Why does it need to be a conspiracy theory where they gather in dark rooms and concoct evil schemes?
It's well documented that numerous key players in finance, entertainment, and big business are Jews. It's obvious that they will practice an in-group bias towards other Jews and Israel.
The practical effects of 100 or 1000 influential Jews in positions of power practicing this in-group bias would be virtually indistinguishable from an actual conspiracy.
If you recall a few years back the Navy had a series of incidents in a very short span of time including a destroyer running into a commercial cargo ship and another running aground.
I read an article that basically said the crew works almost non-stop when they're at sea, resulting in everyone being perpetually exhausted. There were some procedural and technical details that also contributed to the accidents, but my big takeaway was that the ships have always been undermanned, and the Navy's answer has been to expect the crew to just work harder.
Seeing as they were on the razor's edge a few years ago, any disruption in bringing in fresh recruits to fill empty billets is going to result in mission failure.
I think this was the article I read, sorry about the annoying Propublica layout: https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/uss-fitzgerald-destroyer-crash-crystal/
A modern Russia with a competent military and strong economy has been the bugaboo of Western Europe since at least the 1800s.
Part of why World War I happened was the fear that Russia would eclipse Germany in the next decade or two, which seems utterly ridiculous in hindsight.
Get ready to live in a world with 1950s technology, because the most effective way to defeat armies of drones is to EMP the shit out of everything. Unfortunately all your consumer electronics will get fried as well.
This is just the neverending cycle of military weapons development.
Someone develops a technology that severely disrupts military operations as they were (e.g. rifled musket/minie ball vs. Napoleonic infantry tactics, carrier aircraft vs. battleships, etc.), and then countermeasures are developed and tactics are adapted to mitigate the new technology.
Right now we're in the infancy of the widespread use of drones. You can bet every modern military is developing countermeasures and changing their tactics as we speak.
We're probably seeing the modern version of the Spanish Civil War where new weapons and tactics are getting experimented with prior to the next worldwide conflict.
Note they're requesting DOB, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, postal addresses, and images of IDs.
I don't give my real postal address to any website that I'm not buying shit from, and I don't give any website that other stuff.
It's still truly easy for a government to find you from your IP address, but there's no reason to help them by giving out this information.
Apparently, he's been a French citizen since 2021. That was a mistake.
I'm guessing that most countries are not going to arrest a completely foreign citizen running a completely foreign company for not following their censorship laws simply because it's sets a dangerous precedent that can be used against their own people.
Plus, the one benefit for being a citizen of an oppressive shithole like Russia is that they're not above "disappearing" a dozen nationals from whatever country arrests you in retaliation- like China did to Canada for the Huawei chick that they arrested.
"unrealized capital gains" aren't taxed because they're not income until you sell the asset.
This is designed solely to ruin middle class investors, because you know the truly rich people have a million loopholes to get deductions and exemptions.
Funny enough, that was the specific case I was thinking of, but I didn't realize he was the only fed to ever get whacked.
His case is somewhat well known in the gun community, because the ATF got the purchase records for the company that made the aftermarket barrel that was used and went in person to every single buyer on the list to get their barrel to do a ballistic test on it.
In every comment I've seen from people who claim to have been contacted, they had either already sold the barrel or complied, so I don't know what happened to those who refused, but legally the ATF shouldn't be able to get a warrant just because you happen to be one of thousands of owners of the same type of barrel that was used in a crime (not that the Constitution is even a thing they care about).
As I often say, no matter how much you hate the government, you don't hate it enough, because that gun barrel fishing expedition alone undoubtedly cost millions of dollars in man hours for one person killed, when expend more than the most token effort if you were to be killed.
In a country that does things like this, it's really amazing how incredibly rare retaliatory killings of prosecutors are.
Qualified immunity protects government employees from being sued in an individual capacity, it does not protect the government itself from being sued. The whole point of QA is to make individuals sue the government body that wronged them rather than the specific employees.
When the government doesn't want to be sued, it invokes sovereign immunity.
Good point. They also picked the lock. I'd love to hear their excuse for needing to regularly carry a lock picking kit with them.
put duct tape over her security cameras
Even if there was some sort of exigent circumstance that made them believe they had the right to enter (which there isn't in this case), there's still no legitimate purpose to concealing their actions in this way.
"We hold these relationships in the highest regard and our personnel would not enter, or instruct our partners to enter, a business without the owner’s permission."
Except you did. You got a caught on camera doing it, and you've admitted to doing it. So either you're lying, or you just admitted that you have absolutely no control over your employees.
No matter how much you hate law enforcement, you don't hate them enough.
Seen that video before, and it's spot on.
