Why don't you talk about the latest TCS measurements that I mentioned? they destroy the computer simulations and the CAGW hypothesis that is based on the simiulations.
NOAA has been found corrupting their data. but let us ignore that and look at the contents of the document, did you see the uncertainty bars? they are so huge one can't say anything from that document.
Why don't you talk about the TCS measurements that I mentioned? as the observed values are vastly lower than the computer simulations.
You cannot simply ignore the fact that observations refute the predictions made by CAGW proponents. At the moment you simply ignore all the contra-evidence that you don't like, which is why you didn't comment on the TCS observations.
Now, if you are going to install an unelected regime to enforce "carbon" emissions (a nonsense meme) and suck trillions out of the productive sectors of the global economy and condemn those in the Third World to energy poverty then your ***EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE*** must be unambiguous and irrefutable. At the moment we have ridiculous talk about "consensus" (which means NOTHING according to the Scientific Method, just ask Galileo) and computer models which do not match reality and and are diverging even more rapidly as time passes. If you want to condemn the Third World to energy poverty and tens of millions of poor to DEATH, then you need actual evidence.
ps. as others have said, "skeptical science" is a political site. No one serious quotes this. but if you want political quotes as to what the real agenda is, and why the science does not actually matter to the control freaks at the UN who are pushing this fraud then read what they themselves have to say: http://green-agenda.com
NOAA has been found corrupting their data. but let us ignore that and look at the contents of the document, did you see the uncertainty bars? they are so huge one can't say anything from that document.
Why don't you talk about the TCS measurements that I mentioned? as the observed values are vastly lower than the computer simulations.
You cannot simply ignore the fact that observations refute the predictions made by CAGW proponents. At the moment you simply ignore all the contra-evidence that you don't like, which is why you didn't comment on the TCS observations.
Now, if you are going to install an unelected regime to enforce "carbon" emissions (a nonsense meme) and suck trillions out of the productive sectors of the global economy and condemn those in the Third World to energy poverty then your ***EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE*** must be unambiguous and irrefutable. At the moment we have ridiculous talk about "consensus" (which means NOTHING according to the Scientific Method, just ask Galileo) and computer models which do not match reality and and are diverging even more rapidly as time passes. If you want to condemn the Third World to energy poverty and tens of millions of poor to DEATH, then you need actual evidence.
ps. as others have said, "skeptical science" is a political site. No one serious quotes this. but if you want political quotes as to what the real agenda is, and why the science does not actually matter to the control freaks at the UN who are pushing this fraud then read what they themselves have to say: http://green-agenda.com
Doesn't anyone know that 2016 is a strong El Nino year? just like 2012 and 2008 The temperature variation this year is natural and has nothing to do with the CAGW theory. Anyone who doesn't know this and is trying to shakedown bet money should be tarred and feathered as a charlatan !
CAGW postulates that water vapor causes temperature rises as an enhanced effect over the known effect of CO2 (a logarithmic effect, where CO2 increases surface temperatures by 1.1 C per doubling of CO2). The computer simulations suggest that water vapor should increase temperatures by around 4 C. Yet the latest measurement of this (the 'Transient Climate Sensitivity') show the computer simulations don't match reality - mostly because they completely fail to model the complex water vapor processes in the atmosphere. Hence, this prediction of CAGW is falsified, and as data is collected it is making the Null Hypothesis more and more probably (that is, human emitted CO2 is not the dominant controlling factor in terrestrial global warming, which started around 1850 at the end of the Little Ice Age as solar magnetic activity started increasing again and this has an effect on cloud formation mediated by the solar wind interacting with cosmic rays).
Furthermore CAGW makes the specific prediction that the Lower Tropical Troposphere temperatures will increase faster than the Earth's surface temperatures - yet not only is this not seen, the opposite is seen by all measurements, including our most reliable ones, the RSS and UAH satellites (and corroborated by thousands of weather balloon samples). Again this falsifies the CAGW Hypothesis.
If you are a Slashdotter who is interested in the climate system, but did not know these predictions of CAGW and how the empirical evidence falsifies the hypothesis at this time, then you need to do a lot more homework.
Oh, and I'm willing to take on and bet anyone that the CAGW hypothesis will remain falsified, because the observational evidence (that is, reality) is showing that the computer simulations of climate which the IPCC made its predictions on are diverging further and further from reality. So I'm glad to take money from suckers who don't understand the science and still believe in the falsified hypothesis of CAGW.
Don't worry. Hillary said that the emails she illegally deleted were about her yoga schedule - so not a security issue if the Russians and Chinese and Iranians and Islamic State all harvested the emails from the unprotected server in her basement, right folks?
No at all. "The Facts of Live Are Conservative" is a well-known meme.
Leftist Collectivism generally leads to destruction in the long term, because it is predicated on the idea that the State (which means politicians, bureaucrats, plus supporting., academia, and media of the modern world) know how to live your life better than you do. That is why the Left (Modern 'Liberals') intend to micro-regulate every aspect of your life.
The Classic Liberals of the political Right want to resist Collectivism and prefer Individual Liberty where individuals decide what happens - which is why they call for "Limited Government". Of course, the Collectivists don't want you to understands this - they need you to believe they are more competent than you in running your life and you should cede your money and liberty to them - for the "common good" (which means, opulence for the elites, and scraps left for the commoners).
