A really simple way to understand this is through STRATEGIC RESERVES. Strategic reserves and the ability to produce nationally can be in a crisis (war...
Even if you ease the social distancing rules, it won't help. We will have the economic downturn independent of easing of lockdown measures. The spike ...
I don't think he wants to kiss Obama, that's for sure. But otherwise.... https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/greeting-kiss-europe-e157246809...
Well, that's your view of it. :grin: Trump you see has a habit of awkward kissing attempts. But hey, he likes Pence and Putin! https://www.youtube.com...
The US has a policy for regime change in Iran. Both the US and the EU were OK with Yanukovich before. And Yanukovich had been negotiating a free trade...
I don't think anybody here believes that Biden will be awesome. But what he can do is abstain from crippling the administration to inaction the way Tr...
Who is this guy, NOS4A2? https://img.112.international/original/2016/09/13/256155.jpg Why even those who started a secession from Ukraine and a civil ...
OK, so we can agree that we both think your dog is conscious, at some level at least. Can we also agree we don't think that a unicellular organism lik...
If you are conscious, then where do you draw the line on being conscious? Is your dog conscious? Is it fully, somewhat conscious or not at all? How ab...
Ah YESS, Tovarich NOS4A2! Here's those evil US stooges, the far right fascists with their evident neonazi insignia and symbols trying to topple their ...
It's telling that Trump desperately wants to change discourse to anything other than the prevailing pandemic. But the truth is that this pandemic clea...
The realistic options aren't either a total lock down or a Trumpian denial of the pandemic being still prevailing catastrophe. The main problem in the...
And what do you think that quarantine period does for example to tourism? Who would want to go for a leisure trip for couple day to somewhere where yo...
Interesting to compare this discussion to here where masks haven't been recommended by the authorities and masks haven't been a huge topic. Outcome: F...
Especially Ebola is totally different: it is so deadly that it basically kills itself. With this virus it's quite the opposite with many people carryi...
Yes, what's with that? The only thing I can figure is that Trump or the Trump family has a personal financial gain in the selling of hydroxychloroquin...
Perhaps there would be better threads to talk this, but just a quick response. It's not only Trump, but Trump surely has done immense harm to the US r...
The US is still the sole superpower. But I was talking really about leadership: the ability to lead, to coordinate, to get other nations to follow you...
In this situation I hope you share my optimism and think that Donald Trump will be the absolute worst US President in our lifetime. (And I assume we b...
No. Government is basically just one part of specialization of work in our society and the institutions created with a government is a way for our spe...
I think we can start to forecast what is going to happen: - The Trump administration has no strategy to tackle the pandemic other than it will refrain...
Well, time to change the public discourse when in a short while over 100 000 Americans will have died in the pandemic, which was under control and sup...
What is likely to happen is what typically happens in an economic depression: We fall to a lower level and then start very slowly to pick up from ther...
As with the quote from Castro, I tried to explain that companies are surely willing to sell governments what the governments want (even at their own p...
My point is that government overreach isn't an agenda of the tech companies. The agenda and the reasons are elsewhere. And just what is the overreach ...
Yes. I ask you, where does the overreach come from? As the article says: The fact is that AI gives finally a way for a police state to operate. Before...
Is it really? I don't think so. The state overreach doesn't happen because of the tech companies. It really doesn't. Having meetings over the internet...
Lol. Not only did you not read what I wrote, but you didn't even read YOUR OWN link you gave. :roll: Purchasing with 69 million dollars non-existent v...
The absolute ineptness of Donald Trump is evident in putting his "wunderkind" Jared Kushner, who has among other things "brought peace to Middle East"...
Not a good reference actually. First of all, it's far too early to say that. This hasn't ended yet...at all. Secondly, when you really look at those c...
Would Trump not be so ignorant and totally inept, he would have, just to further his agenda of getting the economy back to normal and him getting re-e...
The Puget Sound archipelago seems at first like in Finnish lake district, except it's the sea (I once saw a group Killer whales from a ferry, it was a...
Back to the subject, Rick Bright's whistleblower story tells, and this is all too usual now, just how inept and bad the Trump administration is. And I...
When I visited Vancouver in the 1980's with my family from Seattle, I noticed how far more cleaner the city was to US cities. And even Seattle was qui...
Do note that the name of an event can change in history until a consensus view has been reached. And typically an event is later put into context of t...
Well, Trump could easily do it, if he was given the option. After all, according to Trump China was behind the pandemic. I think that Trump would be e...
That Minnesota University report gave interesting scenarios. Was widely noted even here with the local authorities agreeing with it. Interesting to se...
We already have slid to an economic downturn, a depression. We just won't call it a "great depression" as that is basically a historical term. Even th...
Btw Finland had an experiment on Universal Basic Income done a few years ago. Here's the results. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNv12QOwatM In the e...
It is quite true. Long term unemployment creates social exclusion. (from publication POVERTY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION IN FINLAND IN THE 1990S, MINISTRY OF...
The positive attitude towards welfare programs started early in the Nordic countries. I guess here it started with a huge land reform which was put ac...
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