Democrats practice a racism of low expectations that just doesn't stand up to any logical scrutiny. If blacks had trouble obtaining ids, they wouldn't be able to readily buy alcohol, tobacco, to rent a car, or to stay in a hotel.
Since no one is praising the black community for being almost completely non-smoking teetotalers, or raising the alarm about a national epidemic of blacks not being able to lodge in hotels, it stands to reason there's no real issue for them to get IDs.
It should be obvious that they aggressively fight attempts at voter ID because they believe that the majority of people voting fraudulently that would be detected by checking their ID are voting Democrat. They just need a good story to fool the useful idiots that form their voter base.
So, the DoD distinguishes between service awards and Personal Military Decorations (PMDs). Service awards include campaign medals, good conduct and longevity medals/ribbons, etc. These are generally awarded on a non-discretionary basis, i.e. if you meet the criteria for the award, it's yours. You can even go back years after you left the service and if you met the criteria for an award that wasn't put in your records they will correct it for you.
PMDs require a nomination from your chain of command, and can be given for any number of acts deemed worthy of recognition. The act being recognized will be unique to the individual. The lowest PMD is the Achievement Medal, followed by the Commendation Medal. Each service has their own version of these medals, and there is a joint service version as well. Although these awards aren't given automatically, it's the custom of the service for members to get one every few years, with the grade of the medal generally correlating to their rank. For a junior enlisted member who only served one enlistment, you would expect to see either an Achievement or Commendation Medal. The Marines are known for being stingy with medals, so it's not an immediate red flag that all he got was a single Achievement Medal during his service.
It's customary in official biographies to only list PMDs and omit all the awards below Achievement Medal, so Wikipedia MAY be following that standard. Nonetheless, the timing for the edit is highly suspect and I would want to see if the same edit is being made to other military figures that have their decorations listed on their Wikipedia page. I certainly wouldn't default to giving them the benefit of the doubt.
Thailand has the lese majeste laws. And you're right, they're not policing general speech in the same way as the UK.
I knew he wasn't in the middle east, or he would have mentioned the Iraq or Afghanistan campaign medals. The whole "near the front lines" threw me off, because I forgot we're still technically in a state of war with North Korea.
They signed an armistice in the fifties, but that's defined as a temporary cessation of hostilities. The state of war still exists.
Yeah, once Walmart had bins of movies for $5 it it didn't really make sense to rent for $3.99 anymore, except for the brand new ones where they were still charging $20+ to buy.
The last video rental I saw in operation was about 10 years ago in the grocery/hardware store on a small island that you had to take a ferry to reach. Without cable or internet they had a captive market.
So, a Google search says that Elon Musk is a citizen of South Africa, Canada, and the United States.
I know the United States does not recognize the extraterritorial application of speech laws from foreign countries, but does being a citizen of either Canada or South Africa render him libel under British law since they're both part of the Commonwealth?
Big business gonna business.
The biggest opponent of allowing states to tax internet purchases was Amazon. They threatened to pull distribution center deals from states that oppose them, and poured money into state politics.
Once they had distribution centers in something like more than a third of the states, they began to have a competitive disadvantage against other internet retailers- those distribution centers meant that they had a physical Nexus in the state and Amazon purchases would be taxed under the current rules, but other internet retailers who only maintained one or two warehouses nationwide would still be largely exempt.
So they seamlessly pivoted into being one of the biggest advocates for an internet sales tax, to eliminate their competitors advantage. It was never about protecting their customers or doing what was right, it was about what generated the most profits for Amazon.
Well, if that's true, the lawsuit she filed against them might have some merit. I'm sure all the facts will come out at trial.
"we understand he did X"
Is that some English weasel word version of "allegedly" that the press uses to avoid responsibility when they misreport inflammatory information?
Man it sucks when all the men being sent out to fight and die in a war means you have to hang out at the hookah bar alone.
The struggle is real.
Jesus, how do these assholes stay alive and cling to power for so long? She's so old she can keel over and die any minute. I wish she would.
If it's outside their control, like weather, they don't have to offer a monetary refund or pay for meals/lodging but they still have to re-rebook you onto the next available flight to your destination.
Also most airlines have pledged to the FAA that they will offer meals and lodging if you're stranded past a certain period of time, which the FAA says is legally binding.
If a delay is due to something considered under their control (maintenance, their computer systems), they have to offer a cash refund for any unused portion of your itinerary. In most cases it's still better to take their rebooking option, because chances are the value of the discount ticket you bought two months ago won't pay for the same-day ticket you'll be buying with another airline and they don't have to provide meals or accommodations if it's not leaving in the near future.