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Seriously 47? I call bullshit, there have to be more Russian trolls on twitter at any given second.

I suspect that just stopped creating more once they realized that they could not possibly do a better job in dividing Britain than the Conservative party was doing all by itself. They are so divided that recently they even threatened to sue their own MPs.

Your "interesting" version of history omits a few details, such as Iraq invading and annexing Kuwait, invading Saudi Arabia and occupying the city Khafji, firing Scuds at Saudi Arabia and Israel, firing on US planes pretty much every day for years after the cease fire, repeated non-compliance with UN Security Council resolutions, hiding its VX nerve gas production, and on, and on, and on, ... so yes, it was "we" that "did it" to Iraq.

Now, are you denying any bad actions by both North Korea and Iran? Really? You can't even credit North Korea with the official statements of its government threatening nuclear war against the United States? You can't credit them with their threats against Japan? That is JAPAN, the country with what is relatively a very small Self Defense Force that rarely and barely ventures outside the country?

Does even the mere possibility that your views might be a bit .... "off" .... just not a good match for the facts of events . . .even occur to you?

This shouldn't even be close. Do you think the Guardian is trying to "do it" to North Korea too?

Revealed: the gas chamber horror of North Korea's gulag

Maybe you've misread North Korea. This is not he socialist future you've been looking for . . .

Trump misreads North Korea’s sacred dynasty at his peril

Your "interesting" version of history omits a few details, such as Iraq invading and annexing Kuwait, invading Saudi Arabia and occupying the city Khafji, firing Scuds at Saudi Arabia and Israel, firing on US planes pretty much every day for years after the cease fire, repeated non-compliance with UN Security Council resolutions, hiding its VX nerve gas production, and on, and on, and on, ... so yes, it was "we" that "did it" to Iraq.

Now, are you denying any bad actions by both North Korea and Iran? Really? You can't even credit North Korea with the official statements of its government threatening nuclear war against the United States? You can't credit them with their threats against Japan? That is JAPAN, the country with what is relatively a very small Self Defense Force that rarely and barely ventures outside the country?

Does even the mere possibility that your views might be a bit .... "off" .... just not a good match for the facts of events . . .even occur to you?

This shouldn't even be close. Do you think the Guardian is trying to "do it" to North Korea too?

Revealed: the gas chamber horror of North Korea's gulag

Maybe you've misread North Korea. This is not he socialist future you've been looking for . . .

Trump misreads North Korea’s sacred dynasty at his peril

You do realize that Republicans like illegal immigration, because it forces working class wages down, right? If someone lowered the boom on people illegally employing illegal immigrants, it would solve a lot of problems. The Republicans aren't about to do it.

The mainstream Republicans are weasels about immigration, but it was the Democrats who pushed abominations like the Motor Voter law

https://leginfo.legislature.ca...

Existing law makes it a crime for a person to willfully cause, procure, or allow himself or herself or any other person to be registered as a voter, knowing that he or she or that other person is not entitled to registration. Existing law also makes it a crime to fraudulently vote or attempt to vote.
This bill would provide that if a person who is ineligible to vote becomes registered to vote by operation of the California New Motor Voter Program in the absence of a violation by that person of the crime described above, that person's registration shall be presumed to have been effected with official authorization and not the fault of that person. The bill would also provide that if a person who is ineligible to vote becomes registered to vote by operation of this program, and that person votes or attempts to vote in an election held after the effective date of the person's registration, that person shall be presumed to have acted with official authorization and is not guilty of fraudulently voting or attempting to vote, unless that person willfully votes or attempts to vote knowing that he or she is not entitled to vote.

I.e. they're adding illegals to the voter rolls and decriminalising them voting.

And Democrats are even now fighting Trump's Wall. The reason for this is that Hispanics voted 2:1 Democrat to Republican

https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

And you have people like this

https://www.theguardian.com/co...

Saying that real change will only be possible when whites are a minority. Which, thanks to their immigration policies will happen in 2043.

There will be no bans on hate speech. In the US, "hate speech" is a matter of personal opinion, and will continue to be

40% of Millennials support bans on hate speech.

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

Given the Democrats believe the constitution is a living document and have already managed to reinterpret it to make gay marriage a right, and Hillary believed that DC vs Heller was wrong and that the Second Amendment needs to be reinterpreted so that individuals do not have the right to bear arms, who's to say that the Democrats next major initiative might be to reinterpret the First Amendment to say that hate speech bans are fine?

Thank the GOP got in and got Gorsuch on the SCOTUS basically. Otherwise Hillary would have nominated someone who'd have blown away big chunks of the Bill of Rights so the Second Amendment ended up meaning what it does in NYC - you have the right to bear arms, so long as you're a cop, an ex cop, rich or know the right people. Actually NYC passed law against misgendering too, so the First Amendment means jack shit there too. I'm sure if Hillary had got in she'd have nominated a SCOTUS judge who've have pushed this crap on the rest of the country.

