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As for those huge death figures. As the evidence I provided shows, those huge death figures are largely the result of Israel lowering it's standards and targeting what it calls centers of power as a way to convince the people of Gaza to put pressure on Hamas. There's actually more than that. Israel is now targeting for destruction hones that may harbor even junior members of Hamas without regard to collateral death and injury of civilians. And given that there are probably some 80,000 members of Hamas in Gaza, it pretty much allows Israel to attack any high rise and many private homes as well.

You've got nothing. You have no answer for the fact that Hamas is no longer governing Gaza.

I've got news for you. There is at least one other way to overthrow a government elected or not. Do I really have to specify for you what that is?

What don't you understand about Eloquent pilgrim's claim that Hamas is still responsible for protecting Gazans because it is the government?

Actually, Germany is in trouble because it relied on exports to keep its economy growing. This is the same strategy that Brexiters endorsed for the UK.

Well, it was illegitimately kept in power in part by Israeli govt policy designed to keep Hamas in power as a counterweight to the AP. Maybe the IDF should bomb the offices of the Israeli government?

More irrelevancy from you. Eloquent piligrim claimed that Hamas is currently responsible for protecting gazans because it is the government. Hamas is no longer in power. By most standards, Israel is the occupying power and as such is responsible.

What the author of this piece doesn't mention is that Mueller had many other possible charges against Trump but was precluded from filing them because of Justice Dept policy that a sitting President can't be prosecuted.

As has been repeatedlly pointed out and to no avail, at least in the case of some such as yourself, both the Inspector General of the Justice Dept and John Durham have acknowledged that the investigation of Trump was not predicated on the Steele Dossier.

Deflecting much? Most legal opinion holds that Israel is the occupying and has been since 1967. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/gaza-israel-occupied-international-law/

It seems that he's turning into a useless idiot: James Comer Admits He Might Have to Throw in the Towel on Biden Impeachment Quest Because ‘The Math Keeps Getting Worse’ House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) conceded in a recent interview that his impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden may very well not result in an impeachment vote. Comer spoke to Spectrum News last week and said the GOP-led House may not even hold a vote based on his committee’s report because the “math keeps getting worse” –referring to both the GOP’s shrinking majority and skepticism inside the Republican conference. https://www.mediaite.com/politics/james-comer-admits-he-might-have-to-throw-in-the-towel-on-biden-impeachment-quest-because-the-math-keeps-getting-worse/

Apparently, brewsterbudgeon knows something that you don't: Joe Biden is currently the President of the United States and a Democrat. As are the people named. How little knowledge of the American political scene do you have to be not to understand who was not preferred?

More nonsense from you. The Hamas Health Authority doesn't specify who is a Hamas soldier and who isn't. As for the extent of civilian deaths, even the IDF disagrees with those who, like you, offer wholescake skepticism about the number of civilians killed by Israeli forces. IDF officials: 2 civilian deaths for every 1 Hamas fighter killed in Gaza Approximately two civilians have been killed for every dead Hamas fighter in the Gaza Strip, senior military officials said Monday, adding that the IDF was deploying high-tech mapping software to try to reduce noncombatant deaths. Asked about media reports that 5,000 Hamas fighters had been killed, one of the senior officials told reporters at a briefing, “The numbers are more or less right.” The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says Israel’s military campaign, in response to the terror group’s murderous attacks on October 7, has killed around 15,900 people so far, most of them women and children. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-officials-2-civilian-deaths-for-every-1-hamas-fighter-killed-in-gaza/

How Israel’s war went wrong At the end of November, Israeli reporter Yuval Abraham broke one of the most important stories of the war in Gaza to date — an inside look at the disturbing reasoning that has led the Israeli military to kill so many civilians. Citing conversations with “seven current and former members of Israel’s intelligence community,” Abraham reported that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had changed its doctrine to permit far greater civilian casualties than it would have tolerated in previous wars... “In one case,” Abraham reported, “the Israeli military command knowingly approved the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in an attempt to assassinate a single top Hamas military commander.” https://www.vox.com/24055522/israel-hamas-gaza-war-strategy-netanyahu-strategy-morality ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation reveals. Compared to previous Israeli assaults on Gaza, the current war — which Israel has named “Operation Iron Swords,” and which began in the wake of the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on October 7 — has seen the army significantly expand its bombing of targets that are not distinctly military in nature. These include private residences as well as public buildings, infrastructure, and high-rise blocks, which sources say the army defines as “power targets” (“matarot otzem”). https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/ Power targets are designated as such because, the reasoning goes, the destruction they wreak on civilians will make them pressure Hamas and undermine it. This is not a new designation. What is new is that the Israelis are not using the methods that they used to use to warn civilians that their homes, including high-rises, are about to be destroyed.

