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nivek

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One could argue that the trait of violence makes those people the fittest. Reasoning that that is what it takes to survive.

The smartest don't necessarily have to be the fittest, in my opinion its those who live in harmony with nature who are the fittest...The violent ones aren't the fittest and will end up destroying everything around them including themselves eventually through infighting with the lack of outside enemies to fight after defeating those around them...

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HAL9000

Honorable
The smartest ones should be able to stop the violent ones.

This does not appear to be happening.

Would that be because the smartest ones are reluctant to go through a violent phase of their own making that may be needed to 'remove' the naturally violent element ?

Possibly we could use Afghanistan as a good example of this.
 

nivek

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Leaked audio reveals Biden's DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas saying the border crisis is 'unsustainable' and 'we're going to lose' with illegal crossings at a 21-year high

Mayorkas met privately with Texas Border Patrol agents on Thursday, where he disclosed his candid concerns about the situation at the southern border in newly-released leaked audio. In the recording, Biden's Homeland Security secretary appears to tell agents that the record influx of migrants in July nearly broke the US systems in place to deal with it. His private comments come after July saw more than 212,000 migrant encounters at the southwest border - a 21-year high. Mayorkas said on the audio recording that officials would need to think about reshaping existing policies.

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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Seems to be a twit twittering.

No lack of people from any side of this who are going to do as they please anyway, she's not alone.
 

nivek

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Apparently the non-whites are now in the majority;just.

Hope y'll like tacos.

This isn't a race issue even though apparently some people like to make it that...Its the same problem as you have had in the UK when hundreds of thousands of migrates were crossing into Europe and the UK a few years ago...The criminals, barbarians, and terrorists that illegally enter the country unchecked...Over half the people caught at our southern border are that type, single males with criminal records or with ulterior motives or terrorists...Not all the people crossing are from central and south America, many are from India and Africa and Muslim countries boating over to Mexico and points south to cross into our country illegally...They are the biggest concern...

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nivek

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Bill Cosby WILL go to trial in lawsuit alleging he assaulted girl, 15, at Playboy Mansion in 1974 as his lawyers blame 'mob justice'

Bill Cosby will go to trial for a civil lawsuit alleging he sexually assaulted an underage girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1974, it has been reported less than two months after he was released from a Pennsylvania prison.

Judy Huth alleged in a lawsuit filed in 2014 that Cosby sexually assaulted her at the famed mansion when she was just 15 years old and he was 37, but legal proceedings related to the lawsuit moved slowly amid his criminal proceedings and conviction.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Craig Karlan lifted a stay stopping the case from moving along Friday and set the trial for a tentative date of April 18, 2022, the New York Daily News reported. Both parties will return to court as early as September 30. 'You're one of the oldest cases, if not the oldest case, on my calendar. It's time to lift the stay,' Karlan said Friday.

Karlan's decision came less than two months after Cosby was released from prison when his 2018 conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting another woman was overturned.

Gloria Allred, who represents Huth and other Cosby accusers, held a press conference after the hearing in which she said her team is looking 'forward to continuing the battle for our very brave client,' the Daily Beast reported.

'We're going to push forward and push hard because we want to get this case tried and we want to fight for justice for our client,' Allred said.

Allred said she hoped to handle the questioning if a judge rules in September that Cosby must face a second deposition. His previous deposition in the case remains under seal, she said.


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AD1184

Celestial
A massive eruption of a new volcanic fissure that appeared in Geldingadalir in Iceland last March, captured at night by a drone last month:



This video gives an idea of the scale of the crater:



The second video is looking at the volcano from an aspect that is roughly a quarter-turn anti-clockwise around the volcano from the drone video.
 

nivek

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Behold Barack Antoinette

Jay Gatsby gave big, lavish, new-money parties at his sprawling mansion on the water because he wanted to seem cool. He wanted Daisy to notice him.

Barack Obama gave a big, lavish, new-money party at his sprawling mansion on the water because he wanted to seem cool. Being cool is important to him.

