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You better hope it's warming. If we returned to an ice age so many far leftists would die. So would real people.

You tell'em Bill Joe! Why when sea levels rise and swamp the coasts, all them coastal elites are gonna get flooded - just like in the Bible!! And when their multi-million dollar beach house gets flooded, it'll be declared a disaster area, they'll get some big gubberment checks all paid for by the lower classed - especially all them hard working people in the fly-over states!

And that's the way it should be. Because rich people deserve it!

And as the temperatures rise and destroy fisheries, why the coastal elitist fishermen will have to get gubberment subsidies to help them - all paid for the the US taxpayer.

See, the leftists want to raise taxes because leftists love paying taxes - it's kind of kink with them. But the conservatives have a better plan. The one they've used since President Saint Reagan: borrow and spend.

I tell you this leftist fanaticism with Global Warming and wanting to raise taxes because of this "crisis" is just so lefty. Cleaning up the environment! PFFT!

Why can't they just enjoy the pollution like a good American! And look at this propagranda from this Aye-Rab site! Come on! Everyone knows that Diesel fumes and exhaust makes one a man!

Lefties!! Always bitching and moaning about nonsense. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm go'in to the border in my tricked out F-250 and AR-15 and head off the invasion from the Aye-Rabs and Mexi-canns trying to come here to go on welfare, Medicaid, and to mow our lawns.

"Satellite Airliner Tracking Over Oceans Goes Global"

Excellent. VERY much needed. Not knowing where an aircraft was when it crashed was weird.

Before: Airplanes can vanish without a trace. Why is effective tracking technology being ignored? (Nov. 2011)

Plane Crash Info

Why, after many, many years, flight recorders are still being destroyed? Both recorders from Boeing 737 recovered but 'partly destroyed', airline official says, as search for bodies continues. (Mar 11, 2019)

Mass London protest demands second referendum on Brexit. (Mar 23, 2019)

Quote: "Hundreds of thousands of people have poured onto the streets of central London asking to have a final say on Britain's departure from the European Union."

It's Democrats who keep trying to take guns from black folks, and it's been going on for 150+ years now:

https://www.aljazeera.com/inde...

The man single-handedly planted a 550 hectare forest over a period of 30 years which, oddly enough, brought back animals and even a stream to the barren land.

He has gone on to plant another 150 hectares of land nearby.

In 2016, India planted 50 million trees (saplings of various types) as part of its deal with the Paris Climate Accord.

biggaijin observed:

It looks like the world's largest democracy is coming into some bumpy times. Clearly, the UK does want to control its people just as Orwell predicted, but until now the Indian government has not been visibly interested in this sort of control. It's ver sad, and very bad news for the people of India.

Modi's government has displayed repressive and authoritarian tendencies from day one. Luckily, as Al Jazeera reports, his Bharatiya Janata Party lost 56 seats in parliament in local elections in the northern states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh in recent months. That's a significant swing in popular support from last spring, and it may mean India is getting as tired of Modi as, for instance, Hungary is of Viktor Orban ...

Despite having BILLIONS in revenue, Apple makes a point of making sure that the manufacturers are not compensated fairly for their labor. https://www.aljazeera.com/prog... Rectifying this grave injustice is not even a rounding error for Apple, but they will never do this because their business model rejects it. The consumers could get Apple to correct this injustice, but they never will because the consumers could care less, even when showed.It is all sickening.

Despite tronald dump's best efforts, the chinese currently are kicking our asses when it comes to number of people held in concentration camps.

Is not who you think he is. He was complicit and even admitted to that on TV. He was a killer involved in the holocaust:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/soros-obsession-conspiracy-theories-prevail-180604210828301.html

It should be common knowledge, since even Leftist media sources reported on it, but here ya go:
Wikipedia
New York Times
The NY Post
Fox News
BBC
Al Jazeera

Is that enough for you?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news...

If your opinion is shared by the neo-nazi's, and they say you're the savior of the white race.... chances are you're a fucking neo-nazi. You might be too stupid to understand that, but it doesn't change the fact. That is Trump, and quite a few of his supporters.

The fact you think the media is to blame for calling out hate groups, not that the hate groups exist in the first place, is a testament to your ideology... not an indication of reality. Trump won on spreading hate, telling people they're not to blame for their problems, that the "other" people are... those with different color skin, or a different religion, or a different birth place. that pretty much boils down Trump supporters.... people who can't take responsibility for themselves, and absolutely have to have some one to blame for their own shortcomings in life.

