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2. The Syrians launched a nerve gas attack

Do we actually know this with absolute certainty? Based on evidence from...the "Syrian Observatory on Human Rights" aka "One Guy Who Lives in the UK"? Based on FSA social media accounts, because those are never BS propaganda? ( http://www.independent.co.uk/n... )

When that recent airstrike in Mosul killed 100+ civilians the US was quick to say "musta triggered a nearby ISIS carbomb factory....not really our fault"....but when the Syrians/Russians say "our airstrike must have hit a jihadi chemical warehouse...not our fault"....the ONLY conclusion made in the West is they must be lying through their teeth? What incentive would Assad have to employ a weapon that is well-known to provoke a Western response, given that he is already well on his way to winning the conventional ground conflict without it?

A VPN offers a nice encryption layer that hides all plain text from local police, local gov, lawyers, health services, your ISP.
That is great given how much is now been collected in many nations over months and can be searched and requested by a gov, local gov, public private partnership contractors or a lawyer for a civil matter in some nations.
In the UK "As the Investigatory Powers Bill passes into law, internet providers will be required to keep a full record of every site that each of its customers have visited" (24 November 2016)
http://www.independent.co.uk/l...
In Australia "Here's Every Australian Government Agency That Wants Your Data" (Jan 18, 2016)
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/201...
In the USA? Some legal changes that have been suggested over the years https://www.eff.org/issues/man...

The snowflake effect!

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

Back when the UK passed the Snoopers Charter (the one that lets everyone and their dog access your full internet history), those clever politicians made just one important exemption - they themselves wouldn't be subject to the law.

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

I'd be surprised if the US hasn't done the same thing, but then the UK *is* a world leader in surveillance of their own citizens.

There are so many vulnerabilities in Flash that it has seemed possible that Adobe is selling vulnerabilities, as the 2nd story linked below says. The only other theory is that Adobe Systems programmers have been getting no testing or other management.

Articles keep criticizing Flash, Flash, Flash. They should criticize "Adobe Systems Management".

It seems possible that Microsoft and other companies learned from Adobe Systems how much users were weak to abuse.

Stories:

Adobe Flash Player: List of security vulnerabilities. "Total number of vulnerabilities: 1,006".

Huge Adobe Flash security vulnerability revealed after hacking group's documents leaked. (July 8, 2015) "The huge weakness was revealed as part of documents leaked after a cyberattack on Hacking Team, a government-sponsored spying group, that seems to have been using it to break into computers."

Adobe Flash vulnerabilities -- a never-ending string of security risks (June 29, 2015)

Kill Flash now. Or patch these 36 vulnerabilities. "One bug being exploited right now in the wild." (June 16, 2016)

Adobe deploys security update to fix 52 vulnerabilities in Flash. (July 13, 2016) "Some of the critical flaws could lead to remote code execution on your PC."

Most Exploited Vulnerabilities: by Whom, When, and How. (Dec. 29, 2016) "The Adobe Flash Player comprised six of the top 10 vulnerabilities triggered by the exploit kits in a period from November 16, 2015, to November 15, 2016."

The drone thing again, eh? Obama's drone strikes killed 117 civilians over 8 years. Trump's drone strikes killed 200 civilians in one day this month. And if you're going to bring up killing kids, don't forget the 8 year-old American girl Trump killed.

Hey Climate Change is all powerful

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

According to his prophet Gore Climate Change caused brexit and the war in Syria.

Remember those who prophesy falsely about Climate Change and its impact shall be burdened with EVER LARGER GRANTS.

Just ask Denis Voronenkov.

I'm really tired of seeing this same racist/misogynist bullshit repeated time and time again.

Oh you are? When have you opposed it? Ever?

Even Obama and Clinton were calling for securing the borders previously, including fence/wall building. It's on youtube if you don't believe me.

Trump actually claims they wanted open borders. It's right there.

More to the point, none of them claimed there was a need for a Wall as vast as Trump's, let alone that Mexico would pay for it.

