How does it not have anything with them being Jews?
What part of "it could have been the Freemasons and the results would have been the same" are you having a hard time understanding? It has nothing nothingNOTHING to do with Israelis being Jews, and everything to do with them being immigrant racist imperialists. If you are a Palestinian and your family has farmed that olive garden since Charlemagne, you may be forced off your land by an immigrant who has a single Jewish grandparent from New Jersey, given free travel & a stipend plus other incentives to move to the country.
Are you deliberately ignoring the plain language of the Arab states and Hamas?
Israel created Hamas to undermine Fatah, take it up with them. And all the racist idiots prattling on about the Hamas Charter (which again was created by Israel) need to read the Likud Charter, which claims all the land to Jordan River. Land which is entirely Palestinian land under international law - including Jerusalem and the Right of Return.
Ah, another winger who thinks your lack of ability to go on oppressing people means you yourself are oppressed. Sorry you were dropped on the head as a child - early and often.
Yes. Really. "I used to support you until I had these Concerns!" == concern trolling.
I very happily stand by my judgement and comments. You on the other hand seem to be suffering butthurt because... I don't know, your idol turned out to have feet of clay? That's ok, It happens to everyone, but you'll grow out of it. Leaktivism will (hopefully) survive Assange the Dick.
Your hand waving and butthurt attempt at avoidance are noted. What part of "Wikileaks is in the publishing business, not the hacking business" did you have a hard time understanding? If you want Assange to publish dirt on the Kochs, Santa Claus, whomever, then get busy hacking so you can give him something to publish.
Yes that really is the issue right there, isn't it? Because either wikileaks is a publisher, and Julian is editor-in-chief and responsible for policy, or blah blah blah blah
Word salad is boring and needs more radishes. And again, if you think Wikileaks isn't leaking something you want seen, then stop whining and start poking at some servers. Otherwise, you're just another partisan hack engaging in character assassination. Or you could go work for David Brock, he's still in business, and then you could start getting paid for this tripe.
There's no way to correctly assess "pollution and environmental" external costs.
Hand waiving. The costs of reclamation after mining are quantifiable, as are black lung, slurry spills, CO2 emissions, etc.
It's astounding that some people claim that renewable energy is cost competitive without subsidies, but hey, taxpayer money is the best kind of money and the whole renewables industry is politically-driven.
An astounding lack of self-awareness. You know this is a story about reps in a state government trying to assign a "sin tax" to solar power, yes?
Hundreds of billions of dollars per year of government
You mean the same government that has an enormous bias towards fossil fuels, yes? You know that the U.S. military is the single largest user of fossil fuels and has overthrown democracies to keep oil flowing in petrodollars, yes? Where all the lobbying money from all green energy moneys combined could be found in couches of the Exxon Mobile foyer?
So you're demanding that Palestinains get to demolish the homes of terrorist IDF personnel who murder and bomb Palestinians? You're demanding that Palestinians have the right to bomb anyone who looks like he might be an Israeli police officer on the grounds that he is a "militant"?
If zionists were held to zionist reasoning, Israel would have ceased to exist by 1950.
The article is talking about people who are basically saying they've lived in the city forever and are now being displaced from their hometown. And they should have some kind of right to say because it's been their home so long.
There's something about this "ability" concept that illusive? You almost had it:
In my market, I've owned a home for 6 years and the price has doubled. I put 20% down originally, so as an investment
Almost 60% of Americans cannot handle an emergency that costs them $500, much less save over a hundred thousand dollars for the down payment on a home in San Francisco. A cheapass home at that, because you would looking at closer to $200,000 down payment for the median price.
Yes, the $1.5 trillion includes them all. However, it doesn't matter if it is city, county, or state - the people living in California have to pay ALL of it.
Of course it matters. Taking sums from half a dozen separate entities and pretending it's a giant sum owed from the state is sophistry. Would he (or you) take the debt from every for-profit entity in the state and pretend it's a single lump sum?