I must admit that I know nothing about "The Express." However, I did a little "Google" magic and found this...

http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...

Please don't try to tell me that Pew is "right wing."

However, this IS a thorny issue. "Persecution" has many levels, from simple name-calling all the way to death. So a person who is shunned for their religion is not the same as a person killed for their religion. As I mentioned in the grandparent post, Islam is most likely to kill you for religious violations. Unfortunately, hard, unbiased numbers for actual death an imprisonment for religious reasons is hard to find.

But from the pew article that I linked above, it says:

Among the 25 most populous countries in the world, Egypt, Russia, India, Indonesia and Turkey had the highest overall levels of religious restrictions.

I should like to point out that of these five worst countries, three are Islamic. None have a Christian majority.

Another example of religious "tolerance" is where the movie "Wonder Woman" was banned in Lebanon -- simply because the lead actress is Israeli... https://www.aljazeera.com/news...

But, in all fairness to Islam, some countries are becoming more tolerant. Saudi Arabia just started allowing women to vote in the past few years. Let's all welcome Saudi Arabia to the 20th century. https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

I can make it seem like I'm successful even if I'm not as well, at least for a short time. I simply mortgage my house and go on a credit fueled spending spree, which is exactly what the Federal government is doing. And you'd have to be living under a rock miss the fact that the North Korea "peace deal" is not really going anywhere. The "demolition" of the nuclear testing site was likely a PR stunt and whenever anyone talks about actions instead of loose promises the North Koreans feign outrage.

Bloomberg
Al Jazeera

yes

Quite. Now tell my why you want dude person in the ladies:

http://stream.aljazeera.com/si...

I think you're pretty weird for wanting him in the ladies. I think maybe you want it so YOU can go in and have plausible deniability.

They could have worked this out by just checking the voting patterns of a few countries of late

Not all people are stupid
 
The Malaysian voters kicked out a 61 year old corrupt regime, on May 9th, 2018

A far better story: Parched for a price: Karachi's water crisis

Quotes:

Perween Rehman: "It is not the poor who steal the water. It is stolen by a group of people who have the full support of the government agencies, the local councillors, mayors and the police; all are involved."

"Shortly before her murder, Rehman spoke to a documentary crew, who were making a film about her work."

More:

"The scale of the theft is staggering. ... stealing water in Karachi is an industry worth more than half a billion dollars." (each year)

"Ali Asghar, 75, says he still has to pay bills to the utility company for water that never comes in the pipes."

Another problem:
Family size.

"... Farzana Bibi, 40, ... manages a household of 5 people on an income of roughly $190 a month.

"... his entire household of 17 people is dependent on water bought from tankers."

Al Jazeera is generally a good place for such news. However, this story has no date. It was apparently written in 2017.

So, the parent comment is exactly correct.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/libya-winners-today-161117091112596.html

Clown!

From my perspective it's Israel's opponents in the region who are out routinely killing journalists but you are not allowed to say such things.

Your perspective includes blinders. And these latest killings are just part of a long tradition.

Contrary to what one might imagine, I'm not a big fan of Palestine. I'm just not a fan of Israel, either. I have little use for religious "logic", or anyone's justifications for genocide. What am I a fan of? Facts. And it's a fact that Israel kills a lot of journalists.

Including when blacks control all of the political and economic activity.

Where is that?

Haiti is a good case in point.

Haiti has been subject to American influence. America controls much of the economic activity. Try again!

Even the sub-station transformers aren't safe. Thieves will cut them down in order to extract the PCB based oils to sell for cooking.

https://www.aljazeera.com/inde...

More or less, anything that happens in Detroit, happens in Africa.

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If the females in India — where the society is, if anything, only more "patriarchal" than in the US, with the sex disparity growing — are achieving such results, then whatever is holding American ones back, can not be "patriarchy".

On that matter, the statistics among in chess offers a similar proof — the far more "patriarchal" societies of Eastern Europe and China, where women are still expected to look pretty and cook dinner — have many more prominent female players than the US does...

Whether the Feminism and the endless dollars spent on "womyn studies" in various colleges are to actually be blamed, these endeavors certainly have not helped matters.