Obama also put a hold on people entering from the same countries that Trump is trying to temporarily ban.

Obama did not put a hold on people entering with actual visas and permits already, but held up further processing of refugee visas.

Your reply is all echo-chamber.

Ironic.

If the sore losers somehow manage to knock Trump out of power before the next Presidential election, prepare for all hell to break loose. That will be a call to arms that I believe will lead to the end of the United States.

You still believe in Jade Helm and Fema Camps, don't you?

We're already heading that direction with the judicial branch shitting all over the executive branch.

You mean actual judges recognizing the hysteria caused by Trump's Mill-considered is in your mind, mere pique, and thus the judges are at fault?

Huh. Good show of your partisan leanings there.

Your mention of race riots is humorous given that Obama started that, not anyone in the GOP.

No, sorry, that Ohio Campaign chair was wrong.

Nuclear fallout? Thank Hillary for her uranium deal and Obama for letting Iran do whatever it wants.

To the contrary, it did the exact opposite. For far less than any of the other options.

Really? People are still parroting the defensive "It's your laws!" after Apple has been found guilty of breaching the law on so many occasions?

Time and time again people say these companies are just following the laws, time and time again we find out they're not as they get hit with record fines:

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

Ireland: https://www.theguardian.com/bu...

France: http://www.cultofmac.com/45566...

China: https://www.cnet.com/news/appl...

It's not just Apple of course, but can we stop pretending these companies are merely following the law when they do this? It's pretty clear they're not given the number of occasions they've been demonstrated to be guilty of outright tax evasion, not mere simple avoidance.

I'm amazed given how dead the "They're just following the law!" line is that people are still parroting it, obviously they're not, hence the constant barrage of fines that are now catching up with years of criminal tax evasion by large tech companies.

If anything needs changing with national laws it's that the penalties need to be increased substantially to act as a real deterrent which they're clearly not now, but that doesn't change the fact that companies like Apple, Google, et. al. have been engaging in outright illegal tax evasion. The idea they have gets parroted a lot, but it's based on the assumption that because they haven't been caught yet they're innocent, but it doesn't mean they actually are innocent as we keep finding out now that the multi-year investigations are finally catching up with them.

We have strong libel laws in the UK (see this recent case), which I think is over the line. Not even truth is a defence against a claim of defamation, merely that something was intended to cause damage to an individuals reputation. There is a public interest defence for statements of truth.

In a tweet to the food blogger, Hopkins asked whether she had "scrawled on any memorials"

To which the answer should have been - "no, I come from a military family".

before accusing her of vandalising the "memory of those who fought for your freedom."

As people do in rhetorical discussions.

This is an an edge case and IMHO, an example of libel law being misused. Now imagine somebody makes a malicious public allegation that results in loss of employment, assault or property damage. How can anybody really object to a civil law that offers deterrent against and recompense for such behaviour?

He's a regular spokesperson on Russia's state controlled and directed propaganda media outlet RT, and even had his own show on there for a while:

https://www.rt.com/tags/the-ju...

So yeah, by definition he's a Russian propagandist. It shouldn't really be much of a surprise that he'd also abuse Wikileaks to that end.

He's also been in touch with other Russian puppets like Le Penn and Farage, so whilst there's probably some truth in what you say about him not intentionally starting out this way, he's well and truly down the path of being a defacto FSB actor even if he's not explicitly employed by them.

It's not that there are more US leakers than Russian ones, it's that he's explicitly focussing on acquiring US leakers because his only target or interest is the US. There have been other big leaks outside of Wikileaks - the Panama papers, the Russia/Crimea e-mail leaks:

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

But no one trusts these leaks to go through Wikileaks because Assange has gained such pro-Russian, anti-US tunnel vision that you'd be putting your life at risk trusting them. As such whether it was ever intentional or not, Wikileaks is no longer impartial, it's purely an anti-Western organisation for information warfare because no one leaking anything that chimes with the West view would dare trust an organisation headed by a man who is outright being paid by the Russians via RT.

