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Russian thugs may have a few hundred billion $'s in US and European banks and actually believe that salvaging Greece through bailout is the best immediate action.

No, but long-range solutions have been set aside while we deal with impending disaster.

No doubt Putin and his gang of thugs would love to restore the empire because they're power-loving pricks but sometimes empire-building is costly rather than profitable and modern empires are almost exclusively about economics. The Euro-Europeans wouldn't bail out Greece on Russia's say-so...

We're caught in an exigencies trap. We have to opt for ad hoc solutions rather than long-term solutions because the global infrastructure is committed to a paradigm that hasn't a built-in tolerance for crisis. It's a global free market only when things are going smoothly; when things get rough...

You talk like you fell out of 1960.

Gold's tanking because equities losers need to raise cash + margin hikes cause stop cascades.

aka we MUST save Europe or we're all screwed.

So Russians are rubbing their hands in anticipation of the collapse of Europe? How would this benefit Russia whose own economy is precarious?

Any country playing a positive role in staving off global catastrophe is working in its own best interest.

That's nice. The assumption is that because God doesn't manifest in ways that you readily understand means that God doesn't exist. Perhaps God is manifesting all the time and you're just not noticing.

Your post seems like a non sequitur. I don't require that science prove the non-existence of God. I say that God is outside science's ambit and that the lack of scientific proof of God is irrelevant.

Media antagonism to Ron Paul expressed as simply pretending he doesn't exist is shockingly obvious. Media desire to control US opinion is becoming completely transparent. I don't think Ron Paul will be the Republican candidate and he'll be too old for the next round. Does his son share his...

Why would God show "himself" just because we request that God do so? God does what God wants to do, not what we want God to do.

I'm quite familiar with the scientific method and am aware that it's very effective when applied to a measurable reality. This, however, in no way indicates that science is the exclusive route to meaningful knowing. Most of the fundamental suppositions of science, including laws and principles...

Must be a new crop of honest and courageous Russians; all the old ones were murdered by the likes of Mr. Putin.

Learning. My dog has learned to piss outside the house. Should I ask my dog whether or not there is God?

lol? An intellectual puppy is laughing at me? Did you even understand my post? I'd debate the meaning of knowledge with you but I'd prefer that you have at least a rudimentary understanding of epistemology. No, I didn't skip science class. I have several university credits in maths and...

When scientists "explain" they do so within the limits of their models of the world. Such explanations are constanly being revised so they are compatible with the latest scientific paradigm and are inevitably superficial and incompletely representative. Science is not competent to comment on...

We should all be suspicious of the validity of intellectuals' knowledge. If this knowledge is so superior to the kind of understanding we find in the common people why is it that intellectuals' knowledge is constantly being revised, refuted, and rejected within the intellectual realm itself?

Are these weapons suitable for use against individual terrorists hiding in general populations or more suitable for use against the general populations - as in men, women, children - as in genocide?