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we can actually do something that helps society?

Your assignment just came through. Please report to your local collective farm. Don't ask what happens to the people who think they are too good for their duty to society.

ICANN sold out in 2011. There are plenty of corporate owned TLDs now, and it sucks. Where have you been for the past 8 years?
https://www.voanews.com/a/new-...

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.

>it would help if you can point out a developing country that has no electricity for fridges ...

Literally one of the main problem with vaccination programs in Africa today is lack of refrigeration due to lack of availability of power. This is why one of the key grants from organisations like Gates foundations was to develop vaccines that can last longer without the need for refrigeration.

Literally first link for me for "vaccines refrigeration Africa"

https://www.voanews.com/a/revo...

Quote:

>“As you know, vaccines are usually kept in cold chains, between 2 to 8 degrees Celsius. And so you have to have the whole capacity around the cold chain: that is freezers, ice packs, transportation fuel, electricity fuel, all of this. Sometimes, it is not only costly, but it is also very challenging to reach remote areas with such constraints,” said Preziosi.

>Health experts said that because of the cold chain requirement, there is normally a lot of wasted vaccine vials during immunization campaigns, particularly during the “last mile” -- the time from when the vaccine leaves the refrigerator at the district health center until it is injected into a person’s arm at the village level.

>Many communities in Africa have no access to electricity and are often too remote to be reached before the ice packs in insulated coolers melt.

Anyway, I'll just leave you to your "electricity comes from the USB socket" understanding of how power generation works. Good luck.

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

"I like that idea a lot actually.

The reason its probably not done t"

It has been going on for a longtime already.

https://www.voanews.com/a/fore...

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

And behind Door #2 time is running out for WWVB.
The low frequency WWVB standard and short wave clock time standards seem have time running
out for them.
https://www.voanews.com/a/time...

It may simply be that we will know with more precision when infrastructure has its plug pulled.

GPS time is likely better than NTP time for computers.
Clocks like this may allow for the elimination of almost all Olympic timing errors and ties.
I can see headlines... runners fail to best Usain Bolt's best time by one Picosecond +/- 2.7 Femtoseconds.

Are you saying there is evidence of China meddling that is being ignored? Give me a source.

I'm so sorry about that accident that chopped off your legs and arms so you don't even have a stump left to access Google with!

Otherwise you would have been about to find this in about two seconds.

My sympathies go with you, Torso-Boy. If you need any more info please have your caretaker look it up, that's what they are paid for - I have a job and can't just paste URL's for you all day long.

The CIA is a US spy agency. That's their job.

Why do people get offended when spies spy and immigration enforcement enforces immigration law?

As to the third sentence - why people get offended - you might ask those responsible for punishing alleged spies against the USA with long - including life - prison sentences, and even the death penalty. Ask the Rosenbergs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., or Robert Hansson https://www.voanews.com/a/a-13..., or many others.

The customary view is that spying is perfectly normal and OK when done by our side, but wicked and criminal when done by others to us.

America is on track to meet CO2 reduction goals.

If you truly want to save the planet, protest to China, India, or even Russia...

Now you might not live through the experience, unlike protesting in the U.S. But if you don't try you never cared about the planet anyway.

For a plethora of reasons that you apparently don't understand a digital snapshot is *way better than working on the machine.

There's a plethora of reasons why you shouldn't lecture people about not understanding something when you don't bother to read, as the false dichotomy of "use CrowdStrike image" or "FBI moves servers to their office" was addressed the first time. Of course the FBI would use images of the server for analysis - but images they they created, by using agents with functioning legs to go to the server while it's powered on.

Crowdstrike isn't some fly by night outfit.

Yeah.

The CrowdStrike report, released in December, asserted that Russians hacked into a Ukrainian artillery app, resulting in heavy losses of howitzers in Ukraine's war with Russian-backed separatists.

But the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) told VOA that CrowdStrike erroneously used IISS data as proof of the intrusion. IISS disavowed any connection to the CrowdStrike report. Ukraine's Ministry of Defense also has claimed combat losses and hacking never happened.

They are.

