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Also remember that Communist regimes *lie*, wholesale, about their economies. Robert Heinlein wrote, decades ago, about the fraudulent population and economic claims of the USSR after he and his wife visited and found no sign of the booming shipyards, rails, or family growth they claimed after WWII. We see the same sort of nonsense now from both Russia and China, as borne out by observable date *not* filtered through their press: light from population and industry caputed by night-time satellite photos.

https://www.investors.com/poli...

Well, China's system does not qualify as a communist system (or even state) at all.

And it's not only them. Just look at us under the 45, we are winning, bigly, trade wars, so easy to win, eat coal for breakfast and shit rolls of dollars and gold pellets.

Also remember that Communist regimes *lie*, wholesale, about their economies. Robert Heinlein wrote, decades ago, about the fraudulent population and economic claims of the USSR after he and his wife visited and found no sign of the booming shipyards, rails, or family growth they claimed after WWII. We see the same sort of nonsense now from both Russia and China, as borne out by observable date *not* filtered through their press: light from population and industry caputed by night-time satellite photos.

https://www.investors.com/poli...

But now, with the application documents in hand, even the Washington Post admits that the dossier played "a prominent role" in the wiretap request. And we know that the FBI had corroborated none of the dossier claims before filing its application.

It seems you just provided the source to confirm LR's contention. You bring shame to all ACs with your ignorance.

And if you don't believe IBD, perhaps NPR will work?

She wasn't corrupt, sure people donated to her charitable foundation with the hopes of gaining some favour. But would you prefer they donated to her campaign or PAC instead? Or hosted a fundraiser? That kind of stuff was literally standard operating procedure in Washington.

Are you serious? Check the donations. They skyrocketed when she ran for President - and fell like a stone when she failed. Then boomed again when she was suddenly in charge of all US International relations (Sec State). And you're telling me people are not buying her?

Uhhh, you're confusing things.

Like I said, people were donating to gain favour. Obviously they did so more when she was in a position of power or potential power. But that's absolutely Washington SOP.

It's not a bribe as much as a "I'll do something nice for me and I'll hear you out... but I won't actually do something I think is wrong". I mean it's pretty much standard that if you want to meet with a politician you don't have to be a donor.. but it would really help if you were.

It's highly problematic, but it's how the system works, Clinton was entirely normal in that regard.

Like the way her foundation and husband received millions of dollars after choosing not to deny the Russian buyout of Uranium One?

You mean the acquisition that was completely normal and uncontroversial acquisition and H. Clinton had almost nothing to do with anyway?

The multiple ties between Hillary and Russia,

People with international dealings having a few connections to a major country is fine. The problem with Trump is there's a ton of people with big connections to incredibly shady people.

including secret meetings in 2016

as she was candidate Clinton?

The problem with the Trump orbit meetings is:
1) A few of them seem directly related to the stolen emails.
2) Many of the Trump people in question repeatedly lied about the meetings. Either leaving them off official forms or denying they took place under oath.

Funding fake dossiers against candidate Trump?

Sigh. The dossier was opposition research, not "fake". Somethings have been proven wrong, and some have been verified.

Colluding with personal friends in the media to get advance information about campaign questions and the like?

Wasn't corrupt? I guess the Sahara is a frigid, sodden wasteland in your world...

Campaigns do sketching things sometimes. Hell, this guy signed up a fake candidate to launch an attack campaign against his rival then drop out of the race.

Oh, and here's a fun question where I'm really interested to hear the answer.

So lets assume you're right and the dossier really was a "fake dossier".

So... what was the point?

Because it didn't come out before the election, and as you pointed out she certainly had enough friends in the media to put it out.

Hell, they could even "anonymously leak" it somewhere, yet they obviously didn't.

So why get a fake dossier to slander Trump if you don't actually release it till after you already lost the election?

I feel like you w

She wasn't corrupt, sure people donated to her charitable foundation with the hopes of gaining some favour. But would you prefer they donated to her campaign or PAC instead? Or hosted a fundraiser? That kind of stuff was literally standard operating procedure in Washington.

