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From http://www.express.co.uk/news/... "John Coleman, who co-founded the Weather Channel, shocked academics by insisting the theory of man-made climate change was no longer scientifically credible." Also, http://www.nationmultimedia.co... to quote: ***===> "New studies flip climate-change notions upside down The sun will go into "hibernation" mode around 2030, and it has already started to get sleepy. At the Royal Astronomical Society's annual meeting in July, Professor Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University in the UK confirmed it - the sun will begin its Maunder Minimum (Grand Solar Minimum) in 15 years. Other scientists had suggested years ago that this change was imminent, but Zharkova's model is said to have **near-perfect** accuracy." and "Our sun doesn't maintain a constant intensity. Instead, it cycles in spans of approximately 11 years. When it's at its maximum, it has the highest number of sunspots on its surface in that particular cycle. When it's at its minimum, it has almost none. When there are more sunspots, the sun is brighter. When there are fewer, the sun radiates less heat toward Earth. But that's not the only cooling effect of a solar minimum. A dim sun doesn't deflect cosmic rays away from Earth as efficiently as a bright sun. So, when these rays enter our atmosphere, they seed clouds, which in turn cool our planet even more and increase precipitation in the form of rain, snow and hail." ******* I'll trust these guys over Bill Nye, thank you. *******

If you say: "Kill gays," it's hate speech, granted. But if you say: "It's a bad idea to let millions of Muslims into Europe, because their holy book instructs them to kill gays," somehow that is "hate speech" against Muslims. Even more idiotically, it's considered "racism" even though Islam is a religion and not a race.

The crackdown on "incorrect" thoughts is reaching absurdities. Criticize feminism on Twitter, and you'll get banned. They'll even suppress the protest hashtag #FreeStacy by disabling autocomplete for it. But somehow the hashtag #KillAllWhiteMen is nothing for the "Trust and Safety Council" to be concerned about.

A 15-year-old student in the UK visited the UKIP website in class. His teachers then reported him to the police, who interrogated him for hours.

If that isn't enough to frighten you, here's some research about how easily Google could game elections by skewing search results in favor of one candidate or another, and how Facebook could do the same with targeted ads and by deciding what shows up on your wall. And the leadership of both companies are Hillary fans. That doesn't mean that they'll do it, but they have the motive, means, and opportunity to do so. And how would we know if they had?

http://dailycaller.com/2015/10...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.americanthinker.com...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ge...
http://nypost.com/2016/02/09/e...
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.thelocal.dk/2016012...
http://www.politico.eu/article...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/...
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2...
http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

For those who haven't seen her at the BAFTA's yet, here's an article with a picture. Nobody can look anybody in the face and say that Stephen Fry was wrong. Which is why they're saying it on the internet, I suppose.

I will throw you a bone in that the elites of the US, UK, much of Europe are engaging in reckless policies that will fundamentally change the nations and societies involved, generally for the worse.

Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser
Legal Immigration: Lifeblood of the Left

It's pretty sad when the people advocating and participating in the destruction of their own culture aren't self-aware enough to recognize it.
John Cleese: London's no longer an English city

We should fear actions.

I mean, what the hell is this? Are we returning to the days of the "red scare" and related witch hunts? We win these things by understanding other ideas, openly discussing them, and potentially critiquing and ridiculing them if they deserve it. That's what freedom is about: consideration of dangerous ideas. If they're evil nonsense that will become evident by exposing them, not by hiding them away.

Maybe people might visit an ISIS/Daesh website to get the latest bit of their propaganda and then make a parody of it, like the recent duck-head campaign. Merely visiting a web site does not imply endorsement or sympathy.

It's ridiculous.

I'm sorry, but this is as male as it gets, regardless of what your brain is telling you.

I'm glad if "Caitlin" is happier living as a woman, and comfortable with his identity, but there's a certain element of "let's pretend" here that I and a lot of other people can't get past. "Bruce is pretending he's a woman, let's all pretend with him."

If you define "gender" to be the same as "gender identity," then it's possible to change your gender. But if you define "gender" to be the same as "sex" physiologically, you can modify your body all you want, it still makes you a modified man, not a woman.

ISIS has said they have several hundred operatives coming in with refugees. What reason have we to doubt that, especially now?