The FBI has never examined the DNC's computer servers - an omission that is beyond preposterous. It has instead relied on the reports produced by Crowdstrike, a firm that drips with conflicting interests well beyond the fact that it is in the DNC's employ. Dmitri Alperovitch, its co-founder and chief technology officer, is on the record as vigorously anti-Russian. He is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, which suffers the same prejudice. Problems such as this are many.

So you're relying on a hack firm that is massively biased, both for being rabidly anti-Russian and for being hired by the DNC, which at the same time was one and the same Hillary's campaign. A campaign that knew the Uranium One deal was a liability for her, one that also ensnared John Podesta, Hillary's campaign manager. So it was time for some good old fashioned Swiftboating, and to project Hillary's Russian problems onto her opponent. As further proven by the Hillary campaign paying for the Steele Dossier - colluding with foreign intelligence agents. Something Mueller is equally uninterested in looking at as he is in analyzing the DNC servers.

See the part on sophisticated malware and high level foreign intelligence operatives you passed by. And not when CrowdStrike has a record of half-assing their reports. Apologists keep going on and on about memory dumps when an exploit could live in another location than system memory, like encrypted swap space, firmware, backup server, firewall....

The FBI uses contractors all the time.

Not for something this important, they don't. This would be like ISIS kidnapping Malia Obama in the Mall of America and the FBI just "deciding" to leave the search and rescue operation to Paul Blart. It just wouldn't happen in a serious investigation.

But Mueller's probe was never about being a serious investigation. It's a psyop, just like the one he helped run against Iraq fifteen years ago - but this time without any evidence.

.... when we can just burn it without using the energy at all and start using the resulting purified seawater to refill our aquifers?

If South Africa isn't taking this seriously as a way to fix their problem then someone isn't using their noggin.

> Did they ever release any actual evidence the Russians hacked the DNC?

They released the CrowdStrike report which said they think it was a Russian APT based on various signatures, such as an old copy of Ukranian malware called P.A.S. and a bunch of tor exit nodes, which they presented but failed to identify. They later retracted some of their claims. The DNC did not at any time turn over the affected servers to the FBI or anyone else, as one might expect for such a serious crime as was alleged.

Then the ODNI released the "17 agencies" report that doesn't present any technical info at all, just a few conclusions.

Somewhere in here we have that story about the "mystery server" where they think a Trump server (actually a 3rd party marketing site) is talking to a Russian bank. It turns out to be DNS traffic due to spam, but it's funny to look at now given the #Spygate allegations.

Then there were reports from Trend Micro including this one. There's a lot there about phishing and such, but not a whole lot about how to identify who this is other than "we think this is Russia."

Of course, then comes the Vault 7 leaks showing the CIA (likely among many others) has lots of tools to falsely attribute stuff to other parties. A person was later blamed for that leak, but they instead find that he's a pedophile which is... interesting. One may or may not be aware of a short-lived attempt by the "Todd & Claire" site to frame Julian Assange of that which melted under public scrutiny. There were also the infamous Guccifer 2.0 "Russian fingerprints" which seemed interesting, as he only dropped random Trump opposition research docs.

"We have seen in the cities, and we have seen in many states, a very strong commitment to the Paris agreement, to the extent that some indicators are moving even better than in the recent past," Guterres told reporters at UN headquarters in New York. "There are expectations that, independently of the position of the administration, the U.S. might be able to meet the commitments made in Paris as a country."

So we pulled out, and are still on target to reach the original goals. Pretty much everyone else - save economic powerhouse Morocco, is failing.

If parasites like the vermoa mite are the problem, then it should be possible to train the bees to remove them by playing instructional videos. It was possible to teach bees to play football simply by playing a video of what to do plus the reward of a surgary treat.

https://www.voanews.com/a/bumb...

Voice of America has been trying to influence Russians (Soviets) for a very long time.

In the meantime, the Soviets/Russians have been trying to influence the US: From the Communist Party USA (founded in 1919) to Wikipedia edit-wars over MH17 in 2014, and of course, everyone's beloved "Russian Bots" that are responsible for everything from Trump's election to Global Warming and skin cancer.

