reid Hoffman is an entrepreneur who co-founded LinkedIn and Paypal. Karén Simonyan is a former Principal Scientist at DeepMind who played a key role in developing some of the company's most advanced AI models.
Together, these founders brought their expertise in AI, ethics, and user experience to create the Pi app, aiming to provide users with a personalized and engaging conversational AI experience.
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@idiotburns
The scientific consensus that humans are causing global warming is likely to have passed 99%, according to the lead author of the most authoritative study on the subject, and could rise further after separate research that clears up some of the remaining doubts.
Three studies published in Nature and Nature Geoscience use extensive historical data to show there has never been a period in the last 2,000 years when temperature changes have been as fast and extensive as in recent decades.
It had previously been thought that similarly dramatic peaks and troughs might have occurred in the past, including in periods dubbed the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Climate Anomaly. But the three studies use reconstructions based on 700 proxy records of temperature change, such as trees, ice and sediment, from all continents that indicate none of these shifts took place in more than half the globe at any one time.
The Little Ice Age, for example, reached its extreme point in the 15th century in the Pacific Ocean, the 17th century in Europe and the 19th century elsewhere, says one of the studies. This localisation is markedly different from the trend since the late 20th century when records are being broken year after year over almost the entire globe, including this summer’s European heatwave.
Major temperature shifts in the distant past are also likely to have been primarily caused by volcanic eruptions, according to another of the studies, which helps to explain the strong global fluctuations in the first half of the 18th century as the world started to move from a volcanically cooled era to a climate warmed by human emissions. This has become particularly pronounced since the late 20th century, when temperature rises over two decades or longer have been the most rapid in the past two millennia, notes the third.
The authors say this highlights how unusual warming has become in recent years as a result of industrial emissions.
“There is no doubt left – as has been shown extensively in many other studies addressing many different aspects of the climate system using different methods and data sets,” said Stefan Brönnimann, from the University of Bern and the Pages 2K consortium of climate scientists.
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@deannad9105
"Ambra claims Weinstein lunged at her breasts, groped them - then asked if they were real, and tried to put his hand up her skirt at his office in Manhattan in March 2015.
Ambra, then 22, went to cops to report his behaviour, where investigators from the NYPD’s Special Victims Division equipped her with a hidden microphone before she confronted Weinstein the next day at the nearby Tribeca Grand Hotel.
A chilling transcript from the police wire she wore during a police sting, Weinstein allegedly admitted to groping the model and said he was “used to” behaving that way.
Two weeks later, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance decided not to press charges, the New Yorker reported."
Ambra broke the sick hierarchy of power, money, lies and abuse.
Why did the others not do that earlier?
COWARDICE
GREED
COMPLICITY
They enabled further abuse by not going to Police.
See the difference?
Reward the brave and those who fight for justice.
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@markdustin1499
MANILA, Philippines — A University of Oxford study found that $200,000, around P10 million, was spent to hire trolls who would spread propaganda for President Rodrigo Duterte and target his opposition.
The study titled “Troops, trolls and troublemakers: A global inventory of organized social media manipulation” looked at how political parties and candidates across 28 countries deploy "cyber troops" who use a variety of strategies, tools and techniques to shape public opinion.
Countries included in the research were Argentina, Azerbaijan, Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Mexico, North Korea, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States, Venezuela and Vietnam.
READ: Palace disowns deleted PCOO video promoting martial law
The study said that Duterte’s team of 400 to 500 cyber troops post nationalistic and pro-government comments and interact with dissenters through harassment and individual targeting. Membership in cyber troop teams in the Philippines is "liminal" but with some coordination.
Popular forms of individual targeting involve “verbal abuse, hate speech, discrimination and/or trolling against the values, beliefs or identity of a user or a group of users online” usually over a long duration.
Fake accounts, which, in many cases, are “bots”—bits of code designed to mimic human users—were also found to have been deployed in the Philippines. These were often used to flood social media networks with spam and fake news—propaganda made to seem like legitimate news articles—and inflate the number of likes, shares and retweets to create “an artificial sense of popularity, momentum or relevance.”
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@markdustin1499
Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines rode to power on a wave of disinformation two years ago. He has not delivered on campaign promises, apart from one thing. His phoney “war on drugs” has claimed some 12,000 lives.
Rodrigo Duterte is the best president in the solar system, according to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He is admired by Queen Elizabeth II who says, all world leaders should consult him. Bill Gates, the tech tycoon, is so impressed by how peaceful the Philippines has become under Duterte that he went to Manila to invest $ 20 billion.
Each of these statements is a crude lie. They are among a host of similar fabrications circulating on Facebook. All are presented as “news stories”, completed with spurious headlines, fake photos and quotations in fractured English. They often refer to misleadingly named websites, such as aljazeera-tv, bbc101.co.uk, dai1lymail or dw-tv3.
Tens of thousands of FB users like, promote and share these lies, which then wash up, like toxic detritus, on many Filipinos’ screens. There is nothing accidental or random about this flood. It is deliberately engineered, targeted and maintained with specific goals. The idea is to make Rodrigo Duterte look good, trash his critics and confuse the people.
Disinformation is nothing new in politics. “Fake news” is really just propaganda, something that has been around for centuries. But it is now supercharged by social-media platforms. Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister, could only have dreamed of this kind of instant delivery, around-the-clock availability and individual targeting.
Three things facilitate the rapid proliferation of fake news in the Philippines: mobile devices, Facebook and trolls. Today, most Filipinos have smartphones. Low-budget telecom subscriptions allow them to access the internet at any time, and Facebook is the most popular platform. The Philippines currently has 101 million inhabitants, 119 million mobile phone subscriptions and 47 million Facebook accounts, as the website www.rappler.com reports.
An unknown number of the Facebook accounts belongs to trolls – online personas who are the equivalent of stone throwing hooligans. In the early days of the internet, trolls were random unpleasant individuals who delighted in spoiling discussions and provoking anger. Today, however, paid agents lead organised armies of trolls. Some use bogus accounts to spread their vitriol; some use automated software programmes (“bots”).
Many people believe Donald Trump was the first populist leader with authoritarian leanings to win high office thanks to fake news. But six months before Trump won the presidency on November 2016, Duterte successfully rode on a tide of online disinformation to power. He polarised the electorate, tapping into feelings of fear, hatred and resentment.
A recent study by the Newton Tech4Dev Network concludes that the Duterte campaign did not only use volunteers and fans. It also relied on professionals from advertising and public relations. The Newton study adds: “Under Duterte’s presidency, ‘trolls’, or ‘Dutertards’ as his fanatic followers have been dubbed, are seen to have debased political discourse and silenced dissidents in their vociferous sharing of fake news and amplification of hate speech.”
Proudly calling themselves “cyberwarriors”, the troll hordes pushed the same unrealistic narrative during the campaign. According to it, the country’s existence was threatened by a dramatic drug crisis, and only Duterte could save the nation. Neither national nor international statistics provided any evidence for such a drug crisis.
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"What are you smoking" = platitude.
A platitude is a trite, meaningless, or prosaic statement, often used as a thought-terminating cliché, aimed at quelling social, emotional, or cognitive unease. Platitudes have been criticized as giving a false impression of wisdom, making it easy to accept falsehoods: A platitude is even worse than a cliché.
Dec 2019
"In conversation with Amy Goodman of news program “Democracy Now!” the filmmaker said the Democratic nominee is likely to win the popular vote, just as Hillary Clinton did in 2016.
“I think if the election were held today… Hillary won by 3 million popular votes. I believe whoever the Democrat is next year is going to win by 4 to 5 million popular votes. There’s no question in my mind that people who stayed home, who sat on the bench, they’re going to pour out,” Moore started.
“The problem is, if the vote were today, I believe he would win the electoral states he would need because, living out there I will tell you his level of support has not gone down one inch,” he explained. “In fact, I’d say it’s even more rabid than it was before, because they’re afraid now. They’re afraid he could lose, because they watched his behavior.”"
Moore mentioned several times:
"only an outsider can win"
ie Aug 2019 on MSNBC
See ::: youtu DOT be/CFqfBtNJG4c
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The quote stated are the latest CDC figures released days ago.
Dec. 18, 2018
More people died from firearm injuries in the United States last year than in any other year since at least 1968, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There were 39,773 gun deaths in 2017, up by more than 1,000 from the year before. Nearly two-thirds were suicides. It was the largest yearly total on record in the C.D.C.’s electronic database, which goes back 50 years, and reflects the sheer number of lives lost.
When adjusted for population size, the rate of gun deaths in 2017 also increased slightly to 12 deaths for every 100,000 people, up from 11.8 per 100,000 in 2016. By this measure, last year had the highest rate of firearm deaths since the mid-1990s, the data showed.
It was the third consecutive year that the rate of firearm deaths rose in the United States, after remaining relatively steady throughout the 2000s and the first part of this decade.
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@miacat1727
"Oh look! a squirrel !"
No motive for Ukraine.
Russia = "a virtual mafia state", face it, he was telling the truth.
You work on a troll farm spreading misinformation and deception?
The truth is obvious.
"On a court hearing in London in 2015, a Scotland Yard lawyer concluded that "the evidence suggests that the only credible explanation is in one way or another the Russian state is involved in Litvinenko's murder"."
Before his death, Litvinenko said: "You may succeed in silencing one man but the howl of protest from around the world, Mr. Putin, will reverberate in your ears for the rest of your life."
He died on 23 November. The following day, Putin publicly stated: “Mr Litvinenko is, unfortunately, not Lazarus”
As of 26 January 2007, British officials said police had solved the murder of Litvinenko. They discovered "a 'hot' teapot at London's Millennium Hotel with an off-the-charts reading for polonium-210, the radioactive material used in the killing." In addition, a senior official said investigators had concluded the murder of Litvinenko was "a 'state-sponsored' assassination orchestrated by Russian security services." The police want to charge former Russian spy Andrei Lugovoy, who met Litvinenko on 1 November 2006, the day officials believe the lethal dose of polonium-210 was administered."
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Upon yon wall, a portrait dread,
With spectral visage, looms ahead.
A figure known through all the land,
The Iron Lady, stern, command.
A Thatcher’s visage, dark and grim,
Ensnared in canvas’ eerie whim.
Her eyes, with power and might aglow,
A tale of ages, pains, and woe.
Her spirit stirs, the silence breaks,
In eerie whispers, darkened wakes.
"The years I led, in strength I strode,
My rule, unyielding, iron-shod."
But now, confined to canvas' hold,
Her presence chills, a tale foretold.
A nation changed, a people stirred,
A legacy that will be heard.
Yet in this cursed and ghostly frame,
A warning speaks, a fearful claim.
The past returns, the present veers,
A haunted whisper no one hears.
So tread thee lightly, gaze with care,
For in that portrait, spirits dare.
A haunted painting, bound in time,
A remnant of an age sublime.
"Remove it now !" I said to colleagues near,
"Let the future begin without this glare of fear"
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@chrissan2457
"The trend toward increased incarceration began in the early 1970s, and quadrupled in the ensuing four decades. A two-year study by the National Research Council concluded that the increase was historically unprecedented, that the U.S. far outpaced the incarceration rates elsewhere in the world, and that high incarceration rates have disproportionately affected Hispanic and black communities. The report cited policies enacted by officials at all levels that expanded the use of incarceration, largely in response to decades of rising crime.
“In the 1970s, the numbers of arrests and court caseloads increased, and prosecutors and judges became harsher in their charging and sentencing,” the report states. “In the 1980s, convicted defendants became more likely to serve prison time.”
Indeed, this trend continued with tough-on-crime policies through the 1990s as well, but to lay the blame for the incarceration trend entirely, or even mostly, at the feet of the 1994 crime bill ignores the historical trend."
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True, unfortunately.
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Reagan created the legislative basis.
Clinton regrets signing it
October 27, 1986: Reagan signs into law the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. Frontline writes that the law allocated funds to new prisons, drug education, and treatment. But its main result was to create mandatory minimum sentences.
September 13, 1994: President Clinton passes the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which the administration presents as both tough and smart on crime, according to a White House release. It increases drug treatment programs and gun safety laws, but also allocates more money for prisons and issues harsher sentences, including a three-strikes law. Twenty-four states pass three-strikes laws between 1993 and 1995, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
1995: There are more than 1.5 million people in prison, up from 949,000 in 1993 and 329,000 in 1980, according to The Urban Institute.
2003: REPUBLICAN Congress creates, increases, or expands nearly 40 mandatory minimum sentences.
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African leaders prevent western companies, the nations have often 5 to 7 children per family.
Young men = their export?
Under Conservatives, the GMP arrested unhoused people, while tge local expensive hotel, under decline after COVID, with spa, pool, fine dining, manicured gardens, illuminated fountain, spacious parking and easy golf course access...... was full of people from Afghanistan......
Who may be nice people......but......the contrast in treatment is perceived as unfair.
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He was ill and old.
He walked with a limp and was probably very bitter against Las Vegas society that he slipped, had to walk with limp and lost money in a lawsuit with the casino,
"His lawsuit, which did not go to civil trial, collapsed in 2014 when an arbitrator dismissed the case due to inconsistencies in his evidence.
He said he slipped on an unknown liquid and tore his hamstring and sprained his wrist and hand in the fall.
....and still owed $270 in court fees"
IMO, he was angry against the casino and society in general, he could have afforded to pay, he was very rich, and when the final payment was due he freaked out, because he lost.....
he was angry at losing against the Casino, which I assume he believed was unjust,, angry at walking with a limp.
Lack of exercise makes a person ill in other ways.......
The photos show an ill looking man IMO.
It was an act of revenge.
Desire revenge and the NRA allowing people to legally accumulate masses of weapons are obviously a deadly combination..................
He looks ill................
http://abcnews.go.com/US/friend-vegas-shooter-stephen-paddock-describes-caring-person/story?id=50364227
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James Myers
*you're = self projection / delusion
Ad Hominem Fallacy
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Try understanding that viruses ARE real. Diseases are real.
COVID 19 is real.
Can a ubiquitous, international virus be stopped? No.
Can the vulnerable be sequestered, UVC lamps and AC with UVC added to hospitals and virology treatment centres created? yes
Will China release more in a secret campaign? yes probably
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“Most everyone is familiar with the idea that a normal bacterial flora exists in the body,” says study co-author Dr. Gregory Storch, a virologist and chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the university. “Lots of people have asked whether there is a viral counterpart, and we haven’t had a clear answer. But now we know there is a normal viral flora, and it’s rich and complex.”
The findings, which form a part of the Human Microbiome Project funded by the National Institutes of Health, were recently published in the journal BMC Biology.
The research team, led by Kristine M. Wylie, PhD, an instructor of pediatrics at the university, collected 706 samples of bodily fluids from 102 healthy adults aged 18-40. The samples were taken from participants’ nose, skin, mouth, vagina and stools.
All participants were closely screened to ensure they had no viral infections, and they were eliminated from the study if they had had been diagnosed with human papillomavirus (HPV) in the past 2 years, or had a form of active genital herpes in the last 2 months.
For each sample, the researchers used high-throughput DNA sequencing that enabled them to detect a wide range of viruses.
Among 92% of participants, at least one virus was detected, with some participants harboring around 10-15 viruses.
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"LAKE COUNTY, IL -- The Lake County Sheriff’s Office released the body cam and dash cam videos from a fatal officer-involved shooting that happened in Lakemoor in July. The video shows how Lakemoor Police Department Officer Briana Tedesco, a one-year police veteran, acted quickly when a 38-year-old murder suspect pointed a gun at her, holding the gun down and away from herself and preventing him from shooting her. The videos also show Lakemoor Officer Anthony Loiacano arriving at the scene and running toward Tedesco as the armed man, Kenneth E. Martell, of Meadville, Penn., appeared to try to pull her into his vehicle.
Authorities said Tedesco did not know when she went to check on a suspicious vehicle backed onto a path of a private property near Four Seasons Boulevard and Sullivan Lake Boulevard that she would come face-to-face with a man accused of fatally stabbing an elderly man just days earlier. She approached Martell’s car on food and asked for his driver’s license, which he said he didn't have, so she then asked for his name, according to the state's attorney's office.
Martell provided Tedesco with a fake name. After checking and finding no record of him, she asked him for any document that would identify him, according to the state's attorney's news release. It was still dark out and Tedesco has a flashlight with and her bodycam footage shows as Martell hands the officer a piece of paper. As she is looking at it, he pulls a gun on her. He then reaches out the window, pointing the handgun directly at her."
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Officers responding to the scene of the officer-involved shooting found two handguns. During a search of a wooded area near the shooting site, authorities also found a large number of weapons including rifles, shotguns, crossbows and ammunition, according to the news release.
They also found court documents, bail bond documentation, and a criminal summons all in the name of Kenneth Martell. The stolen property and identification cards of elderly murder victim Theodore Garver were also found, authorities said.
Authorities said Martell tied, robbed, beat and fatally stabbed 88-year-old Garver in his Beaver Township home in Pennsylvania. After the murder, Martell is accused of abducting other individuals at gunpoint and forcing them to aid Martell in the disposal of Garver's body. Martell eventually dumped the body in a lake near Garver's home.
Toxicology results from Martell revealed he had methamphetamine, amphetamine and marijuana in his system.
Family members later told police Martell abused illegal drugs, including methamphetamine. Martell had made statements to friends and family that "cops were going to kill him over a drug bust" and that he was "not going down without a fight," according to the state’s attorney’s investigation into the shooting.
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Google Ad Hominem Fallacy.
Look how angry and frustrated your comment is : angry, short tempered, sad, frustrated, belligerent people belong nowhere near any weapons.
