You lost me at the "it makes perfect sense" part. Since when do people receive packages at the post office? You receive them at your house. And unless you're an ebay seller, nobody sends packages often. A bank is a for-profit private business, a post office is part of the government. It's apples and oranges.
Why is a bank supposed to be at the post office? That's so bizarre. It's like going shopping for clothes and buying your fishing tackle, or going to a nail shop and expecting to get your taxes done at the same location. Two entirely different functions that have nothing to do with each other. Add to that the horror that is USPS and it just gets weirder.
Government (and banks, but I repeat myself) are going to push hard to get rid of cash. This will let them realize a long sought goal: 100% taxation of everything.
Plus, if you cross them, all they have to do is turn off your mobile payments. After a day or two of starvation, you'll turn yourself in to the nearest police station for whatever offense they accuse you of.
They are not liberals, they are leftists. Liberals might disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it. Leftists have no problem with censoring speech they disagree with if they think it will benefit themselves. More: http://liberalismunrelinquishe...
When he was leaking things that made Bush look bad you loved Julian Assange so hard that Benedict Cumberbatch played him in the movie.
By reporting our government's fuckups, Wikileaks has taken a rather extreme pro-America attitude and is basically doing the job that our own media ought to be doing. Wikileaks is the enemy of America's enemy. Maybe he's not really our friend, but if you adopt the point of view of us American citizens, you'll see that he sure appears to be either a friend, or even one of us.
Whistle-blower site WikiLeaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian politician who cited its role in freedom of speech, news agency NTB reported Wednesday. 'WikiLeaks is one of this century's most important contributors to freedom of speech and transparency,' parliamentarian Snorre Valen said in his nomination. Valen cited WikiLeaks' role in disclosing the assets of Tunisia's former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his nearest family, contributing to the protests that forced them into exile.
http://www.thenewage.co.za/935...
Syria wasn't an adversary of America. You hardly ever heard of them at all before the pipeline, and if it was it was in the context of Iraq (Saddam and Assad were mortal enemies). I've seen satellite photos of the "naval base", it is a dock in a harbor. That's it. Hardly Diego Garcia. And since when were we enemies of Russia in 2012? Remember Obama telling Medevev that he would have more flexibility after the election?
The fact that Hillary lost the election in no way discredits the idea that the Clinton Foundation was a massive sink of corruption. Everyone expected her to win, so they wanted to be on the right side. So they became donors.
Pennsylvania was all part of the strategy, Hillary was going to win with the Obama coalition, minorities and women, and the white working class could go fuck itself. After she was in office she was going to give citizenship to the illegals and open the floodgates of legal immigration to 4 million a year. After her first term, there would be 28 million brand new citizens who would mostly all vote Democrat. Of everything in the Wikileaks, the phrase "permanent Democrat majority" was the one I found the most chilling. Winning without the help of the traditional blue collar Democrat base wasn't a mistake, it was all part of the plan. That it failed is hardly an indictment of it. It was a very narrow margin that could have easily gone the other way. And if it had, you and your kind would be rejoicing that the Democrats played identity politics like a fiddle and finally broke the back of the awful, no good, deplorable American people forever.
China stole the maglev technology from Germany. There's one that runs from Shanghai airport. China was going to build its own ripoffs, but found it was too expensive. It's heartening to find that they don't always win by stealing.
If they couldn't get funding from risk-happy US capitalists, that's a big red flag. If the Chinese are funding it it's because they want to steal the technology. You can count on it.
Those products are labeled like that as a scare tactic. They aren't designed to transmit information, they are designed to harm. Don't fool yourself into thinking otherwise; that is precisely what they are.
It's all backed up with references, and what's more, it makes sense. It was obvious from the beginning that the only winners of the Syrian civil war were the ones who sat it out. And yet America *just had* to get involved. To the extent of giving weapons to Islamic jihadi headchoppers. WTF? Assad isn't a nice guy but allying with Islamists?
