Politics

There are statistics predicting how likely you are to buy something. But is there a public system that will predict war? I mean we have sports game stats, but what if we made an open source software to predict wars? Would it cause or prevent wars? But if we predicted a country going to war we would know there motivations. So if we gave each country a rating of their differences such as military power, economic stability, and strategic options could we influence the world to peacefully handle disputes?

Hello everyone! It would be of my great happiness if everyone could sign this https://chng.it/WdtWN8PPHM It’s a petition to designate a NOAA critical habitat for rice whales, please we need all the help we can get. As of this posts creation it has roughly 501 signatures, we all want to aim for 1,000+ Image credit goes too: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/rices-whale

A believe that the best political system would be a “referendum democracy”: if an online referendum is performed at least each week, and these referendums should cover not only laws, but also decisions within the competence of the judiciary power (fines and punishments). If the population votes to ban a mass media, so be it; and vice versa, if the population votes to fine people who slander this mass media, so be it. I hope my logic is clear. However, with this system new problems will arise due to the Condorcet and Arrow's theorems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_paradox https://youtu.be/qf7ws2DF-zk These theorems can be illustrated by the follo…

I have no idea whether the observation that follows is in any way original and I advance it with temerity, not being a US citizen, but it is something that has struck me due to a book I am reading on the lead up to the English Civil War.https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/blood-winter-jonathan-healey-review It is notable that at the time it was the monarch who ran the government, appointed ministers and took or endorsed the decisions they made. Parliament's job was chiefly concerned with approving taxation. Watching the shocking ease with which Trump is able to turn the USA into an absolute, capricious monarchy, it occurred to me that the basics were perhaps alrea…

I find it strange a number of people here say Trump is not listening to the courts and is in number violation of the law. So if he not listening to the courts why don’t they go after him and press charges? What is he doing that he is in number of violation of the law and not listening to the courts.

1) In many US states and in Poland, the abortions are prohibited. At the same time, in some US states the referendums had been performed relating this question, and as far as I know, everywhere the people voted to allow abortions (both in Democratic and Republican states); 2) During the last 20 years, the Europe had been de-militarizing, the governments of the European countries did everything to reduce funding of their armies. Since 2016, Trump tried to criticize the European leaders for spending less than 2% of GDP for the armies, and only in last months he had success with this – after his public “betrayal” of Ukraine and new defeats of Ukraine. At the same time, in Sw…

Just seen on a social feed that the GOP has removed the above from the Congress website displaying the Constitution. https://constitution.congress.gov/search/article%201/searchfacet/Article_I///100/1/1 Why might that be?

Currently there are many cryptosceptics (crypto-deniers, "no-coiners") in the world, especially in authoritarian countries, and I like to argue with such people. Below I write two simple speculations, which explain why the cryptosceptics are wrong: The inflation is in fact a hidden taxation, and this "tax" is mostly paid by poor people, not the wealthy (because wealthy people store their riches not in the form of money, but in the form of assets like real property). And this situation makes useful any things which help people to store their savings: 1) Let's assume that there is some completely useless and worthless product on the market, let's call it pipyruses; and ever…

Hi. How many trucks supplying food for Palestinians in Gaza have been supplied by Hamas ?

The situation in Gaza...I was thinking about the way that everything is being kept at a distance and shot through a soft lens by most of the media these days. The death figures, for example: not included in the MOH figures are those people who have died because of the war, but not directly from IDF military action. Several analyses suggest that at least 200,000 people in Gaza are dead today that would still be alive if Israel had not attacked and blockaded Gaza. That is decimation, in the original Roman meaning of the word: one in ten Palestinians. These deaths have arisen though lack of medical care and drugs, exposure, increased risks from malnutrition, epidemic disease…

I live in the U.S. (CRAZY, right?) and if you know anything about what's going on over here...yeah. I was originally watch MSNBC until I read comments under a video saying not to because they're bought, so now I don't know what to read/watch. Although I did here that foreign countries covering another country's news tend to be less biased towards us. Is that true?

Almost five years ago in October 2020, Mother Jones published a lengthy article by writer and film maker Leland Nally which makes fascinating re-reading in the light of the most recent political arguments within MAGA over the ‘Epstein Files’. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/i-called-everyone-in-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book/ In the article the author tells the story of how he obtained a copy of Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘little black book’, parts of which first surfaced on the now defunct Gawker website in 2015. It’s a 97 page contact book containing some 1571 names in all, with roughly 5,000 phone numbers, and several thousands of email addresses and home addr…

He is just a man. But what is it you like or dislike about him? Whatever your opinion, give the example of what he did.

