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Why would the US give oxygen to this group? Have a read of the following...
https://www.thenation.com/blog/205521/cult-leader-will-tell-congress-fight-isis-regime-change-iran
Just another Chalabi, being used for the precisely the same sorts of pre 2003 reasons
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Easy to achieve - don't fly.
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She lied on blog about having cancer and then curing herself with Quinoa? Big deal. It's not like she lied about the reasons for going to war. Yeah, she's an idiot and a charlatan, but hardly more of an idiot than the standard idiocy exemplified day in and day out by people lying about their accomplishments.
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This women shall be very fat in5 years
No way.
She is way TOO RICH to ever be very fat.
There are always ... methods.
I've set this on to Gina Rinehart, she must have missed the memo.
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Anti-semitism had it both ways in the late 19th and early 20th century: Jews were both the evil capitalist financiers leading the world to ruin and the atheistic communists destroying freedom, enterprise and individual aspiration. Yesterdays anti-semites are sometimes today's anti-muslims. Feels good to be a part of the in group by pointing the finger at the other.
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Anti-semites, bigots and idiots the world over might very well use Israeli actions in the West Bank and Gaza as excuses to vent their vile anti-semitism. But just because they do so doesn't mean that those actions in the West Bank and Gaza are justified or that those who oppose those actions are in any way anti-semites or bigots. Gotta be careful though, because if you sleep with dogs you can get flees.
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Better to be paranoid than complacent.
Fear of US protectionism? The US through Presdient Nixon opened the closed Chinese economy to the world, and ever since then, China has maintained strict protectionist policies to control foreign competition in China against chinese private and state-owned enterprises. Yet in the US it's an open market without any state-owned enterprises.
Not in agriculture it's not. Like the EU, it's highly protectionist.
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Some background information of the process and history.
First human head transplant could happen in two years
A radical plan for transplanting a head onto someone else’s body is set to be announced. But is such ethically sensitive surgery even feasible?
IT'S heady stuff. The world's first attempt to transplant a human head will be launched this year at a surgical conference in the US. The move is a call to arms to get interested parties together to work towards the surgery.
The idea was first proposed in 2013 by Sergio Canavero of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group in Italy. He wants to use the surgery to extend the lives of people whose muscles and nerves have degenerated or whose organs are riddled with cancer. Now he claims the major hurdles, such as fusing the spinal cord and preventing the body's immune system from rejecting the head, are surmountable, and the surgery could be ready as early as 2017.
Canavero plans to announce the project at the annual conference of the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons (AANOS) in Annapolis, Maryland, in June. Is society ready for such momentous surgery? And does the science even stand up?
The first attempt at a head transplant was carried out on a dog by Soviet surgeon Vladimir Demikhov in 1954. A puppy's head and forelegs were transplanted onto the back of a larger dog. Demikhov conducted several further attempts but the dogs only survived between two and six days.
The first successful head transplant, in which one head was replaced by another, was carried out in 1970. A team led by Robert White at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, transplanted the head of one monkey onto the body of another. They didn't attempt to join the spinal cords, though, so the monkey couldn't move its body, but it was able to breathe with artificial assistance. The monkey lived for nine days until its immune system rejected the head. Although few head transplants have been carried out since, many of the surgical procedures involved have progressed. "I think we are now at a point when the technical aspects are all feasible," says Canavero.
More here - Newscientist
Did the head reject the body or did the body reject the head or, in a paroxysm of even handedness, did each reject the other? How very confusing in an interesting way.
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Usual penalty should be applied. The man's p*nis should be transferred to an inactive position.
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I see the left wing bigots are out in force here. I wonder how long it will take George Soros to get his troops to SC? Based on the video evidence the main thing clear is a possible offender running away from a police officer, then being shot. If you can come up with anything else, seeing the video, it will be opinion and speculation. Seems remarkable how many here want police officers to fail.
Yes. Fail at murdering people.
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This sounds like the scary Indian Government which has nukes getting Nuclear Fuel from the US.. OMG we're so gonna die, why isn't the GOP jumping up and down there.. is it because Iran has lots of oil that their oil barons who finance their campaigns want at the cost of the American taxpayer?