If you want to be a Borg drone enslaved in the Collective then fine, but don't threaten State force (eg. threat of imprisonment or worse for not following the dictates of the globalists) against those that don't !
Wars? You mean like Hillary's illegal war in Libya? the one where she smuggled arms through Benghazi to the jihadis in Syria until her hand-picked Ambassador Stevens was slaughtered by the jihadi group her State Department used as policy? I'd be surprised if Trump could aid the jihadis and create as many conflicts as Secretary Clinton did.
Quote the opposite, according to the statistics. Most ex-patriot kiwis are returning home (which is pushing house prices up massively) because the rest of the World has gone insane (the so-called 'leadership' virtue signals by helping everyone except the native-born citizens). Australia is quite a bit less safe and less chilled than New Zealand, it just has better weather and a slightly higher economic standard of living.
Ethnic and gender diversity are all good, but what about the diversity that actually matters, Diversity of Opinion ? A study recently showed that the Facebook news team are all extreme Collectivists, which mean Individualist/Libertarian points of view get squelched in the news feed.
I know what is in the Koran. Yes, I know that the Islamic Orthodoxy claims that the original direction was Jerusalem and then it was changed to Mecca. What you don't seem to understand is that the PHYSICAL ARCHEOLOGY shows that this is NOT TRUE. The direction of prayer was toward Petra in Jordan for 100% of Arab Temples (not mosques, since Islam in its current form was not fully fabricated until two hundred years after Mohammed was said to have lived). The satellite images PROVE that Islam's claims are false.
All the stories you have been told about the origins of Islam are FALSE - and provably false. Again, I will show you the evidence that destroys the man-made false claims about Islam because it is YOU who doesn't know the REALITY
"An Historical Critique of Islam's Beginnings" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yes, I understand you are a good person that is trying to find the truth. The problem is, your imam doesn't know the truth, and this has continued for a long chain until we get evil men at the beginning who created a myth so they could control you, get all the wealth, and get all the women. But you don't have to repeat the lies. You can finally understand the truth and be free - ISLAM IS MAN_MADE ****FICTION****.
What is this "hate speech" you talk of? is it simply speech you personally find offensive? many here find Islam and its associated Sharia hideously offensive, yet we don't call it "hate speech". Free Speech is not about speech we don't like, but about the things we don't like - and especially about thinks that powerful political people and ideologies don't like.
Claiming something is "hate speech" is merely a tactic that the powerful use to CENSOR speech, *especially* uncomfortably true speech, that they don't like.
A George Carlin brilliantly said, "Political Correctness is fascism dressed up as politeness". Please don't advance fascism by replicating its censorious memes.
According to Islamic orthodoxy pedophilia is permitted because Mohammed practiced with with little girls (his neice Aisha bint Abu Bakr) and nephews Hussein bin Ali and Hassan bin Ali.
Of course, Islam is the Scientology of the Dark Ages - invented by evil men to enslave other men, and (especially) women. Islam is a complete fiction that does not match the archeology of the region. There is some fantastic evidence showing satellite imagery and how all the early Arab Temples were oriented towards Petra in Jordan at the time Mohammed was said to have lived - because Mecca did not exist at that time. More clues towards Jordan and the Allah (Arabic for "God") called Dushara is in Koran 53:19-20 and the fact that the Nabatean cult of Dushara worship stone cubes called "ka'aba". Later Arab Emperors ("Caliphs") would take this cult and modify it to justify Arab Imperialism, and as an ideological counterweight to the Christianity of the Eastern Romans ("Byzantines") and Zoroastrianism of the Persians.
Anyway for those interested in seeing irrefutable evidence that Islam is false should watch this video (sorry, it is from a Christian scholar but they seem to be the only ones paying attention for the evidence against Islam/Sharia supremacism):
"An Historical Critique of Islam's Beginnings" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The evidence in this video is the ideological ICBM that annihilates Islam's claims about its origins. I hope some Slashdotters take the time to watch it because once you see the evidence for the fabrication of Islam you then understand that debating what Mohammed was alleged to have said or did or justified is pointless - he did even exist (at least not in the way Islamic superstition claims).
If by "being European" you mean "being ruled by an unelected Collectivist dictatorship of 1%ers self-aggrandizing 'elites'" then sure the Swiss are "European".
I think the British had great foresight to reclaim sovereignty rather than go down with the doomed EU and be pulled into the vortex of failure. Yes, most Europeans cannot see the cliff they are driving over. As Mark Steyn says, "Permanence is the illusion of every age",. The European project has already failed, just look at the demographics and the nursery wards - the whole Ponzi scheme of vote-bribes is the ultimate in unsustainably - but fools will try propping up the failure no matter the cost to the citizenry and civilization even past the point at which the collapse becomes inevitable and obvious. Already the EU has become increasingly more draconian against Free Speech as it tries to muzzle citizens who point out reality.
