I'm not convinced this guy understands what is actually happening and why bitcoin price is being driven upwards. His mania theory sounds more like someone who missed out on opportunity rather than someone who made off with a huge pile of bitcoin cash And it appears he is promoting something called the "indiastack" . Oh well will see if this bubble theory which is being sounded by all those who didn't buy early holds up in the future. https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliviergarret/2017/06/12/raoul-pal-bitcoin-is-mania-and-not-a-store-of-value-i-sold-out-last-week/#7cd09dba65adThe price of Bitcoin has risen by 210% since March to over $2,900… and one of the world’s most successful investment strategists is warning investors to stay away. Speaking at the Mauldin Economics’ Strategic Investment Conference, Raoul Pal—author and publisher of The Global Macro Investor, an elite macroeconomic and investment research service—said Bitcoin’s explosion upward is mania. Bitcoin Is a Bubble “The explosion [in the price of Bitcoin] is mania. It’s people looking for a rate of return. It’s in the bubble phase. [Bitcoin] goes through this periodically… it rises several hundred percent, and then collapses.” In December 2013, Bitcoin ran up to over $900 and subsequently collapsed to below $250… it would take three years for the price to again reach those highs. Source: Coin Desk Source: Coin Desk Source: Coin Desk Exponential Moves Always Blow Up Pal, speaking in an exclusive interview with Mauldin Economics, made ten-times his money on Bitcoin and thinks now is a good time to get out. “This is the most exponential move we have seen. I don’t know how far it goes, but I sold out last week… and I’ve [owned Bitcoin] since it was $200. Anything that moves exponentially, always [blows up].” However, Bitcoin’s meteoric rise isn’t the only reason The Global Macro Investor exited his position. Only 21 Million Bitcoins? Not necessarily. “Bitcoin was supposed to be a store of value, you couldn’t mess with the formula… and now they are talking about a ‘hard fork’ changing it?” A feature that has attracted many investors to Bitcoin is its built-in scarcity. It’s widely thought that only 21-million Bitcoins can ever be ‘mined’ into existence. However, senior developers and miners are now contemplating a ‘hard fork’ which would split Bitcoin in-two and allow for the creation of more Bitcoins. “Even if they don’t change the formula, the fact that they could? That’s enough to say it’s not a long-term store of value.” Pal says a recent development in India also changed his views on the crypto-currency. Could “India Stack” Replace Bitcoin? “India introduced a frictionless payment system, [something] that everyone in Bitcoin was working on… this was [Bitcoin’s] great project and India went and did it for 1.1 billion people, fifty-times faster than Bitcoin and its rolled out and working now.” Pal is talking about “India Stack,” which will soon process more transactions than Bitcoin ever has. India Stack allows users to open a bank account, mobile phone account, or share medical records at any hospital or clinic in India with your fingerprints or by retina scan. In the March edition of The Global Macro Investor, Pal said of India Stack: “This revolutionary digital infrastructure will soon be able to process billions more transactions than Bitcoin ever has. It may well be a Bitcoin killer or at best, provide the framework for how blockchain technology could be applied in the real world.” What About Blockchain and the Future of Finance? For Raoul Pal’s thoughts on the technology behind Bitcoin, the financial system, cashless societies, and more, watch the full interview below. Download a FREE Bundle of Exclusive Content from the Sold-Out 2017 Strategic Investment Conference Get access to exclusive interviews with John Mauldin, Neil Howe and Pippa Malmgren from SIC, an ebook from renowned geopolitical expert George Friedman and bonus SIC 2017 content… This is 100%. While we are in a bubble, evidenced by the profit taking that is going on as we speak (oh, y'all might want to Tether™ if the narkets aren't depressed, if they are, there are other ways to tether your value. think cryptos that are tied to physical assets  ). But every time we dip, which is a pretty constant thing, pundits pop up talking about "this is the end of bitcoin". It's volatile. Get over it. But it makes a good talking point. And an easy article for a tech contributor to write. And as you suspect, these guys press 'Publish Article' the same time they press 'Submit Buy Order' this would be illegal if the SEC regulated btc like stocks, BTW. |
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Now against Trump will be a trial about the existence of the businesses with foreign investments. Perhaps this is contrary to the law on the fight against corruption. Also, Trump will have to provide to the court his tax return, and will surely give rise to other proceedings.