This is called 'diplomacy', and all countries do it. When Merkel spoke publicly about the 2016 US elections, it was an attempt to influence the US population. When Obama opposed the Brexit, it was an attempt to influence the UK population.
It isn't anything new. So you need to suck it up and learn some history.

Next you'll tell me the mafia isn't real. Or that Paul Manafort is a figment of my imagination.

Or you could stop waiving those hands for five seconds and post some evidence. If, say, I'm arguing with an Obamabot who insists 44 had the greatest intentions but was held back by a Republican Congress, I will bury his dumb ass with facts and citations on how the worst policies from the Obama Administration came from Obama himself, not Republicans.

If you Russiagaters weren't completely full of it, you would come into any discussion armed with hard facts and citations. You don't because you can't. All you have is a classic Gish Gallop:

• The term Gish gallop, named after a Young Earth creationist who was notoriously fond of employing it, refers to a fallacious debate tactic in which a bunch of individually weak arguments are strung together in rapid-fire succession in order to create the illusion of a solid argument and overwhelm the opposition's ability to refute them all in the time allotted.

And that's why you're in the same club as Birthers, Chem Trailers, and Lunar Conspiracy nuts. Because you have as much evidence for your crackpot ideas as they do.

as forensic analysis of the email thefts of the dems

You mean Crowdstrike that cites blog posts as evidence? Their analysis isn't fit to be toilet paper. And have you ever noticed that Mueller has never bother to subpoena the DNC servers for a proper FBI investigation, even though the alleged hacking of said servers is the entire foundation for Russiagate?

Either this was a farce of an investigation from day one, or Mueller is too incompetent to wipe his own ass, much less lead an investigation of a sitting president. Pick one.

The problem is not that they exposed wrong-doing, it's the way they did it.

I think that's a valid point. But it also seems to be part of what has been lost in the noise. And literally it seems like the attention ratio of "how dare Russia do that" to "how dare people try to rig the Dem primary" is 1000:1. I'm not at all against there being a lot of discussion about Russia's actions, but it also seems wrong that the underlying narrative of a semi-rigged primary got so little attention.

They exposed Hilary in a way that caused maximum damage to her campaign, even though in the end it didn't result in any prosecutions.

And, importantly, so far we don't have much evidence to suggest that it affected the outcome of the election either (there are many articles about this, here's one chosen at random and because it's not from Fox News or National Review: https://www.voanews.com/a/ex-u...). So until we see stronger data (or any data for that matter) showing that their influence made Clinton lose the election, it seems crazy that so much ado is made about their actions and that there is so little outcry about what was going on with the Dem primary.

At the same time they kept quiet about Trump and his staff's illegal dealings with Russia, which at least one of them has now admitted and taken a plea bargain for.

Woah, hang on. That's not what has happened yet. Papadopoulos took a plea bargain. His crime was that he lied to FBI investigators when they /asked/ him about stuff. As CNN reported it, "Papadopoulos copped to lying to the FBI about the timing of his contacts with Russians." Is it a crime to lie like that? Yes. Is this the tip of the iceberg? Could be. Has he admitted to illegal dealings with Russia? No.

Are you really so naive as to think that Russia was trying to help the US, rather than get the guy they thought would weaken their biggest rival elected?

I'm trying to have a level-headed conversation here. Instead of making it personal, let's just stick to the discussion itself - I'm sure you can argue a position on its merits alone. Anyway, no, I am not as naive as you suggested - that's what that "Now I don't for a moment believe their motivations were pure or pro-US in any way" part meant. :)

Thanks for the reply!

...to send me your life savings?

Actually the hysteria is mounting.

Fixed that for you.

The Russian's hacked power plants storyline was bullshit.
CrowdStrike is bullshit.
The "17 intelligence agencies" line was bullshit.
The Russia hacked election systems is bullshit.

find this report by the Director of National Intelligence particularly interesting

Sure, lets look at this - while remembering the FBI wasn't allowed to examine the DNC servers so how exactly would they have "high confidence" in any thing - but this time noting the weasel words:

We also assess Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. All three agencies agree with this judgment. CIA and FBI have high confidence in this judgment; NSA has moderate confidence.