One difference is that Gatsby opened his house to the uninvited. Obama closed his house to many of the invited after getting flak for hosting “a celebrity mosh pit,” as Stephen Colbert called it, while officials were telling people to mask back up.

It’s hard to stop thinking about the over-the-top fete the former president held at his Martha’s Vineyard manse for his 60th birthday. It is such a perfect taxonomy of the Obama arc.

As president, he didn’t try hard enough on things we needed. He was a diffident debutante with a distaste for politics. Post-presidency, he is trying too hard on things we don’t need. The culture is already swimming in Netflix deals, celebrity worship, ostentatious displays of wealth, not to mention podcasts. Did the world really need “Renegades,” his duet with Bruce Springsteen?

We already knew Obama gravitated to stars but it was disillusioning to see it on such a grand scale last weekend.

“I think the nouveaux riches Obamas are seriously tone-deaf,” said the authority on opulence, André Leon Talley. “We all love Beyoncé. But people have so many things to worry about with Covid, voting rights, climate warming. People are afraid of being evicted from their homes. And the Obamas are in Marie-Antoinette, tacky, let-them-eat-cake mode. They need to remember their humble roots.”

Obama was a cool cat as a candidate in 2008, but after he won, he grew increasingly lofty. Now he’s so far above the ground, he doesn’t know what’s cool. You can’t be cool if you diss the people who took risks for you when you were a junior senator — only a few years out from paying off your student loans — taking on the fearsome Clinton machine.

Many of those who helped Obama achieve the moonshot, becoming the first African American president and then becoming uber rich, were disinvited.

The party crystallized the caricature of the Democratic Party that Joe Biden had to fight against in order to get elected. It was as far from Flint and Scranton as you can imagine: an orgy of the 1 percent — private jets, Martha’s Vineyard, limousine liberals and Hollywood whoring — complete with a meat-free menu.

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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Behold Barack Antoinette

Jay Gatsby gave big, lavish, new-money parties at his sprawling mansion on the water because he wanted to seem cool. He wanted Daisy to notice him.

Barack Obama gave a big, lavish, new-money party at his sprawling mansion on the water because he wanted to seem cool. Being cool is important to him.

One difference is that Gatsby opened his house to the uninvited. Obama closed his house to many of the invited after getting flak for hosting “a celebrity mosh pit,” as Stephen Colbert called it, while officials were telling people to mask back up.

It’s hard to stop thinking about the over-the-top fete the former president held at his Martha’s Vineyard manse for his 60th birthday. It is such a perfect taxonomy of the Obama arc.

As president, he didn’t try hard enough on things we needed. He was a diffident debutante with a distaste for politics. Post-presidency, he is trying too hard on things we don’t need. The culture is already swimming in Netflix deals, celebrity worship, ostentatious displays of wealth, not to mention podcasts. Did the world really need “Renegades,” his duet with Bruce Springsteen?

We already knew Obama gravitated to stars but it was disillusioning to see it on such a grand scale last weekend.

“I think the nouveaux riches Obamas are seriously tone-deaf,” said the authority on opulence, André Leon Talley. “We all love Beyoncé. But people have so many things to worry about with Covid, voting rights, climate warming. People are afraid of being evicted from their homes. And the Obamas are in Marie-Antoinette, tacky, let-them-eat-cake mode. They need to remember their humble roots.”

Obama was a cool cat as a candidate in 2008, but after he won, he grew increasingly lofty. Now he’s so far above the ground, he doesn’t know what’s cool. You can’t be cool if you diss the people who took risks for you when you were a junior senator — only a few years out from paying off your student loans — taking on the fearsome Clinton machine.

Many of those who helped Obama achieve the moonshot, becoming the first African American president and then becoming uber rich, were disinvited.