You haters are doing Trump the kind of advertisement, he could never afford to buy  Honestly, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of time. You should be proud of yourself. It is pretty much irrelevant, if you hate him. You already made him into demi-god.  Cant wait where that is leading in that circus of yours. I'm not the press. Not my fault (I think they are overcovering the orange bastard myself. If Trump farts into the wind, it's a headline. He's crooked, to me, have no doubt, but this is a known thing now. I'd the rest of America doesn't want to except it, meh, no fucks given. This to shall come to pass. You may notice I have stopped shitting on Trump actively, the ball is already rolling. We will all see what indeed comes to pass ,in the 2018 midterms and with the Russia investigation. Let's be really, really, real. We have a person in office that essentially lied about his platform. We have a president in office that is inept. And half of America is so mad that they didn't get their way the last 8 years that they will burn the rest of the democracy to take revenge on Obama. In retrospect, I wish he had never been elected. I understand now from this forum, I will never be more than a simple Black fool to the lot of you. I respect your opinions, even when they threaten my very existence. It makes me sad because I haven't had kids yet  we really want to get get pregnant, I've been saving up so much money to make sure that we so this right, that I do everything in my power to make sure that my seeds will want for nothing, to ensure that I am no burden to the State, and that all the things that I would provide my child would not be in vain. Why should I bring anything in to this cruel world, where becuase of the color of my skin, my child would be assumed inferior? No matter how much of the Bible I teach my child, no matter how much of humility and grace, my child will never be more than a goddamned nigger to ALOT of the regular posters on this forum. I am realizing that, despite my intent, I can never make the world better for my children. It literally makes me cry, call me a bitch or whatever, but I exist literally to make sure the kids I have not birthed yet have a swell time with this life. I wouldn't inflict this environment on my child, this toxic shit we call America at the moment. If I were a slave, I would put a nail in my child's fucking head. Becuase no one should have to hear being a piece of shit simply because I didn't have the choice to choice what color I got dipped in. Fuck my accomplishments, fuck my words, I will never be the sum of my works and action, only ill formwd assumptions about my intellwct and character. I'm Black. I'll will never be more than that to some people. It's weak, but its not new. It's the early this thing works, you learn to deal with it And the weak part is, half of you will read this post and laugh at me for being a snowflake. And I was taught by my parent to love all of you unconditionally. America has tricked me folks, and the joke is far from over. And I will be a passenger on this bus until I die. Thank you. But meh, you deal with shit and move the fuck on. So I'll shut the fuck up. It not like anyone cares I'm sorry, I don't want to delete this, it was sincere. But I apologize for getting off topic, and I don't really think you most of you give a.fuck anyway. Sorry for wasting your time with words. TLDR; Green got sensitive for moment, I won't make this mistake again So anyway, the forum |
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Now against Trump will be a trial about the existence of the businesses with foreign investments. Perhaps this is contrary to the law on the fight against corruption. Also, Trump will have to provide to the court his tax return, and will surely give rise to other proceedings.
Allow me to source you: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-dc-maryland-lawsuit-alleging-breach-constitutional-oath-conflict-interest-companies-a7785281.htmlAttorneys general for the District of Columbia (DC) and the state of Maryland have said they will sue President Donald Trump, alleging that he has violated anti-corruption clauses in the Constitution by accepting millions in payments and benefits from foreign governments since moving into the White House.
The lawsuit, the first of its kind brought by government entities, centres on the fact that Trump chose to retain ownership of his company when he became President. Trump said in January that he was shifting his business assets into a trust managed by his sons to eliminate potential conflicts of interests.
But DC Attorney General Karl Racine, Democrat, and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, Democrat, say Trump has broken many promises to keep separate his public duties and private business interests. For one, his son Eric Trump has said the President would continue to receive regular updates about his company's financial health.
The lawsuit, which Racine and Frosh described to The Washington Post on Sunday night, could open a new front for Trump as he navigates duelling investigations by special counsel Robert Mueller and congressional committees of possible collusion between his associates and the Russian government during the 2016 presidential campaign.I don't think it will get very far. Too much other stuff, Comey, Russia, eveything; this is a thousand cuts strategy.The ethics office screamed into the wind about the before he even took office, no one seemed to care or the news cycle swallowed it up. Maybe the States will get a little further than the specific federal oversight committee tasked with this, LOL. This does seem like low hanging fruit. |
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Mostly to black people that is, we have seen so much police brutality as if we were still in the 1960's and all of these things happened during the tenure of a black President who cared nothing about his own people being killed and only made speeches about the whole thing. Such an incompetent man.
The black people are not disproportionately targeted by the cops. The African Americans are more likely to commit crimes, and that may be one of the reasons why a larger percentage of them have to deal with police action. But that said, a white criminal is actually more likely to be facing police action, when compared to a black criminal.  If you can't perceive the bias, you will never see the dysfunction |
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How would he even have had a chance to be confirmed, had the spot been filled? Come.on man, you really think it was fair for the GOP to hold its nuts on a presidential appointment, and not even let the shit go to vote? That's Democratic to you?
OK. I will explain. Obama tried to nominate a left-wing buffoon to fill the post vacated by Scalia. That would have been fine, if the Democrats were having the majority in the senate. They didn't had the majority. Even if his nomination was put to the vote, Garland would have lost the vote by a big margin. Then why not let it go to vote? With such an inevitable outcome, why risk the optics, to subvert a forgone conclusion? I hear what you are saying, but why stop that process from happening organically, if that is the procedure in place? Because they decided that the next President should have this appointment, not the standing POTUS. Senate Republicans say they will not consider any nominee offered by Mr. Obama to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February. The power to appoint Justice Scalia’s successor, they say, should belong to the next president.