Please also note, Switzerland can see the writing on the wall, and has withdrawn its application for EU membership. Only the blind and indoctrinated cannot see the EU's collapse is inevitable - not because of the British - but because the socialist welfare state requires demographics that have not occurred since the Baby Boom - and now all the stored wealth of generations has been used up and the cupboards are increasingly bare.
Wow, calling someone ignorant just because you want to defend the unelected an anti-democratic European Commission (which is, technically, a dictatorship similar to the Soviet system). The unelected Commission creates all law. No law can be made except through this unelected Commission. The elected European Parliament can suggest amendments to the laws, but cannot create new law. But the European Parliament's changes can be vetoed by another unelected body, the European Council.
So we have the elected European Parliament have no effective power thanks to two unelected bodies. This is a dictatorship with the trappings of a democracy to mislead the easily confused.
Look, if you hate democracy and want an unelected Collectivists dictatorship why don't you just come out and say it? but don't call other people ignroant just because they understand the true nature of the European Union and you do not.
And if you are still confused then perhaps a statement from a Bavarian politician should help you. When describing the EU he said something like:
Those elected have no power, those with power are not elected
Very interesting article. It aligns with testimonies from inside the Iron Curtain. Thanks very much for posting it
"Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism" https://www.amazon.com/Disinfo...
or in video form
"Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Former KGB Agent Yuri Bezmenov Explains How to Brainwash a Nation"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The Free World is in demographic decline, in some cases it looks terminal (look at Ukraine's birthrate for example, or Germany's). That is a vastly more important debate for Slashdotters to have than how easy it is for teens to get the Pill. Sadly, we don't do that debate and most people in the Free World don't understand that the lack of children in those countries is leading inexorably to the end of the social welfare state (without pyramid demographics required to prop-up the vote-bribe Ponzi scheme).
Do Slashdotters really not see the propaganda? whether you agree with Trump or Clinton or not is irrelevant, the fact that this article slips a political issue into an otherwise cool article about tech demonstrates how good propagandists are today, and how few people can spot it. C'mon Slashdotters, over 80% of propaganda is camouflaged in "entertainment". This is how you get fed with memes that make you have an emotional (that is to say, irrational) reaction without ever understanding the facts on any issue.
Once you take the Red Pill you can see the memes the propagandists use on each side. Articles are merely the false mustache that propagandists put on to disguise their payloads. Once you understand the favored memes of those that control the media, and those that edit it, you can see the strands of The Matrix designed to control you - without you ever thinking about the messages you are being bombarded with.
Everyone keeps looking for propagandists as guys with funny mustaches in snazzy uniforms - but modern propaganda is so much more advanced than that. The best propaganda is so good that people cannot even see it because they think it is "normal". Try watching movies or reading a newspaper and look at what information was hinted at, and even more importantly, what information was omitted. When you do this you can see how consistent the messages that are being pumped out are It is truly astounding when you finally see it.
If you can't yet see it dear Slashdotters it is not because it doesn't exist - it is like an optical illusion that your mind has to expand to see both ways. If you're not seeing the propaganda in this article (and thousands of others) yet then you just need to train your mind - and once you see it, you see it is so pervasive it is clearly not accidental.
Understand we are not headed for 1984, we are in 1984, and the reason we remain there is because most people not only cannot see the memes that control them, they do not want to see them.
It was the Free Market which massively increased wealth for all that lived billions out of poverty. The Free Market produces goods so cheaply and so efficiently that food costs are so low that that largest problem with poor people in the USA and even Third World countries is obesity, not starvation. It was the Free Market system that did this. And fools want to strangle the Goose that Lays the Golden Egg - all because you don't understand the most fundamental principle of modern economics in the Internet Age: Wealth is *CREATED*. Its is not a zero-sum game as the retarded Marxist Collectivists think with their outdated worldview originating from economies of 150 years ago. It is Free Market win-win voluntary exchange for self-interest that has created abundance. The Government has hampered this - as anyone researching economics knows. If Collectivism worked why has it failed in dozens of countries and ended up in the mass murder of hundreds of citizens in peacetime by their own socialist governments? Why is oil-rich Venezuela failing so spectacularly now, despite it following the same failed and unoriginal policies that Marxist fossils like Bernie Sanders call for?
You mean like cheeseburgers? or coca cola? or bourbon? or beer? or chocolate? they all kill you. All food kills you. They all oxidize you. But the real question is, who gets to decide what food you are allowed in your body? is Donald Trump the right person? GW Bush? Hillary Clinton? Deputy Assistant Undersecretary at the Department of Agriculture? who has the authority to decide what you put in your body and to stop you eating or imbibing what you want? you have not thought about this at all, have you?
Letting a rabid enemy through your frontiers also kills you.
You mean like the Obama regime and European Union that are not enforcing the laws of their states and KNOWINGLY letting thousands of jihadis through the frontiers that will certainly kill thousands (if not more) in the years ahead - and these same States that arrest and imprison anyone who questions the States not enforcing their own laws ? You mean that Government should be put in charge of providing you food to the lowest-cost bidder? you haven't thought about this at all - and you are neither aware of the food quality in the Soviet Union nor of the food situation in Venezeula today - an oil rich nation that should be more wealthy than Saudi Arabia but the Socialist Government is providing food in exactly the way you say, and people are so hungry that are eating pets (and possibly each other soon). You have not thought through this properly at all nor have you done any research into the dozens of times your idea has been tried and resulted in very bad results every time.