Zero evidence provided, only claims and accusations. Well guess what Chem Trailers, Sandy Hook Truthers and Birthers have? Claims and accusations.

Then there's the fact the entire "Russia wanted Trump to win so hacked the election" makes no sense whatsoever. The election was Hillary's to lose, right up until she picked Tim Kaine as her running mate and decided to skip campaigning in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Michigan. So according to the storyline, Putin was crafty enough to dig up dirt on Hillary (which was all true) but dumb enough to collude with someone as dumb as Trump. Which means the CIA, NSA & FBI would know all about it. Which meant Hillary would too, who had already campaigned on shooting down Russian jets in Syria. So what's really going on?

The entire "Russian hacking" storyline is nothing but Swiftboating from Clinton supporters, as she was the candidate who engaged in corrupt collusion with Russian interests to sell a fifth of America's uranium.

And you can skip that Snopes link that handwaives away Hillary's culpability for a number of reasons:
1) Access is corruption
2) Avoiding the appearance of impropriety applies to politicians, not just judges
3) Her own campaign was warned internally that the deal was a political liability for her
4) Hillary flat-out broke her confirmation promises on keeping a wall between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation

At this point, Chem Trailing anti-vaxxer Birther Sandy Hook Truthers have more respectability than Russiagaters.

They are building 100s of millions of them. Here you go https://www.voanews.com/a/on-w... Now do they have your permission to go ahead and work on other priorities

2019 is also the stated target date to stop literally half its population from crapping in the streets and all the accompanying health problems. Probably more important to work on that than electric cars.

The "Russia hacked the election" narrative is DNC/MSM political fiction.

You might want to mention that to President Trump and current Homeland Security officials. He seems to think it was real. Also, to those left-wing Democratic operatives over at Voice of America.

"At a separate hearing, a current Homeland Security official, Jeanette Manfra, told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the agency has evidence that Russia targeted election-related systems in 21 of the 50 U.S. states. Johnson said 36 states accepted help from the federal government in trying to blunt the Russian efforts, even as many states rejected federal oversight of their state-run election operations."

https://www.voanews.com/a/trum...

AC lets go down your list
Your https://www.usatoday.com/story... is just saying the 17 intelligence agencies released a report.
Your http://theduran.com/this-is-th... has 17 intelligence agencies released a report. With the NSA been moderately confident.
"the FBI did not even get access to the DNC servers"
"analytical judgment" " CIA’s analysis and the difference between its judgment and the FBI’s assessment"
Lets keep reading
Note the link to "Cyber Firm Rewrites Part of Disputed Russian Hacking Report" in your listed links AC (March 24, 2017)
https://www.voanews.com/a/cybe...

if I have to disclose my social media accounts and phone or social media login details, I will spare you from the several thousand bucks

Trump had, literally, nothing to do with it. Here is a June 28th 2016 article about the searches, but our racist media gave Obama a pass until Trump got elected. And then, before the President-elect even entered office, there was an avalanche of articles about the "new" procedures — not directly blaming him, but planting the negative thoughts in the gullible heads (like yours and those of your adoring moderators here today). Only some of the reports mentioned the truth:

searches increased fivefold in the final fiscal year of the Obama presidency

So, no, it had nothing to do with Trump. More likely, the reason is the growth of dollar since last December — vacationing in the US simply became more expensive for foreigners, while going abroad became cheaper for Americans.

The key difference is that in prior waves of immigration being assimilated in terms of language and culture was pushed - and surprise surprise they did indeed become Americans.

Except that the current groups of immigrants are assimilating faster than previous ethnic groups not slower. But you go ahead and pretend you never read that, better to be wrong and righteous than right and reflective.

That has already been deemed (in their words) "utterly ridiculous" and they do not have the capability......... And we believe that as much as the US three letter acronyms do not spy on their own citizens either (insert sarcasm here) or cause political unrest in countries they want to change.

Did Mike share top secret information over his personal email? No.
            Actually, we do not know what was shared. They are explicitly witholding "sensitive" emails.

AC conspiracy-mongering aside, we do know for a fact that he didn't share top secret information over his personal email for the profoundly simple reason that he wouldn't have had a top secret clearance at the time.