Yeah... what reason do we have to doubt people who kill people solely for propaganda?
Sure they wouldn't stoop down to !GASP!... lying?
Whoever heard of lying for propaganda, right?

One of the attackers was identified as one of those Syrian refugees. That doesn't mean that the majority of the refugees are terrorists, nor even a sizable minority, but the argument does seem to have some merit.

Given that there are articles like this,

http://www.express.co.uk/news/...

You might be correct.

Are we really going to sit here and talk about Great Britain without mentioning the fact that the Prime Minister actually and literally fucked a pig?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/...

What has happened to Slashdot?

I'm sorry to interrupt this scintillating discussion of AdBlock Plus, but this news just came across the wire:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/...

According to my sources, he's already being referred to as "David HAMeron"

OK, carry on.

That if Assange were to go outside a drone would most likely take him out.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/...

Fact: The Met Office is the most successful weather forecasting organization on the planet.

Yep, they sure are. Some of my clothes still haven't dried out from the marvellous barbeque summer they forecast a few years ago. And it wasn't just once, they forecast three of them in a row. Holy fsck, even a coin-toss would have been right at least one of those times.

Oh wait, you said "successful", not "accurate". Well that's certainly true, when it comes to raking in the dough and splurging at taxpayers expense they've certainly got things sewn up.

I suspect it's more about a mechanism for stopping this sort of news:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/...

, i.e. the repeated 'news' stories that UK members of parliament are pretty heavy consumers of porn themselves.

A young woman was elected as an MP in Scotland, regardless of the "colourful" Tweets she'd written since she was 14: http://www.express.co.uk/news/...

Wikipedia says "as most of them were a few years old they were generally ascribed to immaturity and did not appear to do any significant damage": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Yes! Yes they will and ISIS has stated as such! Drones at least. But with AI logic being ubiquitously available, it's only a matter of time for them to implement it too.

"India tells UK: We don’t want the peanuts you give us in aid"

Likely they'll want to act on it too, since he's been flaunting it in their face for years.

Indeed.

Ecuador urged to hand over Julian Assange as police costs spiral to £11.5MILLION

These actions are being taken in response to real threats that really killed real people.

Real threats by people they already knew were potential terrorists and yet they failed to stop them from carrying them out. In other words, they had all the intel they could have wished for and it didn't help. This push for more intel/less privacy has bugger all to do with stopping terrorists.

At this point I think you need to provide us with an example where it failed with paired links so we have a better idea of what you're looking for.

I am not a particularly involved student of this field, so my links would be of the popular kind, for which I apologize in advance. But here it is:

1. In 2000 Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, predicted that "Children just aren't going to know what snow is". It is now 2015 and there has not been a snow-free winter in the UK since. Some were particularly snowy: 2014-15, 20122010-11.
2. In 2004 there was a prediction, that "Scottish ski industry will cease to exist within 20 years". We are now half-way through that prediction, so it might still come to pass. But in 2014 Scotland had its snowiest winter in 69 years and the skiing industry is striving.
3. In 2007 BBC published a prediction of ice-free Arctic on or before 2013 by an American climate scientist stating (repeated by Al Gore in 2008). 2013 came and went, but there has not been a single ice-free summer in the Arctic ocean.

Now, I'm not prepared to argue the validity of the above claims — all you asked for were samples of what I'm looking for.

Of course, your samples would have to be valid — because you want me (and the rest of humanity) to change our way of life. The burden of proof is thus on you.

Seriously dude, the technology wasn't there. And Mythbusters solved that problem. If you are truly so ignorant to believe that the US moon landing is fake explain why we have been able to bounce lasers off specific spots on the moon since the late 60s. http://bcove.me/pz53dvf5 http://www.express.co.uk/news/...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/518497/Exclusive-interview-with-Dr-Benny-Peiser

Google will tell you all you need to know.

It was mainly due to the EUs agricultural subsidies. Farmers wee paid to grow all kinds of excess food, safe in the knowledge that the government would buy it, regardless of quality or quantity. So they did, and no-one could eat it all.

Net result: masses of unused foodstuffs. They distilled the wine into ethanol IIRC, much butter was sent to African famine reliefs.

http://www.ecpa.eu/information...