So I think how we got here is long past mattering, the fact is that Assange IS a Russia funded anti-Western propagandist at this point, and his organisation has ended up as a whole one sided anti-Western information warfare tool. These things shouldn't be controversial to say, the evidence is there for all to see.

There is in fact ZERO documented reports of this actually happening.

There is quite some some evidence for even 1st world countries for prices like $40,000 a rhino tusk. If $40,000 was enough incentive in Paris to kill an animal in a freaking public zoo then how much is $40,000 in an African hutt with 5 starving kids all barefoot? You could live years without working for just one kill!

I was not cherry picking. You were opposing races, and I was just pointing out that most crimes (even the most hideous) are not race-related. Or trying to, at least.

Having an agenda would be creating an agency to report crimes made by illegal immigrants to be able to communicate on those, although proportionally more crimes of the same nature would be committed by legal immigrants or citizens. But nobody would do that, would they?

The EU yesterday issued a statement that US visitors may lose rights to travel without Visas to the EU. A statement which should be seen by all Americans as a blackmail attempt...

Let's not twist the truth of the matter, shall we. Which is:

The passing of the non-binding resolution comes after the US failed to agree visa-free travel for citizens of five EU countries

...

It comes after the US failed to agree visa-free travel for citizens of five EU countries – Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania – as part of a reciprocity agreement. US citizens can normally travel to all countries in the bloc without a visa.

...

The Commission discovered three years ago that the US was not meeting its obligations under the reciprocity agreement but has not yet taken any legal action. The latest vote, prepared by the civil liberties committee and approved by a plenary session of parliament, gives the Commission two months to act before MEPs can consider action in the European Court of Justice.

So, the real story here is that, if the US wants visa-free travel to the (entire) EU for its citizens, it must extend the same privilege to (all) EU nationals, but the US has been failing to do so. The EU calling out the US on this point hardly constitutes "blackmail".

OOOHHHHH, they stimulate the same brain centers. Obviously that means they're the same! How foolish of me.

Very good, admitting ignorance is the first step towards enlightenment.
Here's a bit of additional reading: Sugar consumption increases dopamine levels
Note that this is the current theory, but the evidence is not hard. There's still disagreement about the level of addiction involved, and it's worth noting that consuming sugar instead of, say, heroin, does not seem to lessen the heroin cravings, even if they release similar levels of dopamine.

Perhaps you are in denial?

The KKK officially supported Hillary Clinton you idiot.

The KKK officially supported and continue to support Donald Trump's regime, but don't take my word for it, you can see for yourself.

Or not libtard.

That's cause CNN said Trump lied about muslim rape in Sweden. clearly never happened, Trump lied again, right right!!!!1!
I think Lena Dumbham is right, we need more jihad in here...

Most of the people on the right that I know have to provide evidence to debunk the claims and positions of the left.

That you know, eh?

How many people do you know?

I read everything I can get my hands on so that I can argue against the leftists.

How much do you read of what the right says and does?

Such as I did above showing wage discrimination.

But what about this?

Here's a challegen: Show why it's wrong.

Leftists on the other hand simply repeat the same bogus numbers over and over and over.

Bogus information like these?

The 70c on the dollar fabrication is repeated not just by former President Obama but every voice in the Left (Clinton, Pelosi, Schumer). That gets repeated by most leftist media outlets (just about all print and broadcast), and executives are repeating the lies. If they don't, they get lambasted by the left for being politically incorrect (members of the patriarchy, misogynists, bigots, etc...)

Now what you may be hinting at is the RINOs, of which there are plenty. Considering your statement about Trump, I'm guessing that you perhaps are one.

Oh, so you think your shit don't stink, is that it?

Plenty of others. Lots of them.

How many Republicans will you declare persona non grata in your refusal to admit you are repating lies, and to be honest, declaring them to be politically incorrect in a more original sense of the phrase.

