Sunday 30 March 2014

Who says democracy is alive and well in the US of A

Crows as intelligent as a seven-year-old child? Research says 'yes!' : SCIENCE : Tech Times

Why Russia should accept a new peaceful role in a world where backing tyrants isn't really so profitable in the long term...

Putin's fall from grace can be overturned by overtures now of peace recognizing that Russia has more to gain by becoming a leading world economy than by remaining a spoiler and supporter of bad old regimes. Likewise America has everything to gain by getting Russia to rethink its rotten backward looking strategies moving away from ideas that have no place in peaceful world community that has more important problems to solve than fears about loss of face. 

It's a big mistake to think the US might not use it's military. The world has already seen it has worldwide support....

The world has changed forever because of Putin's fall from grace. An aggressive act really is a declaration of war. Make no mistake, America is preparing itself for the big one... Pressure will mount on Obama to assert a military confrontation and the failure of peace efforts this implies. 

Putin's fall from grace

Anne Applebaum: Russia’s anti-Western ideology has global consequences - The Washington Post

The Supreme Court Should Just Abolish Software Patents In Alice v. CLS Bank - Forbes

Thank Goodness We Have Walmart If American Shoppers Are This Poor - Forbes

Forbes author Worstall, who receives a nice payment from big business, seems to forget the bullying of suppliers that create the consumer surplus from Walmart stores.  The mom and pop stores also provide more than just economics... When they go the small towns shrivel up to economies of large cities and the corporations take over the countryside to engage is mass .. Whatever to grab their surpluses and the land and the resources beneath? 

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