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Ironically the Other Chris Evans news story that just broke is he's facing a historical sexual assault investigation http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Christians aren't actively searching for an atomic weapon or dirty bomb to devastate a Western city, so Screw Off with your false equivalencies.

I resemble that remark!

Ah! So very sorry! You said Western city....

It's more complicated than that. Since apparenty the Northern nations weren't happy to pay for Mrs Thatcher's reimbursement, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark obtained a special exemption, and they pay less for the British rebate. That's why it's up to France, Italy and Spain to pay up.

Yeah really. *I had no idea that Trump would actually become president just because I voted for him!*

Poverty in China cut by one third in 3 years? Yeah right, sounds like someone ("experts"!) just redefined the poverty level to achieve that goal.

That is what gets me in all of these cases. In almost every one the government really screwed the pooch. We were told by the Russians to be on the look out for the Boston bombers but we fucked that one up. The mastermind of the Paris attacks was featured as pig fucker of the month in Daesh's monthly magazine. The Orlando shooter was investigated by the FBI a few times and supposedly was reported by a gun shop owner for suspicious behavior attempting to buy ammo in bulk and body armor. So instead of the government doing their fucking job and actively investigating these people that really seem to need a closer look they instead seek to take away rights from everyone else.

Rich people crimes are mostly just inconveniences to others, poor people crimes usually involve violence and death.

I don't know about that. According to this study, the global financial crisis caused half a million additional deaths due to cancer alone (essentially, people being locked out of medical treatment due to poverty and unemployment). Other causes (including long-term costs, such as the cost of youth unemployment disadvantaging that generation into their future) are obviously harder to measure.

For comparison, the number of deaths attributable to terrorism worldwide since 2006 is somewhere around 200,000.

You do realize that there are groups of poor people who are not black, right?

And those groups of poor people commit crimes against each other.

Latinos
Asians
Italians
The Irish

There is zero evidence that race is cause of crime. There is tons of evidence that crime is caused by poverty in any country.
England
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Russia
China
Canada
India
Mexico

What motive would they have for hiding information from Germans? Do you think people who search the web in German are a significant voting bloc in the US?

You might want to try searching for New Year's Eve sexual assault by migrants though. Try it in English.

I don't know about "recent", but you can see Google's latest here.

I may be mistaken (and please tell me if so) but that sure looks like a couple of dredge ships and floating pipes to build a new pile of dry land. Other Chinese-claimed islands show large piles of dirt and earth-moving equipment. One island does not appear quite so dry or quite so developed in older pictures.

There are currently many more countries asking to join the EU than those considering leaving

Yeah right, these are the third-world cesspools that are currently bidding to join: ALBANIA, MOLDAVIA, UKRAINE, SERBIA.

In the meantime, Iceland ( http://www.euractiv.com/sectio... ) and Switzerland ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... ) recently repealed their own previous bids to join. The Icelandic case is the most interesting: after nearly going bankrupt in 2009, they rapidly recovered with a government-run recovery plan, mostly based on public expenditure, exactly the opposite of the EU-imposed austerity that Greece was forced to do. The comparison between the current state of the two countries speaks for itself, hence the obvious decision of the Icelandic government to terminate the accession negotiation.

And finally, this is the consensus among EU citizens about the EU itself: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/bus...

Sooner than later the EU project - and its backers - will end up in the very famous Lanfill of History.

Dear Moron Oxyd (that's your nickname, right?), you're making a vast array of flawed assumptions:

- that trade deals are necessary to trade: they are not, as the record US-EU trade levels prove, without trade deals being currently enforced between the two (they are negotiating one right now, and hopefully the negotiation will fail)

- that trade deals are "good": they are not, tell it to those who lost their jobs because of companies moving production where labor costs are low. I find it ridiculously grotesque that pro-EU people, usually progressive-leaning, have suddenly turned neoliberal and free-traders...and yet they voted Corbyn as Labour leader (!)

- You're also forgetting that, excluding tiny fiscal havens, the two richest european countries by per-capita GDP are both outside of the EU: Norway and Switzerland. What a bizarre coincidence! In general, you're forgetting the fact that anti-EU parties are skyrocketing everywhere, the EU is not somehow "eternal" as it is in your flawed, post-soviet dreams, and its popularity is as low as a sewer right now: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/bus...