He isn't saying you shouldn't have ANY regulations, just too many. Also, you didn't address, or deny his point.
I addressed and denied his point by pointing out it's extremist dogma. Wanting deregulation for the sake of deregulation is as sensible as more regulation for the sake of regulation.
Reality has a well known anti-Libertarian bias. Cubans have better health care than you do - for $300 per person, per year. Common, be honest with yourself for.0002 seconds - the goal of any business is to make maximum profit for minimal costs. If a business doesn't have to moderate its prices through regulation or healthy competition, it will happily cornhole you eighteen ways till Sunday.
Let's start with the biggest turd in the punchbowl:
Over $1.3 TRILLION in government debt, much in underfunded public employee union pension obligations.
Your own link states that is lumping all obligations together, from "state, cities, counties, school districts, community colleges, special districts, agencies and other authorities" and then pretends that is debt owned by the state. Lets get real here - you take the debt owed from every gas station, almond farm, movie studio, and defense contractor, I'd bet a signed, autographed copy of Atlas Wanked that it's going to be a much, much higher figure than $1.3 trillion. ZOMG?? How can California possibly afford capitalism!!!!!
High state income taxes, and overall it's one of the highest taxed states in the country.
1) Civilization costs money and requires basic services 2) Government provides better services for a fraction of the cost compared to capitalism
A regulatory and legal climate that stifles growth and drives businesses out of the state
You mean you want companies to be free to exploit employees, customers, shareholders, and resources without any measure of restraint.
Schools that are some of the worst in the nation.
By Randian design. Step 1: slash public school funding (thanks Reagan!) Step 2: complain that public schools are failing (because you gut their funding, fool) an need to be replaced with privatized charter schools that are worse than the public schools they replaced.
Some of the worst roads in the nation
Low taxes have high costs, as does the capitalist belief that public roads should all be built on the public tax dollar, but mass transit needs to be self-funding.
Widening income inequality, driven by coastal elites enacting policies that make it increasingly difficult for the poor and middle class to earn a living in California.
Like when Jerry Brown spent years opposing a real minimum wage increase before finally caving in, when he opposed state single payer (that passed the legislature twice under Arnie), and let college students go on taking it up the ass on tuition. You're finally talking sense!
The only story here is that people who are stupid enough to rent deserve to be displaced when their landlords strike it rich.
Right, because choosing to pay obscene rents over exorbitant is matter of choice rather than ability. Feel free to front thousands of San Franciscans half a mil each so they will no longer be "stupid."
Except they are, of course. And that's letting the coal and natural gas industries getting away with externalizing most of their costs - pollution and environmental damage.
I'm not a fan of solar power. It's expensive, unreliable, and lacking any kind of storage or backup power it is pretty much useless.
And without incredibly numerous and expensive lines of transmission, coal and nuclear plants are useless. Useless I tell you!
/equivilanthandwaiving
If we had this magical battery technology
Says a fan of nuclear power, which requires magical vaporware to deal with the waste to make it something less than obscene corporate welfare. This isn't rocket science for solar: energy demands are greatest on hot sunny days, and cold windy nights. Solar takes care of the former, and wind power takes care of the latter. Generating capacity can be spaced across the grid, and excess power can be used to power up hydrostatic batteries - i.e. pumping water into a reservoir and letting a turbine generate electricity when it runs out. Which is what phancy pants nuclear power plants do - use water to move a turbine.
Nuclear is good.
Lets engage in magical thinking, and assume there would never be another Fukushima or Chernobyl type disaster - which would be a given if more nuke plants were built to replace coal, as more plants would be hit by natural disasters and the profit motive. Nuclear power would still be unjustifiable, based on the cost alone. It could not exist without massive government underwriting, as no plant rolls the full cost of mining, construction, security, operation, disaster preparedness, decomissioning, or future waste storage into the rates it charges to customers.
She didn't just distribute information showing abuses though- she distributed everything she could get her hands on without care.
A canard already addressed: "you mean she didn't have time nor the resources to sort the data."