I also recommend "In Search of Putin's Russia", if you've got the time. Another thing we tend to forget in the West is the effect the downfall of the Soviet Union had on the Russian national psyche. Communism may not have been very popular, but it was stability and there was a certain amount of prestige in being a citizen of a superpower. Imagine the US collapses one day, the economy tanks, and the Reconquista that Mexico's academia dreams of happens. What would that be like for the US, to suddenly find itself with distrustful nations at its border? Then imagine these newly independent nations of Texas, California, Arizona, what have you, start getting buddy-buddy with, say, China or Iran. How would the US react to something like that? This is a (very) rough approximation of the Russian situation following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Putin's demonstrating, very publicly, that Russia can and will square off against the US and that it's not some broken shell of a nation. Please note that I'm not excusing Putin or the Russian actions in Crimea. I'm just pointing out that he's hardly the mustache-twirling Snidely Whiplash that television news has made him out to be.

I hate to burst your little bubble, but folks are not leaving California because Hollywood is on fire...They are leaving because it's too expensive.

There's this concept which explains much of economics which you may not have heard of called "supply and demand"

People are not leaving California because fire is scary. Neither that nor earthquakes have been sufficient to deter them from invading both en masse and piecemeal. They are leaving because they cannot afford to live here. They cannot afford to live here because there are not enough homes. The fires have exacerbated this situation because they have reduced the supply of housing, which was already inadequate to meet the demand. This was true before airbnb, which had already literally doubled rents in some regions.

I'm not inherently against gentrification; I rather like many of the results, in fact. Pretending that it doesn't have substantial negative effects is childish. Imagining that homes being converted into smoke won't affect the housing market is ridiculous. It's not just this fire, although this fire will have an impact. It's the last fire, and the next fire. It would take an absolute miracle for more of this not to happen in California. California's history is one of repeated fires. Pick any random little old town in California, most of it has probably burned down two or three times back in the way back. The local natives knew how to handle this situation, but their yearly intentional burns weren't their entire strategy. They would physically pick up and move their people between summer and winter homes, which was what made setting everything on fire viable. Today, we could do the same thing by living in trailers, or underground; they rebuilt their house every year, because it was simple enough to do that.

If we're going to live in such close proximity to forests and not burn them intelligently, then we must build houses which are not flammable. I read article after article about the subject of how California made the problem worse, and how we can do things about it by cutting firebreaks or by not living close to forests, but we can also build homes that won't go up like a torch when some burning bits of charcoal are distributed onto the roof by the incredible winds which can be produced by a forest fire. Permitting flammable roofs in fire country is insane, evil, or both. There's simply no way around that.

I don't know what exactly you would consider "extraordinary"...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

http://america.aljazeera.com/o...

It sounds to me like rendition continued, but with some attempt to ensure the suspects were not tortured.

Well, there hasn't been a ban at all, until this one:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indep...

have pushed average prices for new double-wides up more than 20 percent in five years, putting them out of reach for many of the newly homeless.

Late-stage capitalism is when you can't afford the rope to hang yourself, but your #MAGA hat is subsidized.

...

What a load of "progressive" bullshit.

How's that glorious revolution going in Venezuela, comrade?

You know, where "late stage socialism" turned a country with the largest oil reserves on the planet into a place where you can't get medicine or food?

Mariana Mejias can't afford to buy a bag of rice in Venezuela. She lives in Mariche, an extremely poor neighborhood in the country's capital, Caracas, which suffers from severe food and medical shortages like the rest of the country.

Hoooray! for the FREE STUFFZ!!! of "progressive" economics! Where your starvation is FREE!!!

Unlike your fantasies, there is actual, documented economic failure in Venezuela - where a Google news search for "Venezuela food shortage" returns 47,000 hits, like this:

  'Death spiral': 4,000% inflation in Venezuela

Venezuela just defaulted, moving deeper into crisis

Venezuela media law: 'Threat to freedom of expression'

But you go ahead and keep telling yourself the Communism and socialism work "when done right".

Because they never run out of other people's money, right? Venezuela and Greece and Detroit aren't broke! It's just a capitalist conspiracy! The Communist Soviet Union didn't fail and fall apart because Communism isn't flawed! Right, comrade?

You fucking fool.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/...

How about declared dead after they couldn't find the plane for over 9 months and no one had established contact?

This article is a load of crap. It's an example of how these data models have failed to achieve anything useful. Firstly after almost 2 years they announced that they were looking in the wrong place: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/... and also that they were confident that after spending $200m the plane was not in the search area they established. https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Good work big data!

the corruption and incompetence levels of American law enforcement have been staggering.

