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What is this "very, very powerful article" that Trump is referring to vis à vis the Kurds?
Trump said in a press conference on Oct 10 (or so), referring to the Kurds:
as someone wrote in this very, very powerful article today, they didn't help us in the second world war, they didn't help us with Normandy [...]
What's the article he is…
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Why won't the Republicans (RNC) use a superdelegate system like the DNC in their nomination process?
Why won't the Republican National Committee (RNC) use a superdelegate system like the DNC in their nomination process? Is there a reason why they didn't push for this yet? What does the RNC think of a superdelegate system and why did the DNC opt for…
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Is there a standardised way to check fake news?
So many fact check reporters are out there. Most of them are biased. Worse, some themselves post fake news (Like Altnews.in; interestingly, they are IFCN qualified). Is there a standardized way to detect fake news?
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Why did House of Representatives need to condemn Trumps Tweets?
Can someone elaborate on the reason why the House of Representatives needed to pass a resolution to condemn Trump's tweets?
Many people in government have criticized Trump's tweets before, but I don't recall anyone passing a resolution to condemn…
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Who determines when road center lines are solid or dashed?
A two lane state highway I regularly travel was recently re-paved, and the last step was to paint the center lines. Seeing the freshly painted lines prompts this question:
Who determines when the center line is solid vs dashed? Does the local or…
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Why are Democratic presidential candidates promising free health care for Illegal Immigrants?
During the second night of the first Democratic Presidential Debate, NBC host Savannah Guthrie asked the ten candidates at the debate:
"Raise your hand if your government [healthcare] plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants"
All…
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What is the logic behind charging tax _in the form of money_ for owning property when the property does not produce money?
I know that people living in comunities cooperate with each other when it comes to expenses to maintain the comunity.
From what I understand, taxing property is a practice that started since before recorded history.
Wikipedia - History of…
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Does nuclear propulsion applied to military ships fall under civil or military nuclear power?
From what I know very few countries are authorized to possess nuclear weapons, although a few others might secretly have some. But using nuclear power for civilian use (to produce electricity) is allowed for mostly any country, as long as they…
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Is there any data on how much gerrymandering influences incumbent advantage?
The US Congress has a truly prodigious re-election rate: 80-90% in the House since 1964, and ~80% in the Senate with the exception of the 1970s (when it hit a "low" of 55%-65%)
While there are a lot of different factors contributing to this…
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How does Israel teach the displacement of the Arab population in 1948 (Nakba)?
How do Israeli educational institutions go about teaching the Nakba? According to Wikipedia it can be summarized as following:
The Nakba ("catastrophe", or "cataclysm"'), also known as the
Palestinian Catastrophe, was the destruction of Palestinian…
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If/When UK leaves the EU, can a future goverment conduct a referendum to join the EU?
I wonder if after the current debate, the UK ends up leaving the EU on any terms, how soon can a future government conduct a referendum to join the EU?
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Why would a planned Turkish invasion of Syria motivate US troops' withdrawal?
According to Fox, President Trump may have ordered troops withdrawn from Syria due to President Erdoğan giving advanced warning of an imminent anti-PKK Turkish invasion. Why would this motivate the US to withdraw, instead of a Turkey-US…
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Why did the UK not have any post-EU exit deals agreed prior to June 2016?
Britain held a referendum on EU membership in 2016, Leave won, some other stuff happened, there was and is load of a drama and the UK is possible maybe who knows perhaps due to leave in March of next year, with future arrangements still very much up…
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Why haven't any Governments banned cigarette sales when it has been proven that it's harmful?
Rather than advertising the harmful effects of cigarette smoking on the box, why hasn't any government just banned the selling of cigarettes in their respective countries? Doesn't it solve the main problem?
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Did Ukraine lose half its GDP because of sanctions against Russia after its 2014 invasion of Crimea?
Note: This was originally posted in 2018, before the 2022 war.
According to a Russian News Agency Ukrainian politician Evgeny Murayev said that
Anti-Russian sanctions of the EU and the United States deprived the Ukraine
from half of its gross…
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