That categorical stance is new in the nation’s history, the professors, Robin Bradley Kar and Jason Mazzone, wrote in a study published online by The New York University Law Review. The Senate has never before transferred a president’s appointment power in comparable circumstances to an unknown successor, they said — an argument that many Democratic lawmakers have also made.
In every one of the 103 earlier Supreme Court vacancies, the professors wrote, the president was able to both nominate and appoint a replacement with the Senate’s advice and consent. This did not always happen on the first try, they wrote, but it always happened.
“There really is something unique about the position Republican senators are taking with respect to the Scalia vacancy,” said Professor Mazzone, who teaches at the University of Illinois.
“You really cannot find any single comparable case,” he said. “We really did not find any precedent for the idea, notwithstanding the Senate’s very broad powers in this area, that a sitting president could be denied outright the authority to offer up a nominee who would receive evaluation through normal Senate processes.”I'm not trying to browbeat or troll y'all, I simply do not think this is fair,. On February 23, 2016, the 11 Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee signed a letter to Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell stating their intention to withhold consent on any nominee made by President Obama, and that no hearings would occur until after January 20, 2017, when the next president takes office.[47] The 11 members are Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, Iowa;[48] Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee, Utah; Jeff Sessions, Alabama; Lindsey Graham, South Carolina; John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, Texas; Jeff Flake, Arizona; David Vitter, Louisiana; David Perdue, Georgia; and Thom Tillis, North Carolina. After Garland's nomination, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reiterated his position that the Senate would not confirm any Supreme Court nomination from Obama.[46] Garland's nomination expired on January 3, 2017.[49]And it's interesting to see the same names, it's like a blast from the past. Sessions, Grassley, Graham, and Cruz. |
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Guns are cool, but they don't really solve domestic security problems. And you don't want them to. That's what the cops are for. You don't want enforcement in the hands of citizens. There are people on this forum that I talk to on a daily basis, that I cringe to think might own a firearm.
In theory, it is all good. But it is not always practical. Suppose you are living in a crime infested area with your family. You realize that your house is being invaded by a few criminals. How you are going to react? Will you call the cops and wait until they arrive, or are you going to defend your family using your own firearms? I would prefer the second option. I agree with you 100%. I don't have a problem with current US gun laws, for the most part. You should have a long gun at your house to protect your family and assets. But you can already do this in both the US and UK, I think. Just pistols and assaults are banned, you shouldn't be using either class of firearm for home defence (penetration and bystanders). In most public cases where firearms are needed, ID rather the professionals be the only armed individuals. I wouldn't want cops coming into a scenario with multiple active shooters, not knowing who is a good guy or a bad guy because everyone with a gun isn't wearing a uniform.They tend to shoot people unarmed, LOL, this could get really, really bad. And I would rather open carry than concealed. Easier to identify who might start shooting, before they do |
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I haven't been following this thread, but a question for clarification: if UK did permit guns, which they do already, were kids supposed to be open carrying/concealed carrying at a pop concert? Or were they supposed to be strapped while strolling across London Bridge?
Law-abiding, mentally-sound, sober adults present were. If UK did have weapons, why would anyone have been armed in these circumstances, in public venues, where you can't even take guns? (Try taking a piece into a Taylor Swift concert. You won't get far). Terror tends to happen in public.