So there's no way he could have had top secret information to share -- unless, of course, Hillary emailed it to him.

BUT YOU CAN'T OFFER THAT FOR THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD IN A NATIONAL SYSTEM AND STILL MAINTAIN A GOOD LIVING STANDARD YOURSELF!

The tragedy of the uncommons. Social justice is a wonderful idea, but the devil is in the details. If the OTHER countries in the Levant (Saudi Arabia / Iran as the big actors) would take significant refugees and place them in an environment that is more akin to their home culture (i.e., Islam of various flavors) then the burdens on the western social democracies would be reasonable. They don't and the burdens aren't reasonable.

And if you think this is bad, wait another 20 years for the environment in the equatorial belt to degrade where it can't feed the population. Then what do you expect the rest of the world to do?

Fortunately, they won't come for Slashdot. This is News for Nerds, we never discuss things like politics or rights or surveillance...

I just don't understand why the Democrats insist on blaming things like the electoral system, hacks, counting errors, or in this case the physical ballot mechanism,

Pay attention. The Democrats are not claiming hacks, counting errors, or the physical ballot mechanism are the cause of Trump winning. Not. The Democratic party accepted the election result. The discussion in question is other people saying that the Democrats should audit the election, not Democrats contesting the election.

see for example many many news stories http://learningenglish.voanews...

when it's patently obvious that the Democrats would have gotten a landslide win if they had gone with anyone but Clinton.

This is not clear at all.

The cited article, 2016/11/17, gives no further references. The Daily Express citation doesn't even contain the word "1000". The Independent, Tuesday 15 November 2016, cites USA Today as a source....

Google finds a VOA News of April 11, 2013 2:07 PM, mentioning the same 1000 years theory three years ago. The phrase is ascribed to a 2008 ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the NASA. So perhaps it should be 992.

Hawking's original reckoning is missing.

> What we have in many cases today are people coming here and not assimilating,

No more so than before.
In fact, due to reduced racial barriers, hispanics and asians are assimilating faster than previous immigrants waves.
If you think otherwise, then you are just idealizing a history you are ignorant of.

am really worried that Trump will start WW3,

With who, the Russians, or the Chinese? Trump has repeatedly indicated he would normalize relations with Russia, has backed away from militarily supporting NATO allies who don't meet their 2% GDP military spending commitments, and (to my knowledge) has not advocated a No-Fly Zone in Syria.

Contrast with Clinton, who has repeatedly indicated she wants regime change is Syria, at the very least a No-Fly Zone in Syria....even though the airspace of the Syrian government is rather actively protected by the Russian military.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10...
http://www.nationalreview.com/...
http://www.ibtimes.com/will-us...

If you are concerned about a war with China, check out the articles below. Basically, Clinton is the one who wants to play hardball, but without operating from a position of strength. That's a good way to have the Chinese call your bluff. While Trump wants a stronger presence is Asia specifically to show China he's serious, he's quoted as saying he would reject a nuclear first strike. He has also expressed a greater willingness to diplomatically engage with China on the subject of North Korea.
http://www.voanews.com/a/advis...
http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/...

Delisting or deep listing from search sites seems the new tool for govs and their NGO political activists.
The use of gov mil assets directly seems to be a new idea too.
The removal of US gov limits on spreading domestic propaganda [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith–Mundt_Act]
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media (18 March 2011)
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
""online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world."
and the new ""Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act" with a "Center for Information Analysis and Response" (March 17, 2016)
"award grants and contracts to non-government and civil society organisations, research centers, private sector companies, media organisations and other experts outside the U.S. government that have experience in identifying and analysing disinformation methods used by foreign governments."
http://www.voanews.com/a/us-se...
So expect two areas of new US and UK funding, one to flood the net with fake good news and another to ensure all the comments left are just as happy and supportive of US/UK big gov/mil/bureaucracies.
British army creates team of Facebook warriors (Saturday 31 January 2015)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

So, on October 2nd the countries, where it is Ok to block the entire populace from foreign Internet-resources, where "hate speech", "blasphemy", and mocking the president or king are criminal offences — they will all have more say in how the network is operated than before. Yay!