Are you serious? Check the donations. They skyrocketed when she ran for President - and fell like a stone when she failed. Then boomed again when she was suddenly in charge of all US International relations (Sec State). And you're telling me people are not buying her?

Like the way her foundation and husband received millions of dollars after choosing not to deny the Russian buyout of Uranium One?

The multiple ties between Hillary and Russia, including secret meetings in 2016

as she was candidate Clinton?

Funding fake dossiers against candidate Trump?

Colluding with personal friends in the media to get advance information about campaign questions and the like?

Wasn't corrupt? I guess the Sahara is a frigid, sodden wasteland in your world...

Two days, again according to your own article.

It carried on a lot longer than that, according to LIVING HERE.

It's only a few days after the bomb cyclone we've started actually approaching average temperatures.

So how do we have more melting that normal with below average tertmpetures?

Again, you are totally ignoring the fact that the bomb cyclone dropped a lot more moisture across the region than it would normally see... there is a huge amount of snowpack left because it's also way above average. so right there cleanly disproves the theory that the floods are from record melting.. if anything we have had below average melting, against because of the temperatures.

You can dance around it all you like, but the fact is you and your scientifically, data starved ignorant friends are simply wrong about what is happening now, and you base your forecasts on this fundamentally mistaken view of the world... sad.

Funny how those rare events keep increasing in frequency.

You misspelled decreasing. Just like a climate alarmists to confuse weather for climate.

Pretty telling that I am the only one providing real data while you try to spread fear and panic by totally ignoring what the weather is actually doing.

I'll let you have the last response, since at this point everyone is onto your game of deception... everyone except for you it would seem.

Partly, but that's only a small part of the bigger picture. It's primarily because he knows there's a storm coming, as soon as Trump is gone and Brexit isn't distracting every moment of British political discourse anymore, the genie he let out of the bottle of blah blah blah blah

Russiagate has never been anything more than a giant steaming pile of McCarthyite BS. It's a DQ Blizzard of red baiting, Swiftboating from Hillbots, and yelling Squirrel! to distract you from the actual stolen election in 2016: the Democratic primary.

The problem with journalism being profit driven, especially in an age where news is basically a commodity that everyone gets for free, is that it corrupts it into a toxic mixture of outrage and hyper-partisan opinion.

When you look at the least biased, most reliable source of news and analysis they tend to be the ones that are not dependent on getting views - the BBC, and agencies like Reuters and AFP.

The sources you cite have an agenda, it's just a bit more subtle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://www.investors.com/poli... It's not unlike colleges that chased out all of the conservatives. They may not even realize just how biased they and and certainly other viewpoints must be wrong because all their friends and colleagues think the same way. It's like the worst of small town close mindedness but at a professional level.

You may have missed a few.

Of course, it would seem there's hardly any reason to suspect this, right?

In New York City, the top 1% pay about 46% of all income taxes collected in New York State - that's per Gov. Cuomo. After recent tax changes, the rich are leaving New York State, and already the state is running a $23BN tax shortfall, about a 3% deficit so far this tax year.

Yea! Tax the rich! What are they gonna do, leave? Well, yeah, they will.

BTW, we tax INCOME, not WEALTH.

Tell that to the business people who are bullish on the economy, who are recommending to stick with the stock market... and who drive better cars than you do. If they even feared a recession, they would be pulling out of the stock market, not putting more into it.

As a mere working stiff, Trump's tax cuts have put more money into my wallet, and a booming economy. If you get laid off, you get a job in a few weeks, so fretting about a job is a thing of the past.

Not saying Trump is someone I want to glorify, but the proof is in the pudding, and people are doing quite well economically.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

Conspicuous by its absence in much of the mainstream news coverage of Venezuela’s political crisis is the word “socialism.” Yes, every sensible observer agrees that Latin America’s once-richest country, sitting atop the world’s largest proven oil reserves, is an economic basket case, a humanitarian disaster, and a dictatorship whose demise cannot come soon enough.

But socialist? Perish the thought.