Your idea of an EU "multicultural" cesspool-superstate is ending where it belongs: to the Landfill of History

You're making a vast array of flawed assumptions:

- that trade deals are necessary to trade: they are not, as the record US-EU trade levels prove, without trade deals being currently enforced between the two (they are negotiating one right now, and hopefully the negotiation will fail)

- that trade deals are "good": they are not, tell it to those who lost their jobs because of companies moving production where labor costs are low

- that France and Germany are pro-EU, and their current governments are somehow eternal (have you seen the polls for the next french election?)

In general, you're forgetting the fact that anti-EU parties are skyrocketing everywhere, and EU's popularity is as low as a sewer:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/bus...

Your idea of an EU "multicultural" cesspool-superstate is ending where it belongs: to the Landfill of History

I do believe in Universal Basic Income (UBI) as an inevitable concept.The robots/AIs are a-coming, which is one part and the other is the huge wealth disparity in the world.

I know many people disagree with the Luddite "robot/AI phobia" but nonetheless, robots take over more and more manual labour (receptionist-free hotels in Japan, Foxconn replacing workers on the assembly lines with robots and fast food eating places (I find it hard to call McD a restaurant, it sort of cannot come out) threatening, if not actually implementing, food preparer robotic replacements) and we may end up with the employee-free Automat-type restaurants where everything is automated. Literally.

Ah, but the anti-Luddite counter-argument is that workers will just move to other, non-automated jobs. Er, what jobs? It seems the AI development currently is going so fast that even creative jobs are threatened, maybe not short term, but it is on the horizon.

Currently we are just waiting for a catastrophe to unfold: Tech takes jobs, people spend less, buy less, profits fall, companies fire and automatise, more people spending less, buying less, profits fall further, companies fire more and automatise more, even more people spendings less, ...

Ah well, as long as there is enough for my pension.

Oh, and just a thought, UBI in countries with many illegal immigrants or fairly open borders may cause unrest if actual employment starts to fall drastically, assuming the immigrants have no right to UBI.

Time to start watching Star Trek again, folks!

The average pathetic "eurofederalist" and his desperate wishful thinking, completely detached from reality. In the meantime, Grillo's Five Star Movement is leading the polls in Italy, Le Pen's Front National in France, Wilders' party in the Netherlands, the FPO in Austria, while Poland and Hungary already have Eurosceptic governments, and Portugal recently refused to comply with the EU commission's budget requirements. The residents of the european continent don't feel like "one people", they don't want a bilderberg-driven union, they don't want to be ruled by bankers, they don't put trade deals above their national sovereignty and identity, and don't even want their countries being melted into one giant "multicultural" cesspool, LIVE-WITH-IT.

You pro-EU people are now a minority in the continent, you're going straight to the Landfill of History, no matter the Brexit referendum's result. Read what the EU president himself just said, he seems to be far more in touch with reality than you: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/bus...

There might be some confusion.

A candidate for the European parliament election had the utter patriarchal white male TEMERITY to read, IN PUBLIC, out loud from a book by Winston Churchill.

The guy was arrested for hate speech. and public shitlording.

I don't know what you two are advocating for here - how is it the failure of the government to diversify the economy? Private companies make investments, and they are going to go where the greatest return is. Doesn't it make sense to milk that cow for what it's worth while you can, if economics is the argument road you're going to take? Look at how much massively higher the GDP per capita in Alberta is than the other provinces (by 100% in some cases). Are you saying people should have invested into something that made them poorer through that? Even if the industry totally fell apart, they'd still be in a better position, with money and no almost zero debt, to begin investing in something new.

And if you didn't know, Alberta is already home to a pretty big movie industry. In fact, most of the movie which won the most oscars this year was filmed in Alberta.

I'm a citizen of a country that made the tragic mistake to be part of the EU, hopefully not forever, and I see the EU itself as a threat to the sovereignty of my own homeland. And given the topic of the article, I'd like to remember you that Bruxelles' institutions also use trolling to promote themselves, they don't even deny it: http://www.politico.eu/article... ... but results appear to be embarrassing: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/bus...

History has widely proven that real "nations" arise from one majority people (yes, it means ethnicity), one culture and one language, "the EU" does not comply with these basic requirements, and it is composed by 29 nations that used to be at war with one another for more than 2K years. So please, don't spread the illusion of a non-existing "EU nationalism", recent elections and the skyrocketing results of anti-EU parties prove it is just bullshit.

That "anti-disinfo" project lools like EU trolling, just with a slightly different name. The difference between Russia and the ridiculously corrupt Bruxelles institutions is that the latter don't even deny their own trolling, they just call it "counter narrative" or something like that: http://www.politico.eu/article...

