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Because if you put her in a public venue to make such claims then everyone has a perfect right to question those claims. After all, she was being used to advance the agenda of those who brought her there. If she were grieving at home with her loved ones she could make whatever allegations she liked and no outsider would have a right or a legitimate reason to question them.

It is puzzling: " Instead, the special counsel's office contends that Biden performed minimal work for the substantial sums of money he received from these entities. The details surrounding these financial arrangements are expected to play a crucial role in the upcoming trial." I'm guessing that money was transferred to him in turn to transfer a part of it to someone else who didn't want to be directly tied to the Romanian govt. But that's just an uninformed guess. But why should only Biden haters be allowed to make evidence-free suppositions? That hardly seems fair.

So, you have no problem with her questioning being introduced as evidence of some sort in this thread but a problem with questioning it? Actually, the people who showed little respect for Ayelet Samerano are those who enabled her to be present at the public forum where she could make those dubious claims. Exploitation much?

Usually legislation begins with discussions. No evidence that Republicans are even discussing this. And the reason it has no chance of being passed? Obviously because it would hurt interests that are crucial to Republicans. As for the benefits being "leftist propaganda"...tell that to the agricultural industry including meatpacking and dairy. These U.S. industries can't work without illegal immigrants https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal-immigrants-us-jobs-economy-farm-workers-taxes/

Most of the attention toward climate change and global warming is directed at atmospheric temperatures a few feet above the surface of the land. Given that this is measuring air, the fluctuation in temperature can be erratic making it more difficult to separate out the static from the signal. But in the case of ocean heat storage it's a lot more clear because of the high specific heat of sea water which means temperature fluctuations are greatly reduced. "Ninety percent of global warming is occurring in the ocean, causing the water’s internal heat to increase since modern recordkeeping began in 1955, as shown in the upper chart. (The shaded blue region indicates the 95% margin of uncertainty.) This chart shows annual estimates for the first 2,000 meters of ocean depth." https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/ocean-warming/?intent=121

That may be true. But you'll have to come up with a credible source to establish that as a fact. So try again with an actual link to a credible source From the landing page of the World News Forum: Any alleged factual claims must be supported by a valid link to an approved credible source. https://aseannow.com/forum/158-world-news/

There is also the little issue of Trump not actually wanting to tank the economy by ridding it of illegals.

The way one starts to get legislation passed is to first promote it. Make it a subject for debate and discussion. But it doesn't even get a mention from Trump and his fellow travelers. Given that so much of his support stems from people who benefit from illegal workers, that isn't surprising.

Maybe it's not convincing to you but why should anyone care about the conviction or lack of it in the case of an anonymous poster on thaivisa who offers no evidence to back up their assertions. The fact is that even early models made in the 70's, when computing power was minuscule compared to today, successfully formulated algorithms that are still valid today for predicting global warming. And the human contribution to the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is now 1/3 of the total. Maybe to you a 50% increase is small and signifies no important role And that says nothing about the increase of methane and other greenhouse gasses generated by human activity.

All you ever did in this regard was try to get me to share my feelings with you. Never did you address the issue of the validity of the charge as opposed to the issue of who was making it. You've got nothing.

You noticed, but so far you don't have a refutation for it.

If Trump really wanted to solve the illegal immigration problem all he would have to do as President is to propose legislation that makes it a felony to hire illegals and those who do so face serious time in prison. To give Ron DeSantis credit, a thing I hate to do, he has at least, had a law passed that imposes serious fines on those who hire illegals. (Whether or not he sees to it that it gets enforced is another matter.) Given Trump's popularity in the agricultural business community, a community that depends on illegals, I doubt that he will ever propose such legislation.

See post above.

Do you believe that this mother is reading this page or any page of aseannow.com? Are we supposed to not examine claims based on the fear that somehow she might be cognizant of what is written here. What is your point? And I have not deflected your question. I just haven't given you the yes/no answer you want because it's a deflection. My feelings are irrelevant to the validity of the claim that the UN kidnapped the body of this woman's son.

Well, if a magic want could be waved and the huge installed base of fossil fuel plants were replaced with solar and wind, it would be a different story. So, it's going to take time. But already the increase of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere has been greatly slowed. Clean energy tech slowed down growth of global carbon emissions in 2023, IEA says Though energy demand increased, clean energy tech helped the world to avoid using more fossil fuels last year. Without clean energy technology, global carbon emissions in the last five years would have been three times larger, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Global carbon dioxide emissions still reached a record high in 2023. But the new analysis found that growth in clean sources had led to a “structural slowdown” in energy-related emissions. https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/03/01/clean-energy-tech-slowed-down-growth-of-global-carbon-emissions-in-2023-iea-says

So the only proper venue to challenge dubious assertions is a court of law? It looks like you don't have much use for facts.

Another personal deflection. I guess that's because you've got nothing to say about the validity of the assertion that the UN kidnapped her son or the reason why an official from the UN should even be asked this question.