The dystopia of UK did have weapons, only in the hands of violent criminals, and of course police minutes away. Law-abiding, mentally-sound, sober adult civilians trusted to keep children safe, did not. It would remain a dystopia if the only place law-abiding, mentally-sound, sober adult civilians could legally possess weapons was at home - where they would be burgled safely when the occupants have left. So, for all our gun laws over here, has any citizen actually been armed during a terror attack, and had a chance to use their firearm to ameliorate the situation? In the terror attacks that haven't been in "gun-free zones" (almost none of them, because very few are insane & want to be shot before or effectively the same instant that they hurt innocents, so they only select soft, defenseless/undefended targets), yes. No. Revisionist history duly noted. Guns are cool, but they don't really solve domestic security problems. And you don't want them to. That's what the cops are for. You don't want enforcement in the hands of citizens. There are people on this forum that I talk to on a daily basis, that I cringe to think might own a firearm. They deter them, & "gun-free zones" guarantee them. The human right to self-defense ≠ "enforcement". I cringe to think you're allowed to vote peoples' human rights be infringed & disserve on a jury. /ignore You mad? I'm not even trolling, I wasn't trying to be a dick when I asked these questions. You can't bring guns in public venues here. You might be from across the pond, I'm not sure. But in the US, they don't let people, even in open carry States, go into concerts with guns. This is what I was implying. Unless they would pass significantly different gun laws, there would have been no guns in this concert. The thing with allowing people to have guns is that often 'law abiding, mentally sound adults' aren't the one with the guns. And if a person has no priors, they can buy a gun and be a fucking lunatic. I don't want lunatics with guns period, even if that means eroding my rights. Besides, I thought you can have long guns in the UK. Which is a better choice for home defense, a shotgun trumps a handgun indoors in your home, with non combatants. Wouldn't want to deal with the risk of penetration. How am I revising something that never happened? Please name a terror event where someone used a gun against the terrorist. You won't, because of the very same reason you have mentioned. Terrorist wouldn't attack hard targets. You are absolutely right, the terror attacks will simply target different venues, like a kids pop concert, because if the adults are armed, there are always kids that aren't. Don't know if you are mad because of something else I wrote, but I'm very pro gun. I was just asking serious questions I didn't understand, and I still don't. Sorry if I was rude. Edit: again, still trying to understand. If long guns are legal in the UK, which they are for hunting purposes, is it that you are advocating concealed/open carry of handguns? To the best of my knowledge, there would be few indoor places that would allow you to bring a gun in even with a permit. Thus is why you get metal detected at concerts, I have been to ALOT of concerts. Also happens at theme parks, clubs, basically anywhere the venue doesn't want to accept liability if someone pops someone. So even in America, the land of a million guns, private property rights and state statute (you can't bring guns to schools/gov buildings with a permit) trump citizen amendment rights. Essentially, you cant have guns in places where this type of shit would happen. That's why having the laws there don't do shit. And it's kind of on security. They should have had guns, or officers with guns should have been provided by the municipal government. |
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Are there no mods on this website... Which has a received MANY MILLIONS in donations...
Racism is outdated, cavemen rid themselves of the idea, perhaps it's time you did too?
Stop being racist. Some of us like being racist. So, when you and those of your fellow anti-racist race talk against us of the racist race, you are showing yourself to be racist. Stop it. The mods will get you.  No one is doing that. We're simply pointing at your stupidity and you're lack of abilities to use the brain you probably have that's all. But don't worry, we point at each of you individually. You're simply the proof that stupidity is everywhere in humanity And you might like being racist but that doesn't mean it's right. I could like raping children that wouldn't make it right. Just be glad nobody is pointing at YOUR stupidity. There would be volumes of it compared with my little one line or so. Amen. No one should be making ad hominems in this thread, attack the ideas, not the people. The most annoying thing of all is the only response people have on this thread, which is "are you a racist?" like nah, the account EchoYuHatesBlacks who posted a thread claiming that black people are inferior clearly isn't racist. You can't fight racism. But you can understand it, which is key to being prepared.
I disagree. You can. You just have to punch Richard Spencer in the face and then laugh at him. It's a good thing that these people are here making their outrageous claims online. The more terrified they are of saying it to real people out in the open, the better. Some people are just so dumb that words don't cut it. I don't advocate violence, since it would be attributed to my platform and not me. But a Richard Spencer getting punched in the face app needs to be made. I have to take a moderate platform, because of my race. Alot of people on here wouldn't field.my opinions if I were more radical. Shit, I'm me, I can't apologize for that. Like, for real, does anyone know anyone I can get in touch with to facilitate this? Political correctness be damned, I'm trying to get paid. |
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But you guys are good for this shit, subverting the democracy for your own ends.
I still don't understand this "subverting the democracy" part. It is not like Trump had nominated Gorsuch without a vote in the House or Senate. Gorsuch won the senate vote by a 54-45 margin, and you should remember that three Democrat senators also voted for him (Donnelly, Heitkamp, and Manchin). What sort of subversion are you talking about? How would he even have had a chance to be confirmed, had the spot been filled? Come.on man, you really think it was fair for the GOP to hold its nuts on a presidential appointment, and not even let the shit go to vote? That's Democratic to you? http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/4/obama-slams-senate-gop-blocking-garland-nomination/President Obama criticized Senate Republicans Tuesday for allowing the Supreme Court to begin its new term with one vacant seat, and the White House addressed the vacancy’s potential impact on the presidential election if the results were thrown into court.
“In a city of self-inflicted wounds, this one is more dangerous and less defensible than most,” Mr. Obama wrote in the Huffington Post. “This is about the obstruction of a broken Republican-led Congress.”
Mr. Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to the high court 202 days ago to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. But Senate Republicans have refused to hold a confirmation hearing or a vote, saying the next president should choose a nominee.But who gives a flying fuck about what Obama said? He isn't even a man, according to another post in this space. This, is where democracy died. Please defend your position. |
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He is the President of America and the First lady of America. Maybe they wanted to do that pose because it would be nice to put that picture into the hallway of the white house. But let us admit it, Melania is ineed a goddess. Considering that she is a model, there is no doubt that she can put that pose and look really good on that picture.
