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Not all of America, just certain parts.

Who said all the news is bad? There will be cheering going on all over NZ. The only downside is I don't get to wear my MAGA ( Make Adhern Go Away ) hat before the election. PS I had to google it in case it was fake news, but seems it's true, hoorah! BTW, the writing was on the wall, and she knew she is losing popularity fast as. I guess she thought it prudent to resign now, rather than be humiliated in the election later this year. Where to now? The consensus among those I talk to about her is a job at the UN. Time will tell.

One can safely assume she didn't pay for her voyage to the UN, or the crew that flew, ergo someone else is paying, and the piper gets to dictate the tune. BTW, it's nothing to do with lying or not, that turn people off her message.

Children working in mines has a lot to do with electric cars, Greta is about climate change and stopping IC engines, electric cars are promoted to replace IC cars, ergo it's not a deflection. I will not respond to any further posts from you that accuse me of deflecting. Bye.

My response to your post was in the context of your reply to a post that included " Maybe a visit to one of those dreadful mines in the Congo where kids are working for peanuts in hazardous conditions?". Ergo, IMO it was not a deflection.

The Ukrainian's don't have them already so if American systems were used to attack Russia directly that would, IMO, lead to an escalation of the war, and IMO that is why America has not provided such before. I'm sure they will come with "strings attached" as where they can be used when they do arrive.

Obviously I was making a suggestion. I wasn't there. However, even if they can't take out "that sort of missile" they may have tried. Anyway, as pointed out by other posters they are inaccurate. I don't know if that is correct, but why would they try and take out a block of flats with an expensive missile? The likely reason, as also already pointed out, is that they were aiming to take out some more significant target, and it went astray.

what to expect at Davos 2023 IMO nothing to benefit the peasants common folk. IMO everything about making the rich richer.

Doesn't MS make billions in profit? Yet the first thing they do is sack the people that made that profit possible.

Wrong. IMO the attacks are because she is apparently being used to promote an agenda. She was quite young when she ranted at the UN, and that's not the sort of thing normal young people do. The attacks would happen regardless of the gender. Seems some are looking to stop the opposing side with the "misogynistic" label, rather like shutting down opposition with the "racist" label. BTW I'm socialist, not right wing and I have no time for her.

Can't be that famous if I've never heard of 38 degrees. BTW, IMO if alternatives take over from IC engines it'll be because they are more profitable. I doubt the boards of Ford or GM are particularly concerned with what Greta has to say.

IMO the American dream is to become rich and live a life of luxury. Elvis certainly did that. God or bad is entirely dependent on the individual.

Fair enough. Perhaps I should have said "As you say, the documents themselves are not the important thing here. IMO it's the getting exposed doing the same as Trump while lambasting Trump for it that's the issue.

While an air defense missile may not have caused the damage, it may have made the large missile it was aimed at fall to the ground and that was what caused the damage. Such things happen in war.

Ah, so your solution is for everyone to have to be tech savvy. Like that's going to happen. Every time I go to supermarket the oldie in front of me is putting their pin number into the machine without hiding it from potential muggers behind them.

Hackers probably know more about how the systems work than the guys trying to stop them. Internet crime pays for the criminals, and very little chance of being caught. News like this confirms my choice to never buy anything on line.

Some interesting information about that. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/greta-thunberg-s-yacht-trip-to-new-york-not-as-green-as-it-may-seem-6fsn5sbpz Greta Thunberg’s decision to cross the Atlantic in a “zero-carbon yacht” may generate more emissions than it saves because of flights taken by the crew.

LOL. The protests at the mine were international news long before she turned up. Al Jazeera had it on every news bulletin I watched.

Deflection. I didn't mention her in my reply to Credo.

Perhaps not "nothing"- she certainly generated a lot of publicity. Did she accomplish anything though? I suspect her rant at the UN will amount to zero in reality. If electric cars do take over from oil powered it will happen for reasons other than her, if alternate energy becomes the norm it will be for reasons other than her. Such will happen because there is profit to be made, not because of an angry girl, despite her being beloved of the woke.

Who is holding her purse strings? That is the million $ question! Follow the money.

Are you saying child labour in terrible conditions is preferable to using oil?

Indeed, alcohol is probably the worst drug one can use that is legal.

That must hurt! As a youth I disliked Elvis just for the music as never saw him in person or in a movie, then in my late 30s I saw a VDO of him singing to a small group of people and I became a huge fan. He had an amazing charisma that enraptured me. After that I heard his music in a different way and now love most, but not all of his songs.

You'll have to be more specific about the "fun" part as I looked back through my posts on this thread and I didn't find any reference to fun. As for farming, it's a satisfying life- far more so than most occupations. Being on the land, in open air, watching new life in spring, growing things, feeding the world; what could be better? Sadly, the world doesn't appreciate farmers, and the financial rewards are not great enough to be a farm hand if one can find a better paying occupation, which is what I did once I realised that farming was too low paid to have a future in it for myself.