Everything posted by Elerond
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Politics Generations
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fla-woman-marissa-alexander-gets-20-years-for-warning-shot-did-she-stand-her-ground/ Florida is strange place where you get 20 years in prison for shooting warning shot, but where it is just tragic accident that doesn't need any investigation when you shoot and kill somebody 🤠
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Politics Generations
In duller set of political news https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/02/trump-hotel-empty-rooms-016763 House investigators are looking into an allegation that groups — including at least one foreign government — tried to ingratiate themselves to President Donald Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never staying in them. It’s a previously unreported part of a broad examination by the House Oversight Committee, included in Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, into whether Trump broke the law by accepting money from U.S. or foreign governments at his properties. Story Continued Below “Now we’re looking at near raw bribery,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), a House Oversight Committee member who chairs the subcommittee with jurisdiction over Trump’s hotel in Washington. “That was the risk from Day One: foreign governments and others trying to seek favor because we know Trump pays attention to this. ... It’s an obvious attempt to curry favor with him.” Story Continued Below The investigation began after the committee received information that two entities — a trade association and a foreign government — booked a large quantity of rooms but used only a fraction of them, according to a person familiar with the allegation who isn't authorized to speak for the committee. The emoluments clause of the Constitution forbids a president from profiting from foreign governments or receiving any money from the U.S. government except his or her annual salary.
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Politics: The Undiscovered Country
Emperor has spoken
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Politics: The Undiscovered Country
EU doesn't have court that rules anything to be legal or illegal
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Politics: The Undiscovered Country
Here less than one, as over 99% of plastic water bottles are recycled, where over 99% of straws are thrown in general waste.
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Politics: The Undiscovered Country
- Politics: The Final Frontier
That seems to be more an error in data filling system that fetches donor data from account holder information than actual try to commit a fraud, as trust where money has been given is in name of that deceased person but it is in full control of said deceased person's wife who actually has made the contributions and those contributions seem to be her only contributions so she has not tried to exceed sum of money she is legally allowed to contribute. Bit similar case as that 2011 case where dead woman had contributed for Tea Party's PAC, because her husband had used credit card tied to joint account he had opened with his wife. Although then amount of money contributed had exceeded amount that one person can contribute. https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/02/tea-party-express-responsible-for-dead-womans-donations/- Politics: The Final Frontier
People they complained about entered in EU either through Greece or Bulgaria, who didn't have then systems in place to control such flow of people so they just let them travel through to other EU countries. Which is why Hungary build its border wall on its borders with Serbia and Croatia where most of the migrants come and not it borders with Romania or Ukraine. Romania started to face some migrant flow after Hungary build its wall and effectively closed its border with Serbia, but as in that point of time EU had already made deal with Turkey to block migrants and Finland had also made deal with Russia to prevent migrants without visa getting through border checks and also Romania is not part of Schenge Area, which makes it less appealing target for migrants who aim to go to Germany, Sweden, UK, France, which is why big sunk of Romania's immigrant crisis has been consisted of fear of possible migrant flow than actual migrant flow. Also migrants who were already Balkan then had easier route to their target countries (Germany and Sweden) through Croatia->Slovenia->Austria->Germany (->Denmark->Sweden [through land via Øresund Bridge] | ->Sweden [taking ferry from Travemünde to Malmö])- Politics: The Final Frontier
Border control that I am speaking is for EU's external borders, so it would not effect Schengen Area. Immigration issues that countries (Greek, Italy, Spain, Finland, Bulgaria, Estonia*, Latvia*, Lithuania*, Slovakia*, Hungary*, Romania* and Poland*) on EU's external borders face would significantly lessen if EU had agreement for dividing asylum seekers evenly to all the EU's member states, regardless of where they enter in EU. Current state where countries on EU's external border need to carry most of the burden of controlling immigrant flow is very fragile and very much unsustainable in long run. * These countries haven't yet seen mass immigration flows, but in case there is war either between Russia and Ukraine or Iran and USA these countries probably would become points of entry to EU for possible refugees.- Politics: The Final Frontier
"Concentration camp, internment centre for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment, usually by executive decree or military order. Persons are placed in such camps often on the basis of identification with a particular ethnic or political group rather than as individuals and without benefit either of indictment or fair trial. Concentration camps are to be distinguished from prisons interning persons lawfully convicted of civil crimes and from prisoner-of-war camps in which captured military personnel are held under the laws of war. They are also to be distinguished from refugee camps or detention and relocation centres for the temporary accommodation of large numbers of displaced persons." - Encyclopaedia Britannica I highlighted part why lots of people call those USA's immigrant internment centres as concentration camps. In heart of EU's immigration crisis is lack of unity in border control, unwillingness to follow EU's immigration laws, desire to let somebody else to solve the problem and unwillingness to work as