impartialobserver

Did you not know that "Real" means with inflation accounted for?

Where did this data come from? You think that I am pro-hamas or pro-isreal... this is what you get for assuming. I am simply thinking that you get the same subjective media and because it agrees with you, you hold on to it unquestioningly. Is this data formed counts or is it an estimate? There is a difference.... I do it every day.

Lets see you prove this.. give us exact amounts, end destination, who sent it, who received it, estimated dollar amount of this aid. Subjective articles are useless. If what the UN reports is so biased and useless.. then lets see you step up with some objective, RAW data.

the 3 economic metrics that I rely on are 1) Real per capita GDP 2) Real Personal income and 3) Employment numbers as per QCEW. Some others are that are quite telling are 1. continued UI Claims and 2. labor turnover as per JOLTS.

Off topic again.. I am not playing your game. Show some character and stop going to the theological weeds when it is irrelevant to my posts.

I rely on proven historical record not the Bible. However, you are off topic again. How is the weather in Iqaluit?

Judaism dates to about 1800 BC and muslim starts in roughly 870 AD. However, the conflict is this. The arab/berber population dates back to about 3150 BC. In the time between 3150 and now.. the majority of the population has been arab//berber/canaanite with their religion being Islam after about roughly 1000 AD. The Jews were not the majority for the overwhelming majority of the time especially from roughly 1000 to 1920. So the Palestinians (or Arabs) are feeling that they are being colonized by Europeans. Israel came into existence because Europe forced it upon them. I am a pragmatist at heart and would say that you just get over it and move on. Israel is not going to stop existing nor are the Jews going to leave. Make the best of what you have now but that's not how they view it. as for other nations... other muslim nations have shown over and over again that while their nations may differ in name and geography, they feel a greater kinship based on them being Islam. It is much like the southern states abide by this.

100% unrelated to my posts. If you are going to go off into the weeds then lets start talking about the price of asphalt in Kazakhstan.

that would take a few lifetimes. They are not only drawing from Mexico but the entire of latin America. If not Latin America supplying the drugs.. there will just be someone new to furnish it.

So you send Marines or whatever to kill cartel leaders. Cool. But the demand for the product makes the drug trade lucrative. This is especially lucrative for someone that is relatively poor. So you kill leader x in August 2025.. there is a whole new crop willing to take their place. I do agree that being tough on cartels on both sides (US and Mexico) helps everybody but expecting some open shut case because you kill cartel leaders in the near future... .comical.

I have detailed in other posts why this story interests me. Just because someone does not share your views or religiosity... does not mean that their interest is not as valid.

How did you get that from my post. The subject was the neo nazi guy, Fuentes. If he posts something inflammatory.. he faces any and all consequences associated with that.

When I hit the teenage years and decided that I wanted to know about stuff other than rock music and Boise State football.. there were 3 regions that especially intrigued me. 1. Israel/Jordan/Lebanon.. only because it did not seem to make sense as to why they were in perpetual conflict 2. East Africa.. mainly to understand why they were in a state of famine and 3. Eastern Europe.. why it was so poor when it seemed to be in an advantageous location in the geopolitical ballgame. When I got to college in 2007, I decided to take a deep dive on Roman history from antiquity to the time of Constantine and then went on to take two courses that were mostly or partly about the middle east/israel. In short.. what a convoluted mess.

Ok. so you can stay on topic somewhat. Congrats. My interest in this story is not based on religion. I do not side with the Jews because I am jewish or with the Muslims because I practice Islam. Clear enough?

I agree with Musk. Freedom of speech is important. Now, that does not free the neo-nazi from consequences. If folks stop working with him.. its of his own doing. If he posts threats and violent content and it can be shown that he posted his intent to commit a crime.. again its of his own doing.

Israel is not in a good place with simple choices. if they relent.. they open the possibility of another attack in the near future. The grievances of Palestine are not going to be resolved soon and so the hatred of some will not subside. If they do not relent, they risk it angering the other side even more and prompting another Oct. 7 attack. Yes, Israel is militarily superior to Hamas/Palestine but that does not mean that you want to simply sacrifice human lives in the name of pride. Oct. 7 massacre was terrible and Israel was fully within its rights to retaliate. Unlike some on here.. I do not claim to have insider information and so have no idea what will prompt them (Israel) to pull back.

In theory, you would think that they could simply expand the Gaza Strip and be ok with it. However, one of their grievances is that they want increased access to water and irrigation in connection to the Jordan River (so further inland). At present, Israel is the gatekeeper to this resource. If they were to abandon this area and return it to Israel and then focus on Gaza (with possibly Egypt giving them some territory), that would seem to work. However, they would find something to fight about.

At the most personal level.. folks have became so risk averse that they are willing to entertain ideas that they would not otherwise. You can blame government for this if you so want. However, in my Phd dissertation and doing 250 surveys (small sample size, I know).. it came down to income, being deluged by information, and the idea that one bad decision would send their house of cards tumbling down. I think this incredible aversion to possible loss pervades our lives. Its why we have insurance on everything, never take the dirt road, etc.

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.

Safetyism... simple human nature. Something that those in the higher ranks of Behavioral Economics have been talking about for decades. In short, folks prefer avoiding loss or predicted loss over possible gains. Another term is loss aversion. This is what my Phd dissertation was centered on.

I would agree. However, this comes from the fact that Israel controls certain parts of their existence. Israel controls the water supply, the power grid, and most of the roads. Having the State of Palestine be surrounded by Israel on most sides is not sustainable. The area is desert after all and being someone that knows desert (having lived in it for 47 years).. there are going to be battles over water and its close cousin, agriculture. Introduce this conflict into it and then add the religious battle into it and not sure how this can work. A utopian solution would be where you improve the standard of living in Palestine and therefore not have the desperation that fosters religious zealots and their soldiers.

Not even close to what I was talking about. Spin it all you want but simple reading comprehension would show that you are off in left field.

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.

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.

Your desire to have the last word or "be right". i am simply pointing out why the 4 year degree became more in vogue than being a laborer from the 70's up to 2010. A lot of success stories were made. Folks get the degree, get the "good job" but then quite a few did not. Out of that narrative came the drive to artificially pump up one's grades.. because they had to get the "good job". The younger generation has came to their senses on their own.