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The stock market is not the economy.

This is what is called a "When did you stop beating your wife" question.

As the Noble Memorial Economics prize winner Paul Samuelson once remarked, "The stock market has predicted nine out of the last five recessions." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2023/11/01/predict-nine/?amp=1 So this sharp drop is hardly conclusive.

First off, most models have predicted the overall rate of global warming very accurately. Even those old modals that predated the massive computing power that subsequently became available. Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming Study debunks idea that older models were inaccurate Climate change doubters have a favorite target: climate models. They claim that computer simulations conducted decades ago didn't accurately predict current warming, so the public should be wary of the predictive power of newer models. Now, the most sweeping evaluation of these older models—some half a century old—shows most of them were indeed accurate. https://www.science.org/content/article/even-50-year-old-climate-models-correctly-predicted-global-warming Since these models were based on the warming properties of greenhouses gasses, our comments about CO2 are just obfuscation. The same goes for your comment about the Earth's shape. It differs very, very slightly from a sphere. "The Earth’s rotation creates an outward force that is highest at the equator and zero at the poles. Since the Earth is not perfectly solid throughout, this force results in the Earth being ‘squashed’ into a slightly flattened sphere... The diameter at the poles is about 12,714km and at the equator is about 12,756km; hence the amount of flattening (or ‘oblateness’) is only about 0.3 per cent." https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/why-isnt-the-earth-a-perfect-sphere And satellites have been used to measure the energy balance since 1997 Direct Observations Confirm That Humans Are Throwing Earth's Energy Budget off Balance https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3072/direct-observations-confirm-that-humans-are-throwing-earths-energy-budget-off-balance/

Where don't you get your news from? U.S. Oil And Gas Production Are Ahead Of Last Year’s Record Pace Last year marked a record for U.S. oil production with an average daily production of 12.93 million barrels per day (BPD). That record was 5% greater than the previous record of 12.31 million bpd set in 2019. However, current data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows that average daily production thus far in 2024 is 13.12 million bpd — 7.1% ahead of the production level of a year ago and 1.4% higher than last year’s record pace. U.S. natural gas production tells a similar tale. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2024/04/26/us-oil-and-gas-production-are-ahead-of-last-years-record-pace/ https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DCOILWTICO What do you think would be the effect on oil and gas prices if the US greatly accelerated production of oil and gas? Not exactly an effective way to pay down the debt. As for Democrats' war on the middle class...it's not Democrats who have massively slashed taxes on the wealthy. Or who consistently try to undermine Social Security. The latest attack goes to the Trump administrationh which changed the way inflation was computed with the result that benefits to the elderly are lower. The Republicans also opposing measure to impose the Social Security Tax on higher levels of income. And have no problem with leaving millions of Americans with no affordable access to health insurance.

Yes the climate is always changing. But the thing is it's about rate of change. And the data is overwhelming at this point that greenhouse gases are responsible for the increased rate of change.

I see you get your information from Qanon. Not surprising.

Netanyahu’s Spat With Biden Echoes Dispute With Israel’s Security Chiefs Senior leaders from Israel’s military and intelligence agencies have also privately grown frustrated with the prime minister for introducing new conditions to the fraught negotiations, according to two Israeli officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter. For weeks, the security officials have privately complained that Mr. Netanyahu is holding up talks by, among other things, reintroducing a demand that Israel continues to operate checkpoints along a strategic highway in northern Gaza during any cease-fire. In May, Israel had softened its position on that point, raising hopes of a deal. https://archive.ph/3Hpqi

Another mindreader. 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/ To put it another way, put up or....

It should also be noted that Biden's improvements to Obamacare included a $2000 yearly ceiling on out-of-pocket spending for medication by Medicare members.

More ahistorical nonsense. For most of their history in the mideast and spain, jewish communities survived and even thrived in the mideast. As one example, it was Muslim Turkey that took in 300,000 jews who were expelled from Spain during the Christian reconquest. (Another 350,000 were estimated to have been killed by Christians) Anyone with a smidgeon of knowledge about Israel's conduct in Gaza before Israel withdrew, and its current conduct in the West Bank, doesn't need to invoke anti-semitism to explain why Palestians hate Israel "This is not to deny demonizeing anti-semitism exists in the mideast, but that's a phenomenon that began in the late 19th century from Europe, particularly France, and gained steam as the Zionist movement grew in what was then Palestine.