However, luckily it doesn't seem to be very effective, given the EU's sinking popularity among its own (unwilling) citizens: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/bus...

Oh look. I caught a Russian troll.

That "anti-disinfo" project lools like EU trolling, just with a slightly different name. The difference between Russia and the ridiculously corrupt Bruxelles institutions is that the latter don't even deny their own trolling, they just call it "counter narrative" or something like that: http://www.politico.eu/article...

However, luckily it doesn't seem to be very effective, given the EU's sinking popularity among its own (unwilling) citizens: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/bus...

more people are in favour than against

Did you make up some imaginary opinion polls in your own mind? Reality check: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/bus...

And Austrians should be ashamed for having some districts with a 146% turnout (!), a grotesque sign of electoral fraud, not for voting someone that you don't like.

Kims are the closest thing to a bunch of real-life Bond villains

Oh, but there are other strong contenders.

Because being vegan doesn't threaten your life

It does threaten the life of the child if the parents think a vegan diet sufficient for adults is sufficient for young children.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/vegans-life-starving-week-son/story?id=14508628
http://naturalhygienesociety.org/diet-veganbaby.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/18574603/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/vegan-couple-sentenced-life-over-babys-death/#.VzdCrfkrIdU
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/baby-breastfed-by-vegan-mother-dies/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11716428/Vegan-Italian-parents-investigated-for-neglect-after-baby-son-found-severely-malnourished.html\
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10600639/Baby-dies-of-rickets-from-vegetarian-mother.html
http://www.rense.com/general13/malni.htm

(And that's just from the first page of a Google search.)

Because being vegan doesn't threaten your life

It does threaten the life of the child if the parents think a vegan diet sufficient for adults is sufficient for young children.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/vegans-life-starving-week-son/story?id=14508628
http://naturalhygienesociety.org/diet-veganbaby.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/18574603/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/vegan-couple-sentenced-life-over-babys-death/#.VzdCrfkrIdU
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/baby-breastfed-by-vegan-mother-dies/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11716428/Vegan-Italian-parents-investigated-for-neglect-after-baby-son-found-severely-malnourished.html\
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10600639/Baby-dies-of-rickets-from-vegetarian-mother.html
http://www.rense.com/general13/malni.htm

(And that's just from the first page of a Google search.)

These engineers also thought limited range radio would work:

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

Leftists are getting tossed for anyone who will stand up to the leftist multiculturalism that leads to things like One dead as man shouting 'Allahu Akbar' attacks four at train station in Grafing, Germany

Because in the face of someone shouting "Allahu Akbar" as he murders someone with a knife, leftists spout whacked shit like No evidence of Islamist motive in Munich attack:

Witnesses said the assailant, a 27-year-old man, shouted "Allahu Akbar" ('God is Greatest' in Arabic), according to police in initial reports.

However, the regional ministry said there was no evidence yet of an Islamist motive in the attack.

Dolts like that NEED to be tossed.

1978 was due to women entering the workforce in large numbers

Workforce participation by women, actually, declined less in recent years, than that by men. That is, quite indisputably, a sign of decline. Because, contrary to all the talk of "equality", women remain the only sex capable of giving birth — an activity, which takes months and years away from employment. If, despite this, their withdrawal from the labor is slower than that by men, we are in trouble.

the U.S. is lower than nearly all major industrialized nations

None of those "major industrialised nations" can afford to defend themselves from the likes of Russia without our help. Sad but true. Because Socialism sucks — and the more of it there is in a country, the worse off the people.

If corporations returned more of the revenue to the workers

Yeah, sure, blame corporations... Sitting in their corporation buildings, acting all corporationy...

Uh, no. First and foremost its heavy borrowing of a universe, plot elements, settings, characters, etc from the 1930s Flash Gordon movies theatre serials. Lucas failed to get the rights to Flash Gordon so he had to tweak things. Other movies had influences too, Flash Gordon provides the empire, evil emperor and henchmen, space pirates, rebels, brother/sister heroes, the perspective text crawl at the beginning explaining things, etc:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fil...

Yes, you have absolutely no evidence of a Prime Mover.

That in no way means there is no evidence. It just means you haven't, or refuse to, do a simple Google search on the matter.

Here's a few terms to try for a great deal of evidence:

"holographic universe"
"Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics"
"testimonies of religious experience"
"Lancet peer-reviewed NDE study"
"religious persecution of Rome"
"prophecy fulfillment"

Direct recent study link if that's too much work.