Or so goes a line of argument that insists socialism’s good name shouldn’t be tarred by the results of experience. On Venezuela, what you’re likelier to read is that the crisis is the product of corruption, cronyism, populism, authoritarianism, resource-dependency, U.S. sanctions and trickery, even the residues of capitalism itself. Just don’t mention the S-word because, you know, it’s working really well in Denmark.

Curiously, that’s not how the Venezuelan regime’s admirers used to speak of “21st century socialism,” as it was dubbed by Hugo Chávez. The late Venezuelan president, said Britain’s Jeremy Corbyn, “showed us there is a different and a better way of doing things. It’s called socialism, it’s called social justice, and it’s something that Venezuela has made a big step toward.” Noam Chomsky was similarly enthusiastic when he praised Chávez in 2009. “What’s so exciting about at last visiting Venezuela,” the linguist said, is that “I can see how a better world is being created and can speak to the person who’s inspired it.”

Anytime someone brings up per capita CO2 output, they reveal that they aren't really interested in reducing total carbon output, but punishing someone. The US is rapidly reducing it's carbon output and is on track to meet the Paris Accord goals without having ratified that treaty.

https://www.sacbee.com/opinion... - Caifornia makes up 13.3% of the United State's GDP https://blogs.voanews.com/all-... and holds 15.34% of all state debt going by the numbers I'm looking at here https://www.usgovernmentdebt.u... . I would certainly agree that the state has a liability problem (one of what I would consider to be one of the state's two key problems) but the scope of it isn't as big as the author tries to make it seem.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0... - So an article about how our governor is trying to get California ready for another recession is bad? That sounds like a plus for California. Hopefully the governor of Texas is planning for another dip in their essential oil market.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1... - The only really damning thing here is mentioning our high cost of living (the other major problem I'd say the state has). This certainly needs addressing and is likely already cutting into our economic growth in places like the valley but it is hardly a doomsday scenario.

https://www.investors.com/poli... - This is just dumb fear mongering with gems like...
"The carbon emissions laws and other regulatory overreach kill jobs and hope for many." So our record unemployment isn't real?
"The state's gas tax is the nation's highest, some 30 cents to a dollar per gallon above the national average." Oh heavens! Wait, doesnt every other first world nation have gas taxes far in access of what California has?
"Businesses won't hire more workers and invest in growth due to confiscatory state and local taxes and complex and contradictory regulatory regimes. Hundreds of striving small businesses face bullying and high fees from state agencies." Once again, current massively low unemployment rate. We also generated 20 percent of the country's GDP growth last year, so no, this is not a problem.
"California has become the modern equivalent of the Southern Confederates of 1860. Antipathetic to federal law, and seeking its own coalition with foreign governments via trade and environmental and immigration policy." HAHAHAHAHA. Right, we're a bunch of slave holding degenerates willing to dissolve the union so we can own people. What an apt comparison for the incredibly small amount of international outreach California has done.

"Not to mention my personal hope that high-state tax states (CA, like NY, MA, and my state of MN) *don't* get to wriggle out from under the state-tax-writeoff cap put into law last year. Because previously - being able to write off the high endemic state taxes - meant that RED STATES were essentially subsidizing your (our) social giveaways, which was/is bullshit. ...but I'm sure they're all just conservative publications funded by the Koch brothers, right?"

Are you referring to this? https://www.forbes.com/sites/m...

Well much like your self I can't find proper numbers on what the results are expected to be but I would anticipate it will not be the wonderful put down to blue states you want it to be. When have you heard of the South generating economic prosperity for our country? Only when they used to own people. All they do now is offer cheap American labor because they're that destitute. How about the bible belt? Well they have some reasonably solid agriculture whose backbone is illegal immigrant labor. Thankfully for them Trump is

Tax receipts are up - way up. Perhaps that prediction of a big loss (based on an assumption of continued sub-2% GDP growth) is wrong. Because the facts seem to point otherwise...

whatever you say my dude enjoy eating your pets commie

Hillary

Nope. The article says Chaffetz and Goodlatte want to investigate to see if Clinton lied.

Ok so with the precedent set by Mueller, shouldn't there be a special prosecutor assigned to investigate any and all lies from the Hillary team? Or does that only happen with Trump associates?