This is the problem the right-wing phonies like you have, you can't understand what you're doing wrong.

You can't even grasp that you're doing something wrong.

Why do you feel the need to use so many negative words: bullshit, killing, evil, hatred, hatred, lies, evilz, hate? Could you not have carried your point across with regular, non inflammatory words?

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

I think the key to the above article is user self destructed phone, otherwise the Israeli phone bomb was indeed prior art.

Israeli Phone Bomb

If you ignore the first article (Gadget 360) and click through the report hyperlink to
  http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

Then you find out that by cutting left turns they increase distance per package, but reduce time per package. By reducing time per package, they managed to put more packages on each truck. Miles per truck goes up, but the number of trucks goes down far more.

This reduction in total trucks also creates a slight reduction in distance traveled whenever two pickups are close to each other. So while miles per package goes up, total miles travelled drops tremendously.

...according to Universal basic income 'useless', says Finland's biggest union

Since January, some unemployed Finns have been receiving a stipend of e560 (L477) per month; amount isn't means-tested and is paid regardless of whether recipient finds a job

Of course there's back and forth -- you didn't test correctly, you're a union and afraid of losing power, your mother wears Army boots. Glad he's trying another test, more data is useful As Long As you write down and publish all of the variables you think you're testing As Well As exactly how you tested and how you derived your results.

"I'm testing to see if pigs can fly -- maybe I just need a lot more thrust."

Long distance, high-voltage DC lines can mitigate this significantly due to the ability to balance out over large geographical areas. Further, offshore wind is more steady than traditional onshore wind. Once the flying kite-style wind generators take off the intermittent problem is all but removed.

You also have to factor in that France has a bunch of nuclear power it can export. Germany still burns a lot of coal as well, there is the opportunity cost of their nuclear policy: all their renewable gains could have gone to reduce coal burning, but instead it has remained rather steady.

"The review of APHIS' website has been ongoing, and the agency is striving to balance the need for transparency with rules protecting individual privacy.
In 2016, well before the change of Administration, APHIS decided to make adjustments to the posting of regulatory records.
In addition, APHIS is currently involved in litigation concerning, among other issues, information posted on the agency's website.
While the agency is vigorously defending against this litigation, in an abundance of caution, the agency is taking additional measures to protect individual privacy.
These decisions are not final. Adjustments may be made regarding information appropriate for release and posting."

A blatant and stupid lie.
Trump administration forgets that people from the Obama administration are still alive and around.

Matt Herrick, director of Communications of USDA under Obama, tweeted this regarding the disappearing of animal abuse reports:

Decision by @usda 2 remove animal abuse reports not required.
Totally subjective. Same option given 2 past admin. We refused. #transparency

And it's not the first (and probably not the last) time that Trump administration, once caught doing something they shouldn't be doing, tries to blame it on Obama.
Like the Muslim ban, Yemen raid fiasco (BTW, that was "winning"), Trump's disastrous calls to Mexican and Australian heads of state... and now this.
More here.

In a recent review of European print media, it was observed that the UK had the MOST right-wing attitude promoted in its paper press.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/british-media-is-the-most-right-wing-in-europe-yougov-finds-a6859266.html

Something to think about ....

I would thing a wee bit of paranoia is justified at the TJ fire service

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/tianjin-explosion-photos-china-chemical-factory-accident-crater-revealed-a7199591.html

And when that business dries up they will just go back to selling securities it knows are toxic to its customers and then selling those securities short so they profit when their customer loses. Now with the new fiduciary rule (which would require financial advisors for your retirement accounts to put your interests ahead of their profit) being "reviewed" before it can even go into effect and many former Goldman Sachs employees in senior cabinet positions expect more of the same, investment banks fleecing their customers, other investors and taxpayers for every cent they can.