An increasingly complex system of quotas and support prices was set up, with further crops included as the European Community expanded. This basic system led to the infamous "butter mountains" and "wine lakes" of the 1980s, with farmers being paid to produce goods for which there was no market and which were then bought up for intervention storage and later sale at (lower) global market prices.

Additional instruments such as quotas for milk and other produce were introduced to limit production. "Set aside" was another innovation, with farmers being paid to keep a certain percentage of their land out of production

It got to the crazy state where you could be a farmer and get paid a lot for *not* growing crops. There was a joke at the time for an application form where the applicant promised not to buy any land and not to farm any pigs in return for a large subsidy.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/...

It's not a bad idea

Anything, that is "not a bad idea" for a personal vehicle, is also not a bad idea for a person. The argument for mandatory license plates (which we have accepted so long ago, freaks like me objecting appear as, well, freaks), for example, would apply just as convincingly to mandating people not only carry identification at all times, but also keep it visible from distance.

Would you support a law mandating, that people carry personal beacons at all times? Those can be made small enough to make it practical already... In fact, if you aren't careful, your cellphone is already acting as just such a device — should a law prohibit you from turning it off?

actually the problem is not unique
sunday post
express

one of the problems is that in the UK at least the construction of wind farms had not been matched by the construction of either a distribution network or some method to store overcapacity. At the same time producers of renewable electricity are paid on the basis of how much energy they produce rather than how much they actually deliver or is used, so in many cases there's no real incentive to build sensibly. Hence there are millions of pounds spent on electricity that's never going to be used or never gets onto the national grid.This runs from the large scale providers through to residential wind and solar power.

We looked at installing solar panels and the installation we were quoted for wasn't based around supplying us with electricity it was geared to extracting the maximum out of the subsidy that is lumped onto consumers bills. Since we weren't one of the 3% of UK households that had a meter suitable for measuring power fed back into the grid the money that we would earn from supplying the grid with our oversupply was based on a % of the capacity of the installation. So in theory we could have loaded the roof up with panels, used 90% of the electrcity ourselves and been paid for (from memory) about 40% of the capacity of the panels. The subsidy was guaranteed for something like 15 or 20 years.

Sometimes I really wonder if we actually know what impact renewables will actually have on the climate. There's already evidence that wind turbines cause local warming, part of me keeps thinking that you can't just take gigawatts of energy out of a system without having some effect on it.

The vast majority of people will not know or remember to check that site out. At least not for a few years until someone shows them the 15th time. And it needs a path to search when submissions start adding up.

But it sort of is redundant if your searching wide enough. For instance, Dr. Adam Osborne requested something to be forgotten. but if I search for George Osborne Islam, the story comes up in third result with the first two being about getting Google to hide it.

So as long as enough details are known about what you are searching, I think the entire forget me thing is defeated before it starts.

I've seen 4 comments and 2 downmods in 20 minutes for my comment...

I'm at fault here...I always forget how naive

Or maybe, just maybe, the huge number of people pointing out that you couldn't define a scam if one involved punching you in the face, and the absence of anyone else defending your incorrect assertion that a "scam" is whatever you think it is, could be a sign that your wrong? But what's the chance of that, you're clearly never wrong so it must be the rest of the world ;)

Wow, look at you and your example of the dangers of Uber! I bet no taxi drivers have ever done tha.... http://www.express.co.uk/news/... "It included boots worn by a victim of taxi driver Christopher Halliwell, who killed Sian OÃ(TM)Callaghan, 22, after picking her up in his cab outside a Swindon nightclub in 2011. "

I'm pretty sure that US hospital systems don't struggle with the nonsense you see in some of those "efficient" systems. There is no shortage of issues like that, and you seldom see that discussed as part of the package.

Don't leave patients in ambulances to hit A&E targets, hospitals told
NHS starves 1,165 to death

Russia has decided to make its relationship with the US, UK, and NATO in general complicated. (And perhaps Australia as well / in time.) While they cooperate in various matters such as terrorism and trade, the Russians have resumed various Soviet practices, such as certain foreign policy stands, and probing Western defenses with bombers and submarines. To that you can add making various threats regarding nuclear strikes against NATO countries. (Former Soviet sample.) Perhaps you simply don't bother reading about such things?