What's the amazing prize that we win in Syria? Why's it so damn important? Why must America risk war with a nuclear power to enforce its will on a nowhere country in the middle of a Godforsaken region? Pipelines are very, very important globally. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIdUSqsz0Io.
When you think about it, what do you really have to fear from the Chinese government? What could they realistically do to you?
On the other hand the US government and its NSA will come down on you like a ton of bricks if they think you're organizing a movement to bring down their power. You always have more to fear from your own government than any foreigner. In fact, they have a rather bad track record of playing "blame the foreigner" to cover up their own shortcomings.
Negative. America is just about self-sufficient in petroleum due to the shale oil revolution. Since around 2007 net US energy imports have been in sharp decline because we discovered how to process shale into oil and natural gas. And boy, do we have a LOT of shale. Within a year or two, the US will become a net energy exporter. Meaning we no longer give a fuck what's going on in the middle east. Meaning we can bring our troops back (Noticed the institutional outrage over Trump pulling troops out of Syria? This is why. They're terrified of the current world order collapsing.) To drive the point home, for the past half century or so, the USA has kept a naval carrier group in the gulf sea at all times in order to protect Saudi oil supplies. But more recently, the past few years, it's only been there about 6 months out of the year.
No, we're in Saudi Arabia because Europe's oil comes from there. Well, there and Russia. The Syrian civil war? We're involved in that because before the Syrian civil war, two pipelines were proposed by Qatar to get gas to Europe. *Going through Syria.* Now, don't forget, Qatar are (were) major Clinton Foundation donors. Iran, a Russian ally, also proposed a pipeline. It also went through Syria. Guess which one Assad approved? This was in 2012 and the plans were disrupted due to the civil war. Next, Hillary Clinton demanded that Assad be removed from power. Assad is a longtime Russian ally. Guess who is supporting the rebel groups opposing Assad? That's right, the USA! And then the media campaign against Assad, always followed by a demand that he leave the country and give up power.
Engineers and programmers are notoriously tone-deaf when it comes to taxonomy, the science of naming things. They come up with names that are stupid, offensive, forgettable, impossible to pronounce or quickly-forgotten inside jokes. Just think about how the world of open source image editing would have taken off if it were not named after a sexual deviant from a 1994 movie.
I don't understand patriotism. Never have. Why should you be proud for being born at a particular point on planet earth? If you're a patriotic American born in El Paso, you're only a couple of kilometres from being a patriotic Mexican. Why? It makes zero sense.
Side note: The Democrats ordered the media to cover Trump. Wikileaks confirms. It was part of their strategy to elect Hillary. Never forget this.
The really sad part is that the media obeyed of their own free will. It's one thing when they've got a gun to their heads, but this level of corruption? It's so harmful to our democracy that the free press has picked a side.
"many of these ads did not violate our content policies. That means that for most of them, if they had been run by authentic individuals, anywhere, they could have remained on the platform."
- the ads were non-political in nature, and didn't feature or favour a political candidate
- 56% of the ads were run AFTER the 2016 US federal election
- 25% of the ads were never displayed to anyone due to Facebook's algorithms not finding them relevant to trending interests
- only 25% of the ads were geographically-targeted
- Facebook is not sure that the ads were part of an organized campaign
- Facebook is not sure that the accounts the ads were purchased with are associated with each other
- Facebook is not certain that the ads were purchased by Russians
- many of the ads were not purchased using Russia's currency
- huge numbers of actual political ads are bought and run on Facebook from all countries around the world, and that is normal and OK
- the "overwhelming majority" of ad-space purchases from Russia by Russians are normal and not suspicious in any way
So, after a year of investigations and debunked conspiracy / false claim after debunked conspiracy / false claim, the strongest argument for alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US federal election is $100K of non-political or partisan Facebook ads - more than half of which ran after the election, and a quarter of which never ran at all. That's telling.
