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1. The "hoax" Mike, is that this issue is being called a "crisis" worth imposing suffering on the population. That's the "hoax". The political wing (UN et al) are the liars here. Even all those government paid scientists will not call this a "crisis". Curry's presentation is sensible and fact based. The politicians are warping the data and the presentation of the data in order to cause alarm...fear...in the public. For that alone, they should be caged. From the transcript: So why are they lying Mike? Why are they turning a mole hill into a mountain? Can they make a course correction? Not without exposing their lies they can't. So why? Power? Money? Why? 2. Suffering - People ARE suffering as a result of this "hoax". Are you ignoring poverty and hunger increases as a direct result of this lie?

I worked in a lab for over two decades and looking up data and maintaing data was part of my job. I kept track of Covid deaths from about March of 2000 for Canada and other countries. Looking at Canada prior to Covid, we had between 7000 to 8500 deaths per year due to the flu and pneumonia. Covid which is a respiratory, took those numbers up to about 15,000 per year and some of those deaths were also not due to Covid but the fact that people could not get in for an operation at the hospital. And most of the deaths were from those over 75 which is the norm for all other flu & pneumonia cases before Covid. Exactly why they pushed flu shots in retirement homes every year. And then jabs for high school kids. Really, less than a few dozen died of Covid over the years. Simply amazing. People can believe what they want. One thing is for sure, the government put the fear of God into people. That is how you control them.

What the unions and their people want is typically to do the least amount of work for the most amount of money. 😉 Not true at all. A lot of the early research showed promise, but it wasn't rigorous and was very survey/perception-based (like how productive workers felt they were, and how much longer they were "working" without their commute). Since then a lot of research has been released showing the opposite. Remote work seems to have better results on productivity the higher skilled the work is, and/or the more independently task-oriented, measurable and organized it is within a office. The public sector is not exactly known for its motivated and accountable workforce, so you end up with all of the pitfalls of remote work while lacking some of the biggest benefits (namely more flexible and less costly hires). A public sector union monopoly is probably therefore the least suitable environment for 100% remote.

The survey would seem to suggest trump is taking the right course. By leaving it up to the states, it lets local populations consider their own moral stance on the issue and act appropriately. Almost everyone wants SOME restrictions on aboriton, nobody except DieHard lefties are clamoring for abortion at the moment of birth. Most are extremely happy with something like during the first trimester, and it seems that most states have moved in that direction. I don't think anybody who would have considered voting for trump at all will be moved by this issue. It's a state issue now, very arguably should have been all along, and the states can find a solution that their people believe in.

The beauty of nevada is two fold. First, wide open spaces. Second, very mellow political environment. The issues that send other cities into protests, riots, chaos. etc.. barely move the needle here. We had a "George Floyd" protest here.. it lasted 4 hours and resulted in one broken window. This is very minimal in comparison to other cities.

That's the question, isn't it? I believe here is only the illusion of consensus. Same thing happened with covid. When you silence, censor, discredit, deplatform, and defund any expert who diverges from the accepted (money-driven) narrative - that's not consensus. During covid, the world's TOP experts in virology and vaccinology from places like Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, etc - were silenced, fired and deplatformed. NOW, they have all been proven to have been telling the truth. Follow the money - always. (The video I linked you to explains "the consensus", so I know you didn't watch it because you don't address the valid points in there). The fact that there ISN'T true consensus would make me less inclined to make policies that dramatically affect people's lives in a negative way. Same stance I took with covid. Unless you were 90 years old and had multiple comorbidities - very few people were in danger. This was known early on - long before there was a vax. Yet we devastated lives, devastated economies, devastated societies. I see the same progression with climate alarmism.

1. Good. 2. Not much action? Expand on that please? 3. You're unaware of the cost of gas? The cost of groceries? The lack of selection? That's here in the land of "haves". In Africa, The West is now busily bribing African nations with billions of dollars in return for replacing what electricity generation they have (mostly coal) to "green" energy. The same ideas that have already failed in...The West. Coal plants happen to be effective and cheap. If there's no real climate "crisis", as we know there is not now, then why are we choking this unreliable and more expensive technology on Africa? Why not let them develop...THE WAY THE WEST DID? If we were to, a lot of Africa's problems would begin to remedy themselves naturally.

