9 hours ago, sirineou said:

A links to this "left leaning media" glorifying this "austere scholar" ? 

You will never get any. However, it will not stop him from making the same ridiculous statement in his next post.

44 minutes ago, chrisandsu said:

Or Do something novel like give the native family’s tax breaks and free child care . Got to be cheaper then prisons and social disorder . 

Actually, it seems the main problem is that there very few nurseries so that women need to stop working when they have young kids. Anyway, on short term, they have no other choice than immigration.

4 hours ago, DaRoadrunner said:

About says it all. And not only in Germany.

You conveniently omitted a part of the quote in order to support your prejudiced view. The exact quote is:

"Others in that category interviewed by Reuters here cited the perception that asylum seekers were getting more financial support than pensioners."

Others...perception...

More generally, Germany's problem is the decrease of population so that there are not enough young people to pay for old people's pensions. Immigration is the only way for Germany to finance pensions and to maintain growth.

1 hour ago, bristolboy said:

Watchdog: White House budget office violated federal law in withholding Ukraine security funds

 

The White House budget office violated federal law when it withheld funds that Congress had appropriated to provide security assistance for Ukraine, a nonpartisan government watchdog has concluded.

The Government Accountability Office said in a report released Thursday that the White House Office of Management and Budget did not have the authority to withhold the money under the federal Impoundment Control Act, which governs Congress' role in the budget process.

"Faithful execution of the law does not permit the president to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law,"  the report concluded. "

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/01/16/impeachment-white-house-broke-law-withholding-ukraine-aid-gao-says/4487880002/

After revelations by Parnas, the GAO statement and soon the documents to be release by the Energy Department,  there are no good tactical options any more for the Republicans as to how to conduct the trial.

2 hours ago, mogandave said:

Yet ALL inspections have to be scheduled and pre-approved By Iran which is much the same as having no inspections. 

As often, when one cares to check your convincing statements, one finds it's not true.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-10/iran-snap-nuclear-inspections-jump-as-tensions-with-u-s-rise

17 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Lev Parnas has delivered evidence of members of Trump’s team surveillance of Ambassador Yovanovitch together with evidence that they engaged foreigners to illegally surveil the US Ambassador.

 

He’s named the individuals involved in this crime and he has provided documentary evidence to back his statements.

 

Pompeo has now to explain why when made aware of the threats to Yovanovitch he chose not to inform the CIA or the FBI.

 

John Bolton has been named as a material witness to these criminal acts, and again Parnas backs his statements with documents.

 

These documents are now in the hands of Congress and there is nothing Trump or McConnell can do to prevent the Trial managers appointed by Congress from entering these documents as evidence at Trump’s Impeachment Trial.

 

 

It's been worth waiting before sending impeachment charges.

2 hours ago, simple1 said:

New damaging evidence brought to light concerning trump sycophants activity in Ukraine. Let's see if it is repressed for the Senate trial,

 

https://www.vox.com/2020/1/14/21066219/impeachment-lev-parnas-evidence-ambassador

 

No wonder Republicans don't want any witness!

Obviously, he still hopes to get a fair trade deal with the US.  ????

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The nearly month-long delay in sending over the charges, according to Pelosi, accomplished the goal of getting the U.S. public to see the need for calling witnesses in the trial after Trump's administration blocked some current and former officials from cooperating in the House impeachment inquiry

Exactly.

https://morningconsult.com/2020/01/08/most-voters-want-more-impeachment-witnesses-as-senate-prepares-for-trial/

1 hour ago, bristolboy said:

However tendentious and overwrought your characterization of Soleimani may be, I'm sure Isis agrees with you that his assassination was a good thing.. They must be thrilled that the Iraqi government now wants the US out of Iraq. They must be thrilled that US troops in Iraq will now have to contend with the open enmity of Iraqi militias bent on revenge. But it gets even better than that for them.. The US is now threatening to withhold Iraqi money if Iraq goes ahead and does officially ask them to leave. This is going to rile up the Iraqis even more. (This on top of Trump's repeated moronic statement that the US should keep the oil wells in Syria. He even suggested that they be given to Exxon.)

In death, Soleimani is an even more formidable foe than when he was alive.

Add to it that, after having been $€*^÷% by Trump, the Kurds may well look the other way next time they encounter ISIS commandos.

59 minutes ago, CG1 Blue said:

The JCPOA simply allowed Khamenei's regime to carry on as normal, i.e. killing and torturing anybody who doesn't fall in line, and carrying out proxy wars across the ME. The deal also has weak points around inspections, and it's highly likely they are continuing the nuclear program covertly. 

 

That bunch of film and TV stars are indirectly supporting the Iranian regime. It's just embarrassing. 

The post I replied to was claiming that the American left was "cheering" the Iranian regime. No evidence has been provided, as expected.

About the deal itself, only Trump claims they were continuing the nuclear program and he has zero credibility.

3 minutes ago, rabas said:

Codepink?

 

Join Jane Fonda, Oliver Stone, Danny Glover, Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad, Eve Ensler, Mike Farrell, Frances Fisher, Shiva Rose, Matthew Modine, UPPJ, IPS, World Beyond War, Voices for Non Violence and more in reaching out to the Iranian people ....

Open Letter to the People of Iran from the American People

Dear Friends,

We, the undersigned, apologize for Donald Trump’s ....

 

https://www.codepink.org/an_apology_to_the_people_of_iran

 

Interesting, but where are they cheering the Iranian regime in the document you link (letter against the pull out from the nuclear deal)?

2 hours ago, Jonnapat said:

With all the revelations so far disclosed this has been a shoddy exercise from start to finish.

A world renowned company for decades whose reputation has been well and truly shot, and deservedly so. 

And the sacked boss walks away with 60 million dollars.?

Does nobody else think that the world is upside down in so many ways? 

To compare with $144,500 given to each victim's familly as compensation. 

26 minutes ago, Kelsall said:

Same polls that predicted Hillary would win.

This is not an election forecast, it's the current state of public opinion. What they show is quite interesting:

- support for removing Trump and support for additional witnesses in Senate trial have increased. It suggests that Pelosi was right to wait.

- the Republican propaganda has been a complete failure: only 24%  of respondents think there should not be additional witnesses.  Even worse, only 39% of Republican voters think so.

Smart tactics by Pelosi. She has left enough time to expose the hypocrisy of Republicans. As a result, support for removing Trump has increased again in polls and there is twice as much respondents who think there should be new witnesses during the trial than respondents who don't.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/daily-presidential-tracking-poll/ar-AADKLI1

https://morningconsult.com/2020/01/08/most-voters-want-more-impeachment-witnesses-as-senate-prepares-for-trial/