Not to mention she said 'the unborn person has no constitutional rights'. Which honestly sounds like the Democrat position prior to the civil war that slaves people had no rights.

Given a choice between the somew

Calling europe corrupt while discussing law that has been passed down that actually benefits citizens and means huge investments and work for all businesses in and acting in europe.

Well I don't think this law does benefit citizens. It certainly doesn't mean 'huge investments' - in fact the most it could do is to convince Facebook and WhatsApp to close their EU offices. And even if a particular law did benefit citizens, that wouldn't change the fact that EU institutions are less accountable than the national institutions in EU countries.

You seem to gloss over the fact that proposals are still requested, debated and ultimately accepted or declined by the european parliament, which is democratically chosen.

Where, on multiple occasions your country is outvoted. And the UK is most often in the minority.

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

However the problem is more fundamental than that. There is no European demos

http://www.lse.ac.uk/europeanI...

In which case why have votes on internal matters taken at the European level? I can see that trade between countries - the European equivalent of US 'interstate commerce' needs to have rules. However EU rules go much further than that. The larger the superstate, the more risk your views will be in the minority.

You can see these problems in the US, except that in the US Federal politicians are elected. So in principle they can be removed by the electorate even if in practice gerrymandering makes this unlikely.

The EU isn't particularly popular in opinion polls in any European country but it could be argued the UK is more Eurosceptic than for example France and Germany. France and Germany seeing merging into a superstate as the way to stop fighting each other. The UK doesn't see things this way.

European commisionars can actually be removed by the european parliament.

The European Commission can be removed. Not individual commissioners. And that has happened once. Due to corruption.

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

There's no way to get rid of individual commissioners by voting for someone else.

If you're so afraid of lobbying power, why single out the european commission? Look at the executive branch in nearly any country.

My point is that EU structures are designed to be less accountable than national structures. An individual commissioner voting for an unpopular law in return for a payoff is very unlikely to face any sanction. And turnout for EU Parliament election is low and no one really cares about the result compared to national elections. So MEPs are unlikely to face any sanction either.

You can make a case for UK or US national structures needing to be reformed to make politicians more accountable but the EU is designed to be step in the exact opposite direction. An individual good law or two doesn't change that.

NO. Fuck it, it's not. It's a secular nation.

Don't confuse the state with the people. Besides, Sweden is likely to become markedly less secular in the future.

Europe's Muslim population projected to increase by 50m by 2050 in 'high migration' scenario

Not all countries would be affected evenly by future immigration, according to the Pew report. In the high migration scenario, Germany and Sweden would have the biggest increases because both countries took in the most asylum-seekers during the height of the refugee crisis two years ago. While Muslims made up 6 per cent of Germany’s population last year, their proportion would go up to 20 per cent by 2050. Sweden’s Muslims, who were at 8 per cent in 2016, would account for 31 per cent of the population in that same scenario.

Muslim population in some EU countries could triple, says report

Yes indeed, some parts of Europe could become quite religious in the coming years.

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...when it was a-ok to just bash someone's head in because he has the wrong imaginary friend.

"Antifa" ?

So what. It is already too late. Most of these units already existed anyway. In Manhattan almost half of them sit empty as investments for part time residents who pay no taxes. I call BS and PR on this one. https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Renowned cancer scientist was paid by chemical firm for 20 years https://www.theguardian.com/sc... Nutrition Has a Consensus to Use Bad Science: An Open Letter to the National Academies https://www.realclearscience.c...

Attempt number three, coming right up.

None of the "fakeness" came from the article, only by people repeating the information and adding hyperbole.

Or it could be the other way around, the article isn't fake because it's actually repeating accurately the fake hyperboles and the tenuous associations made by others.

For instance, take a look at this paragraph:

Some are even linking the spirit cooking revelation to claims that the Podesta emails contain “code for child sex trafficking” that is hidden behind mentions of types of food.

Is it false? Probably not. No doubt, some anonymous wacko on some right-wing bulletin board does believe this.

Or what about this?

Reports that FBI agents see Hillary Clinton as “the antichrist personified” now make a lot more sense.

It even links to another article here: https://www.theguardian.com/us...

But when you dig into that second article, the sources are:

Current and former FBI officials, none of whom were willing or cleared to speak on the record...

Which isn't to say that anonymous sources can't be used sometimes. Anonymous sources certainly do have a place.

But usually, anonymous sources are used to confirm a statement of fact, not a personal opinion. Also, anonymous sources limit themselves to few select senior officials, or to people very close to those senior officials. After all, the FBI only has ~35,000 current employees (and who knows how many former employees). The way that quote is written, it could have been taken from any one of those former and current FBI people.