You also throw out a strawman conflating Government-provided subsistence with regulation of minimum production quality. Your argument is flawed from the start.
Still you think a standing army is a worthy effort for your government but providing basic food and shelter is not?
The principal role of any Government is internal and external security. The citizens consent to be governed in return for these things that citizens cannot achieve themselves. Food production and choice of food consumption is something free citizens can do themselves and Government is not required for this. Government is not even required to feed the poor and unlucky, the Free Market system produces massive surpluses and many citizens practice voluntary charity (and have done so for thousands of years before the creation of the Westphalian nation state). Charity is voluntary and effective as it is citizens helping citizens - socialism is involuntary (requires State force) and is inefficient because the Government takes around 60% of the resources provided by the citizens before handing them on.
On the other hand, please pay attention to that funny word I wrote: "basic". You still are free to buy from free market anything you want and can afford. What I'm saying is for government to provide potatoes, not for the government to forbide anyone else to produce and sell their own ones.
The Government has no resources and no power except for those it takes from citizens. The potatoes have to be taken from productive citizens. And if the potato growers are paid then the Government takes from taxpayers (takes its huge cut, just like the Mafia) and then gives it to the growers that the politicians like. But hey, if you're willing to use State power to rob taxpayers why stop at potatoes. Surely citizens need all sorts of things as one of your imaginary "rights", right?
It's not a matter of thinking but just looking at facts. We shouldn't need an FDA if things were the way you seem to think. After all there's no win-win in poisoning people, right? Still that's exactly what happens without government overseeing that industry.
Ah, you don't understand things like "Opportunity Cost" at all. How many MILLIONS of citizens have died when they could have been treated by drugs that the FDA either holds
UBI is Marxism. When the politicians control your source of income you are owned by the State. You are a slave. The Collectivists are just doing this incrementally - an idea promoted by the Fabian Socialists. Gradual change so people not paying attention don't notice. But of course, once the Collectivist Class has power over you they will take what you want since you have no defense against the State (where the 'State' is actually the people running it). Since you can't object the rulers will live in opulence and use State power to maintain this. This process is happening before our very eyes in Venezuela - if you are paying attention. The end game is always the citizens impoverished and oppressed by the State. It is inevitable when the State promotes mediocrity and rewards indolence instead of allowing the Free Market of win-win exchange to organically favor excellence and reward innovations that benefit the greatest number of users.
Would you like to eat food produced by the Government? really? you don't think the Free Market of voluntary win-win exchange gives you enough variety of inexpensive food?
I have to do work to breath, That's why we eat, to get energy to breathe and move. Fortunately the Swiss have comprehensively rejected this madness. But the Marxist will keep trying. Think about it, when your only source of income is from the politicians you are owned by them. You will be a slave. Do you want that?
There is an old Soviet joke, "We pretended to work, and They pretended to pay us". These days the UBI drops even the pretense of work. This is the wet-dream of Collectivist 'elites', the guys with massive salaries and power who 'look after' the 'common man' (who these elites look down on as unable to run their own lives).
This same 'UBI' system is just a rebranding of what didn't work for the Soviet Union, didn't work for China and North Korea and is now causing oil-rich Venezuela to starve.
The promise of "something for nothing" is not only unsustainable, it is deeply immoral and State force must be used to extract resources from the productive and give to the politically favored indolent in return for power. Yes, it can work very temporarily as the stored wealth of previous generations is consumed, but then the Second Law of Thermodynamics takes over and everyone lives in equal misery.
Of course, many of the rich and smart have already foreseen the triumph of Collectivism (achieved through Fabian Socialism and propagated via Cultural Marxism) in both Europe and the USA. The Cold War was won by Collectivists over the Individualists. Thus, many of the rich are fleeing places like Chicago for places like Texas, and the mega-rich have been quietly building bolt-holes in Free Market Chile and my own New Zealand.
The UBI is really about power. People adapted to the end of agrarian society to industrial society by changing skills - but the elites believe you are not competent to prepare for the future in a Free Society based on voluntary exchange and charitable works for your fellow citizens. Their contempt for you shows in their lack of confidence in your abilities, all of which justifies their increased power and massive gouging of the taxpayer (in the EU, over 10 thousand bureaucrats are paid more than the British Prime Minister, for example). The UBI is simply another way to turn Free Citizens into slaves subsisting on the breadcrumbs handed down by the State when the bureaucrats have had their fill.
The UBI is merely a rebranding of Marxism, and inevitably leads to the increasingly powerful State oppressing citizens to try and sustain an unsustainable economic model that fails to understand two things:
1) people can never be equal as they are UNIQUE, with unique goals and desires and tolerance for deferred gratification.
2) wealth is created. It is created through innovation and perspiration, and in the Internet Age someone can get rich without someone else being poor by creating value through ideas (software). The old industrial era idea of Marxist inequality only arising through exploitation is as antiquated as the steam engine in the Internet Age.
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Why don't you talk about the latest TCS measurements that I mentioned? they destroy the computer simulations and the CAGW hypothesis that is based on the simiulations.