Really bad amateur lawyering. If anyone is responsible it's the occupying power. Your claim that a government that is under active attack and no longer functioning is responsible is transparently ridiculous.

He already has posted proof. Isn't there a saying somewhere about leading a horse to water but....?

Actually, Roe v. Wade allowed for prohibitions against abortion. once the fetus is viable.

The U.S. proposal warns Israel against invading Rafah. The United States is negotiating a U.N. Security Council Resolution that proposes a temporary cease-fire “as soon as practicable” and warns Israel against invading an area of southern Gaza that many people have fled to, according to a copy of the draft obtained by The New York Times. https://archive.ph/PA9p5 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/20/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news

Another case of I don't like Trump but... Really? Trump chose these justices without any reference to where they stood on abortion? " Donald Trump took credit Wednesday for the elimination of Roe v. Wade, embracing his role in selecting the Supreme Court justices who were instrumental in ending the half-century precedent that protected abortion rights nationwide. “After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v. Wade, much to the ‘shock’ of everyone,” Trump, the former president and front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, said on his social media platform." https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-was-able-kill-roe-v-wade-rcna84897 What you don't understand about immigration is that it's a 2 way street. Immigrants also leave the US. It's the balance that counts. What's more, if Republicans were really serious about stopping undocumented immigration they could make it a criminal offense for employers to hire the undocumented. But as everyone knows, certain industries depend on them. Given that Republicans have repeatedly supported unfunded tax cuts, what makes you think that they are concerned about debt?

Apparently, even destroying a zygote in now judged to be a wrongful death. At least in Alabama. Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are children, cites the Bible in opinion “When the People of Alabama adopted (the ‘sanctity of life’ provision of the state constitution), they did not use the term ‘inviolability,’ with its secular connotations, but rather they chose the term ‘sanctity,’ with all of its connotations,” Parker wrote. “This kind of acceptance is not foreign to our Constitution, which in its preamble ‘invok[es] the favor and guidance of Almighty God,’ … and which declares that ‘all men … are endowed [with life] by their Creator.’ ” https://www.alreporter.com/2024/02/19/alabama-supreme-court-rules-frozen-embryos-are-children-cites-the-bible-in-opinion/ This quote is from the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. And in a written decision, where you think he had the time to reflect over what he's written, he claimed that the references to Almighty God, etc are found in the US Constitution. It is to laugh.

Right. Why shouldn't Congress conduct impeachment investigations on whomever they please, regardless of evidence?

Once again you miss the key point. The variation may be in thousands of years but not decades. It's all about rates. In the 70's as climatological science became a discipline the overwhelming consensus was that warming would occur. Not only that, but most of the predictions were astonishingly accurate. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019GL085378 As for your CO2 observation, I have to ask "Are you serious?) The additional "C" in CO2 is carbon, and it comes from fossil fuels. The "O" is oxygen which comprises roughly 21 percent of the atmosphere.

First off, Roe v. Wade allowed for restrictions on abortions if the fetus was viable. "The 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision recognized abortion as “a fundamental right” nationwide but stated that after the stage of viability, states could regulate abortions with the exception of when they were “necessary, in appropriate medical judgement'' to preserve the life or health of the pregnant woman." https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/06/tough-questions-answers-late-term-abortions-law-women-who-get-them/ Second. The vast majority of abortions take place before 21 weeks. "According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1.3 percent of abortions were performed at or greater than 21 weeks of gestation in 2015. In contrast, 91.1 percent were performed at or before 13 weeks and 7.6 percent at 14 to 20 weeks." https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/06/tough-questions-answers-late-term-abortions-law-women-who-get-them/

Is this your idea of a scientific question? I, for one, don't see what it has to do with science. Maybe you should get added a new topic about the alleged hypocrisy of the wealthy and powerful instead of trying to push your irrelevant agenda here.

It actually makes perfect sense. At some point the warming ends and the cooling starts. What you have repeatedly demonstrated is that you don't understand the concept of rates. Warming occurred over the past 7000-8000 years. If it ordinarily the global climate would on average have started to cool, the relatively rapid rise in greenhouse gases contributed by human activity would reverse that expected gradual fall in temperature. Most scientists agree that orbital variations are responsible in large part for this latest ice age era. But they take place on cycles of 10's of thousands of years. At a comparatively slow rate. Once again, you fail to grasp the importance of the concept of rates.