Unfortunately you will never get any respect from the leftists here because you dared to offer a dissenting opinion on the covid thing, but that's a solid, informative post which gives a lot of insight into how these doomsday POVs keep sprouting. You're a huge asset to this forum. Don't let the naysayers slow you down.

*giggle* Don't like freedom of speech? Don't use "X". Simple enough for even you to understand.

Lets start Jack Smith got caught manipulating the evidence in the Trump documents case and admitted it. New York still hasn't talked about any crime Trump committed and has spent more time trashing Trump hoping they don't actually look at the BS case they have brought and convict him based off not liking Trump. Paying off pornstars isn't illegal and they still haven't disclosed any evidence that Trump was ever involved in the payoffs. Also it has never been an election interference crime to suppress bad stories about yourself as long as you don't use campaign funds. Stormy's story was simply amazing. She openly admitted she hated Trump and would never give him a dime that the court ordered her to pay but you should trust her honesty on the stand, when she is happily defying a court order. The judge is a joke and literally let Stormy say whatever the hell she wanted that had 0 to do the case, it was just to smear Trump. Hell you can he was scared he was going to get spanked because after her testimony he could just see the appellate court dismissing the case and censuring him. Leticia is claiming it was fraudulent to give his own valuations with a disclosure that he can cannot be certain of the valuations and that the bank should do their own valuation. The banks themselves don't think they were defrauded and would happily give Trump another loan. There was no one damaged and the came up with a higher fine than Sam Freeman who stole billions of dollars and were actual damages. What a joke. Stop watching Democrat propaganda.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10480761/hardeep-singh-nijjar-suspect-canadian-student-visa/ One of the suspects accused of gunning down B.C. Sikh temple leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar entered Canada using a study permit that he said took only days to obtain. In a video posted online in 2019, Karan Brar said he applied for a student visa through EthicWorks Immigration Services in Bathinda, in India’s Punjab state. He said he received his study visa days later, according to a translation of his Punjabi-language statement. A separate Facebook page that appears to belong to Brar said he began studying at Bow Valley College in Calgary on April 30, 2020, and moved to Edmonton on May 4, 2020. A college spokesperson confirmed a Karan Brar was enrolled in the Hospital Unit Clerk program in 2020. The program spans eight months, raising questions about why he remained in Canada years later. It takes us years to get a doctor or a nurse in - this guy shows up for an 8 month course and is still here 3 years later when he kills someone, apperently at the request of the India gov't. Our immigration system is so flawed it is beyond insane

What's worse is supporting the people putting these kids out in front in danger. It's sad to know there is people that don't have a problem with that,and just look the other way and blame the jews. 1930s all over again.

The fact is, just about ALL crime is commited by non-registered guns. Another fact is take DUI (booze & drugs) and Distracted Driving (texting) fatalities into account, they far exceed gun related fatalities which by the way are caused by illegal guns and low lifes. But politicials won't touch alcohol as there is too much tax money in it for them. I watched Justin in an interview when he said gun ownership is OK for hunters and recreational shooters, but he said they cannot be used for self defence. In that case Justin, why do you have security with guns to protect you. I hate double standards. If gun haters hate guns, well maybe we should ban cell phones. I would know as I spent months on crutches due to a driver on a cell phone.

So...Mr Socks - a black-faced dilitente... Fear? Seriously? 🤣

Well you aren't dealing with pigs, in principle because pigs have none. People hate hypocrisy more than anything, which is why a molester or thief gets a bolder headline if he's a man of the cloth. Drill down and you'll find that there is actually more in common today than in the past. People who like to argue on here aren't as extreme as they let on. That also explains why they're arguing against caricatures a lot of the time.

It beats freezing to death.