Obviously.
That is why there are mass shootings because angry, frustrated people seek revenge on society before killing themselves.
Did Jefferson plan to empower Paddock to legally buy a small arsenal to shoot 500 people having a nice night out?
No.
It was a MUSKET LAW created by LAWYERS before the US had a military......BEFORE the discovery of ELECTRICITY.
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THE 2ND AMENDMENT IS AN ANACHRONISM.
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This is not Moses. It is not mythology. It is a failed law not a perfect recipe.
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The real terrorists in the US are those that allow easy access to weapons creating over 40,000 gun related deaths last year.....the equivalent of over 13 WTC attacks.
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How is it treasonous to express first Amendment rights?
How is it treasonous to state that Americans deserve safety from gun nuts, mass shooters, inner city crime etc.....?
How is it treasonous state the obvious?
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What is TRULY treasonous is people exactly like you who want to stop the free speech of others......as you failed to do
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To make Police, school children, families, poor people, old people safe, there needs to be a complete banning and collection of guns.
PERIOD
The emphasis should be on strong doors, safety, pepper spray, cctv and telephone calls to Police.......if the US wants to socially and economically progress.
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@vikvinyl1404
if you don't enjoy golfing, it doesn't mean others do not
"More than half of the 2,000 people surveyed by Lurpak admitted they would rather watch a meal being cooked on TV, or look at photos online, than cook, with many saying they’re too short of time, or the dishes look to complicated to manage.
The study found the average adult spends one hour and 37 minutes a week watching food-related shows, with the Great British Bake Off, Masterchef and Come Dine with Me being the most popular.
Those surveyed also spent a total of three-and-a-half hours digesting food content on digital platforms every week; 44 minutes on Facebook, 20 minutes on Twitter, 19 minutes on Instagram and Pinterest and 34 minutes on YouTube.
It’s estimated that Britons also spend 58 minutes reading food websites and blogs, 15 minutes snapchatting about food and nine minutes browsing recipe books each week."
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It's so that the trial will not be influenced by anything else to create a fair outcome, from what I understand.
According to Judge Heather Norton's May 2017 ruling against Robinson:
"This is not about free speech, not about the freedom of the press, nor about legitimate journalism, and not about political correctness. It is about justice and ensuring that a trial can be carried out justly and fairly, it's about being innocent until proven guilty. It is about preserving the integrity of the jury to continue without people being intimidated or being affected by irresponsible and inaccurate ‘reporting’, if that’s what it was."
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It looked like he wasn't doing much of anything but his presence freaked authorities out...........
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arrest and sentencing record:
2010, 12 months community rehabilitation for leading a crowd of Luton fans in a brawl
2011, breach of rehabilitation conditions
2011, 12-week suspended jail sentence for headbutting a fellow EDL supporter at a rally
2011, three days arrest and a £3000 fine for holding a protest on the rooftop of the FIFA building in Zurich
2012, 10 months on electronic tag for trying to enter the US under a false identity
2014, 18 months for mortgage fraud (served 6, then further 2 for breaching conditions of early release)
2017, 3 months suspended for contempt of court (he kept filming on court premises after being informed it was illegal)
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"The estimated 2.9 million people in modern slavery in China "includes the forced labour of men, women and children in many parts of the economy, including domestic servitude and forced begging, the sexual exploitation of women and children, and forced marriage", said the report.
The foundation hopes the annual index will help governments to monitor and tackle what it calls a "hidden crime"."
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Under 16 and working 16 hours a day ... Chinese clothes factories import cheap child labour from across China
Children forced to work 28 days a month, don’t get paid until end of year and are beaten when they misbehave
Clothing factories in eastern China’s apparel-making hub are using child labour from remote areas of the country to reduce costs.
A large portion of the more than 1,000 apparel manufacturers in Changshu, Jiangsu province, have been using cheap labour from Yunnan province with the help of local agents, and some of the workers are under 16, the Chuncheng Evening News reported."
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@Moabi4
"China has been using forced labor camps and prison labor to profit off of the cotton industry in its Xinjiang region, a non-profit organization said Thursday.
Xinjiang is home to 84% of the country's cotton and exports material to many of China's clothing manufacturers, according to a report by Citizen Power Initiatives for China (CPIC).
U.S. companies that have been using materials originating in these prison labor camps include Disney, Adidas, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and Nike, according to Louisa Greve, Director for External Affairs of the Uyghur Human Rights Project.
China has been using a number of methods to conceal the identity of these camps, however, including changing their names, disguising them as schools and trading companies and creating "layers of complex ownership structures"."
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If you hate liberals you are in the wrong country.
Move to Saudi Arabia or North Korea....they hate liberal freedoms too.
America’s founding fathers were classical liberals, meaning they favored liberty, private property, capitalism, freedom of religion, and a limited Republican style of government.
In fact, the founding fathers of America weren’t just “liberals”, they were Republicans, Federalists, and Democrats too. They were Patriots, they were a lot of things, but one thing they weren’t were monarchists or loyalists to the crown.
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@Dressage Man1
Statement on Climate Change from 18 Scientific Associations
"Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver." (2009)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
"The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society." (2006)
American Chemical Society
"Comprehensive scientific assessments of our current and potential future climates clearly indicate that climate change is real, largely attributable to emissions from human activities, and potentially a very serious problem." (2004)
American Geophysical Union
"Human‐induced climate change requires urgent action. Humanity is the major influence on the global climate change observed over the past 50 years. Rapid societal responses can significantly lessen negative outcomes." (Adopted 2003, revised and reaffirmed 2007, 2012, 2013)
American Medical Association
"Our AMA ... supports the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fourth assessment report and concurs with the scientific consensus that the Earth is undergoing adverse global climate change and that anthropogenic contributions are significant." (2013)6
American Meteorological Society
"It is clear from extensive scientific evidence that the dominant cause of the rapid change in climate of the past half century is human-induced increases in the amount of atmospheric greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2), chlorofluorocarbons, methane, and nitrous oxide." (2012)
American Physical Society
"The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth’s physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now." (2007)8
The Geological Society of America
"The Geological Society of America (GSA) concurs with assessments by the National Academies of Science (2005), the National Research Council (2006), and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) that global climate has warmed and that human activities (mainly greenhouse‐gas emissions) account for most of the warming since the middle 1900s." (2006; revised 2010)9
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@EnDy_S
Wrong educate yourself.
You are repeating fiction.
Races do not exist. They were invented by Johannes Blumenbach in the 1700's.
They are an anachronistic form of human genetic classification same as phrenology etc....
Later people discovered genetics and realised human genetic complexity.
Google RACE IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT
Scientific American
Feb 2016
"The mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning. What the study of complete genomes from different parts of the world has shown is that even between Africa and Europe, for example, there is not a single absolute genetic difference, meaning no single variant where all Africans have one variant and all Europeans another one, even when recent migration is disregarded,"
Pääbo told Live Science. "It is all a question of differences in how frequent different variants are on different continents and in different regions."
In one example that demonstrated genetic differences were not fixed along racial lines, the full genomes of James Watson and Craig Venter, two famous American scientists of European ancestry, were compared to that of a Korean scientist, Seong-Jin Kim. It turned out that Watson (who, ironically, became ostracized in the scientific community after making racist remarks) and Venter shared fewer variations in their genetic sequences than they each shared with Kim.
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@jj
"Manufacturing in the United States is a vital sector.
The United States is the world's second largest manufacturer (after China) with a record high real output in Q1 2018 of $2.00 trillion (i.e., adjusted for inflation in 2009 Dollars) well above the 2007 peak before the Great Recession of $1.95 trillion.
The U.S. manufacturing industry employed 12.35 million people in December 2016 and 12.56 million in December 2017, an increase of 207,000 or 1.7%.
Though still a large part of the US economy, in Q1 2018 manufacturing contributed less to GDP then the 'Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing' sector, the 'Government' sector, or 'Professional and business services' sector."
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@z.s.7992
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Racism did not cause slavery. "Black people" are not victims.
Go to Africa, Talk about your perceptions and they will think you are mad.
They will laugh.
They don't walk around with a chip on their shoulder looking for someone to blame.
Slavery is created by economics not racism.
Modern slavery.......is DEBT.......
Race is a FICTION, it does not exist.
Human DNA is basically identical, unlike fush, insects etc.... humans are unnaturally similar.
Why?
Not only did Neanderthals etc..... die off, but a possible extinction event likely wiped out most of the population
see TOBA CATASTROPHE THEORY
Black people, as you deludedly refer to skin color as identity, is based in melonin, a skin pigment that includes everyone.
There are "black people" in Australia, India etc.....
Africa has lots of different types of people. Kenyans, do not look like Massai, do not look like Egyptians, etc.....
Race is a fake over simplification of a vast variety of infinitely evolving forms, genetics and varieties.
Race is an anachronism created by a German man in 1700s named Johann Blumenbach.
Should red headed people be a different "race"?
Obese people?
It is ridiculous......
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The underlying issue is greed, and unfortunately, by wars, conquest etc... humans have waged wars on each other since the beginning of time.
26 million Russia people were killed in WWII.......was that racism?
Chimps even wage wars on other groups, so do ants.
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Does slavery exist today in Africa?
absolutely....
See The Dark Side of Chocolate documentary.
Where is your outrage towards a continent with endemic racism, whose ancestors sold various tribes they captured as slaves, for centuries?
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Some African people today are very "racist" towards whites in Africa......ie Idi Amin in Uganda, Mugabe in Zimbabwe, the EFF in South Africa....
.....land seizures, property seizures and race based killings are regularly occurring........
Where is your outrage?
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Your indignation is over simplification based ignorance of reality of both human development, history and biology.
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Should every war and every action be regressively analysed or is it better to understand, learn, progress and change real injustice instead of becoming outraged over statues etc.....?
I live in the moment.
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Free floating anxiety is created because of egotism, people should learn to meditate, eat vegetarian food and exercise..
Farm animals that are turned into food should be your focus if you truly want to lessen the suffering of human greed and blindness.....
same as clarification of the 2nd Amendment to end tribal gang violence.
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Fact is,the biggest killers of "black men" in the US are other black men.
Why?
Do you believe gang violence could create slavery if it was not legally prevented?
If you want to stop those killings change the 2nd Amendment, and change the psychology that creates it.
How?
education.
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@Ateshtesh
February 13, 2020 8:08 pm
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department charged Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei with racketeering and stealing trade secrets from American firms over two decades, the agency announced Thursday, opening another front in the Trump administration's battle against the leading maker of networking equipment.
The indictment accuses Huawei of building its empire on the backs of other companies, including six U.S. firms, by copying intellectual property and then selling it in products around the world. From as early as 2000, the DOJ said the company stole source code for internet routers, misappropriated robotic technology and stole proprietary information about cellular antennas.
In some instances, Huawei leaned on academics to steal trade secrets or provided financial rewards to employees who did its bidding, according to the indictment, which names Huawei and its Chinese subsidiaries, as well as two subsidiaries based in the U.S. Executives then downplayed the extent of the theft or their role in authorizing it when confronted by business partners and law enforcement, the government asserts
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@Ateshtesh
"so what happen(sic) with that?"
MORE LITIGATION IN PROCESS......
Last Updated November 19, 2021
SOURCE : US Dept. of Justice Website
About 80 percent of all economic espionage prosecutions brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) allege conduct that would benefit the Chinese state, and there is at least some nexus to China in around 60 percent of all trade secret theft cases.
The Department of Justice’s China Initiative reflects the strategic priority of countering Chinese national security threats and reinforces the President’s overall national security strategy. The Initiative was launched against the background of previous findings by the Administration concerning China’s practices. In March 2018, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced the results of an investigation of China’s trade practices under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. It concluded, among other things, that a combination of China’s practices are unreasonable, including its outbound investment policies and sponsorship of unauthorized computer intrusions, and that “[a] range of tools may be appropriate to address these serious matters.”
In June 2018, the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy issued a report on “How China’s Economic Aggression Threatens the Technologies and Intellectual Property of the United States and the World,” documenting “the two major strategies and various acts, policies, and practices Chinese industrial policy uses in seeking to acquire the intellectual property and technologies of the world and to capture the emerging high- technology industries that will drive future economic growth.”
In addition to identifying and prosecuting those engaged in trade secret theft, hacking, and economic espionage, the Initiative focuses on protecting our critical infrastructure against external threats through foreign direct investment and supply chain compromises, as well as combatting covert efforts to influence the American public and policymakers without proper transparency.
The China Initiative is led by the Department’s National Security Division (NSD), which is responsible for countering nation-state threats to the United States.
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@q.e.d.9112
. “Israel’s leaders sometimes threaten Iran, but they know that if they do a damn thing, the Islamic Republic will raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground.”
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
“Our battalions are named Imam Ali, Imam Hussein and Bayt al-Maqdis [Jerusalem] to clarify our final destination to the Basiji. We will not abandon our [armed] struggle until the annihilation of Israel and until we will be able to pray in al-Aqsa mosque.”
Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi, Commander of the Basij militia
“The Zionist regime will soon be destroyed, and this generation will be witness to its destruction.”
Hojatoleslam Ali Shirazi, Supreme Leader’s representative in the Revolutionary Guards
“Iran has long-range missiles that can reach 1,500 kilometers….The Supreme Leader maintained that ‘every combatant Palestinian group that fights the Zionist regime will receive the support of the Iranian regime.’”
Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, Member of the Presidium of the Assembly of Experts
“The only solution to the Palestine problem is the destruction of the Zionist regime….We view the wondrous resistance as the only way towards a victorious and inspiring battle against the false, illegitimate Zionist regime.”
Basij organization media outlet, Fars Province
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@strakk405
"Accidents happen"..... but also.....
There is a video of a Jewish man walking in Paris and is continually insulted.
National Geographic 2019
Why French Jews are leaving France
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Growing up in Paris, Esther Coscas felt safe. Her home was in the heart of “Little Jerusalem,” a neighborhood in the suburb of Sarcelles dotted with kosher restaurants and shops bearing Hebrew names. Jews and Arabs lived side by side. While there was occasional friction, Coscas, who is Jewish, never feared for her life.
That changed in the summer of 2014, when pro-Palestinian demonstrations disintegrated into attacks on the Jewish community. Chanting “Death to the Jews,” protestors smashed windows and burned Jewish businesses, barricading congregants inside a synagogue and attempting to burn it down. Coscas, now 30, had just become a mother. She began to fear for her family’s future in France.
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"1980 Paris synagogue bombing
On 3 October 1980, the rue Copernic synagogue in Paris, France was bombed in a terrorist attack. The attack killed four and wounded 46 people."
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Muslims Rioted and Attacked Two Paris Synagogues, Bombed Another,
July 15, 2014
The attacks ttacks were by violent groups which allegedly split off from a mostly-peaceful anti-Jew protest. Around 200 Jews were trapped inside one of the synagogues, which was performing a ceremony for the three slain Jewish brats when it was attacked
Monday, 1 April, 2002, 11:25 GMT 12:25 UK
Synagogue burnt down in Marseilles
A fire destroyed a synagogue in the southern French city of Marseilles later on Sunday, in what appears to be the latest in a wave of attacks against Jewish targets across the country.
Police have yet to comment on the cause of the blaze which destroyed the building in the Mediterranean port city, the French news agency AFP reports.
There is an issue .....and Christianity is based around possibly mythical activities Jerusalem.
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Stalking people is a dysfunctional characteristic in ordinary society, so why is British society creating a vast escalation of very powerful mass surveillance that stalks random people for trivial reasons?
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Couzens was dangerous but the stalking and predator characteristics are how the creepy surveillance state operates.
Those dysfunctional characteristics are desirable in some professionals.
What happens if computers can watch society, plot movement, analyse behaviour, analyse facial expressions, analyse social media posts and THEN start responsively creating ways to manipulate society for personal political advantages to manipulate society ?
That is not democracy.
See how CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA operated, see Shenzhen, see the destruction of personal liberties after BREXIT, see how Boris lied to society with 350 million, see how the Daily Mail manipulates opinion etc....
Instead of growing and improving ... British society is blindly becoming hostage to it's own predatory surveillance state where predatory personality characterics are given increasing power, increasingly sophisticated tools and nearly double the NHS budget.
Boris "loves China" he has repeated?
China uses prison labour of political and religious prisoners. practises mass disappearances where birth records, name mentions etc.... are all removed and people organ harvested for no proven crime and watches its own population to PREVENT dissention (improvements) to it's own brutal absolutist dictatorship ?
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How polluted is Asia?
"Bangladesh has the world’s worst air weighted by population, followed by Pakistan and then India.
Korea has the worst air among wealthy Asian countries. The country has 44 cities in the top 100 most polluted cities in OECD countries in 2018.
99 per cent of cities in South Asia exceeded WHO’s healthy air guidelines, 95 per cent of cities in Southeast Asia and 89 per cent of cities in East Asia.
The West China city of Hotan, Xinjiang province, suffered the heaviest air pollution of 2018, when average PM2.5 levels exceeded 300—defined as “hazardous” to human health—in the month of April, largely as a result of sand storms.
Ranking 686th with ‘moderate’ air that is double WHO’s safe limit, Hong Kong’s air improved in 2018, with pollutant levels dropping from 21.8 to 20.2. Singapore’s cleaner air got dirtier, with pollution increasing from 13.3 to 14.8.
Jakarta is Southeast Asia’s most polluted city, Manila is the sub-region’s cleanest.
In the US and Canada, air quality is relatively good, but historic wildfires meant that 5 out of 10 most polluted cities in the world during August 2018 were in North America.
The city of Lukavac in Bosnia Herzegovina, known for its chemicals factories, is the only non-Asian city in the top 100 most polluted cities."