For the drug war, there should be a distinction between federal and state enforcement because that changes who the "target" of enforcement is. That also doesn't address the goal of the drug war and it's efficacy as you are alluding to.

Finally, your argument that black markets create lower prices is anti-intuitive. Normally black markets raise the cost of goods or services because the financial model has to include the risk of being in the business.

If a drug becomes expensive the market will create alternatives. or an example take Krokodil(nasty stuff btw)
Recently because of state initiatives, the black market is competing with legal markets and the black market is cheaper because less regulation (go figure).

There is some truth to that but you must also consider the lack of regulation. For example, in high school it was easier to get any illegal drug than it was to get alcohol because a drug dealer doesn't care who they sell to compared to a store owner that could lose everything. Or using dangerous and cheaper substances to "dilute" the drug to make more money.

Is the rise in right wing politics in Europe enough for you? From, Brexit, to Le Pen to the recent German elections. Europe bans hate speech yet still having problems with hate crimes https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/...
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/...

That's not even close to true. Nazis don't have freedom of speech in Germany, haven't had it for over half a century, but you still hear loud political discourse from all over the ideological spectrum. Nobody was "next".

Germany and free speech, Germany and free speech, where have I heard this trope before? Oh right, last year where a comedian was being charged for the crime of "insulting a foreign head of state". Now to be fair they did eventually drop the charges and made moves to drop that particular crime, though the current status of that effort I do not know. Who knows, maybe the made the motion of repealing it but it "Died in committee" only for the law to be dusted off again when it is convenient.

But the question remains, why was that particular thing codified into law? What prompted the German leaders to make it illegal to criticize foreign heads of state? Was there some pressing crisis of low moral foreign dignitaries in need of a safe space in Germany? I am not sure, but the after effects remain. This is yet another example of the chilling effects that free speech restrictions can have upon "loud political discourse". While you may say there is no slippery slope, I would say that this is but one example of one. Nazi's may not have freedom of speech in Germany, but neither do political comedians.

P.S. For those Slashdotters living in Germany, I am not aware of the current status of your Lese-Majeste laws but do be aware that U.S. President Trump is also a big fan of expanding Libel laws, so unless you know for certain that the law mentioned above was repealed you may want to keep quite about him. Because he will certainly use them against you if he can.

The left refuses to even acknowledged he won and is an impediment to progress at every turn.

Don't exaggerate. Virtually everybody on the left acknowledges that he won, we're just unhappy about it.

And of course we are asking our representatives in Congress to do everything that they can to block his agenda... the President is not a king and cannot rule like a dictator.

Has he tried to be one?

I disagree with many of Trump's policies, but instead of passing something easy in the first 100 days, the Republican party focused on delivering the promise they have been harking on for the past 7 years- repealing Obamacare. When it became abundantly clear that the public didn't want that, they turned their attention to tax reforms benefitting the wealthy. Trump doesn't have much to do with either of those agendas, those are longstanding Republican party platforms.

What Trump does seem to be very good at is bringing attention to an issue and forcing a resolution of it. How many times did Obama stand in front of a podium and denounce violent acts? Dozens if not hundreds of times. The issue was out of the news cycle by the next day and nothing changed. By not giving the news media the sound bite they expect, Trump has the power to keep the public's attention on an issue. The statues probably would have come down sooner or later, but because Trump kept the story going, that will probably happen sooner now.

Similarly, by amping up the rhetoric on North Korea and keeping the media focused on his strong language, they eventually backed down. It was the eventual conclusion (Kim Jong Un isn't stupid), but Trump's actions almost certainly expedited the result.

I'm not saying Trump is a good president by any means, but he does have the media's attention and makes good use of it. Good Cop / Bad Cop is a very effective negotiating tactic, and it is one that Trump seems to use frequently. Some very effective bosses I have worked under were equally comfortable playing good cop OR bad cop. Most politicians play good cop to their base. Very few politicians play bad cop intentionally, and most try to be as appealing as possible to everyone. When Trump issues statements directly contrary to Secretary of State Tillerson, is that really an administration in "disarray", or a negotiating tactic? Probably a decent amount of both. Tillerson is the carrot and Trump is the stick. If you want to force a decision, you have to show both at the same time.

This IS regular police work.

Yes, the police regularly seek overbroad and general warrants, in order to conduct fishing expeditions and draw a large net.

This is not news.

This is NOT a politically motivated investigation at all, but a criminal inquiry into actual crimes.

