Do note that this nuclear arms race isn't about just a few nukes. Pakistan is building them with a rapid pace (and likely India too). It's estimated t...
To the OP, Nuclear weapons are first and foremost a weapon of deterrence, not something you actively would use as just another weapons system. That ki...
I'd say it's a great mental tool. Just try to make your computer be imaginitive and come up with something it's not programmed to do. With things bein...
Any kind of Philosophy is grounded in some kind of logic plays a major part. Hence something like imagination plays an extremely important role: it ca...
Yet then there was the Cold War, that was the focus of attention. For example the vast number of hijackings didn't make airline security to increase a...
This discourse of opposing a percieved and basically imagined foe, be it either the "left" or sometimes "the right". Hence you don't attack what the o...
Yet mullahs or cardinals ought to be chosen by their merit. Be that piousness or whatever. What comes to my mind is just royalty where the crown is in...
Christianity naturally played an important role in West, yet of course those Christian values have naturally a lot to do with the values already exist...
Depends on just how you see it. What is the Christianity of Europe? The good old times of when we talked about a Christendom? Just what I tried to say...
For the Islamophobists, this is what they see as the evil Trojan horse strategy to spread Islam, by first coming to the West as migrants refugees, the...
I think the structural problem that fascism has is it's totalitarian ideology, the totalitarian approach, which makes it prone to cronyism, corruption...
Oh, she says this line? Ok. Basically this is a line that can be used to attack any religion: true believers are the real people advocating the religi...
No. What I was saying that nowdays too much simply is spoken to enforce peoples existing views. Seldom people are given a view that can be thought of ...
Hirsi Ali has been in public for a long time, but I have noticed that there a real niche for her kind of talkers: Muslims or former muslims that speak...
Oh he will definately get used to power. But I think he may not have the time to enjoy it. I think he's going to burn so many bridges that he will bec...
Yep. But on the other hand, as he is truly put into the NSC, whereas the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of National Intelligen...
But there's two things to this. First, people actually don't "dig up" so much of the things as that is very time consuming, they rely much more on wha...
Saturation and confusion is another important factor. As is to have the emphasis on getting news out the fastest and that the discourse constantly cha...
It would falsify nothing. How dare they start to color the fur of dogs!!! Dogs should be left alone in with their natural fur color: and that is black...
One thing that has changed is our belief in our authorities in general, which even if it sounds illogical, does actually give room to this post-truth ...
You can fool some people sometimes, but not all people all the time. And when there is evident cencorship, evident manipulation, people become extreme...
It is beneficial to any forum that people have different views. People nowdays start to "hang out" too much with people that share their views and val...
The net and the social media are actually very effective tools of disinformation and for there to emerge this "post-truth" post-factual era. It's tota...
The whole idea that some of us are the "Giants", those whose epic contribution has pushed human civilization to advance to such a level is a construct...
That's a good point that I agree with. When someone makes totally false statements or gives fake news, many people still think there is some truth to ...
Actually there are two things here. a) A domestic media / newspaper having some political tilt, bias or agenda, which shows in editorials, in it's age...
The Kremlin itself has said that it has doubled media spending €630 million last year to €1.2 billion this year. And to give just one example, there's...
With the fake news, with the post-factual World, we have to understand some things: - It's one thing to understand that the main stream media can be b...
Yet simply note that some proof of truth or falsehood can be given by other way than computation, direct proof. Indirect proofs like reductio ad absur...
That's not the point here. Question started the thread by assuming that verifying truth or falsehood is done by computation. I don't think it is so. Y...
You think that is the definition of computability? So what you are saying is that Chaitin's number is false or what? There are non-computable numbers,...
It is accurate to say that this truly about creating an image. Not about truly taking Christianity as a true ideological guideline in Russian politics...
But that does not happen to be true at all. Because Russia actually isn't as Christian or religious as, well the US. Not by any measure. The Russian e...
The objective is political influence. The definition of a Superpower is a country "capable of influencing international events and the acts and polici...
Perhaps not the majority of intelligentsia, but some of them don't support. Just remember there were demonstrations against him running again after Me...
No. There is a genuine support for Putin. It's the people like those who in America vote for Trump, vote Putin in Russia. The majortity of the so-call...
As Bitter Crank pointed out, it isn't really an important matter. Never lose the perspective, this surely isn't an issue of human survival. All of the...
Not want to look like I'm obsessed with Putin here, but I'll answer: For a "huge" cooperation with the US in the dealing with ISIS, have the sanctions...
And more interestingly, the hackings of the DNC (both Podesta and the earlier ones) do seem to have been done by Russians. What the US does about this...
Ok, here's the reference: On UKIP, just one article: See (The Telegraph article): Ukip under fire after blocking scrutiny of party donations Sweden de...
China and Russia come along far better than the US and China. Even if there is Siberia and the Chinese moving there, still... And don't forget those S...
A very interesting video. Though I presume it was done in the 1980's and hence is a bit too alarmist, it very well shows the World view of a KGB insid...
"Strong men" in my view means rulers that don't care about the rule of law, human rights or basic norms. Strong men kill their opponents and use fear ...
Actually Russians are far more like Americans. They absolutely distrust their government. Yet as there hasn't been a democracy and above all, no justi...
UKIP hasn't made it books public where it has gotten money, just like well, Trump hasn't given his tax records. Yet here it should be noticed that par...
Naturally the US uses scare tactics too. The red scare is quite comparable to the scare of "Radical Muslim extremists" we have now... even if the dang...
Yep, it's the duty of the political leadership to take over private property on television, not the judicial branch to intervene if something illegal ...
If Hillary would have won, the Republicans would have started to talk immediately about impeachment. With Trump, that impeachment might be a reality. ...
One thing about Trump's future administration: If there's one guy that can reign in Trump, it could be retired Marine general Mattis. A tough-talk Mar...
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