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http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/2012fraud.asp

Even one county with 100% votes for Obama is a sign of fraud.

You are hooked on simple journalistic reporting mistake and this hook does not do good for you reasoning.

To be clear, I think that Western people through all their hiatory enjoed a wast energy surplus. There were reports by early US settlers about buffalo herds that was to ride around in a day! The same is true for Europe.

This means where westerners can get away with some freedom, russians have to be very tight in their energy budget. For China it is about same - small group rules huge and diverse population and has to schedule resources mindfully. The situation hasn't changed since forever.

If you want to help Russia and/or China, open your IP to them. Take profits from not-energy-constrained West, help energy constrained East.



By `energy', do you mean the same thing physicists mean?

If yes, Russia has lots of oil, and China (and anyone else) can just build nuclear power plants. Problem solved.


Yes, the same thing.

Sun energy in heat form is accesible for everyone. Oil require substantial investment.

Also keep in mind that all this is historical and that even replacing all people in bureacratic machine will make the dame machine to rwappear. E.g., government of energy/resource constrained country will be prwtty much same as previous. Orherwise many people will die.

If you can evict a person to streets at SF, you cannot do so anywhere in Russia. Rhere's not enough sun light. In China it is the same, except evicted person cannot use land, it is occupied.

As a russian/chinese government official you have to behave differently. You either will punish strongly to prevent bad behavioe, or you will prevent bad behaviour by other means.

And remember, if by some magic you made into chinese govt, you will start to behave more or less same as as current one. Just because gpvt reproduce themselves in same circumstances and for same goals.


We had very different governments in Germany in the last 200 years (Kleinstaaterei, Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazis, Communists, Social Democracy). Conditions didn't change that much in the last 100 years.




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