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  1. I guess if you have trouble dealing with issues consisting of more than one word, your comment would make sense. At least, to you. For those of us who understand issues that are defined by more than one word, your comment makes no sense at all.
  2. What's this got to do with the topic of this thread which is: The economy is roaring. Immigration is a key reason.
  3. And how does this address the issue of Israel's lack of proof for its allegation that a large proportion of UNRWA workers are actively working with Hanas?
  4. U.S. Finds Some Israeli Claims on U.N. Staff Likely, Others Not Intelligence report says Washington can’t verify Israeli assertions about widespread links to militant groups A new U.S. intelligence assessment found it is likely that some employees of a United Nations agency that distributes aid to Palestinians took part in Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault on Israel, but says the U.S. can’t verify Israeli allegations that a larger number of U.N. workers have links to militant groups, people familiar with the report said. Washington and other Western capitals last month suspended funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which supplies aid to Palestinians, after Israel shared findings that at least 12 Unrwa employees were connected to the series of Hamas killings and kidnappings during an attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza. https://archive.ph/UWsp4
  5. Fact Check: Drop in climate-related disaster deaths not evidence against climate ‘emergency’ Social media posts are recirculating a bar chart that depicts falling numbers of deaths due to weather-related disasters over the last century alongside comments suggesting that the significance of climate-driven weather changes is exaggerated. Mortality, however, is not a useful measure of the number or severity of weather-related events including the floods, droughts, storms, wildfire, and extreme temperatures listed in the graph, experts told Reuters. Although deaths from these disasters have decreased, due in part to better forecasting and preparedness, the number, intensity, and cost of climatic and meteorological hazards have all increased over the last hundred years. https://archive.ph/EYKCu
  6. Israel Hasn’t Offered Evidence Tying U.N. Workers to Terrorism, Review Says Israel has not provided evidence to support its allegations that many employees of the main U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees are members of terrorist organizations, according to an independent review commissioned by the United Nations that was released on Monday. The review was announced in January, before Israel circulated claims that significant numbers of employees of the agency, known as UNRWA, were members of terrorist groups. But by the time investigators started working on the review in early February, it had taken on additional significance: Israel had accused about a dozen employees of the agency, which employs about 13,000 Palestinians in Gaza, of involvement in the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel or their aftermath. https://archive.ph/5eyLf https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/world/middleeast/unrwa-israel-hamas-report.html US intelligence casts doubt on Israeli claims of UNRWA-Hamas links, report says A US intelligence assessment of Israel’s claims that UN aid agency staff members participated in the Hamas attack on 7 October said some of the accusations were credible, though could not be independently verified, while also casting doubt on claims of wider links to militant groups. The assault precipitated a full-scale invasion by Israel of Gaza that has killed upwards of 30,000 Palestinians. Earlier this year, Israel accused 12 employees of the United Nations Reliefs and Works Agency (UNRWA) of participating in the 7 October attacks alongside Hamas. It also said 10% of all UNRWA workers were affiliated with Hamas. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/22/us-intelligence-unrwa-hamas Israel yet to provide evidence to back UNRWA 7 October attack claims – UN A month after Israeli allegations that a dozen United Nations staff were involved in the 7 October Hamas attack, UN investigators have yet to receive any evidence from Israel to support the claims, though they expect some material to be forthcoming “shortly”. The allegations against the 12 employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) led 16 major donors to suspend contributions totalling $450m at a time when more than 2 million Gazans are facing famine. UNRWA says it is approaching “breaking point” and only has sufficient funds to continue functioning for the next month at most. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/01/unrwa-funding-pause-employees-october-7-hamas-attack-claims-no-evidence-un
  7. You might try acquainting yourselves with the Constitution before you post such nonsense. There are always alternate electors, How else would a candidate have their electoral votes cast? But what legitimate alternate electors don't do can't legally do is forge documents and/or declare themselves the legitimate electors when the legislature and the courts have ruled otherwise.
  8. I wish all the British right-wingers who posted in support of the decision would share their beliefs with their American right wing counterparts who overwhelmingly favor prayer in schools.
  9. The same "woke idiots" who believed that Biden was going to win in 2020?
  10. It doesn't need a Mr. Know it all to see why this comment of yours is personal. "How about sticking with your own countries politics instead of putting your nose where it doesn’t belong." In fact even a Mr. Know Very Little should be able to see why. I'll try to keep the explanation short and sweet for you. Borders have nothing to do with one's knowledge or ignorance. Chomper Higgot's nationality is utterly irrelevant. Attacking him for that rather than for his statements is blatantly personal. Sad you don't seem to understand that.
  11. I have no doubt that you wouldn't. The question is whether you have any rational justifications for that stance. So far, you have offered nothing but a misleadingly truncated quote and borrowed insults. Which suggests that in the way of rational support for your position, you've got nothing
  12. Now you've descended into irrationality and borrowed insults. An understandable, if pitiable, reaction to having your blatant dishonesty exposed. Here is your excerpted quote "Anyone like you" And here it is in its entirety. "Anyone like you who believes that prognostications about political outcomes can be factual must either believe in time travel or the infallibility of crystal balls. Any source that asserts such an outcome is a future fact is inherently not credible. Making a prediction is inherently a matter of opinion."
  13. I don't think it's valid to go after someone's opinions based on where they live or hail from. Knowledge and ignorance are not bounded by borders. That said, I'm surprised that someone who has made so much of their Britishness and their believe that it automatically confers some kind of special superiority in discussion of that nation's politics, would so openly expose his ignorance of the American political scene. Here are 2 names for you to contemplate: Gretchen Whitmer, the popular Democratic governor of the swing state of Michigan. Josh Shapiro, the popular Democratic governor of the swing state of Pennsylvania.
  14. More falsehoods from you: Does an Image Show Ocasio-Cortez Fake-Crying at a Migrant Camp? A picture taken in 2018 captured Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, before she was elected to the U.S. House, protesting a migrant-detention camp in Texas. "But the claim that got the most attention, pushed by viral conspiracy and junk news websites, made unfounded accusations that the photographs of Ocasio-Cortez were fake and that she was actually crying over an empty parking lot. Russian state media outlet RT and ZeroHedge were among junk news sites taking a cue from Alex Jones' InfoWars network in that regard. The latter posted an unfounded story on June 24, 2019, that posited the "empty parking lot" conspiracy theory." https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/aoc-empty-parking-lot/
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