Russian bombers’ secret UK missions ‘not a friendly act’
Russian Bombers Perform Simulated "Strikes" on Sweden, U.S.

I would expect you to be at least somewhat acquainted with the various acts of Chinese encroachment and aggression against its neighbors. Various members of the Chinese government have also threatened nuclear strikes against the US. Perhaps you've heard that US forces are now providing greater aid in the defense of Australia?

Both China and Russia are "great powers" in the classic sense, and pursue their interests. Sometimes that will mean working with the West, sometimes against it. China's power is ascending as they build towards a navy with four aircraft carrier battle groups, the first one now available, and India is right behind them. The US seems to be heading towards a much less capable navy than today, and Australia decommissioned its last aircraft carrier long ago.
   

Weren't we about to enter an ice age? That's what some news stories said lately...
Like this one: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/01/20/346654/new-mini-ice-age-may-hit-earth/
The Express wrote about it too: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/454657/Ice-age-on-the-way-as-scientists-fear-the-Sun-is-falling-asleep

This is an article I found seems quite related as it connects global warming (doesn't deny it) and the coming ice age: http://www.technologyreview.com/article/416786/global-warming-vs-the-next-ice-age/

Planet Earth is just an endless WTF.
Endless ice breakers are getting stuck while some woman rides her tricycle to the South Pole?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/450608/British-women-sets-new-world-record-for-cycling-to-the-South-Pole

A little more google searching will show that the police have strong incentives to underreport and misreport crimes, and the steady tick of news reports continues apace. It is whitewashed with typically British class, yet the troublesome misrepresentation of UK crime rates continues.

News reports like this http://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/347592/The-guns-and-grenades-of-gangland-Britain and this http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/aug/30/ukcrime1 do not jibe with your pretty little idea of a peaceful Europe.

At least criminals here in the US are not using grenades.

So what they're saying is that we can use replacement printer parts to make guns?

Exactly this. And also, off the shelf ink jet printers can be used to make deadly Ink-Jet-Guns and even worse, off the shelf laser printers can be used to make even more deadly Laser-Guns!

Luckily, Lego are producing super leet policemen to tackle these futuristic meanaces, and being leet, will likely be considerably more technologically clued up than the GMP, who, let's be honest, look like a bunch of complete tits.

China is building something like 4 more aircraft carriers while both expanding the size of its fleet, improving its technology, and gaining experience with extended deployments as part of the anti-piracy patrols off Somalia. It is using its growing naval power to threaten the territorial integrity of its neighbors, making claims on various islands and regions. Meanwhile the Royal Navy is in precipitous decline from its past strength, even if they plan to build 2 aircraft carriers.

Proof that our Navy is on the scrapheap

And yesterday a former First Sea Lord and Security and Counter-Terrorism minister, Admiral The Lord West of Spithead, warned that Britain is "standing into danger" - a naval term for going on the rocks.

He said that in any fleet three ships are needed for a commitment - one on station, one coming back and one working up to replace it.

He said: "I know we are in a period of austerity but we have cut the military to too great a degree. We are standing into danger.

"We have 19 frigates and destroyers and that is simply too few for the UK.

"In contrast, we had over 60 destroyers and frigates at the time of the Falklands War. The Royal Navy is now at its smallest for hundreds of years.

There are some pictures here and here. I have to admit it looks like the saving is in the thickness, not squeezing the passenger. I wonder how it copes with the kid who insists on kicking the seat in front!

Now, IMHO, in the US at least, we could come up with all the money we needed if we restrained our military from trying to outspend the rest of the world by orders of magnitude. We don't need 11 carrier battle groups. We don't need the F-35. And so on - the money is there, we just have to figure out what our priorities are.

The UK spends considerably less as a percentage of GDP on defense than the US, and is making substantial cuts again, but it still has problems affording NHS as it currently exists. As part of those cuts the UK is taking on considerable danger.

Proof that our Navy is on the scrapheap

And yesterday a former First Sea Lord and Security and Counter-Terrorism minister, Admiral The Lord West of Spithead, warned that Britain is "standing into danger" - a naval term for going on the rocks.