At least much better than what they had before:  During Obama's term, the real first lady was Obama himself, as Michelle was more masculine when compared to him. They are both older broads. Why are we obsessing, or shitting on either one of these women, who we won't be able to fuck or most likely even meet? And why do y'all think Michelle was so fucking ugly? My mom taught me not to impugn a womans beauty, and I have not forgotten my mother's face. Surely this was not the way you were taught to talk about women man. All of His creatures are beautiful, to deny so is to say the Lord makes mistakes. I don't believe in that. |
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Elderly Man Mauled As Police Sic K9 on Him for Rescuing His Neighbor's Cat While rescuing his neighbor's cat from a construction area, retired sound engineer, Richard May, 64, was attacked, brought to the ground, viciously mauled by a k9, and then arrested by a sadistic officer who would photograph his kill. May is in court this week attempting to seek justice for that horrific evening involving a deputy and his dog with the San Mateo County Sheriff's Department.
On the night of January 1, 2015, May was conducting, what he thought to be, a good deed. He was helping his 73-year-old neighbor, Sharon Coster, rescue her cat, Domino who'd climbed up construction scaffolding on an unfinished building next door.
As May was climbing up the scaffolding to retrieve the black and white cat, he recalls the K9 biting into his right leg. During this week's trial, May recalled to the eight-member jury that the bite was "extremely painful." Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/elderly-man-mauled-as-police-sic-k9-on-him-for-rescuing-his-neighbors-cat/. And our police state has enhanced powers under the current administration. Let me add to the clusterfuck that is modern policing theory in America: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Burning-Man-Beaten-Police-Officers-Jersey-City-Chase-Was-Innocent-Bystander-427098313.htmlAn innocent man was beaten by cops after a police chase and shooting that ended in a fiery crash in Jersey City Sunday night, prosecutors say.
The man seen on video being kicked by officers on Tonnelle Avenue turned out to be a bystander who suffered burns in the crash -- not the driver that police officers were pursuing, according to the Hudson County prosecutor's office.
"Our investigators have reviewed the video and we believe with certainty that this man is the bystander from West New York who suffered burns, not Leo Pinkston, the individual pursued by police," said a spokesman for the prosecutor's office.
Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop says he wants the officers fired. Be careful guys. This isn't the community policing that our parents grew up with, this is an entirely different beast. And my parents were Black, in Louisiana, during the 60s. That should speak volumes. |
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Are there no mods on this website... Which has a received MANY MILLIONS in donations...
Racism is outdated, cavemen rid themselves of the idea, perhaps it's time you did too?
Stop being racist. Some of us like being racist. So, when you and those of your fellow anti-racist race talk against us of the racist race, you are showing yourself to be racist. Stop it. The mods will get you. No one is doing that. We're simply pointing at your stupidity and you're lack of abilities to use the brain you probably have that's all. But don't worry, we point at each of you individually. You're simply the proof that stupidity is everywhere in humanity And you might like being racist but that doesn't mean it's right. I could like raping children that wouldn't make it right. Just be glad nobody is pointing at YOUR stupidity. There would be volumes of it compared with my little one line or so. Amen. No one should be making ad hominems in this thread, attack the ideas, not the people. You can't fight racism. But you can understand it, which is key to being prepared. No mods on here, if you haven't noticed, other poster. This is why the Politics section looks like it does. I'm working on it |
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Good morning folks The best part of waking up, is racism in your cup!™ It hurts to possibly come from Africa, huh? It shouldn't diminish you, it should enhance you. Alot of you all showed your true colors across this thread. Proud of the ones of you that have hate in your heart and aren't afraid to let it out. Be unabashed, but if you are Christian, be careful. We may not judge you, but we matter not. So what exactly is "racist" with the 2 posts you quoted? Stating recent discoveries that disagree with the "out of africa" theory is racist? Where did I say that, and why are you triggered? Please qoute me so I can explain myself. OK, accepts your theory. What changes about the historical facts that I just presented? Your rhetoric is invalid. And you cut the dog shit out of my quote, don't do that, please. Andi if you don't see how this thread is racist, which I was commenting on, you probably should turn your terminal off Are we really even arguing racial identity in this day and age? We moved past this as a scientific community a while ago, but unfortunately, some of us were apparently left behind . |
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I haven't been following this thread, but a question for clarification: if UK did permit guns, which they do already, were kids supposed to be open carrying/concealed carrying at a pop concert? Or were they supposed to be strapped while strolling across London Bridge?
If UK did have weapons, why would anyone have been armed in these circumstances, in public venues, where you can't even take guns? (Try taking a piece into a Taylor Swift concert. You won't get far). Terror tends to happen in public.
So, for all our gun laws over here, has any citizen actually been armed during a terror attack, and had a chance to use their firearm to ameliorate the situation?
No.
Guns are cool, but they don't really solve domestic security problems. And you don't want them to. That's what the cops are for. You don't want enforcement in the hands of citizens. There are people on this forum that I talk to on a daily basis, that I cringe to think might own a firearm.