That article is crap lol. This article is far more interesting... Like how one of the security researches was abducted for several days, "malware was specifically designed to hijack access to the Swift network", Bangladesh Finance Minister A.M.A Muhith saying local banking officials were "100 percent" involved in the scandal, Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) President and CEO Lorenzo Tan ordering people to "move the money", how much of it has already been converted into Chinese casino chips, etc. This would make a great movie, it's so convoluted and messed up lol. It's even got "a man previously linked to illegal drug operations, Kim Wong, as the mastermind." per Philippines Senator Sergio Osmeña.

1. Not news. Story reheated too many times. Older articles:
http://www.theotherside.co.uk/...
http://www.voanews.com/content...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/his...

2. The Russians did it too.
https://books.google.de/books?...

3. The Germans/Axis did it too:
http://www.track-link.com/foru...
This is also mentioned in the monumental 1970s British documentary "The World At War", which I strongly suggest to watch instead of reading this drivel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

That's not how it works. These countries aren't poor because bad ol' whiteys keeping them down or Imperialism a century and a half ago, they're poor because they have shitty corrupt governments. The president in South Africa taking aid money to build his private palace, the looting of aid to the Philippines after Haiyan, whatever. Nothing will change until the people in these countries put an end to governmental corruption, whether that's the bent cop taking bribes to let you off a traffic ticket or the leader of the nation looting its coffers.

Links from that search you posted:

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/2...

Faced with the near-term catastrophe of climate change and the planet-poisoning effects of fossil fuels, is the environmental movement changing its tune on nuclear energy? It’s not a new question, and let’s be clear that the short answer is still no – or mostly no. You can’t find one major environmental organization, from activist groups like Greenpeace to mainstream conservation groups like the Nature Conservancy or the National Audubon Society, that has come out publicly in favor of nuclear power.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/1016079...

Currently, support for nuclear power among most environmentalists is tentative at best. But at least a few voices within the movement insist that soaring global demand for energy makes it imperative for climate change advocates to fully embrace atomic power.

http://www.voanews.com/content...

The four scientists say the risks of expanding nuclear energy are much smaller than those of continuing to rely on fossil fuel power plants, which they say treat the atmosphere "as a waste dump."

U.S. environmental advocacy group, the Natural Resources Defense Council, rejected the letter's emphasis on nuclear power. Spokesman Bob Deans says the world gains nothing from "substituting one set of environmental nightmares for another."

Interestingly, with the exception of the top link or two that shows a very minor environmental group or small numbers of environmentalists in favor of nuclear, most links demonstrate that the environmental movement is still very much anti-nuclear.

Realistically though, even if you somehow got hold of a nuke or two it's doubtful that you could take down the government that way. The government is prepared to survive a massive nuclear assault from a foreign country, so your efforts will be like a mosquito bite.

You're so full of shit your eyes just have to be brown. They can't even keep unauthorized motherfuckers out of the White House at the moment; do you really think that the government would survive if a 100kt nuke went off in DC when Congress is in session and the president is in town? Given that they can't keep a rentacop who was packing firepower in the very same elevator as the President in check, do you really believe in the succession plan in the event of a nuclear hit?

What a cosmic dumbass you are.

The storyline put forth goes like so: this all started when Hamas kidnapped three teenagers and then killed them in June. Israel launched a search and rescue mission, and Hamas responded by firing rockets.

But it's all bullshit. The month before the teens were kidnapped, the IDF straight up murdered two Palestinian boys in the street. And the month before that Israel tried to provoke Hamas by murdering one of its members the same night that Hamas and Fatah announced a unity agreement. The day before the kidnapping, Israel murdered a member of Hamas they accused of planning rocket attacks. Despite Israel's repeated violations of it's own cease fire agreement with Hamas, the latter did not respond in kind. Finally, not only had Hamas not fired any rockets since the last time Israel violated a cease fire in 2012, it had helped arrest those who had.