They had to hire an additional 100,000 to get the work done. The Unions should be happy to get all those union dues LOL I wish they did a study or poll to find out what the public really thinks

You can not care who's wrong and still want an end to the fighting. If i lived in an apartment and my neighbors were yelling and screaming and throwing furniture I wouldn't care who cheated on whom, i'd just want them to stop

If you value freedom of speech at all then you must accept all opinions from whomever is out there. I despise liberals and communists but they have the right to have their opinion and to their freedom of speech. You obviously despise Elon Musk for his belief in freedom of speech for all. Even Nazi leaders should have the right to their opinion. Musk has brought back a little more freedom of speech to social media. I know that conservative opinions and points of view being allowed to be heard on X is so repulsive to you, but then again, who really gives a crap about what you think. Lefty liberals like you hate conservatives and their right to freedom of speech. PS: If i were of a German background, i would take offence and be really offended and insulted by people like you to be using the word Nazi. Maybe some German people here should take anyone to the human rights commission for using the word Nazi. Just my opinion of course. 😇

Good to hear that you are living the good life and rightly so. You earned and paid for it, then you deserve to own it. The globalists despise you. You are the enemy and you must be defeated. The WEF Marxist globalist plans are to take away all that you and me and thee own and keep it all for themselves. These WEF globalists are buying up as much land and housing property as they can. Black rock and Vanguard are pretty much doing all the buying up of land and houses. If they ever get their way with imposing their CBDC'S(central bank digital currency)then we will all be phukd. A cashless society will be we the people's end of freedom, and to live a life of slavery. It's no joke, it is happening in real time. A website like this one will surely be gone. Creating inflation is what is causing all of the problems that we are all having today and things will only get worse if they are allowed to continue on. Covid 19 hoax, climate change crisis nonsense, and EV's are just a few of their many schemes to take away all that we have and own. We the people must stop listening to the MSM and our puppet on a string politicians who have shown us since covid that they are the enemy of we the people. Covid was a trial run. This so called climate crisis is covid #2. There are plenty of alternative news websites out there trying that are trying to warn us all about what the globalists have in store for us all. It looks like some of we the people are starting to get and see it now happening. Just saying. I like rabbit stew. 😇

Well, I think we're close to a position where I can say that there are some reasonable ideas there. Maybe that's the best we can hope for.

I feel like this is such a personal thing, too. We all take risks every day and we all make calculations on what we're willing to give up or lose, based on our own personal circumstances and as much information as we can cull. The deliberate withholding of information so people can make their own decisions, is infuriating to me. It happened a lot during covid and it's happening with the climate thing, too.

that would the ideal solution. Not sure that Israel is willing to redraw the boundaries and therefore displace some of their citizens. It would be best in the long term but the modern world is dominated by short term thinking.

Well this is kind of where I was going with that. The idea of a Gaza Strip and West Bank just doesn't work. The Muslim states and the Israeli State need to be completely separate, self-sufficient entities I do not rely on each other out of necessity. I just don't see any solution where Gaza and West Banks exist within Israel that works for any length of time. The Palestinians hate the Israelis too much to be able to coexist when they are forced to interact just for food and water. They need to be somewhere where they are their own country and their own people and don't have to think about or deal with the Israelis at all if they don't want to