Was that bill(s) (there were more than one) signed into law? Why would you argue that kind of semantic? Obama signed off on those provisions that were expanded with "countries of concern". He signed it and just like the ACA bears responsibility, for the most part (yes Congress is responsible too but it is the POTUS signature that turns a bill to law. )

You are being very pedantic and disingenuous if you think that is a "lie" because it was a law signed by Obama. i.e. his approval, support, and his execution of the law by his administration.

The fact that ISIS is operating in those countries makes things pretty dire for people, leading to refugees. They need to be extensively vetted before coming to the US, and they are. We're not talking about additional vetting, which we probably don't need, but a block on people we're already pretty darn sure are harmless.

Yes, it sucks for those people. Yes, there is vetting. Has that vetting kept up with the times? If so, why would the FBI acknowledge there is no basis to vet some Syrian refugees? The ban is temporary... What is wrong with taking stock into the process to ensure it has kept up with the times and methods used by nefarious individuals? Instead of acting like Germany I have no problem with the government reassessing our immigration processes.

There were mistakes but no government is perfect and they have started to rectify those mistakes by letting in green card holders and the like. What I have heard is that refugees directly affected by this have to go through some additional interviews and questions before immigrating... So what? An inconvenience to be sure but it sure as hell beats where they came from. It's also temporary for most of the countries save Syria which has no records, barely functioning government and civilian militants... We are at war there and there is a hostile government... I am sorry for those people but the world is a crappy place. There is nothing wrong with reassessing various processes that could vector extremism to the US.

They may w^Hvalue education, but the education they value isn't particularly valuable. Too much rote memorisation, and on top of that all the cheating. http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

I've known some excellent people who were ethnic Indians, but they'd been through the UK or US educational system, college at least if not HS too.

Indians from India? Unable to admit they don't know, unwilling to speak up when a bad idea is proposed. Just do the needful and bill the timesheet old chap!

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UAE -- all countries with which Trump has business dealings -- are still off the hook.

While I agree that those countries should also be on the list, that's a difficult proposition at the moment. Maybe when we're no longer dependent on their oil, which for better or worse is something Trump seems to be trying to do by cutting down the EPA. Either way, the travel ban was a list already comprised by the Obama administration and most of those countries have been bombed by the US in the last few years. Would you want to invest your money in a country that's being bombed? As a /.er you should understand the difference between correlation and causation.

On a curious side note, why is it that the media is spouting that it was Saudis who did 9/11 now but no one said a thing about that when we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan as a result of 9/11?

Anyway, while there haven't been "terror deaths" there certainly have been incidents, and Europe is currently experiencing a surge in crime since the refugees started coming in, with many of the crimes going unreported in the media and sometimes even unpunished in a misguided attempt to prevent racism.

A three-month ban is a pain in the ass for the people involved, but nothing insurmountable (i.e., don't leave the country for a few months... this is something I've had to deal with multiple times when moving to other countries), and no one said anything when the Obama administration stopped processing visa applications for Iraqis for six months.

https://muslimstatistics.wordp...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
https://www.welt.de/politik/de... (in German)
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...

Fake news. See the following Independent or many other serious sites: http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
"Kuwait has denied imposing a travel ban on nationals from several Muslim-majority countries, a move that was praised by US President Donald Trump. The story was propagated by news web sites popular with Mr Trump’s supporters including Breitbart, Infowars and Sputnik."

Calling it a Muslim ban...

Those are Donald's words, not mine:

Oh, yes, well, lets find you one on the many articles that do show him to be a Trump supporter.
Just one of many.
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
I suggest you get a grip on reality, Trumplethinkskin.

First, to all the liberal progressive mods, if you are so right in your beliefs, write a post and show where I am wrong. -1 Overrated is not your personal censorship tool for views you disagree with. You are supposed to champion tolerance of others, live it. I am not a huge fan of Trump, I voted against him in the primary, but as a rational human being, the cognitive dissonance from the progressive left wing is too massive to let go unchallenged.