But Bibi found the excuse he needed with the kidnappings of the three teenagers. Despite being pretty damned sure they were all dead - you can hear gunshots over one of the teens cell phones and the car was soon found full of blood and bullet casings - they spent weeks arresting Palestinians and bulldozing homes in Gaza for a kidnapping in the West Bank even after the Palestinian Authority was helping search for the missing teens. And even Israeli outlets admit that rockets were only fired in response to IDF attacks:

At least 16 rockets were fired at Israel Monday morning, most of them hitting open areas in the Eshkol region, the army said. The security sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, assessed that Hamas had probably launched the barrage in revenge for an Israeli airstrike several hours earlier which killed one person and injured three more.

Since then, a thousand Palestinians have died, many of them children, for which the population equivalent would be over 200,000 people getting killed in the U.S. If anyone is defending themselves, it's Hamas defending the people of Gaza from racist Israeli provocation and aggression.

That "handful of pesky terrorists" happen to be the elected Palestinian government. This is what happens when people elect terror organizations as their representatives...

More like....lies repeated by those who are useful fools at best and racists at worst. The storyline put forth goes like so: this all started when Hamas kidnapped three teenagers and then killed them in June. Israel launched a search and rescue mission, and Hamas responded by firing rockets.

But it's all bullshit. The month before the teens were kidnapped, the IDF straight up murdered two Palestinian boys in the street. And the month before that Israel tried to provoke Hamas by murdering one of its members the same night that Hamas and Fatah announced a unity agreement. Despite Israel's repeated violations of it's own cease fire agreement with Hamas, no rockets were fired.

But Bibi found the excuse he needed with the kidnappings of the three teenagers. Despite being pretty damned sure they were all dead - you can hear gunshots over one of the teens cell phones and the car was soon found full of blood and bullet casings - they spent weeks arresting Palestinians and bulldozing homes in Gaza for a kidnapping in the West Bank even after the Palestinian Authority was helping search for the missing teens. And even Israeli outlets admit that rockets were only fired in response to IDF attacks:

1. At least 16 rockets were fired at Israel Monday morning, most of them hitting open areas in the Eshkol region, the army said. The security sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, assessed that Hamas had probably launched the barrage in revenge for an Israeli airstrike several hours earlier which killed one person and injured three more.

Since then, a thousand Palestinians have died, many of them children, for which the population equivalent would be over 200,000 people getting killed in the U.S. On the Israeli side, almost all of the ~35 deaths have been soldiers, with only three civilians dying, and only one via rocket. Scale and proportion? Get some.

Apparently a simple comment can cause quite a stir.

I'm very well aware that religion is not a race, however, when you have a bigot like the one I replied to, his world view is splitting races along religious lines.

No - its you who seems to confuse race and religion. I am quite aware that there are white muslims, black Muslims, brown muslims, and muslims of every race and colour you can think of. They are all as bad because of their belief in a violent, intolerant religion, not because of their colour.

The article never loaded for me. Try this one: Stung by Scandal

Also, they aren't eliminating nuclear power. The article says:

The study recommended nuclear power capacity be kept between 22 and 29 percent of the total by 2035, well below existing plans to grow the sector to 41 percent in less than 20 years.

Although if they have a scandal going on, don't think that switching the power source will eliminate the underhanded behavior.

But I wonder how many other folks have very expensive hardware like this that will probably never be upgraded to run on anything other than XP.

Expensive like ... what?!? Are you kidding?

Wrong. The US government declassified the documents Snowden leaked. No need for secret courts or secret trials. Is Snowden heading home to justify his actions? I very much doubt it.

At least they still have the balls to tell other countries how to run their Human Rights Squashing business...

http://www.voanews.com/content/us-presses-rwanda-to-end-support-for-m23-rebels/1707920.html

Where do they get the nerve....

They actually run Linux.

And:

"Verizon Wireless released a Linux software update in March that prevents its network extenders from being compromised in the manner reported by Ritter and DePerry, according to company spokesman David Samberg."

http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-researchers-hack-verizon-device/1701880.html

Well, for one thing Snowden didn't provide any hard evidence and lacking a literal smoking gun intelligence agencies basically have carte blanche to do whatever the fuck they want to do.

Pus the general who was in charge of the stuxnet development seems to have leaked this information over a year ago.

http://www.voanews.com/content/retired-general-target-of-stuxnet-leak-investigation/1690953.html