There's a VERY, VERY strong trend happening right now that many are referring to as "safetyism". Here's just one article that addresses it: (and this was back in 2020, so 4 years later it's even stronger, IMO. The chicken littles of the world got validation and more power from the covid crisis.) YOU CAN SUSTITUTE "CLIMATE CRISIS" FOR THE WORDS "PANDEMIC" OR "VIRUS" IN THE ARTICLE AND SEE THE SAME PROGRESSION. The danger of safetyism - UnHerd Safetyism is a disposition that has been gaining strength for decades and is having a triumphal moment just now because of the virus. Public health, one of many institutions that speak on behalf of safety, has claimed authority to sweep aside whole domains of human activity as reckless, and therefore illegitimate. I suspect the ease with which we have lately accepted the authority of health experts to reshape the contours of our common life is due to the fact that safetyism has largely displaced other moral sensibilities that might offer some resistance. At the level of sentiment, there appears to be a feedback loop wherein the safer we become, the more intolerable any remaining risk appears. At the level of bureaucratic grasping, we can note that emergency powers are seldom relinquished once the emergency has passed. Together, these dynamics make up a kind of ratchet mechanism that moves in only one direction, tightening against the human spirit. Acquiescence in this appears to be most prevalent among the meritocrats who staff the managerial layer of society. Deferring to expert authority is a habit inculcated in the “knowledge economy”, naturally enough; the basic currency of this economy is epistemic prestige. Among those who work in the economy of things, on the other hand, you see greater skepticism toward experts (whether they make their claim on epistemic or moral grounds) and less readiness to accept the adjustment of social norms by fiat ­– whether that means using new pronouns or wearing surgical masks. A pandemic is a deadly serious business. But we would do well to remember that bureaucracies have their own interests, quite apart from the public interest that is their official brief and warrant. They are very much in the business of tending and feeding the narratives that justify their existence. Further, given the way bureaucracies must compete for funding from the legislature, each must make a maximal case for the urgency of its mission, hence the necessity of its expansion, like a shark that must keep moving or die. It is clearer now than it was a few months ago that this imperative of expansion puts government authority in symbiosis with the morality of safetyism, which similarly admits no limit to its expanding imperium. The result is a moral-epistemic apparatus in which experts are to rule over citizens conceived as fragile incompetents.

The Palestinians and/or Arab-Berber population believe that they are in effect being colonized. It is not the body count of one war, one attack, one massacre. They focus on 1948 because that is the year that the Western nations imposed the State of Israel on them and essentially took their land and made them second-class citizens ( in their eyes). That is the long story made short. Now, should they get over it? Yes. Is Hamas and the state of palestine one in the same? No but there is enough overlap to correlate the two. What makes this messier than what you see on the surface is that the Muslim world (multiple nations and about 1 billion people) feels a sort of brotherhood with them. The population and leadership do not fully embrace the terrorist activities of Hamas but they tolerate it because they feel it may achieve a mutual goal.. a return to where they have all of the land. That is not going to happen. Without completely wiping out the population of one side or the other.. the only solution is where the palestinians put aside their grievances and move on. Just not sure what will make that happen.

Abortion is a complete non-issue with me. However, it does conjure very strong emotions in most. I can see it being an issue that swings the vote in some states... nevada is not one of them.

I thought we had discussed this - if there were a consensus, which there isn't, risk management strategies would be important. Rationality would have to prevail. There are some who strongly believe that since man is the #1 cause of climate change, then population must be reduced by a factor of billions. I wouldn't want those people in charge of making policy.

100% off topic. Thanks for proving that you have not the intellect to stay on topic. 100% off topic... nice try but I am not taking the bait. Respond to the topic in a coherent fashion and we can chat.

1. I asked for what I wanted 2. Cite? 3. Not interested in your idea about sides. I'm talking to you respectfully, there are no sides. 4. Cite? 5. Good. 6. Cite? If you exaggerate or use scare words yourself, can you see how that would undercut your points? Not saying that you do. Where did you get that idea anyway?

That's not even a coherent sentence lmao. Connect what with what as being the same thing? Liver with protests? Yes meaning "the same people who probably protested as students in the past to their parents disapproval are now the people disapproving of student protests". It's a straightforward and self-contained proposition. No it doesn't. I've honestly never met anyone so stupid yet so assured of their own intelligence as you. They should study you in a lab.

Fear and anger are the two easiest ways to motivate people. All cults use a blend of that to keep their people in line but so does virtually every other 'snake oil peddler' out there like peta or tides or any of the left wing 'activist' groups. Get mad get scared take action - been that way since religion was invented.

1. Yeah if you want to talk about what Curry is saying, let's talk about it. But the discussion starts out with somebody saying global warming is a hoax. It's not happening... Or at least that's the inference anyone would get from it. Then it turns into well... We should implement a new kind of politics that is more amenable to risk management discussions. And the UN should take the lead on that. Do you see how the conversation switched there? 2. Suffering... You have to factor in the enjoyment people get from exaggeration online.

