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The best democracy money can buy?

How about best University Qatar can buy?

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-884966

After WW2 the ideals of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sounded good. But ““Lest we forget” implies history contains lessons that we should learn from and  remember past catastrophes to avoid repeating them. But with human nature this always becomes “History is bunk” and the past becomes obsolete noise and only the present matters.…[Read more]

Reg, you articulated the dynamic accurately. No issue with anything you’re written. I confess i was unaware or perhaps forgot about Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The UN stated out with noble ideals but it has lost a lot of respect. It was never a moral body, just a diplomatic one that existed to keep states talking to each other. We will never get moral clarity out of a system where Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, Russia, and liberal democracies all get equal seats at the table. At best we get a consensus of…[Read more]

Yeah Enco,

UN is a bad joke. I was just listening to an Iranian woman and her jeremiad regarding lefties, and how the cause of human right have been abandoned to an ideology. One amusingly disgusting woe regarding how the UN Council on Women’s Rights was headed by Islamic Republic of Iran! Also how badly fucked over they were by OBammy and Bidun.…[Read more]

Enco,

One story from one survivor quoting JP.

A Holocaust survivor gave a speech in Hebrew at the United Nations General Assembly session to commemorate the Holocaust Remembrance Day for the first time in history on Tuesday.

Born in Poland, Weinstein talked about her life before the Second World War, her parents and siblings, her grandmother,…[Read more]

@Jake  I can’t disagree with any of your comment regarding intelligence, and I particularly like the capitalised Actual Intelligence. Really good food for thought.

Enco,

Those labels might be applicable to Trump but it does not negate the essential feature if my guess is correct.

It should not be a badge of honor to be an atheist. Nor is it some feat of ratiocination to be an atheist. The persistence of religion is testament to how very amenable to manipulation we are. If you discover life on some other…[Read more]

When i read about the following it made me think about the issues of discrimination against trans people and even whether it is real.

‘researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Canada have discovered a specific group of neurons in the brain that acts as an “on/off” switch, showing profound differences between male and female brain…[Read more]

Enco,

I was not aware of that. It is so obvious that ideology robs ideologues of their compassion. If one is not part of the in-group then fuck em. Let em fucking die a miserable death.

Don’t forgot Trump also abandoned the Kurds. And i think it was Trump who got US out of Afghanistan which enabled the Taliban to be purely Islamic and the…[Read more]

Trump’s inner Vlad the Impaler is coming out. He has hand-picked others who want to please him by executing terroristic policies. American human beings can be officially demoted to untrainable-dog level value. Vermin. Will SCOTUS also keep supporting him?

Enco,

Can you even construct the degree of fake sympathy for the innocents in Iran if it were Jews who were doing it?

The protests, riots, propaganda, attacks, violence against Jews would be WW2 like.

It is a sick fucking world. Humans can’t think with a few exceptions and their norms and morality are dealt to them like a dealer with his cards.

Just some heart-warming news to be aware or not…

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-884443

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-884437

Panpsychism is an attempt to avoid “consciousness from nothing” by baking mind-like properties into the foundations of physics. That is almost like an argument for Creationism. For me, consciousness is an emergent property, not a fundamental physical property. It is not present in parts that can be assembled.  In the same way that water mole…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!

Have a great week everyone!

It only took one monkey to create the entire works of Shakespeare. His first name was William. (rtff)

-9F….wow…stay safe and keep warm!!

The lights may be dimmed as the worst storm ever is forecast.

So severe it may snap the ship in two!