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As U.S. President-elect Donald Trump continues to receive domestic and international rebuke for his comments on expanding nuclear weapons, the General Assembly of the United Nations on Friday adopted a resolution that calls for negotiations to begin next year on an international treaty to completely ban the use of nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, yet predictably, the resolution was opposed by the major nuclear powers, including the United States, Britain, France and Russia.
The incidents of US’ foreign intervention cited in the Carnegie Mellon database were largely carried out in secret as only one-third of intervention efforts were carried out publicly. Methods included the dissemination of misinformation or propaganda, training one side in campaigning techniques, making threats against a particular candidate, threatening to withdraw foreign aid, and bank-rolling a particular candidate among others.
The worst attack, in terms of loss of life, took place in Berlin where a truck plowed into a Christmas market full of shoppers, killing nine and injuring an estimated 50 people. If that wasn’t enough horror for one day, several people were also wounded in a shooting at a Zurich mosque frequently attended by Somali immigrants. In addition, the Russian ambassador to Turkey was gunned down.
Jason Silva slows down a bit in this video to get sweet and melancholy about the great yearnings and possibilities of BIG, romantic, Romeo and Juliet type love. He warns us against the cynical reduction of love to a mere series of chemical reactions and reminds us that true love is much more than a cocaine-type reaction. It’s a soul’s yearning to unite with another and to experience “that moment, those goosebumps, that tenderness.”
There is one fundamental issue everyone is missing. The claim is that Russia hacked the election – not by altering voting results – but by making public actual emails from the Clinton campaign and the DNC. In other words, the claim is that the Russian’s swayed the election for Donald Trump by revealing the TRUTH about the Clinton campaign and the TRUTH about the DNC.