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Here's one example of Ukraines vile exercise of typical Nazi behavior in contrast to the open honest way Russia has conducted itself: "Ukraine has facilitated the implementation of the ICRC mandate, including through granting ICRC full access to internment facilities where POWs were held (in 2023, ICRC visited such facilities in Ukraine more than 70 times), which cannot be said of the enemy Power. As required by IHL, Ukraine ensured the right of the enemy prisoners of war to inform family members of their capture and condition, as well as to receive information from their relatives: every prisoner of war has the right to call relatives weekly/monthly, send/receive letters (through the Information Bureau and ICRC). From its side, the enemy Power does not provide such an opportunity to Ukrainian prisoners of war held in its captivity." https://rcrcconference.org/res-report-33rd/report-on-33rd-ic-resolution-1-bringing-ihl-home-a-road-map-for-better-national-implementation-of-international-humanitarian-law-33ic-19-r1-ukraine/#:~:text=Ukraine has facilitated the implementation,said of the enemy Power.

Where was Trump mentioned? But even if he was mentioned, the gist of this story would mean that he is opposed to the most Hitler-like national leader in Eurasia. Just the opposite of what you read into it.

No documentary this season has been more talked about or acclaimed than “No Other Land,” which chronicles the besieged community of Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank as Israeli forces demolish residents’ homes and expel families from the land they have lived in for generations, claiming the area is needed for a military training ground. Directed by the Palestinian filmmakers Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal alongside the Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, “No Other Land” has received critical acclaim and collected many honors on the festival circuit. After winning the best documentary award at its Berlin International Film Festival premiere last February, the film also earned the same prize at the Gotham Awards and from major critics’ groups in New York and Los Angeles. https://archive.ph/utFA0#selection-803.0-811.453

This is what Nearly all the world’s glaciers are melting at an accelerated pace, study finds https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210429-nearly-all-the-world-s-glaciers-are-melting-at-an-accelerated-pace-study-finds Glacierised drainage basins cover 26% of the global land surface outside of Greenland and Antarctica, and are populated by almost one-third of the World’s population2. Upland areas (above 2000 m above sea level) in southeast Asia supply the five basins of the Indus, Ganges, Yellow, Brahmaputra and Yangtze rivers, providing water to 1.4 billion people (over 20 % of the global population). https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/glaciers-and-water-resources/glaciers-as-a-water-resource/

If you had read the article, you would know that it was the hottest January on record. Nowhere does it say the hottest January of all time.

Another moronic comment. First off, oceanfront isn't the same as beachfront. An oceanfront home can be many meters above sea level. Second, there's a lot of very wealthy people out there. And if they get 30 years of use out of a property before it becomes uninhabitable, that may be a fine tradeoff for them. Third. What do your comments have to do with the science?

A case of frying pan into fire. As the IG of the Justice Dept noted. the Steele Dossier was neither the trigger nor the basis of the investigation

Actually,,I've got something. It's called evidence., In this case, evidence about you: No reasoning offered by you. No evidence offered by you. Nothing.

Not all of you are dumb. As for you...

Why share ideas with someone who lacks basic comprehension skills?

Take a remedial reading course.

I agree with you. SunnyinBangrak has nothing.

And there should be no limit on what income gets taxes. Right now it tops out at somewhere around at $160,000 (I think).

The article goes on to note that DOGE is also doing a deep dive investigation into NASA. I wonder who would get to profit if NASA gets slashed. Certainly not SpaceX. After all, Donald Trump promised that there would be no conflict of interest with Musk running these investigations.