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Kevin Montrond
"Of the most polluted cities in the world, 22 out of 30 were in India in 2018. ... The 51% of pollution is caused by the industrial pollution, 27% by vehicles, 8% by crop burning and 5% by diwali fireworks. "
Southeast Asian haze
An ongoing trans-national air pollution crisis is affecting several countries in Southeast Asia, including Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Southeast Asian haze, a long-term issue that occurs in varying intensity during every dry season in the region. It has mainly been caused by forest fires resulting from illegal slash-and-burn clearing performed on behalf of the palm oil industry in Indonesia, principally on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, which then spread quickly in the dry season.
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Kevin Montrond
2018
Nikkei
"Judging from World Health Organization figures released on Wednesday, covering 4,300 cities across 108 countries, the commuters have the right idea. Of an estimated 7 million deaths worldwide per year from air pollution, just over two-thirds take place in Asia, which is home to slightly less than 60% of the global population.
Breaking the numbers down further, the 10 countries in the WHO's "South-east Asia" region account for about a quarter of the world's population but suffer around 2.4 million, or 34%, of all air pollution deaths.
The WHO says 90% of the worldwide death toll comes from less wealthy countries, and that "98% of cities in low- and middle-income countries with more than 100,000 inhabitants do not meet WHO air quality guidelines." Though that number drops to 56% in high-income countries, the WHO estimates that 9 of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air at one time or another.
Air pollution is partly a byproduct of urbanization, which has proceeded at a rapid pace in Asia in recent decades."
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South Asia Is Smothered in Toxic Air, Report Finds
NEW DELHI — The planned city of Gurugram, one of India’s industrial hubs, has glass-sided office buildings and swanky, high-rise apartments. But now, according to a new report, it can claim a less desirable distinction: the city with the world’s worst air.
India holds 15 of the top 20 spots in that category, according to the report, which was released this week by Greenpeace and IQAir AirVisual, a software company that tracks air quality data. The Pakistani city of Lahore and Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, also made the top 20, making South Asia — where governments are routinely criticized for failing to limit emissions and coal use — an especially toxic region.
“At a country level, weighted by population, Bangladesh emerges as the most polluted country on average, closely followed by Pakistan and India,” the report said.
Details from the report, which looked at data from more than 3,000 cities around the world, offer more bad news for India’s nascent movement to curb air pollution. Average levels of the tiny, dangerous particles known as PM 2.5, which can penetrate deep into the lungs and enter the bloodstream, were largely unchanged from 2017 to 2018 in many Indian cities featured in the report.
Other recent studies have cited similarly troubling statistics for India, and for other countries with severely polluted air.
Last year, a report from the United Nations Environment Program found that toxic air kills seven million people every year, with most of those deaths occurring in the Asia-Pacific region. A study released by Lancet Planetary Health in December pegged the number of deaths in India from pollution at 1.24 million in 2017.
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Kevin Montrond
Inside Asia July 27, 2017
Senior government officials from across Asia have been meeting in Bangkok in the first-ever Asia-Pacific Ministerial Summit on the Environment. At the core of the meeting is the question: How can we use our resources more efficiently to continue to grow our economies in a manner that does not tax our natural environment or generate pollution affecting public health?
Resources such as fossil fuels, biomass, metals and minerals are essential to build economies. However, the region’s resource efficiency has regressed in recent years, and unfortunately Asia is the least resource-efficient region in the world.
In 2015, it used one-third more materials to produce each unit of GDP than in 1990. Developing countries use five times as many resources per dollar of GDP in comparison to rest of the world, and 10 times more than industrialized countries in the region. This inefficiency results in wastage and pollution, further affecting natural resources and public health -- the basic elements for ensuring sustainable economic growth.
The impact of pollution on Asia
As the speed and scale of economic growth continues to accelerate across the region, pollution has become a critical area for action. While the challenge of pollution is a global one, the impact is overwhelmingly felt in developing countries.
About 95% of adults and children impacted by pollution-related illnesses live in low and middle-income countries. Asia and the Pacific produce more chemicals and waste than any other region in the world and account for the bulk -- 25 out of 30 -- of cities with the highest levels of PM 2.5, the tiny atmospheric particulate matter that can cause respiratory and cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
More than 80% of rivers here are heavily polluted, while five of the top land-based ocean plastic sources are from countries in Asia. Estimates put the cost of marine pollution to regional economies at a staggering $1.3 billion USD.
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easynamed
"You are delusional if........."
Ad Hominem Fallacy
Camp David Accords agreed on in U.S.-brokered talks a year earlier, for which the Egyptian and Israeli leaders were awarded a joint Nobel Peace Prize.
For the first time since Israel’s establishment in 1948, the nation had normal relations with an Arab neighbor.
On Dec. 14, 1995, the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia signed the Dayton Accords, ending the worst conflict in Europe since World War II, with around 100,000 casualties and over 2 million displaced.
On Nov. 18, 1993, the South African government and Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress party agreed on an interim constitution that paved the road to the end of apartheid.
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"On April 18, 2002, Jeremiah Miller met Dozier at La Concha, a motel on the Las Vegas Strip. Dozier had promised to help Miller buy ephedrine, a key ingredient in the production of meth. Miller had brought $12,000 in cash for that express purpose. Upon Miller's arrival at La Concha, Dozier killed him (likely by shooting), sawed Miller's body into multiple pieces, stuffed most of them into a suitcase, and disposed of it near an apartment complex in western Vegas.[3] The suitcase was discovered by a worker the following week. Miller's head and arms were never found. Dozier was arrested on June 25, 2002, in Phoenix, Arizona, after which he was also connected to the July 27, 2001, murder of Jasen "Griffin" Green, whose remains were found in a plastic container in the desert north of Phoenix.[4]
Dozier received a 22-year sentence in 2005 for killing Green. After being extradited to Nevada, he stood trial for Miller's murder. He was convicted of the murder in September 2007, and received a death sentence on October 3, 2007, which was upheld by the Nevada Supreme Court on January 23, 2012. "
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@ComeFlyWithMe2011
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The Confucius Classroom is a military strategy to control western youth for the future benefits of Chinese Communist control. It's to make controlling western society easier by slowly manufacturing future acquiescence by controlling the education of western youth.
Then the goal will be destruction of western history, religion, churches, statues etc...... ?
What happened in 1949? Research it.
Tibet abuses?
Falun Gong mass arrests, disappearances and abuses..... for doing exercises, meditating and relaxing?
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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See The Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man"
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"Beijing was the city with the most billionaires in 2018, at 103, followed by New York at 92 and Hong Kong with 69, according to wealth compiler Hurun Report, "
"China making two billionaires every week as world's super-rich become wealthier than ever before, report reveals | South China Morning Post"
"Billionaires made more money in 2017 than in any year in recorded history. The richest people on Earth increased their wealth by a fifth to US$8.9 trillion, according to a report by ..."
"China accounts for 90 per cent of world's new billionaires as the number of super-rich swells globally | South China Morning Post"
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@jimbojones101
"European countries that are not in the European Union are Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Macedonia.
Other countries include Norway, Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland, and, as of 2019, the United Kingdom."
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Greenwald runs The Intercept ?
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Maybe you should read The Intercept ?
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/01/syrias-white-helmets-risk-everything-to-save-the-victims-of-airstrikes/
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"The group’s work has garnered international attention, including a Nobel
Peace Prize nomination as well as the Netflix documentary, which is
titled “The White Helmets.” The film chronicles the experiences of
several members of a Civil Defense unit in Aleppo, following them
between missions as they spend time with their families, conduct
training, and reflect on their reasons for volunteering with the group.
It also includes harrowing footage of government airstrikes on the city.
The aftermath of many such aerial attacks, recorded by Civil Defense
members and broadcast on social media, has provided crucial evidence of
government war crimes and attacks against civilian targets.
But the attention the group has received has also made it a target of
the Syrian government and the Russian forces that support it. In
recent days, Russian airstrikes reportedly struck
three Civil Defense headquarters in Aleppo, destroying one of the few
lifelines available to civilians in the besieged city. “They are not
happy that there is a success story in Syria that is receiving attention
from the world,” says Saleh. “They are targeting us because we have
become a critical source of information about what is happening in
Aleppo. We document the attacks against civilian neighborhoods, and we
pass the messages from the ground to the world.”"
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They aren't.................. the comment section has been taken over by a Russian troll factory OR SOMETHING...... obviously who are trying to sway the left into their sick agenda.
All these self similar comments appearing suddenly ? all supporting a certain agenda of Russia ?
all using fake names ?
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There are a lot of self similar comments, from people with fake names, all arguing the exact same aberrant point that previously nobody on Democracy Now cared about.
The only people freaking out about this topic are the Russian Army.....who are desperately trying to do anything and everything. to win, while simultaneously commuting genocide.......
Look at the sickness of the Stalin Purges. Look at the widespread corruption through Government there. See the sickness that pervades their society and they are too arrogant and brutish to improve their lives or others.
All toxified by vodka.
What idiots.
Now they are turning to the net to try and sway public opinion to some really odd BS.
Who else would do that ?
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See The Intercept article
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/01/syrias-white-helmets-risk-everything-to-save-the-victims-of-airstrikes/
The group’s work has garnered international attention, including a Nobel
Peace Prize nomination as well as the Netflix documentary, which is
titled “The White Helmets.” The film chronicles the experiences of
several members of a Civil Defense unit in Aleppo, following them
between missions as they spend time with their families, conduct
training, and reflect on their reasons for volunteering with the group.
It also includes harrowing footage of government airstrikes on the city.
The aftermath of many such aerial attacks, recorded by Civil Defense
members and broadcast on social media, has provided crucial evidence of
government war crimes and attacks against civilian targets.
But the attention the group has received has also made it a target of
the Syrian government and the Russian forces that support it. In
recent days, Russian airstrikes reportedly struck
three Civil Defense headquarters in Aleppo, destroying one of the few
lifelines available to civilians in the besieged city. “They are not
happy that there is a success story in Syria that is receiving attention
from the world,” says Saleh. “They are targeting us because we have
become a critical source of information about what is happening in
Aleppo. We document the attacks against civilian neighborhoods, and we
pass the messages from the ground to the world.”
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Hapalon G
Alexander Litvinenko
killed in 2006 when he ingested polonium-210, a highly radioactive substance, that had been slipped into his tea.
Litvinenko fled Russia in 2000 and established himself as a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s security services. He authored a book accusing the Russian FSB — the successor to the KGB — of complicity in the 1999 apartment bombings that Putin blamed on Chechen separatists, served as the pretext for renewed military operations there, and acted as Putin’s springboard to power.
Vladimir Kara-Murza
The Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza holds a distinction he would probably like to do without: He has survived attempted assassination by poison not once, but twice.
Georgi Markov
In September 1978, Georgi Markov was waiting for the bus near London’s Waterloo Bridge when a man jabbed him in the leg with an umbrella. He immediately fell ill and was rushed to the hospital.
The umbrella, as it turned out, was tipped with a pellet filled with ricin, the toxin produced from the castor plant.
Khattab
In 2002, the Arab fighter and prominent Chechen rebel leader Khattab opened a letter that would be his last. It contained what is believed to have been a lethal dose of sarin or one of its derivatives, likely planted by Kremlin operatives.
Viktor Yushchenko
In the heat of the 2004 presidential election in Ukraine, then-candidate Viktor Yushchenko suddenly fell ill and disappeared from the campaign trail. When he reappeared, his face was disfigured, the result of what his doctors described as a near-fatal dose of dioxin.
Alexander Perepilichny
In November 2012, the businessman Alexander Perepilichny went for a run in his posh gated compound in London. After running about a hundred feet, he collapsed and died.
Perepilichny had handed over evidence to Swiss investigators probing allegations of massive fraud by Russian authorities on an investment fund, Hermitage, controlled by the American businessman Bill Browder.
Investigators discovered trace amounts of a rare, toxic flower, gelsemium, in Perepilichny’s stomach.
Karinna Moskalenko
Karinna Moskalenko was due to return to Moscow in 2008 from Strasbourg to attend a trial examining the murder of one of her best-known clients — the journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Moskalenko delayed her return to Moscow after feeling ill — with intense headaches and a strange giddiness. Moskalenko and her husband soon found liquid-metal pellets — likely mercury — under a seat of their car.
Anna Politkovskaya
Before she was murdered in the elevator of her apartment in 2006, the journalist Anna Politkovskaya was targeted for assassination using poison.
Politkovskaya, who won countless enemies for her coverage of the Russian invasion of Chechnya, was attempting to travel to North Ossetia in 2004 to help negotiate during a school siege in Beslan. She boarded a flight, but promptly fell ill after drinking some tea that she believed contained poison.
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Hapalon G
Other Russian assasinations....
Boris Berezovsky: Berezovsky was found apparently hanged in his bathroom in 2013. Police ruled it a suicide, but U.S. intelligence officials suspected an assassination.
Many of his associates were also targeted over the years, including:
Scot Young: Young, a multimillionaire fixer to the world’s super-rich, worried for years that he was being targeted by a team of Russian hit men. In 2014, he was found dead, impaled on an iron fence after a fall from a window in his home. At the time, police ruled the death a suicide and did not pursue a criminal investigation. But experts, including U.S. intelligence sources, suspect he may have been murdered.
A trio of Young’s business partners — Paul Castle, Robbie Curtis and Johnny Elichaoff — all died in apparent suicides in the four years before Young. U.S. intelligence agencies considered their deaths suspicious.
Badri Patarkatsishvili: A Georgian oligarch and business partner of Berezovsky's, he died of an apparent heart attack in 2008, possibly caused by a poison.
Yuri Golubev: Another associate of Berezovsky, Golubev was found dead in 2007 in London. The oil oligarch and outspoken Putin critic was a known enemy of the Kremlin.
Other suspicious deaths include those of Stephen Moss, a 46-year-old who died of a sudden heart attack in 2003, and Stephen Curtis, killed in a 2004 helicopter crash. The pair were suspected of helping Russian oligarchs funnel money into Britain.
etc........
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Next ?
1) Open immigration and open trade with the EU, US, Canada, Australia etc......
2) Relocation of Parliament to the rolling countryside of Lancashire/Yorkshire to a new futuristic building (see Harbin Opera House) demonstrating parametric architecture and as a symbol of motivation towards a future defined by simplicity, technology, nature, health, humanity and intelligence.
The previous building can house a Museum of British Democracy and The House of Lords, wearing robes, wigs, performing rites etc..... with a public gallery to watch the proceedings.
The new white circular, deep futuristic building, designed by VFX artists, Zaha Hadid, Dusney Imagineering etc..... invites daily international representatives from and is to embrace international investment and international commerce in the UK.
This building and relocation is in conjunction with the new FUTURISTIC WIGAN PIER development and MALIBU LAGOON is Los Angeles : theme parks inspired by Tolkien, Orwell, Satire and VFX artists.
Goal = international cooperation to empower AI and robotics as entertainment, education and architectural development and regeneration.
3) Widening of motorways using robotics, to link Scotland to London with an 1405 style motorway : 6 lanes either side with the emphasis on spreading out at 70mph not staying left.
HGVs should be self driving and occur at night only.
4) Conversion of the railways into a EV self driving road system in conjunction with Tesla and The Boring Company.
The only reason for rails is guidance.
Trains are too heavy and expensive.
5) Development of a regional escooter sheltered path and tunnel network linking the North West as a paradigm for other regions both nationally and internationally.
Goal = fast, personal, low emissions transport.
Escooters will soon be self driving.
6) Reduction of prison populations and hiring of respectful personnel into national infrastructural development projects.
7) Importation of fruit, vegetables etc... from the US and increasing the UK average home size using modularity, futuristic design, ncreased depth and strategic land management.
....just a few ideas....
😊👍😎👍😂
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I am currently in what the South China Morning Post describes as a "declining Northern backwater".
Orwell wrote about the town in a book "The Road to Wigan Pier".
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Wigan has some of the most sinister and high tech surveillance of any UK town. Even though it loves to celebrate Orwell for the popularity, it fails continually to understand Orwell.
The Moon Under Water pub (inspired by an Orwell essay) in the centre of the town, has a huge CCTV tree outside monitoring everyone using facial recognition, gait analysis, correlation to media posts, bank activity, location history, divergent activity etc.....
It doesn't target potential terrorists it targets EVERYONE.
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See Glen Greenwald discuss this in the Munk Debates with Dershowitz.
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Recently in Wigan, it was announced that local and regional building developers would be overlooked and Beijing Construction Group would be given £130 million to demolish and rebuild the town.
One librarian, who worked in Government for 28 years, complained on social media about Uighers, organ harvesting and the contract etc.....
She was immediately fired.
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China and totalitarianism is taking over the UK by money.
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The presenter is not very good: repeats her life story and says "that doesn't sound crazy to you"?
the chimps are fascinating to watch and it was a generally interesting documentary
14:24 "the New York blood center has continued to care for and feed the chimps:
this was from 2014
well they aren't anymore, they stopped funding during the Ebola crisis and now the chimps are starving to death on the island, they also have no water......it is a completely artificial situation
these are death camps for tortured animals; animals that are similar to humans in many ways
I understand why, but truly this is awful
they are looking like creature from hell, they are ragged, decaying, starving, with no natural life or community, no families, no natural surroundings
luckily THE HUMANE SOCIETY stepped in via the Ebola epidemic and took over feeding responsibilities
but they have to be fed by humans since they are trapped on an island and their food comes from humans
see
Race to save abandoned chimps of 'Monkey Island'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhVJ0fdcay0
this documentary tried to put a positive spin on something truly horrific
unlike the movie the chimps have a large range of personalities, behaviors and emotions
.......what a pity people do not see that.......
