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US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

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At least Germany has some central parties so that a move to the extremes is not a one way street.
 
At least Germany has some central parties so that a move to the extremes is not a one way street.

I sort of like their voting system. Because they have so many parties, each ticket has 2 things to choose from. First, is a specific candidate and second is a party. It's broken down regionally similar to state houses but slightly bigger regions. In this case, multiple people from one party can run simultaneously in the same district. They take the vote for parties first and that determines the number of seats each party gets. You need 5% to get a rep.

The actual reps are then appointed based on total votes. So if party A gets to place 50 people in the parliament, they'll take their top 50 vote getters and put them in.

But the CSU (slightly right) will often create a coalition with both the green and spd (slightly left, but becoming irrelevant) parties. Only when the crazies are there do the parties not work together.
 
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these could have been rouge killers.....


. are there any other kind? :p
 
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Rogue Saudi killers. What's the worst that could happen?
 
Rogue Saudi killers. What's the worst that could happen?

And dump is reportedly going to take their word for it.
Funny how he doesn’t need proof on this. He takes people at their word as long as it’s not a woman, or a democrat, or a scientist , or...
 
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Turkish President says he’s going to reveal all details of the death
 
Turkish President says he’s going to reveal all details of the death

What is intriguing to me is the possibility of Khashoggi's Apple Watch recording his death. Would be interesting to see what data he pushed from his watch before dying, and what data the Apple Watch pushed to his account on it's own.
 
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Turkish President says he’s going to reveal all details of the death

While I think it's obvious that the Saudis did this, I can't help but think this is also a neat political move by Erdogan to kiss up to the US and take some heat off his own human rights and press freedom offenses.
 
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So a video was released showing how the saudis dresses a double in his same clothing to walk out of the embassy.
Sure, not planned at all
 
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You know one thing I am embarrassed about is that until this INF Treaty thing I didn't realize that basically Trump wants to renegotiate everything. Like he's going to get some great deal. From what I hear the new NAFTA isn't much better than the old NAFTA. In fact all they did was do some updates that needing updating anyway. And NAFTA was supposed to be the worst thing in the world.

Also, I imagine Bolton is all over this INF thing. What a disaster to have him in a position of power.
 
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