Politics

Just wondering about what happens if something major occurs while a Parliament is dissolved.

On the news, UPS drivers to earn 175,000 US$/year. Soon, DHL, FedEx, all others as the incompetent postal office always in-line will be after the same. That makes my life and yours more expensive as merchandise we buy or receive will have tripled fees on top. UPS employees will be celebrating, partying their triumph; every consumer paying for their happiness and everyone else will join after the same. I did burn my eyelids studying and should had been just a truck driver. Always thought that pay increases are the main cause of inflation : What more money? ---> work more ! has been my religion. Seems am wrong again 😡

! Moderator Note Fact? Where are the studies that support this fact?

What is the psychology assessment of neo con fascism alt right? So most countries have liberal and conservative parties but in the US the conservative party has been moving more to right with the neo con and fascism views. I remember when Bush was in power he was painted has fascism and hard core conservative. But today he would be a liberal compared to Trump and where GOP is today. When you look at Trump and Ron Desantis you see how party has moved more to right. So what is driving this move to right? And why are the politicians more crazy like why can’t you have politicians with Trump views but speak like Bush than a third grader and more crazy like. Why is it…

An article in The Atlantic by former Congressman Steve Israel tells an interesting tale of how a complete con-man has become the new Republican Congressman-elect in New York’s 3rd district - one which Steve Israel himself represented for 16 years. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/george-santos-fraud-long-island/672587/ George Santos is a character who seems to have stepped straight out of the pages of Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel - or its excellent film adaptation starring Matt Damon - ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’(1999). Practically every statement made by this Congressman-elect during his recent election campaign has turned out to be a com…

Is democracy like equality in that it contains the seeds of its own (self) contradiction ?

What would be the answer ?

I think if Jordan gets the gavel, what's just happened in McCarthy's tenure will be relative sideshow. How do we think the political landscape will change now ?

Are West Europe countries are second class countries in Today's world?

Lagos matches your Kansas July daily high pretty well 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Plus our humidity is higher. And yet I've grown habituated to it and can manage mainly without aircon albeit at the cost of an occasional outbreak of prickly heat (solution = cold showers). My pool hall (Tipsy Bar, Bodore Road, Ajah) has no aircon, but a two foot gap between the walls and the ceiling stop it from becoming too stifling. I can't help thinking that the OP is asking the wrong question. It assumes as a given that the OP has a right to enoy optimal comfort in a location where the ambient conditions are beyond his comfort zone. Relax that assumption and ask why the major…

Is there any such thing as a totally free market worldwide? For it to be totally free, surely there would have to be no import or export restrictions anywhere, and no immigration or emigration controls. If so, what would such a world look like? Sounds like the employees of the world would be constantly moving around following the highest wages/ lowest living costs, and corporations would be constantly migrating to where there's the highest profits/ lowest outgoings. There would be no community and no more nation states. Is this accurate? 🤔 🥴🤯 Cheerz GIAN🙂x

According to City Hall Conservatives Sadiq Khan's organisation tried to bribe a Scientific institution into lying about their research because the conclusion reached by the Scientific institution did not support the requirement for a ULEZ expansion. The claim is made at a London Assembly in the video below. Please watch the clip and give your Scientific opinions on whether or not Science supports Sadiq Khan or not. Claim made by Sadiq Khan's Scientific research team - Despite these improvements in air quality there was no evidence of a reduction in the proportion of children with small lungs or Asthma symptoms over this period. (This is referring to the ULE…

Reports circulating on Twitter and Reddit say that Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov had his Deputy Prime Minister and former Minister of Health Elkham Elkhan Suleymanov buried alive on suspicion of poisoning him. Suleymanov has neither been seen nor heard from since October 2022. https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1700800571920228402 According to the VchK-OGPU Telegram channel, Kadyrov’s health deteriorated sharply not long after Suleymanov had personally administered certain injections to him. The Chechen government then unexpectedly published a decree on 25 October 2022 stating that Suleymanov had been ‘released’ from his position as Deputy Chairman of the …

Back in December last year to much western media trumpeting the G7 nations imposed a price cap of $60/bbl on Russian crude oil exports to be policed by the once all-powerful shipping insurers Lloyds of London (see here). Today I notice on https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/urals-oil that Urals Crude - Russia's flagship product - is quietly trading at $73.26/bbl yet we hear not a whisper of indignation or explanation from the powers that be (ie Rupert Murdoch). Why suddenly so shy about such a bold inspirational policy.