That's great for you, but what about the sites that update once or twice a year? I have a couple of those in my RSS that I totally forget about, then remember when I see an update. Besides, it's tiresome to refresh websites and pore over them looking for new content. With RSS you get ALL the new content, nicely formatted with no auto-play videos.
The intelligence community assured the US government that freedom would spread quickly and fully all over China in the 1980's.
That free trade would change China and that democracy would move into China under the cover of free trade.
The West invested fully and China simply took the tech for free. Turns out, democracy has no precedent in China and if they did have it, provinces would vote to secede, leaving no China to speak of. Oops.
Recently several male students at Vassar were falsely accused of date rape. After their innocence was established, the assistant dean of students, Catherine Comins, said of their ordeal: "They have a lot of pain, but it is not a pain that I would necessarily have spared them. I think it ideally initiates a process of self-exploration. 'How do I see women?' 'If I did not violate her, could I have?' 'Do I have the potential to do to her what they say I did?' These are good questions." Dean Comins clearly feels justified in trumping the common law principle "presumed innocent until proven guilty" by a new feminist principle, "guilty even if proven innocent." Indeed, she believes that the students are not really innocent after all. How so? Because, being male and being brought up in the patriarchal culture, they could easily have done what they were falsely accused of having done, even though they didn't actually do it. Where men are concerned, Comins quite sincerely believes in collective guilt. Moreover, she feels she can rely on her audience to be in general agreement with her on this.
The idea of collective guilt may sound like the theological doctrine of original sin, but in Christianity, at least, it applies equally to all human beings. Racists and gender feminists are more "discriminating."
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You lost me at the "it makes perfect sense" part. Since when do people receive packages at the post office? You receive them at your house. And unless you're an ebay seller, nobody sends packages often. A bank is a for-profit private business, a post office is part of the government. It's apples and oranges.
Why is a bank supposed to be at the post office? That's so bizarre. It's like going shopping for clothes and buying your fishing tackle, or going to a nail shop and expecting to get your taxes done at the same location. Two entirely different functions that have nothing to do with each other. Add to that the horror that is USPS and it just gets weirder.
Plus, if you cross them, all they have to do is turn off your mobile payments. After a day or two of starvation, you'll turn yourself in to the nearest police station for whatever offense they accuse you of.
They are not liberals, they are leftists. Liberals might disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it. Leftists have no problem with censoring speech they disagree with if they think it will benefit themselves. More: http://liberalismunrelinquishe...
What is a Classical Liberal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Assange just told the Swedes he's a Syrian refugee. So naturally they dropped rape charges.
When he was leaking things that made Bush look bad you loved Julian Assange so hard that Benedict Cumberbatch played him in the movie.
By reporting our government's fuckups, Wikileaks has taken a rather extreme pro-America attitude and is basically doing the job that our own media ought to be doing. Wikileaks is the enemy of America's enemy. Maybe he's not really our friend, but if you adopt the point of view of us American citizens, you'll see that he sure appears to be either a friend, or even one of us.
Whistle-blower site WikiLeaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian politician who cited its role in freedom of speech, news agency NTB reported Wednesday. 'WikiLeaks is one of this century's most important contributors to freedom of speech and transparency,' parliamentarian Snorre Valen said in his nomination. Valen cited WikiLeaks' role in disclosing the assets of Tunisia's former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his nearest family, contributing to the protests that forced them into exile. http://www.thenewage.co.za/935...
WikiLeaks released the State Department cables in 2010, revealing that appeasing Russia was a motivator for canceling the plan with Poland.
Wikileaks published CIA espionage orders for the 2012 french presidential election. When Russia does it, it's an attack. When US does it, it's just mates havin' a go?
Seriously, the No True Scotsman fallacy again? Come on, you're standing on top of a mountain of skulls and claiming there's nothing to see here.
So why not reduce the working week to 3 days? That would make employees even happier.