He said that in any fleet three ships are needed for a commitment - one on station, one coming back and one working up to replace it.

He said: "I know we are in a period of austerity but we have cut the military to too great a degree. We are standing into danger.

"We have 19 frigates and destroyers and that is simply too few for the UK.

"In contrast, we had over 60 destroyers and frigates at the time of the Falklands War. The Royal Navy is now at its smallest for hundreds of years.

"You only have to look at Egypt and Syria to realise we are in a very dangerous and uncertain world.

"We run global shipping from London. How capable are we of protecting it?"

The US has interests around the world, and its aircraft carriers are a vital means to protect them. China certainly seems to find them important since they are both building a fleet of aircraft carriers themselves, at least 4 more, and continue to work on weapons to try to defeat American carriers. At the same time China is threating many of its neighbors over territorial disputes.

As to the F35, other nations continue to improve their aircraft, the US ignores that at its folly. A number of American allies are planning to buy F35s to upgrade their air forces. If the US ditched it that would lead to massive disruption for both it and its allies.

Much of the US defense costs are tied to personnel costs. The US and UK both have volunteer militaries, not conscription like most other larger nations have had until quite recently. As a result the personnel costs are higher. A US corporal is paid about what a Chinese general is paid. Both the US and UK have high quality personnel in their militaries, and a high standard of training. That would suffer if they went to conscription, which would lower the personnel costs. That would mean lower effectiveness in combat, and likely cause more casualties - and more need for medical treatment.

Both the US and UK have paid a price in blood in the past for not being prepared for war. Both nations are already heading into danger again, the UK more so than the US... for the moment.

That you can even write that is hilarious. I am never willing to trust a blue chip company's marketing department. They are paid to exaggerate and tell outright lies. Hacker groups on the other have a reputation to keep up so are far less likely to make claims like this if they're not true. It doesn't matter if Apple are dishonest when you have retards willing to queue for 4 and a half days to get a fucking phone.

Lone Nepali Gorkha who subdued 40 train robbers

30 Taliban vs. 1 Gurkah results in Gallantry Cross for Acting Sergeant Dipprasad Pun

As a Gurkha is disciplined for beheading a Taliban: Thank God they are on our side! .... (For Mail haters)

Re Savile:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/414677/BBC-paid-for-Jimmy-Savile-s-cash-gifts-to-children
The UK press seem to still be interested in the person but nothing around the issues going back many 10's of years seems to gain much press traction at all.
Look back at the Jillings Report
"Jillings report: Reaction to its release after 17 years"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-23223309
The Waterhouse Inquiry
Layers of celebs, politicians, police officers, legal professionals and business owners where offering cover..

There is more than one way to pay for some things. NHS does well in many respects, and overall Britons seem to be reasonably happy with it, but there are problems there, as there are in Canada, and other government run programs.

Don't leave patients in ambulances to hit A&E targets, hospitals told
NHS starves 1,165 to death
NHS waiting times getting longer due to cuts, health chiefs warn
Surgeons raise alarm over waiting
NHS waiting times 'rise by 6 per cent for routine operations'
NHS Accident And Emergency Waiting Times Reach Nine-Year High
The frightening truth: NHS managers are incentivised to ignore problems

The problem is that the people wanted socialized medicine and we got an insurance scam.

No, "the people" didn't want socialized medicine. That is why the bill didn't come close to that, in the first place.

The real problem is that healthcare costs too much in the first place. You can't just insurance that away. What we really need is for the federal government to tell the whole crooked industry, "Just one more $2 ahh stick or $8 tylenol and we nationalize the whole damned thing!".

Using price controls to set the price below economic costs has a predicable outcome. You aren't just paying for the $.01 or less of wood in the stick, or the pill. You are also paying for facilities cost, utilities, staff, and likely part of the time of the nurse that might fetch it, as well as the doctor. And don't leave out the cost to treat people in the emergency room that don't pay.

Socialized medicine isn't a panacea. The total healthcare budget is then in government hands, competing for money along with welfare and roads, defense and deforestation. Just a couple of stories, plenty more to see if you look.

NHS starves 1,165 to death
Don't leave patients in ambulances to hit A&E targets, hospitals told

Well, he's had his passport revoked, is being hunted around the world, and is being vilified in almost all public media.

