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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Feb 09, 2024 at 09:01 PM PST
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Dr. John Mearsheimer is a famous political scientist who specializes in offensive neo-realism (structural realism) in the field of international relations. He currently teaches at the University of Chicago. Structural realists believe that the...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 10:53 AM PDT
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NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD
Sunday, August 27th, 2023
WEEKLY EDITION #431
This blog is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue . This weekly platform gives readers interested in North Carolina ...
by randallt
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on Sun Aug 27, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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I mean duh … If any old warlord can just march in and capture nuclear weapons they can’t be considered secure. And also, Russia started this war and immediately escalated to threatening nuclear warfare. Hardly a responsible party. Russia will be weak....
by hairylarry
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on Sun Jun 25, 2023 at 10:45 AM PDT
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If you have a little spare time I highly recommend watching this video. I can’t really figure out if this guy is a maniac or the only one that is sane. At least he doesn’t mince words and ...
by Beak
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on Thu Jun 08, 2023 at 07:46 AM PDT
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Much is frequently made over the Russian threat of the use of nuclear weapons. I’m not going to go into all the reasons why Russian nuclear weapons are highly unlikely to be used, but if you wish to pursue that I suggest the video from Perun below as...
by Peter Olandt
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on Sun May 14, 2023 at 02:29 PM PDT
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting the United States today and speaking to a joint session of Congress. He will be pushing back against those on both the extreme left and right who keep whining that in 1991 President George HW Bush...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Dec 21, 2022 at 08:26 AM PST
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In 2019 the unelected occupant of the white house issued, without any approval from congress, sanctions against Venezuela that made it difficult for the nation to sell oil or for others to buy it. The ocher tumor on America gave the usual canned...
by DBowman
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on Fri Aug 19, 2022 at 11:19 PM PDT
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Back in May I posted a diary about North Korea’s apparent experience with the tsunami of Covid cases then sweeping that isolated country, in which for a brief time the DPRK accounted for over 1/3 of the world’s entire caseload of new infections. I...
by Irontortoise
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on Sun Aug 14, 2022 at 05:18 PM PDT
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Here’s the formula: INTENT + MEANS = OUTCOME. Insist on it in every debate. Not either/or but both. Intent: the will and mindset to carry out an action Means: access to the actual equipment to carry it out. The GOP hijacks the national debate by saying...
by KKwriter
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on Sat May 28, 2022 at 01:32 PM PDT
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Hey all. I just saw an article on Huffpo. It says that Finland is on the brink of a nuclear power “game-changer”. A fascinating article to me, and I wanted to share it here, as I would love to hear what experts and non-experts on the subject have to...
by thewalshman
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on Sat Apr 23, 2022 at 10:22 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame and jck. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Interceptor 7, Man Oh...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Apr 15, 2022 at 09:09 PM PDT
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It seems that President Biden’s tough talk and so called gaffe (I think more likely a well considered, planned, and executed off script remark) has had it’s desired effect. Tonight the Kremlin announced that they “don’t need to use Nukes in Ukraine”...
by Phil In Denver
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on Mon Mar 28, 2022 at 08:20 PM PDT
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This is not a book on the history and motivations of Putin’s Ukraine adventure. And, I make a lot of assumptions based on my personal understanding of the situation. I don’t have any of the answers. But, I do have a lot of questions and I don’t like...
by Iamguy
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on Sun Mar 27, 2022 at 03:51 PM PDT
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Not to minimize the deaths, the suffering, the destruction Putin has caused and threatens to cause even more of out of frustration and hubris, but this image is too on point not to share. It turned up on my Facebook feed; will it go viral? By reports...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Mar 18, 2022 at 09:08 AM PDT
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Generalissimo Sean Hannity, the high commander for war strategy at Fox News, has an idea that will end the war! Erm, sorry—I meant “world.” Those two words sound so similar. Anyone with any sense of history knows that the last thing President Joe Biden...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Thu Mar 03, 2022 at 11:30 AM PST
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A rather depressing report in the Washinton Post finds that in the wake of tfg’s failed, half-hearted attempts to get North Korea to denuclearize, support among the South Korean public to obtain their own nuclear weapons as a deterrent against North...
by Irontortoise
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on Mon Feb 21, 2022 at 09:39 PM PST
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So, does the Second Amendment does mean that everyone can have all the weapons they want? Those who claim that it does usually quote only the second half of the Second Amendment. I will momentarily play along and pretend that the frequently-ignored...
by Perlinator
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on Thu Mar 18, 2021 at 07:24 PM PDT
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Ever since nuclear weapons were invented, people have worried about how they could be abused. Politico has an article The Madman and the Bomb about fears that Nixon would scorch the Earth on his way out. Moreover, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger...
by A Citizen
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on Mon Jul 20, 2020 at 09:15 AM PDT
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I don’t even wanna think what this might involve. “All the officials who accompanied him to the top of the mountain felt overflowing emotion and joy and [were] convinced that there will be a great operation to strike the world with wonder again and...
by Colorado Blue
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on Wed Oct 16, 2019 at 03:27 PM PDT
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