dictator
a ruler who is unconstrained by law; a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner -- vocabulary.com.
World Politics
Leaders of the countries of the world and global issues.
Bashar al-Assad
Syrian politician and military officer who served as the 19th president of Syria from 2000 until his government was overthrown in 2024 -- wikipedia.
Abu Mohammad al-Julani
Request: Leader [of] the rebel group that took power in Syria. He tries to look more moderate. Is he a improvement on Assad? Or just another dictator?
2024 Romanian presidential candidates
Presidential elections were held in Romania on 24 November 2024. A second round will be held on 8 December 2024, as no candidate achieved an absolute majority in the first round -- wikipedia. Călin Georgescu and Elena Lasconi are the remaining candidates.
ICC arrest warrant for Israel's Netanyahu
Alleging war crimes, International Criminal Court judges issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant last week -- BBC.
globalism
"treating the whole world as a proper sphere for political influence" -- Merriam-Webster.
Vicente Fox
Request: a Mexican businessman and politician who was president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. Was said to be calibrating around 560 in one of Doc’s early 2002 lectures.
pacifist
Priority request: A pacifist rejects war and believes there are no moral grounds which can justify resorting to war. War, for the pacifist, is always wrong. In a sense the philosophy is based on the idea that the ends do not justify the means. The word pacific denotes conciliatory -- wikipedia.
T/F: WWIII has already begun (November 2024 update)
Calibrations dating back to August 2022.
T/F: Russia plans to invade Poland
37 million Poles want to know.
T/F: Russia intends to invade Europe
Request: World War 3 [?]
European Union Parliament
"The Members of the European Parliament are directly elected by voters in all Member States to represent people’s interests with regard to EU law-making and to make sure other EU institutions are working democratically."
lethal injection (justice system)
Request: a comprehensive action greater than 200 in intention?
communism
"political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society" -- britannica.com.
free speech in 2024
"Notable is that the calibration of current ‘free speech’ [2008] in the United States is at level 180, whereas free speech during the World War II era calibrates at 255" – RS&MM, chapter 6.