powertower

You are spinning this.

A twice elected democratic government of Ukraine was overthrown in a violent coup, orchestrated from abroad, that used neonazis to do the dirty work.

When this happened, the people of [what was then called] the "Autonomous Republic of Crimea" voted in favor of leaving what was left of Ukraine and rejoining the Russian Federation - which they were originally part of for longer than the US has existed.

Ukraine as a country has only existed for 20 some years. Before that is was a loose territory of different regions. The East was mostly ethnic Russians, the West was mostly other groups. And Crimea was always Russian.

The majority of the force used in Crimea composed of Russian solders that stood outside the gates of Ukrainian military bases, blocking them from leaving, to carry out orders to stop the referendum... Which turned out to be over 95% in favor of rejoining Russia.

Its a media show... The drug in question only applies to 3000 people, has no patent on it (anyone can manufacture it), is currently the lowest price in its category, costs $20 if you have insurance, is free if you have no insurance.

They are talking about impoverished women with AIDS in Africa - and the drug company only has a license for the US, the drug itself has nothing to do with AIDS, and is free for half the patients and a $20 co-pay for the other half.

How is lending based on all qualifying factors a race to the bottom?

For every citizen to have an equal chance of success (assuming success is merit based), every citizen would have to have equal abilities.

And this is simply not true. Especially by race where IQ can vary 3 standard deviations or more.

The $7,500 is the consumer subsidy.

He is talking about the separate $5 billion corporate subsidy.

> Euthanasia, to me, seems to be the least worst option if I should ever find myself facing a drawn out exit.

Another option that most people are not aware of (that I personally consider the best way to die), is to simply fast (i.e., no food but with water) for the 30 or so days.

Thought this might not be an option 100% of the time - given the circumstances of the ailment.

This process allows you to meditate on the self, and to let go in a steady way, instead of ending in an abrupt halt.

It has been known to produce a sense of immense relief and oneness with everything.

You shouldn't be down-voted.

Due to the current climate of race-diversity and gender-equality, there is an incredibly high demand for female employees in fields and jobs that females generally don't go into.

This creates a demand for ANY-level talent of that variety - no matter the qualifications or abilities (companies will even start a bidding war over the person).

There are even examples of companies openly bragging about not hiring new employees (or at least making it very difficult to do so) that are male and/or white (e.g., GitHub); or not using suppliers that are male and/or white (e.g., Sam's Club CEO).

Take any racial media story...

From the Duke-lacrosse rape case, to the shooting of Michael Brown, the "clock boy", the black woman killed in jail, and everything in-between and beyond.

All proved to be false narratives.

The list is so large that I'm constantly surprised by the opinion that such a thing does not exist.

He witnessed white cops and a handcuffed black male who he claims was possibly muttering to himself.

No one was beating anyone, no one was bleeding out.

Common-sense is he interfered and made the situation worse.

What really gets to me is the fact that white societies are the number #1 immigration destinations for non-whites, and are entirely responsible for this person's opportunities and high standards of living.

Yet all he sees is white racism.

edit: since I can't reply anymore; to that one person...

You've missed the point entirely.

1. You don't know that race had anything to do with what happened. All you have is one side of a story that keeps dragging race into it. Which is very racist in itself.

2. If white societies where racist, they would not be the #1 immigration destination or have the highest standards of living for non-whites (or even let non-whites in).

Wait for the evidence, and the other side of the story, before making a judgment.

The last 9 out of 10 of these types of stories turned out to be completely hoaxed on the part of the victim.

Gravity, in its normal sense (of matter's gravitational attraction), has no frequency or wavelength. Its only property is that of acceleration.

One of the primary reasons for the push for cash-less societies is for the government being able to put a negative-interest rate on personal savings (for economic and social reasons - none of which are good).

This can't happen if you can take cash out (and to a lesser degree if you can buy gold/silver).

This has nothing to do with fairness, the schools, the teachers, nor anything else they throw into the argument.

Most of the "bad" schools get the same (or even more) amount of funding, resources, coursework/material, as the "good" schools.

The difference that separates the two categories are the students (and their parents).

Charter schools simply don't have to put up with the same destructive students - and are able to create a productive environment for learning for the constructive students.

The problem is they tend to also not follow the NAACP approved racial demographics/splits.

There are other more plausible options for these civilizations then building absolutely gigantic structures around suns.

1. Build devices/objects (https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bQ7RaOMHb5I/maxresdefault.jpg) that are able to get close to the stars, that would then absorb the emitted energy from the various coronal ejections, magnetic fluxes, etc.

2. There is more energy in the fabric of empty space-time than anywhere else. An advanced civilization would likely be able to harvest this ZPE (zero point energy or field) using rather small devices.

One reason to pay over market value, is once you buy these coins from the US Government, the sale legitimizes your ownership of it.