And after a certain point, you have to admit that the article is just repeating gossip. And gossip is fine on page six of Gossip Girl, and it is fine on those papers you find at the supermarket checkout counter, but those papers aren't exactly delivering the news.

And you don't have to take my word for it. Alex Jones himself, the official face for Infowars, admitted in his divorce proceedings that he was just playing a character on TV and that he didn't actually believe many of the things he was saying on InfoWars.

Many sports articles and business news articles have already been computer produced for several years now. Fiction can't be far off.

I look forward to being able to sit down, put a headset on, and enter a VR world with a storyline produced in real-time per what my assistant knows about my mood.

Take the drug war. If it were eliminated, violent crime would be significantly reduced, along with 90% of the no-knock raids. Protects the first responders. Literally everyone wins, except drug dealers and the DEA administration.

Don't tell me, tell all the jackoffs who voted for and support Donald Trump.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and...

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

Presidents don't make the law in America. Do you want President Trump to assume that power?

Take the drug war. If it were eliminated, violent crime would be significantly reduced, along with 90% of the no-knock raids. Protects the first responders. Literally everyone wins, except drug dealers and the DEA administration.

Don't tell me, tell all the jackoffs who voted for and support Donald Trump.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and...

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

Clapper, Comey, and Brennan. A more dishonest trio would be tough to find.

The Clintons have never been given a free pass, that's brainwashed nonsense.

I've known several people who had various levels of security clearance. Not a single one of them thinks that they wouldn't have been fired with clearance revoked (best case) to being behind bars (worst cast) for passing Top Secret type documents through regular channels and running their own server. Are you suggesting a peon could do the same thing and not get prosecuted? Here's a citation from a peon who did something *far* less and he got the book thrown at him: https://www.theguardian.com/us...

And People take his words and run with them, only later do the News Agencies claim they were wrong (less Foxnews). I for one am tired of it.

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

I had such a warm fuzzy after Roy Moore was beat by Doug Jones, that I'm looking forward to Trump's ouster.

Sadly we mostly already have.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

Oh, it goes beyond striking into active destruction of imported wine.

Mattis. I'd take a Marine Corp general over any politician.

Unfortunately, he's in line *after* Secretary of the Treasury "we have over 100 people working overtime for months to produce a 1 page 'analysis' of the Republican Tax Plan - that supports everything" Steven Mnuchin and his wife, Bond villain Louise Linton.

Initially it would have been to go after Osama Bin Laden, the guy who planned the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

Then maybe he could have taken up the Taliban on their offer to hand over Bin Laddin if they provided some evidence that he was actually guilty of what the U.S. was accusing him of. Iraq wasn't the only bullshit war to come out of the Bush Administration.

Out of interest, what did you think would happen with the Irish border?

Pretty much what is happening - the UK and the EU will do a deal.

Brexit has little ot do with that. ECHR is a separte thing and exiting the EU won't take us out of the ECHR. Also, Article 8, the right to a privacy?

Right to family life, inter alia.

102 foreign criminals and illegal immigrants we can't deport - More than 100 foreign criminals and illegal immigrants have beaten deportation under controversial "right to family life" laws in the past year.

Inside the EU the EU will no doubt argue that ECHR membership is a condition of EU membership

http://researchbriefings.parli...
"Opinions differ as to whether a Member State can withdraw from the European Convention and remain in the EU, given that the EU Treaties specifically refer to the human rights guarantees in the Council of Europe instrument."

In the PDF file the EU Commission claimed

"Respect for fundamental rights as guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights is an explicit obligation for the Union under Article 6(2) [now Article 6(3)] of the Treaty on European Union, and the Court of Justice has held that the Convention is of especial importance for determining the fundamental rights that must be respected by the Member States as general principles of law when they act within the scope of Union law. The rights secured by the Convention are among the rights guaranteed by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. In the negotiations for the accession of new Union members, respect for the Convention and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights is treated as part of the Union acquis. Any Member State deciding to withdraw from the Convention and therefore no longer bound to comply with it or to respect its enforcement procedures could, in certain circumstances, raise concern as regards the effective protection of fundamental rights by its authorities. Such a situation, which the Commission hopes will remain purely hypothetical, would need to be examined under Articles 6 and 7 of the Treaty on European Union."

Article 7 is about suspending countries from the EU

http://www.lisbon-treaty.org/w...

"Where a determination under paragraph 2 has been made, the Council, acting by a qualified majority, may decide to suspend certain of the rights deriving from the application of the Treaties to the Member State in question, including the voting rights of the representative of the government of that Member State in the Council."

I.e, the EU Commission is making a clear threat it might suspend UK voting rights, such as they are given we're the state most often in minority, if the UK leaves the ECHR but stays in the EU.