Snowden managed to
Snowden was a high level data analyst who worked for both the government directly and a contractor. That means he wasn't pressed for time, and could pick and choose what he wanted without fear of being detected - as opposed to Manning who had to a snatch and grab.
Of course some of the things she uncovered were horrendous and if that's all she did
Yes, you would rather talk about the propriety of the leaker than the torture, murder and rape that was revealed by the leaks. Your priorities are noted.
So far there's no evidence that anyone was persecuting Assange.
Other than the open secret that the DOJ has a sealed indictment against him.
He was wanted for questioning
He's offered to answer questions to Swedish authorities if they were to come to the embassy, or do it remotely.
tried to convince British courts not to extradite him back to Sweden
He doesn't want Sweden to hand him over to the United States, with good reason - the country participated in Bush's extraordinary kidnapping program, handing people over who were promptly tortured. So, Assange has also offered to return to Sweden if they promise not to give him a short ride from a Swedish plane to an American one on the runway. Maybe both of those offers were mere bluffs, and he would have found a reason to back out.
But it would be easy for Sweden to call those bluffs, and they haven't - meaning credibility issues here did not start with Assange.
You mean he really wants to avoid being handed right over the U.S. government, that tortured Manning with more than a year in solitary confinement, by the Swedes. Because that's exactly what Sweden has done in the past. Assange has also offered to be interviewed by Swedish prosecutors if they came to the Ecuador embassy, or to return to Sweden if the government promises not to hand him over to the United States. Maybe he would find a reason not to fulfill those promises - but it would be very easy for Sweden to call his bluff.
They haven't called his bluff. Which tells any person with two functioning neurons that it's not about rape allegations and never has been.
Who you DGAF about, and are using as mere props in an argument. Protip: the next time you're throwing Assange under the bus with props, you might decry the lack of prosecution for the torture, killings and U.S. sponsored child rape at the same time, so it's harder to out you as a hack.
or something that's been done by high profile member of the incoming administration.
See above.
GOP shenanigans do not excuse Democratic shenanigans, and vice versa. Case in point, you probably didn't give Trump a pass for being a sexually harassing womanizer during the election last year, because Bill Clinton did it first.
At one time this very transparent concern troll vehemently faked support for wikileaks, but learned to hate Julian when he
FTFY.
I believe all information on all parties should be treated equally and should be liberated to enact change as it will. Julian clearly believes information is leverage to apply blah blah blah blah
Wikileaks is in the publishing-of-leaks business, not the hacking business. They can only publish what they've been given. So if you want them to publish RNC emails or Trumps tax returns, stop engaging in empty character assassination and get busy hacking.
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What part of "it could have been the Freemasons and the results would have been the same" are you having a hard time understanding? It has nothing nothing NOTHING to do with Israelis being Jews, and everything to do with them being immigrant racist imperialists. If you are a Palestinian and your family has farmed that olive garden since Charlemagne, you may be forced off your land by an immigrant who has a single Jewish grandparent from New Jersey, given free travel & a stipend plus other incentives to move to the country.
Israel created Hamas to undermine Fatah, take it up with them. And all the racist idiots prattling on about the Hamas Charter (which again was created by Israel) need to read the Likud Charter, which claims all the land to Jordan River. Land which is entirely Palestinian land under international law - including Jerusalem and the Right of Return.
Ah, another winger who thinks your lack of ability to go on oppressing people means you yourself are oppressed. Sorry you were dropped on the head as a child - early and often.
Then you're speaking on a subject on which you lack the barest, remedial knowledge.
You want to play grammar zionist nazi you might not want to leave a few words out of a sentence in the same post:
Pedant fail.
You were saying?
Germany isn't a race either, yet people still speak of Germans. Idiot.
Yes. Really. "I used to support you until I had these Concerns!" == concern trolling.
Your hand waving and butthurt attempt at avoidance are noted. What part of "Wikileaks is in the publishing business, not the hacking business" did you have a hard time understanding? If you want Assange to publish dirt on the Kochs, Santa Claus, whomever, then get busy hacking so you can give him something to publish.