Eric Holder lies are far from an opinion piece

Clapper

That’s what James Clapper did on March 12, 2013, while testifying before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

That day, Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, asked Clapper for a yes or no answer to the following question: “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?”

“No, sir,” Clapper replied.

Wyden, who appeared taken aback by the answer, tried again: “It does not?”

“Not wittingly,” Clapper responded. “There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but not wittingly.”

Three months later, on June 5, 2013, The Guardian newspaper began publishing a series of reports about the NSA based on documents stolen from the agency by Edward Snowden that proved Clapper had perjured himself.

Days after The Guardian’s bombshell report, Clapper told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell that he had responded in “what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner.”

Three weeks later, under increasing pressure, Clapper wrote a letter to the senators on the committee, apologizing for providing a “clearly erroneous” answer. He also changed his story, jettisoning the excuse he had tried to answer in the “least untruthful” manner, and instead claimed the reason he had misled Congress is that he had “forgotten” about Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which covered the NSA’s bulk collection of metadata.

So Clapper's lie is excused because he "forgot" about the law, but the same option is never given to a Trump associate?

Clapper lied to congress and wasn't charged.

Nope. An argument between Clapper and Meghan McCain on The View doesn't prove Clapper was lying.

Eric Holder lied to congress and wasn't charged.

Nope. An opinion piece only.

Hillary Clinton lied to congress and wasn't charged.

Nope. The article says Chaffetz and Goodlatte want to investigate to see if Clinton lied.

Is lying to Congress a crime?
Clapper lied to congress and wasn't charged.
Eric Holder lied to congress and wasn't charged.
Hillary Clinton lied to congress and wasn't charged.

However...
Michael Cohen did get charged for lying to Congress.

With selective prosecution like this, I think being an associate to Trump is a crime but lying to Congress is not. This is what tinpot dictators do. Pass laws that make everyone a criminal and only prosecute those you don't like. Its called a dictatorship, and is run by the DNC not Trump.

Vote Tyranny, vote DNC.

If this were truly an issue, it would have been done in 2012 when Obama took advantage of this info. No one cared them because the "correct" people were using it. The AG is attempting to make it clear to all companies that if you help the GOP/Trump you will be punished.
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Other examples:
Cohen lies to Congress is a felony/ Comey, McCabe, Clapper, Brenen, Lynch, Yeats, Clinton lie to Congress no problem.
Enquirer buries story is illegal campaign contribution to Trump/ CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NYT, WaPo don't report on Clinton taking hundreds of millions in bribes as SOS no problem.
Trump pays off woman to be silent, impeachable issue / Congress has spent $17 million of taxpayer money in 264 cases that are similar is no problem.

DC is a joke at this point.

Fiscal year 2018 had record revenues. Remember the fiscal year is NOT the calendar year.

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You got called out as a liar and told the truth. Then you progressives come back and repeat your debunked lie because you are literally too stupid to learn.
Do you not realize people can look this stuff up? People who lie like this and hope others are too "polite" to call out their lies are calls sociopaths, which appears to be a synonym for progressive these days.

You've taken no account for a growing economy.
https://www.investors.com/poli...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/n...

Oh, and go figure...the CBO has revised it's estimates upwards. From their site...
GDP Is Projected to Be Greater Than CBO Previously Estimated

CBO’s current economic projections differ from those that the agency made in June 2017 in a number of ways. The most significant is that potential and actual real GDP are projected to grow more quickly over the next few years. As a result, the levels of those measures are 1.6 percent higher than CBO previously estimated for 2027 (the last year in the previous projection period). Projected output is greater because of recently enacted legislation, data that became available after CBO’s previous economic projections were completed, and improvements in the agency’s analytical methods. Also, because inflation is now anticipated to be higher, the level of nominal GDP is projected to be 2.4 percent higher in 2027 than previously estimated

"Apple realized long ago a battle at the low end is one that leaves no victors."

Except for the victors it leaves, of course. If there were no victors there would be no low end.

