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What is the difference between the Chancellor and the President of Germany?
As you know, Germany has both a Chancellor and a President. While the Chancellor's appearances in international stages and media seem to be huge, not many foreign media talk about the German President.
What are basic functions of the President and…
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Is there a feasible route by which UK housing can be made more affordable without devastating the housebuilding sector and its employees?
This question is prompted by a comment on the radio today, in which it was stated that house prices in the UK are about 10x average earnings (compared to the historically safe ratio for a mortgage of about 4x), and that this is why there is a…
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What method can be used to estimate the likelihood of a civil war?
I've noticed increasing talk of civil war in the UK since the referendum:
"Brexit tensions could lead to 'blood on the streets' as part of 'CIVIL WAR', warns peer" —…
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Has the Korean War actually ended?
Charles Armstrong on 26 May 2010 stated that:
The Korean War began 60 years ago on June 25, 1950, and it still
hasn't ended.
Fighting on the Korean Peninsula may have stopped with a cease-fire in July 1953, but North and South Korea have…
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How much is Catalonia complying with Madrid?
It's very easy to look at the situation from the outside, declare the Catalan independence declaration illegal and say "that's that". However, inside Catalonia, the declaration was very popular amongst a significant portion of the population.
In…
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What is Antifa?
I've seen a lot of people across the political spectrum mention this thing called "Antifa" by name, usually to criticize it, and present it as the "other equally bad side" in the eternal left vs right debate.
But what is Antifa?
Googling it…
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What actions against pirates are legal for private ships?
I've watched the film The Trouble with Pirates [IMDb] and the one thing that is most surprising to me is that those captured ships offered no resistance and were virtually defenseless. The pirate ships are small boats that would be easily sunk with…
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Can the POTUS perform a mass-pardon for those who meet certain criteria?
Let's say a POTUS wanted to legalise weed, and after doing so wanted to then free all the prisoners he could who's only crime was using/having weed, being otherwise innocent.
To do this, could the POTUS perform a kind of mass-pardon for all the…
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Is Le Pen ideologically a French equivalent of Trump?
I've heard some say that Marine Le Pen was like Trump and by voting against her the French have put the brakes on Trump-like populism.
What are the political similarities between Le Pen and Trump?
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On what basis is Theresa May triggering Article 50 (Brexit) if the Supreme Court said she couldn't?
Just today (March 21st 2017), the news came out around the web that Theresa May will trigger Article 50 (Brexit) on March 29th:
The UK will begin official divorce proceedings with the European Union on March 29, prime minister Theresa May's…
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Why can't laws be shorter?
The Constitution of United States and the amendments contains 7,591 words. Assuming it was typed out in a normal font and size that's about 27 pages (275 words a page). The Constitution creates a government with three branches of government and it…
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Has the FairTax ever been implemented anywhere on any scale?
The FairTax is really a set of proposals through which all federal taxes are eliminated and a federal sales tax is implemented. In addition to this, a prebate is given based on the poverty level so that in effect no one pays sales taxes on basic…
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Could the British government un-trigger Article 50?
At some point, probably early in 2017, the British Prime Minster is likely to trigger Article 50. A number of expert commentators and a large proportion of the British public still believe that it is a mistake for the UK to leave the EU. If it…
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When, how and why did the stars in the logo of the Republican Party get turned upside down?
Note: I'm not making any claims here, I'm simply asking for the story behind the logo change.
Here is the current logo of the US Republican Party:
The stars used to point upwards, like this:
This may seem like an insignificant thing, and I suppose…
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Is Donald Trump officially the Republican nominee [as of May 7th]?
Googling the phrase 2016 primaries indicates that Donald Trump is the "likely Republican presidential nominee" (emphasis mine).
While Donald Trump needs 1237 delegates to secure the nomination, he currently only has 1013. However, all of his…
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