So Trump upholds the constitution, appoints a constructionist supreme court judge who will protect the constitution and bill of rights as written (not an activist judge who believes that the constitution can mean whatever the hell he wants it to), and you are comparing him to Hitler? You are taking the few good things that Hitler did for the Germans, like building roads and airports (many other good leaders have also built roads and airports for their countries the world over) and using that as justification to compare Trump to Hitler? By your logic Dwight D. Eisenhower was just like Hitler, because he championed the US interstate freeway system. Please tell me you are not really this stupid?

Take a look at the list of actions he has taken thus far and tell me which ones have hurt you (not traumatized you emotionally based on Democrat demagoguery). Which of these actions send brown shirts to your house in the middle of the night? Which ones force everyone to like Trump (have you turned on a TV in the last year, hatred for Trump is on 90% of the channels), or outlaw a religion (as far as I know, only the progressive left and Obama tried to attack freedom of religion by forcing Little Sisters of the Poor to support abortion and Christian bakers to support homosexual marriages or lose their business). (It is interesting that this was not tried with a Muslim bakery, I wonder why). Which executive actions authorize incarceration of innocent people? (Sorry, illegal aliens are criminals, by entering the country without permission they have committed a crime, no mater how hard you wish that were not the case.)

Trump has signed executive orders to:
- Kill TPP
- Protecting LGBT from workplace discrimination
- Banned fed officials from becoming lobbyists for 5 years
- Lifetime ban on WH officials becoming lobbyists for foreign countries
- 120 day travel ban (not permaban) on visitors from terrorist hotbeds (Obama banned travelers/refugees from the same countries for 6 months after they found to terrorists had made it through the vetting process)
- Authorized the border "wall" that democrats voted for many years ago but never funded, a wall similar to walls all non-island nations have to protect their borders. Check out how Mexico treats illegal entry at it's southern border.
- Approved the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, so you don't have to pay $4/gal for gas like you did under Obama, which was essentially a tax on poor working people who have to commute longer on average

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

If popular support for unpermitted immigration was so high, progressives could easily change the laws to eliminate our borders completely, but only the loonytoon left wants that. Every country must control its borders. The US still allows over 1,000,000 immigrants a year, the most immigrants of any nation on the planet. Australia won't accept any illegal immigrants and it takes its illegal immigrants and detains them indefinitely on an island with conditions so bad that they are setting themselves on fire. (But there is no moral outrage on the left for this apparently, only that Trump doesn't want to take in potential terrorists that Australia doesn't want).

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

Hardcore Islam is at war with America, we for

The media coverage is ridiculous, and focus instead on actual fake stories of people who are pretending to be assaulted by Trump supporters, a claim, as far as I know, always unfounded. End of rant. Good luck America.

What about the story a couple days ago where a Trump supporter murdered some people because of his alt-right views

I have seen people on slashdot accuse you of rape too. Does that make it a fact? Watch, I'll add another: PopeRatzo raped me. Boom! Fact.

Funny thing about the internet. You can check whether stuff has been reported before.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
http://fusion.net/story/328522...
http://gawker.com/the-time-don...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...
http://www.inquisitr.com/36114...
http://time.com/4572925/megyn-...
http://www.rollingstone.com/po...
http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/1...

There. That oughtta do it.

Now, where is the evidence that PopeRatzo raped you?

Yes Boss.

Just business as usual, Boss.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/25/exxonmobil-climate-change-scientists-congress-george-w-bush

http://www.cfr.org/climate-change/political-interference-climate-change-science-under-bush-administration-december-2007/p15079

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17926941

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bush-appointee-at-nasa-resigns-over-censorship-6109603.html

As they are clowns, they have a clown car,

Here's a picture of the clown car in question:

https://static.independent.co....