NOAA has been found corrupting their data. but let us ignore that and look at the contents of the document, did you see the uncertainty bars? they are so huge one can't say anything from that document.
Why don't you talk about the TCS measurements that I mentioned? as the observed values are vastly lower than the computer simulations.
You cannot simply ignore the fact that observations refute the predictions made by CAGW proponents. At the moment you simply ignore all the contra-evidence that you don't like, which is why you didn't comment on the TCS observations.
Now, if you are going to install an unelected regime to enforce "carbon" emissions (a nonsense meme) and suck trillions out of the productive sectors of the global economy and condemn those in the Third World to energy poverty then your ***EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE*** must be unambiguous and irrefutable. At the moment we have ridiculous talk about "consensus" (which means NOTHING according to the Scientific Method, just ask Galileo) and computer models which do not match reality and and are diverging even more rapidly as time passes. If you want to condemn the Third World to energy poverty and tens of millions of poor to DEATH, then you need actual evidence.
ps. as others have said, "skeptical science" is a political site. No one serious quotes this. but if you want political quotes as to what the real agenda is, and why the science does not actually matter to the control freaks at the UN who are pushing this fraud then read what they themselves have to say:
http://green-agenda.com
NOAA has been found corrupting their data. but let us ignore that and look at the contents of the document, did you see the uncertainty bars? they are so huge one can't say anything from that document.
Why don't you talk about the TCS measurements that I mentioned? as the observed values are vastly lower than the computer simulations.
You cannot simply ignore the fact that observations refute the predictions made by CAGW proponents. At the moment you simply ignore all the contra-evidence that you don't like, which is why you didn't comment on the TCS observations.
Now, if you are going to install an unelected regime to enforce "carbon" emissions (a nonsense meme) and suck trillions out of the productive sectors of the global economy and condemn those in the Third World to energy poverty then your ***EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE*** must be unambiguous and irrefutable. At the moment we have ridiculous talk about "consensus" (which means NOTHING according to the Scientific Method, just ask Galileo) and computer models which do not match reality and and are diverging even more rapidly as time passes. If you want to condemn the Third World to energy poverty and tens of millions of poor to DEATH, then you need actual evidence.
ps. as others have said, "skeptical science" is a political site. No one serious quotes this. but if you want political quotes as to what the real agenda is, and why the science does not actually matter to the control freaks at the UN who are pushing this fraud then read what they themselves have to say:
http://green-agenda.com
So, you don't actually have an argument then? instead you make racist comments disparaging Caucasians.
Doesn't anyone know that 2016 is a strong El Nino year? just like 2012 and 2008 The temperature variation this year is natural and has nothing to do with the CAGW theory. Anyone who doesn't know this and is trying to shakedown bet money should be tarred and feathered as a charlatan !
CAGW postulates that water vapor causes temperature rises as an enhanced effect over the known effect of CO2 (a logarithmic effect, where CO2 increases surface temperatures by 1.1 C per doubling of CO2). The computer simulations suggest that water vapor should increase temperatures by around 4 C. Yet the latest measurement of this (the 'Transient Climate Sensitivity') show the computer simulations don't match reality - mostly because they completely fail to model the complex water vapor processes in the atmosphere. Hence, this prediction of CAGW is falsified, and as data is collected it is making the Null Hypothesis more and more probably (that is, human emitted CO2 is not the dominant controlling factor in terrestrial global warming, which started around 1850 at the end of the Little Ice Age as solar magnetic activity started increasing again and this has an effect on cloud formation mediated by the solar wind interacting with cosmic rays).
Furthermore CAGW makes the specific prediction that the Lower Tropical Troposphere temperatures will increase faster than the Earth's surface temperatures - yet not only is this not seen, the opposite is seen by all measurements, including our most reliable ones, the RSS and UAH satellites (and corroborated by thousands of weather balloon samples). Again this falsifies the CAGW Hypothesis.
If you are a Slashdotter who is interested in the climate system, but did not know these predictions of CAGW and how the empirical evidence falsifies the hypothesis at this time, then you need to do a lot more homework.
Oh, and I'm willing to take on and bet anyone that the CAGW hypothesis will remain falsified, because the observational evidence (that is, reality) is showing that the computer simulations of climate which the IPCC made its predictions on are diverging further and further from reality. So I'm glad to take money from suckers who don't understand the science and still believe in the falsified hypothesis of CAGW.
Don't worry. Hillary said that the emails she illegally deleted were about her yoga schedule - so not a security issue if the Russians and Chinese and Iranians and Islamic State all harvested the emails from the unprotected server in her basement, right folks?
No at all. "The Facts of Live Are Conservative" is a well-known meme.
Leftist Collectivism generally leads to destruction in the long term, because it is predicated on the idea that the State (which means politicians, bureaucrats, plus supporting., academia, and media of the modern world) know how to live your life better than you do. That is why the Left (Modern 'Liberals') intend to micro-regulate every aspect of your life.
The Classic Liberals of the political Right want to resist Collectivism and prefer Individual Liberty where individuals decide what happens - which is why they call for "Limited Government". Of course, the Collectivists don't want you to understands this - they need you to believe they are more competent than you in running your life and you should cede your money and liberty to them - for the "common good" (which means, opulence for the elites, and scraps left for the commoners).
