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  1. And how many condemnations of Israel come from Wobblybob? Any?
  2. I'm sure you think that has something to do with Rabas claims that the people of Gaza are lessening in their support of Hamas due to massive destruction from Israeli bombing. On the contrary. Which is not surprising. Mass bombing has never been a way to win over the hearts and mind of the civilian population. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israels-failed-bombing-campaign-gaza
  3. Really? I noticed that supporters of Israel cite the huge level of support for Hamas as reported by polling organizations as a reason not to be concerned about Gazans fate.
  4. Sure, the Washington Post is going to go way out on a limb for the sake of a headline? You think finger-pointing by the Washington Post after the fact is going to protect them and the 2 co-reporters from severe criticism? That's how the things work? Maybe in opposite world but not so much here on Planet Earth.
  5. The thing is, I regularly provide evidence to back up my opinions. Those are what are called informed opinions. Now, you may believe that an uninformed opinion is no less valuable than an informed one. I don't.
  6. I would? Really? In making a choice between, on the one hand, a highly respected journalistic institution that has its credibility on the line, and, on the other, an anonymous internet poster, who wouldn't? And of course it's addressing what you posted. You think the Post didn't take this past journalistic history into account?
  7. IYUO. Unless you can provide evidence otherwise
  8. I would trust the Washington Post's evaluation of the bona fides of this reporter over yours.
  9. It already being done. So what's your point? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198221000373#:~:text=Hobbyists and some small businesses,controller%2C battery packs and inverter.
  10. Apparently you think you know the "truth": namely, that none of us know the truth. None of us may know the whole truth, but plenty of us know what's false.
  11. IMO should be revised to IMUO namely "In My Uninformed Opinion." Or maybe I've got that wrong. Maybe you can share with me the reason why you think batteries are a dead end. What evidence have you got to offer? As for hydrogen, transport is a huge problem. Current pipelines that transport gas aren't suitable to transport hydrogen. Last time I looked it would take 14 tanker trucks to transfer the equivalent amount of hydrogen. Ammonia has been proposed as a way to transport the stuff, but ammonia is highly toxic. Some chemical powders also show promise but that's still tentative Not just that, but using hydrogen will most likely contribute to global warming. Not because it, in itself, is a greenhouse gas, but because it will outcompete methane for oxygen in the atmosphere. So methane will degrade more slowly. And methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 even though its lifespan is a lot shorter. And because hydrogen is the smallest molecule, it escaped easily from even the cracks and imperfections. I doubt that automobiles will be burning 100% of the hydrogen they consume.
  12. Actually, if you had read just the opening paragraph of the article you would have noted that a Washington Post reporter found fragments of white phosphorous casings at the site which were traced back to shells supplied to Israel by the USA. And, of course, on top of that, it's The Washington Post scrutinizing those claims. Ya think they rushed into publishing this article? That they didn't scrutinize the evidence? "Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon that injured at least nine civilians in what a rights group says should be investigated as a war crime, according to a Washington Post analysis of shell fragments found in a small village. A journalist working for The Post found remnants of three 155mm artillery rounds fired into Dheira, near the border of Israel, which incinerated at least four homes, residents said. " https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/12/11/israel-us-white-phosphorus-lebanon/ .
  13. I should have noted that this graph also includes a projection of how the population will age. Which actually makes immigration more of an imperative.
  14. Not only have the wages of the bottom 10% in America increased the fastest, but Obamacare benefits have been strengthened to cover more working Americans and Medicaid has been expanded to cover more of the working poor. Voters in several Republicans states have voted to expand Medicaid despite the opposition of Republican governors and legislatures. You've got nothing but falsehoods.
  15. Well, you might ask yourself about the demographics of Britain back then. What percentage of the population was pensioners back in the 90s compared to now. How many older people are there in the UK? It is well known that the UK population is ageing, with more people living longer lives than previously. There are now over 15.5 million people aged 60 or over, making up 23% of the UK population. The number of “older” old people is also rising. There are now 3.2 million people aged 80 or over, and almost 600,000 of these are aged 90 or over. https://www.mha.org.uk/get-involved/policy-influencing/facts-stats/ Here's how much the median age has risen since 1950 https://www.statista.com/statistics/275394/median-age-of-the-population-in-the-united-kingdom/
  16. Could be that there are lots of fools in Argentina who think this is noteworthy.
  17. Once again, the lying liars at Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have been proven to be lying about Israeli use of white phosphorus. A report...oh wait a minute: Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus in Lebanon attack Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon that injured at least nine civilians in what a rights group says should be investigated as a war crime, according to a Washington Post analysis of shell fragments found in a small village. A journalist working for The Post found remnants of three 155-millimeter artillery rounds fired into Dheira, near the border of Israel, which incinerated at least four homes, residents said. The rounds, which eject felt wedges saturated with white phosphorous that burns at high temperatures, produce billowing smoke to obscure troop movements as it falls haphazardly over a wide area. https://archive.ph/vuhWJ https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/12/11/israel-us-white-phosphorus-lebanon/ The article goes on to note that using the highly poisonous white phosphorus as a weapon, as opposed to using it as a smokescreen, is a war crime.
  18. Actually, this politician made replacing Argentinian currency for the American dollar a centerpiece of his campaign. That has since evaporated.
  19. You mean based on the investigations that, as far as being revealed, have turned up nothing to indicate that they've been anyway profited from their brothers business dealings. You'v got less than nothing
  20. Fox Anchor, Through Gritted Teeth, Admits Biden’s Economy “Is a Lot Stronger Than Anybody Understands” Responding to the jobs report Friday morning, Fox’s Maria Bartiromo told viewers, in moment that seemed to pain her: “Overall, you’ve got to look at this report as a big positive. We’ve got more jobs created than expected.” Turning to panelist Joseph Lavorgna, the former chief economist of the National Economic Council under Trump, she remarked, “Joe Lavorgna, you’ve been saying this for a long time, saying that the economy is a lot stronger than anybody understands.” He responded: “The numbers are good numbers, no question. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/fox-anchor-biden-economy-stronger-than-anybody-understands
  21. Well. good on you for providing a link. Did you read the entire article? "Balancing the books may prove to be a bigger obstacle for nuclear power than splitting the atom. A new report from the National Academy of Engineering says the economics of nuclear power “is perhaps the largest challenge to the commercial success of advanced reactors.” Advanced nuclear reactors are especially tricky to game out. “Let me just say that anyone making estimates of what it will cost to produce electricity from these power plants has got to have a whole series of embedded assumptions, there’s a lot of uncertainty,” said Richard Meserve, a former chair of the nuclear regulatory commission and a co-author of the report, during a briefing about the report." https://www.vox.com/science/23702686/nuclear-power-small-modular-reactor-energy-climate-change And there's this: Deal to build pint-size nuclear reactors canceled A plan to build a novel nuclear power plant comprising six small modular reactors (SMRs) fell apart this week when prospective customers for its electricity backed out. Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS), a coalition of community-owned power systems in seven western states, withdrew from a deal to build the plant, designed by NuScale Power, because too few members agreed to buy into it. The project, subsidized by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), sought to revive the moribund U.S. nuclear industry, but its cost had more than doubled to $9.3 billion. “We still see a future for new nuclear,” says Mason Baker, CEO and general manager of UAMPS, which planned to build the plant in Idaho. “But in the near term, we’re going to focus on … expanding our wind capacity, doing more utility-scale solar, [and] batteries.” https://archive.ph/hsGlU There's a saying that the Brazilians have about their nation that I'm going to alter to apply here: Nuclear energy is the power of the future and always will be.
  22. I didn't ask you anything.
  23. As for missing things, it wasn't known how intimately Israel was involved in the funding of Hamas back then. So it's not a issue of just vague "support for Hamas" anymore, but the fact that among other things, Israel enabled Hamas to be funded to the tune of 30 million dollars per month.
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