The Washington Post calling out anybody on alternate facts is dubious at best. Downright scandalous at worst. And MSNBC plainly state they are an opinion station not a news agency. I want to know where anybody is getting "official" numbers for any of the inaugurations since they stopped taking headcounts years ago. All counts you see put forth as fact are actually guesstimations based on a photo of the event. The numbers can be close but never verified. The inauguration is harder to count because no aerial photography is allowed (No fly zone). Add to that rioters blocking the entrance to the Mall preventing attendees from actually entering and numbers become even more irrelevant. I didn't want to believe the media had gone completely partisan but the more they publish hearsay and innuendo the more it looks like they have.

The sad thing is that patriotism and nationalism have become dirty words on the left. It's even worse in Europe, though. Members of the "Britain First" movement are being arrested and persecuted pretty heavily. Shit, you can get into serious trouble there just for selling stuff with the British flag on it. Such is the insane world we live in.

I'm politically independent, and I watch this battle from up on the hills, and I see the Democrats' true colors shining. Look at the rioting and destruction in the US capital. I don't think it's sad at all- they've helped me see truth.

The sad thing is that patriotism and nationalism have become dirty words on the left. It's even worse in Europe, though. Members of the "Britain First" movement are being arrested and persecuted pretty heavily. Shit, you can get into serious trouble there just for selling stuff with the British flag on it. Such is the insane world we live in.

When they say Scotland is 15 billion in debt in this article, who exactly are they referring to?

If he takes a ride in a diplomatic car, local cops can't touch him.

However, they can touch him before he is even able to reach that diplomatic car. Indeed, the Ecuadorian embassy is in a multi-tenant building, and the staircase leading from the embassy to the parking garage is not extraterritorial. And British cops do indeed hang around in that staircase, exactly to prevent this from happening.

There would still be the possibility of valise diplomatique but that one is only protected as long as there are no obvious signs that it contains something else than documents (and a huge trunk giving off infrared radiation due to body heat obviously does not contain only documents...)

Leaked documents reveal Ecuadorian Embassy's 'disguise' escape plan

it would be really nice if you could put a link to what it is your talking about.

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

Had brain fart and referred to IEC not EIP.

Hillary is probably as corrupt of a politician as we've ever had to try to run for Pres.

The Republicans have been gunning for her for decades and have yet to make a single thing stick. There's hardly another politician who has had such intense scrutiny. And yet, still nothing. Mr Trump on the other hand isn't even trying to hide his corruption, but for some reason a lot of people don't care nearly so much if he does it.

Probably worth pointing out that we're not a Democracy. Never claimed to be. We're a Republic

The two are not mutually exclusive and a representative democracy is by far the most common form of democracy. The US is intended as a form of democracy, but in some cases the corruption within the Republicans is so deep it stops functioning as such. In NC for example.

The US has the very best form of Government the world has ever seen.

[citation needed]. That's really a pretty odd claim.

We're also the oldest.

Oldest what? Democracy? Nope. Republic? Nope. Country? Nope. Government? Nope. The US may be many things, but oldest anything it is not.

You seem to be a typical Democrat.

If you say so. Not that I've ever voted democrat in my life, but sure.

I was accused of being a liberal

It's more of a compliment than an accusation.

The crazy left has hijacked the Democratic party and murdered civil discourse.

That sounds much more like a description of the right and Republicans than the left. What with the gerrymandering, fillibustering and playing chicken with a default.

But you're sound very much like the model of a modern right winger. Figure out all the stuff you're doing wrong then yell really loudly that the other side is doing it and hope no one notices. For some reason this often works pretty well. However, eventually reality will collide with your politics (it is already colliding) and then your tactics will seem a little hollow since reality doesn't care what you say.

The flight recorders section omits some of the media reports referenced in the investigation section, and does not state that the voice data record was successfully repaired.

BTW, there are photos of the recovered flight recorders. No apparent structural damage. It is likely that the enclosures are not waterproof even when undamaged.

> The cockpit recorder should have picked up a few explicit verbal phrases if such an event had taken place.

The recorder did in fact record the pilots trying to put out a fire in the cockpit.

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

No I don't know the exact wording they used.

The recorder did in fact record the pilots trying to put out a fire in the cockpit.

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