If you want to be a Borg drone enslaved in the Collective then fine, but don't threaten State force (eg. threat of imprisonment or worse for not following the dictates of the globalists) against those that don't !
Wars? You mean like Hillary's illegal war in Libya? the one where she smuggled arms through Benghazi to the jihadis in Syria until her hand-picked Ambassador Stevens was slaughtered by the jihadi group her State Department used as policy? I'd be surprised if Trump could aid the jihadis and create as many conflicts as Secretary Clinton did.
Quote the opposite, according to the statistics. Most ex-patriot kiwis are returning home (which is pushing house prices up massively) because the rest of the World has gone insane (the so-called 'leadership' virtue signals by helping everyone except the native-born citizens). Australia is quite a bit less safe and less chilled than New Zealand, it just has better weather and a slightly higher economic standard of living.
You mean like Hillary Clinton ?
Ethnic and gender diversity are all good, but what about the diversity that actually matters, Diversity of Opinion ? A study recently showed that the Facebook news team are all extreme Collectivists, which mean Individualist/Libertarian points of view get squelched in the news feed.
I know what is in the Koran. Yes, I know that the Islamic Orthodoxy claims that the original direction was Jerusalem and then it was changed to Mecca. What you don't seem to understand is that the PHYSICAL ARCHEOLOGY shows that this is NOT TRUE. The direction of prayer was toward Petra in Jordan for 100% of Arab Temples (not mosques, since Islam in its current form was not fully fabricated until two hundred years after Mohammed was said to have lived). The satellite images PROVE that Islam's claims are false.
All the stories you have been told about the origins of Islam are FALSE - and provably false. Again, I will show you the evidence that destroys the man-made false claims about Islam because it is YOU who doesn't know the REALITY
"An Historical Critique of Islam's Beginnings"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yes, I understand you are a good person that is trying to find the truth. The problem is, your imam doesn't know the truth, and this has continued for a long chain until we get evil men at the beginning who created a myth so they could control you, get all the wealth, and get all the women. But you don't have to repeat the lies. You can finally understand the truth and be free - ISLAM IS MAN_MADE ****FICTION****.
What is this "hate speech" you talk of? is it simply speech you personally find offensive? many here find Islam and its associated Sharia hideously offensive, yet we don't call it "hate speech". Free Speech is not about speech we don't like, but about the things we don't like - and especially about thinks that powerful political people and ideologies don't like.
Claiming something is "hate speech" is merely a tactic that the powerful use to CENSOR speech, *especially* uncomfortably true speech, that they don't like.
A George Carlin brilliantly said, "Political Correctness is fascism dressed up as politeness". Please don't advance fascism by replicating its censorious memes.
According to Islamic orthodoxy pedophilia is permitted because Mohammed practiced with with little girls (his neice Aisha bint Abu Bakr) and nephews Hussein bin Ali and Hassan bin Ali.
Of course, Islam is the Scientology of the Dark Ages - invented by evil men to enslave other men, and (especially) women. Islam is a complete fiction that does not match the archeology of the region. There is some fantastic evidence showing satellite imagery and how all the early Arab Temples were oriented towards Petra in Jordan at the time Mohammed was said to have lived - because Mecca did not exist at that time. More clues towards Jordan and the Allah (Arabic for "God") called Dushara is in Koran 53:19-20 and the fact that the Nabatean cult of Dushara worship stone cubes called "ka'aba". Later Arab Emperors ("Caliphs") would take this cult and modify it to justify Arab Imperialism, and as an ideological counterweight to the Christianity of the Eastern Romans ("Byzantines") and Zoroastrianism of the Persians.
Anyway for those interested in seeing irrefutable evidence that Islam is false should watch this video (sorry, it is from a Christian scholar but they seem to be the only ones paying attention for the evidence against Islam/Sharia supremacism):
"An Historical Critique of Islam's Beginnings"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The evidence in this video is the ideological ICBM that annihilates Islam's claims about its origins. I hope some Slashdotters take the time to watch it because once you see the evidence for the fabrication of Islam you then understand that debating what Mohammed was alleged to have said or did or justified is pointless - he did even exist (at least not in the way Islamic superstition claims).
If by "being European" you mean "being ruled by an unelected Collectivist dictatorship of 1%ers self-aggrandizing 'elites'" then sure the Swiss are "European".
I think the British had great foresight to reclaim sovereignty rather than go down with the doomed EU and be pulled into the vortex of failure. Yes, most Europeans cannot see the cliff they are driving over. As Mark Steyn says, "Permanence is the illusion of every age",. The European project has already failed, just look at the demographics and the nursery wards - the whole Ponzi scheme of vote-bribes is the ultimate in unsustainably - but fools will try propping up the failure no matter the cost to the citizenry and civilization even past the point at which the collapse becomes inevitable and obvious. Already the EU has become increasingly more draconian against Free Speech as it tries to muzzle citizens who point out reality.
Please also note, Switzerland can see the writing on the wall, and has withdrawn its application for EU membership. Only the blind and indoctrinated cannot see the EU's collapse is inevitable - not because of the British - but because the socialist welfare state requires demographics that have not occurred since the Baby Boom - and now all the stored wealth of generations has been used up and the cupboards are increasingly bare.