Word salad is boring and needs more radishes. And again, if you think Wikileaks isn't leaking something you want seen, then stop whining and start poking at some servers. Otherwise, you're just another partisan hack engaging in character assassination. Or you could go work for David Brock, he's still in business, and then you could start getting paid for this tripe.
Hand waiving. The costs of reclamation after mining are quantifiable, as are black lung, slurry spills, CO2 emissions, etc.
An astounding lack of self-awareness. You know this is a story about reps in a state government trying to assign a "sin tax" to solar power, yes?
You mean the same government that has an enormous bias towards fossil fuels, yes? You know that the U.S. military is the single largest user of fossil fuels and has overthrown democracies to keep oil flowing in petrodollars, yes? Where all the lobbying money from all green energy moneys combined could be found in couches of the Exxon Mobile foyer?
So you're demanding that Palestinains get to demolish the homes of terrorist IDF personnel who murder and bomb Palestinians? You're demanding that Palestinians have the right to bomb anyone who looks like he might be an Israeli police officer on the grounds that he is a "militant"?
If zionists were held to zionist reasoning, Israel would have ceased to exist by 1950.
There's something about this "ability" concept that illusive? You almost had it:
Almost 60% of Americans cannot handle an emergency that costs them $500, much less save over a hundred thousand dollars for the down payment on a home in San Francisco. A cheapass home at that, because you would looking at closer to $200,000 down payment for the median price.
Of course it matters. Taking sums from half a dozen separate entities and pretending it's a giant sum owed from the state is sophistry. Would he (or you) take the debt from every for-profit entity in the state and pretend it's a single lump sum?
I addressed and denied his point by pointing out it's extremist dogma. Wanting deregulation for the sake of deregulation is as sensible as more regulation for the sake of regulation.
Reality has a well known anti-Libertarian bias. Cubans have better health care than you do - for $300 per person, per year. Common, be honest with yourself for .0002 seconds - the goal of any business is to make maximum profit for minimal costs. If a business doesn't have to moderate its prices through regulation or healthy competition, it will happily cornhole you eighteen ways till Sunday.
Let's start with the biggest turd in the punchbowl:
Your own link states that is lumping all obligations together, from "state, cities, counties, school districts, community colleges, special districts, agencies and other authorities" and then pretends that is debt owned by the state. Lets get real here - you take the debt owed from every gas station, almond farm, movie studio, and defense contractor, I'd bet a signed, autographed copy of Atlas Wanked that it's going to be a much, much higher figure than $1.3 trillion. ZOMG?? How can California possibly afford capitalism!!!!!
1) Civilization costs money and requires basic services
2) Government provides better services for a fraction of the cost compared to capitalism
You mean you want companies to be free to exploit employees, customers, shareholders, and resources without any measure of restraint.
By Randian design. Step 1: slash public school funding (thanks Reagan!) Step 2: complain that public schools are failing (because you gut their funding, fool) an need to be replaced with privatized charter schools that are worse than the public schools they replaced.
Low taxes have high costs, as does the capitalist belief that public roads should all be built on the public tax dollar, but mass transit needs to be self-funding.
Like when Jerry Brown spent years opposing a real minimum wage increase before finally caving in, when he opposed state single payer (that passed the legislature twice under Arnie), and let college students go on taking it up the ass on tuition. You're finally talking sense!
Right, because choosing to pay obscene rents over exorbitant is matter of choice rather than ability. Feel free to front thousands of San Franciscans half a mil each so they will no longer be "stupid."
Coal is killing the planet, wind and solar are not. Your dad probably complained about when asbestos and lead paint were being phased out, too.
That's the iceberg that punched a hole in your titanic rant against progressives: Hillary is a right wing warmonger who hates the left.
Do let us know when wind mills are a prime source of CO2 emissions, or when solar panels start poisoning ground water while creating earthquakes.