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Pranks with serious consequences
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Jacintha_Saldanha
Jacintha Saldanha (1966 – 7 December 2012) was a British-Indian nurse who worked at King Edward VII's Hospital in the City of Westminster, London. On 7 December 2012, she was found dead by suicide, three days after falling for a prank phone call as part of a radio stunt. In the prank call, the hosts of the Australian radio programme Hot30 Countdown, broadcast on the Southern-Cross-Austereo-owned station 2Day FM in Sydney, called Saldanha's hospital and impersonated the Queen and the Prince of Wales enquiring about the health of the Duchess of Cambridge,
who was a patient there at the time. Saldanha fell for the hoax and
transferred the call to the nurse looking after the Duchess.
Saldanha's suicide led to public outrage, including in Saldanha's
home country against those responsible for perpetrating and broadcasting
the prank. :
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cop-killed-a-teen-over-a-prank-gone-wrong-lawsuit-says
YouTubers who made kids cry with extreme prank lose custody | New ...https://nypost.com/.../youtubers-who-made-kids-cry-with-extreme-prank-lose-custody...2 May 2017 - The dad and stepmom under fire for a viral YouTube video pranking their kids lost custody of two of them
When YouTube Pranks Break the Lawhttps://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/technology/when-youtube-pranks-break-the-law.html
26 May 2016 - On Wednesday, YouTube prankster Vitaly Zdorovetskiy climbed to the top of the 'D'
of the Hollywood sign, a GoPro strapped to his head, and waved a banner
with the words “I'm back.” When he came back down, park rangers were
waiting to arrest him.
"It's just a prank, bro": inside YouTube’s most twisted genrehttps://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2017/04/its-just-prank-bro-inside-youtube-s-most-twisted-genre
2 arrested after 'prank' harassment videos posted online - CityNews ...toronto.citynews.ca/2017/05/.../2-arrested-after-prank-harassment-videos-posted-onlin...3 May 2017 - The videos were posted on social media starting in May 2016. According to the group's YouTube page, the point of the videos are to “do real pranks.”
Girlfriend shoots boyfriend to death in YouTube prank gone wrong ...https://www.twincities.com/.../hoping-for-youtube-fame-with-prank-minnesota-woma...28 Jun 2017 - A 19-year-old Minnesota woman has been charged with manslaughter after shooting her boyfriend in a YouTube stunt that went horribly wrong.
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@trumpsaid3550
Figure it out.
The implication of the metaphor as evidence by Trump tweets.
Trump: "23% of Federal inmates are illegal immigrants."
Truth: According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons — whose data was last updated on November 24, 2018 — 19.3% of federal inmates are citizens of Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, or "other/unknown." The rest (80.7%) are U.S. citizens.
Trump: "[T]here were a total of 292,000 crimes by illegal aliens."
Truth: According to Texas DPS, there were 292,000 charges, but only 120,000 convictions between June 1, 2011, and December 31, 2018.
Trump: There were "539 murders."
Truth: Of 539 murder charges, 238 were convicted.
Trump: There were "32,000 assaults."
Truth: Of 32,443 assault charges, 13,559 were convicted.
Trump: There were "3,426 sexual assaults."
Truth: Of 3,428 sexual assault charges, 1,689 were convicted.
Trump: There were "3000 weapons charges."
Truth: Of 2,949 weapons charges, there were 1,280 convictions.
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@hedydd2
OFF TOPIC
BTW interrobang is not a regular question.....
Interobang is............ ?! or ‽
"A sentence ending with an interrobang asks a question in an excited manner, expresses excitement or disbelief in the form of a question, or asks a rhetorical question."
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"The interrobang (/ɪnˈtɛrəbæŋ/), also known as the interabang (‽) (often represented by ?!, !?, or ?!?), is a punctuation mark used in various written languages and intended to combine the functions of the question mark, or interrogative point, and the exclamation mark, or exclamation point, known in the jargon of printers and programmers as a "bang". The glyph is a superimposition of these two marks. The interrobang was first proposed in 1962 by Martin K. Speckter."
Wikipedia
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@Eric W
The recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio – along with a spate of shootings in Chicago ?
A mass shooting every few days isn't normal except for a war zone.
In 2017, six-in-ten gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (23,854), while 37% were murders (14,542), according to the CDC. The remainder were unintentional (486), involved law enforcement (553) or had undetermined circumstances (338).
Three-quarters of all U.S. murders in 2017 – 14,542 out of 19,510 – involved a firearm. About half (51%) of all suicides that year – 23,854 out of 47,173 – involved a gun.
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Weaponization of manufacturing, currency devaluation and "elite capture" strategies sucked western society into debt spirals and this is the result : perception manipulation and manufacturing consent.
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The local soccer team was bought by Chinese company last year... a Chinese delegation arrived a few weeks ago, just before the anniversary of the CCP, now the town hall has a Chinese warrior statue as a reward for the success of the "Confuscious Institute" being widespread in local schools.
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Meanwhile, the Queen is in the paper giving an MBE to a local man in charge of construction of Hinkley Point Nuclear Reactor.....co-sponsored by China.
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Next there will be Huawei and 5G due to Theresa May?
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The CCP goal is a takeover of western society by 2049, the anniversary....enabled by the profiteering of western rich leaders.
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Nobody read Sun Tzu ?
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting"
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Raise objection by principle and some people will say "you are far right", others "you are far left", others may say "an extremist"..... by piecing together obvious facts?
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It's no wonder South Park creators reacted.....they are the Vox Populi.......
To be aware of, and state reality, isn't xenophobic or ultra nationalistic: it's respect for human rights, freedom of religion etc.... and respect for democracy.
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@korosoinbrujula5154
For carrying a disruptive student out of class he should be rewarded.
Fight against the subversion authority.
Fight against the uneducated, smug, perpetual outrage.
Fight against the weak recreational indignation that prioritizes abuse towards teaches, lack of respect to the school and other children who go there to learn not be an audience for ghetto dysfunctions.
"Under Florida law, Simple Battery (Misdemeanor Battery) is a first degree misdemeanor, with penalties of up to one year in jail or 12 months probation, and a $1,000 fine."
He will get nothing.
Hopefully a dismissal and accolades.
The student should be expelled and parents fined for wasting the time of the courts, school and other students for a situation the student ( and parental negligence) deliberately created.
Discipline is what lazy, badly raised, entitled, bloated egos both want and need, to be healthy functional adults.
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@sabrina.natalie
A year before Elizabeth Smart was found, a 7 year old girl named Erica Pratt was kidnapped, bound with duct tape around her arms, legs and eyes, and left in the basement of a building:
Did she lie back and take it? Hell no. She broke a window, gnawed through her duct tape, and escaped.
She was back home the next day and she's only 7 years old.
Elizabeth perpetuated her ordeal obviously....
Most, or all, kidnapping victims do not deliberately reject situations where they can end their ordeal do they?
This is a question based in facts, to find the truth...... not an excuse or defense or gtounds for peeople denying facts to make insults from cognitive.
Maybe it was Stockholm Syndrome, or maybe she wanted to perpetuate it, maybe she was a runaway......
Kidnapping is a crime 99.9% of people would escape from at any opportunity.
Questions arise from why she didn't.
What was the truth?
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@sabrina.natalie
maybe she went crazy to become complicit.....
another example, the Police questioned her for over 30mins and she would nott stare her name......
"I was actually getting frustrated out there," Quezada said. "It's been 30 or 40 minutes, and we know she's not telling us the truth.
So my frustration was, we have the answer, but just tell me the answer. And she wouldn't do that. And at the very end, I said, 'You know, for your family's sake, for your sake, for everybody that's been looking for you around the country, just tell us you're Elizabeth Smart.' Before she got into the patrol car, she said, 'Thou sayest.' "
Quezada said he and O'Neal looked at each other and decided to "take that as a yes.","
It took her a whole day to stop saying she was Augustine Marshall..... maybe longer.
She was living like a different person......sucked into a crazy situation.
"Thou sayest" is Jesus's answer to Pontius Pilate.
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@sabrina.natalie
"no IDEA"
About 5 years before the Smart case.
FYI I once gave a hitchhiker a lift from a rainbow gathering in Vermont to Texas.
I spent 3 days in a car with Brian or David or Emmanuel....travelling to Texas.
It worried me he did not have one name.
I assumed he was a standard dead head hippy guy, but, he after 3 hours he started blabbing all about his book and religion.
I was stuck with it.
Do I normally give people lifts? no
He is very modest, thin and kind so I assumed it was ok..... an adventure.
At night, camping in tents in the middle of nowhere, it occured to me he could stab me in my sleep, but he is a skinny guy, sort of peaceful, slightly erratic......nothing happened.
Half the time he is nice and easy to be around, which is likely why Smart didnt run off. He can say sort of wise things ....
We jammed on drums.
He tried to sell jewellry for gas money and failed.
He ate health food and made advicado, cream cheese and cress sandwiches on wholemeal bread.
When he talked about Emmanuel, it was a sort of madness that took over.
He was not interested in other opinions or anything else.
At the end of the 3 days near Texas he said he was going to meet Wanda at this rainbow gathering campsite.
Finally we found it, just as the situation was getting intolerable for me.
I said " a Witch called Wanda" as a joke, but that freaked him out....
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he got very angry and started shouting in the car......
It was relief when he met Wanda and I was free from the situation.
He is passive / aggressive....... crazy but functional.
Wanda didnt smile and seemed 10 to 20 years older than him which was odd.
So yes, I do know......
I didn't read his crazy book, it is written in some affected Biblical style language.
So it was a shock to see he did that.
I assume Elizabeth is an impressionable girl, who was manipulated by the religion, his passivity, kindness and his crazy authoritative Church babblings.
That is why she did not seek help when she could....she decided to go with his religios craziness....and deny the questions of unbelievers, ie Police etc.....
She should have screamed "I have been kidnapped" in public and not denied her name prolonging the situation IMO
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@jadetaylor2443
The quote he used is from the Bible.
John 4:4-12
The Bible is not a Holy Book really.....it is a collection of writings SELECTED BY PEOPLE...... myths etc.....written by ancient Mesopotamian goat herders.
In the collection is some very weird things.......
The whole idea of killing the central religious teacher is very dark and bizarre..
There is more weird violence
ie
When Fighting Another Man, Chop Off His Wife's Hand If She Grabs Your Genitals
"When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her." Deuteronomy 25:11-12
You Can't Kill a Burglar During the Day
"If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft." Exodus 22:2-3
Abraham was told to sacrifice Isaac too.
"Verses 11–15 have an angel stop Abraham and declare the whole thing a test, but where did the angel come from? God has no problem talking directly to Abraham to demand this inhuman sacrifice, and then an angel pops up from nowhere? That section looks like an addition.
Verses 16–17 say, “Because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you.” Done what? If Isaac was not withheld, apparently he did get sacrificed.
Abraham and Isaac set out together in verse 6, but verse 19 concludes the story with, “Then Abraham returned to his servants.” Alone."
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Werner Herzog, "Encounters At the End of the World".....
"The creatures that are down there that are like science-fiction creatures, they range in the way that they would gobble you up from slime-type blobs, but creepier than classic science-fiction blobs.
These would have long tendrils that would ensnare you, and as you tried to get away from them you'd just become more and more ensnared by your own actions.
And then after you would be frustrated and exhausted, then this creature would start to move in and take you apart.
So that's one example of one of the creatures. Then there are other types of worm-type things with horrible mandibles and jaws and just bits to rend your flesh.
It really is a violent, horribly violent world that is obscure to us because we're encased in neoprene, you know, and we're much larger than that world.
So it doesn't really affect us, but if you were to shrink down, miniaturize into that world, it'd be a horrible place to be. Just horrible. And this is a world earlier than human beings.
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Do you think that the human race and other mammals fled in panic from the oceans and crawled on solid land to get out of this?
Yeah, I think undoubtedly that's exactly the driving force that caused us to leave the horrors behind.
To grow and evolve into larger creatures to escape"
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Sarah Fagen = too waffling and imprecise, made a few relevant comments after a struggle
Tom Llamas = too smug, loud, vain and insincere to be credible
Matthew Dowd = poised, articulate, relaxed, human and informed
Maggie Haberman = interesting, eloquent and insightful, undermined by her own conceit........quit the cigs: she smokes?
Michael Tomasky = a real old school Democrat, interesting, informed, practical, honest and articulate
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Blue Clouds
"On February 18, the head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency visited Israel to discuss Iran’s nuclear activity. Amid concerns that Tehran may be preparing to breach the conditions of the 2015 agreement, the visit may have been prompted by the new information about the country’s nuclear program. On January 22, in an interview with Iranian TV, Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), revealed that “Iran has not removed the core of its Arak heavy water reactor nor poured cement into it.” It seems Salehi’s revelations could have been unintentional; Iranian media have since removed the interview, followed by a complete silence from the government.
In accordance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran was required to fill the calandria — the core of the nuclear reactor — at the Arak facility with cement to render it unusable. Iran was also prohibited from acquiring metal tubes that can make reactors suitable for plutonium production. As such, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors released a report by its director general, confirming that Iran had removed, and rendered inoperable, the Arak facility’s calandria. At the time, Iran announced that Arak’s heavy water nuclear reactor had been filled with cement.
However, according to Salehi, “Iran removed the calandria from the Arak reactor and poured cement into metal tubes contained within fuel bundles.” This contradicts the terms of the nuclear deal that stipulated the removal of calandria and covering the core of Arak reactor with cement in order to curb Iran’s ability to advance its nuclear ambition. Moreover, according to the negotiations, Iran was prohibited from purchasing new calandria.
Nonetheless, Salehi went on to say that “Iran had bought extra metal tube equivalents, transferred them to a secret location, and Iran has been using them since then.” Under the terms of the JCPOA, it is prohibited for Iran to have access to open calandria, which is used for nuclear application."
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Haskell had previously faced domestic assault charges and had a protective order put against him by his wife before they divorced.[38] In June 2008, Haskell was charged with suspicion of domestic violence, simple assault, and committing an act of violence in front of children, after reportedly dragging his wife out of bed by the hair and hitting her on the side of her head.
On July 2, 2014, over a week prior to the shooting, Haskell's mother, Karla Jeanne Haskell, told San Marcos police that she wanted a restraining order against her son after having "a ferocious argument" with him, during which he reportedly forced her into the garage, tied her wrists with duct tape, taped her to a computer chair for almost four hours, and threatened to kill her and his entire family. The incident was allegedly sparked when Karla Haskell told him that she was in contact with his ex-wife.
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I have a theory that alcohol plus lack of healthy, calm, meditative, appreciative psychology, inspired feudalism by fraternal violence which became nationalism......
from wine drinking Romans, to Vikings, to Saxons, to the Beer Hall Putsch and AH, to the UK, France, Spain invading nearly every country on the planet.
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Why not an end to the Etonian liar's residence at Number 11 too?
That would be FREEDOM DAY.
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Now : the greatest rise in inflation in 30 years, increasing asylum seekers, more prisons, massive business decline, zero investment, systemic tax evasion for Mogg etc..., tax increases for society, a return to fur farming and foie gras, CAZ fines blamed on Andy Burnham, ZERO growth, ZERO investment, clogged roads....?
Johnson epitomizes entitlement, condescension and hypocrisy
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Boris discussing virology is like a parrot "discussing" physics.
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@amelliamendel2227
Your satellite?
What satellite?
Get an education.
This was printed 24 hours ago
"A high-profile NASA temperature data set, which has pronounced the last five years the hottest on record and the globe a full degree Celsius warmer than in the late 1800s, has found new backing from independent satellite records — suggesting the findings are on a sound footing, scientists reported Tuesday.
If anything, the researchers found, the pace of climate change could be somewhat more severe than previously acknowledged, at least in the fastest warming part of the world — its highest latitudes.
“We may actually have been underestimating how much warmer [the Arctic’s] been getting,” said Gavin Schmidt, who directs NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which keeps the temperature data, and who was a co-author of the new study released in Environmental Research Letters."
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"Huawei has a long track record in intellectual property theft. In 2004 Cisco Systems, the market leader in routers, took Huawei to court for stealing its core router software code and using it in Huawei routers. The case was settled confidentially. More recently, when Huawei public statements claimed that the 2004 case did not involve stolen Cisco code, Cisco in 2012 replied by describing the essence of their original complaint this way: “this litigation involved allegations by Cisco of direct, verbatim copying of our source code, to say nothing of our command line interface, our help screens, our copyrighted manuals and other elements of our products.” Routers are the core hardware technology at the heart of the Internet. Huawei routers, widely used in China and Europe, have played a key role in Huawei’s growth into a $95 billion global telecom equipment giant."
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Calvin Nam
"Gladiator culture" = more worthless delusion
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Why don't you get an education?
In 1958, Mao launched the Great Leap Forward that aimed to rapidly transform China's economy from agrarian to industrial, which led to the deadliest famine in history and the deaths of 20–46 million people between 1958 and 1962.
At least 45 million people were worked, starved or beaten to death in China over these four years; the worldwide death toll of the Second World War was 55 million.
What does 破四旧 mean?
If one slogan sums up the excesses of the Cultural Revolution, this was it. It exhorted young cadres to destroy anything regarded as "old" - loosely defined as old ideas, customs, culture, and habits.
Instead of embracing Chinese qualities and progressing Mao tried to destroy them.
The result = cold, fake society that copies EVERYTHING from the western in a worse way.....
The virus release to attack the west typifies the cold lack of humanity, lack of meditation, lack of true humanity and illegal greed.......