The party crystallized the caricature of the Democratic Party that Joe Biden had to fight against in order to get elected. It was as far from Flint and Scranton as you can imagine: an orgy of the 1 percent — private jets, Martha’s Vineyard, limousine liberals and Hollywood whoring — complete with a meat-free menu.

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Not a new idea but imagine if orange man did this, the hue and cry would be epic.
 

nivek

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Fire alarms go off at Hamaoka nuclear plant in Japan

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Fire alarms went off at the Hamaoka nuclear plant in Shizuoka Prefecture on Tuesday, and the operator confirmed smoke within a building, the second such incident within a week at the currently suspended facility.

No leakage of radioactive material outside the plant has been confirmed, said the operator, Chubu Electric Power Co., after the incident at around 5:15 a.m. in the building that houses a turbine of the plant’s No. 5 reactor. The utility alerted a local fire station after a worker confirmed smoke. However, an on-site inspection conducted by the fire authorities led to the conclusion that there wasn’t a fire, the company said.

The alarms went off on the second and third floors of the four-story building with two underground levels, according to the utility.

On Thursday, the plant reported a fire in which smoke emanated from an electrical wire on its premises.

The Hamaoka plant has suspended its operations since May 2011, two months after the massive earthquake and tsunami that triggered the Fukushima nuclear accident, due to safety concerns at the request of then Prime Minister Naoto Kan. [JT]


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nivek

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Regrets: Trump would beat Biden today, more women and blacks support

A slew of new polls have come out this week showing the shrinking support for and approval of President Joe Biden, his average now below 50%.

But today, Rasmussen Reports is issuing the capper, telling Secrets that in an election do-over, Biden would lose to former President Donald Trump.

By a six-point margin, 43%-37%, likely voters would pick Trump over Biden “if the next presidential election were held today.”

The details of the survey, which samples more Democrats than Republicans, showed that Trump would win more women and blacks than he did in 2020 when he lost to Biden, 46.8%-51.3%.

A sizable 14% would choose “some other candidate,” though none were named.

The survey comes at a key point in Biden’s presidency. He is now under fire for bungling America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, increasing inflation, and spiraling crime.

Several other surveys out this week have shown his approval rating underwater, a place Trump floated for much of his presidency.

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nivek

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FBI has found SCANT evidence the Capitol riot was an organized plot to overturn the election and does not believe it was centrally coordinated by Trump supporters or far-right groups, agents claim

Neither Former President Trump nor his supporters and allies are responsible for organizing the January 6 Capitol riot to overthrow the election, a report claims. Over 570 people have been arrested. The FBI has found scant evidence that the January 6 attack on the US Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.

Though federal officials have arrested more than 570 alleged participants, the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to the sources, who have been either directly involved in or briefed regularly on the wide-ranging investigations. A former senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the probe said that '90 to 95 percent of these are one-off cases.' 'Then you have five percent, maybe, of these militia groups that were more closely organized. But there was no grand scheme with Roger Stone and Alex Jones and all of these people to storm the Capitol and take hostages.'


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wwkirk

Divine
Regrets: Trump would beat Biden today, more women and blacks support

A slew of new polls have come out this week showing the shrinking support for and approval of President Joe Biden, his average now below 50%.

But today, Rasmussen Reports is issuing the capper, telling Secrets that in an election do-over, Biden would lose to former President Donald Trump.

By a six-point margin, 43%-37%, likely voters would pick Trump over Biden “if the next presidential election were held today.”

The details of the survey, which samples more Democrats than Republicans, showed that Trump would win more women and blacks than he did in 2020 when he lost to Biden, 46.8%-51.3%.

A sizable 14% would choose “some other candidate,” though none were named.

The survey comes at a key point in Biden’s presidency. He is now under fire for bungling America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, increasing inflation, and spiraling crime.

Several other surveys out this week have shown his approval rating underwater, a place Trump floated for much of his presidency.

(More on the link)

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Although I like the poll's results, I generally don't place much stock in Rasmussen. They appear to be slanted in favor of the GOP most of the time.
 
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