Security chiefs said to plead with PM to take deal; he tells them they’re lousy negotiators; PMO denies report Israel’s security chiefs reportedly urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to utilize the momentum provided by strikes on terror chiefs to seize the opportunity for a hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas at a top-level security meeting on Wednesday night. Channel 12 claims Mossad chief David Barnea, who has been leading Israel’s negotiations on a deal, said at the meeting that there is a deal ready, and that Israel must take it. But Netanyahu shouted down his security chiefs, banged on the table, and told them they were lousy negotiators, Channel 12 news reports. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/security-chiefs-said-to-plead-with-pm-to-take-deal-he-tells-them-theyre-lousy-negotiators-pmo-denies-report/

The role money played in politics changed radically when the conservatives on the supreme court under Roberts ruled that money is speech. This allowed for unlimited amounts to be spent by private individuals. In fact, under Biden the ACA was made very affordable to middle class people. And it was completely paid for by taxes imposed on the wealthy. Also, under Biden, Medicare was finally allowed to negotiate with big Pharma on drug costs: 20 medications per year for the next several years. Trump campaigned in 2016 for negotiating prices with big Pharma but reneged even before he took office.

What's even more significant is that even in December of 2023 Trump was still lamenting that John McCain saved Obamacare. Trump University Founder Promises to Replace Obamacare With Something ”Cheaper” and “Better” Trump said he’s not terminating Obamacare but then lamented John McCain didn’t terminate it https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-university-founder-promises-to-replace-obamacare-with-something-cheaper-and-better Now he's blatantly lying and claiming he never wanted to eliminate Obamacare. Fact check: Does Trump want to repeal the ACA, as Biden says? Trump campaigned on a promise to repeal Obamacare in 2016; a promise we rated Broken. He kept that anti-ACA position throughout his term, even after Republican senators, notably the late-Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., voted against repealing the health care law in 2017. In July 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a case from Republican-led states and the former Trump administration that had asked justices to block the law. In late 2023, Trump renewed his vow to replace Obamacare multiple times. https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-does-trump-want-to-repeal-the-aca-as-biden-says/21474989/

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/ You've got nothing.

Here's a link to a fascinating article about Yahya Sinwar. And, no, it's in no way a defense for what he's done. https://archive.ph/UyuHg https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/yahya-sinwar-profile-hamas-gaza-war-israel

In a way, you have to admire Netanyahu's assassination of Haniyeh in Iran given Biden's allegiance to Israel. It seems obvious that he's trying to draw the US into a war against Iran. And he may succeed. The Middle East Is Inching Toward Another War There is little doubt that Israel was behind the audacious assassination of Hamas’ hostage-deal negotiator and political head Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday. By deliberately maximizing Tehran’s embarrassment—Haniyeh was killed only hours after the inauguration of Iran’s new reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian—the Israeli government also maximized the likelihood of Iranian retaliation. That is—at least in the view of a former Deputy Head of the Israeli National Security Council—because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to spark a larger war and drag the U.S. into it. https://time.com/7006500/israel-iran-us-netanyahu-haniyeh/ It also helps the election chances of Israel's favorite ex-President.

Killing of Hamas Leader Fuels More Tension Between Biden and Netanyahu Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is pushing back against President Biden over American concerns about the assassination of the political leader of Hamas and Israel’s approach to cease-fire talks in the latest rift between the two allies since the war in Gaza began 10 months ago. In what a U.S. official described as a heated conversation on Thursday, Mr. Netanyahu denied that Israel was an obstacle to a cease-fire agreement and rejected Mr. Biden’s contention that the killing of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Iranian soil could sabotage efforts to reach a deal halting hostilities and freeing hostages. A senior Israeli government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive relations between the two countries, said in an interview that Mr. Netanyahu insisted he was not trying to block a cease-fire. https://archive.ph/4JF5t https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/03/us/politics/us-israel-hamas-assassination.html

l-average-temperature-in-the-us/ I got news for you: the United States is not the world. Get back to us when you can cite similar data for for the globe.

In other words, your comment was irrelevant to this thread which is about the deaths of native American children.

I've done just that.

And it's wrong to criticize those views? Or to point out the context in which they occur? Namely, the vilification of the unrwa by Israel??

Renewable energy is already much cheaper than coal, and is now becoming cheaper than natural gas as well.

I think you're confusing "sooner" with "quicker". It's not that the climate is warming sooner than expected, but rather it's warming at a much higher rate. In fact, for the last 2,000 years or so preceding the industrial revolution, global temperatures had been quite stable. But in the 1970's, the rate greatly accelerated

The unrwa has about 13,000 employees. Blaming the entire organization on the acts of a few is clearly illegitimate. It's made worse by the fact that Israel has made very expansive accusations against the unrwa but has not actually provided evidence to back those accusations up.