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What are the root causes? Do you think there is any possibility of peace in the middle-east in the future? If so, what can we do today to make sure to make sure peace and prosperity in the region?

"Russian-linked bots and trolls have caused a surge in use of the hashtag #ResignPaulRyan on Twitter over the last 48 hours, just as the Republican speaker of the House was returning to his home state of Wisconsin for a month-long respite from Washington, D.C. " "It hasn’t been a common occurrence for the Alliance’s dashboard to pick up on Russian bot activity targeting members of the GOP since the site was launched last week by former FBI special agent Clint Watts. But Ryan wasn’t the only member of Trump’s party to face countless bots demanding his removal. A campaign calling on the president to fire National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster received widespread suppo…

My wife came across this today, please someone tell me this is fake news: http://cnn.com.de/news/donald-trump-says-earth-flat/

I though we might list here and discuss the proliferation of alternative facts, broken promises, and the selection of predators as guardians of our country and economy's trust under Trump's administration. Although evidence has been accumulating since January 20th, the latest appears to be Trump's selection of for labor secretary, Andrew Puzder. Puzder's outsourcing of jobs and advocating robots as replacements for workers demanding wage increases provide more evidence of how Trump's doesn't particularly care about the American worker or adhering to his promises to put them first. Although unlikely, a convincing preponderance of evidence might sway his supporters in th…

Why are they pushing Fentanyl these days? I know before they where pushing Oxycontin/Oxycodone and hyrdromorphone and so on and there was people getting addicted and people overdosing!! But now it seems to have done the opposite and now there are hundreds of people overdosing on Fentanyl every month. It is now a major epidemic. And small speck of Fentanyl like size like a speck of sand can kill the person. Why don't they ban Fentanyl and just go back to Oxycontin and morphine or some thing else to there is some thing safer?

This is a question I haven't heard answered. Can anyone answer it? Fox News often repeats this mantra. Would there be evidence of the Trump campaign's collusion with Russia, available to the general public, considering the investigations have been going on for a year already? I would guess any evidence would have been confiscated by the investigations, and we would not know about it. Or is it a reasonable argument against collusion? Is it reasonable to suppose that such evidence would inevitably leak out? We are told the investigations may take a year or longer. Can nothing be revealed to the public until the investigations reach conclusions?

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants, according to a document obtained by The New York Times. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/us/politics/trump-affirmative-action-universities.html?referer=http://www.google.com/ This is a sensitive issue but one that isn't being ignored by Universities, businesses, or political institutions. So what do you all think? I will start with that simple question rather than jump straight into stats and st…

I've been somewhat reserve in voicing my opinion on aspects of this administration of late; however, after reading comments made by Admiral Scott Swift I feel I must comment here. In his answer to a hypothetical question posed to him at a security conference in Australia, Adm. Swift, commander of our Pacific fleet, said he would launch a nuclear attack against China next week if Trump ordered it. Indeed, I understand the chain of command and how important it may be for foreign nations to know the strong allegiance of our military to the presidency of our nation, but this response is incredibly idiotic and out of line for one of our military leaders to make in a public f…

I am not entirely sure whether this is a suitable start for a conversation, but I cam across this report from a Canadian health (in the province of Saskatchewan). Report, News article 1 News Article 2 It details the experience of a number of aboriginal women who were coerced into tubal ligation, effectively a sterilization technique. In at least one case they were misinformed and the procedure was characterized as reversible. Now, there has been a long and ugly history of forced sterilization of aboriginals. But what I want to highlight is how important the "informed" part of informed consent is. I will admit that I am a tad outraged, especially as I am involved in m…

One dubious executive decision, one giant backward leap for climate science: Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on ‘politicized science’

I have heard about a group of popular students from my High School who are now successful. Their parents paid for their college. They live in gated neighborhoods with nice houses. They party. They have office jobs , presumably provided by their parents connections. They were not nice to the Muslims and Sikhs. I doubt they would be be the kind of people to have enough courage to enter the void to colonize other planets to allow humanity to survive. Donald Trump is the genetic combination of an orange and an ogre. Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Bob Iger, and Bill Gates are the only rich people I idolize. I would prefer if the next president rescinded the travel …

Would anyone care to comment on the propriety ( or vice versa ) of Cathy Griffin's photo shoot with the images of a beheaded President ? And now she is doubling down, claiming that the repercussions ( of her actions ) are ruining her life. Typical Hollywood; They are allowed to do whatever they want and protest whoever they want, but no one else should have the rights to protest their actions ? This has very little to do with the president ( and his incompetence ), but has the media pushed too far in encouraging this sort of behavior ? Is it now accepted behavior because D Trump 'deserves it' ?

