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Israel is already in a regional war

13 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

  TLDR (100 words): The recent assassinations of Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr and Hamas’ Ismail Haniyeh, likely orchestrated by Israel, have escalated tensions in the Middle East, threatening to ignite a larger regional conflict. These actions, seen as str...

"India Votes" - decentralised democracy and political gaming

11 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR Rajesh Jain proposes an innovative idea that combines elections, email, and prediction markets through a game called "IndiaVotes YouPredict." The game allows participants to predict the outcomes of the Indian Lok Sabha elections via email, using...

Riots in the UK are a direct result of far-right politics and rhetoric

11 Aug 2024 1 minute read 8 comments Vladan Lausevic

  TLDR The rise of far-right extremism in the UK has led to violence, racism, and misogyny, exacerbated by the spread of hateful propaganda through social media. Traditional efforts to counteract this, such as fact-checking and removing content, are...

Lessons from the UK - creating a cost-effective system and improving the well-being of asylum seekers

10 Aug 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR: Jenny Phillimore and Olivia Petie critique the UK’s asylum accommodation system, highlighting the poor conditions in hotels and institutional housing that harm asylum seekers' physical and mental health. They propose fast-tracking asylum decisi...

Meanwhile in Bangladesh

10 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR   After weeks of mass protests against her authoritarian rule, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India. The military refused to support her, leading to her downfall. An interim government is now tasked with restoring...

Trump still has a proposal to start a war against Mexico

10 Aug 2024 2 minute read 4 comments Vladan Lausevic

  TLDR: Radley Balko argues strongly against Donald Trump and the Republican Party's proposal to bomb or invade Mexico to combat drug cartels. He highlights the impracticality, dangers, and hypocrisy of this idea, emphasizing that it misdiagnoses the...

Gringo Hell

10 Aug 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets, or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you."Mark Rowley, Chief of the London MPS   I have some solutions for the problem of Islam in the UK and the West, p...

Playing chess for the war criminals - Bobby Fischer and Milosevic's Yugoslavia

8 Aug 2024 4 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

In 1992, the world-famous chess player Bobby Fischer controversially returned to competitive chess, playing a World Championship rematch against Boris Spassky in Sveti Stefan and Belgrade, in the Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (today in Montenegro...

Trump as pro-Bitcoin?

8 Aug 2024 1 minute read 3 comments Vladan Lausevic

Bitcoin has become a significant topic in the US presidential campaign, with former President Donald Trump pledging to make the US the leading hub for Bitcoin if re-elected. Speaking at a major Bitcoin conference in Nashville, Trump claimed he would...

White Riot

7 Aug 2024 14 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you thata society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed."Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn   Children of Men is my favorite horror movie.  The home page of the DVD I own ha...