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trump's pandering to dictators who like to murder their own citizens and the citizens of other countries. Goes hand in glove with lying, fraud, scams and the loyalty of his base. Until there is accountability there will never be an epiphany of action. I have my doubts that even prison would change trump. Because he, like Jong-un, is very much like Bernie Madoff. All three of them are the same. As is Putin, MBS, Duterte, etc. Kim has won because he will continue missile and nuclear development thought the trump administration. He is building nukes at the rate of 5-7 a year.

"True, however In many cases, people are confusing implicit bias with explicit racism. There's a big difference, and I think we should be careful with that especially since pretty much everyone is susceptible to implicit racial bias. Studies have indicated that even black police officers have shown bias against other blacks in their reaction times when perceiving a possible threat. You deal with implicit bias by first recognizing it and then talking about it openly in a civil environment to implement measures that mitigate it's effect, not by making defamatory snap judgements and shouting "racism" just to silence others and advance your political agenda."3 hours ago, Coreece said: Both of you are correct in about every point. This is why many police services make race sensitivity training mandatory. Can Cops Unlearn Their Unconscious Biases? “Implicit bias” training is spreading to departments around the country, the theory being it can influence officer behavior on the street. But it’s still not clear that the classes actually work. "

FAR 117 exempted cargo pilots from the new regulations putting restrictions on pilot duty cycles and mandatory rest cycles. Subsequently United Parcel Service (UPS) flight 1354 crashed and the CVR revealed that the pilots were very tired prior to TO. Fatigue was a major factor in the crash. Dead Tired:Pilot Fatigue--Aviation's Insidious Killer Paperback – July 9, 2012 Above book has free 2 day delivery with Amazon prime. Aircrew fatalities at no extra charge.

Australia breaks weather records with hottest ever summer "The 2018-19 summer, which produced near 50C days and topped temperature highs across the country, has officially exceeded the previous record set in 2012-13, which was 1.28C above what is considered normal. Climate analysts say it falls into a pattern of human-induced global warming. January alone had already been confirmed as the hottest month ever recorded in Australia, with a mean temperature across the nation of 30.8C, which was 2.9C above the average for January temperatures (calculated between 1961–1990) of 27.9C." Climate change will hit Australia harder than rest of world, study shows, Jan 26,2015 "Science agency the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology predict temperature rises of up to 5.1c in Australia by 2090 in their most comprehensive forecast yet "

Fixed it for you.

So without derailing this thread completely Are your wings airfoil shaped? Are the wingbeats, software or mechanically controlled? The flight of yours seems to mimic what pterodactyl flight in movies is like. Obviously who knows what the characteristics were exactly like. This model seems to really replicate the quick elbow to wingtip flapping of a peregrine. This one seems to glide better than yours, power off?

A Ornithurae drone designed for restricted and prohibited airspace It mimics peregrine flight fairly accurately.

Trump: I 'fully' understand why North Korea will never denuclearize Trump trusts Kim's 'word' that he was unaware of Otto Warmbier mistreatment 'I don't believe that he would have allowed that to happen.' So basically the Trump’s summits are a smashing success First Nobel Peace prize is in the bag. Now: Trump predicts 'good shot' at achieving 'impossible' Middle East peace deal While those bastard Dems are trying to hurt trump's second prize US Mideast peace plan is ‘dead upon arrival’ Israeli minister says Trump peace plan a ‘waste of time’ “I think that the gap between the Israelis and Palestinians is much too big to be bridged,” Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said at a conference organized by the Jerusalem Post newspaper.' " The Palestinians have already vowed to block Trump’s peace plan and severed ties with his administration after his December decision to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and declare the city Israel’s capital. ... Trump has also cut some $500 million in aid to the Palestinians, who accuse the White House of seeking to blackmail them into accepting a plan they view as blatantly biased in favor of Israel. " Its called a Potemkin village and trump has used it many times before: "The United States' President Donald Trump's business councils have been described as Potemkin Villages after several high-profile CEO participants resigned in August 2017.[40] Trump's The Art of the Deal describes a stunt in which he lured Holiday Inn executives into investing in an Atlantic City casino by directing his construction manager to rent dozens of pieces of heavy equipment, in advance of a visit by the executives, to move dirt around on the proposed casino site, creating the illusion that construction was underway.[41]

Electoral Integrity Project Interactive Ranking map 1/3 of the way down the page is a world map with interactive integrity rankings of their election process.

Atlas Air Criticized by Pilots After 767 Crash Misc allegations of overwork, long hours, etc. and bad pay. Obviously bad pay is not linked as a causal factor in the accident. Obviously speculative but does provide an obscure background on Atlas-Amazon operations.

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trump and his supporters are all falling over each other to portray what Cohen has said as a lie. Cohen still has a substantial personal wealth estimated at 20-40 million dollars. trump has a well deserved reputation to sue anyone who attempts to defame or besmirch him. So whats stopping him now? trump has repeated frequently that Cohen and he enjoy the professional protections of solicitor-client privilege. A violation of that is a cause of action, so whats stopping him? A honest, billionaire, President smeared by disbarred "liar". Should be a slam dunk for Rudy Giuliani or another ambulance chaser.

When the suggestions are made that the US is a banana republic this is why. Gaetz is 36 and these comments are what you'd expect from a lieutenant in the Gambino crime family. Its similar to what trump has said before about testimony against him. It suggests that Gaetz and trump are both fools with more mouth than brains.

After years of election fraud complaints in rural North Carolina, a congressional vote dissolves into scandal "In the run-up to the Nov. 6 general election, North Carolina officials were so concerned about ballot fraud in Bladen County that they sent letters to every voter who requested a mail-in absentee ballot, warning them not to hand it over to someone who might knock on their door. "Only you or your near relative or legal guardian can mail or deliver your ballot to the elections office," the State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement reminded Bladen County voters. "Has someone else tried to take your ballot?”... Some Democratic voters in this predominantly rural area of 33,000 residents have complained that they handed their ballots — sometimes partially filled out and unsealed — to a person who knocked on their door, only to learn their votes were never submitted. Part of the reason they were willing to hand over the ballots, some said, was because groups on both sides of the political aisle have long operated door-to-door campaigns to walk the city streets and collect absentee ballots before election day.... “Bladen County has a troubled history of political groups exploiting the use of absentee ballots in an effort to skew support for a specific candidate or group of candidates,” Jon David, district attorney for Bladen, Brunswick and Columbus counties, wrote in a January letter to the interim assistant director of the State Bureau of Investigation. “These groups package the anticipated ability to garner absentee ballots as a commodity to be brokered.” Thankfully, not common but I'll pose the question. Is gerrymandering not election fraud as well? Because that practice is widespread.

Meanwhile US corporate debt went from $6.5 trillion to $9 trillion(since 2001) as corporations added increased leverage to boost profits. Furthermore US corporate leverage is probably underestimated The Fed launched QE nine years ago — these four charts show its impact adding $3.5 trillion to the balance sheet. While US consumer debt is up $4 trillion net, with $1 trillion less mortgage debt, since 2001.

'Fox & Friends' host says Ocasio-Cortez's staff salary plans 'socialism and communism on display' v Capitalism (Capitalism) A Bitter Pill: How Big Pharma Lobbies to Keep Prescription Drug Prices High V. (Hypocrisy)Grassley,(R. Iowa) Klobuchar Introduce Bill to Allow Importation of Canadian Drugs For republicans its all about the labeling.

For republicans this is OK: Amazon’s $0 corporate income tax bill last year, explained This is not: The Trump administration, which already canceled a grant for a group that fights white supremacist terror, now appears unwilling to renew the anti-domestic terror program under which it was funded, For republicans this is OK: Trump's EPA just handed these states a way to keep burning coal This is not: Trump Administration Blocks Funding From Family Planning Centers With Abortion Services

A check on the excess of law.

They never will. I used to think that but a new paradigm has come about and its called evangelical christianity. They call themselves christians but they're no more christian than Al-Baghdadi is a Muslim. For all of them its about a political ideology that overrides the law and any commandments of christ. Superceeds any of the five pillars of Islam. Its us v. them. " He has defended the legalization of capital punishment, and argued that the “politics” of “human rights, and of the politically correct, give space to those who are against the law and on the side of criminals.” He has said he’d rather have “a dead son over a gay son” and that he would not rape a particular female deputy in congress because “she wasn’t worthy of it.” ..., for actions that broke congressional decorum, like sending death threats to another member of Congress and saying the military regime that ruled ...for 30 years “should have killed more people.” He has shown no particular grasp of policy" No, this isn't trump, its the president of Brazil. Another dictator elected by christian evangelicals. The Rise of the Brazilian Evangelicals Hitler in Brasilia: The U.S. Evangelicals and Nazi Political Theory Behind Brazil's President-in-waiting " Mix up fascist geopolitics, Pat Robertson's LGBT hate, Bannon's nationalism and Putin's shills and you get Jair Bolsonaro, who's nostalgic for the U.S.-backed dictatorship that tortured and killed thousands of leftists - and he's about to come to power ... We are the majority. We are the real Brazil. Together, we will build a new nation…These red [leftist] criminals will be banished from our homeland. Either they go overseas, or they go to jail. It will be a cleanup the likes of which has never been seen in Brazilian history. Jair Bolsonaro, 21 October 2018 Unbelievable: A presidential candidate asks the people to conform to what he thinks or pay the price: Jail or exile. Reminiscent of other [past] times. Former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 23 October 2018 ... When another of Bolsonaro's sons, Eduardo, tweeted out a photo of himself posing with the ubiquitous Steve Bannon this August, declaring that the two share the same "worldview," ... Bolsonaro, who is Catholic but attends Baptist services, has made a populist effort to span denominations, and receives broad support from Brazil’s growing, urban evangelical movement, including boosters associated with the World Congress of Families. Bolsonaro was baptized in the Jordan River into the Assemblies of God, which has been pouring money into far-right politics in Brazil and around the world. The Assemblies of God are deep drivers of the U.S. Evangelical movement, including some of the most important partners of the World Congress of Families. Bolsonaro’s richest Evangelical supporters, like the Assembly of God’s head and Pentecostal televangelist Silas Malafaia, have partnered up with WCF allies at the Pat Robertson-founded American Center for Law and Justice, and at the Brazilian Center for Law and Justice, which promotes – as does WCF - a transnational movement against LGBT rights."

There's a ‘big red line’ for Trump in Cohen's testimony Omarosa, "Manigault Newman told MSNBC host Alex Witt that she would be interested in "how much [Cohen] shares about the role of Trump’s children in a lot of these deals, including senier advisor Ivanka Trump, Jared, her husband, and the children, Don and Eric Trump." “There is no question that that big red line for Donald Trump is his children, particularly Ivanka, and once Michael Cohen starts sharing details that may actually implicate them, you will see him truly become unhinged,” she said of the president... "Donald relied on him to carry out so many different tasks, and I think on Wednesday what you’ll see is a man who wants to share the inner workings of the Trump crime family." WTF,Omarosa stole my tagline, more unhinged than what he is now? Popcorn at the ready.

I think its a fascinating piece of engineering. When he first posted the picture of the head and mentioned pterodactyl. I had to google it and subsequently had to watch 1/2 dozen you-tube video's of them. My first thought was some sort of ducted fan before the first seconds of video. Now if it only had some range and a speaker, with some shrieking on it! Something loud enough to drown out any motor sound.

More distractions, more bones for his base and the hell with everyone else. Trump steps up attack on Planned Parenthood Trump's War on California Meanwhile trump wants to further his war on Iran and this story illustrates his desperation. Its a former terrorist group and some of its ideals are difficult to believe. "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." Well Americans need to wake up about trump's stupidity of international policy. The references that the story makes to trump state department officials are REAL! Because this group makes the mullahs of Tehran look like Walī (saints).

Thats actually atrocious, thanks for pointing that out. Sorry dude, small screen phone, TV and other distractions, all conspiring together.

Breitbart investor Rebekah Mercer, installs Billboard in Times Square, Blaming Amazon HQ withdrawal on AOC "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is hitting back at a critical billboard funded by a conservative group that was displayed in Times Square on Wednesday. The billboard blames Ocasio-Cortez for Amazon’s decision to back out of its plans to open part of its second headquarters, called HQ2, in Queens.... “Thanks For Nothing, AOC!” the sign reads. Ocasio-Cortez was vocal in her support of local activists who opposed Amazon’s move to the city. " Setting aside the issue of the Amazon HQ. This just goes to show how all these billionaires on the right fear her and her message. That they might have reasonable taxes attached to themselves and their business. Trump’s National Emergency Is Great News for Future President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez " By now, we’ve all become numb, alarmingly so, to the nutty ideas the president of the United States has floated or in some cases enacted to undermine the basic norms of our democratic institutions: firing FBI personnel on various pretexts, discounting election results he doesn’t like, befriending vicious dictators, claiming judges are biased based on their ethnicity, alleging massive voter fraud without evidence, ignoring intelligence findings he doesn’t agree with, and on and on and on. But as bizarre and dangerous as these have been, his plan to declare a national emergency is by far the absolute worst. ... I used to laugh when my more progressive friends warned me that Trump wanted to turn America into a third-world banana republic. He’d never pull that off, I’d tell them. The Constitution will stop him. Members of Congress will stop him. The GOP will stop him. Now, I’m the one who is the fool. I’ve tried very hard to restrain myself from frantic pronouncements, but this national emergency declaration is the closest my friends have ever come to seeing their worst fears realized. "

Facetious remarks, deliberate ironic statements, intermingled with disjointed, nonsensical arguments. Are going to be a continual challenge for you in these debates with Coreece. Its akin to following trump when he goes on a rambling rant. At least when Marc posts something you know where he's coming from.His ideas are like railway tracks coming from the FOX/Breitbart disinformation cloud. Take a Diazepam.Good luck. Meanwhile there is a man who is the polar opposite of trump. He believes in the US constitution. Fights against corruption and politicians who play games with the law. " he’s competitive as hell. A former college athlete, he has an imposing build—his shoulders and biceps fill out his pinstripe suit jackets—without being threatening. He’s kind. Warm. Likable. Charming. ... But you won’t hear any bragging from Racine: “I was raised, educated and coached to not highlight my role in team efforts.” "