Yet we don't believe that. I wonder why.

We already have people charged in these cases and the DOJ is doing it's job like it should.

Are they now? We've already documented that the DOJ doesn't always do its job like it should. Has there been an investigation to certify that the DOJ is not misbehaving? Have the numerous complaints made about the handling of the protests been examined?

Your implication that this is a politically motivated investigation is not really valid given the evidence we have. This is not an issue of free speech, but an investigation into obvious crimes.

The crimes aren't obvious, but instead exaggerated hysteria meant to incite panic and outrage while ignoring reality. I've seen worse damage after a sports team loses.

Of course you might think that destruction of property, inciting riots, assault and conspiracy to commit these things should be allowed under the 1st Amendment, but you'd be totally wrong.

Perhaps not. The 1st amendment is rather limited in scope. They are, however, allowed, even required, under the principles of this country. Said rights, of course, being expressed in a variety of forms, and explicitly so in several state constitutions. And given that the US Constitution contains the 10th Amendment, it can hardly be said to be exhaustive in listing the rights of the people.

Given that this sentiment is long-standing, one can hardly expect it to be excluded. But I suspect that you, would instead mindlessly prefer to declare an allegiance to the law, over the rightful. That is sad.

I understand your confusion though, given the last administration's failure to deal with these kinds of crimes for obvious political reasons.

Yes, they were impeded from stopping the Bundy Ranch rioters, and the Malfeur occupiers, because it would have looked bad politically. On the other hand, they were also smart enough to recognize that.

Trump's a dumbass though, and will likely pull a Chicago Seven prosecution.

Apparently he's never cracked a history book to learn the value of conciliation.

He had a chance, he's had numerous chances. He keeps blowing them. Trumpcare. Muslim Ban. The recent events in Virginia.

Are his advisers incompetent, or does he just not listen? Perhaps both.

And what's missing from your post? That of those 230 people arrested some were journalists, lawyers, and medics, not protesters. DC police basically cordoned off areas and indiscriminately arrested everyone there. Which you seem to happily leave out.

And what's missing from your post? That of those 230 people arrested some were journalists, lawyers, and medics, not protesters. DC police basically cordoned off areas and indiscriminately arrested everyone there. Which you seem to happily leave out.

> Go away now, adults are trying to talk.
Yes, that must be why we never hear news about, say, USN destroyers colliding with merchant vessels.

If you're talking about the emails

I don't give a shit about god damn emails. I'm talking about real policy decisions. Like the complete failure to have any coordinated strategy in response to the Arab Spring.

I challenge you to identify one important decision she made as SS that a Republican or even Gary Johnson likely would NOT have made.

That the problem isn't it? The Clintons (both of them) are basically just Republicans when it comes to economic and foreign policy issues. Being a libertarian, Gary Johnson would probably not sponsor a coup in Honduras. http://america.aljazeera.com/o...

Yes, but we couldn't stand to see that happening, so we force-segregated populations when we invaded Iraq.

If by "we" you mean americans under Bush, no.

That is precisely what I mean, and we are definitely feeling the effects today.

Don't believe it then.

Actually, like all the others, they are dependent on money

The truth is dead...

> So.. Are you advocating that a foreigner should somehow get involved in the politics of another country?
I was advocating neither for nor against such action. I was claiming someone else's statement regarding the will of the Japanese people was erroneus, and pointing out (subjective) flaws in the current ruling party.

It should be notet that 'In May, the UN Special Rapporteur for privacy rights, Joseph Cannataci, warned that: "If adopted into law [this bill] may lead to undue restrictions to the rights to privacy and to freedom of expression."' according to Al Jazeera. If the law violates any international treaties to which Japan is a signatory, other countries not only may, but have a duty, to protest this. I haven't bothered to ascertain whether this is actually the case.

> Now if you are advocating that we *should* care and be involved in Japan's politics, I'm wondering what we've been discussing about the Russians and the last presidential election. I mean, if it's OK for us to do it, why do we complain when the Russians do it?
Lodging official protests against laws violating international treaties (assuming this is, in fact, the case) is hardly the same as covert desinformation campaigns, allegedly trying to interfere with electronic voting, and allegedly bribing foreign politicians, is it?
Sharing opinions on various countries' laws happens daily on this website (just today there have been discussions on new mobile phone regulations in Canada and in the EU, amongst others) and is also a far cry from what the Russians are probably doing. My personal opinion happens to be that a law which classifies participating in a boat race without a license as conspiracy to terrorism is rubbish.