Canada and some other countries have a smaller population in relation to the area it occupies compared to other countries, therefore below are a few ideas that are useful for Canada and those countries. 1. In Canada people pay the same for long distance phone calls and short distance phone calls, that is not good. Beacuse of that distance betwen people lost an importance and the people change in a negative direction (the desire to become rich is lost). Correct is that long distance phone calls should be more expensive than short distance phone calls. For example: phone call distance 100 miles =0,1 $ Phone call distance 1000 miles=1 $ Phone call distance 10000 …

Will, I think, fail because no man can step in the same river twice, which is what they are trying to do. Do people think this carries any weight? The quote I'm drawing from is, apparently, from Heraclitus.

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I wrote this little tidbit up for a side project... Enjoy. Any feedback / comments welcome. My related background: 15 years of accounting drudgery preparing monthly financial statements for the CEO, and studying Business Administration (and thus economics) at CSU East Bay. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As most people are probably aware, wealth inequality is a big problem around the globe. On the one hand, we have centi-billionaires who can fly off to space at a whim; on the other, we have masses of financially disadvantaged people with few opportunities to impr…

FWIW… US capacity to project power against such opponents on their home turf is rather limited. Moreover, only a madman would suggest a direct conflict between nuclear armed superpowers. Even at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, with all the tension involved, this much was realized. This explains our strategy in Ukraine, and suggests what we should do proactively in Taiwan: make them a nuclear armed (relative for their size) superpower. Can they handle that responsibility? One can never be sure. However, clearly it would be trivial for them to build nuclear weapons from a technical standpoint; they simply choose not to. That suggests the kind of peo…

Socialism is a thorny topic for many people. What comes to your mind when I mention the word? Some might think of horrendously mismanaged nations like Venezuela or Cuba. Others might leap to the idea of wealth redistribution. But what is socialism? Fundamentally, it is a system in which the means of production (factories, farms, etc.) are controlled by society at large (i.e., government), as opposed to being privately owned. Ultimately, this means what to produce, and how much of a given thing to produce is managed centrally. The first obvious question is, how do central planners make these decisions? For a socialism on a national scale, the question of how much to pro…

Arizona House Legislature Passes Unconstitutional Bill... Arizona House Legislature approve bill to restrict "who can film police officers" and "when and where." (ref. 1) The people who took video of police killing George Floyd and Eric Garner would have faced criminal charges in Arizona under legislation that passed approval in the Arizona state House of Representatives with only partisan support. A bill proposed would make it "unlawful for someone to film police from up to 15 feet away" while officers are engaged in "law enforcement activity." Constitutional experts and Civil Rights advocates say the proposed law would be blatantly unconstitutional. …

The West just cant not win, it lost all wars and all trade wars, and will lose all tech wars. 1) in WWII, Russia killed 5 million Nazi soldiers and took 4.5 Nazi soldiers as POWs. --- East Front, WW2, wiki. France last 6 weeks and lost 2.2 million soldiers. 2) In WWII, Russia defeated 600,000 Japanese soldiers in Manchuria and lost 10,000 soldiers. The battle of Singapore, The battle of Hong Kong, The battle of Philippines, the battle of Indonesia are jokes. 3) The West lost all trade wars, if you talk about the really GDP - buying power, China is No 1, India will be No 2 in 2050, Indonesia will be one of the top 5, Japan is No 3 now…

Mine are: Aljazeera, BBC, Reuters, The Intercept, Kyiv Post, Institute for the Study of War, Moscow Times, UK Defence Journal, Associated Press and Politico. I like to try and get varied perspectives as seen from different countries on similar subjects that interest me. I have noted that AP and ISoW are cited by the others listed quite a lot.

It seems those in power tend to be greedy and not very inclined toward science. I often wonder if this is simply human nature. It seems that in order to attain a position of power you require certain inclinations and mindsets that tend to include a certain level of greed, among other things. I suspect It's far more complicated. Positions of power often involve stepping on eggshells and trying to please several parties (or at least not offending some parties). But I also feel a lot of it is related to greed and lack of empathy for other people. If this trend continues, and corruption along with it, where are we heading? How can we solve this problem? I feel lik…

With the release of ChatGPT 4 and the development of numerous other generative A.i. platforms, the A.i (re)/(de)volution is clearly upon us. Mass unemployment is one many potential upheavals A.i. could bring. A report from the World Economic Forum in 2021 projected when A.i will take over various sectors: For me, the structural changes A.i. will bring to practically every sector of the economy demand a fundamental rethinking of how our economy is structured. In alignment with the current dialogue catalyzed by Geoffrey Hinton regarding the dangers of A.i. should be a universal discussion on what benefits A.i. must legally afford human society. Su…