A federal police officer and four military officers, including a general who was part of Mr. Bolsonaro’s government, were arrested this morning accused of conspiring to assassinate Mr. Lula, Mr. Alckmin, the vice president of Brazil, and Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
ETA
“President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a revised nuclear doctrinedeclaring that a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country.”
Fuck that. Call him on it.
Well, that didn’t take long.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine, Russia, the US and UK agreed the Budapest Memorandum of 1994. Ukraine surrendered the Soviet nuclear weapons left on its soil to Russia, in exchange for a pledge that its territorial integrity would be respected and defended by the other countries who signed.
Damage to underwater cables was ‘sabotage’, German defence minister says
Two underwater fibre-optic communications cables running between Finland and Germany were discovered cut on Monday, an incident both countries said was under investigation.
Are We Cancelling the Enlightenment?
Mitchell Anderson
The Tyee
November 19, 2024
While Democrats were wearing out shoe leather knocking on doors in an obsolete ground game, Republicans were winning the online information war by convincing voters that inflation and crime were getting worse (they were not). For those readers who still care about truth and evidence, surveys showed that voters who embraced disinformation were far more likely to vote for a populist like Trump. Similar troubling trends exist on this side of the border.
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Philosophy and science had been inseparably entwined since the days of Aristotle, but after a messy breakup some two centuries ago, they often pretend not to know each other in public. Science, for all its undeniable technological achievements, has largely abdicated any responsibility to fill the spiritual void it itself created, becoming instead an inaccessible bureaucracy unwelcoming to the uninitiated. We may be among the first generations in human history to try to trudge through life unblanketed by any collective mystical belief.
Sadly, no real answers in the article to addressing the hole left in the life of the majority when we remove religion as a refuge from the misery of daily existence.
I missed saving the citation for the academic who equated “god” with “society in general” as the driving force in religion. Can anyone help me there?
How does one make a friendly circle from the square idea of a state religion that supports a modern outlook, doesn’t abuse the kids, doesn’t make scientists 
, and provides re-assurance that “god/society as a whole” will be there to make it better? After all, if you want to drill down to the quantum reality, or up to the astronomical context, of our existence then we are all comforted by delusions on a lot of levels.
I find science wonderful and deeply supportive of a moral, “spiritual” outlook on life, but I’m … an outlier, it seems.