That is, whatever happens in the future between Bitcoins and the Gov/Fed/Treasury, your lot might have a standing in a court of law that other lots might not.

This sale basically cleans these coins from all previous illegitimate and/or illegal transactions that they went through - whether some of these where stolen, used to buy drugs, not reported or accounted for correctly with the IRS, etc.

In a way you are getting a government issued certificate of legitimacy. And you will not have to prove anything - when others will have to prove how they acquired theirs.

It's well known that all of Germany's media, intelligence services, and politics was set up by the US after the war.

From what is seen on the geopolitical landscape, Germany is a vassal state of the US.

> It is not true. Russia invaded directly into Crimea and East Ukraine, with very little help from locals.

When the foreign backed neo-nazis/nationalists where used as pawns to overthrow a democratically elected president and cabinet (with an approval rating higher than Obama), and then set out on a campaign of getting rid of all opposition, it became very true. And there are videos of their criminal conduct all over the internet.

The people fighting in the East break-away regions are people who do not want to be part of what you have to offer - which is nothing.

And the people of Crimea are quite happy with the current outcome.

And if Russia was truly invading Ukraine, it would have been done and over within 2 days.

Your entire new government structure is there to oppress you, lie to you, steal as much as possible from you, and to keep maintaining an ongoing conflict with Russia... All brought to you by some very nasty geo-politics from abroad.

> That argument would be more convincing if the original poster were not comparing SF to Sweden -- the country that essentially solved those problems in 1950-1980 by having the most liberal and progressive government in the world.

You will find that this type of governance only works in homogeneous societies - where the people can agree and identify with one another (and also have qualities such as good work ethic, social responsibility, love for their country or place, etc).

Once you bring in variously diverse groups into the picture, half of which are only seeking benefits, those same polices tend to produce the opposite effects.

Because they are not reputable.

In the US we have the best propaganda news networks in the world. IMO rivaling even North Korea.

Its all 24 hours non-stop political agenda, 365 days per year. It never stops.

Palo Alto did some really interesting stuff back in the day -

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_ciencia/flyingobj...

Some political analysts are saying that this coup was staged by Erdogan to get rid of the remaining opposition.

Basically the theory is that there was a very weak plan in effect that the government knew about, and helped move it along (to get it started). While being completely prepared to deal with it.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-16/erdogans-counter-co...

Is it saying that the complex version of the series (1+0i)+(2+0i)+(3+0i)... = -1/12?

> I find it hard to believe that there's some sort of conspiracy to keep police, lawyers, and prisons funded via laws against selling drugs.

The individual cells of an organism don't conspire to keep the organism alive and functioning - they simply do their individual job and the system maintains itself organically.

There is no conspiracy, there is just a system that has an interest in staying alive, a system which is composed of millions of people, with trillions of dollars moving through it.

Condemning the entire white population of this world into collective guilt and perpetual servitude for the actions of others is the epitome of racism.

> Well, checking for the crime rate between different races and attributing it to "race", instead of looking for the underlying causes, is the epitome of racism.

Unless that underlining cause is race. And there are quite a few studies backing this up, that did take into account all the typical factors (such as socioeconomic class).

I don't think we are ever going to agree, but I am curious of what you think a middle ground solution would be?...

I would gladly trade some type of payment (reparation) for absolute freedom of association (in all aspects of work and life).

> And some caused endless bloodshed and massacre all over the world for profit and control, and those tended to be whites, from them, to the modern world and wars for oil and strategic interests...

That is because white societies had the technological and strategic platform to do so... If you where to give that same platform to any African-country president/leader/warlord/etc, you would find the end result 10x worse.

What I was referring to can be summed up here - http://www.colorofcrime.com/2016/03/the-color-of-crime-2016-...

As far as medieval history and the other things you've mentioned go, every type of tribe on this planet has engaged in conquest and warfare. Some won. Some lost.

Is over the last several decades.

The conservative value on the amount of resources provided to minorities through affirmative action, welfare, charity, government programs and hiring quotas, and other forms of restitution is 20 trillion USD minimum.

Also the costs associated with absorbing the negative factors related to minorities (such as crime related costs, various social costs, etc) likely geometrically multiplies the above amount in various ways.

> Because those crimes are (for anything above the baseline for people in general at the same poverty levels) are results of centuries of being abused, held down and denied opportunities.

Yet no matter where you look on this planet, no matter what the history of that location is, no matter how far back in history you go, the pattern (of violence such as murder and rape) stays the same - and even more so when those places are absent of the other races/groups.

The narrative is the same today as it was yesterday...

Every fault of the black community is the result of white privilege and/or supremacy. And whites must constantly absorb those faults until everything is equalized.

You have not answered a single point, you have simply pretended that those points don't exist.