False, the EU is our largest single export market. Second that will likely involve having weaker regulations on product safety, e.g . cars.

http://www.worldstopexports.co...

US is the top country. The EU is not a country, even though it wants to be one. And, like I say I don't expect the EU to impose tariffs on UK exports. And even if they did we've got a trade deficit and using the tariffs we collect on imports to pay the tariffs of exporters is not against WTO rules.

I.e. we could get lower tariffs on exports to non EU countries with most likely no net tariffs on exports to EU ones.

If we have the power to sign our o

That doesn't count the battery FYI. Tesla's are far worse on the environment then his old F-150.

simply fuelled by the stupid.

We certainly have enough of those in the UK.

Yup. He Tomahawked an airbase in Syria after a chemical attack, something Obama didn't do.

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

And he shot down a Syrian jet.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/0...

Both of those are significant because Russian personnel were at the airbase. Russian pilots also fly Syrian aircraft.

If you look at the CNN coverage of the jet shootdown they were warning rather excitedly of the risk of a US/Russia war over that, which of course never happened. And at the same time they're obsessed with the idea that Trump is or was colluding with the Russians, with collusion being an ill defined term. See for example the Wikileaks collusion story. Which had one major flaw - the email with the Wikileaks codes came from a supporter after Wikileaks had gone public. CNN ran with the story because they were too lazy to check the dates.

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

Then again they were accusing him of being a Neo Nazi at the same time as saying moving the US Embassy to Israel - something Bush and Obama said they'd do when campaigning but didn't do in office - would provoke violence from the Palestinians. I.e. Trump was being too pro Israel.

I.e. CNN don't make no sense. Either Trump is a Putin stooge, or he's trying to provoke a war with Russia. Either he's a Neo Nazi or he's too pro Israel.

Funny thing is Trump's media management isn't all that good. He hasn't got much done legislatively. It should be easy to attack him. CNN lack the attention to detail to attack him without making themselves look like idiots to the point where now if they did find some sort of smoking gun who'd even pay attention? They've cried wolf too many times to be credible.

People often point out that Fox viewers are old, but CNN's aren't that much younger. 68 vs 60

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

Given people tend to become more conservative as they get older, it's not that surprising Fox has a higher average age.

Neither Fox nor CNN have any programs I'd personally watch. Both of them are straight up propaganda for the RNC and DNC respectively.

Huntington's disease: the new gene therapy that sufferers cannot afford

I simply looked up "Michael R. Hayden" and the name of the drug in question and quality reporting landed right at the top of my search results.

Hayden is the most cited author in the world for HD and ABCA1, and has authored over 830 peer-reviewed publications and invited submissions (h-index 105).

Hayden is active against genetic discrimination.

The House GOP is pushing a bill that would let employers demand workers' genetic test results — March 2017

Here's Ron Paul, wearing his mechanical heart on his sleeve:

Uniform Federal mandates are a clumsy and ineffective way to deal with problems such as employers making hiring decisions on the basis of a potential employee's genetic profile. Imposing Federal mandates on private businesses merely raises the costs of doing business and thus reduces the employment opportunities for all citizens. (src)

Health insurance and 'genetic discrimination': Are rules needed? — January 2012

Others disagree, noting that genetic discrimination was deemed significant enough to spur the United States and many countries in Europe to enact legislation. The question of what information genetic testing may reveal and how it can be used shouldn't be left up to insurance companies, said Bev Heim-Myers, chair of the Canadian Coalition for Genetic Fairness.

The problem is, if society imposes nothing, business tends to devolve into a crass race to the bottom with real human casualties.

So I'm generally in favour of the government foreclosing on the worst of the worst, while leaving plenty of scope for businesses to morally disgrace themselves (or not).

The conference was more political posturing to little effect, otherwise they would have all done a large group video chat instead of expelling 30K tons of CO2 in air travel alone.

Is there warming? Yes. Is there a crisis? It would seem not since the people that claim there is a crisis are not acting like there is a crisis. They act like used car salesmen telling you how very much they want you to do something, which they themselves will not do.

I'm sure it did make a lot of climate posers feel better about themselves though, so there's that.

Doesn't seem like there was real accountability for the harm they apparently caused people during Facebook's unethical psychological experiments on people... "Facebook apologises for psychological experiments on users "

Hiding good news from people to see if it made them feel bad... just fucking with people because you can. Facebook having so much influence and control over people's personal relationships is a threat. It isn't just marketing.

This is actually a huge issue.

Yep.

If you really want equality and not just some token feelgood bullshit, let's start with eliminating "maternity" leave and turn it into "parental" leave, with mandatory equal times for husband and wife.

This is something that will most likely benefit men as well as women.