Yes, we could do the standard thing and watch you equivocate "evidence" to mean "proof" (it doesn't, nor am I proposing to force-convert you as the inescapable logical consequence of being provided "proof"), or try to ludicrously narrow the scope of the subject at hand (e.g. I don't find "Prime Mover" in these searches at all!), or claim that if you have an alternate explanation for an item of evidence, it then ceases to be evidence (it doesn't, in this or any other context whatsoever).

All are commonplace. Neither are interesting or philosophically sound. Neither alters the fact I can simply wait until you are unable to continue this, or any, argument--according to you yourself. I suggest a re-evaluation of strategy.

This! The Danish Ethics Council even proposes a tax on red meat for these reasons. Read about it here.

This is the kind of BS you have to worry about when you have government doing things it shouldn't be doing, like running a national TV network

You're right about "government doing things it shouldn't be doing". The BBC is established under a Royal Charter which is supposed to make it a public institution independent of the government of the day. However, governments of the day have never really been able to keep their hands off - from widespread security vetting of BBC staff, heavy-handed threats relating to programs on defence and security issues through to the latest plundering of the TV licence revenue to fund welfare and broadband iniatives at the cost of programming (including one TV channel lost).

The government is supposed to leave running the BBC's national TV networks (and radio networks) to the BBC, but the BBC has always been supine in the face of government pressure (partly because the government can, in the end, turn off the money and partly because its oversight board is stuffed with government appointees many of whom are looking forward to their next sinecure) with the inevitable consequence that each demand is more onerous than the last.

The acid test is: has it been successfully tried on another mamal?
Um, no...

It has been tested on mammals before.
Head transplant

There are claims that the procedure has been successfully done on a Monkey but the field of head transplants is a controversial one.

There are several examples that resulted in living animals that were paralyzed.

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

It's interesting you mention the EU. Dyson has repeatedly talked about how the regulations are fixed, designed to make his competitors look better than they are compared to his products. This is basically how the EU works - it's a protectionist racket for French and German companies.

I wonder how much of these poll results are affected by this phenomenon of adult children staying home. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... These things start a parent to think about their options, such as taking Jonny out to a bar and then the military recruiters' office.

This site used to be a useful news site. In recent times, however, the site has gone to a subscription model (easily circumvented via blocking cookies or use of private browsing mode), dropped all reader comments (and hence reader engagement), and now adopted yet another new layout, where even more of the page is taken up by clickbait links. The categorization of stories is often wrong. The new site puts the opinion columns in far more prominence, so perhaps the objective is to be a paid outlet for paid (or the owner's) propaganda.

I find it hard to believe that this produces more revenue. I expect that the remaining paying users must be diehard loyalists in order to continue paying for this excrement.

in reality it was suspected to be a plastic carrier bag used for shopping!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.standard.co.uk/news...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/new...
this was VERY widely reported yesterday as not a drone strike at all but most probably a plastic shopping bag.. yet here it is still being reported here as if it were a drone strike... get a grip and keep up!

See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new....

It's the local police who called it a drone strike first, with no evidence to back that claim up.

Keeping scores of people on payroll to advance your propaganda worked — and continues to work — for Putin (with whom Secretary Clinton has "an interesting" relationship).

No surprise, she is among the first to adopt his methods, and even the more prudent politicians will soon have to do it just to remain competitive. It already happened to TV make-up, robo-callers, and teleprompters...

Maybe, there will be a silver-lining in this for the perpetually-struggling "established" journalists — their having been bought may be harder to conceal/easier to prove than the same for tens and hundreds of anonymous nobodies.

Would it be too much for a volkswagen?

He killed 77 people, 69 on the island.
Mostly CHILDREN.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
Look through their pictures. 77 lives full of potential cut short.
77 families emotionally wrecked because of him.

I genuinely don't understand how his life is somehow sacrosanct?

If you genuinely believe that the taking of human life is somehow magically immoral, then I can credit you your convictions, and let Mr Breivik live out the rest of his life in misery in a steel 55gal drum. I'd be ok with that as a compromise.

But why is he entitled to "human rights" and "dignity" that he cheerfully tore away from so many? He is just another animal, one that is demonstrably dangerous and harmful.

He made the choice that he was no longer a member of society by committing his heinous acts. Society is under no obligation to re-admit him.

I know, right? Three years without an ice cap, not a single Seychelles island left, constant category seven hurricanes. The AGW have been making nothing but accurate predictions for decades.