Syria wasn't an adversary of America. You hardly ever heard of them at all before the pipeline, and if it was it was in the context of Iraq (Saddam and Assad were mortal enemies). I've seen satellite photos of the "naval base", it is a dock in a harbor. That's it. Hardly Diego Garcia. And since when were we enemies of Russia in 2012? Remember Obama telling Medevev that he would have more flexibility after the election?
The fact that Hillary lost the election in no way discredits the idea that the Clinton Foundation was a massive sink of corruption. Everyone expected her to win, so they wanted to be on the right side. So they became donors.
Pennsylvania was all part of the strategy, Hillary was going to win with the Obama coalition, minorities and women, and the white working class could go fuck itself. After she was in office she was going to give citizenship to the illegals and open the floodgates of legal immigration to 4 million a year. After her first term, there would be 28 million brand new citizens who would mostly all vote Democrat. Of everything in the Wikileaks, the phrase "permanent Democrat majority" was the one I found the most chilling. Winning without the help of the traditional blue collar Democrat base wasn't a mistake, it was all part of the plan. That it failed is hardly an indictment of it. It was a very narrow margin that could have easily gone the other way. And if it had, you and your kind would be rejoicing that the Democrats played identity politics like a fiddle and finally broke the back of the awful, no good, deplorable American people forever.
China stole the maglev technology from Germany. There's one that runs from Shanghai airport. China was going to build its own ripoffs, but found it was too expensive. It's heartening to find that they don't always win by stealing.
Story doesn't mention Trump at all. He's living in your head, rent free, 24/7.
If they couldn't get funding from risk-happy US capitalists, that's a big red flag. If the Chinese are funding it it's because they want to steal the technology. You can count on it.
Those products are labeled like that as a scare tactic. They aren't designed to transmit information, they are designed to harm. Don't fool yourself into thinking otherwise; that is precisely what they are.
ABC news reported that Paul Manafort pleaded guilty to 5 charges of manslaughter, which is pretty specific, damaging, and completely fake. Is Trump right about ABC news being a "fake news" site?
Huge list with examples of misleading and false reporting coming from the major media networks. CNN, Washington Post, Fox News, New York Times, RT, Guardian, NBC, ABC, etc.
It's almost like we shouldn't be depending on the US federal government to do everything for us.
A government powerful enough to give you everything you want is a government powerful enough to take everything you have.
It's all backed up with references, and what's more, it makes sense. It was obvious from the beginning that the only winners of the Syrian civil war were the ones who sat it out. And yet America *just had* to get involved. To the extent of giving weapons to Islamic jihadi headchoppers. WTF? Assad isn't a nice guy but allying with Islamists?
What's the amazing prize that we win in Syria? Why's it so damn important? Why must America risk war with a nuclear power to enforce its will on a nowhere country in the middle of a Godforsaken region? Pipelines are very, very important globally. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIdUSqsz0Io.
Oh, come off it, it was obviously named after the gimp from Pulp Fiction. The Gnu thing is just a silly backronym.
When you think about it, what do you really have to fear from the Chinese government? What could they realistically do to you?
On the other hand the US government and its NSA will come down on you like a ton of bricks if they think you're organizing a movement to bring down their power. You always have more to fear from your own government than any foreigner. In fact, they have a rather bad track record of playing "blame the foreigner" to cover up their own shortcomings.
Negative. America is just about self-sufficient in petroleum due to the shale oil revolution. Since around 2007 net US energy imports have been in sharp decline because we discovered how to process shale into oil and natural gas. And boy, do we have a LOT of shale. Within a year or two, the US will become a net energy exporter. Meaning we no longer give a fuck what's going on in the middle east. Meaning we can bring our troops back (Noticed the institutional outrage over Trump pulling troops out of Syria? This is why. They're terrified of the current world order collapsing.) To drive the point home, for the past half century or so, the USA has kept a naval carrier group in the gulf sea at all times in order to protect Saudi oil supplies. But more recently, the past few years, it's only been there about 6 months out of the year.