And speaking of oil, why does a nation awash in it need or want nuclear power for any legitimate purpose in the first place ...
- Iran is OPEC's second largest producer of oil
- Iran is the world's fifth largest producer of oil
- Iran is the world's 2nd largest producer of natural gas (after Russia)
- 3.8 to 4.0 millions barrels of oil produced per day for the last several years
Investing resources in an alternative energy source when technical and financial resources could be put to much more profitable use for investments in developing oil reserves, seems just a bit counter-intuitive ...
... unless, of course, an "alternative energy source" isn't really the objective.
Now I wonder. Could all those references to the destruction of Israel provide us with a clue? Ya' think?
If Obama can just manage to kick the can past Friday, Jan 20, 2017, he'll be able to do precisely what he does best. Blame somebody else.
As far back as 1974 the US has been seeking to sell Nuclear Power Technology to Iran. This under President Ford/Henry Kissenger/Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
Here's the link from the NSA Archive on that program:
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb268/doc04.pdf
So the question of why they need it might best be answered by showing how much we can get by selling it to them.
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Obama and Kerry bring to my mind that they would be the ideal customers for an Iranian carpet dealer.
Iranian carpet dealers are notorious for being difficult salesmen. They will drive hard bargains, often giving up nothing to gain what they finally want to achieve.
If they sense you are really hot to buy a particular carpet, you are dead in the water. You will end up losing all your ready cash and they will have a mortgage on your first born. You will then go home with your new purchase only to find out, in the light of day, it wasn't really as attractive as you thought and, in the end, doesn't really suit your needs.
The only way to deal with them is to offer them half of what they ask when the negotiations begin. Then as they come down, and they invariably will, you go up until you reach the price you want to pay. If they refuse to get to your price, you must be prepared to get in your car and go home without the carpet. I have been stopped many times as I was getting in my car and invited back in to talk some more. I usually ended up with the carpet at my price, but it took a few losses in the beginning to learn my lesson.
My ex-wife now owns some 25 Iranian carpets, ranging from a 9 X 12 Nain silk and wool to some Qom silk wall hangers.
My point in all this?
Obama and Kerry are amateurs dealing with the sharpest carpet sellers in the market. They are in over their heads and will end up with a meaningless, and perhaps temporary, agreement.
Valerie didn't school these two enough but, then, perhaps this is what she wanted all the time.
And this brings to mind Time Magazine and paraphrase dressed as recollection.
See if the deal works. If it doesn't reimpose sanctions.
"And this brings to mind Time Magazine and paraphrase dressed as recollection."
Are you being so foolish as to accuse me of lifting something from Time Magazine? Spit it out, with a link. I'd like to see it myself.
No link? How about a post clarifying your remark.
http://time.com/3770461/iran-deal-michael-oren-obama-israel/
The Iran Deal and how not to buy a Middle Eastern Carpet
April 3. Written by former Israeli ambassador to the US and current member of the Knesset Michael Owens.
I suppose the talking points and with it the carpet metaphor and wily Persian's are pretty widely disseminated by this point. I think they call it a meme.
Anyway, it's all there. The whole thing. Hey, what do I know, maybe Michael Owen copied from you? Or both of you from the same place.
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Obama and Kerry bring to my mind that they would be the ideal customers for an Iranian carpet dealer.
Iranian carpet dealers are notorious for being difficult salesmen. They will drive hard bargains, often giving up nothing to gain what they finally want to achieve.
If they sense you are really hot to buy a particular carpet, you are dead in the water. You will end up losing all your ready cash and they will have a mortgage on your first born. You will then go home with your new purchase only to find out, in the light of day, it wasn't really as attractive as you thought and, in the end, doesn't really suit your needs.
The only way to deal with them is to offer them half of what they ask when the negotiations begin. Then as they come down, and they invariably will, you go up until you reach the price you want to pay. If they refuse to get to your price, you must be prepared to get in your car and go home without the carpet. I have been stopped many times as I was getting in my car and invited back in to talk some more. I usually ended up with the carpet at my price, but it took a few losses in the beginning to learn my lesson.