one to solve the issue. Lots of issues caused by immigration crisis would had prevented if there would have been common rules for EU's border control and agreement that people who seek asylum on EU's border are divided evenly to all EU countries for processing to see if they need international protection according to Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees which all members states of EU have already signed, before EU was formed. Because as we have seen lack of unity and lack of willingness to co-operate has lead to situation where we have hundreds of thousands undocumented people in EU who are able to move from country to country because our freedom of movement agreements which has caused lots of additional work and lots of other problems for officials in member countries as person whose asylum application is rejected in one country moves to another where officials do same work again to determine if person actually needs international protection. When this is combined with countries unwillingness to pay for deporting rejected asylum seekers back to their home countries and increase number of people processing asylum request we have effectively created environment where people can come to EU and seek asylum in one country, get place to sleep, food and some spending money for year or two as their asylum request is processed by over worked officials and when their request is denied they can just go in neighbouring country and repeat. And as there are 28 EU countries they can do that for most of their life.- Politics: The Final Frontier
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/us-citizen-detained-by-ice-francisco-erwin-galicia-border-officials-conditions-bad-almost-self-deported/?__twitter_impression=true I don't know, what would you call place where you are put without trial because government officials don't like how you look, where you have not any sort of rights even though you have shown them easily verifiable documentation that their given reason to imprison you is false. I would bet that there would be riots in Texas if it would take three weeks to check if your ID is legit when you go buy a gun.- Politics: The Final Frontier
He could show that he means what he say and make UK leave EU as his first action as prime minister. As he says that he wants hard/no-deal brexit as clearly do people who voted him to become PM so there is no need to negotiate with EU and wait that extended deadline by EU.- Politics: The Final Frontier
If you leave it in outside for months bacteria will start to grow in it and it becomes undrinkable As was case with these bottles as mentioned in the article which I linked "Because the bottled water has been under the sun for months, all the water is contaminated and is not suitable for consumption, Cruz Ramos said."- Politics: The Final Frontier
It is in original articles that told about those supplies that were left to rot https://abcnews.go.com/US/thousands-water-bottles-meant-puerto-ricos-hurricane-maria/story?id=57782040 At least a thousand pallets of water bottles, meant for Hurricane Maria survivors, were left to rot under the Puerto Rican sun. That is what Angelo Cruz Ramos, the mayor of Ceiba, told ABC News about what happened to thousands and thousands of water bottles that are sitting on the tarmac at the former naval base, Roosevelt Roads. Cruz Ramos did not know the water was there and only found out when the images, posted to Facebook on Sept. 11, went viral, he said. The area is a restricted zone, so he is not been able to approach it.- Politics: The Final Frontier
In my understanding people didn't know there was supplies in ports and airstrip and nobody was asked to help to unload those supplies or even notified that those supplies were delivered.- Politics: The Final Frontier
And when you add that his campaign slogan is "make america great again"- Politics: The Final Frontier
President of European Commission is not head of EU and she isn't replacing Donald Tusk, but Jean-Claude Juncker. Donald Tusk is president of President of the European Council which also isn't head of EU but comes closest to be one.- Lets Get Political
If you take down publicly visible flag without permission you fill be fined for defacing the flag and you will most likely get conviction for vandalism if you burn flag owned by somebody else without permission.- Lets Get Political
The point is that people can't disrespect our flag when they burn it regardless of reason why they are burning it, as legally burning the flag is show of respect for the flag 😋- Lets Get Political
We have law that says that burning flag is most respectful way to dispose the flag and people should dispose their flags if they aren't in prime looking condition like for example there is hole in the flag (although there is mitigation if you can patch flag such way that patch can't be see when flag is in the pole you don't need to dispose you flag).- Lets Get Political
One would think it would be good if Russia would replace their fighters with ones which crashes in their own 😇 https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/09/asia/japan-f-35-stealth-fighter-missing-intl/index.html- Lets Get Political
Hitler took ideology for his National Socialist German Workers' Party from Pan-European political fascist movement especially from Italian National Fascist Party.- Lets Get Political
If you count as expert a person who didn't even actually study of subject who based their statement to miss calculations of some other person who had even less knowledge of subject.- Lets Get Political
Some of real nazis were jews and jews aren't immune of discriminating and persecuting people and being xenophobic especially orthodox jews aren't known for their open mindedness in case that you accept using term nazis when speaking people who don't tolerate people different of them living in same space/country But people call each other nazis often when they don't like each other's opinions and people charge of big corporation doesn't make you immune of using such hyperpoles. If Google (Alphabet) would actually like to censor Project Veritas or some other party you would have very hard time to hear about it or find any information about it and you would not get project veritas home page as result when you google project veritas.- Lets Get Political
Those billionaires are probably quite aware of fact that most of the money they pay in taxes will eventually come back to super rich, as they provide most of the thing in which government uses tax money and services that government employees use their salaries - Politics: The Final Frontier