China wanted revenge?
JAN 2020 - BBC
China's economy grew last year at the slowest pace in almost three decades.
Official figures show that the world's second largest economy expanded by 6.1% in 2019 from the year before - the worst figure in 29 years.
The country has faced weak domestic demand and the impact of the bitter trade war with the US.
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Calvin Nam
MMA and WWF?
WWF = World Wildlife Fund
it protects animals like Rhinoceroses from "Chinese Traditional Medicine" poachers driving the animals into extinction.
Rhino horn is not viagra.
Rhino horn is chemically about the same as horse hooves.
Chinese Wrestling
"Over 6,000 years ago, the earliest Chinese term for wrestling, "jǐao dǐ" (角抵, horn butting), refers to an ancient style of military Kung-Fu in which soldiers wore horned headgear with which they attempted to butt, throw and defeat their enemies. Ancient Chinese imperial records state that "jiao di" was used in 2697 BC by the soldiers of a rebel army led by Chiyou against the Yellow Emperor's army.
In later times, young people would play a similar game, emulating the contests of domestic cattle, without the headgear. Jiao di has been described as an originating source of wrestling and latter forms of martial arts in China."
Wikipedia
MMA History
"In Ancient China, combat sport appeared in the form of Leitai, a no-holds-barred mixed combat sport that combined Chinese martial arts, boxing and wrestling."
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Calvin Nam
The topic of the initial comment is the Chinese Communist Party willingness to kill its own citizens and others.
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Why? because it is a fake, absolutust society with ZERO respect for human and animal rights.
See The Death of Wang Yue
Are people mentally ill in China?
Where is REAL humanity?
Look what happened to honest doctors and journalists who told the truth about the Wuhan virus.
Face it : Shi Zhengli was really creating an international bioterrorism event to destabilise world economies in revenge for a trade war China was losing.
Why did the CCP prevent an Australian Government and others conducting a formal, honest investigation ?
WHY?
BECAUSE IT WAS A STRATEGIC BIOTERRORISM EVENT created by a greedy, abusive dysfunctional society?
READ THIS:
"The Wuhan-based doctor who first raised the alarm over the coronavirus outbreak in China has reportedly gone missing.
Ai Fen hasn't been seen for days and some fear she could be the latest high-profile person critical of Beijing's handling of COVID-19 to disappear without a trace, "60 Minutes, Australia" reported."
"They posted videos online, shared pictures and dramatic stories from inside the quarantined city that has been virtually cut off from the rest of the country.
Now, they are nowhere to be found.
Fang Bin and Chen Qiushi were both determined to share what they could about the crisis, reporting from Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, and sending what they found out into the world.
As a result, they racked up thousands of views on their videos. But their channels have now gone quiet, and those who followed them online fear they may have disappeared for good."
"Chinese Tycoon Who Criticized Xi’s Response to Coronavirus Has Vanished
Ren Zhiqiang appears to be the latest government critic silenced by the Communist Party as it cracks down on dissent over the epidemic."
""Li Zehua, 25, a citizen journalist in Wuhan, is being chased. Wearing a facemask underneath a baseball cap, he quickly records a video while driving. “I’m on the road and someone, I don’t know, state security, has started chasing me,” he says breathlessly. “I’m driving very fast. Help me.”
Later, Li posts a live stream of himself in an apartment, waiting for those same agents to knock on his door, probably to detain him. In an impassioned monologue, he explains why he quit a stable job at China’s state broadcaster, CCTV, and how he came to Wuhan on his own.
“I don’t want to remain silent, or shut my eyes and ears. It’s not that I can’t have a nice life, with a wife and kids. I can. I’m doing this because I hope more young people can, like me, stand up,” he says. The live stream, posted on Weibo, where it was later deleted, and on YouTube, shows two men in plain clothes entering the apartment and then cuts out.""
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Chinese junta running the Government with fake humanity and MASSIVE human rights abuses is fooling nobody.
DEMOCRACY FOR THE CHINESE PEOPLE.
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Calvin Nam
This isn't a discussion.
This is your education.
Would The Chinese Communist Party deliberately release a virus in revenge for a trade war?
Answer: yes.
Absolutely.
Did the PLA do that simple task? unproven.
Is it highly likely? Yes.
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Look at the mass abuses and jailing of human rights defenders.
via Human Rights Watch
"In 2018, the courts handed down lengthy prison terms to a number of prominent human rights activists after protracted and sham prosecutions. In July, a Wuhan court sentenced veteran democracy activist Qin Yongmin to 13 years in prison for “subversion of state power.” Qin, 64, has previously spent a total of 22 years in prison or in “Re-education Through Labor.”
Also in July, a Chongqing court sentenced political cartoonist Jiang Yefei to six-and-a-half years in prison for “subversion of state power” and “illegally crossing a national border.” In 2015, Thai authorities forcibly repatriated Jiang and human rights activist Dong Guangping to China even after the pair had been granted UNHCR refugee status. Dong, who was tried alongside Jiang, was given a three-and-a-half-year sentence for inciting subversion and illegal border crossing.
Other defenders continue to face long detentions without trials or verdicts. Liu Feiyue, founder of the human rights news website Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch, was detained in November 2016 and charged with “inciting subversion of state power.” He was tried in August 2018 but had not yet been sentenced at time of writing. Veteran activist and founder of the human rights website “64,” Tianwang Huang Qi, has been detained since November 2016 but not yet tried. Huang suffers from several health conditions for which he has not received adequate treatment, including possible imminent kidney failure and lung inflammation.
More human rights defenders were detained in 2018. In July, authorities detained Dong Yaoqiong after she poured ink over a poster of President Xi in Shanghai. Police later held her in a psychiatric hospital and prevented her father from seeing her. In August, Guangxi police detained activist and a leader in the Tiananmen Square protests Zhou Yongjun for possessing materials related to Falun Gong, a banned religious group in China. Also in August, Shenzhen police detained dozens of labor and student activists after they gathered to show support to factory workers at the welding machinery company Jasic International, who were fired for trying to form a union. Some were later released but 14 remained in custody or under house arrest at time of writing.
Authorities also tried to silence Chinese human rights defenders abroad by harassing and detaining their families in China. In January 2018, Guangzhou authorities forcibly disappeared Li Huaiping, wife of Chen Xiaoping, a US-based journalist for the Chinese-language Mirror Media Group. The disappearance came shortly after Chen interviewed Guo Wengui, a Chinese billionaire fugitive who exposed corruption among China’s ruling elite. Authorities continually harassed the China-based family members of Canadian human rights activist Anastasia Lin, banning them from travel abroad and threatening to persecute them “like in the Cultural Revolution.”
In 2018, authorities continue to subject various activists and lawyers to travel bans, surveillance, detention, and torture and ill-treatment for their efforts to engage with the UN. Using human rights treaties for advocacy was cited in the criminal indictment against activist Qin Yongmin, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison."
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Calvin Nam
Yes.
China should be like Japan.
It would be a far better country.
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Anyway back to mass murder by the Chinese Communist Party of it's own civilians.
"The Cultural Revolution damaged China's economy while tens of millions of people were persecuted, with an estimated death toll ranging from hundreds of thousands to 20 million.
Starting from the Red August of Beijing, massacres took place across the country, such as the Guangxi Massacre (massive cannibalism also occurred[7][8]), the Inner Mongolia incident, the Yunnan Massacres and the Hunan Massacres. The "1975 Banqiao Dam failure", one of the greatest technological catastrophes of the world, also took place during the Cultural Revolution. On the other hand, senior officials, most notably Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, Peng Dehuai and He Long, were purged or exiled. Millions were accused of being members of the Five Black Categories and were persecuted, suffering public humiliation, imprisonment, torture, hard labor, seizure of property, and sometimes execution or harassment into suicide. Intellectuals were considered the "Stinking Old Ninth" and were widely persecuted; notable scholars and scientists such as Lao She, Fu Lei, Yao Tongbin and Zhao Jiuzhang were killed or committed suicides. Schools and universities were closed with the college entrance exams cancelled. Over 10 million urban intellectual youths were sent to the countryside in the Down to the Countryside Movement. Red Guards also destroyed historical relics as well as artifacts, and ransacked cultural and religious sites."
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So China kills off it's own educated people, steals from the west ?
China needs mental health therapy.
Chinese people have no natural laughter now.
Before the revolution old pictures showed people smiling.
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Calvin Nam
TIBET
Human rights abuses documented in Tibet include the deprivation of life, disappearances, torture, poor prison conditions, arbitrary arrest and detention, denial of fair public trial, denial of freedom of speech and of press and Internet freedoms.
They also include political and religious repression, forced abortions, sterilisation, and even infanticide.
The security apparatus has employed torture and degrading treatment in dealing with some detainees and prisoners, according to the U.S. State Department's 2009 report.
Tibetans repatriated from Nepal have also reportedly suffered torture, including electric shocks, exposure to cold, and severe beatings, and been forced to perform heavy physical labor. Prisoners have been subjected routinely to "political investigation" sessions and punished if deemed insufficiently loyal to the state.
Wikipedia
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Calvin Nam
TIBET
.....continued.....
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According to a UN report regarding the adoption of its Tibetan resolution in 1965, "The Chinese occupation of Tibet has been characterised by acts of murder, rape and arbitrary imprisonment; torture and cruel, inhuman and degraded treatment of Tibetans on a large scale."
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According to a secret PLA document purportedly captured by the guerrillas fighting the Chinese army, 87,000 deaths were recorded in Lhasa between March 1959 and September 1960.
Regarding this document, Chinese demographer Yan Hao wonders why "it took six years for the PLA document to be captured, and 30 years for it to be published" ("by a Tibetan Buddhist organisation in India in 1990"), adding that it was "highly unlikely that a resistance force could ever exist in Tibet as late as in 1966."
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The 10th Panchen Lama said in relation to atrocities by Chinese forces: "If there was a film made on all the atrocities perpetrated in Qinghai Province, it would shock the viewers. In Golok area, many people were killed and their dead bodies rolled down the hill into a big ditch. The soldiers told the family members and relatives of the dead people that they should celebrate since the rebels have been wiped out. They were forced to dance on the dead bodies. Soon after, they were also massacred with machine guns...In Amdo and Kham, people were subjected to unspeakable atrocities. People were shot in groups of ten or twenty... Such actions have left deep wounds in the minds of the people"
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Calvin Nam
Yes.
Fallacy.
Try researching what an Anecdotal Fallacy is.
The try researching the mass deaths and murders during the cultural revolution.
Try researching the mass murders of unarmed, pro west students in Tiananmen Square, 1989.
Try researching the mass detention, disappearances, tortures and deaths of millions of Falun Gong.
Try researching the concentration camps of Uighers.
Try researching the mass, illegal, IP theft.
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Chinese society is a decaying, polluting declining society, operating under an autocratic, abusive dictatorship.
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Transition the CCP to a liberal western democracy, allow Tiber, Mongolia, Hong Kong and Taiwan freedom of autonomy.
End the oppression of doctors and reporters TELLING THE TRUTH about a virus created by China and intentionally released as a likely war strategy by the PLA.......who will DO ANYTHING...... to advance authoritarian rule.
Taiwan is the real China.
CCP are a Machiavellian, oppressive dictatorship, replacing intelligence with theft.
Even the concept of communism is stolen from the west.
It's a fake leadership guided by fear, groupthink, misery, greed and conformity.
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Calvin Nam
"In an echo of apartheid South Africa or segregation-era United States, a colour bar was imposed across the city: Africans were refused entry by hospitals, hotels, supermarkets, shops and food outlets. At one hospital, even a pregnant woman was denied access. In a department store, an African woman was stopped at the entrance while her white friend was allowed in. In a McDonald’s restaurant, a notice was put up saying “black people cannot come in”.
The widespread racism has caused a huge public outcry across Africa, shared on social media under the hashtag #ChinaMustExplain. YouTuber Wode Maya, who has lived in China and is a fluent Mandarin speaker, urges fellow Africans to “wake up to what’s happening”. The global African diaspora has put pressure on African embassies and institutions to act. Last weekend the Kenyan government announced plans to allow its citizens stranded in China to be evacuated.
The official Chinese responses were at first silence or denial. State media such as Global Times and Xinhua failed to report the story in the first few days after the news broke in African news outlets. Later, the Chinese authorities began to recognise the reports of racism as “reasonable concerns”, though migrants continue to feel unsafe."
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Calvin Nam
NATURE IS DIVERSITY..... NOT MASS IMITATION BY STUPID ISOLATIONIST CONFORMITY OUT OF FEAR
"Nationalism has taken deeper root in the four decades since Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms. National revival has been a key ideological driver behind modernisation.
Today, assimilationism is at the centre of the concept of nation. Minzu, a key term used interchangeably for both ethnic group and nationality, refers to a group of common descent, with a distinct culture and territory.
In 2012, Xi Jinping began his rule by saying: “The China dream gathers Chinese aspirations and wishes for generations and manifests the interests of the whole Chinese nation (zhonghua minzu) …” The “China dream” became the political-economic programme for “the realisation of the great revival of the Chinese nation”.
This century is the “Chinese century”, Xi said. His multibillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative was launched in 2013 as a massive global investment programme. From 2013 to 2018, the Chinese state invested nearly $614bnin developing countries. China’s foreign investment campaign is seen by some in Africa as colonialism, as the nations involved risk losing control of their essential infrastructure and natural resources, with their debt burden increased. China now holds 14% of the total debt stock in sub-Saharan Africa and has become the largest owner of public debt in Africa.
China’s growing presence brought with it labour migration from African countries from the late 1990s. People from Nigeria, Mali, Kenya, Senegal, Ghana and other west African countries came for work opportunities, mostly in the metropolis of Guangzhou. Many work in the city’s wholesale markets as other types of employment, including factory work, are closed to them. It’s commonly said by them that Africans are often “accepted as traders but discriminated against as people”. There are currently more than 15,000 African migrants with formal immigration status living in Guangzhou."
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Calvin Nam
"Hada (who, like many Mongolians, uses no surname) remains one of the most recognized figures in Inner Mongolia, the historic homeland for most of China's 6 million ethnic Mongols. As an intellectual and bookstore owner, Hada was an instrumental figure in movements promoting the Mongolian language, culture, and identity. He wrote extensively on political theory and philosophy in Mongolian throughout the 1980s, and in the 1990s he co-founded the Southern Mongolian Democratic Alliance, which called for independence from China and eventual unification with the nation of Mongolia, which borders China to the north.
Chinese officials cracked down on the alliance in 1995, arresting Hada and confiscating all documents relating to the group. Two weeks later, hundreds of students gathered outside Hada's bookstore, waving signs of Genghis Khan and making speeches in protest. Hada was denied a lawyer and was convicted in 1996 of "splitting the country," conspiring to overthrow the government, and espionage.
Seventeen years later, Hada continues to be held by officials in detention because, activists say, he refuses to confess he was guilty of the crimes of which he was already convicted."
CBS NEWS
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"The Chinese have kind of a curious mentality," says Sanj Altan, president of the Mongolian American Cultural Association. "In any other civilized country, once you've served your sentence, they let you out. But in China it's not enough that you serve your debt to society, but you also have to then go through this sham ritual of, 'Yeah I admit I did wrong.' What kind of legal principle is this?"
While in principle Inner Mongolia is an ethnically autonomous region, in reality Beijing's policies are designed to drive Mongolians to assimilate to the majority culture. Over the last decade, many Mongolian-language schools have been shuttered; nomadic herders have been driven off their land; and government policies have continued to encourage Han Chinese immigration. Rampant mining has ravaged the grassland environment.
Tensions came to a head in 2011, when protests against government policies erupted around Inner Mongolia.
"To the Chinese government this was a big surprise, because they always thought Mongolians would never resist," says Enghebatu Togochog, director of the US-based Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center.
"To the outside world, China always uses Mongolia to advertise their ethnic policies -- they say it's much better than Xinjiang and Tibet. But that's not true."
CBS NEWS
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Calvin Nam
"Chinese Communist Party creates oppressive misery?
Whatever Hada and other activists might wish for, there is little real hope for Inner Mongolian independence in the near future. The Communist Party takes an extremely hard line against "separatist" movements, and China benefits greatly from Inner Mongolia's natural resources. The region contains more than a quarter of the world's coal reserves, and nearly 80 percent of the world's total reserves of rare-earth metals.
Yet there may be hope in gradual change. While Hada remains in detention, a new generation has begun to assert Mongolians' rights within the existing Chinese legal framework. They have remained non-violent in their protests, and rarely mention independence or political rights in public.
"The Chinese government says it's an autonomous ethnic region, so Mongolians say, 'Give us real autonomy. You have to keep your promise,'" Togochog says. "If you say, 'We want independence, we want freedom,' then the Chinese government usually unconditionally cracks down.""
CBS NEWS
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You work at the troll factory ? Look look at the worthless caliber of your comment.
You cannot make a real comment so you resort to a worthless personal attack and expletive ?
The Government pays you to write such comments ?
No, Oxford University is not a "school for stupid people" : here is the report : http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/89/2017/07/Troops-Trolls-and-Troublemakers.pdf
There is widespread support for the ICC also.
Mass murder charges filed against Duterte by the ICC
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/25/mass-complaint-launched-against-philippines-president-duterte-at-icc
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Shooting and killing "suspects" without charges or a legal process is mass murder.
READ IT
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In the first publicly known filing to the Hague court against Duterte, Jude Sabio submitted the 77-page complaint that says the president has “repeatedly, unchangingly and continuously” committed extra-judicial executions or mass murders over three decades, amounting to crimes against humanity.