It's also something feminists have been going on about for quite a while.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...
https://www.theatlantic.com/bu...
https://www.theguardian.com/co...
http://time.com/2853080/father...
https://www.fatherly.com/love-...
https://www.americanbanker.com...

Pretty bad.
Our main opposition party have a Chinese spy among their ranks, but we're not allowed to talk about it.

Espionage == communism, I get it?

So ... First we take Manhatten, then we take Berlin....

In June 2016 John Oliver bought up $15M of medical debt and forgave it. There's details and a clip in this Guardian article.

Elbit employees probably believe that this is normal and routine, given the spying Israel does on the Palestinians. Elbit employees will be routinely involved in helping to target, blackmail and implicate Palestinians regularly. Why should they believe that does this is not normal, and therefore why would they oppose the sale to any authoritarian government, regardless of what they do with it?

I think the last month there has been a covert media campaign against BTC ... not really my problem since i got fucked out of it since mtGox, its too much at once however, suddenly everywhere there's stories from how its not green (as if cows or biodiesel or farting human babyspawn is) and how nobelprize winners shout that escobar couldnt have done it without cryptocoke ... its all too sudden and all too much
either its an assault by the hasbeen powers that be or an attempt at coordination to dump the price (for obvious reasons if you're a holder and get in on the first wave of massive selloff and buy back in right after) HOWEVER
and that was 2015 : https://www.theguardian.com/mo... compared to that , this is not a bubble but a drop of already steemed on a hot sizzling plate ... globally it really makes no dent at all not yet ... if you go down to the eight satoshi however ... i once tried doing the math (but im not the numbers guy), i think if the last satoshi would be worth $2000something and all BTC was mined (and none would have been lost) the total value would equal the total dollar value in the world. Which must be a scary concept to the united lobbies of the free world and CEO Nwabudike Lehmann so i'll consider this just another part of the media anti-campaign by the ancientt vampires that be ... STRIGOOIIIIII

With no statute of limitation either.

This is one thing that is horribly wrong about sexual harassment.

Putting a limit on this would help to remove the stigma and political blowback that often comes with reporting it.

Nope. It would do absolutely nothing to remove the stigma and blowback that comes with reporting it. There's still people who insist that the only legitimate rape is something that somehow prevents pregnancy.

Sorry, but there's a lot of things that are HORRIBLY WRONG about sexual harassment. It's a long list.

It would also get rid of people coming forward with ancient sexual harassment claims that are often viewed as relevant as dragging 90-year old men into courtrooms for World War II war crimes.

Been there, done that.

And we'll do it again until the last Nazi is dead, and even then, they'll still be anathema.

And we'll also declare the falsely accused to be innocent.

Don't like it? Tough.

Re "best evidence?"

That was the only time the US public got an understanding of what the NSA and CIA was doing domestically.
The result was to be congressional oversight.
The congressional oversight never worked and the CIA and NSA just kept collecting globally.
They never stopped. The domestic spying never got dealt with as they never had to stop.
NSA mass phone surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden ruled illegal (8 May 2015)
https://www.theguardian.com/us...

About 40 percent of bitcoin is held by perhaps 1,000 users

Bitcoin currently has about 15 million userrs. So 1000 of them is only 0.0067%.

1% of the world's population owns about half the world's wealth.

By creating a currency ostensibly free from the corrupting influence of government control of fiat currencies, bitcoin has managed to become a currency which is 150x even more corrupt.

Was it just last week some Russian official nailed it, saying North Korea is reacting to US provocations? The US and other international players have been screwing with North Korea for a long time - pushing all the right buttons to make it appear as though NK is crazy.
Think of North Korea as a porcupine: small, almost invisible; poke it and it will stick it to you.
https://dissidentvoice.org/201...

Yeah, that's right.

The "US and other international players have been screwing with North Korea for a long time"!?!?!?!

What color is the sky on your planet?

Yep, they all FORCED North Korea to use chemical weapons to conduct an assassination in another country's airport.

They all FORCED North Korea to blow up an airliner with 115 people onboard.

They all FORCED to kidnap hundreds of Japanese citizens, often forcing the women to work as sex slaves.

They all FORCED North Korea to kidnap THOUSANDS of South Koreans.

They all FORCED North Korea to hijack and airliner and kidnap its crew and some of its passengers

YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT

Maybe download 1984 for him while you're at it.

And when his legally bought copy of 1984 with notes he added for a class assignment gets remote wiped wby amazon with no warning you will have expertly taught him both this lesson and the definition of irony at the same time. God level parenting.

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Two former US officials with a background in intelligence and surveillance said they had doubts that the health problems were the result of a deliberate attack with a sonic weapon. They pointed out that the symptoms were first noticed in late 2016, when US-Cuban relations were the best they had been in decades, following the visit of Barack Obama to Havana.