Except they are, of course. And that's letting the coal and natural gas industries getting away with externalizing most of their costs - pollution and environmental damage.
And without incredibly numerous and expensive lines of transmission, coal and nuclear plants are useless. Useless I tell you!
/equivilanthandwaiving
Says a fan of nuclear power, which requires magical vaporware to deal with the waste to make it something less than obscene corporate welfare. This isn't rocket science for solar: energy demands are greatest on hot sunny days, and cold windy nights. Solar takes care of the former, and wind power takes care of the latter. Generating capacity can be spaced across the grid, and excess power can be used to power up hydrostatic batteries - i.e. pumping water into a reservoir and letting a turbine generate electricity when it runs out. Which is what phancy pants nuclear power plants do - use water to move a turbine.
Lets engage in magical thinking, and assume there would never be another Fukushima or Chernobyl type disaster - which would be a given if more nuke plants were built to replace coal, as more plants would be hit by natural disasters and the profit motive. Nuclear power would still be unjustifiable, based on the cost alone. It could not exist without massive government underwriting, as no plant rolls the full cost of mining, construction, security, operation, disaster preparedness, decomissioning, or future waste storage into the rates it charges to customers.
They aren't, that's the point.
Stupid bullshit is stupid.
Who was obviously trying to work off time from the state by being an informant.
They did before Daniel Dumbshit Berg lost it.
1) She's already served more time in prison than any other whisteblower
2) You care only about the propriety of the leaker, not the murder, torture and rape revealed by the leaks. Which makes you a depraved authoritarian.
Can you prove that Santa Claus doesn't exist? Google the fallacy of trying to prove a negative.
A canard already addressed: "you mean she didn't have time nor the resources to sort the data."
Snowden was a high level data analyst who worked for both the government directly and a contractor. That means he wasn't pressed for time, and could pick and choose what he wanted without fear of being detected - as opposed to Manning who had to a snatch and grab.
Yes, you would rather talk about the propriety of the leaker than the torture, murder and rape that was revealed by the leaks. Your priorities are noted.
Your complete non-response, and doubling down on a stereotype that has nothing to do with medicine - is hereby noted.
Other than the open secret that the DOJ has a sealed indictment against him.
He's offered to answer questions to Swedish authorities if they were to come to the embassy, or do it remotely.
He doesn't want Sweden to hand him over to the United States, with good reason - the country participated in Bush's extraordinary kidnapping program, handing people over who were promptly tortured. So, Assange has also offered to return to Sweden if they promise not to give him a short ride from a Swedish plane to an American one on the runway. Maybe both of those offers were mere bluffs, and he would have found a reason to back out.
But it would be easy for Sweden to call those bluffs, and they haven't - meaning credibility issues here did not start with Assange.
You mean he really wants to avoid being handed right over the U.S. government, that tortured Manning with more than a year in solitary confinement, by the Swedes. Because that's exactly what Sweden has done in the past. Assange has also offered to be interviewed by Swedish prosecutors if they came to the Ecuador embassy, or to return to Sweden if the government promises not to hand him over to the United States. Maybe he would find a reason not to fulfill those promises - but it would be very easy for Sweden to call his bluff.
They haven't called his bluff. Which tells any person with two functioning neurons that it's not about rape allegations and never has been.
Who you DGAF about, and are using as mere props in an argument. Protip: the next time you're throwing Assange under the bus with props, you might decry the lack of prosecution for the torture, killings and U.S. sponsored child rape at the same time, so it's harder to out you as a hack.
Irrelevant.
See above.
GOP shenanigans do not excuse Democratic shenanigans, and vice versa. Case in point, you probably didn't give Trump a pass for being a sexually harassing womanizer during the election last year, because Bill Clinton did it first.
FTFY.
Wikileaks is in the publishing-of-leaks business, not the hacking business. They can only publish what they've been given. So if you want them to publish RNC emails or Trumps tax returns, stop engaging in empty character assassination and get busy hacking.