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Good morning folks The best part of waking up, is racism in your cup!™ No problem with this theory. You are assuming a single point origin of humanity. Also, one fossil seems like a statistical outlier, given the fact that we don't have an artifact record yet to validate these new findings. And lastly, DNA would indicate despite origin, our common ancestor originated from Africa. Can't speak to what happened before we incepted, as I'm not an archaeologist. The historical record places all of the achievements I have enumerated in Africa. Seems like the technological paradigm occurred in Africa despite origin. And wherever we came from, we still all came from one place. Race is an epigenetic expression in reaction to environment, that becomes more inbred through sexual selection within a culture. Nothing more. We are all of one blood, we look different from living in different areas. And I count Arabs as Black. They have dark skin, and have to take shit for it. They can sit with us. At the very least they are African, and meh to me, I claim the whole world as my people. I only remember two people in the Garden, and I don't remember race being mentioned. And I've read Genesis a few times It hurts to possibly come from Africa, huh? It shouldn't diminish you, it should enhance you. I hope the theory is true, now I get to claim all the good ass music that comes from Europe (I'm a viola player). Y'all killed it with tonality, my ancestors where more concerned with rhythm. I appreciate cultures that have focused on tonality as it is novel to me as a Black person. Not so much anymore, I've been playing for a about 15 years now, but still floats my boat. Russian children's symphonies make my dick hard. Alot of you all showed your true colors across this thread. Proud of the ones of you that have hate in your heart and aren't afraid to let it out. Be unabashed, but if you are Christian, be careful. We may not judge you, but we matter not. |
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I agree with the above, just don't get one thing. The people of Central Africa were living there for centuries and they weren't always oppressed. It's not like they were slaves for 2000 years deprived of any forms of knowledge. Did they never have the need for a better life?
Vikings were building boats to sail the seas and pillage new lands. They learned to use the stars to navigate, learned to craft weapons and armor, tactics in battle.
Europeans learned to make incredible buildings out of stone. Giant cathedrals, castles on top of mountains and steam ships that could circle the earth. It took hundreds of years, but they were evolving, making new things, inventing. Why didn't black tribes of Africa try that? They had their inventions: used bows, blow darts, poison, drugs, but not much beyond that. Was the tradition so important to them or were they just lazy, afraid of changes?
There were a number of advanced civilizations in the African continent. But they never mastered the art of building ships or inventing medicine. And the most civilized of these cultures were the ones which had frequent contact with the outsiders, such as the Ethiopians and the Amazigh. Before I go to bed (this is Wikipedia/kids textbook shit, y'all have to Google more: The Arabian Sea has been an important marine trade route since the era of the coastal sailing vessels from possibly as early as the 3rd millennium BCE, certainly the late 2nd millennium BCE through later days[5] known as the Age of Sail. By the time of Julius Caesar, several well-established combined land-sea trade routes depended upon water transport through the sea around the rough inland terrain features to its north. Navigation was known in Sumer between the 4th and the 3rd millennium BCE, and was probably known by the Indians and the Chinese people before the Sumerians.[6] The Egyptians had trade routes through the Red Sea, importing spices from the "Land of Punt" (East Africa) and from Arabia.[7][8]
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The Ancient Egyptians had knowledge of sail construction.[13]
The first warships of Ancient Egypt were constructed during the early Middle Kingdom, and perhaps - at the end of the Old Kingdom, but the first mention and a detailed description of a large enough and heavily armed ship dates from XVI BC. "And I ordered to build twelve warships with rams, dedicated to Amun or Sobek, or Maat and Sekhmet, whose image was crowned best bronze noses.
In ancient times the Kingdom of Punt, which is believed by several Egyptologists to have been situated in the area of modern-day Somalia, had a steady trade link with the Ancient Egyptians and exported the precious natural resources such as myrrh, frankincense and gum. This trade network continued all the way into the classical era. The city states of Mossylon, Opone, Malao, Mundus and Tabae in Somalia engaged in a lucrative trade network connecting Somali merchants with Phoenicia, Ptolemic Egypt, Greece, Parthian Persia, Saba, Nabataea and the Roman Empire. Somali sailors used the ancient Somali maritime vessel known as the beden to transport their cargo.You live on a coast, you probably learn to sail at some point And I'll assume you were being sarcastic about the medicine thing, given that Egypt literally invented medical practice. The medicine of the ancient Egyptians is some of the oldest documented. From the beginnings of the civilization in the late fourth millennium BC until the Persian invasion of 525 BC, Egyptian medical practice went largely unchanged but was highly advanced for its time, including simple non-invasive surgery, setting of bones, dentistry, and an extensive set of pharmacopoeia. Egyptian medical thought influenced later traditions, including the Greeks.We can claim these triumphs together, these are your people as much as mine. Goodnight. |
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Know your true enemy. It's not a static thing.