CNN quoted a US official saying Washington was investigating whether a third country was involved as "payback" for actions the US has taken elsewhere and to "drive a wedge between the US and Cuba". However, at least one Canadian diplomat is also said to have been affected, suggesting whatever happened did not exclusively target the US embassy.

"You can't rule out harassment, but why do it when you want things to go well, and why the Canadians? Nobody dislikes the Canadians!" said James Lewis, a former state department official and US military adviser with expertise in intelligence and spy technology.

Lewis said it was much more likely that a sonic surveillance device, designed to remotely pick up the vibrations caused by speech, could have been wrongly configured and emitted harmful sound waves as a result.

"We know with 100% certainly that the embassies are under surveillance, and the technology being used could just be crude and over-powered," he added. Although Nauert had said the Cuban incidents was unprecedented, Lewis pointed to a wave of health problems at the US embassy in Moscow in the 1970s thought to be linked to the use of microwave surveillance devices.

John Sipher, who spent 28 years in the CIA's National Clandestine Service, argued that while direct targeting of US diplomats is rare, unintended harm caused by surveillance efforts that go wrong are much more common.

"These efforts, while designed to further surveillance and eavesdropping and not to cause malicious damage, nevertheless risked or resulted in residual physical harm to US diplomats," Sipher said in a commentary on the Just Security website.

Lots more cars than trucks or busses. Lots more pollution from cars.

Here's a good one:
Diesel cars 10x more toxic than trucks and busses.
https://www.theguardian.com/en...

I get to censor people! WHEE!!!

I otice the "muh freeze peach" crowd have been awfully quiet about Facebook's latest actions:

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

I think you all have a huge case of double standards.

What you wrote below fits with my experiences over the years: "After FF became popular, they convinced its creator to join Mozilla, before ousting him from leadership of the project and redoing the whole interface with XUL, slowly stripping features away, adding addon support, bloating the browser significantly, ..."

"From there it was a constant churn of improvements combined with an even bigger pile of new bugs. Bug reports and even patches were ignored as the codebase rapidly bloated."

"Google threw a bunch of money at them planning to start Chrome, but needing a successful foil against Microsoft in the intervening few years."

"Mozilla ... didn't ever bother remedying their initial shortcoming: Not listening to their good employees, and not listening to their user base. Both of [those shortcomings] have come together to result in them having a large but subpar development staff."

"Their recent 'purchases' have all been projects produced by friends or family of current executive staff."

"... the executive compensation packages are only overshadowed by wikipedia, and the largest of the fortune 500 corporations."

This 2014 article tells some of the history: Mozilla still has three big problems -- and now it needs a new CEO (April 4, 2014, last modified on Feb. 21, 2017)

Brendan Eich's coming-out party ended the Mozilla way: free, open -- and shut (April 4, 2014)

Quote from the article immediately above:

"Eich was clearly a qualified candidate for the CEO role: he is the creator of Javascript, one of the languages that powers the open web, and had worked on Firefox and its predecessor Netscape for years. His commitment to the open web is his life's work; those credentials have never been in doubt."

That's what I thought at the time. It seemed to me that the real reason Brendan Eich was removed as CEO is that it was well known that Eich would not allow large amounts of money to be given to people at Mozilla Foundation who have no technical knowledge, or almost none.

Another quote from that article:

"... the ability to build and maintain a diverse coalition of supporters is absolutely integral to Mozilla's prospects."

A HUGE problem in my opinion, is that articles about technology are typically written by people with little or no knowledge of technology. What is "absolutely integral to Mozilla's prospects" is technical knowledge.

It would be very interesting to have a complete list of where the Mozilla Foundation money goes. The $300 million paid by Google every year was spent on what?

What you wrote below fits with my experiences over the years: "After FF became popular, they convinced its creator to join Mozilla, before ousting him from leadership of the project and redoing the whole interface with XUL, slowly stripping features away, adding addon support, bloating the browser significantly, ..."

"From there it was a constant churn of improvements combined with an even bigger pile of new bugs. Bug reports and even patches were ignored as the codebase rapidly bloated."

"Google threw a bunch of money at them planning to start Chrome, but needing a successful foil against Microsoft in the intervening few years."

"Mozilla ... didn't ever bother remedying their initial shortcoming: Not listening to their good employees, and not listening to their user base. Both of [those shortcomings] have come together to result in them having a large but subpar development staff."

"Their recent 'purchases' have all been projects produced by friends or family of current executive staff."

"... the executive compensation packages are only overshadowed by wikipedia, and the largest of the fortune 500 corporations."

