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Obama asks for ‘3yrs, no territorial limits’ formal war authority "It would also authorize the use of U.S. forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes or the provision of opera...

raspberry-blower wrote:

another_exlurker wrote:Is that proposed Russian base on the Turkish side of Cyprus?

No. It's proposed to be in Paphos which is under Greek control

Also this from The Saker

Cheers for the links. It's nice to get a situation put into context like that.

Is that proposed Russian base on the Turkish side of Cyprus?

emordnilap wrote:[
She nearly gets it right here:

“Decisions on issues like pesticides and GM cultivation [should be] made on scientific evidence alone,” she told the conference.

Yeah, she missed out the words "independent", "peer" and "reviewed".

The mere existence of a 'Bottom Strata' is in itself inherently repressive. Sortition might help prevent the psychos 'rising to the top' politically, but we need to look at how to prevent economic and social stratification occurring in the first place. I feel this is a fairly urgent question, as I ...

Please see edit I made while you were posting. Ah, that joys of cross posting :lol: When times are bad, we get "there's nothing that can be done". Which is the line you are obediently trotting out. I'm not suggesting you are doing this with malicious intent. Just that you are doing as you...

Must get round to that bit of soundproofing!! I was thinking of running the exhaust pipes just underground in a greenhouse to use the last of the waste heat from the engine. With a suitable diameter pipe and a baffle at the end that should take out the remainder of the noise from the exhaust. The e...

stevecook172001 wrote:

another_exlurker wrote:....No matter what happens, the people at the bottom strata of society will still be repressed.

bollocks

So the psychopaths that will eventually rise to the top won't exploit everyone below them for their own advantage?

The problem is, that due to resource depletion (existential threat to industrial civilisation) and climate change (existential threat to the human species), all of this is moot. The various economic, political and social systems that have been thought up since The Industrial Revolution are not going...

To put it bluntly, your position is the same as that taken by all proponents of a dying system.That is to say, you cling onto it by trying to argue that the problem is that it is just not "pure" enough. If only those pesky humans would fully embrace it, all would be well. I promise to res...

Mr. Fox wrote:'Jericho' was ace.

There's two follow-up graphic novels, IIRC.

Mr. Fox wrote:

another_exlurker wrote:"I'm a banker, get me out of here (at taxpayer expense)"

Excellent. I've already booked the venue.

Beautiful island location.

Nah, too luxurious.

They'd much prefer this one. It has a lot of growth potential.

What you are referring to is social Darwinism, which is a highly biased and abused interpretation of Darwin's work, which was itself derived from an even greater misinterpretation/misunderstanding of Herbert Spencer's work. When Darwin first published The Origin of the Species, it was pounced upon b...

And remember that Hayek was very much in favour of central government regulation when it came to things like pollution, where he recognised the inevitable market failure. The neo-liberal right tend to skip that section of the Road to Serfdom. Exactly, a free market is about pricing, not about givin...

Let me be as clear about this as it is possible for me to be. There is no such thing as the "free market". It's just a human constructed concept that exists in human imaginations like any other concept. Most importantly, economics is not an analogue of Darwinism, except in terms of its mo...