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EU threatens sanctions against Turkey
An article on how anti-socialism remains strong even if they cannot find a correct definition.
Despite the trials and tribulations of one of its founders, XR shows it is still active and engaged in campaigning
ALB, have i not been upbraided for usurping the democratic decisions of a future socialist society who will make to the pros and cons on how to administer the resources inside socialism.
My personal view is that if there is no other choice with providing abundant sustainable energy then nuclear power cannot be excluded.
I just posted on our Scottish blog in 313 years’ time, Dounreay will be safe for other uses
https://socialist-courier.blogspot.com/2020/08/dounreay-long-wait.html
Gates is proposing a different model of nuclear energy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-cooled_fast_reactor
My only comment has been that other Gates projects such as the green revolution of AGRA has failed to fulfil its promise.
Bill Gates promotes nuclear power as green
To be honest, ALB, i wasn’t a fan of the format of this “debate”
Keith was permitted to steer and direct the debate the way he wished to go
Keith first making a comment and Bill replying and Keith responding…almost like two bites at the cherry.
He was quizzing Bill whereas he was exempt from a similar interrogation.
The United States has blacklisted 24 Chinese companies and targeted individuals it said were part of construction and military efforts in the South China Sea, its first such sanctions move over the disputed strategic waterway.
Another trial starts
https://www.dw.com/en/basic-income-germany-tax-free/a-54700872
The organizers are looking for a total of 1,500 participants and 120 for a period of three years some people get €1,200 a month for free. They only have to answer researchers’ questions about how they’re faring with this unconditional income.
David Attenborough is an over-populationist and here he is presenting the vegetarian case
“We must change our diet. The planet can’t support billions of meat-eaters. If we had a mostly plant-based diet we could increase the yield of the land,”
Peter Stevenson, chief policy adviser of Compassion in World Farming, has reported that: “For every 100 calories fed to animals in the form of human-edible crops, we receive just 17-30 calories in the form of meat and milk.”
He is quoted as saying .
“We must grow palm and soya on deforested lands. Nature is our biggest ally.”
Experts say that using swathes of land to grow feed solely for livestock is wasteful because animals are inefficient converters of calories, and that growing human-edible crops on the land would provide more total food.
This is confused thinking as such monoculture plantations have been blamed for ecological damage
He pessimistically says
“Half of fertile land on Earth is now farmland, 70 per cent of birds are domestic, majority chickens. We are one third of animals on Earth. This is now our planet run by – and for – humans. There’s little left for the world. We have completely destroyed it.”
His misanthropic beliefs surface once again
“Human beings have overrun the world.”
I fear who will lose if it escalates.
We know which sector of the population has the most guns.
We know what sector of the population has the tacit approval of law enforcement officers.
Video has emerged of having fired into protestors, who are appealing to the police to arrest him, and the assailant having killed two and wounded another seriously is able to walk unchallenged passed a number of police, before eventually surrendering with his hands raised up.
I think this news is one that many of us have been fearing – the intervention of right-wing militias. Or as others would call them – vigilantes
One person was shot dead and two more injured when at least one gunman opened fire on protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin
“This is not what Marx was concerned with, ALB. He was concerned with our human power to actively ‘CHANGE’ our world,”
LBird, i think i have raised the point of your own lack of action to change the world by declining to join the only political organisation i think you empathise with, despite your disagreements.
“Language serves not only the purpose of distinguishing things but also of uniting them – for it is dialectic.” – Dietzgen, June 9, 1886
In November, Engels bicentennial, arises. This will offer you ample opportunity to critique all things Engelsist.
At one point the debaters reach out for clarification of the phrase from Adam Smith “the invisible hand”
“…The rich….are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species…”
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) in Part IV, Chapter 1,
Which supports, Bill’s interpretation
“…By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was not part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it…”
Book IV, Chapter II, paragraph IX of The Wealth of Nations.
Which indicates what might be Keith Knight’s take.
Germany appealed for a de-escalation of tension in the eastern Mediterranean .
“The current situation in the eastern Mediterranean is … playing with fire, and any spark – however small – could lead to a disaster,” – Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.
Lawrence Brennan, a retired US navy captain and a Professor of Admiralty and International Maritime Law at Fordham Law School told Al Jazeera the problem has been escalating for months, there is a risk of military intervention and the rhetoric cotninues to grow.
“To have two NATO allies come to blow whether it’s intentionally or accidentally… would be a horrible event that would setback progress and economic development for years if not decades,” Brennan said.