"It's been 1 hour, 31 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment"
I'm very much advocating against these idiotic limits on posting as AC. I couldn't even submit an article about the Chinese launching a new telescope into space today. Guess my private data is just too valuable to whomever Slashdot's newest owner is.

It's called the Holy See, and operates from the Vatican City state. No such rules or laws like that exist within the Holy See. If religion is the problem, how come stuff like this doesn't also occur within the Holy See? Be honest and admit that fundamentalist Islam is the problem here. It's why there are stupid laws like death sentences for blasphemy and evils like ISIL. Before you point to things like the Crusades and the Inquisition, those are in the distant past and are considered regrettable by Christianity in the present day. Fundamentalist Islam is the problem, plain and simple.

Hold the fuck on, what kind of an argument is this?! So when fundamentalist catholics hundreds of years ago used their interpretation in the past to justify war, slavery and genocide, that's not the fault of the religion because they've stopped now? What? Do you not understand youi just refuted your own argument essentially: ANY faith/doctrine easily turns into a tool of violent politics when it's taken fundamentally. Fundamentalism by its nature is the problem.

And even if we ignore the crusades, the catholic church openly supported the third reich, took one side over the other in the Rwandan genocide, not to even speak of the still ongoing tendency of the church to protect pedophiles it employs from facing criminal prosecution and so on. The church has done a lot of evil just within the lifespan of people who're still alive.

Now don't get me wrong, the catholic church today has certainly come a long way from the catholic church that burned witches at the stake and murdered their way through the levant in the name of their faith so I'm not comparing modern day catholic church to isis. But what I'm doing is trying to point out to you that the texts haven't changed. The same bible that was used to justify the enslavement, death and torture of millions because 'god wills it' (the catholic variant of allahu akbar) is still in use today. Attitudes have changed and the church has been slowly stripped of power by the secular states that rose to limit the power of the Holy see.

Do you think the popes of the past willingly wanted to give away their lands and essentially their position as one of the most powerful men in the world over to nation states and politicians? No. They had to because the enlightenment arrived and slowly christians started the lurch towards tolerating other christian sects. After the 2nd world war what little credibility the church had left was lost completely when they sided with Hitler because they were afraid. Yeah, the man supposedly selected by the overlord of all of existence was so scared of an angry German corporal that he did what apparently in his view Jesus would have done, which is join hands with this guy and his intent to kill all the jews and the gays and the cripples.

People don't realize this but christianity is essentially still in the process of being dragged from the middle-ages to the modern day and so is Islam. It's just that we've had a centuries upon centuries more time to try to beat the mantra of 'No don't slaughter the infidels, bad Pope, bad Pope!" into their heads. it's important to note that christianity was allowed to mellow down at the same pace with the surrounding societies, so while the dogma of christianity eventually turned against the mass slaughter of unbelievers no single christian individual went from 'death to the infidels' to 'love and respect for everyone regardless of their faith' during their lifetimes. The change was gradual.

Now we don't have centuries to deal with islam which is a genuine problem. The nature of the islamic holy texts is also different from the bible which is an additional problem. That is, unlike the bible which contains very small parts of god supposedly directly speaking to people and even the christians have long agreed that the bible is the work of erran

You know what the difference between today and the 1980's were? That the attack in San Bernardino and Pulse Nightclub both could have been stopped. What happened?

Omar got reported, and yet the authorities ended up doing nothing.

But then, the same goes for others.

I suppose we could live in the Draconian Police State you want, but I suspect you'd hate that.

And how about more in the UK, with those girls raped and being sold as sex slaves(just a fyi it's happening in the US too).

Yes, yes, West Texas is full of it.

And the muslims trying to take over schools to turn them into extremist breeding grounds(see trojan horse scandal).

No, that's Christians.

Well what do you know? In those dozens of cases it was all the same thing too.

I think we've got a problem. You know what it is? People are too politically correct and afraid of being labeled racist/islamophobe/etc.

Nope, it's the other way around. People are obsessively racist, islamophobic, and otherwise unable to see the problems are all over.

So afraid that they'll turn a blind eye to people preparing to carry out a terrorist attack. Until that changes this isn't going to change either. We could, avoid the whole "implement internet agenda thing." The answer is in this paragraph. And you know as well as I do that the left has a very long history the last decade of going after people for daring to say "that muslim looks like they're going to blow people up."

