COVID-19: A review of pandemic scenarios
The Triumph of Death by Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted c. 1562 Historically pandemics have killed millions, devasted societies and changed the course
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Existential Threats
Dismantling the doomsday machine
I would say that our damage-limiting, counterforce-decapitating, highly accurate, fast-launched weapons—air-launched weapons and ICBMs and increasingly accurate sub-launched missiles, but particularly the ICBMs,
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Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene
Update: To image leaky atmosphere, NASA rocket team heads north — ScienceDaily In the future, the Earth System could potentially follow many trajectories (12,
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2017: peak globalization and rising neoreaction
Let’s go though this one last time; Brexit, Trump, Russian psy-ops and the rise of far-right nationalism is the result of leftist complecancy.
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The Great Cyberwar of 2016
UPDATE: These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia – Buzzfeed. UPDATE: Background to “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections”: The
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Hawking: the most dangerous time for our planet
Hawking on Trump and Brexit: The concerns underlying these votes about the economic consequences of globalisation and accelerating technological change are absolutely understandable.
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Russia delivers air defense systems to Syria
One battery of the air defense system S-300 will provide protection for the Russian Navy’s logistic facility in Tartus and Russian ships off
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A Cloudless Sky
A short story by Vladislav Surkov, former deputy prime minister in Putin’s government who writes under the pen name Nathan Dubovitsky. The writer
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War economy: Russia accuses Turkey of financing ISIS, vice versa
Russia says it has proof Turkey involved in Islamic State oil trade, according to Reuters. The Russian National Center for State Defence Control
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Migrant crisis, nukes, political polarization and biometrics
The displacement of millions of people from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan are overwhelming the already struggling EU. Europe is unable to manage the logistics and management
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