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How the Shutdown Is Devastating Biomedical Scientists and Killing Their Research

10 points by stollercyrus 13y ago

memracom 13y ago
This may be the nail in the coffin for the American empire. While the USA is destroying science, and trust in government, other powerful countries are boosting science and slowly improving trust in government. I refer to Russia and China, but the same could be said of the other two BRIC countries as well. Russia is likely to win in the end, and be the dominant global power of the 21st century because it controls a vast treasure trove of natural resources including lots of unused land held in reserve. And the Russian climate will improve as the agricultural zone creeps north year by year. China is in good shape now, but the twin spectres of ecological catastrophe, and economic crisis will likely weaken it in coming years. Russia is careful to not improve its economy too fast, and has already reaped the benefits when the 2008 economic crisis affected it lightly enough that people there see a steady improvement in their lives for the past 14 years. This long slow game is what will win it for them, while the USA lurches from crisis to crisis, turning ever more inward and weaker.
- pcardh0 13y ago
  Russia does not have a replacement fertility rate. How is Russia going to "win" if the population is dying off.
- memracom 13y ago
  Canada can help them with a solution. It's called "immigration". Oh, wait, just two days ago President Putin made a comment in a meeting of the United Russia party that Russia does not need any more salespeople to work in market stalls (a common profession of illegal immigrants in Russia) but that Russia does need more immigrant construction workers. So I think they probably have already picked up on Canada's solution. Note that Russia already has over 140 million population. That is the population that the USA had in about 1945. Too many people can be a burden which is why India and China have so many socioeconomic problems. It's funny how so many Americans think of Russia as the old Communist enemy, but it really isn't. In fact, the Soviet Union was never much of an enemy to the USA. It was all a fabrication of America's military industrial complex. But now, today, in the 21st century, Russia is a SERIOUS threat to the USA. Russia will dominate the USA by the end of this century unless America stops trying to repeat the actions of the past. Times have changed and America needs radical, even revolutionary shifts in attitudes and behavior if the USA does not want to be subjugated. Military type actions are absolutely the wrong way to solve this problem, and are a leading cause of the fading of America's image in the world. I count NSA spying as one of those military type actions. The world of James Bond was in its heyday at the dawn of the 20th century before the |First World War, and by the 1960's it was in severe decline. The solutions of the first 60 years of the 20th century will no longer work to strengthen the American empire.

10 points by stollercyrus 13y ago

This may be the nail in the coffin for the American empire. While the USA is destroying science, and trust in government, other powerful countries are boosting science and slowly improving trust in government. I refer to Russia and China, but the same could be said of the other two BRIC countries as well. Russia is likely to win in the end, and be the dominant global power of the 21st century because it controls a vast treasure trove of natural resources including lots of unused land held in reserve. And the Russian climate will improve as the agricultural zone creeps north year by year. China is in good shape now, but the twin spectres of ecological catastrophe, and economic crisis will likely weaken it in coming years. Russia is careful to not improve its economy too fast, and has already reaped the benefits when the 2008 economic crisis affected it lightly enough that people there see a steady improvement in their lives for the past 14 years. This long slow game is what will win it for them, while the USA lurches from crisis to crisis, turning ever more inward and weaker.

pcardh0 13y ago
Russia does not have a replacement fertility rate. How is Russia going to "win" if the population is dying off.
memracom 13y ago
Canada can help them with a solution. It's called "immigration". Oh, wait, just two days ago President Putin made a comment in a meeting of the United Russia party that Russia does not need any more salespeople to work in market stalls (a common profession of illegal immigrants in Russia) but that Russia does need more immigrant construction workers. So I think they probably have already picked up on Canada's solution. Note that Russia already has over 140 million population. That is the population that the USA had in about 1945. Too many people can be a burden which is why India and China have so many socioeconomic problems. It's funny how so many Americans think of Russia as the old Communist enemy, but it really isn't. In fact, the Soviet Union was never much of an enemy to the USA. It was all a fabrication of America's military industrial complex. But now, today, in the 21st century, Russia is a SERIOUS threat to the USA. Russia will dominate the USA by the end of this century unless America stops trying to repeat the actions of the past. Times have changed and America needs radical, even revolutionary shifts in attitudes and behavior if the USA does not want to be subjugated. Military type actions are absolutely the wrong way to solve this problem, and are a leading cause of the fading of America's image in the world. I count NSA spying as one of those military type actions. The world of James Bond was in its heyday at the dawn of the 20th century before the |First World War, and by the 1960's it was in severe decline. The solutions of the first 60 years of the 20th century will no longer work to strengthen the American empire.