This 2014 article tells some of the history: Mozilla still has three big problems -- and now it needs a new CEO (April 4, 2014, last modified on Feb. 21, 2017)

Brendan Eich's coming-out party ended the Mozilla way: free, open -- and shut (April 4, 2014)

Quote from the article immediately above:

"Eich was clearly a qualified candidate for the CEO role: he is the creator of Javascript, one of the languages that powers the open web, and had worked on Firefox and its predecessor Netscape for years. His commitment to the open web is his life's work; those credentials have never been in doubt."

That's what I thought at the time. It seemed to me that the real reason Brendan Eich was removed as CEO is that it was well known that Eich would not allow large amounts of money to be given to people at Mozilla Foundation who have no technical knowledge, or almost none.

Another quote from that article:

"... the ability to build and maintain a diverse coalition of supporters is absolutely integral to Mozilla's prospects."

A HUGE problem in my opinion, is that articles about technology are typically written by people with little or no knowledge of technology. What is "absolutely integral to Mozilla's prospects" is technical knowledge.

It would be very interesting to have a complete list of where the Mozilla Foundation money goes. The $300 million paid by Google every year was spent on what?

And yet many parts of europe are much nicer to live in than many parts of the US.

And many parts are worse. Londonistan and no-go zones in Paris come to mind immediately.

Gotta love those rioting "yutes"....

why is it whenever Benghazi is mentioned no one ever looks at the fact that a Republican controlled Congress slashed the security budget for the State Department?

I don't know if this applies to Benghazi but what the Republicans normally do is make sure that any spending cuts manifest themselves on the Democrat's watch. They are doing the same thing with the current tax cut. I believe it is called the "Two Santa Clause" strategy. Both parties have a Santa Claus, Republican Santa and Democrat Santa. What the Republicans must do is send in Republican Santa Claus, run up a huge deficit by having Republican Santa promise people massive and popular tax cuts, then defer the financing of those tax cuts until the democrats are in power and force them to shoot their Santa Claus to pay for Republican Santa's largesse. This theory was popularised by a guy called Jude Wanniski back in the late 1970s and the American electorate and the Democrat party are still falling for it, with Obama being the latest victim. Remember how the Republicans screamed their heads off over Obama's policies causing deficits that he actually inherited from the Bush administration? ... that was the Republicans forcing Obama to shoot Democrat Santa to pay for the presents handed out by Republican Santa (and if you don't believe me get a Republican strategy lesson straight from the horse's mouth). Apart from defeating Republican tax cut bills, the only way out of this would seem to be for the Democrats to become just as fiscally irresponsible as the Republicans and continue deferring the spending cuts in some way and dump them in the lap of the next Republican administration. Either that or mount a grass roots revolution, dump their current leadership, read Machiavelli and the Republican playbook, fight back and get massively better at communicating with the electorate but that seems about as likely to happen as a dog laying an egg and that egg hatching into a unicorn.

Very true. That does present an interesting possibility that we may be slowly approaching a tipping point though, at least if the figures in this article that claims that electric cars are now becoming cheaper to run than those with ICEs are accurate. There's some caveats in there (of course), and the study only applies to a single inefficient fossil fuel usage case in a handful of pretty well developed countries, but the rest of the first world probably isn't too far behind. There's clearly a long way to go though; providing fossil fuel free electricity to power the cars (it may be more efficient to burn the carbon centrally, but it's still far from green), getting that electricity capacity into areas where it's currently lacking (especially in developing nations), and - the big one - making it cheaper for far more usage cases than replacing the ICE.

Meanwhile the Antarctic is being sucked dry of everything that swims as quickly as the massive seafood concerns can fish. Lots of it is illegal fishing, and using slave labour. Also the Pacific is being fished empty, illegally by vast foreign fishing fleets, despite the Pacific nations protests. In my view commercial fishing is unsustainable long term, and should be outlawed completely.

Not just the Pacific, fishing fleets from the Pacific have been operating in the North Atlantic for years. A lot of these fleets come from places like Taiwan and the Comoros. There are also fleets engaging in massive overfishing operating out of Italy and the Balkans. The only way to fix this is to extend the fisheries managment authority of nations to international waters and then form naval task forces with the authority to board and confiscate illegal fishing vessels under piracy laws. Soft power isn't enough anymore, the gloves have to come off.

Meanwhile the Antarctic is being sucked dry of everything that swims as quickly as the massive seafood concerns can fish.
Lots of it is illegal fishing, and using slave labour.
Also the Pacific is being fished empty, illegally by vast foreign fishing fleets, despite the Pacific nations protests.
In my view commercial fishing is unsustainable long term, and should be outlawed completely.

Furthermore you demand evidence of Russian involvement in Ukraine but provide none for the Western over throw of the Ukraine government.

That's like asking for evidence that the Bush Administration was full of crap about Iraq's WMD's and role in 911. Remedial current events here.