I think my true enemy is gravity, but I'm not sure. It could also be mosquitoes. Do I only get one True Enemy? Oh no, they are myriad, friend. I hate spiders myself. Too many fucking legs IMO. |
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The fact is that Trump is constantly accused of racism, sexism and misogyny. I understand that Donald is a very specific person and his views are very ambiguous. But nevertheless, most American citizens supported this particular candidate. This person deserved the majority trust and thanks to this, came to power. Therefore, I believe that it is necessary to give him a chance to prove himself and to show his views on development in the United States of America.
NO WE DID NOT! Clinton got millions more votes. I voted for neither crook. Same here. this latest news out this week is the best so far IMO. It shows why he waited to fire Comey. If he had fired Comey earlier then he would have been more seriously accused of the things Greenbitz is parroting in this thread. However Trump instead waited for Comey to mess up and show his true colors as the lifeguard for the "deep" end of the swamp swim team. Comey was supposed to investigate leakers and was himself a leaker. We are only as strong as our weakest link and this weak link is now FIRED! It is funny how the media still tries to push the non-criminal non-starting talking points even thought the law or evidence does not support the need for concern. The main stream media has willfully abandoned their job in exchange for concern trolling the president LOL. And these forums and others have been infiltrated by "expert" penetration agents bet on it. Forums are monitored and trolled to adjust and sense public opinion. 20 million US citizens were profiled and watched under Comey at the request of Clinton Co. for the purposes of being eliminated (killed) to prevent any backlash as they flush USA down the crapper. If you google "20 million usa citizens unmasked" you can still find the story that was almost totally buried. ^^^This amounts to a wanton abuse of power at the very least. I wonder what greenbitz thinks about 20 million usa citizens being targetted and then killed by the criminal cartel that has more power than the government for some time now? Is that a proper use of government resources Greenbitz? Should Comey have been using the gov. computers to find the 20 million most likely to refuse NWO American citizens? Or is there some small minutia point I missed that you would like to talk about. Maybe I misspelled a word and that can be picked on to avoid responding to the bigger issue of government planning to murder millions of it's own citizens? http://circa.com/politics/accountability/james-comey-sued-by-intelligence-contractor-dennis-montgomery-over-spying-on-americansOh, some food for thought https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palantir-helped-the-nsa-spy-on-the-whole-world/Peter Thiel became one of the American political mainstream’s most notorious figures in 2016 (when it emerged he was bankrolling a lawsuit against Gawker Media, my former employer) even before he won a direct line to the White House. Now he brings to his role as presidential adviser decades of experience as kingly investor and token nonliberal on Facebook’s board of directors, a Rolodex of software luminaries, and a decidedly Trumpian devotion to controversy and contrarianism. But perhaps the most appealing asset Thiel can offer our bewildered new president will be Palantir Technologies, which Thiel founded with Alex Karp and Joe Lonsdale in 2004.
Palantir has never masked its ambitions, in particular the desire to sell its services to the U.S. government — the CIA itself was an early investor in the startup through In-Q-Tel, the agency’s venture capital branch. But Palantir refuses to discuss or even name its government clientele, despite landing “at least $1.2 billion” in federal contracts since 2009, according to an August 2016 report in Politico. The company was last valued at $20 billion and is expected to pursue an IPO in the near future. In a 2012 interview with TechCrunch, while boasting of ties to the intelligence community, Karp said nondisclosure contracts prevent him from speaking about Palantir’s government work.
“Palantir” is generally used interchangeably to refer to both Thiel and Karp’s company and the software that company creates. Its two main products are Palantir Gotham and Palantir Metropolis, more geeky winks from a company whose Tolkien namesake is a type of magical sphere used by the evil lord Sauron to surveil, trick, and threaten his enemies across Middle Earth. While Palantir Metropolis is pegged to quantitative analysis for Wall Street banks and hedge funds, Gotham (formerly Palantir Government) is designed for the needs of intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland security customers. Gotham works by importing large reams of “structured” data (like spreadsheets) and “unstructured” data (like images) into one centralized database, where all of the information can be visualized and analyzed in one workspace. For example, a 2010 demo showed how Palantir Government could be used to chart the flow of weapons throughout the Middle East by importing disparate data sources like equipment lot numbers, manufacturer data, and the locations of Hezbollah training camps. Palantir’s chief appeal is that it’s not designed to do any single thing in particular, but is flexible and powerful enough to accommodate the requirements of any organization that needs to process large amounts of both personal and abstract data. Please, research Palantir if you are unaware, or truly concerned about your privacy as an American citizen.  Know your true enemy. It's not a static thing. And I will never pick on you guys for spelling or language, I fuck up often. I will fight a silly ass ideology to the death, however. No ad hominems here sir, I respect my colleagues. |
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I agree with the above, just don't get one thing. The people of Central Africa were living there for centuries and they weren't always oppressed. It's not like they were slaves for 2000 years deprived of any forms of knowledge. Did they never have the need for a better life?