Are gag orders for the USDA, NPS and EPA, along with immediate elimination of competitively awarded scientific grants without review, freezing of NIH, NSF, NOAA, USDA, USGS, etc postdoctoral hiring are things you wanted from your federal government? What do you think it bodes for the state of science in the US?

For those who don't know, Omar Khadr is the Canadian born son of Afghan parents, who took him back to Afghanistan at a young age to train as a terrorist. There are pictures of him as a youth making IEDs. At age 15 he was involved in a firefight with American soldiers, was wounded and tossed a grenade which killed a medic, Sgt. Speer. He was taken to Guantanamo Bay, where he was interrogated by the American Government as well as the previous Canadian Liberal Government. He was held for about 15 yrs, during which time we elected a Conservative Government, and now, again a Liberal Government. He has been re-patriated for a few yrs, and now our Government has decided to is…

The United States has had more Nobel Laureates in history than any other country (more than top five other countries combined)* - so bearing in mind that incredible heritage ... Question: How many people in the White House Science Office (technically The science division of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) ) as of Friday close of business? None at all. *including Peace prize and Organizations - I couldn't be bothered to find a list of just real person Science prize winners.

What the hell is Putin doing?

Both the House and Senate "healthcare" bills cut funding and will eliminate healthcare for millions of people. The result will arguably be more people die from lack of care than died on 911. It is unethical. Why are people so passive about such treatment from our politicians and the rich who force these policies on us. In reality, the "healthcare" bill is only one assault on the American people by oligarchs, but it is the current issue. I am frustrated and angry. With healthcare costs rising my savings can be quickly consumed, and I may become a statistic of inadequate healthcare. If my death could assure others would not be so denied, it would be OK with me, but thou…

Tweet text: ".@Judgenap: Why do we have a Second Amendment? It's not to shoot deer. It's to shoot the government when it becomes tyrannical!"(6/23/16, 12:48PM). What do you think? Is he right? Is there a right? I'm arguing that not only is he wrong, he's the exact opposite of right. The purpose, rather than to allow us to shoot at the government, is to stop us from shooting at the government. As we know from the Heller decision, "The Amendments prefatory clause announces a purpose, but does not limit or expand the scope of the second part, the operative clause.". So, to find the stated purpose, we just need to look at the part of the Second Amendment of the…

We won't know the official results until sometime tomorrow, but based on exit polling, it looks like the election that Theresa May called hoping to extend her lead has ended up costing the Conservatives seats in Parliament and very likely their majority. Current projections put the breakdown as follows: Conservatives: 314 Labor: 266 Scottish Nationalist Party: 34 Labor: 14 Anyone a bit more familiar with UK politics than my own very surface level knowledge want to comment on the likelihood of any particular groups being able to form a government under these circumstances?

It seems those bastards are now targeting Europe, and especially Britain, instead of America. I offer my sympathy and support.

How did South Korea and singapore become developed countries so quickly from their more humble beginnings? Can we expect the world to change much by 2060? By which year do you think all countries of the world will become developed? Do you think there are any developing countries now which will never reach developed country status for whatever reason?

I saw James Woods posted this on Twitter (sorry, I can't figure out how to embed tweets): We've seen a meteoric rise in the stock market, post-Trump election win. What do you think is that cause of this? Is it a case of correlation, but not causation, or did Trump's win directly led to the rise? How did some many prognosticators get it so wrong? They all predicted doom and gloom on election night and the days after, yet the opposite has happened. What does this suggest about uncritically accepting so-called authority opinion?

Has anyone ever heard the sound of Jarod Kushner's voice? He is probably the most senior advisor to Trump, as son-in-law. And his voice has never been heard in the media, unless you go searching the internet for him saying anything and I did find him speaking in 2015 at "MAS 2015 - Growing the Innovation Economy" on Youtube. Listen to him, does he sound boring or what? https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=jared+kushner+voice&&view=detail&mid=129FACF5053C23545A2F129FACF5053C23545A2F&rvsmid=E2FF558C74940DAC9DE7E2FF558C74940DAC9DE7&fsscr=0&FORM=VDRVRV Why does he always avoid being heard? It makes him look sneaky. And now the possibil…

OK, you've got your thread. Now, let's have some facts to back this claim up.

Any studies say people are less sick, miss less work, have less heath problems and less stress and less burn out? I think some EU countries have 6 hours a day? Where in the US it is 8 hours a day and some even 10 hours a day in the US. In Japan and China it normally 10 to 16 hours in a day.