Snowden isn't being hunted around the world because his passport is revoked. He is in Russia. Snowden isn't being vilified in "almost all public media." It is quite the reverse - he is being hailed as a hero by Chinese, Russians, many Europeans, and others across the world.

Well, at least he took refuge in Russia. What use do they have for four laptops full of NSA secrets?

Russia warns Ireland it will retaliate in spy row
Ireland Is Training Base for Russian Spies
As many Russian spies in UK today as in Cold War: Soviet defector
Canadian navy officer sentenced to 20 years for being Russian spy
10 in US held as spies for Russia
Russian spies in Australia at 'near Cold War level'
Germany jails Russian spy couple
Belgian diplomat suspected of being Russian spy
Finnish academic charged of aiding Russian spies
Spies in Sweden mostly from China, Russia, Iran
Estonia shaken by new Russian spy scandal
Georgia: Russian Spy Ring Smashed in Tbilisi -- Officials
Spain-Russia spy row leads to diplomats' expulsion

Russian warplanes breach NATO airspace - British and Norwegian jets intercepted Russian military aircraft ... close to the U.K. and Finland
Russian spy plane flies by Swedish military drill

This report comes after the newspaper wrote on 22 April, 2013 that Russian fighters had made dummy attacks close to Swedish territory during the Easter weekend.

RAF catches Russian bombers in UK airspace
UK jets shadow Russian bombers
Russian bombers’ secret UK missions ‘not a friendly act’
Russian subs stalk Trident in echo of Cold War - ... hunting down British Vanguard boats in a return to Cold War tactics
Russian around - A DESPERATE hunt was on last night for a Russian nuclear submarine lurking off the coast of Britain.

The EU is involved not just the Eurozone. For example, the UK has apparently contributed over twelve billion pounds to Eurozone stabilization.

And they could run a burger joint easily too, but they're a publicly-funded organisation, they're not permitted to throw money at activities outside their remit.

Probably not the best example.

But there are distinctions made among prisoners that determine where you end up. . .

Prisoner security categories in the United Kingdom

Assuming you make it so far as prison . . .

In soft-bellied Britain, it's hard to stay in prison for long. Even getting into jail is difficult

Might be a tougher ride in the future.

Do prisoners get a cushy ride in British jails?

Better article here: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/340486/Coo-blimey-Riddle-of-Percy-the-pigeon-and-a-wartime-mission

Yep, in fact we're still learning from the man.

Francis Wells, who is a heart surgeon at Papworth Hospital, has been fascinated by Leonardo’s anatomical drawings for the past 20 years and changed his surgical practice in the light of Leonardo’s observations on the structure of the mitral valve,” he says.

"What Leonardo was observing was how the elasticity of the heart and valves was important. It was common for surgeons to put rigid stents in the mitral valve when reconstructing it and Francis Wells has since been using a more subtle approach and trying to preserve some of that elastic nature and has had less failure in his stents as a consequence." link

When taking other peoples money for themselves these people make Steve Jobs reality distortion field look like a model of clarity.

Correction:

One link apparently contained a typo. Here it is, fixed:

Curry says: "No global warming for 13 years"

Hopefully, if Manning is being tortured, someone on the staff there has at least a little human dignity and will let the world know.

From the article you quoted, but apparently didn't read:

The WikiLeaks documents reveal numerous cases of torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners by Iraqi police and soldiers,

As you may recall, the United States isn't Iraq. Manning is not Iraqi, and is being held in the US. And, for what it is worth, Iraq is a sovereign state. The United States can influence them, but they make their own decisions. The US has been able to influence the Iraqis to improve in many areas, but old habits die hard.

Bradley Manning will go down in history as the agent of one of the largest thefts of secret documents during wartime* in US history. He knowingly provided them to an actor who he knew would disseminate them as widely as possible, including to the enemies of the United States. The Taliban have made it known they are researching the documents, no doubt Al Qaeda is as well. I doubt he will ever be free again - he will probably be lucky to avoid execution.

The Taliban and Al Qaeda are going to keep trying. I expect that some people here will not seriously question some of the nonsense they believe until something truly dreadful happens.

*Yes, the Authorization for Use of Military Force counts.