Vikings were building boats to sail the seas and pillage new lands. They learned to use the stars to navigate, learned to craft weapons and armor, tactics in battle.
Europeans learned to make incredible buildings out of stone. Giant cathedrals, castles on top of mountains and steam ships that could circle the earth. It took hundreds of years, but they were evolving, making new things, inventing. Why didn't black tribes of Africa try that? They had their inventions: used bows, blow darts, poison, drugs, but not much beyond that. Was the tradition so important to them or were they just lazy, afraid of changes?
Well, if you would move a little north, you wouldn't be so disappointed Arabs were the Masters of that age, as far as technological advancement. You are conflating tribal cultures, which have no desire to change, with industrialized cultures that are adopting technologies for societal effeciency. When you didn't grow up with capitalism, you find that living and being happy is enough Clothes, cellphones, TV, all that shit is quite optional. I envy someone that can wake up, look out at their environment, and know that as long as the trees grow and the birds call, everything will be OK. A tribal state is man's natural state, don't denigrate a people because you don't agree with the way they choose to live and be happy actually, I dont have time for this shit, educate your damned self. Dont feel like all the formatting. In 295 BC, the Library of Alexandria was founded in Egypt. It was considered the largest library in the classical world.Vikings and books? Not so much Hadn't developed runes yet. A stone circle located in the Nabta Playa basin may be one of the world's oldest known archeoastronomical devices. Built by the ancient Nubians about 4800 BCE, the device may have approximately marked the summer solstice.Dumb ass dindus, inventing astronomy and shit Ancient Egyptian weaponry include bows and arrow, maces, clubs, scimitars, swords, shields, and knives. Body armor was made of bands of leathers and sometimes laid with scales of copper. Horse-drawn chariots were used to deliver archers into the battle field. Weapons were initially made with stone, wood, and copper, later bronze, and later iron.Did the Vikings have calvary? Let me check Google. Interesting, it's saying no here. I guess you'd need cities to have stables, and not be at war all the time. The richest man in the world was African. Serious shit. Like, is still the richest, statistically, even in this corporate age. That says alot to me. African King Musa Keita I is thought to be the richest person of all time — "richer than anyone could describe," reports Time.
Literally. His fortune was incomprehensible, Time's Jacob Davidson writes: "There's really no way to put an accurate number on his wealth."
He ruled the Mali Empire in the 14th century and his land was laden with lucrative natural resources, most notably gold.
The rest of the world caught wind of his great fortune in 1324, when he made the nearly 4,000 mile pilgrimage to Mecca. He didn't do it on the cheap.
On his stop in Cairo, he spent so much gold and donated so much money to the poor that he caused mass inflation! It would take years for the city to fully recover from the currency crisis.This motherfucker made it rain so hard he broke the fucking economy. I don't need to follow that up with wit. And I'm not saying this to shit on Vikings. What I did there was pure rhetoric (the Arab shit is facta however). Im comparing different things. A warrior society vs an entrenched agrarian (sp?) society. They are a proud people that have held their place in our history, a unique, beautiful culture. But don't get shit twisted, they weren't the pinnacle of technology. I won't even enumerate the contributions Asia and South America have made to our global pursuit of knowledge and technology. I just wanted to knock that nationalism down a few notches But I say all that, to say this and shut this silly as thread down.. Africa is the cradle of civilization. You do understand, all my bigoted friends, that we all came from the same place, Africa? You and I are brothers, Mr. Yu. This is why I started off our conversation by establishing your superiority Separated by time and space, culture and history, but brothers none the less. Let's be niggers together welcome to the human race, the only one that matters. And I'm telling Mom you are racist. |
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...and as soon as the GOP obtained a majority, you managed to elect Mr Gorsuch. I just think it's funny how fast the process got legs as soon as an appointment served the Republican agenda. No mind of the harm to the State by leaving the Court incomplete for almost a decade. You need to remember that Gorsuch is the replacement for Antonin Scalia. If you study their political inclination, then you will find that Gorsuch is much more moderate than Scalia. And then, what was Obama trying to do? He was trying to replace Scalia with another left-wing buffoon, despite the Democrats were not having a majority in the House. If the situation was just the reverse (GOP president nominating right-wing candidate, with Dem majority in House), how you guys would have reacted? Misspoke with decade. Was a provable error borne of exaggeration, my bad. We would have followed parliamentary procedure, and allowed the Court to exist as the people intend it to. You don't always win. But you do play by the rules, that's what really makes America great. The diverse composition of the Court, through organic acquisition of members, should do just that, represent the democracy, even if it does not represent a citizens best interest at a given time. It's supposed to be dynamic, it's bipartisan on purpose. You get your turn, eventually. But when people cut the line, this breaks down. But I will concede, the DNC are no angels. But you guys are good for this shit, subverting the democracy for your own ends. We play by the rules, to a fault. It's what's wrong with the party, they haven't adapted to the current political climate. |
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