My ex-wife now owns some 25 Iranian carpets, ranging from a 9 X 12 Nain silk and wool to some Qom silk wall hangers.
My point in all this?
Obama and Kerry are amateurs dealing with the sharpest carpet sellers in the market. They are in over their heads and will end up with a meaningless, and perhaps temporary, agreement.
Valerie didn't school these two enough but, then, perhaps this is what she wanted all the time.
And this brings to mind Time Magazine and paraphrase dressed as recollection.
See if the deal works. If it doesn't reimpose sanctions.
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Glad he wasn't executed! alt=bah.gif>
Cases like this are a good argument against the death penalty.
One of the arguments used in support of the death penalty has been that an innocent person has never been executed. Had this guy been executed 10 years ago, presumably he would been an innocent person executed. Certainly makes one wonder about the 100's of people executed in a 'timely' fashion. Seems that the judicial system simply isn't strong enough to support the sanction of death on the basis of judgments that are at best 'provisional'.
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Here's something I was thinking about relating to this topic.
People who believe that anthropogenic global warming is a real threat believe, at least partly, that something must be done about it because we have a moral obligation to people not yet born - that is, future generations.
But, the people who believe that we must do something about global warming because we have a moral obligation to generations not yet born, are most often the same people who believe that abortion is justified because having the child is not good for currently living people.
So, perhaps I can consistently believe that global warming is real bad thing for future generations, but not want to do anything about it because doing something about it would stuff up my current lifestyle and support abortion rights for precisely the same reason.
A great many of the people who loudly declare that we must preserve Planet Earth for the sake of the people not yet born, are exactly the same people who enthusiastically support killing millions of people not yet born, through abortion.
I don't see any consistency there. Quite the opposite.
Yeah, I didn't think you would or could. I reckon there's hyperbole and a bombast getting in the way. Your first sentence is a simple and simplistic restatement of what I said - 'talk show style'. Your second sentence is a simple and simplistic misunderstanding of my last one.
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Here's something I was thinking about relating to this topic.
People who believe that anthropogenic global warming is a real threat believe, at least partly, that something must be done about it because we have a moral obligation to people not yet born - that is, future generations.
But, the people who believe that we must do something about global warming because we have a moral obligation to generations not yet born, are most often the same people who believe that abortion is justified because having the child is not good for currently living people.
So, perhaps I can consistently believe that global warming is real bad thing for future generations, but not want to do anything about it because doing something about it would stuff up my current lifestyle and support abortion rights for precisely the same reason.
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Well, each to their own. But there's no such thing as a Christian Muslim or a Muslim Christian. To classify a Christian as a Muslim because they were brought up in, say, Iran is decidedly perverse. There's your difference.
The wikipedia entry you quoted above would clearly define "Palestinian" as an ethnicity - and consequently the increasingly successful attempt to remove them from the Israeli occupied parts of the West Bank as Ethnic Cleansing.
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Israel classifies Christianity - a religion - as an ethnicity. Is there any reason for classifying a religion as an ethnicity?
Because it can be either one and most Israelis are secular, so it applies to Jews as well. You don't have to believe what is says in the Bible to be a Christian or a Jew.
An ethnic group or ethnicity is a socially defined category of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural or national experience.[1][2] Membership of an ethnic group tends to be defined by a shared cultural heritage, ancestry, origin myth, history, homeland, language and/or dialect, ideology, symbolic systems such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing style, physical appearance, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groupYou have to believe in a Christian god to be a Christian. Ask a Christian. A Western Atheist is not a Christian - at least I hope not.
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So if you're an Christian Arab, how would one's "ethnicity" be recorded? What if a Christian ceased to be a Christian and converted to Islam - would their ethnicity be changed and then recorded differently on 'government records'.
What government records are there that record Christianity as ethnicity? Seems a mighty strange way to classify things. Maybe atheism is an ethnicity also along with Buddhism and Zoroastraism.
Why do you care so much?
Why does the world care so much about the internal policies of teeny tiny Israel?