It says the killing of 9,400 people began in 1988 when Duterte was mayor of the southern city of Davao and has lasted throughout his 10 months so far as president, during which he has waged a virulent and bloody “war on drugs”.
The communication is based on the reports of human rights groups, Duterte’s own public admissions that he killed, media reports and the testimony of Sabio’s client, Edgar Matobato, a man who testified in the Philippines senate that he was part of a hit squad that operated on Duterte’s orders.
The complaint also referred to testimony from retired police officer Arturo Lascanas, another hitman who said he personally killed “about 200 people” as a member of the Davao Death Squad. That organisation, Lascanas has said, regularly took direct orders from then-mayor Duterte to kill criminals, political opponents and journalists.
“Sometimes we kidnapped our subject and put the packing tape on their head until they suffocated, and then we would throw them in the street,” recalled Lascanas in an interview with the Observer.
Philippine lawmakers have dismissed the credibility of Matobato and Lascanas, while Duterte’s aides have rejected claims that he killed or ordered unlawful killings, even after he announced that he threw one suspect to his death from a helicopter.
The 72-year-old leader has led a bloody campaign against drugs that has left more than 7,000 people dead since June last year, mostly suspected low-level dealers and alleged addicts. Rights groups say vigilantes, who conduct most of the killings, are paid by the police, a charge law enforcement denies.
A March resolution delivered by European Union lawmakers said there were also “credible reports” that Philippine police falsify evidence to justify extrajudicial killings. However, Duterte has enjoyed widespread domestic support and high approval ratings for his lethal crackdown.
The complaint to the ICC against Duterte and government officials called for an investigation, arrest warrants and a trial.
“The situation in the Philippines reveals a terrifying, gruesome and disastrous continuing commission of extrajudicial executions or mass murder,” the complaint said.
The ICC office of the prosecutor said in a statement said that it had received a communication. “We will analyse it, as appropriate. As soon as we reach a decision, we will inform the sender and provide reasons for our decision,” the office said.
Ernesto Abella, a spokesman for Duterte, dismissed the complaint as a “cynical effort” to undermine the president.
“The so-called extrajudicial killings are not state-sanctioned or state-sponsored,” Abella said in a statement. “The intent of this filing in ICC is clearly to embarrass and shame the president, and undermine the duly constituted government of the Philippines.”
Of thousands of complaints delivered to the ICC since it was set up in 2002, the body has delivered six verdicts.
The court has no powers of enforcement. It may take cases only when a nation’s own judicial system is unable or unwilling to investigate or prosecute.
ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in 2016 her office was following developments in the Philippines “with a view to assessing whether a preliminary examination needs to be opened”.
“I am deeply concerned about these alleged killings and the fact that public statements of high officials of the Republic of the Philippines seem to condone such killings and further seem to encourage state forces and civilians alike to continue targeting these individuals with lethal force,” she said.
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@bradley7240
"China has become one of the world’s most advanced economies overnight in no small part through the rampant, state-sponsored theft of intellectual property from other countries. This extended campaign of commercial espionage has raided almost every highly developed economy. (British inventor James Dyson has complained publicly about Chinese theft of designs for his eponymous high-end vacuums.) But far and away its biggest targets have been the trade and military secrets of the United States. From US companies, Chinese hackers and spies have purloined everything from details of wind turbines and solar panels to computer chips and even DuPont’s patented formula for the color white. When American companies have sued Chinese firms for copyright infringement, Chinese hackers have turned around and broken into their law firms’ computer systems to steal details about the plaintiffs’ legal strategy.
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AUTHOR: GARRETT M. GRAFFGARRETT M. GRAFF
SECURITY
10.11.18
06:00 AM
HOW THE US FORCED CHINA TO QUIT STEALING—USING A CHINESE SPY
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KEVIN AND JULIA Garratt had spent nearly all of their adult lives in China. A devout Christian couple in their fifties with an entrepreneurial streak, they operated a café called Peter’s Coffee House, a popular destination in the city of Dandong, according to TripAdvisor.
DANDONG IS A sprawling border town that sits just across the Yalu River from North Korea. For tourists and expats, the Garratts’ coffee shop—just a short walk from the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge—was a hub of Western conversation and comfort food. “After time in North Korea a decent cup of coffee was one of those things I was really looking forward to,” one Australian tourist wrote in early 2014. “Peter’s was a perfect place.”
The Garratts had come to China from Canada in the 1980s as English teachers. They lived in six different Chinese cities over the years, raising four children along the way, before settling in Dandong. From their perch near the border, they helped provide aid and food to North Korea, supporting an orphanage there and doing volunteer work around Dandong itself. The Garratts had a strong social network in the city, so it didn’t seem odd to either of them when they were invited out to dinner by Chinese acquaintances of a friend who wanted advice on how their daughter could apply to college in Canada.
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The meal itself, on August 4, 2014, was formal but not unusual. After dinner, the Garratts got into an elevator that took them from the restaurant down to a lobby. The doors opened onto a swarm of bright lights and people with video cameras. The Garratts initially thought they’d stumbled into a party of some kind, maybe a wedding. But then some men grabbed the couple, separated them, and hustled them toward waiting cars. Everything happened fast, and very little made sense. As the vehicles pulled away, neither Kevin nor Julia had any idea that it was the last they’d see of one another for three months.
It wasn’t until the two arrived at a police facility that they each realized they were in real trouble. And it wasn’t until much later still that the couple would understand why they had been taken into custody. After all, before their detainment, they’d never even heard of a Chinese expat living in Canada named Su Bin.
WHEN THE GARRATTS first arrived in China, in 1984, the country was still transitioning away from collective farms. Shanghai had only just opened up to foreign investment; the future megacity Shenzhen still had just a few hundred thousand inhabitants. Over the ensuing three decades, the couple would watch as China hurtled from eighth-largest economy in the world to second-largest, powered, famously, by mass migrations of people into new industrial cities and the erection of a vast manufacturing and export sector. But especially in the later years of the Garratts’ career as expats, the country’s growth was also propelled by a more invisible force: a truly epic amount of cheating.
China has become one of the world’s most advanced economies overnight in no small part through the rampant, state-sponsored theft of intellectual property from other countries. This extended campaign of commercial espionage has raided almost every highly developed economy. (British inventor James Dyson has complained publicly about Chinese theft of designs for his eponymous high-end vacuums.) But far and away its biggest targets have been the trade and military secrets of the United States. From US companies, Chinese hackers and spies have purloined everything from details of wind turbines and solar panels to computer chips and even DuPont’s patented formula for the color white. When American companies have sued Chinese firms for copyright infringement, Chinese hackers have turned around and broken into their law firms’ computer systems to steal details about the plaintiffs’ legal strategy.
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Each theft has allowed Chinese companies to bypass untold years of precious time and R&D, effectively dropping them into the marathon of global competition at the 20th mile. China’s military has gotten a leg up too. Coordinated campaigns by China’s Ministry of State Security and the People’s Liberation Army have helped steal the design details of countless pieces of American military hardware, from fighter jets to ground vehicles to robots. In 2012, National Security Agency director Keith Alexander called it the “greatest transfer of wealth in history,” a phrase he has regularly repeated since.
John Carlin, who served as assistant attorney general for national security during the Obama administration, recalls one meeting with executives from a West Coast company whose intellectual property was being stolen by Chinese hackers. The executives even projected that, in seven or eight years, the stolen IP would kill their business model; by that point, a Chinese competitor would be able to undercut them completely with a copycat product. But the company’s general counsel still didn’t want the government to step in and take action. “We are going to be coming back to you and complaining,” the general counsel said. “But we’re not there yet.”
Finally, between 2011 and 2013, the US began to reach a breaking point. Private cybersecurityfirms released a string of damning investigative reports on China’s patterns of economic espionage; the US government started to talk more publicly about bringing charges against the country’s hackers. But it was far from clear how any government or company might successfully turn back the tide of Chinese incursions. President Obama pressed the issue of cyberthefts in his first meeting with President Xi in 2013, only to be met with more denials.""
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Winning by any means has been a Huawei trademark for some time. For example, two Huawei engineers used a 2014 visit to T-Mobile’s labs in Seattle to steal information and even a piece of confidential T-Mobile equipment., a robot that simulated finger-taps to test cell phone performance. Not only did Huawei take unauthorized photos of the robot, they stole one of its fingers. In 2017 a Seattle jury decided that Huawei had misappropriated T-Mobile trade secrets and awarded the wireless operator $4.8 million in damages.
Huawei also has a long track record in intellectual property theft. In 2004, for instance, Cisco Systems took Huawei to court for stealing its core router software code and using it in Huawei routers. Routers are the core hardware technology at the heart of the Internet; Huawei routers are widely used across China and Europe. The case was settled confidentially, but in 2012 Cisco used the occasion of Huawei’s effort to deny it had stolen Cisco code to review for the public the original litigation, which had accused Huawei of “direct, verbatim copying of our source code, to say nothing of our command line interface, our help screens, our copyrighted manuals and other elements of our products.”
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a Huawei engineer leading smartwatch development tracked down a supplier involved with the Apple Watch heart rate sensor and arranged a meeting in November 2018 under the pretence of requesting a large order. The Huawei engineer arrived accompanied with four researchers and probed details about the Apple Watch for an hour and a half, including component prices, an anonymous source at the supplier said.
“They were trying their luck, but we wouldn’t tell them anything”, the source said. “After that, Huawei went silent.”
The meeting reflects a “pattern of dubious tactics” used by the world’s largest telecommunications manufacturer to harvest trade secrets from other companies, the report claims. In another instance, a Huawei engineer reportedly approached an Apple supplier and asked them to “suggest a design you already have experience with.”
In another incident, Huawei is accused of copying a connector design from 2016 used to make the sleek MacBook Pro’s hinge thinner while still linking the display to the logic board; a similar component was used in Huawei’s 2018 MateBook Pro. Many manufacturers recognised the similarity and refused to work with Huawei on the high-end laptop.
The report alleges that Huawei also offered interviews with recently-departed Apple employees, repeatedly questioning them about upcoming products and features: “It was clear they were more interested in trying to learn about Apple than they were in hiring me,” a source told The Information.
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People are sick of Boris (Boris is a stage name, a TV persona, his grew up as Al but changed it as PR).
Instead of self protection the UK has created a massive increase in a Police an surveillance state, similar to China, where people are treated like farm animals.
Massive economic decline, orchestrated by a basically illegal yet legitimised, tax haven "The City of London" made it increasingly beholden to China unfortunately.
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Now the same Government that created the greatest economic decline in 300 years is using any reason it can to attack society to recreate the fake class system it was borne from.
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ie a stray dog yesterday resulted in 8 Police vehicles, 2 van and armed patrols,.....even though the dog attacked nobody.
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The Government's fake hierarchy, that the US wisely exited from, has become a witch hunt looking for a witch, when the real witch is it's own deeply corrupt financial process.
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"Trump claimed that the fund is “costing the United States a vast fortune.” In reality, the United States has contributed to date $1 billion out of a total pledge of $3 billion. Which is to say that what we’ve spent so far amounts to about .026 percent of the annual federal budget.
Trump not only falsely characterized the U.S. commitment as “billions and billions and billions” of dollars, he also asserted that among other countries, “Nobody else is even close. Most of them haven’t even paid anything.” The facts are that while the United States is the largest contributor in absolute dollars, on a per capita basis, the U.S. pledge ranks 11th among the 45 contributing countries, and as a fraction of gross domestic product, the United States ranks 32nd. Every country with an official pledge has made a contribution, and nearly all have already paid a larger share of their total pledge than the United States."
" Finally, the president asserted that “nobody even knows where the money is going to. Nobody’s been able to say where is it going to.” This statement suggests that no one in the Trump administration has bothered to look things up, or even asked the Treasury Department about the policy. The Green Climate Fund’s website lists exactly 43 projects that are underway in Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and the Asian Pacific region. The total amounts for each are listed, along with the anticipated benefits. It is, in other words, very easy to say where the money is going, and all of the projects have been carefully reviewed by the U.S. government."
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Point is : there is a soft war going on.
The small English town I was born in just had the occasionally 1 division football team bought by a Chinese company from a local man celebrated as a local hero.
Now the Town Hall was given a statue of a Chinese warrior by Confucius clasroom, teaching local Children Chinese.
Learning is essential but China is a 1 way street.
No western person can go to China, work, live, do well and send money back to family.
The judicial system is racially biased.
People are also rated with a new scoring monitoring system.
China banned over 10,000 websites but plagues social media articles on those sites with troll comments and self aggrandizing platitudes.
So....yes there is a latent intent to absolutely dominate the world in a non military way.....using theft, mimicry etc....
World domination by IP theft, mass murder of pro democracy students, militarization of manufacturing, the disappearance of Falun Gong and organ thefts are, in my mind, and the minds of others "no good".
Assuming China is "win win" after understanding these facts, suggests wilful blindness to the aspect of deliberate encroachment to undermine and dominate the western economy.
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@drewpknutz1410
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"There is a difference when it comes to the person that is perpetrating the crime, between burglary, robbery, and theft. So, theft, in Pennsylvania, is taking something from another person, without their consent, with the intent to permanently deprive them of the property. And we have different types of theft. Theft by receiving stolen property. Theft by unlawful taking. Theft by failing to give the required disposition. And it all basically comes down to taking something with the permanent intent to deprive, (meaning, taking away) someone of their belongings forever.
Robbery is when you use either force or the threat of force in the course of committing a theft. If someone comes inside your house without permission and is stealing stuff, that’s not a robbery. That is what we call a burglary.
Burglary in Pennsylvania is when anyone enters a building or occupied structure with the intent to commit a crime. If someone comes into your house with the intent of beating you up, it’s a burglary. Because the crime is simple assault, beating you up, and coming into the house without permission, that would be the difference between it becoming a burglary or a simple assault. Burglary is not just taking stuff from your house. It’s any crime that is committed in another person’s property where you’re not supposed to be.
The last question really dovetails on what we said before. Can you use deadly force to protect yourself from simple trespassers on land? Well, absolutely not. Not in Pennsylvania"
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Human resources and producers LOVE to feel power by taking sides and ending contracts.
via Steve Jobs, 1995
"“When I was a young kid there was a widowed man that lived up the street. He was in his eighties. He was a little scary looking. And I got to know him a little bit. I think he may have paid me to mow his lawn or something.
“One day he said to me, ‘Come on into my garage I want to show you something.’ And he pulled out this dusty old rock tumbler. It was a motor and a coffee can and a little band between them. And he said, ‘come with me.’ We went out into the back and we got just some rocks… some regular old ugly rocks. And we put them in the can with a little bit of liquid and little bit of grit powder, and we closed the can up and he turned this motor on and he said, ‘come back tomorrow.’
“And this can was making a racket as the stones went around.
“And I came back the next day, and we opened the can. And we took out these amazingly beautiful polished rocks. The same common stones that had gone in, through rubbing against each other like this (Jobs clapped his hands), creating a little bit of friction, creating a little bit of noise, had come out these beautiful polished rocks.
“That’s always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they’re passionate about."
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@garydedderson4988
via MarketWatch 2020
"What Xi didn’t say is that the coronavirus that has sickened more than 76,000 and claimed more than 2,200 lives escaped from one of the country’s bioresearch labs. But the very next day, evidence emerged suggesting that this is what happened, as the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology released a new directive entitled “Instructions on strengthening biosecurity management in microbiology labs that handle advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus.”
China’s only Level 4 microbiology lab equipped to handle deadly coronaviruses, called the National Biosafety Laboratory, is part of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
What’s more, the People’s Liberation Army’s top expert in biological warfare, Maj. Gen. Chen Wei, was dispatched to Wuhan at the end of January to help with the effort to contain the outbreak.
According to the PLA Daily, Chen has been researching coronaviruses since the SARS outbreak of 2003, as well as Ebola and anthrax. This would not be her first trip to the Wuhan Institute of Virology either, since it is one of only two bioweapons research labs in all of China.
This suggests to me the novel coronavirus, now known as SARS-CoV-2, may have escaped from that very lab, and that Chen’s job is to try and put the genie back in the bottle.
Add to this China’s history of similar incidents. Even the deadly SARS virus has escaped — twice — from the Beijing lab where it was being used in experiments. Both were quickly contained, but neither would have happened at all if proper safety precautions had been taken.
And then there is this little-known fact: Some Chinese researchers are believed to sell laboratory animals to street vendors after they have finished experimenting on them."
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@garydedderson4988
via Market Watch
"then there is this little-known fact: Some Chinese researchers are believed to sell laboratory animals to street vendors after they have finished experimenting on them.
You heard me right.
Instead of properly disposing of infected animals by cremation, as the law requires, they sell them on the side to make a little extra cash. Or, in some cases, a lot of extra cash. One Beijing researcher, now in jail, made the equivalent of a million dollars selling monkeys and rats on the live animal market, whence they likely wound up in someone’s stomach.
Also fueling suspicions about SARS-CoV-2’s origins is the series of excuses offered by the Chinese authorities as people began to be sickened and die.
They first blamed a seafood market not far from the Institute of Virology, even though the first documented cases of COVID-19 (the illness caused by SARS-CoV-2) involved people who had never set foot there. Then they pointed to snakes, bats and even a scaly anteater called a pangolin as the source of the virus.
I don’t buy any of this. Snakes don’t carry coronaviruses, and bats aren’t sold at a seafood market. Neither are pangolins, for that matter, an endangered species valued for its scales as much as for meat.
The evidence, to me, points to SARS-CoV-2 research being carried out at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The virus may have been carried out of the lab by an infected worker or crossed over into humans who unknowingly consumed a lab animal. Whatever the vector, Beijing authorities are now clearly scrambling to correct serious problems with the way their labs handle deadly pathogens.