Wow, calling someone ignorant just because you want to defend the unelected an anti-democratic European Commission (which is, technically, a dictatorship similar to the Soviet system). The unelected Commission creates all law. No law can be made except through this unelected Commission. The elected European Parliament can suggest amendments to the laws, but cannot create new law. But the European Parliament's changes can be vetoed by another unelected body, the European Council.
So we have the elected European Parliament have no effective power thanks to two unelected bodies. This is a dictatorship with the trappings of a democracy to mislead the easily confused.
Look, if you hate democracy and want an unelected Collectivists dictatorship why don't you just come out and say it? but don't call other people ignroant just because they understand the true nature of the European Union and you do not.
And if you are still confused then perhaps a statement from a Bavarian politician should help you. When describing the EU he said something like:
Those elected have no power, those with power are not elected
Very interesting article. It aligns with testimonies from inside the Iron Curtain. Thanks very much for posting it
"Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism"
https://www.amazon.com/Disinfo...
or in video form
"Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Former KGB Agent Yuri Bezmenov Explains How to Brainwash a Nation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The article is certainly shorter than the equivalent in book form
"Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism"
https://www.amazon.com/Disinfo...
or in video form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The Free World is in demographic decline, in some cases it looks terminal (look at Ukraine's birthrate for example, or Germany's). That is a vastly more important debate for Slashdotters to have than how easy it is for teens to get the Pill. Sadly, we don't do that debate and most people in the Free World don't understand that the lack of children in those countries is leading inexorably to the end of the social welfare state (without pyramid demographics required to prop-up the vote-bribe Ponzi scheme).
Do Slashdotters really not see the propaganda? whether you agree with Trump or Clinton or not is irrelevant, the fact that this article slips a political issue into an otherwise cool article about tech demonstrates how good propagandists are today, and how few people can spot it. C'mon Slashdotters, over 80% of propaganda is camouflaged in "entertainment". This is how you get fed with memes that make you have an emotional (that is to say, irrational) reaction without ever understanding the facts on any issue.
Once you take the Red Pill you can see the memes the propagandists use on each side. Articles are merely the false mustache that propagandists put on to disguise their payloads. Once you understand the favored memes of those that control the media, and those that edit it, you can see the strands of The Matrix designed to control you - without you ever thinking about the messages you are being bombarded with.
Everyone keeps looking for propagandists as guys with funny mustaches in snazzy uniforms - but modern propaganda is so much more advanced than that. The best propaganda is so good that people cannot even see it because they think it is "normal". Try watching movies or reading a newspaper and look at what information was hinted at, and even more importantly, what information was omitted. When you do this you can see how consistent the messages that are being pumped out are It is truly astounding when you finally see it.
If you can't yet see it dear Slashdotters it is not because it doesn't exist - it is like an optical illusion that your mind has to expand to see both ways. If you're not seeing the propaganda in this article (and thousands of others) yet then you just need to train your mind - and once you see it, you see it is so pervasive it is clearly not accidental.
Understand we are not headed for 1984, we are in 1984, and the reason we remain there is because most people not only cannot see the memes that control them, they do not want to see them.
It was the Free Market which massively increased wealth for all that lived billions out of poverty. The Free Market produces goods so cheaply and so efficiently that food costs are so low that that largest problem with poor people in the USA and even Third World countries is obesity, not starvation. It was the Free Market system that did this. And fools want to strangle the Goose that Lays the Golden Egg - all because you don't understand the most fundamental principle of modern economics in the Internet Age: Wealth is *CREATED*. Its is not a zero-sum game as the retarded Marxist Collectivists think with their outdated worldview originating from economies of 150 years ago. It is Free Market win-win voluntary exchange for self-interest that has created abundance. The Government has hampered this - as anyone researching economics knows. If Collectivism worked why has it failed in dozens of countries and ended up in the mass murder of hundreds of citizens in peacetime by their own socialist governments? Why is oil-rich Venezuela failing so spectacularly now, despite it following the same failed and unoriginal policies that Marxist fossils like Bernie Sanders call for?
Why not? Bad food kills you
You mean like cheeseburgers? or coca cola? or bourbon? or beer? or chocolate? they all kill you. All food kills you. They all oxidize you. But the real question is, who gets to decide what food you are allowed in your body? is Donald Trump the right person? GW Bush? Hillary Clinton? Deputy Assistant Undersecretary at the Department of Agriculture? who has the authority to decide what you put in your body and to stop you eating or imbibing what you want? you have not thought about this at all, have you?
Letting a rabid enemy through your frontiers also kills you.
You mean like the Obama regime and European Union that are not enforcing the laws of their states and KNOWINGLY letting thousands of jihadis through the frontiers that will certainly kill thousands (if not more) in the years ahead - and these same States that arrest and imprison anyone who questions the States not enforcing their own laws ? You mean that Government should be put in charge of providing you food to the lowest-cost bidder? you haven't thought about this at all - and you are neither aware of the food quality in the Soviet Union nor of the food situation in Venezeula today - an oil rich nation that should be more wealthy than Saudi Arabia but the Socialist Government is providing food in exactly the way you say, and people are so hungry that are eating pets (and possibly each other soon). You have not thought through this properly at all nor have you done any research into the dozens of times your idea has been tried and resulted in very bad results every time.
