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Bots Unite to Automate the Presidential Election | WIRED

Thu 19/05/2016

Donald Trump understands minority communities. Just ask Pepe Luis Lopez. He’s one of Trump’s 7 million Twitter followers. One problem: he’s not a person. Source: Bots Unite to Automate the Presidential Election | WIRED

WHO’s Fairy Dust Financing|FP

Fri 27/05/2016

Laurie Garrett on the funding or, more correctly, underfunding of the key UN agency WHO (World Health Organization), which is supposed to look after global health issues – with grossly inadequate funding. With the world [...]

Boris Johnson met ‘London professor’ linked to FBI’s Russia investigation | Politics | The Guardian

Sat 11/11/2017

Fresh questions as photograph emerges of Joseph Mifsud and foreign secretary at Brexit dinner Source: Boris Johnson met ‘London professor’ linked to FBI’s Russia investigation | Politics | The Guardian

Economist: Bonuses redux Contra cap

Tue 05/03/2013

The Economist’s Schumpeter says that the British government and the EU should not cap bankers’ bonuses: http://www.economist.com/node/21573008 It’s not about flexibility and bankers’ bonuses: it’s about organizations and people who hold the whole economy hostage and [...]

When Stalin Faced Hitler | Foreign Affairs

Fri 27/10/2017

Stephen Kotkin tells the story of the fateful night in 1941 when, after years of mutual nonaggression, Germany finally attacked the Soviet Union. Source: When Stalin Faced Hitler | Foreign Affairs

Mario Vargas Llosa: Las guerras del fin del mundo

Sun 11/01/2015

Going back over Peruvian writer’s, Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa opinion piece in El Pais in Sept 2014 about democracy under attack from the new barbarians, I noticed that, unfortunately, he was being excessively [...]

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Putin’s dangerous chess game: Ukraine, Europe and the West under attack – ELfR

Russian Propaganda and disinformation with Dietmar Pichler – ELfR

Nuclear and renewable energies: Discussion – Panel European Liberals for Reform

Get the Children Out! Forgotten Heroes of the Kindertransport – European Liberals for Reform Webinar

Metropa The European Supermetro Network Vision to Become Reality? ELfR webinar

Prospects for change in Russia & Europe’s role in Russia’s political transformation – ELfR

30th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union

Prospects for change in Russia & Europe’s role in Russia’s political transformation: European Liberals for Reform Webinar

European Culture: Aranjuez

The Daily Miracle

Will Russia attack Ukraine? “There are no rational arguments, but Russia is not rational”

Polish parliament targets TVN with media law

Human Rights day 2021

I bet you’ve never heard about the U3A?

Modelling and simulation based on examples from transportation and health care” with Paweł Kołodziejczyk – ELfR event

Prospects for change in Russia & Europe’s role in Russia’s political transformation – ELfR webinar

Disinformation and Media Literacy – ELfR panel discussion

How can we prevent future pandemics? – ELfR webinar on 07 December 2021

Human Trafficking by Geoff Corre

World TV day 2021

Bots Unite to Automate the Presidential Election | WIRED