Better yet, well done Canada. The question is, who let them in? I know. Isn't there some rule that states refugees are supposed to stay in the next bordering country. Are these refugees all American born citizens that want to come to Canada ie the neighbouring country. And why is this MY PROBLEM on an issue that I never voted for? I do not tell my PM which charity to donate to, so don't put the refugee problem on me.

One of the left's biggest vote-getters is climate change. Alt-left politicians are trying to scare kids into voting for them by telling them that they'll all die if they don't jump in line. Just like they did with covid. Does the "YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" shtick sound familiar? It's the cultist rallying cry. Once you convince people that their lives are on the line you have them hook, line and sinker. They're cultists. Here's a pre-eminent climatologist, one Dr Judith Curry, from May 04 2024, explaining how hard politicians are pushing scientists to conform to the global warming agenda: Mixing politics and science is inevitable on issues of high societal relevance, such as climate change. However, there are some really bad ways to do this, and we’re seeing all of these with the climate change issue. Policy makers misuse science by demanding scientific arguments for desired policies, funding a narrow range of projects that support preferred policies, and using science as a vehicle to avoid ‘hot potato’ policy issues. Scientists misuse policy-relevant science by playing power politics with their expertise, conflating expert judgment with evidence, entangling disputed facts with values, and intimidating scientists whose research interferes with their political agendas. Dems/Libs: "THE SKY IS FALLING, DUMMIES! EAT BUGS TO MAKE THE WEATHER GOODER!" Leftards: "Oh, yes, thank you Mr Trudeau! Thank you Mr. Biden!" How did all those votes for Trudeau and Biden work out? Did they save us all from Climate Change?

I think the defense let it get out of hand in order to try to justify the mistrial.

Who, other than yourself, said they were fine with this? That's an atrocious thing to suggest.

What you say is false. The judge sided with the defense objections most of the time during Daniels' testimony and he even curtailed her story multiple times with his own objections. Perhaps the defense should have offered more objections if they thought her testimony was irrelevant and unduly presidential. That's their job, and Merchan clearly was sympathetic. Instead they just let it happen and whined about it afterward. Sort of like Daniels.

Yes dear...

1. Agreed. 2. Sigh. Bankrupting Canada... that's hysterical exaggeration. I can say that without saying whether or not it's worth it to mitigate, or do a carbon tax. If you are one of those people calling for 100% honesty from media and want lower levels of hysteria... just saying maybe your tendency to use extreme terms is something they do too ? Maybe it's a human thing ? And people who are worried about bankruptcy... some of them think we should be charging companies for this (some conservatives on this board). Maybe Poilievre will do that, who knows...

Schools stopped teaching critical thinking skills, and then parents did. Children today do not engage in the kind of problem solving results oriented play and 'education' our parents and grandparents taught young people any more. Now you hear things like AOC saying "It's more important to be morally correct than factually accurate'. And kids are taught that their feelings have a reality of their own. There's such a thing as 'personal truth' vs simply truth. And that leaves people vunerable to stupidity. If we're being serious - if you have the ability to mentally edit out facts you don't like, then all you have to do is edit out october 7th and think about everything SINCE then and gaza looks like a terrible tragedy. Attacked for NO REASON by a hostile force, a small oppressed state with no actual standing army watches is children and women get slaughtered and starved while a tiny handful of untrained men try desperately to protect them as they are bombed!!!!! If anyone mentiones oct 7 just pretend that date is mixed in with every single thing that ever happened in world history going back 10 thousand years so you can't possibly think about one day. See? Pull a few key facts and events out of it and suddenly this looks like a tragedy. That's what you get when we raise kids to care more about self delusion than facts.

Can you think of a solution where Israel exists and free of violence all the while palestine gets all of its demands met? The two seem mutually exclusive. Yes, most do not know about the region and if asked one year ago to this date.. would not know what you were talking about if you brought up the word, "Hamas".