When the most successful party has 87% of the industry profits and the distant second place has 10% then you have one victor and one intact survivor. What could we call the remaining market participants? "Beleaguered?" :-)

"Apple (AAPL) captured 87% of smartphone industry profits in the fourth quarter, despite accounting for only about 18% of total units sold in the period. ... Samsung came in second in smartphone operating profits with 10% of total industry profits" https://www.investors.com/news...

It is about wealth redistribution, not the environment.

Oh, look, Greenpeace is infuriated at something. How unusual.

Just checking, is this the same Greenpeace that slandered genetically modified foods? Why yes it is!

"More than 100 Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, medicine and other sciences this week signed a blistering letter attacking Greenpeace's "fact-challenged propaganda campaign against innovations in agricultural biotechnology."

"Greenpeace and their allies have claimed falsely that GMOS are dangerous, untested and inadequately regulated," the letter states. "But the science telling us GM crops and foods are safe has been confirmed by vast experience."

The letter goes on to point out that "As we have shown elsewhere, we know that GMOS are at least as safe as crops produced with other breeding methods. The only time a safety difference has been found the GMOs have been safer."

Worse, the latest target of Greenpeace's anti-GMO campaign is a type of rice â" called Golden Rice â" that would "reduce or eliminate much of the death and disease caused by vitamin A deficiency, which has the greatest impact on the poorest people in Africa and Southeastern Asia."

Greenpeace, mind you, is the same organization that thinks "climate change denial" is a crime worth prosecuting.

To show just how truly muddle-headed Greenpeace is, a recent study published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature found that the use of GMOs can help fight climate change by cutting methane emissions. Which means Greenpeace's anti-science GMO stance trumps its allegedly pro-science climate-change fanaticism.

Greenpeace isn't alone on the left-wing fringes here.

A Pew Research Center survey found, for example, that just over a third of Democrats think GMOs are safe to eat. Translation: two-thirds of Democrats are anti-science."

The tax cuts did NOT reduce revenue. This is trivial to check: tax revenues for first half of 2018 were up 9%.

You seem to be trying to claim that the increased revenue is due to the "fiscal stimulus" (what stimulus was that in 2017, anyway?) but you can't present any evidence of it. You claim we aren't at the 'top' of the Laffer curve - assuming there is only one local peak, of course - and yet you cannot draw the Laffer curve to show where are *are*.

Finally, I'm not rich - yet I get back more than $1000 thanks to Trump. The rich actually get screwed, thanks to the massive decreased state-tax credits. Those California millionaires no longer get subsidized by the Feds for having absurd state taxes.

Uhm, you do know that the popular vote victory came pretty much entirely from California alone, right?

California voted for Hillary. *The people* were pretty evenly split on the matter...

https://www.investors.com/poli...

No the reason it went from global warming to climate change is because the warming was not continuing and the climate is always changing. Global warming is something that can be seen/measured in that the average global temperature would need to continue rising for global warming to be occurring. Climate change, however, has absolutely zero testable criteria in that climate is always changing and you can attribute any phenomenon from cold winters to wet deserts to dry plains to increased ice to decreased ice to dry deserts etc to climate change.

Recent NASA data shows that since 2016 the average global temperature has dropped by 0.56 degrees Celsius yet that is ignored or even argued as normal. That drop coincides quite nicely with the reduction of sunspot activity we're entering into. Since we know the sunspot activity will continue to a minimum, if it is the sun that is driving the temperature cycles as many non-climate cultists attest, then we should continue to see cooling. If it is 1 CO2 molecule out of 2500 that is raising the temperature then the sunspot activity shouldn't matter and we should see increased temperature.

We have 2 years now of cooling, let's just see where we are in the next 5.

Haven't seen much innovation since they rounded the corners.

Seems like today is the day the market started to figure this out, too...

Lockheed takes the security of this system, and all of their weapons systems, pretty darn seriously.

Oh, that's nice. I'm sure there are no weak links.

Sorry to bitch slap you with reality but...

https://www.investors.com/poli...

"According to a report by business relocation expert Joseph Vranich, from 2008 through 2015, at least 1,687 California companies pulled up stakes and moved elsewhere. And those are only the reported ones, Vranich says."

At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.

