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Tue, 25/02/2025 - 23:56
1st of January 2025 Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election of November 2024 has shredded the liberal script about the Ukraine war. That script was to offer unconditional moral and material support for a Ukrainian victory, defined minimally as recovery of the invaded territories of Crimea and Donbass. In Britain, it was considered … Continue reading The American Conservative – Why Is the UK So Invested in the Russia–Ukraine War?
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Tue, 25/02/2025 - 23:51
15th of February 2025 Europe is coming to grips with new global realities. James Carden of The American Conservative and David Speedie of the Carnegie Council’s Global Engagement Program sat down with Baron Robert Sidelsky to discuss his newfound optimism regarding a settlement between Russia and Ukraine and Europe’s continued dependence on American security guarantees. … Continue reading The American Conservative: Skidelsky on Russia, Ukraine and the Future of European Security
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Tue, 25/02/2025 - 22:49
First, Knight and Keynes derive from their different philosophical worldviews distinct definitions of uncertainty. Keynes’s is a wholly epistemic uncertainty concept (see Packard and Clark, 2020), the ignorance of an actor regarding the objective and knowable (a priori) probabilities of future outcomes. Such probabilities are discoverable by learning the underlying ‘probability-relations’ between causes and effects. […]
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Tue, 25/02/2025 - 22:42
The Guardian – 25th of February 2025 “By refusing to back negotiations for the past three years, the UK has become irrelevant to the search for peace – we must change course” On the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, British policy towards the war is in a mess. The continuing official British position, echoed … Continue reading Britain’s insistence on total Ukrainian victory was misguided – it’s time for a realistic compromise
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Tue, 25/02/2025 - 21:25

Ο Τραμπ αναμένει πως ο κόσμος θα διχαστεί: Μια ομάδα υποτακτικών χωρών (π.χ. της Ευρώπης και η Ιαπωνία) θα βοηθά στη μείωση του εμπορικού ελλείμματος των ΗΠΑ κρατώντας το δολάριο χαμηλά και αγοράζοντας περισσότερα αμερικανικά αγαθά, ενέργεια και όπλα ● Και μια δεύτερη ομάδα (π.χ. Κίνα και Ρωσία) θα παραμένει εκτός της στρατιωτικής ομπρέλας των […]

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Tue, 25/02/2025 - 20:45

Trump’s return isn’t just chaos, it’s a calculated strategy. While liberals dismiss him, Trump understands raw economic power in a way centrists fail to grasp. What is his master plan, and how could it backfire? Meanwhile, Musk & other billionaires are the new ruling class. As capitalism dies, we enter technofeudalism, where corporate overlords control […]

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Tue, 25/02/2025 - 20:19

Soundtrack To A Coup D’etat opens with footage of a Max Roach drum solo, cut with intertitles of his wife, the singer, actress and activist Abbey Lincoln, announcing The Cultural Association of Women of African Heritage’s protest against the CIA-engineered murder of democratically elected Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba: ‘On Friday, our women are going […]

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Tue, 25/02/2025 - 11:46
40 years ago today the Daily Mail carried a front page picture of police officers carrying me away from a Miners Strike rally in Whitehall. I mightn’t have known, but a friend of my sister’s told her, having recognized me, with glee, when her dad picked the paper up at the breakfast table. (I never […]
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Tue, 25/02/2025 - 11:25

To all Starfleet personnel,

It is with great enthusiasm that we announce Starfleet’s commitment to moving beyond so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and embracing a post-bias future where everything is fine and no one needs to think too hard about it.

For too long, our DEI programs have distracted us from our true mission: boldly going where no one has gone before, while ensuring the same five conventionally attractive humans get the best bridge assignments.

Effective immediately, the following programs will be discontinued: