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[Nibblewitz]

I thought we wouldn't have to bend the knee until 2025. The times they are a changin'.

[skarlorn]

Originally Posted by Nibblewitz [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I thought we wouldn't have to bend the knee until 2025. The times they are a changin'.

The knee was bent for us by Woodrow Wilson

[JurisDictum]

The world’s richest 1% are on course to control as much as two-thirds of the world’s wealth by 2030, according to a shocking analysis that has lead to a cross-party call for action.

World leaders are being warned that the continued accumulation of wealth at the top will fuel growing distrust and anger over the coming decade unless action is taken to restore the balance.

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Since 2008, the wealth of the richest 1% has been growing at an average of 6% a year – much faster than the 3% growth in wealth of the remaining 99% of the world’s population. Should that continue, the top 1% would hold wealth equating to $305tn (£216.5tn) – up from $140tn today.

Meanwhile...

China will not hesitate with 'major response' to new tariffs: Ministry of Commerce

"We will immediately fight back with a major response," a Ministry of Commerce representative said during a Chinese-language briefing with reporters Friday in Beijing. "We have no other choice."
"We feel America is very arrogant. They have taken a wrong action. The result is that they will hurt themselves. If they release the list of $100 billion tariffs, China is prepared. And will not hesitate," he added.
"We have prepared with a bottom-line mindset and have planned detailed action. We won't start a war, but if someone does, we will definitely fight back," the representative said

"We have no other choice."

"We feel America is very arrogant. They have taken a wrong action. The result is that they will hurt themselves.

Thanks for all dumb ideas libertarians and blue-dogs ...

[NachtMystium]

There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. The U.S. population is 324,059,091 as of June 22, 2016. Do the math: 0.000000925% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant! What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death:

• 65% of those deaths are by suicide, which would never be prevented by gun laws.
• 15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and justified.
• 17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug related or mentally ill persons – better known as gun violence.
• 3% are accidental discharge deaths.
So technically, "gun violence" is not 30,000 annually, but drops to 5,100. Still too many? Now lets look at how those deaths spanned across the nation.
• 480 homicides (9.4%) were in Chicago
• 344 homicides (6.7%) were in Baltimore
• 333 homicides (6.5%) were in Detroit
• 119 homicides (2.3%) were in Washington D.C. (a 54% increase over prior years)

So basically, 25% of all gun crime happens in just 4 cities. All 4 of those cities have strict gun laws, so it is not the lack of law that is the root cause.
This basically leaves 3,825 for the entire rest of the nation, or about 75 deaths per state. That is an average because some States have much higher rates than others. For example, California had 1,169 and Alabama had 1.
Now, who has the strictest gun laws by far? California, of course, but understand, it is not guns causing this. It is a crime rate spawned by the number of criminal persons residing in those cities and states. So if all cities and states are not created equal, then there must be something other than the tool causing the gun deaths.
Are 5,100 deaths per year horrific? How about in comparison to other deaths? All death is sad and especially so when it is in the commission of a crime but that is the nature of crime. Robbery, death, rape, assault are all done by criminals. It is ludicrous to think that criminals will obey laws. That is why they are called criminals.
But what about other deaths each year?
• 40,000+ die from a drug overdose–THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THAT!
• 36,000 people die per year from the flu, far exceeding the criminal gun deaths.
• 34,000 people die per year in traffic fatalities(exceeding gun deaths even if you include suicide).
Now it gets good:

• 200,000+ people die each year (and growing) from preventable medical errors. You are safer walking in the worst areas of Chicago than you are when you are in a hospital!
• 710,000 people die per year from heart disease. It’s time to stop the double cheeseburgers! So what is the point? If the liberal loons and the anti-gun movement focused their attention on heart disease, even a 10% decrease in cardiac deaths would save twice the number of lives annually of all gun-related deaths (including suicide, law enforcement, etc.). A 10% reduction in medical errors would be 66% of the total number of gun deaths or 4 times the number of criminal homicides ................

Simple, easily preventable 10% reductions! So you have to ask yourself, in the grand scheme of things, why the focus on guns? It's pretty simple:
Taking away guns gives control to governments. The founders of this nation knew that regardless of the form of government, those in power may become corrupt and seek to rule as the British did by trying to disarm the populace of the colonies. It is not difficult to understand that a disarmed populace is a controlled populace.

[JurisDictum]

The elites that run this country don't care if you have hunting rifles and handguns..

The just want to make sure you don't vote in socialism.

Who do you the police and military are going to defend if shit hits the fan?

[NachtMystium]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The elites that run this country don't care if you have hunting rifles and handguns..

The just want to make sure you don't vote in socialism.

Who do you the police and military are going to defend if shit hits the fan?

Do me, I'mma do me
I'mma make mine, I'mma make mine
I fuck the shine, I said fuck the shine
Bitch, I grind, bitch, I grind
Yung Lean swerving in, see me fucked up
See me swervin' through, they want me locked up
Been locked up, in my own mind
My thoughts will never be shallow

[Patriam1066]

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Persians are white, ask Xaanka

[AzzarTheGod]

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The knee was bent for us by Woodrow Wilson

Woke 920

[mickmoranis]

Nsfl footage aftermath of a purported gas attack in Syria: https://twitter.com/LizSly/status/98...994790913?s=20 ( seriously don’t click unless you want to see dead sad things)

World needs a war.

China goes full black mirror yesterday.

Russia gonna get in trouble for this gas attack.

Nk meeting in China and the impending failed negotiations with trump in may.

Get your marshmallows and Geiger counters!

False flags? You decide: https://youtu.be/LmYCgK2zHCI

But why? https://youtu.be/PH96bgiNNdY

Ohhhhh

Pras the 3rd world PURGE

[JurisDictum]

Russia wouldn't probably make this up just to screw with us...

We have done this shit for centuries and there is nothing unbelievable about it.

It was a good move by Putin to form a relationship with Americans through media so he could do things like this.

If there is now a new gas attack? obviously no one is going to buy it.