Capitalism is irreconcilable with a livable climate and as humans can't change the laws of nature "What changed for me was hearing the argument for the existence of a climate debt, which is the idea that in order to address the crisis . . . which was created by the wealthiest countries in the world and is being felt most acutely by some of the poorest countries in the world, there needs to be a process of redress.

http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism/

Core inequalities need to be tackled through redistribution of wealth and technology. And this was explained to me as a chance to heal the world; to heal some of the deepest and most lasting wounds left by colonialism. And I suddenly saw that though this crisis continues to be existentially terrifying, it could also be a catalyst for really inspiring change and social justice."

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2014/09/13/facing_climate_change_headon_means_changing_capitalism_naomi_klein.html

(OTTMAR EDENHOFER, UN IPCC OFFICIAL): Basically it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization. The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War... First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole.

Christiana Figueres, leader of the U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change: "This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history."

Former U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth (D-CO), then representing the Clinton-Gore administration as U.S undersecretary of state for global issues, addressing the same Rio Climate Summit audience, agreed: "We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy."

Christine Stewart, former Canadian Environment Minister: "No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world."

Daphne Muller, green-progressive-liberal writer for Salon: "This moment requires we the people to rethink democracy as a global mechanism for enacting policy for and by the planet."

Peter Berle, President of the National Audubon Society: "We reject the idea of private property."

David Brower, a founder of the Sierra Club: "The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope."

Mikhail Gorbachev, communist and former leader of U.S.S.R.: "The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably have multiple political consequences. Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change in the s

AGW, or "Climate Change", or whatever the Nom de Jur is for it, isn't science. Science isn't "settled" and "settled science" isn't science. Climate Change is closer to Lysenkoism than it is to real science. The most disturbing aspect of today's climate change scientists is their willingness to go back into historical data and "correct" it to agree with their theories about CO2. The changes always cool the past and warm the present to make it appear that we are getting warmer. Yet, all their predictions about the disasters they claim would happen failed to materialize. Al Gore quoted an AGW scientist who predicted in 2007 that "within 5 years" ice would be gone from the North Pole for parts of the summer. It never happened. In fact, ice sheets have waxed and waned as they always have, even with AGW folks cooking, trimming and creating data out of thin air.
https://www.investors.com/poli...

Hansen and fellow scientist Michael Oppenheimer reported that if the buildup of carbon dioxide and methane continued at the current rate, the Earth would be between three and nine degrees Fahrenheit warmer by the years 2025-2050, and that sea levels would rise between one and four feet in the same time frame. They've got only 5 years left and our globe has to warm 2.5 to 8.5 degrees during that time.

https://www.thenewamerican.com...
Gore’s film predicted a 20-foot sea-level rise in the “near future” owing to ice melt from Greenland and Antarctica. As you can see, it hasn’t happened yet. Gore also predicted the devastation of low-lying Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu because of sea-level rise. But Tuvalu and some other island nations have actually grown in size since Gore’s pronouncement. A British judge concluded in 2007 that the film contained at least nine factual errors and was, therefore, a political film — not a scientific one.

Whenever these predictions of doom don’t pan out, the climate charlatans simply move the prediction back another few decades, long past the time when they’ll actually have to answer for them. It’s a shell game. The real global warming is always under a different cup.

https://polarbearscience.com/2...

http://www.aei.org/publication...

https://casf.me/3-decades-fail...

There was only ONE BIG REASON for the climate hysteria of the last 20 years, which was revealed in the 2009 and 2011 whistleblower release of the CRU emails: redistribute wealth from the Western nations to those ruled by Marxists. So arrogant are they about it that a member of the UN-ICCP stated:
"We (UN-IPCC) redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy ... One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is an environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore ..."
-Dr. Ottmar Endenhofer. IPCC co-chair of Wkring Group 3, November 13, 2010 interview (with Dr. Charles Battig)

Oooh, look its the but Hillary brigade, still so butt hurt, especially after the disaster Trump is becoming. The rest of the world just laughed in his face at the UN. Sad.
And funny, very very funny.

