Perhaps that is true. But I don't think that he is the enemy as well. The real enemy for the European civilization is the hordes of immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa. Russia and Putin is not a threat to the European culture.

Really?
Last update I saw about him was around 18% so a rather good amount for a far left candidate!

Can't say much though, I don't really see the "normal" candidates getting more than 10%. Who in his right mind would vote for something like Fillon or Macron?

Anyone with a brain will have to chose between extreme left and extreme right. The middle is just a bunch of sold bitches. We should all behead them.

Well you understood part of it. I agree that we can't have others in the anonymity set unmasking their own transactions, because then it aids in unmasking the others as well.

Apologies I am not always writing clearly. Combination of:

• Being only high 80s to low 90s percentile in writing skills, spelling, and vocabulary, but I am 99th percentile in reading comprehension and my conceptual "visual abstract mathematics" skill is lower level genius perhaps (at least in the 130 - 140 IQ range, perhaps higher). I've wondered if I am mildly Aspergers (the speech and language aspects only) but not sure, probably not. I also seem to have a mild dyslexia (so often order gets transposed or entire portions get dropped). And given my active abstract mind, this communication capability that others might see as above average, is from my vantage point a major disability sort of like being inside a jail and unable to communicate but rather than shutting down introvert I am extrovert. Btw, I think this is probably why I love programming because the vocabulary is small but the abstract domain is large.
• Still suffering frequent (but not continuous) delirium of chronic fatigue due to my TB meds
• Was very sleepy when I wrote that

Here is a new summary:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1796575.msg17968724#msg17968724

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I don't know why it went the opposite direction for me. Maybe it is my high level of skill in athletics and thus I was able to relate socially on aspects other than my intellectual interests. I had also seen those as two distinct sides of myself. But I would also go introvert at times, wanting to get away from boring social interaction and get back on my computer and intellectual pursuits. Maybe you can relate?

My father and mother are both very skilled in vocabulary and writing, yet my father is an introvert by nature and very good faked extrovert. My mother is an extrovert.

More I think about, I was an extrovert since early childhood or even as an infant. I remember when I was 5, I would walk up to a group of adult strangers in the park and entertain them in conversation. I remember at a very early age, I became very interested in the philosophical conversations my 160 IQ step-father was having and I realized I could follow all the logic easily.

No it is not. The big move in bitcoin that made it mainstream came in 2013 when Cyprus confiscated the savings of it's people to bail out the banks.

Basically countries like the USA and UK, which have had a very long period of rule of law, are not the drivers of bitcoin because the dollar and pound are trusted by their citizens. The same goes for Sweden and Denmark, they are stable countries who control their own currency.

Bitcoin is of benefit to those countries who DON'T have the rule of law and are thus very dangerous. So Argentina, Venezuela, various places in Africa and Asia, and the eurozone countries. 

The biggie for Bitcoin is March 2017, when France has it's elections. One of the candidates wants to leave the euro. Changing currency brings instability and I expect funds will rush into bitcoin, gold, the dollar, pound and swiss franc just before the election.

Legalization of illegal immigrants will be extremely unfair to those who took the legal path. I know someone who is waiting for more than 10 years, to immigrate to the United States. He can't get his visa, despite having family connections in the United States.

Their policy is never to comment on why they take out a website.

That is not true. Perhaps that was the case a few decades back. But nowadays, the political leaders can't afford to alienate the general population by taking one-sided decisions. The people are more aware about the current affairs and politics, thanks to the internet and social media. It is not possible to control them by hiding the facts.

100% agreed. Look at the so called "rapefugees" in Germany. Somewhere around 80% and 90% of them are adult males. IMO, Germany should have given preference to the women and children.

If a military confrontation between Japan and China happens in the near future, I am 100% sure that the American military will get involved in the warfare (on the Japanese side). That said, Japan doesn't really need help from the US. Despite the popular myths, the Japanese armed forces is much better than the PLA.

Saddam Hussein's rule was far better than the current chaos and anarchy. If he was in power, the ISIS would have never come in to existence. Also, the religious minorities enjoyed protection under Saddam Hussein.

The EU is importing in terrorists and anti-semites into Europe, that further radicalizes local mentally ill people.

Do you think the EU is a good thing?

America's inability to prosecute bankers isn't in question.  We know that's never going to change regardless of what regulatory measures are or aren't in place.  Although to answer your question, some argue it's around 35, but Dodd-Frank probably wasn't pertinent to all of them.  Sure, if more punitive measures had been involved in drafting that legislation, more banksters would be locked up.  And some critics did complain that the law didn't go far enough in that regard.  But how the immoral activities are punished isn't the question here.  It's how you define which activities are permissible and which aren't permissible to begin with.  That emphasis will now shift because the focus is now on keeping the money flowing at all costs, whereas before it was keeping the money flowing while taking safe practices into consideration.  Repealing the legislation means a greater number of questionable practices will be deemed permissible than before.  Complexity and authorship aside, this is a dangerous change in ethos.

Also, don't pretend for a second that the puppetmasters behind this deregulation aren't banksters:


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/business/dealbook/trump-congress-financial-regulations.html

Quite literally, the lunatics are taking over the asylum.  The banksters call the shots now.  Yet you cry that banksters wrote the legislation, so getting rid of it must be great.  Even though it's banksters getting rid of it?  Yeah, sounds logical.  

I said you have to buy a 'good quality computer'.  You probably have a piece of shit you got at Radio Shack 10 years ago. 

Rationing of vegetables in UK due to global COOLING:

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/extreme-cold-hitting-europe-creating-food-shortages/

Hope the idiots in this thread have recently taken out a mortgage on a home in a northern climate. Lol.

NOAA caught lying and disagreeing with the UN climate "scientists" (corrupted propagandists is more apt description):

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/the-climate-change-the-sun-is-in-a-downward-cycle/