It's really bizarre.
Actually every single nation in the world has it's own unique cultural take on racial/ethnic/religious social classifications.
That's because people are social animals and very complex.
If you think Israel's are strange look at the Dominican Republic.
Look at how Brazil classifies race compared to the USA.
But few people are interested in such things.
Teeny tiny Jewish majority Israel continues to fascinate so many to an absurdly IRRATIONAL degree.
Should Jews be flattered or angry about such unbalanced attention compared to every other thing going on in the world?FIne by me. Israel classifies Christianity - a religion - as an ethnicity. Is there any reason for classifying a religion as an ethnicity? So I guess I'm asking whether Israel's unique cultural take in doing so is something that might explain aspects of National Identity that in tern might help to understand state policies/actions. So sure, different countries have different classification systems - and a key to understanding the countries in question (in this case Israel) is understanding the reasons for the classifications. They're not just plucked out of the air.
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Is Christianity treated as an ethnicity in Israel.Without even getting into the West Bank issue........The very fact that Israel has, officially, "Israeli citizens" and "Arab Israeli citizens" is your first hint at discrimination.
This - like most of what you post - is nonsense. There is no such thing as "Israeli citizens" and "Arab Israeli citizens". ALL Israelis qualify as "citizens of Israel."
There are indications of ethnicity on internal documents just like in USA - black, white, Hispanic as opposed to Arab, Jewish or Christian.
Yes for government records. Also Druze and numerous others.So if you're an Christian Arab, how would one's "ethnicity" be recorded? What if a Christian ceased to be a Christian and converted to Islam - would their ethnicity be changed and then recorded differently on 'government records'.
What government records are there that record Christianity as ethnicity? Seems a mighty strange way to classify things. Maybe atheism is an ethnicity also along with Buddhism and Zoroastraism.
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You have been proven wrong, have the grace to at least accept it like an adult
That does not happen with posters like this. They just keep posting inaccurate information and ignoring the fact that every credible source says otherwise.
Israel's Government structure is based on Great Britain's. If Israel isn't a democracy then neither is Great Britain.Spot the difference:
A) "Israels Government Structure is based on Great Britain's. If Israel isn't a democracy then neither is Great Britain": Ulysses G
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"Rhodesia's Government Structure is based on Great Britain's. If Rhodesia isn't a democracy then neither is Great Britain" Ian Smith-
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You have been proven wrong, have the grace to at least accept it like an adult
That does not happen with posters like this. They just keep posting inaccurate information and ignoring the fact that every credible source says otherwise.
Israel's Government structure is based on Great Britain's. If Israel isn't a democracy then neither is Great Britain.Ian Smith could have said he same thing: "Rhodesia's government structure is based on Great Britain's. If Rhodesia isn't a democracy then neither is Great Britain". Wouldn't be surprised if Smith did say just that.
Note: not in any way claiming that Israel isn't a democracy.
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Without even getting into the West Bank issue........The very fact that Israel has, officially, "Israeli citizens" and "Arab Israeli citizens" is your first hint at discrimination.
This - like most of what you post - is nonsense. There is no such thing as "Israeli citizens" and "Arab Israeli citizens". ALL Israelis qualify as "citizens of Israel."
There are indications of ethnicity on internal documents just like in USA - black, white, Hispanic as opposed to Arab, Jewish or Christian.Is Christianity treated as an ethnicity in Israel. Just asking - looks strange.
USA: Black/White/Hispanic
Israel: Jewish/Christian/Arab
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Can Bangkok use a Levee system like New Orleans? Will cost lots of money. And it cant save everything.
I am positive Bangkok can use the same system as New Orleans and America and China will be rushing in to pay for it
Could import dykes and ring the entire city with them.
"Rhodesia's Government Structure is based on Great Britain's. If Rhodesia isn't a democracy then neither is Great Britain" Ian Smith
IELTS English Test - before the A1 specific test - anyone?
in Visas and migration to other countries
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All new visa applicants must do the IELTS UKVI test. The standard IELTS test result is no longer accepted by UK immigration.