Yeah, that's because you say it so much, then you attack some Sikhs.

After all, that's what happened in Rotterdam and why 1000+ girls were raped and used as sex toys after all....for over a decade.

Clean your own closet first.

You don't really care though, that's why you won't even bat an eye at the stuff in your own backyard.

You'll do nothing but scream and pout in a tantrum.

Apparently you are, not only that you're an idiot to boot. The "line that I'm pushing" is people are afraid of doing something and being labeled racist for doing it.

To make it very simple for you: They're willing to look the other way because of fear, and they're willing to look so hard in the other direction that people are dying because of it.

Yes, the FBI is unable to investigate right-wing terrorism because of that attitude.

Some of

Why won't people just trust Assad's offers of Amnesty? I can't think of a reason...

Look at the overreaction to EgyptAir flight MS804:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_804

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/05/french-investigators-egyptair-ms804-crash-accident-170506065032076.html

I remember quite clearly the reports at the time claiming that "US sources thought there was a terrorism link" and Egypt jumped on it themselves.

Of course it wasn't terrorism at all.

The US has lost all credibility in all things.

To bad we don't have freedom after laughing. I'm facing jail time after laughing at Jeff Sessions.

She wasn't convicted for laughing. According to the foreperson of the jury, "She did not get convicted for laughing. It was her actions as she was being asked to leave". See

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-laugh-congressional-hearing_us_590929bbe4b05c39768420ef

And if you look at the following video, you will see that when she was asked to leave, she yelled and screamed and brought the hearing to complete standstill for over 10 seconds.

https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/818837991217123328

And oh, by the way, she's a repeat offender. According to the following article, she was charged with a similar offense in 2007.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/05/code-pink-activist-convicted-laughing-sessions-170504001328276.html

Castro did indeed create an amazing medical system for a third world nation and their education system isnt so bad.

Stop
spreading
this
myth.
Just stop.

Just use Google ffs.

The regulations were many, and often at odds with each other and at odds with the goals of School Nutrition Association. It was pushed by Michelle Obama with little or no input from nutrition experts or the aforementioned group,

Literally everything you wrote is false.

Obama worked with top experts on nutrition. These guidelines were the product of the best current science in conjunction with many in the industry itself, not politics and certainly were not arbitrary "dictates."

The SNA originally supported the law when it was passed in 2010.

The board has since flip-flopped to the serious consternation of many of their members.

And the cause seems to be due to the fact that they are overwhelmingly funded by food suppliers. One of their largest donors was previously responsible for getting pizza declared a vegetable. The SNA no longer advocate for children's health, they advocate for business's profitability at the expense of children's health.

Schools are better off managed at the local level.

Everyone knows that.

Everyone knows that kids need the same nutrition regardless of where they live. The law does not mandate meal choice, only nutrient content. Every school is free to follow their own direction within the guidelines.

I swear, I don't know why anyone trusts what you write anymore. You regularly tell bald-faced lies which you then pad with misrepresentations and to top it off you cite breitbart. WTF dude? Breitbart?

The regulations were many, and often at odds with each other and at odds with the goals of School Nutrition Association. It was pushed by Michelle Obama with little or no input from nutrition experts or the aforementioned group,

Literally everything you wrote is false.

Obama worked with top experts on nutrition. These guidelines were the product of the best current science in conjunction with many in the industry itself, not politics and certainly were not arbitrary "dictates."

The SNA originally supported the law when it was passed in 2010.

The board has since flip-flopped to the serious consternation of many of their members.

And the cause seems to be due to the fact that they are overwhelmingly funded by food suppliers. One of their largest donors was previously responsible for getting pizza declared a vegetable. The SNA no longer advocate for children's health, they advocate for business's profitability at the expense of children's health.

Schools are better off managed at the local level.

Everyone knows that.

Everyone knows that kids need the same nutrition regardless of where they live. The law does not mandate meal choice, only nutrient content. Every school is free to follow their own direction within the guidelines.

I swear, I don't know why anyone trusts what you write anymore. You regularly tell bald-faced lies which you then pad with misrepresentations and to top it off you cite breitbart. WTF dude? Breitbart?

India just opened the largest solar plant in the world and it only took 8 months to build. Much faster to install solar than anything else. (Coal plants take years and nuclear takes forever)
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/...

India expects to install 10 GW of solar this year:
https://cleantechnica.com/2017...