"Disaster":

Pay No Attention To That 'Unexpected' Good Economic News Over There

...

The Labor Department's weekly initial unemployment insurance claims number released last Thursday was an "unexpectedly" low 201,000. That's the lowest this figure has been in nearly 50 years and suggests that the job market continues to thrive.

Meanwhile, the Conference Board reported Tuesday that the Consumer Confidence Index "unexpectedly" rose to 138.4, the highest it's been since 2000. This is a 9% gain so far this year, and a 24% increase in this index since January 2017.

...

Then there's the median household income index compiled monthly by Sentier Research. It climbed again in August to $62,685. That's up 2.8% from August 2017, and a gain of 4.7% since President Trump took office. It's also now higher than any time since 2000, when Sentier started tracking this.

After .Obama spent 8 years trying to "remake the US economy" (along "progressive" forced-redistributionist ideals straight from the 19th century...), we need even more Trump-led "disasters".

Gawd, that's gotta hurt a progtard so bad his great-grandchildren are going to be born bruised.

Well, they would be born bruised if the sorry soy-boy sitzpinkler metrosexual candyass could get laid...

...Germany still compares well to Canada, Australia, Russia, Japan, South Korea, and some other industrialized countries - not just Trumpistan.

On the contrary, the U.S. is leading CO2 emissions reductions under Trump.

According to the "BP Statistical Review of World Energy".

...Germany still compares well to Canada, Australia, Russia, Japan, South Korea, and some other industrialized countries - not just Trumpistan.

On the contrary, the U.S. is leading CO2 emissions reductions under Trump.

Take a wild guess what country is reducing its CO2 emissions the most? Canada? Britain? France? India? Germany? Japan? ...The answer to that question is the U.S. of A. ...

Nearly every nation that signed on to Paris and has admonished America for not doing so, has already violated the agreement. According to Climate Action Network Europe, "All EU countries are failing to increase their climate action in line with the Paris Agreement goal."

"it's easy to spend other people's money" = Republicanism in a nutshell

What planet are you from?

On EARTH the tax & spend people call themselves "liberal", "progressive" or "socialist", but in reality are Marxist. Bloomberg describes how the Democrats want to reverse tax cuts and add $1 Trillion on tax hikes IF they win this midterm and in 2020. For sure they will use some of the tax money put more people on welfare so they'll become dependent on gov handouts.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

https://www.atr.org/democrats-...

https://www.watchdog.org/natio...

https://www.reviewjournal.com/...

http://illinoisreview.typepad....

Here's the truth:
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You're either being deliberately obtuse or intellectually dishonest. Premiums have increased every. single. year. since its inception and have more than doubled since 2013. So, sure, "bro," whatever.

What's trapping the infrared that you mentioned is the water vapor that is in the atmosphere, it makes up the biggest portion of what is called greenhouses gases certainly not some plant nutrient. Besides before there was a "global warming" there was a "global cooling" back in the 70s, no body believed them then nobody believes them now politics has nothing to do with it. Even UN officials have said all this "scare" about climate change has nothing at all to do with the environment, it is about the transfer of wealth. http://www.investors.com/polit...

I've owned four homes and made money on every single one of them, including interest costs. Way more money if you factor in not needing to pay rent.

Renting can make sense short term or if the local real estate market is currently distorted/recovering from a distortion, but if you think renting long term on average is going to cost less than the person who owns the home you are renting is paying, you're wrong, especially if you add in the equity you'll get back when selling. When you rent, you pay all the costs of the owner (including the cost of capital, i.e. interest rates), plus an additional amount which represents their profit.

Mass shooting victims per capita over the last 10 years or so are much higher in a lot of Europe than in the US. The US is 11th on the list, trailing places like Norway, France, Belgium and Finland (and several others).

The media pushed violent attacks on innocent individuals named from their conspiracy theories with no bases (sic) in truth. To defend them makes you a nutter.

It boggles the mind how you have no idea that you are the useful idiots that Lenin used to spread Communism. Read the list of Communisms 45 goals to destroy the US such as:

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S. [Note: In his book, "Reagan’s War," Peter Schweizer demonstrates the astonishing degree to which communists and communist sympathizers have penetrated the Democratic Party. In his book, Schweizer writes about the presidential election of 1979.]