China may have unleashed a plague on its own people. It’s too early to say how many in China and other countries will ultimately die, but the human cost will be high."
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@paulf3
2004
"SARS escaped Beijing lab twice
Laboratory safety at the Chinese Institute of Virology under close scrutiny
Robert Walgate(walgate@scienceanalysed.com)
Apr 25, 2004
The latest outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in China, with eight confirmed or suspected cases so far and hundreds quarantined, involves two researchers who were working with the virus in a Beijing research lab, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday (April 26).
“We suspect two people, a 26-year-old female postgraduate student and a 31-year-old male postdoc, were both infected, apparently in two separate incidents,” Bob Dietz, WHO spokesman in Beijing, told The Scientist."
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@fgsaramago
Link works for me.
"The 2008 Chinese milk scandal was a significant food safety incident in China. The scandal involved milk and infant formula along with other food materials and components being adulterated with melamine. Of an estimated 300,000 victims in China,[1] six babies died from kidney stones and other kidney damage and an estimated 54,000 babies were hospitalized.[2][3] The chemical gives the appearance of higher protein content when added to milk, leading to protein deficiency in the formula. In a separate incident four years prior, diluted milk had resulted in 12 infant deaths from malnutrition.[4] The scandal broke on 16 July 2008, after sixteen babies in Gansu Province were diagnosed with kidney stones.[cm 1] The babies were fed infant formula produced by Shijiazhuang-based Sanlu Group. After the initial focus on Sanlu—market leader in the budget segment—government inspections revealed the problem existed to a lesser degree in products from 21 other companies, including an Arla Foods–Mengniu joint venture company known as Arla Mengniu, Yili, and Yashili.[5]
The issue raised concerns about food safety and political corruption in China, and damaged the reputation of the country's food exports. At least 11 other countries stopped all imports of Chinese dairy products. A number of criminal prosecutions were conducted by the Chinese government. Two people were executed, one given a suspended death penalty, three people receiving life imprisonment, two receiving 15-year jail terms,[6] and seven local government officials, as well as the Director of the Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), were fired or forced to resign."
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@fgsaramago
No ethics = toxic fake society
"The source was traced to melamine being added to animal feed, despite a ban imposed in June 2007 following the scandal over pet food ingredients exported to the United States.[9]
In 2012, Jiang Weisuo, a 44-year-old general manager of a dairy products plant in Shanxi province, was rumoured to have been murdered in Xi'an city. It was Jiang who had first alerted authorities to the scandal. According to the Xi'an Evening News, Jiang died in hospital on 12 November from knife wounds inflicted by his wife, Yang Ping, but the purported murder by his wife was subsequently reported to be incorrect.[10]
Melamine is used to manufacture melamine-formaldehyde resin, a type of plastic known for its flame-retardant properties and commonly employed in countertops, dry-erase boards, etc. Melamine itself is nitrogen-rich and is sometimes illegally added to food products to increase their apparent protein content. It has also been employed as a non-protein nitrogen, appearing in soy meal, corn gluten meal and cottonseed meal used in cattle feed.[11] Melamine is known to cause kidney failure and kidney stones in humans and animals when it reacts with cyanuric acid inside the body. The use of melamine in food production is not approved by WHO or national authorities."
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@fgsaramago
From the Baby Milk Formula Wikipedia site
"In 2008, a case of melamine poisoning of infant formula was discovered in China, where milk was deliberately adulterated with the chemical, leading to the death of six babies, and illnesses in more than 300,000 infants, including cases of acute kidney failure. Large quantities of melamine were added to watered-down milk to give it the appearance of having adequate protein levels. Some of those responsible for the poisoning were sentenced to death.[51]
In November 2008, traces of melamine were reported to have been found by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in infant formula sold in the United States made by the three main American firms[52][53] — Abbott Laboratories, Nestlé and Mead Johnson — responsible for 90–99% of the infant formula market in that country.[15][52] The levels were much less than those reported in China, where levels of melamine contamination had reached as much as 2,500 parts per million, about 10,000 times higher than the recorded US levels. The safety data sheet for melamine (CAS registry number 108-78-1; C3-H6-N6) recorded the acute oral toxicity (median lethal dose) at 3161 mg/kg for a rat.
Health Canada conducted a separate test and also detected traces of melamine in infant formula available in Canada. The melamine levels were well below Health Canada's safety limits, although concerns remain about the safety of manufactured food for infants and monitoring of potentially dangerous substances."
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@fgsaramago
Why did 18 people walk past a dying girl ?
What does that say about the fake, inhuman psychology indoctrinated into a society that by negligence, animal cruelty, ignorance and lack of hygiene has precipitated an escalation to a global pandemic?
In 2004, SARS was released.
SARS escaped Beijing lab twice
Laboratory safety at the Chinese Institute of Virology under close scrutiny
Robert Walgate(walgate@scienceanalysed.com)
Apr 25, 2004
The latest outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in China, with eight confirmed or suspected cases so far and hundreds quarantined, involves two researchers who were working with the virus in a Beijing research lab, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday (April 26).
“We suspect two people, a 26-year-old female postgraduate student and a 31-year-old male postdoc, were both infected, apparently in two separate incidents,” Bob Dietz, WHO spokesman in Beijing, told The Scientist.
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@fgsaramago
PSYCHOPATHIC TRAITS
The triarchic modeL suggests that different conceptions of psychopathy emphasize three observable characteristics to various degrees. Analyses have been made with respect to the applicability of measurement tools such as the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL, PCL-R) and Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI) to this model.
Boldness. Low fear including stress-tolerance, toleration of unfamiliarity and danger, and high self-confidence and social assertiveness. The PCL-R measures this relatively poorly and mainly through Facet 1 of Factor 1. Similar to PPI Fearless dominance. May correspond to differences in the amygdala and other neurological systems associated with fear.[1][4]
Disinhibition. Poor impulse control including problems with planning and foresight, lacking affect and urge control, demand for immediate gratification, and poor behavioral restraints. Similar to PCL-R Factor 2 and PPI Impulsive antisociality. May correspond to impairments in frontal lobe systems that are involved in such control.[1][4]
Meanness. Lacking empathy and close attachments with others, disdain of close attachments, use of cruelty to gain empowerment, exploitative tendencies, defiance of authority, and destructive excitement seeking. The PCL-R in general is related to this but in particular some elements in Factor 1. Similar to PPI, but also includes elements of subscales in Impulsive antisociality.
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@fgsaramago
"Studies have linked psychopathy to alternative dimensions such as antagonism (high), conscientiousness (low) and anxiousness (low).
Psychopathy has also been linked to high psychoticism—a theorized dimension referring to tough, aggressive or hostile tendencies. Aspects of this that appear associated with psychopathy are lack of socialization and responsibility, impulsivity, sensation-seeking (in some cases), and aggression.
Otto Kernberg, from a particular psychoanalytic perspective, believed psychopathy should be considered as part of a spectrum of pathological narcissism, that would range from narcissistic personality on the low end, malignant narcissism in the middle, and psychopathy at the high end.
Psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism, three personality traits that are together referred to as the dark triad, share certain characteristics, such as a callous-manipulative interpersonal style. The dark tetrad refers to these traits with the addition of sadism"
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Adam
"The son of the former Vice President Joe Biden has spent much of the last decade building overseas investments and business deals, arrangements that could complicate his father’s bid for the presidency by posing an array of potential conflicts of interest.
Hunter Biden’s investment company in China, known as Bohai Harvest RST, has pooled money, largely from state-owned venture capital, to buy or invest in a range of industries in the U.S. and China. Bohai Harvest has put money into an automotive firm, mining companies, and technology ventures, such as Didi Chuxing Technology, one of the largest ride-hailing companies in the world after Uber. (Hunter Biden, Bohai Harvest, and Joe Biden’s presidential campaign did not respond to a request for comment.)
In 2017, Bohai Harvest bought into Face++, part of a $460 million haul in the company’s Series C investment round. Bohai Harvest’s website features Face++ in its portfolio of investments.
A phone application made by the Chinese government is used for surveillance.
The app provides law enforcement with easy, daily access to data detailing the religious activity, blood type, and even the amount of electricity used by ethnic minority Muslims living in the western province of Xinjiang.
The app relies heavily on facial recognition software supplied by Face++, a division of the Chinese startup Megvii, a relationship that sparked questions in the press for Megvii investors. One of the most prominent of these investors is Alibaba Group Holding, which was co-founded by Jack Ma, the wealthiest Chinese billionaire and an icon for the country’s image of entrepreneurship."
-The Intercept etc....
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"On Wednesday, the New York Times raised similar concerns with the involvement of Hunter Biden in Ukrainian energy company, Burisma Holdings, which added the vice president’s son to the company board in 2014. Rosemont Seneca Bohai financial filings, made public through a separate fraud investigation into Archer, revealed that the energy company paid Hunter Biden as much as $50,000 per month at a time when the U.S. was closely involved in Ukraine’s response to Russian aggression in the region.
For his part, Joe Biden has long served as a friendly voice for U.S.-China relations, even before his son’s investment ventures. The elder Biden helped lead Democratic support to passing permanent national trade relations with China.
In 2000 remarks in support of the vote, Biden argued that he did not “see the collapse of the American manufacturing economy” as a danger from opening up further trade with China, claiming that an economy “about the size of the Netherlands” could not become “our major economic competitor.” Opening China to further trade, Biden predicted, would create “a path toward ever greater political and economic freedom” for the country’s citizens."
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@Donger Operator
via Nature academic journal
19 May 2014 · Kawasaki disease, a mysterious and sometimes fatal childhood illness first identified in Japan, has been traced to the croplands of northeastern China, scientists report ."
Would the Chinese Communist Party release diseases etc.... deliberately as part of the "Unrestricted Warfare" strategy ?
Absolutely.
There is a war going on.
China is trying to control western society.
From UK North Sea Oil, to Hinkley Point, to the products on Amazon undermining high street retail, to MG cars, to black cabs to medical supplies.....
etc......
Denial of the majority and greed of the richest companies /people all helped by gullible, cynical and greedy politicians like George Osborne in the UK.
It's a secret, economic, war game..... using anything and everything but bullets and avoiding blame....
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StrategicFooyoo
Today online : 2016
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BEIJING — With the arrival of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, one billion birds are migrating or have migrated to warmer climates. Nearly a quarter of them were expected to pass through China as part of their journey.
In recent years, however, much of the country has become a treacherous place to fly for the 1,300 species of birds passing through. Once inside China’s borders, many of them fall prey to poachers who supply the country’s thriving underground wildlife trade.
In early October, animal rights volunteers dismantled more than 20,000 metres of bird nets near the northern cities of Tianjin and neighbouring Tangshan, Hebei province. More than 5,000 dead birds were caught in the traps. Later that month, 233 swans and 26 mallards were found dead in Inner Mongolia’s Hongtu Lake, also known as “Swan Lake”. The birds were found to contain traces of carbofuran, an agricultural pesticide that poachers use to kill birds they later sell for food.
China’s demand for migratory birds, whether for meat, Chinese medicine or gambling fights, is not new. But the scale of the current underground trade has put many species on a path toward endangerment, or even extinction.
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20:01
Platt and Abe were reportedly crossing the road at Second and Mission Streets on December 31 at about 4 p.m. when police say that a stolen grey Honda driven by McAlister hit them.
McAlister, 45, was released on parole from a state prison in April 2020 for robbery. Authorities indicate that McAlister stole a vehicle two days before December 31 and was driving it recklessly as a result of drinking alcohol.
Man Who Killed 2 in SF Hit-and-Run Was Facing Life in Jail, Documents Reveal
"27-year-old Hanako Abe of San Francisco, and 60-year-old Elizabeth Platt.
Abe moved to San Francisco in 2018, to pursue her dream as a data engineer. Prior to coming to the Bay Area, Abe attended the University of Central Arkansas. It was a big move from her home in Fukushima, Japan, where she grew up and along with her family survived the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster of 2011.
"Despite this tragedy, Hana continued doing her best in pursuit of her dreams. She put all of her efforts into studying English so that one day she could come to America," friends shared on the GoFundMe page.
Now, their hope was to make sure their friend made her journey back home. They said the money raised would go toward funeral expenses and the cost of travel so her family can fly to the U.S. and bring her body back to Japan.
They also shared a message from Abe’s parents who spoke of their heartbreaking loss. "We never expected to experience this kind of sadness in our lives. There is no bigger grief than losing a child," the family wrote.
Her parents went on to describe how hard their daughter worked to get a job in the U.S. and how despite the challenges her family faced, she always kept a smile and demonstrated kindness to others.
"Hanako’s kindness was exceptional. We remember a number of moments when her kindness helped us and others feel at peace and soothe the pain," they shared. "Hanako believed in herself, she did her best, and kept shining brightly." "
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@sword7872
Last you heard from what?
The pre written statements given to you by your employers at the wumao troll farm?
Harmless Falun Gong people are political prisoners who work as slaves manufacturing junk like Halloween decorations.
There are protests in Hong Kong because people don't want to be arrested, killed and gave their body organs harvested for speaking the truth.
ALL western companies need to pull out of China and manufacture in Europe, US, Canada and Australia again.
Look at how China treats it's workers.
Slavery in China is an old tradition that continues today.
The earliest evidence of slavery in China dates to the Shang dynasty when, by some estimates, approximately 5 percent of the population was enslaved. The Shang dynasty engaged in frequent raids of surrounding states, capturing slaves who would be killed in ritual sacrifices.
The Qing dynasty initially oversaw an expansion in slavery and states of bondage such as the booi aha.
They possessed about two million slaves upon their conquest of China.
However, like previous dynasties, the Qing rulers soon saw the advantages of phasing out slavery, and gradually introduced reforms turning slaves and serfs into peasants
The abolition of slavery in many countries following the British emancipation led to increasing demands for cheap Chinese laborers, known as "coolies".
Global Slavery Index estimates that on any given day in 2016 there were over 3.8 million people living in conditions of modern slavery in China, a prevalence of 2.8 victims for every thousand people in the country. This estimate does not include figures on organ trafficking.
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Ashutosh singh
June 1, 1989 - China halts live American news telecasts in Beijing, including CNN. Also reporters are prohibited from photographing or videotaping any of the demonstrations or Chinese troops.
June 2, 1989 - A reported 100,000 people attend a concert in Tiananmen Square by singer Hou Dejian, in support of the demonstrators.
June 4, 1989 - At about 1 a.m. Chinese troops reach Tiananmen Square. Throughout the day, Chinese troops fire on civilians and students, ending the demonstrations. An official death toll has never been released.
June 5, 1989 - An unidentified man stands alone in the street, blocking a column of Chinese tanks. He remains there for several minutes before being pulled away by onlookers.
June 5, 1999 - Approximately 70,000 people in Hong Kong take part in a memorial vigil.
At 1 a.m. on June 4, Chinese soldiers and police stormed Tiananmen Square, firing live rounds into the crowd.
Although thousands of protesters simply tried to escape, others fought back, stoning the attacking troops and setting fire to military vehicles. Reporters and Western diplomats there that day estimated that hundreds to thousands of protesters were killed in the Tiananmen Square Massacre, and as many as 10,000 were killed and ran over by tanks.
Their intestines and blood were washed down the sewer with hose pipes.
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Ashutosh singh
Today in China, human rights defenders continue to endure arbitrary detention, imprisonment, and enforced disappearance. The government maintains tight control over the internet, mass media, and academia. Authorities stepped up their persecution of religious communities, including prohibitions on Islam in Xinjiang, suppression of Christians in Henan province, and increasing scrutiny of Hui Muslims in Ningxia.
Authorities increasingly deploy mass surveillance systems to tighten control over society. In 2018, the government continued to collect, on a mass scale, biometrics including DNA and voice samples; use such biometrics for automated surveillance purposes; develop a nationwide reward and punishment system known as the “social credit system”; and develop and apply “big data” policing programs aimed at preventing dissent. All of these systems are being deployed without effective privacy protections in law or in practice, and often people are unaware that their data is being gathered, or how it is used or stored.
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Ashutosh singh
Other defenders continue to face long detentions without trials or verdicts. Liu Feiyue, founder of the human rights news website Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch, was detained in November 2016 and charged with “inciting subversion of state power.” He was tried in August 2018 but had not yet been sentenced at time of writing. Veteran activist and founder of the human rights website “64,” Tianwang Huang Qi, has been detained since November 2016 but not yet tried. Huang suffers from several health conditions for which he has not received adequate treatment, including possible imminent kidney failure and lung inflammation.
More human rights defenders were detained in 2018. In July, authorities detained Dong Yaoqiong after she poured ink over a poster of President Xi in Shanghai. Police later held her in a psychiatric hospital and prevented her father from seeing her. In August, Guangxi police detained activist and a leader in the Tiananmen Square protests Zhou Yongjun for possessing materials related to Falun Gong, a banned religious group in China. Also in August, Shenzhen police detained dozens of labor and student activists after they gathered to show support to factory workers at the welding machinery company Jasic International, who were fired for trying to form a union. Some were later released but 14 remained in custody or under house arrest at time of writing.
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@olivergodsell5323
Recreational Indignation : the mental illness of the internet.
You realise that the US has the highest rate of incarceration ?
Gun deaths, suicides, violent misogynistic rap music, ....
There is far too much emphasis on the negative. Why?
If someone tortured, raped etc... someone you know, would you prefer the emphasis be placed on the killer or the real life person you knew ?
The victims and families are ignored in favour of sensationalism.
Cue the waterphone sound effect! Heavy drums beats!