On the 25th of July the UK introduces a law that requires 18+ sites to verify the identity and age of users before accessing them. Info from BBC site: How will age verification for porn work and what about privacy? How effective is this going to be in filtering young people out? Will it drive them to non-compliant sites containing blatantly illegal material and ideas... and as a byproduct automatically turn them into criminals? Will they use IP spoofers, vpn's and other masking technologies to get around them? How savvy are today's teenagers with this technology, and what is the likelihood of it working when IT security staff can't keep 17-19 year olds out of the customer…

Andrew Cuomo says companies should hire people with criminal record "70 million Americans have a criminal record — that’s one in three adults." Okay I get Andrew Cuomo what he is saying but I can only see people with theft or drug charges has people with firearm, violence, assault, fights, stabbing are no go. So Andrew Cuomo out of the 70 million Americans who have a criminal record what percentage is firearm, violence, assault, fights, stabbing are no go. @politifactHow many U.S. adults have a criminal record?Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants businesses in New York state to hire more applicants with a criminal record. They become loyal e

Trump is discussing deporting US citizens: “Get them the hell out” President Donald Trump this week floated possible deportations for U.S. citizens. During a visit to Florida on Tuesday, a reporter asked Trump how many detention facilities he would need to carry out his mass deportation policy for undocumented immigrants. "I'd like to say, you know, a little controversial, but I couldn't care less," Trump replied, veering off topic. "We have a lot of bad criminals that came into the, into this country and they came in stupidly." "And it did happen, but we also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time," he continued. People that whack people over the he…

..or the ungluing from reality (misunderstanding of the reality in which they live) of the Democrats.. If they do not start to learn from their own mistakes then more failures are in store..

The murder of two firefighters in Coeur d’Alene Idaho on Sunday 29 June appears to be linked to a significant anniversary of an incident that occurred exactly 24 years earlier involving property that once belonged to a violent neo-Nazi white supremacist hate group called Aryan Nations. https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/aryan-nations-behind-coeur-d-alene-idaho-shooting-theories-emerge-amid-ongoing-manhunt-101751250931648.html The back-story here is that Aryan Nations was formerly based in a 20 acre security compound of buildings near Hayden Lake Idaho which is just a few miles from Canfield Mountain in Coeur d’Alene where the most recent shootings took plac…

Three weeks ago (back around May 24) a highly conservative American think-tank called MEF (Middle East Forum) published a report predicting that an attack by Israel on Iranian nuclear sites would take place within “a matter of days not weeks” https://www.meforum.org/mef-observer/days-not-weeks-israels-imminent-attack-on-iranian-nuclear-sites This assessment was based on a convergence of factors including - reports from the Pentagon’s DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) that Iran could produce sufficient weapons grade uranium for a nuclear device within a week, and for another 15 within a month after that - a deadlock in the fifth round of US-Iran nuclear talks in Rome - …

I am currently writing a formal statement to the UN, I will be including my email in the rare scenario they do see it, here is it so far. being who still believes that even in war, there must be limits. There must be boundaries that protect the innocent, the wounded, the children, and the caretakers who risk everything to keep them alive. That is why I am urging the world to enforce a six to eight kilometer nonconflict zone around all hospitals in Gaza. This is not a symbolic gesture. This is a rational, calculated, and absolutely necessary step to prevent more death and irreversible trauma. Let us start with standard artillery. The M795 155 millimeter high explosive pro…

Not sure if this is the right place but BBC NewsBBC threatens AI firm with legal action over unauthorised...It is first time that the BBC has taken such action regarding alleged scraping of its content for AI.

So US senator can’t ask questions? So they are going to arrest US senator for asking questions? US senator forcibly removed and arrested for asking questions.

It appears Trump has called in the army and marines because of the protests. How is this legal, I thought the US constitution forbids the use of the military in event of protest or riot? They can call in the national guard but they cannot call in the military. Also why the major news doing a terrible job covering the protests going on?

Israel is currently afraid of starting a full-scale war with Iran, because Iran is bigger and has more resources. However, I believe that Israel could easily win this war if it turned it into a nonzero sum game and set its goal to interest the Iranian people and turn them into an ally. To do this, Israel needs to announce in social media that it is starting an offensive with only one goal - performing a referendum in Iran with the following questions: 1) Unblocking Youtube; 2) Freeing political prisoners; 3) Abolishing censorship and repressive laws; 4) Transferring power from the Ayatollah to the President; 5) Amnesty for all Iranian military personnel who went over to I…

Putin made it clear to Trump that an attack on Iran is off-limits : it will drag both Russia and China into the war, so, WW3. Iran is, for both of Russia and China, one of their top strategic economic and military ally, an ally that is already PLANNED to be the link of Russia and China to the Indian Ocean.