". . . a republic, if you can keep it."
www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/15/lockheed-breakthrough-nuclear-fusion-energy?CMP=fb_gu
Given that almost every government in the world is tied to the petrol industry, the realization of this technology will really shake things up.
Environmentalists will be devastated by the arrival of their messiah.
lol. Socialism has many tails, and it chases all of them.
Ugh. Agonizing literary interview.
How long will it be possible for censoring, dogmatic liberals to celebrate their victory over the censoring, dogmatic church via pornography? Isn’t it painfully obvious that the secular religion of post-modernism is guilty of all the same intolerance but without the excuse of being eugenic and civilization building.
Seven witchcraft suspects burned to death in Tanzania
Seven people accused of witchcraft have been burned alive in Tanzania, police said Friday, adding they have arrested 23 people in connection with the crimes.
“They were attacked and burnt to death by a mob of villagers who accused them of engaging in witchcraft,” the police chief for the western Kigoma region which borders Burundi, Jafari Mohamed, told AFP.
“Five of those killed were aged over 60, while the other two were aged over 40,” he added.
Among those arrested on suspicion of carrying out the killings was the local traditional healer, or witch doctor.
Relatives of those killed described horrific scenes, with the bodies of family members hacked with machetes or burned almost beyond recognition.
news.yahoo.com/seven-burned-death-tanzania-witchcraft-attacks-110621571.html
The United Kingdom’s Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a non-binding motion recognizing Palestine as a state alongside Israel.
The House voted by 274 MPs to 12 to adopt the motion, which called on the government to “recognize the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel,” with an amendment adding the words “as a contribution to securing a negotiated two-state solution.”
The decision will not change government policy but could have international implications.
Government ministers, including Prime Minister David Cameron, abstained in the vote.
news.vice.com/article/the-uk-has-voted-to-recognize-palestine-as-a-state
The issue was discussed in meetings of the marxist weather underground.
It is easy for American libertarians who live under the bubble of the biggest military the world has ever known to solve the fake problem of imagining liberty on Crusoe’s Island, instead of solving the real problem of establishing liberty in a world full of aggressors.
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“These girls, I suspect, had no real men in their lives. The Muslim man, though primitive, does offer what we forbid.”
nypost.com/2014/10/10/pregnant-teen-girls-who-joined-isis-weve-made-a-huge-mistake/
Environmentalists will despair! What good is a messiah once he’s arrived???
AGGRESSION VS HARM VS COST
Sequence:
1 – I have no agreement with you, and therefore no constraint.
2 – I will not aggress against you.
3 – I will not cause you harm.
4 – I will not cause you to bear a cost.
5 – I will bear costs of reciprocal insurance.
6 – I will bear kin selection costs.
Aggression leaves open unethical, immoral, and conspiratorial action.
Harm leaves open the problem of relative costs – and therefore is not an objective and sufficient means of measurement.
Costs are universally applicable independent of scale, not relative, and prohibit criminal, unethical, immoral, and conspiratorial action of all kinds.
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The fact that so many people are fooled into the fallacy of aggression as sufficient criteria for the formation of a voluntarily organized polity, is evidence of the frailty of rationalism.
The purpose of rationalism is justification. The purpose of scientific methods is to prevent justification.
As usual, the left is completely unbounded by truth.