The turning around is already underway. Global spending on clean energy technologies and infrastructure on track to hit $2 trillion in 2024 even as higher financing costs hinder new projects, notably in emerging and developing economies Despite pressures on financing, global investment in clean energy is set to reach almost double the amount going to fossil fuels in 2024, helped by improving supply chains and lower costs for clean technologies, according to a new IEA report. Total energy investment worldwide is expected to exceed $3 trillion in 2024 for the first time, with some $2 trillion set to go toward clean technologies – including renewables, electric vehicles, nuclear power, grids, storage, low-emissions fuels, efficiency improvements and heat pumps – according to the latest edition of the IEA’s annual World Energy Investment report. https://www.iea.org/news/investment-in-clean-energy-this-year-is-set-to-be-twice-the-amount-going-to-fossil-fuels Giant batteries drain economics of gas power plants iant batteries that ensure stable power supply by offsetting intermittent renewable supplies are becoming cheap enough to make developers abandon scores of projects for gas-fired generation world-wide. The long-term economics of gas-fired plants, used in Europe and some parts of the United States primarily to compensate for the intermittent nature of wind and solar power, are changing quickly, according to Reuters' interviews with more than a dozen power plant developers, project finance bankers, analysts and consultants. They said some battery operators are already supplying back-up power to grids at a price competitive with gas power plants, meaning gas will be used less. https://archive.ph/PXJL3 And even cheaper batteries are about to go into production: Energy project to use batteries made in West Virginia Construction of the factory has been “substantially completed,” and the company is in the process of “ramping up its manufacturing workforce, ahead of starting high-volume production later this year,” according Jaramillo. https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/energy-project-to-use-batteries-made-in-west-virginia/article_be5c0a0e-559a-11ef-9d69-2fb32b22b9bc.html FYI Jaramillo was formerly the head of battery production at Tesla. Iron-air batteries: long-duration grid storage targets 1/10th the cost of lithium-ion The target price tag of $20/kWh (one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion battery storage) can allow wind and solar to deliver firm, stable power cost-competitively with existing fossil generation. Last year, Form Energy (the company commercialising the innovation) took an order from Georgia Power in the U.S. for a 15-megawatt/1,500-megawatt-hour system, and is building a new commercial-scale battery manufacturing facility in West Virginia. Such solutions are essential to the clean energy transition. Halber points at studies that predict that up to 140 TWh of grid storage will be needed globally by 2040. https://energypost.eu/iron-air-batteries-long-duration-grid-storage-targets-1-10th-the-cost-of-lithium-ion/ And this is just one technology. There are lots of others coming online.

Here you go again trying to make it personal. In other words, it's a deflection. What I feel is irrelevant. What is irrelevant is that this grieving mother's suffering is being used to cast aspersions on the UN. Where is the evidence that the UN was involved in this? Because the party who stole her son's body is an employee of the UN? Was I not clear enough in the example I gave about a Microsoft employee? Why do you think it makes sense to credit her claim that the UN stole her son's body?

Great article here about how Trump relies on dubious numbers rather than face reality. Trump, by the Numbers From the first time I went on an exploratory political trip with Trump in 1999, he has measured his worth in numbers... He pronounced himself better than other candidates because of numbers: the number of men who desired his then-girlfriend, Melania Knauss; the number of zoning changes he had maneuvered to get; the number of stories he stacked on his building near the U.N.; the number of times he was mentioned in a Palm Beach newspaper. By his mode of valuation, if his numbers aren’t better than his rivals’, he’s worthless https://dnyuz.com/2024/08/10/trump-by-the-numbers/

Trump Falsely Claims That the Crowds Seen at Harris Rallies Are Fake The former president, in a series of social media posts, said that Vice President Kamala Harris had used A.I. technology to create images of fake crowds at her events. Former President Donald J. Trump has taken his new obsession with the large crowds that Vice President Kamala Harris is drawing at her rallies to new heights, falsely declaring in a series of social media posts on Sunday that she had used artificial intelligence to create images and videos of fake crowds. The crowds at Ms. Harris’s events, including one in Detroit outside an airplane hangar, were witnessed by thousands of people and news outlets, including The New York Times, and the number of attendees claimed by her campaign is in line with what was visible on the ground. https://archive.ph/GFgNg And the Trump weirdness continues. I suspect the increasingly bizarre Trump actually believes this. Not surprising, really. He believes what he needs to believe to sustain his fragile ego.

More appeals to emotion in your post. Her questions would be valid if she were asking them of a Hamas official. If, say, a worker for Microsoft kidnapped a body, would it make sense to ask Bill Gates where that body was?

No. I just have no respect for what you're offering which is truthiness: "Truthiness is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.[1][2] Truthiness can range from ignorant assertions of falsehoods to deliberate duplicity or propaganda intended to sway opinions.[3][4]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness Get back to me when you can offer evidence backed by a link to a credible source: From the landing page of the World News Forum: "Any alleged factual claims must be supported by a valid link to an approved credible source." https://aseannow.com/forum/158-world-news/

By the same token, then, neither did the decline. Right?

Just another baiting comment from you.