No, we're in Saudi Arabia because Europe's oil comes from there. Well, there and Russia. The Syrian civil war? We're involved in that because before the Syrian civil war, two pipelines were proposed by Qatar to get gas to Europe. *Going through Syria.* Now, don't forget, Qatar are (were) major Clinton Foundation donors. Iran, a Russian ally, also proposed a pipeline. It also went through Syria. Guess which one Assad approved? This was in 2012 and the plans were disrupted due to the civil war. Next, Hillary Clinton demanded that Assad be removed from power. Assad is a longtime Russian ally. Guess who is supporting the rebel groups opposing Assad? That's right, the USA! And then the media campaign against Assad, always followed by a demand that he leave the country and give up power.
https://youtu.be/Q8TE_QMa3fw?t=16m03s
Engineers and programmers are notoriously tone-deaf when it comes to taxonomy, the science of naming things. They come up with names that are stupid, offensive, forgettable, impossible to pronounce or quickly-forgotten inside jokes. Just think about how the world of open source image editing would have taken off if it were not named after a sexual deviant from a 1994 movie.
I don't understand patriotism. Never have. Why should you be proud for being born at a particular point on planet earth? If you're a patriotic American born in El Paso, you're only a couple of kilometres from being a patriotic Mexican. Why? It makes zero sense.
Side note: The Democrats ordered the media to cover Trump. Wikileaks confirms. It was part of their strategy to elect Hillary. Never forget this.
The really sad part is that the media obeyed of their own free will. It's one thing when they've got a gun to their heads, but this level of corruption? It's so harmful to our democracy that the free press has picked a side.
Facebook VP: "The Majority Of Russian Ad Spend Happened AFTER The Election" https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2...
"many of these ads did not violate our content policies. That means that for most of them, if they had been run by authentic individuals, anywhere, they could have remained on the platform."
So, after a year of investigations and debunked conspiracy / false claim after debunked conspiracy / false claim, the strongest argument for alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US federal election is $100K of non-political or partisan Facebook ads - more than half of which ran after the election, and a quarter of which never ran at all. That's telling.
That's great for you, but what about the sites that update once or twice a year? I have a couple of those in my RSS that I totally forget about, then remember when I see an update. Besides, it's tiresome to refresh websites and pore over them looking for new content. With RSS you get ALL the new content, nicely formatted with no auto-play videos.
The intelligence community assured the US government that freedom would spread quickly and fully all over China in the 1980's.
That free trade would change China and that democracy would move into China under the cover of free trade.
The West invested fully and China simply took the tech for free. Turns out, democracy has no precedent in China and if they did have it, provinces would vote to secede, leaving no China to speak of. Oops.
Christina Hoff Sommers in Who Stole Feminism?:
Recently several male students at Vassar were falsely accused of date rape. After their innocence was established, the assistant dean of students, Catherine Comins, said of their ordeal: "They have a lot of pain, but it is not a pain that I would necessarily have spared them. I think it ideally initiates a process of self-exploration. 'How do I see women?' 'If I did not violate her, could I have?' 'Do I have the potential to do to her what they say I did?' These are good questions." Dean Comins clearly feels justified in trumping the common law principle "presumed innocent until proven guilty" by a new feminist principle, "guilty even if proven innocent." Indeed, she believes that the students are not really innocent after all. How so? Because, being male and being brought up in the patriarchal culture, they could easily have done what they were falsely accused of having done, even though they didn't actually do it. Where men are concerned, Comins quite sincerely believes in collective guilt. Moreover, she feels she can rely on her audience to be in general agreement with her on this.
The idea of collective guilt may sound like the theological doctrine of original sin, but in Christianity, at least, it applies equally to all human beings. Racists and gender feminists are more "discriminating."