Not sure what your point here is...what i hear is is going to be ever ending conflict, so why debate it..it is pointless...and yet man continues to solve political problems with violence, but some how this terrorist organization has won the hearts and minds of to many Canadians, and most of them don't know squat about this entire region...they have taken a side because it is a popular thing to do...never once have they asked is it the right thing to do...there are two sides here, on one side there is a terrorist group, a city that has done nothing with the aid money it receives except to further the war with israel, and then gets the world to feel sorry for their plight, of their own doing.........on the other, a nation that has western morals and values, is democratic, and has been defending their nation since it's inception...

The list of grievances carried forth by Hamas/Palestine/Muslim world goes beyond just 1948 but it is a key part of it. A lot of their grievances have a root cause in the founding of the state of Israel. You should read the cities of salt trilogy. It gives a more intimate perspective on the greater Islam vs. the world conflict. No, it does not portray Westerners as the devil hence why it is banned in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, amongst others.

I don't care--at all--about some alleged "Satan dildo cake." It's not relevant. It has nothing to do with the Masterpiece case. It was not the reason he refused to sell a gay couple the same cake he would sell a straight couple. At BEST word got out that the man was discriminating against gay people and someone decided to troll him for it. A bigot got verbally trolled? Cry me a river. If a basic farking 3-tiered cake (or whatever) is "art" then a sandwich artist has the same claim to making art. Painting houses is my "art"! Pumping gas is my "art"! Every time I drop crinkle-cut potatoes into a deep fryer it's a motherfarking transcendent expression of the glory of god! That's all bullshit. Art CAN be expressed or executed in many mediums. A cake--or any commodity product--has to be an extraordinary and unique creation to become "art." And beyond being bullshit, it's an attempt to cynically use "god" as a legal facade to exclude ANYONE from anything about which a person claims to have religious feelings. I'm sure Jesus would be thrilled that people are being abused, marginalized or excluded in his name.

Having worked in risk management and not being a person prone to panic, I prefer the rational risk assessment method 🤣 My understanding is that climate science is mostly founded on "models". In medical, hired modelers generally are asked to model a "worst case" scenario. Rational risk assessment will then determine how likely that "worst case" scenario is. Unfortunately, basing all decisions made in any situation on a "worst case" scenario model, generally leads to.......very bad decisions and very often "the cure being worse than the disease." As we saw with covid. I see the same hair-on-fire panic, alarmism, worst case scenario modeling, rushing to implement measures with NO thinking about long-term impacts.....that I saw during covid. I see the same thing happening in a lot of situations because, for some strange reason, we have put an inordinate amount of bureaucratic chicken littles in charge of everything. Immigration is another example - hair-on-fire, panic OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!!! Canada's population is aging so bring in masses numbers of people. Zero thought given to housing. Zero though given to hospital overload, ZERO thought given to feeding people, ZERO thought given to jobs or the economy. Zero thought given to societal impacts. I hope at some point very soon, we stop giving in to the chicken littles - they're destroying us on every level.

Stop. Just stop. How hard did you really look MH? You just did a "confirmation bias scan" and regurgitated what you found ffs. All you did there is take the big tech opinion that you want from an arbitrary point in time 14 years ago and foist it on her and the rest of us. Here's her own blog from 4 days ago. Literally 04 May 2024: https://judithcurry.com/2024/05/04/annual-gwpf-lecture-climate-uncertainty-and-risk/#more-31190 So how did we come to be between a rock and a hard place on the climate issue, where we are allegedly facing an existential threat. And the proposed solutions are both unpopular and infeasible? Well in a few words, we’ve put the policy cart before the scientific horse. In the 1980’s, the UN Environmental Program was looking for a cause to push forward its agenda of eliminating fossil fuels and anti-Capitalism. With the help of a small number of well-positioned activist climate scientists, a 1988 UN conference in Toronto recommended that the world “reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 20% by the year 2005 as an initial global goal.” The implicit assumption was that the small amount of warming observed over the previous decade was caused by emissions, and that warming was dangerous. Further down: "Mixing politics and science is inevitable on issues of high societal relevance, such as climate change. However, there are some really bad ways to do this, and we’re seeing all of these with the climate change issue. Policy makers misuse science by demanding scientific arguments for desired policies, funding a narrow range of projects that support preferred policies, and using science as a vehicle to avoid ‘hot potato’ policy issues. Scientists misuse policy-relevant science by playing power politics with their expertise, conflating expert judgment with evidence, entangling disputed facts with values, and intimidating scientists whose research interferes with their political agendas." Here's more of her own commentary: " Wait a minute. Don’t 97% of climate scientists agree on all this? Doesn’t climate science demand that we urgently eliminate fossil fuel emissions? Here is what all scientists actually agree on: Surface temperatures have increased since 1880 Humans are adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere Carbon Dioxide and other greenhouse gases have a warming effect on the planet. How much of the recent warming has been caused by humans How much the planet will warm in the 21st century Whether warming is ‘dangerous’ And whether urgently eliminating the use of fossil fuels will improve human well being Nevertheless, we are endlessly fed the trope that 97% of climate scientists agree that warming is dangerous and that science demands urgent reductions in CO2 emissions. Go fish MH. Just go fish ffs. Your blind belief in big tech and their scripted search results, plus the MSM and all of their distorted narratives, is well-established here. It's sad. You consider yourself well-informed and you're a classic serial-victim of propaganda.