Before the coup, the assistant Secretary of State was on video bragging about spending $5 billion to 'give Ukraine the future it deserves' - and then Americans whine about imaginary interference in our elections. The same assistant secretary of state was also recorded picking post-coup leaders.

The United States immediately recognized the junta as illegitimate after the blatantly unconstitutional vote to remove Yanukovych from power, which itself was based on a known false flag operation:

• "So the chief of the government's security forces, the head of the opposition's security forces, and the snipers themselves all admit the snipers were killing both protesters and police."

And if that wasn't enough, the Vice President's son woke up one morning and just happened to find himself a top executive at a Ukraine energy company.

• "Isn't that a bit fishy? Why do you say that?

  Because he's the vice-president's son! That's a coincidence. "This is totally based on merit," said Burisma's chairman, Alan Apter.

  He doesn't sound very Ukrainian. He's American, as is the other new board member, Devon Archer.

  Who? Devon Archer, who works with Hunter Biden at Rosemont Seneca partners, which is half owned by Rosemont Capital, a private equity firm founded by Archer and Christopher Heinz.

  Who? Christopher Heinz...John Kerry's stepson."

The IMF also picked up their entire book of rules and threw it in a paper shredder to give the illegitimate government a legitimate loan:

• The IMF broke four of its rules by lending to Ukraine:
  (1) Not to lend to a country that has no visible means to pay back the loan (the "No More Argentinas" rule, adopted after the IMF's disastrous 2001 loan to that country).
  (2) Not to lend to a country that repudiates its debt to official creditors (the rule originally intended to enforce payment to U.S.-based institutions).
  (3) Not to lend to a country at war - and indeed, destroying its export capacity and hence its balance-of-payments ability to pay back the loan. Finally
  (4), not to lend to a country unlikely to impose the IMF's austerity "conditionalities." Ukraine did agree to override democratic opposition and cut back pensions, but its junta proved too unstable to impose the austerity terms on which the IMF insisted.

So the United States only spent billions to subvert Ukraine's democracy, recognized a blatant coup as a legitimate impeachment, immediately gave billions in aid to the junta, and then sends the highest number of troops to Eastern Europe under the premise that Russia is a threat.

And American Exceptionalists like yourself just eat that shit up. With a spoon. You didn't learn a damned thing from the lies about Iraq and Afghanistan, did you?

Furthermore you demand evidence of Russian involvement in Ukraine but provide none for the Western over throw of the Ukraine government.

That's like asking for evidence that the Bush Administration was full of crap about Iraq's WMD's and role in 911. Remedial current events here.

Before the coup, the assistant Secretary of State was on video bragging about spending $5 billion to 'give Ukraine the future it deserves' - and then Americans whine about imaginary interference in our elections. The same assistant secretary of state was also recorded picking post-coup leaders.

The United States immediately recognized the junta as illegitimate after the blatantly unconstitutional vote to remove Yanukovych from power, which itself was based on a known false flag operation:

• "So the chief of the government's security forces, the head of the opposition's security forces, and the snipers themselves all admit the snipers were killing both protesters and police."

And if that wasn't enough, the Vice President's son woke up one morning and just happened to find himself a top executive at a Ukraine energy company.

• "Isn't that a bit fishy? Why do you say that?

  Because he's the vice-president's son! That's a coincidence. "This is totally based on merit," said Burisma's chairman, Alan Apter.

  He doesn't sound very Ukrainian. He's American, as is the other new board member, Devon Archer.

  Who? Devon Archer, who works with Hunter Biden at Rosemont Seneca partners, which is half owned by Rosemont Capital, a private equity firm founded by Archer and Christopher Heinz.

  Who? Christopher Heinz...John Kerry's stepson."

The IMF also picked up their entire book of rules and threw it in a paper shredder to give the illegitimate government a legitimate loan:

• The IMF broke four of its rules by lending to Ukraine:
  (1) Not to lend to a country that has no visible means to pay back the loan (the "No More Argentinas" rule, adopted after the IMF's disastrous 2001 loan to that country).
  (2) Not to lend to a country that repudiates its debt to official creditors (the rule originally intended to enforce payment to U.S.-based institutions).
  (3) Not to lend to a country at war - and indeed, destroying its export capacity and hence its balance-of-payments ability to pay back the loan. Finally
  (4), not to lend to a country unlikely to impose the IMF's austerity "conditionalities." Ukraine did agree to override democratic opposition and cut back pensions, but its junta proved too unstable to impose the austerity terms on which the IMF insisted.

So the United States only spent billions to subvert Ukraine's democracy, recognized a blatant coup as a legitimate impeachment, immediately gave billions in aid to the junta, and then sends the highest number of troops to Eastern Europe under the premise that Russia is a threat.

And American Exceptionalists like yourself just eat that shit up. With a spoon. You didn't learn a damned thing from the lies about Iraq and Afghanistan, did you?