You also throw out a strawman conflating Government-provided subsistence with regulation of minimum production quality. Your argument is flawed from the start.
Still you think a standing army is a worthy effort for your government but providing basic food and shelter is not?
The principal role of any Government is internal and external security. The citizens consent to be governed in return for these things that citizens cannot achieve themselves. Food production and choice of food consumption is something free citizens can do themselves and Government is not required for this. Government is not even required to feed the poor and unlucky, the Free Market system produces massive surpluses and many citizens practice voluntary charity (and have done so for thousands of years before the creation of the Westphalian nation state). Charity is voluntary and effective as it is citizens helping citizens - socialism is involuntary (requires State force) and is inefficient because the Government takes around 60% of the resources provided by the citizens before handing them on.
On the other hand, please pay attention to that funny word I wrote: "basic". You still are free to buy from free market anything you want and can afford. What I'm saying is for government to provide potatoes, not for the government to forbide anyone else to produce and sell their own ones.
The Government has no resources and no power except for those it takes from citizens. The potatoes have to be taken from productive citizens. And if the potato growers are paid then the Government takes from taxpayers (takes its huge cut, just like the Mafia) and then gives it to the growers that the politicians like. But hey, if you're willing to use State power to rob taxpayers why stop at potatoes. Surely citizens need all sorts of things as one of your imaginary "rights", right?
It's not a matter of thinking but just looking at facts. We shouldn't need an FDA if things were the way you seem to think. After all there's no win-win in poisoning people, right? Still that's exactly what happens without government overseeing that industry.
Ah, you don't understand things like "Opportunity Cost" at all. How many MILLIONS of citizens have died when they could have been treated by drugs that the FDA either holds
UBI is Marxism. When the politicians control your source of income you are owned by the State. You are a slave. The Collectivists are just doing this incrementally - an idea promoted by the Fabian Socialists. Gradual change so people not paying attention don't notice. But of course, once the Collectivist Class has power over you they will take what you want since you have no defense against the State (where the 'State' is actually the people running it). Since you can't object the rulers will live in opulence and use State power to maintain this. This process is happening before our very eyes in Venezuela - if you are paying attention. The end game is always the citizens impoverished and oppressed by the State. It is inevitable when the State promotes mediocrity and rewards indolence instead of allowing the Free Market of win-win exchange to organically favor excellence and reward innovations that benefit the greatest number of users.
Would you like to eat food produced by the Government? really? you don't think the Free Market of voluntary win-win exchange gives you enough variety of inexpensive food?
I have to do work to breath, That's why we eat, to get energy to breathe and move. Fortunately the Swiss have comprehensively rejected this madness. But the Marxist will keep trying. Think about it, when your only source of income is from the politicians you are owned by them. You will be a slave. Do you want that?
There is an old Soviet joke, "We pretended to work, and They pretended to pay us". These days the UBI drops even the pretense of work. This is the wet-dream of Collectivist 'elites', the guys with massive salaries and power who 'look after' the 'common man' (who these elites look down on as unable to run their own lives).
This same 'UBI' system is just a rebranding of what didn't work for the Soviet Union, didn't work for China and North Korea and is now causing oil-rich Venezuela to starve.
The promise of "something for nothing" is not only unsustainable, it is deeply immoral and State force must be used to extract resources from the productive and give to the politically favored indolent in return for power. Yes, it can work very temporarily as the stored wealth of previous generations is consumed, but then the Second Law of Thermodynamics takes over and everyone lives in equal misery.
Of course, many of the rich and smart have already foreseen the triumph of Collectivism (achieved through Fabian Socialism and propagated via Cultural Marxism) in both Europe and the USA. The Cold War was won by Collectivists over the Individualists. Thus, many of the rich are fleeing places like Chicago for places like Texas, and the mega-rich have been quietly building bolt-holes in Free Market Chile and my own New Zealand.
The UBI is really about power. People adapted to the end of agrarian society to industrial society by changing skills - but the elites believe you are not competent to prepare for the future in a Free Society based on voluntary exchange and charitable works for your fellow citizens. Their contempt for you shows in their lack of confidence in your abilities, all of which justifies their increased power and massive gouging of the taxpayer (in the EU, over 10 thousand bureaucrats are paid more than the British Prime Minister, for example). The UBI is simply another way to turn Free Citizens into slaves subsisting on the breadcrumbs handed down by the State when the bureaucrats have had their fill.
The UBI is merely a rebranding of Marxism, and inevitably leads to the increasingly powerful State oppressing citizens to try and sustain an unsustainable economic model that fails to understand two things:
1) people can never be equal as they are UNIQUE, with unique goals and desires and tolerance for deferred gratification.
2) wealth is created. It is created through innovation and perspiration, and in the Internet Age someone can get rich without someone else being poor by creating value through ideas (software). The old industrial era idea of Marxist inequality only arising through exploitation is as antiquated as the steam engine in the Internet Age.