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- Ward Hayes Wilson Aug 22, 2024 "Hannah Arendt, the German philosopher who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and eventually found a home at the University of Chicago, said an interesting thing about authority. In her slim, powerfully argued volume, On Violence, in which she analyses the differences between power, violence, force, strength, and authority, she says that the best way to undermine authority is to mock it. And that is at the heart of what I want to say about nuclear weapons." " thought I’d try to draw parallels between how Democrats have changed their approach to Donald Trump and how we should change our approach to nuclear weapons." "We have been so focused on the horror and fear of nuclear weapons that we’ve overlooked the most important truth about them: they’re ludicrous weapons" What we need to do with nuclear weapons is to exhale and then look calmly, clear-eyed, and objectively at their utility. Tools are kept or tossed based on one criteria: utility. If nuclear weapons are useful, then you have to keep them. If they’re not, then they have to go. Having studied the issue of their utility for forty years, I would welcome a debate that puts “are they useful?” at its center. Because, believe me, nuclear weapons are virtually useless and very dangerous. And no one keeps technology that is virtually useless and very dangerous.
- Friday Every Day I MULTI-YEAR DATA STUDY SHOWS DEEP MEDIA BIAS AGAINST CHINA The international media is stunningly biased against China, data from a multi-year study has confirmed. Out of 133 lengthy analyses of China in the Financial Times “Big Read” column over a four-year period, only two articles presented China positively, researchers in Hong Kong and London discovered. Separate studies of the Guardian and the BBC showed that 90% of China stories were negatively framed. n the researched period to July 2021, there were 576 reports on China in the UK Telegraph, of which only 2.5% took a positive stance.
- By Michael E. Mann | August 16, 2024 The GOP threatens to weaponize a potential second Trump term against any and all domestic climate action. But what happens in the United States doesn’t stay in the United States. (Michael E. Mann is presidential distinguished professor and director of the Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media at The University of Pennsylvania. He is co-author with Peter Hotez of the forthcoming book Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World. His most recent book is Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis.)
- NZZ 2024 "Anschlag auf Nord Stream: Laut Medienberichten soll der deutsche Generalbundesanwalt einen Haftbefehl gegen einen Ukrainer erwirkt haben"
- 16.8.24 The plot thickens as Germany issues its first arrest warrant in the case
- Stationeringen av höghastighets-, styr- och kryssningsrobotar i Tyskland, som är lämpliga för halshuggningsangrepp, presenteras för befolkningen och parlamentet utan föregående offentlig debatt. Detta är inte bara odemokratiskt, utan äventyrar också säkerheten. Den tyska regeringens förståelse för demokrati står i omvänd proportion till dess hänsynslöshet. Av Bernhard Trautvetter.
- Linnea Lindqvist dec. -23 i Expressen: Friskolestraffet. Och: Politikerna vill att populära kommunala skolor ska stängas. Annars hade de avskaffat systemet som göder friskolekoncerner och och svälter ut kommuner.
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- Seppo Niemi, kansainvälisen politiikan tutkija Suomen Geopoliittinen Seura on tieteellinen seura, jonka tarkoituksena on Suomea koskevan geopoliittisen tutkimuksen, keskustelun ja tietämyksen edistäminen.
- Dictatorships in Russia and Belarus, then a full-scale war that Russia launched against Ukraine pushed millions of people to migrate abroad. The total number of foreigners in Lithuania crossed the record mark of 200,000 last year, according to official data from the Migration Department. How locals perceive this growing wave of migration, with whom social distance is greater and the reasons for this, were discussed by the panel entitled "Exploring Integration: Expert Insights on Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian Communities in the Baltic States” held in Vilnius on April 19. [This publication has been produced with the financial support from the Nordic Council of Ministers. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the coordinators of this project and do not necessarily reflect the views or the policies of the Nordic Council of Ministers.] Read more: https://www.delfi.lt/en/politics/russians-belarusians-and-ukrainians-in-lithuania-social-distance-remains-a-challenge-96433645 ]
- Kursk, Moscow, Sunday, August 11, 2024 (MB) Thousands of troops of the Ukrainian army, which penetrated into Russia 20 km deep and occupied Suja, are holding their own for the sixth day in the face of tanks and heat bombs directed against them. There are reports of fierce fighting, 76,000 Russian residents had to be…
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- The Role of Digital Libraries in the Information Society 1995
- "The Albanese government with their policy is likely to turn Australia into the 51st state of the United States, writes former Prime Minister of Australia, Paul Keating." Paul Keating is a critic of the Labor Party's all-in support for the AUKUS submarine deal and growing military relationship with the US. In the interview below, he spoke to ABC 7.30 Report’s Sarah Ferguson 10.8.24 Transcript by Pearls and Irritations. [Wikipedia: Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) is an Australian former politician who served as the 24th prime minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996, holding office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He previously served as treasurer under Prime Minister Bob Hawke from 1983 to 1991 and as the seventh deputy prime minister from 1990 to 1991. ]
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