Fast edits!
Since sex is so repressed by religious puritanism etc....., that energy has been placed into violence, etc.....again more unhealthy emphasis
Sex is taboo but murders and violence are ok to watch on prime time?
That doesn't benefit society.
That killer is not a celebrity.......not talented.......not a public figure.
They are criminally insane....... they gained sadistic sexual delight in murdering people repetitively.
Why not emphasise people who save lives or the victims or another topic?
The point is not : forget history.
Point is ; stop using serial killers repetitively to sell products
Again and again the same sick tired sad misery.
No wonder the millenials switched off. It has ZERO connection to modern reality
The more the media emphasizes a topic, or product the more it creates the same. Essentially the media wants to set an example of evil to have more killers and more to discuss......?
The media is too novelty seeking, it has too much emphasis on the negative for a fear based response........purely to create statistics for ad revenue.
There is no social benefit to repeating stories about sharks, war attrocities, serial killers etc.....again and again and again
The US has very low quality television now sadly.
It was NOT always like this.
ie
The History Channel should educate people not be producing Pawn Stars etc....
Ted Bundy tortured raped and killed innocent people......they are using the murders, and audience fear of death, to sell products off.
People need to learn about topics that truly benefit them, from learning other languages, to science, to art, to computers, to literature, biology etc......
The media hasn't always been so negatively hyped.
People do imitate TV and learn from TV.
It is the reponsibility of ceos to improve society.
This is the benefit of a state run TV station.
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@LesterDarioDeLaCruz
The Toba eruption has been linked to a genetic bottleneck in human evolution about 70,000 years ago, which may have resulted from a severe reduction in the size of the total human population due to the effects of the eruption on the global climate.
According to the genetic bottleneck theory, between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago, human populations sharply decreased to 3,000–10,000 surviving individuals.
It is supported by some genetic evidence suggesting that today's humans are descended from a very small population of between 1,000 and 10,000 breeding pairs that existed about 70,000 years ago.
Wikipedia
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@LesterDarioDeLaCruz
Did a supervolcano erupt then?
yes
What happened?
nobody knows
Climate change = mass extinctiond
"One bottleneck occurred when a small group of humans left Africa. Another happened when this group split up in the Middle East, with some of us heading to Europe and others to Asia. Others occurred when we left Southeast Asia for Austronesia, crossed the Beringia land bridge into Alaska, and spread into South America through what is now Panama.
This is why African populations tend to have far more genetic diversity in their DNA than populations native to the Americas.
The Toba catastrophe theory offers a convenient answer to the near doom written in our DNA.
The hypothesis says an enormous supervolcano eruption occurred around the same time as humanity's biggest bottleneck. Research from the late 1990s and early 2000s suggested that this eruption, on Sumatra in Indonesia, blocked the sun across much of Asia, causing a harsh volcanic winter and a 1,000-year-long cooling period on earth.
But archaeological evidence shows that human hunter-gatherer settlements in India weren't too affected by the eruption and quickly recovered. Temperature data embedded in the geology of Lake Malawi, in East Africa, also suggests that the region didn't cool off that drastically.
So what did cause that major bottleneck 70,000 years ago, if not a giant volcano and an ice age?
Scientists aren't sure, but they have some new ideas. A catastrophic spread of disease, for example, may have played a role. Or perhaps the way we currently think humans dispersed out of Africa needs some adjustment."
NOBODY REALLY KNOWS
Is it possible? yes
Did two massive genetic bottlenecks in human evolution occur ?
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Mass pollution especially by Asian countries is creating weird weather.
INDONESIA
"The Southeast Asian haze is a fire-related large-scale air pollution problem that occurs regularly. Generally it is worst between July and October.These haze events have caused adverse health and economic impact on Brunei Darussalam, in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and, to a lesser degree, the Philippines and Thailand.
Most haze events have resulted from smoke from fires that occurred on peatlands in Sumatra and the Kalimantan region of Borneo island.
The transboundary Southeast Asian haze has been linked to various cardiovascular conditions including acute ischemic stroke, acute myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest"
INDIA
"As per a study based on 2016 data, at least 140 million people in India breathe air that is 10 times or more over the WHO safe limit and 13 of the world's 20 cities with the highest annual levels of air pollution are in India. Air pollution contributes to the premature deaths of 2 million Indians every year."
Nov 2019
"Air pollution in the north of India has "reached unbearable levels," the capital Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal says.
In many areas of Delhi air quality deteriorated into the "hazardous" category, with the potential to cause respiratory illnesses.
Low visibility caused more than 30 flights to be diverted on Sunday.
Rules have now gone into effect allowing only cars with odd or even number plates to drive on given days.
The initiative is aimed at getting more vehicles off the road in an effort to curb air pollution. "
CHINA
China's air pollution is so extreme that in 2015, independent research group Berkeley Earth estimated it contributed to 1.6 million deaths per year in the country. The smog is heaviest in northern industrial provinces such as Shanxi, the dominant coal mining region, and steel-producing Hebei.
According to the Chinese Ministry of Health, industrial pollution has made cancer China’s leading cause of death.
Every year, ambient air pollution alone killed hundreds of thousands of citizens.
500 million people in China are without safe and clean drinking water.
Only 1% of the country’s 560 million city dwellers breathe air considered safe by the European Union, because all of its major cities are constantly covered in a "toxic gray shroud". Before and during the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing was "frantically searching for a magic formula, a meteorological deus ex machina, to clear its skies for the 2008 Olympics."
In January 2013, China experienced massive smog outbreak affecting about 600 million people and covering seventeen provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, a fourth of China's territory.
Coal burning is a primary source of fine particle air pollution. It increased as the weather worsened during winter months and residents burned more coal to keep warm. This increased the amount of sulphate and nitrate (results of coal combusting), which led to higher PM2.5. Research suggests that 41% of the carbon that made up these high PM2.5 levels in Shanghai were also from coal burning.
Additionally, there were pollution from industrial sources. Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, Henan and many eastern provinces are heavy coal-burning regions. Research shows that prevailing winds blew low-hanging air masses of factory emissions (mostly SO2) towards the east coast of China.Regional transportation also had a significant impact on air quality.
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@ln6964
"Bear spray incidents involving 175 persons resulted in 3 injuries, all minor (<2% injury rate). Firearms incidents involving 478 persons resulted in 17 fatalities (15%), 25 severe injuries (22%), 42 suffered moderate injury (37%), 29 suffered slight injuries (26%), for a total 113 injuries (24% injury rate). Hence, firearms users experienced 12 times the injury rate of those using bear spray.Of the 71 cases where persons sprayed bears to defend themselves, 14% (10 of 71) of users reported the spray having had negative side effects upon themselves, ranging from minor irritation (11%, 8 of 71) to near incapacitation (3%, 2 of 71).Causal firearm failures were identified in 100 firearm cases, where users reported mechanical or physical issues with the use of a firearm, including lack of time (32%), unable to use firearm due to situation (21%), mechanical issues (11%), safety/ holster issues (9%), insufficient caliber/ no bullets left (9%), distance to bear (8%), missed bear (6%), or tripped and fell (4%).No bears were injured in conflicts involving bear spray, however, 23 bears were wounded and 176 killed in incidents involving firearms."
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@indeediamamom
"You are completely out of touch"
Wrong again. Your judgements are worthless.
Adress the facts of the topic not your false projections of yourself or your false egotism.
"Ad hominem (Latin for "to the person"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than addressing the facts"
Australis stopped mass shootings after The National Firearms Agreement of 1996.
" Between October 1996 and September 1997, Australia responded to its own gun violence problem with a solution that was both straightforward and severe: It collected roughly 650,000 privately held guns. It was one of the largest mandatory gun buyback programs in recent history.
And it worked.
About 650,000 legally owned guns were peacefully seized, then destroyed, as part of the buyback.
n 2011, Harvard's David Hemenway and Mary Vriniotis reviewed the research on Australia's suicide and homicide rate after the NFA. Their conclusion was clear: "The NFA seems to have been incredibly successful in terms of lives saved."
What they found is a decline in both suicide and homicide rates after the NFA. The average firearm suicide rate in Australia in the seven years after the bill declined by 57 percent compared with the seven years prior. The average firearm homicide rate went down by about 42 percent."
Mass shootings went to zero.
Point is : The 2nd Amendment is an anachronism, the only people that should have guns are people in the militia, aka law enforcement, military etc.....
97% of US shooting deaths are not legally justifiable.
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@None-zc5vg
"Bosses at Thomas Cook pocketed a £47million pay bonanza as the firm headed for the rocks.
Last night, after the travel operator was dramatically declared bankrupt, furious customers demanded executives hand back some of their ‘rewards for failure’.
Peter Fankhauser, the Swiss chief executive taken on in the immediate years before its collapse yesterday, has taken home £8.4millon since 2014
A Daily Mail audit yesterday revealed that the three chief executives who have led the beleaguered firm since 2007 raked in more than £36.1million in pay and bonuses.
Peter Fankhauser, the Swiss chief executive taken on in the immediate years before its collapse yesterday, has taken home £8.4millon since 2014, including £4.6million in bonus payments linked to performance.
His predecessor Harriet Green, who ran the firm between 2012 and 2014 and faced controversy over an £80,000 yearly hotel and travel bill, took home almost £11million in total pay. In 2015 alone, she received £6.3million despite only working for two months of that financial year.
The most controversial payments were received by Manny Fontenla-Novoa. The Spanish-British businessman’s huge pay packages totalling £16.8million led the company to introduce internal ‘clawback’ measures in 2012
Meanwhile, Thomas Cook’s former chief financial officer, Michael Healey, took home a total of £8.3million between 2012 and 2018 in salary and bonuses. And non-executive chairman Frank Meysman earned £2.2million in salary and benefits between 2018 and 2012, totalling almost £47 million for the five."
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Fiona Corliss
Google ad hominem fallacy.
Go into a fireld.
Kill a cow with your bare hands.
Eat it raw.
See what happens.
A human sized predatory carnivore does that instinctively.
Spend some time with a human sized carnivore and see how different to humans they are.
They occasionally eat babies too.
Study great apes.
Study the diet if great aoes sharing over 95% of DNA to humans.
Examine the widespread obesity, heart disease, bowel cancer, anger, high blood pressure etc.... and correlate that rise to mass meat consumption due to burger chain advertising etc.....
Burgers aee for profit not health.
Red and processed meat are in the same category of carcinogens as tobacco.
By the WHO.
It is proven.
It's not a debate.
Fast food creating millions cattle deaths and a host of reciprocal human health problems is a modern multi billion dollar industry.......
not an old industry.
People in the past diid not eat such a diet.
It's an lie implanted into people
People in the past didn't eat like this
WESTERN SOCIETY IS FULL OF BEHAVIOURS AND IDEAS REPEATED BY OTHERS WITHOUT ANALYSIS
Examine the destruction of millions and millions of hectares of South American rainforest for cattle grazing.
Google the correlation between beef production and climate change.
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Educate yourself.
Finally......
try the diet for a months ot two.
You won't die.
your brain won't shrink.
You will actually become healtheiwer.......
just like a natural great aoe.
I do eatvsome seafood....but not much.
Generally chopped vegetables, chopped nuts, soy sauce, olive oil, a lot if bell peppers which are full of goofiness, vitamin supplements because I don't lick rocks
Not flabby, sluggush, arrogant and slow.....
.but ..clear minded.....nice skin....no anger issues by toxins.....alert....
quick.....stronger..... faster....
Combine that with exercise.
Then you will find the truth out for yourself of human evolutionary biology.
Society has been sold lies for profits and the consequences are killing people individually and collectively.
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This is an academic article proving meat is linked to obesity
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2697260/
Science Daily : showing meat eating is creating global obesity
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160801093003.htm
Another scientific article showing the inverse relationship between obesity and vegetarianism : ie meat makes people fat
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/81/6/1267.full
Guardian article showing a vegetable heavy diet halves the chance of obesity
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/19/pro-vegetarian-diet-halve-chance-obesity
Daily Mail article on how meat is making people unhealthy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3718267/Why-MEAT-bad-waistline-sugar-Protein-fuelling-obesity-crisis-come-warning-label.html
It's cooked meat.
Real meat will make people ill because the human alimentary didn't evolve to eat meat.
If the great planes of the US could farm penguins..... you would tell me me humans were penguin hunters.
It's cultural programming by advertisers.
Look at pictures of Americans in the 1950's and before. They were not all fat.
The environmental impact of meat production is huge
The emissions are referenced in great detail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_production
This is from Yale School of Forestry
"Cattle ranching is the largest driver of deforestation in every Amazon country, accounting for 80% of current deforestation rates."
https://globalforestatlas.yale.edu/amazon/land-use/cattle-ranching
A New Scientist article on how Grass Fed Beef production is causing climate change
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2149220-grass-fed-beef-is-bad-for-the-planet-and-causes-climate-change/
THIS ARTICLE IS TODAY
Just 12% of Americans eat enough fruit and vegetables, CDC study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/17/just-12-of-americans-eat-enough-fruit-and-vegetables-cdc-study-finds
"The CDC’s findings also showed the disparities in fruit and vegetable consumption by state. For example, just 2.2% of South Dakotans between 18 and 30 years old eat the recommended daily serving of vegetables.
While people in West Virginia, which often tops lists of the least healthy and poorest US states, were the least likely to get enough vegetables on average – just 5.8% of West Virginians ate the recommended amount."
Finally the connection between meat, cholesterol, cancer, heart disease and many other health problems is proven,
Harvard : Heart disease and red meat linked:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/new-study-links-l-carnitine-in-red-meat-to-heart-disease-201304176083
Harvard: Cut red meat for a longer life
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/cutting-red-meat-for-a-longer-life
There is a lot of misinformation put into the media by a very powerful and rich meat production industry to tell people it's ok to eat lots of meat....for their financial benefit not public health..
A superb 2005 film titled "Earthlings" that givens an objective analysis of human behaviour towards other species and the myriad of benefits for eating a correct natural diet
.....a diet similar to other "great apes" humans are biologically almost identical to, who are not creating climate change, who are not obese.
Chimps don't really get cancer....human cancer is epidemic...... yet are nearly genetically identical. Go figure.
EARTHLINGS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrlBSuuy50Y
"Why You should eat like a Wild Gorilla"
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/tana-amen/healthy-diet_b_2867253.html
Google raw food diet.
This guys mentions the squirrel too " where I used the metaphor from, but I saw one in the garden the other day too.... the same applies to rabbits, birds, mice, deer, antelope, bison etc.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd-A5pc9hMc
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Fiona Corliss
"need mental help"
said you with ZERO qualifications to give such an assessment to someone you don't know and have never met ......due to facts you cannot process.....over the internet?
Google "ad hominem fallacy."
Google "cognitive dissonance."
You obviously do not know anything about your mind, body, nature or clinate warming.
All you have is a trite dismissive insult?
Instead of addressing the vast of amount of information ON THE TOPIC from a vast list I posted for the education and long term health benefit of others...... you decide to insult and distract ?
You don't see that "defense mechanism"?
Learn something!!
Not only your unwillingness to capture and kill an animal with your hands and eat it raw.........TO PROVE YOU ARE BIOLOGICALLY A CARNIVOROUS PREDATOR ( which you absolutely are not despite cultural programming) but your unwillingness to learn and improve your life resorting instead to insults.
You have demonstrated the problem with eating meat; the toxins make people violent, sluggish and aggressive.
The mental health accusation is your own PROJECTION TO AVOID FACING REALITY.
It is your egotistical deluded unwillingness to learn from credible academic sources like Harvard, Yale etc..... ( not paid media shilll articles for the animal abusing billion dollsr meat industries).
That comment epitomizes cognitive dissonance......
instead of improving your life you rely on well trodden liies, ignore the proven information.........from climate change precipitated by vast deforestation for cattle grazing land, to the proven cancer link by the WHO , to the effects of cholesterol creating hardened arteries, to the hidden daily mechanised abuse and killings of millions of farm animals being tortured, killed and abused for greedy profits..... unable to live natural lives as they naturally evolved to ? etc.... etc....
Wake up.
I am "mentally ill" because I take the time to state the truth instead of blindly supporting those issue as you blindly expected ?
Blind unquestioned conformity is IMO a possible aspect of mental illness.
It's a group illusion.
Before Ray Krock took over McDonald's in the 1959-1960's there was no major fast food industry in the US.
Fast food meat burgers are not natural, not American and the obvious lack of understanding of nature and biology in your own life is the real source of your "lol" dismissive, baseless insult.
FACE IT
Change your life instead of appearing petulant and ungrateful for someone who bothers to precipitate change and improvement.
The ONLY REAL WAY is if you try what I suggested for a month and see the health benefits in your own life by eating a nutty vegetarian diet with vitamin supplements.
TRY IT TO TEST THE ACADEMICS
salads, nuts, vegetables, a bit of fruit......
On salads I use crushed nuts, soy sauce, mayonnaise and olive oil.
DELICIOUS !!!!!
I eat a lot of bell peppers....one bell pepper has more vitamin C than an orange.
GOOGLE IT
THAT IS ANOTHER FACT
Also use a juicer for celery carrots and cucumbers......bell peppers.
Do not juice too many leafy plants since it can concentrate toxins.
Vegetables are best in the juicer.
Ever tasted celery juice ?
Cucumber juice ?
DELICIOUS
Drinking a juice of mixed vegetables is like walking out of the best restaurant in the world after having eaten the best meal of one's life.
NO EXAGGERATION
Read the articles on eating like a Gorilla and see why in captivity they started to develop heart disease.......
which never happens in the wild.
Evolution has being going on for millennia.
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