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The_Watcher 2 points ago +2 / -0

References to "Conspiracy Theories" always reminds me of what Richard Feynman said about science. He said:

Now I'm going to discuss how we would look for a new law. In general we look for a new law by the following process: First we guess it then ... we compute the consequences of the guess to see what if this is right. If this law that we guess is right, we see what it would imply and then we compare those computation results to Nature or we say compared to experiment or experience compare it directly with observation to see if it if it works.

If it disagrees with experiment it's wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science it doesn't make any difference how beautiful your guess is it doesn't make any difference how smart you are who made the guess or what his name is if it disagrees with experiment wrong that's all it is to it.

Basically, that is just how "conspiracy theories" arise.

The real point is that they are only required when the official narrative does not stand up to scrutiny and relevant details are being obviously covered up.

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The_Watcher 1 point ago +1 / -0

I hope he knows what he is doing. Other world leaders have either died shortly after making such decisions or their country has been dragged into a war which they subsequently lost. This goes right back to the year 1066 in England.

William the Conqueror beat King Harold and reinstated the money lenders. Then we had King Charles I, Napoleon, Lincoln, Hitler, Hussein in Iraq, Qaddafi etc.

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The_Watcher 1 point ago +1 / -0

The first tribes arrived in North America and they used all the land. They followed the buffalo and had steak every day. No need for taxes, central government or prisons.

The second tribes arrived and land was everything to them. They set up institutions that would let them claim all the land. The first tribes were pushed into small pockets. They lost a game they did not even know they were playing.

Then the third tribe arrived. They like money. Just as the first tribe used all the land then lost it so the second tribe used money then lost it to the third. That third tribe instigated laws that would gradually funnel all the money into their pockets.

First there was money lending with interest. Then they lent money they did not even have and still charged interest. Then they printed money and charged interest on that. Then they invented ways to effectively impose their own sales taxes by inventing credit cards. The list goes on.

At each stage, money leaves the second tribe and moves, irrevocably, to the third. Interest payments on a few $trillion soon gives you a comfortable lifestyle!

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The_Watcher 1 point ago +1 / -0

Taxes are when the government thinks it can spend your money better than you can!

So, it may be possible to remove income tax completely and rely on sales taxes. If people have more money they will tend to spend it. Sales tax receipts will rise.

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The_Watcher 3 points ago +5 / -2

I think he is creating problems for himself. What if employers decide to tip their employees instead of pay them? Or, what happens if people are employed for zero hours but can do as much overtime as they like?

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The_Watcher 2 points ago +2 / -0

I think it has been stopped. My guess is that, at first, Russia was caught unawares because there was nothing in that area that would affect the current conflict but Ukraine works more on media victories than military victories.

The incursion was slowed right down almost straightaway. Only small changes have happened since. Russia installed three lines of defence between the incursion and the city of Kursk itself so then it did not matter whether Ukraine moved further inwards or not. Eventually they would find three lines of dug in Russians.

Ukraine used its best troops which meant that they were not available to defend Pokrovsk which is a major logistics hub. Militarily, losing Pokrovsk is much worse than losing some of the Kursk oblast. Russia pressed head with its advance on Pokrovsk and it went incredibly quickly. They are getting quite close to the city now.

Russia has reinforced the Kursk region and, over the last three or four days, Russia has taken back about a dozen conurbations. So it now looks as if they are about to push Ukraine out of Russia in the next few weeks.

My guess is that Ukraine hoped that the assault in the Pokrovsk direction would be halted as Russia would move troops to Kursk but Russians are chess players. They saw the longer term consequences. Being invaded can be made to look bad in the western media but, on the ground, taking Pokrovsk is be a much bigger win.

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The_Watcher 2 points ago +2 / -0

Do Climate Scientists, I use the term loosely, factor in weather modification into their models? Since 1940?

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The_Watcher 10 points ago +10 / -0

The first step should be to ask for the source of their claim.

The other way round you will have to go through everything Trump has ever said and show it is not there!

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The_Watcher 2 points ago +2 / -0

I go to the Military Summary Channel as well. It appears to be one of the least biased sites although he clearly has a leaning towards Russia.

His voice took some getting used to because he talks the same way, quite rapidly, for 15 minutes at a time without much inflection.

However, the reports appear factual. Changes of territory are based on geolocation evidence and not on what "the sponsors" would like to hear.

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The_Watcher 1 point ago +1 / -0

There are copies available on-line.

And, no, I have no idea if that is legal!

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The_Watcher 3 points ago +3 / -0

OK, but the spending is not the problem.

If your country has $1 billion of "stuff" and you then print another $1 million to build something then your country now has $1.01 billion of stuff and all is well.

The problem is when you ask someone else to print that $million for you and you then need to pay back, say, $10,000 every year, for ever, afterwards because they lent you the money they just printed at its face value.

That extra $10,000 does not exist so it can never be paid back. To pay it back they need to borrow even more. Do that with $trillions for a few centuries and you ramp up a huge debt and the bankers are making money hand over fist.

When you need to borrow more money to pay back your debt you are not increasing the amount of stuff your country has and that causes inflation. The bankers win again.

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The_Watcher 3 points ago +3 / -0

Caveat: I am not a legal expert and that may soon become apparent!

The problem with the hush money case is that hush money, per se, is not illegal. What turns this affair into a crime is the alleged fact that it was all done to cover up a real crime. The prosecution never said what that crime was. So now there is a problem.

Without naming the crime, how can it be determined if a POTUS has immunity against it?

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The_Watcher 1 point ago +1 / -0

Just because there was evolution that does not prove that God was not behind it. They seem to assume that God would have delivered the final product all at once but He (sorry if that is not the right pronoun!) might have factored in evolution.

When God designed vertebrates, He had only one basic idea. We used to have skeletons of assorted animals round the walls of the biology lab at my school. When you see them all together like that you realise that only one idea formed the basis for every vertebrate.

OK, there may be different numbers of vertebra or length of tail or number of teeth but basically everything was the same. Fish might have three bones attached to their vertebra but other animals have two and a stub. Birds don't have conventional ribs because they are fused and they have a prominent sternum to attach the wing muscles.

Some snakes even have shoulder blades and legs! They just did not develop.

Human embryos look like fish embryos in the very first stages. See how many different animals start. Humans start with gill-like structures and tails. Some people are even born with tails!

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The_Watcher 2 points ago +2 / -0

Hydrogen is OK but if you have to make it from water then it is more like a battery than a fuel. That is, you still need to find a source of energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.

Oh, and it is difficult to store. An air-tight container might leak if you put hydrogen in it because the molecules are so small.

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The_Watcher 4 points ago +4 / -0

I seem to recall that Prime Minister Ted heath was quite keen on the UK joining the Common Market, the fore-runner of the EU. I wonder if the Globalists had any kind of hold over him?

OK, no I don't wonder at all!

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The_Watcher 4 points ago +4 / -0

Don't knock it. That was probably the most important issue raised that week.

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