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The more people see him the more they like him. Watching him speak its easy to understand. Mr P, I think you are correct. Sticking with the Obama deal on Iran, taxing the rich, supporting legal gay marriage - what's not to like? This guy appeals to everyman. Alex. Very few democrats believe this. W...

One of my friends has a degree in economics, he then went on to become a very successful builder. He claims economics is best described as a mixture of alchemy and poker. In my mind, economics is much closer to psychology than to any hard science. "Hmmmm..... Hard to tell the future..... alway...

Typhoon wrote:Not too long ago one had that the impression that everything would collapse if Greece did not agree to whatever or receive something or other.

What happened?

Don't insist. Nobody gives a damn what your impressions on Greece are...

Trump is a real anti-establishment candidate. The old Rove/Bush brigades will be sent off the plank. Every single person in the orbit will have to earn their seat. For once I'm with Simple Minded. It's going to be something to watch. Yeah! It's like watching for a train accident to occur and see ho...

Economics has a math problem Quantitative aspects of economics may be successfully handled with mathematics as long as the data is reliable... A big IF!...But on what concerns the psychological side of economics - why do economic agents do whatever they do? - mathematics is of little avail. But sta...

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I participated, for two years, in a successful counterinsurgency war in Angola, and I have a pretty good idea of how important it is to avoid antagonizing the local population. I understand you are speaking of the 1962-1975 Portuguese war in Angola against independentist movements. However, this wa...

So, the US military was incompetent? 150,000 soldiers with the best modern weapons was too tiny a force? You start from the assumption that "one million" soldiers could have transformed Iraq for the better, this within "no longer than five years". That assumption is not only unp...

How the British "free press" deals with Jeremy Corbyn



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http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/data-retention-and-the-end-of-australians-digital-privacy-20150827-gj96kq.html The electronically logged data of mobile, landline voice (including missed and failed) calls and text messages, all emails, download volumes and location information will ...

for the crusader state idea to work you would need the kind of immigrant that made it work like the young families looking for a fresh start in the new world that created the usa or aus im not sure they even exist at this point in time - the nation building folk wouldnt dream of setting up the fami...

Trouble with intervention in the ME was the fact that it was always too small to achieve the desired ends. The stupid idea that you can do the job of a million soldiers with one hundred thousand led necessarily to disaster. A lot of money was spent, lots of people got killed, and the job wasn't done...

The solution, as far as I am concerned, would be a military pacification campaign in Libya, which would destroy all armed groups active in the country and establish a temporary protectorate, under the UN, until a stable government could be established by means of free and fair elections. With the s...

STRATFOR - Aug. 31 Syria Russia could be in the process of greatly expanding its involvement in the Syrian conflict, according to sources from Israeli news source Ynet. An Aug. 31 report suggests that a Russian expeditionary force has already arrived in Syria, setting up camp in a loyalist air base...

Russian jets in Syrian skies Russia has begun its military intervention in Syria, deploying an aerial contingent to a permanent Syrian base, in order to launch attacks against ISIS and Islamist rebels; US stays silent. Alex Fishman Published: 08.31.15, 15:34 / Israel News Russian fighter pilots are...

The solution, as far as I am concerned, would be a military pacification campaign in Libya, which would destroy all armed groups active in the country and establish a temporary protectorate, under the UN, until a stable government could be established by means of free and fair elections. With the st...

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Typhoon wrote:Japan did bring in a fair bit of foreign labour from Brazil to work in the industrial region in and around Nagoya.

Labour from Brazil were exclusively children or grandchildren of Japanese immigrants to Brazil... How foreign can one consider it?...

So should we cut our losses and get out? To answer properly we need to grasp the difference between saying that Greece, and other countries, should not have entered the eurozone, and saying now that we should now exit. Put technically, we have a case of hysteresis: Once a nation has taken the path ...

A Saudi-led ground operation in Yemen, involving US-made Abrams M1 tanks, immediately resulted in the loss of armored vehicles. The video below shows what are said to be Houthi rebels in Yemen using old Soviet-designed Fagot anti-tank guided missiles to destroy American-made, Saudi Arabian-owned an...

I do not believe the stock market is "unpredictable". Like human behavior sometimes it is all too predictable. Predictable? At your own risk... Mostly it is manipulated by those with enough funds to force the value of some stocks - or currencies - going up or going down. Most investors wo...

Whoever becomes the next POTUS chances are things will go this way:



The question is whether it will be served with vodka or with jasmine tea...

Mr. Perfect wrote:Interesting thought. With the dwindling number of europeans this may be a foothold for future annexation.

I doubt it. I guess they would be far too busy deciding for which European passport to apply, based on the country of origin of their forefathers...

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Parodite wrote:Isn't Trump history already. He wants to deport 11 million people.

Polling this morning shows him closing in on the presidency.

Goodie!... BTW, once President Trump has been installed, we would like you to know that all good, decent, compassionate Americans will be more than welcome in Europe...

From my point of view, as an European, Trump President would be a great thing. Nothing could do more for Europe to take its distance from the US. Besides, he would be pretty busy trying to keep all those Latinos out of the US, so that he might leave the rest of the world alone... http://www.outsidet...

Perceptions, not knowledge, is what influences most decisions on whether to buy or to sell stock. Successful traders are those who know how to change/influence those perceptions to their advantage...