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Haven't Governor Newsome, and his predecessor Jerry Brown, done nothing but drone on for years about California being in a historic drought due to "climate change." Which is it...epic drought due to climate change or deadly storms and flooding?

10 hours ago, Tug said:

we ALL must try harder

No...the Chinese and Indians must try harder; almost all Western and advanced Asian countries are already "green."

11 hours ago, Saanim said:

who does pursue the democratic will of the population?

The elected branches of government...generally the legislative body.

14 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

 

Unless China stops building carbon belching stations its just a waste of time, just battering your populace on putting plastic in the right recycle tub of 20 recycle tubs

That's the point of my post...nothing all the woke virtue signaling liberals have done to ruin California's energy grid and transportation system over two decades has slowed "climate change" even a second. But they can drown in the winter and burn in the summer in their good feelings.

5 minutes ago, Scott Tracy said:

OK. What is supreme at this point? Is it parliament, by whatever name, or a Court of Law? A court of Law interprets laws as written, sometimes determines the spirit, as well as the letter. That is of course, if a law is written. In the UK, Parliament is supreme, it passes laws, based on the fact that the electorate elected them. No one elects judges in the UK. Parliament is accountable to the electorate, judiciary is not.

If the Knesset wants to reform the judiciary, good luck to them. 80,000 protesters is nothing in the scheme of things. That probably covers everyone in the judiciary. 

I was incorrect and the proposed law requires only a simple majority to overturn a ruling, unless it's unanimous, then it can't be overturned. Which branch is supreme varies by custom and the founding documents in different countries. In the US, the federal courts are a creation of Congress, and thus inferior to it. Congress also sets the funding and the jurisdictional limits of the courts. I don't know who it is in Isreal. 

4 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Do you have a quotable source for that?

Just browsed through some stuff.

Not much details found but a wording like "simple majority"?

I was wrong, apparently the initial reporting I read did say a simple majority to overturn a Supreme Court decision but I just misread or misremembered it. (See first article below.) However, the latest proposals apparently states that if the court’s decision is unanimous, it cannot be over-ridden by Parliament. Which seems like a reasonable compromise. (See second article below.)

The new justice minister, Mr. Levin, confirmed he would pursue his longstanding goal of limiting the Supreme Court’s ability to countermand laws made in Parliament...Mr. Levin has proposed legislation that would allow a simple majority of lawmakers to override the court’s decisions.

In Israel, a Hard-Right Agenda Gains Steam https://nyti.ms/3QyFyFo

Under the plan, a simple majority of lawmakers could override almost any revocation of parliamentary legislation by the Supreme Court, which can currently block laws on constitutional grounds. The court would only be able to prevent itself from being overruled by Parliament if all of its 15 judges unanimously agreed about the need to block a law.

Netanyahu Surges Ahead With Judicial Overhaul, Prompting Fury in Israel https://nyti.ms/3W5rDb0

5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Apparently 80,000 people don't think that is sufficient.

Over 9M people in Isreal...apparently this disgruntled lot is a tiny minority.

Strange all the state's woke climate policies, plethora of "green energy" initiatives, and war on the fossil fuel industry the past two decades hasn't ended "climate change." I guess they'll just have to try harder!

8 hours ago, DavisH said:

The wont...and don't, have natural immunity though. Immunity in the population builds up over time. The xbb.1.5 variant has been detected in China, which largely escapes vaccines and past infections. So don't expect their waves of infection to be over anytime soon. 

It's their fault for starting so late.

16 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Yes, but in such a system it requires more than a wafer-thin majority to override basic/fundamental rights and/or constitution.

Separation of powers is well proven concept for countries that call themselves democracies.

And it's more and more hard to name Israel as the "only democracy in the middle east".

My understanding is the proposed legislation requires a super majority to overturn a Supreme Court ruling...not just a simple one.

27 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Any evidence that he willfully kept the documents for 6 years? Or NARA knew and subpoena Biden to return the documents? Please enlighten. 

The crime is not "willfully" keeping the documents...it's having them in the first place (even if he locked the garage door)!

900 million (minus 1 percent or so) will have natural immunity to future infections...rather late to the party after 3 years of national sturm und drang but finally following the Western world and letting Covid rip.

28 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Do you think the elected members of the Israeli Knesset should have all the power? 

There are good reasons for separation of powers.

 

IMHO Israeli politicians often get away with what they do because the world is too shy to criticize them. Because if anybody criticizes them then those persons are called best case antisemite and more likely Nazi.

And obviously the USA supports them no matter what. It's sad.

Israel's is a parliamentary system where "separation of power" isn't such a thing; in most such systems parliament (i.e. the people) are supreme. And the proposal as I understand it is the court is free to make its decision, which could only be over ridden by a vote of the Knesset. Why should unelected judges be able to thwart the will of the people?

You can't make this stuff up!

On Thursday...Biden was asked...about the second set of classified documents found in his possession.

"I'm gonna get a chance to speak on all of this...by the way my corvette's in a locked garage, okay? "But people know I take classified documents and classified materials seriously."

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-defends-storing-classified-documents-garage-locked-1773372

2 minutes ago, heybruce said:

Translation:  You have no evidence, it's just what you want to believe.

Only the evidence of my own eyes.

15 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

That depends when you ask him because he never lies does he.

 

Former President Donald Trump argued in a court filing Wednesday that the National Archives should have expected to find classified material among the 15 boxes Trump turned over in January from Mar-a-Lago because they were presidential records.

 

Beside which the classification has no bearing on the charges specified in the search warrant.

 

Donald Trump is under criminal investigation for potential violations of the Espionage Act and additional statutes relating to obstruction of justice and destroying federal government records

 

The Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. administration alledges that classified documents were kept at MAL and that's all it is...an allegation; and in fact no criminal complaint has been filed formally making these allegations. Contrast this with Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. and his administration admitting to criminal conduct in keeping classified government documents in two separate locations (but the garage door was locked). I will keep to the facts and refer to the "classified" MAL documents as "allegedly" found whereas the Biden residence and "unthink tank" classified documents were found.

Not called "Tricky Joe" for nothing...he works hard to earn it every day.

West Wing staffers, officials across the Biden administration and Democratic Party officials...expressed frustration to CBS News with how the White House has explained to the general public the discovery of documents with classified markings at President Biden's former office and his home in Delaware.

Those who spoke to CBS News...believe the decision not to disclose the discovery of the documents sooner undercuts the president's precious vows of transparency and professional management of the government.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-documents-classified-white-house-response-democrats/

32 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Your point makes a distinction between it being "allegedly being found" in MAL and "found" at Biden's residence.

The distinction is because President Trump disputes the allegations of classified documents being kept at his MAL residence and is challenging the Justice Department allegations of same; while Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., and his administration, has admitted the same.

6 minutes ago, heybruce said:

Do you have any evidence Biden did interfere with a Justice Department investigation?

No evidence is necessary...it's his Justice Department and Attorney General and he sicked them on a political rival and likely 2024 presidential challenger.

4 minutes ago, heybruce said:

No, it's kind of like the difference between going 5 mph over the speed limit and going 50 mph over.

The statue is violated at a single one page document...so Trump and Biden face the same legal liability. 

8 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Whats that got to do with your comment which I addressed?

I believe your right however on keeping docs in a garage the same as an unauthorized storage facility in MAL

You, or one of your compatriots, seem to be drawing a distinction between the number or volume of classified documents allegedly found at MAL and those found at the Biden residence and "unthink tank." My point is that the number is irrelevant...it can be a single one page document or boxes of documents and the statue is violated.