That could very well be true at this point - it's certainly seeming like it's going nowhere before the elections and that's when they REALLY needed it. This was the one case where there were serious charges where i think most people felt he was actually guilty of SOMETHING at least, whereas most of the other ones people look at as complete 'witch hunt". With this one off the table, the left's argument that trump is bad person because law is severely weakened. AND - he's going to look like he 'beat' the system again.

Meaning the almost two million Muslims in Canada. Too late. Anyone from a region which is absolutely seething with intolerance is going to be less tolerant than someone born and raised here. Add in Islam, which is the least tolerant of the major religions, and you have a group that is devoted to values which are completely divergent from our own. People who hate the West, hate Western culture and values, and want to destroy the whole thing in favor of some imagined colorful rainbow of people from around the world with different cultures, values and beliefs - who they somehow seem to believe will share their own very left-wing views but don't. The reason the Left sides with Muslims, for example, is because they both hate the West, and the Left has this starry-eyed belief that the Muslims don't really believe that 'silly' religious stuff, or that as soon as they get here and experience our wonderful land of tolerance their intolerance will fade away. With few exceptions they appear to be mostly venal, self-serving nobodies of little substance, vision, or intellect who simply spout whatever words they're given by the party, and vote however they're told to vote. I like to think a Conservative government will push back on this, but doubt it will push very hard. I was just listening to an interview with a British conservative who said that their party was further to the Left than most British people, leaving those people feeling helpless because there's nobody to vote for that will represent their will. I'm not sure that's not the case in Canada, as well.

From a modern statehood standpoint, there has never been an independent Palestine. At no point has the region not been under siege since Israel became a country. Sure at points, they've been granted limited self governance, but Israel has never granted them sovereignty or freedom. That "land" includes coastal waters that have been under Israeli Blockade. They never had it 100% to themselves. Israel would certainly like to neutralize the threat a free Palestine would pose to them, but they don't really have any moral justification to do that by pre-emptively invading a foreign territory just because that territory's citizens hate them. And Israel has never stopped committing acts of war against that territory for a single moment. The territory has been blockaded and sieged pretty much non stop since Israel gained statehood. Any act by Palestine against Israel could be considered a war crime, but it's not terrorism. Israel is the stronger party by far. None of Israel's Territory is under Palestinian Occupation. They could end the war whenever they want. Israel doesn't want Peace. Many find the idea of a Palestinian state in its current form objectionable, but the world does not approve of invading Iran or Saudi Arabia or Pakistan just because you don't like the way their countries are run, why is Palestine any different? Hamas is quite detestable, but it's easy to sympathize with the defenders in a war. With the average age of the territory's citizens, there likely isn't a local Palestinian alive today who hasn't been under attack by Israel since the day they were born. So even if hamas is undeniably morally worse than Israel in a vacuum, the circumstances make Israel the undeniable villains in the conflict.