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Apparently not enough said, those TFRs are dropping and are already too low to support Ponzi entitlements. With current debt levels or no. 1. Even with replacement level TFR, the baby boomers would drive entitlement schemes deep into the red. 2. Except for Russia, which has been yo-yo-ing between 1...

Our friend David Spengler seems quite the prophet, don't you think. He is a very good analyst when he loses the emotion. Probably the best I know. He can figure out what the pieces are, and put them together in the correct order. The idea is simply that you follow the facts where ever they lead. Yo...

... with voters bribed with food and alcohol at the polling station) with the entirety of the Ukrainian and Tartar population abstaining... Can you give proof of the food and alcohol allegation? The number of voters was greater than the Russian ethnic population, so it is sure that some Ukrainians ...

Seems like our old pal Spengler is right about everything. It's very interesting. I liked him, a lot, back in the day. can't really tell you why, but once he came out I lost interest. He was a lot of fun. But more importantly he seems to be a Prophet. His prophecies are coming to pass, a self immol...

http://livrept.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/livre-logo-1.png A new left libertarian party has been formed in Portugal, and I am part of it. I'm going to enter our primary elections for candidates to the European Parliament, the elections for which will take place in May. If I ever get elected to ...

Show me any proof that the 20,000 odd Russian troops in Crimea had any influence on the vote. Tell me what answer in the referendum would you expect from the ethnic Russian majority in Crimea. Tell me how abnormal it is that 78.6% of the voters (97% x 81%) voted for reunification with Russia. Tell ...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bi6U00ICYAAoTdw.jpg You don't need to know Russian to understand the figures. This, in my book, is true self-determination as we rarely see it. Now on to Scotland and Catalonia... So when the US sends troops to another nation, it's a shameful invasion and proof of Americ...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articl ... 21315.html

Economists now gloomy on BRICs, bullish on Uncle Sam.

Two great articles about why colonies on Mars (and other solar system planets) are more of a Cereal Box idea and why they'll likely stay there for a while. http://www.nss.org/settlement/L5news/1984-case.htm http://www.science20.com/robert_inventor/blog/ten_reasons_not_live_mars_great_place_explore-1...

That's basically Orthodox theology. Death, to the ortodox (as I understand it) is a result of each human failing to live a godly life, and human failure somehow infects the universe. Yep. Although, I personally find it abhorrent that god allowed this infection and made nature pay for the rebellion ...

Well, if you start by defining eugenics as the evil things that (Insert Hated Group Here) do, there's no grounds for any discussion. Tada!

Typhoon,

I've been following the news. What's your personal take on the news? Could it actually burst this time? I remember Chanos et all have been predicting China to go tits up since I could read in English, so I'm taking the news of imminent bank demise with the requisite dollop of salt.

I couldn't help laughing at Portugal doing better than the US and almost as well as Norway! We have been accused of being the typical Mediterranean dunces who are in trouble because we are lazy, underachievers and ignorant! And therefore we deserve being in trouble and having other countries punish...

Of course you don't give a lavender I was answering your rant on Hitler with facts and I take it you are declining to address the Nazis 25 demands. Not mentioning Hitler when talking about Eugenics is like not mentioning Napoleon when talking about planetary motions: perfectly normal. Not to mentio...

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115759/adam-eve-theologians-try-reconcile-science-and-fail Busily engaged in apologetics, BioLogos, an organization dedicated to getting evangelical Christians to accept evolution, has a new post on the never-ending kerfuffle about the meaning of Adam and Eve. It’s...

Tatoo Boo, paleface. Which of the 25 demands are right wing and which are left wing? viewtopic.php?p=66826#p66826 I don't give a lavender. Not the topic of the thread either. If you want to do revisionist rants on Hitler, do it somewhere else. As for pre-natal screening et al Basically you re talki...

I'm just gonna ignore the tired cliches on whether Hitler, enemy of communism, was "left-wing" since he clearly wasn't, even if some of his policies were taken wholesale from the book of interbellic American progressives. I'm gonna come out and say that in some cases, eugenics is obviously...

Play with fire like that and before you know it, you got rid of your "excess" cities. Nothing good will come of this. East Asia suffers from the same chauvinist xenophobia as Western Europe did before WWI, when Germany and the UK were each other's biggest trading partners. It's a lot scari...

World war III? Looking in the wrong place, Mr. P.
US bombers challenge China

So the pattern for future Chinese action in its near-abroad is set : unilateral action based on aggressive military escalation. Japan will likely bitch and moan this time, but acquiesce the new de facto reality concerning Senkaku/Diaoyu. This will further embolden China, and lead to similar action ...

So the pattern for future Chinese action in its near-abroad is set : unilateral action based on aggressive military escalation. Japan will likely bitch and moan this time, but acquiesce the new de facto reality concerning Senkaku/Diaoyu. This will further embolden China, and lead to similar action i...

topological insulators = room temperature superconductors ?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 135635.htm

To conduct a paternity test you need a sample from 2 people not just 1. You are aware that even under the best conditions DNA is not preserved for more than a few thousand years, right? The oldest sequenced animal DNA ever found is about 700,000 years old and was preserved by an insanely unlikely p...

ST, to whatever degree you are interested in this, let me say simply that there is no need to put in references to the fossil record or things of that nature, or provide a bunch of material about the geologic record or whatever. I've heard it all before. In principle you haven't said anything I hav...

There is a moral absolute, and the challenge lies in interpretation. Now, you're arguing that because interpretation changes and can be subjective its the same as having no absolutes, but without absolutes why even try? I'm arguing that, yes. What's your response? All I see is a non-response. Why n...