Nobody has made any of those predictions as things that would happen by 2016.

Yes somebody did make some of those claims,

Prof Wadhams said: "His [model] is the most extreme but he is also the best modeller around.

"It is really showing the fall-off in ice volume is so fast that it is going to bring us to zero very quickly. 2015 is a very serious prediction and I think I am pretty much persuaded that that's when it will happen."
Arctic sea ice 'to melt by 2015',

Professor Peter Wadhams, from Cambridge University, told BBC News: "A number of scientists who have actually been working with sea ice measurement had predicted some years ago that the retreat would accelerate and that the summer Arctic would become ice-free by 2015 or 2016. Arctic sea ice reaches record low, Nasa says

"This collapse, I predicted would occur in 2015-16 at which time the summer Arctic (August to September) would become ice-free. The final collapse towards that state is now happening and will probably be complete by those dates".

Wadhams says the implications are "terrible". "The positives are increased possibility of Arctic transport, increased access to Arctic offshore oil and gas resources. The main negative is an acceleration of global warming."

"As the sea ice retreats in summer the ocean warms up (to 7C in 2011) and this warms the seabed too. The continental shelves of the Arctic are composed of offshore permafrost, frozen sediment left over from the last ice age. As the water warms the permafrost melts and releases huge quantities of trapped methane, a very powerful greenhouse gas so this will give a big boost to global warming." Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years

If there were thought reading devices (and I'm sure there will be one day), they'd want them to be used as well.

Oh, ye of little awareness. They've such devices since the 70's, and can even make you hear sounds or voices or feel fear, anxiety, aggression, arousal, etc. baser emotions. Once used for only COINTELPRO, now it's not uncommon to find directed energy beam systems in Jails and prisons. Even the academic community is getting in on the tech. You poor soul, have you been living under a rock for 50 years?

/me dons his tinfoil hat.
I guess you thought the "tinfoil hat" meme was completely baseless? Typical meatpuppet, doesn't question anything.
Would you like to know more?

I guess their reference movie for testing battery life is this one.

I'm guessing US diplomats can probably give us a really good reason for the unflinching support of the Kingdom ... but I sure as hell can't think of one.

I can think of 60 billion reasons, and there's plenty more to come. Do you really want them to start buying from the Russians?

The headline isn't the raw number, it's the improvement in detection rate, which is a substantial step forward.

I suspect that any machine learning algorithm is susceptible to being trained by attackers though, much the way 'Tay' turned into a Hitler-Loving Sex Bot. Unsupervised learning can be effective, but it's very easy to intentionally (and unintentionally) sabotage that success.

Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming.

On the contrary! If I were in the business, I would hire her in a New York Second. She definitely left a mark..

By comparison, North Korea stories can be posted in the Idle section. For some reason, I suspect they won't have a successful launch any time soon.

Are you sure you checked a statistically significant subset? The problem with your idea is that a quick web search would have turned up articles to the contrary. The "right to be forgotten" can and will be used improperly, to deny the people their right to information that they need to make intelligent decisions.

An even more serious problem with the right to be forgotten is that it is impeding humanity's development. We need to see other humans' foibles on display, so that we can learn that we are more the same than different, and get some fucking perspective on what is actually happening. When people are able to hide their misdeeds, we get a fake picture of the world. Only a subset of people will actually be able to be forgotten. They gain an unfair advantage over those whose requests will be denied. They get to pretend to be better people than they are, and damn the consequences to everyone else and themselves.

The right to be forgotten is a gigantic step backwards in our quest for acceptance from other humans, and only people who only think about themselves in the short term think otherwise. You're concerned about how much you might like to be forgotten if you do something inconvenient for your reputation. But what about all the other people who have done the same thing? By hiding the fact that you've done it, you're making them look like aberrations, when it could actually be something commonplace. Congratulations, you just failed your fellow man.

Interesting case in point. Today the UK arrested five suspects linked to the attacks in Paris and Brussels. They did this with the direct assistance of MI5 and presumably French security services. It wouldn't surprise me if the intelligence source was located somewhere in the vicinity of GCHQ, the government "listening" service.

I'll be honest and say I'm fine with government surveillance. What's always worried me is both political control of these organs of the state and at the same time lack of political control. It's the age-old question of who polices the police. It has to be politicians answerable for their actions to the electorate, however these things by their very nature are hidden from the electorate, so there's no accountability. Committees of government and opposition controlling the security services seems to me to be the only solution. And that, by and large, is what we have.