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights. [Note: This strategy goes back to the founding of the American Civil Liberties Union by Fabian Socialists Roger Baldwin and John Dewey and Communists William Z. Foster and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn among others.]

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations that are under Communist attack. [Note:The success of these goals, from a communist perspective, is obvious. Is there any doubt this is so?]

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings," substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. " Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV. [Note: This is the Gramscian agenda of the "long march through the institutions" spelled out explicitly: gradual takeover of the "means of communication" and then using those vehicles to debauch the culture and weaken the will of the individual to resist.]

Which party does this sound like? Trump has put more pressure on the Russians than any President since Reagan, Obama mocked Romney for calling the Russians the biggest threat but had no problems asking them to be patient until after the election when he would have more freedom.

You want to talk treason, start there. How about you show a single shred of proof of treason that Trump committed?

Red Tide > Blue Wave

Five convictions and counting.

Pleas, not convictions. Pleas that have nothing whatsoever to do with Russian hacking or collusion with Trump. This has been pointed out to you before, so by continuing to use this talking point you're like a 90's dittohead who just. can't. stop. blaming Clinton for Ruby Ridge, right after it's been pointed out to him that happened before the '92 election, when Bush was still president and Clinton was still governor of Arkansas - far away from Idaho.

A guilty plea is the same as a conviction.

Laughable. Before a conviction, defense attorney's can challenge jury selection, call their own witnesses, present their own evidence or challenge the prosectuion's, before making their case to a jury - none of which applies to a plea deal. Which the government obtains in most federal cases because if you don't take the plea deal, you are threatened with a draconian sentence. Which is why people who are later found to be completely innocent plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit.

The Mueller investigation started in the last week of May, 2017. Are you rounding 14 months up to "2 years"?

FBI witch hunt/psyop didn't start with Mueller.

If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be granted to you.

Only after you've gone into bankruptcy, as you could have "afforded" one beforehand. Unless the government seizes your assets under the claim that they were gained as the result of crime - they've done that before, too. And no public defender is going to have the same resources as the DOJ.

Even if you're a treasonous piece of shit.

Common man, you can stop hating on Hillary, she lost the election almost two years ago, move on. Because that's what this is - a gigantic case of Swiftboating, to project Hillary's Russia problems onto her campaign opponent, on an infinity greater scale than the original Swiftboaters who projected Bush's cowardice onto John Kerry.

1. If you're in retail and you think two is all the regulations you're subject to, you're either not in management/ownership, or you're an idiot who is going to be jailed/fined soon.
2. They did a study. U.S. GDP would be 25% greater if government regulations were capped at the 1980 level.
3. Agreed, the U.S. has relatively few anti-business regulations compared to some countries, especially in Europe. That's also one reason the U.S. historically has a much better growth rate. lower unemployment rate and as a result is much wealthier.
4. All of the above knowledge predates Fox News, which I don't watch anyway, so you've missed the mark there as well, but I suppose you're used to that. It is "old" knowledge, in the sense that economists have known it for at least 40 years, after the last experiment in massive government regulation for a decade or so killed the economy that time also.

Apple effectively does all of these things and monopolizes on the order of 87% of the industry's profit.

The EU has attacked the little guy struggling to solidify an identity that can rise from the industry's gutters where even a few dollars of extra cost could kill a phone to compete. Without a solid identity, Android doesn't stand a chance to ever balance the profit equation and profit is all that matters to investors. Apple is laughing its way to the bank at this decision.

I personally think Fuchsia will not replace Android. It will remain exclusive to Google and they will use it as Apple has used iOS to attempt to attack Apple's monopoly. What Google is being taught is that the law protects true monopolies that keep it all in-house from coops trying to scale their walls.

Others do OK in numbers sold, but because Apple has monopolized the high end and over half of an iPhone's price is profit, Apple's profits for their portion of phone sales dominate the overall profits. They have a profit monopoly with 87% of all industry profits.

"[T]his was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal,"


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Obama's a tool...