DOGE overlord Elon Musk is now aiming his crosshairs at the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), a move that flies in the face of Donald Trump’s denials claiming that the Tesla CEO had no conflicts of interest as he embarks on a federal firing and cost-cutting crusade. This time Musk is investigating the exact same agency that is currently targeting him – and fined him $22 million for security violations in a past case. The news was revealed on a “DOGE SEC” X account with a gray Twitter badge marking it as a legitimate site of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency operation. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-sec-tesla-doge-b2699798.html

So glad you brought that up: 85% of Americans Willing to Raise Taxes to Save Social Security, Survey Shows A new survey from the National Academy of Social Insurance, AARP, the National Institute on Retirement Security, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in collaboration with Greenwald Research, finds that most Americans are willing to accept tax increases to prevent benefit cuts. The survey shows that 85% of respondents believe Social Security benefits should stay the same or even increase, even if that means raising taxes on some or all Americans. It also found that only 15% of respondents preferred keeping tax rates the same, even if that means reducing benefits. https://www.aol.com/85-americans-willing-raise-taxes-153018526.html

The Big Lie was a very perceptive, if vile, insight of Goebbels. If the shoe fits...

If they keep making that claim over and over and over via the right wing media, it starts to be believed. This phenomenon was well understood by Joseph Goebbels.

And who was it broadcasting the Superbowl? Could it have been Fox Sports? "Trump briefly appeared on the field about an hour before kickoff for a photo with first responders and victims of the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans. Videos of the photo op posted to YouTube and X picked up the sound of fans both cheering and booing the president... A viral video on TikTok showed fans booing, and several international users said their broadcasts of the game showed that the crowd had a more mixed reaction to the president." https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-cheered-booed-super-bowl/ What's more, given that NFL fans skew white and male, you would expect Trump to do better with them than the general public. NFL: Last sports bastion of white, male conservatives https://www.reuters.com/article/opinion/nfl-last-sports-bastion-of-white-male-conservatives-idUS3291182652/

What about USAID? Musk has made a lot of claims about fraud, but provided precious little evidence. Whereas there's plenty of evidence that private insurers are bilking the government out of 10s of billions of dollars at the least.

Another victim of the law of the preservation of ignorance.

Actuially, the hugest fraud has already been identified. And it's not coming from the government, It's coming from insurance companies. Insurers Pocketed $50 Billion From Medicare for Diseases No Doctor Treated Instead of saving taxpayers money, Medicare Advantage has added tens of billions of dollars in costs, researchers and some government officials have said. One reason is that insurers can add diagnoses to ones that patients’ own doctors submit. Medicare gave insurers that option so they could catch conditions that doctors neglected to record. The Journal’s analysis, however, found many diagnoses were added for which patients received no treatment, or that contradicted their doctors’ views. https://archive.ph/HMi5l/again?url=https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/medicare-health-insurance-diagnosis-payments-b4d99a5d ‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’: How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions The health system Kaiser Permanente called doctors in during lunch and after work and urged them to add additional illnesses to the medical records of patients they hadn’t seen in weeks. Doctors who found enough new diagnoses could earn bottles of Champagne, or a bonus in their paycheck. Anthem, a large insurer now called Elevance Health, paid more to doctors who said their patients were sicker. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/upshot/medicare-advantage-fraud-allegations.html I should add that this is only a small piece of the corrupt practices deployed by insurance companies.

Got any idea where all that cash is supposed to come from. Nations with sovereign wealth funds generally get those funds from taxing natural resources such as petroleum or natural gas or charging royalties. And their budgets run a surplus or they have already accumulated enough founds to finance deficit spending. Do you believe that the US should go further into debt to acquire such funding? Or do you support the US increasing royalties on natural resource extraction to the same level that most other countries do on such resources?

Hate crimes, particularly against LGBTQ community, on the rise: FBI data Though violent crime is down about 3% overall from 2022 to 2023, hate crimes are up across the U.S., according to the FBI's statistics. Sexual orientation and gender identity were the third and fourth most prevalent bias motivation in 2023, behind race/ethnicity and religion... Though violent crime is down about 3% overall from 2022 to 2023, hate crimes are up across the U.S., according to the FBI's statistics. https://abcnews.go.com/US/hate-crimes-lgbtq-community-rise-fbi-data/story?id=113962673

Apparently, you believe that the Federal Government is rife with people even more qualified than Hagan Scotten: Hagen Scotten, who sent a blistering resignation letter to Bove, was valedictorian at Harvard Law school. He was a troop commander in the special forces in Iraq where he earned 2 bronze stars. He also clerked for Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagan_Scotten