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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

GDP of only just over Italy’s that’s trying to maintain

In some ways, indeed, Russia far outstrips America; not only does the US at present rely on Russia for its entire manned space-launch capability, but even a good portion of its own unmanned launch capability — namely, that provided by Orbital Science’s Antares rocket — is powered by Russian-made engines (antique ones, at that).

Truth will always come to light... Words; dedicated to the families of the victims- Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 Day in and day out with the light of the sun - Night after night with the light of the moon; Piece by piece, we will come closer to the truth.

On July 17, Putin’s troops shot down a civilian plane, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17, bound from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, over southeastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. He insisted Russia had nothing to do with it. “Of course not!” he said indignantly. To counter the harsh facts, the Kremlin put a conspiracy theory out on the internet. “I saw people claiming the CIA had put dead bodies inside a plane and purposely shot it down to create propaganda against the Russian government,” said Sri Preston Kulkarni, the campaign director for the Ukraine Communications Task Force. “People were repeating that story again and again.… And I realized we had gone through the looking glass at that point and that if people could believe that, they could believe almost anything.” It took more than three years before the Dutch and Australian governments published an official report holding Russia responsible for shooting down the aircraft.

when Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing in March 2014, the media’s thinking was somewhat less grounded in plausibility. CNN’s Don Lemon asked whether a black hole could have been responsible.

The prime minister was provoked by what he considered to be unfriendly or inept coverage, or both, over many months. He concluded that the editors had lost control of the newsroom. . .What was probably the last straw for him was coverage of Israeli president Chaim Herzog's visit. When the Foreign Ministry announced the visit, fury flared across the Causeway. The Malaysian prime minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, recalled his high commissioner to Singapore and demanded the visit be cancelled. For Singapore to do so after the visit was announced would inflict serious damage on its sovereignty. Demonstrations erupted in many parts of Malaysia, and at the Malaysian end of the Causeway more than 100 demonstrators tried to stop a Singapore-bound train. Singapore flags were burnt. There were threats to cut off the water supply from Johor. Malaysia saw the visit as an insult. It did not recognise Israel, and had expected Singapore to be sensitive to its feelings. Singapore, however, could not refuse the Israeli request for its head of state to make a stopover visit in Singapore, the tail end of his three-week tour of Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the Philippines, the first visit to this part of the world by an Israeli leader. Singapore could hardly forget the crucial assistance Israel had provided the Singapore Armed Forces in the early days of independence, when other friendly countries like Egypt and India had declined to help. What angered Lee Kuan Yew was our coverage of the Malaysian reactions to the visit. He felt it was grossly inadequate. . .Coverage in the Malaysian English press was restrained, but in their Malay press, Singapore was condemned in inflammatory language, and accused of being Israel's Trojan horse in Southeast Asia. A threat to target Singapore Airlines was prominently reported. . .And by depriving Singaporeans of the full flavour of what the Malaysian Malay media was reporting, an opportunity was lost to educate them about the harsh reality of life in the region, with two large Muslim-majority neighbours.

2. El aumento de la ignorancia en la web Así como la gente no puede diferenciar a una persona de un perro en internet, así tampoco sabe discernir siempre la verdad. Los teóricos de las conspiraciones popularizan sus opiniones infundadas en cuestión de día y aun de horas,390 como hemos visto hace poco con el accidente del vuelo MH370 de la compañía Malaysia Airlines. Pensemos que tres de cada diez estadounidenses creen hoy que los seres humanos han existido desde el principio de los tiempos.391 Y pese a la aplastante evidencia científica de que las emisiones de carbono amenazan la vida en la Tierra, aquellos que tienen intereses a corto plazo han denigrado eficazmente la ciencia e impedido un debate inteligente, y no digamos planes de acción. Las personas que usan la red para promover la ignorancia y el negacionismo están ganándoles la batalla a los científicos y racionalistas. Países represivos como Irán y Corea del Norte están creando versiones privadas y restringidas de internet para sus ciudadanos, con lo que convierten la web en una herramienta aún más poderosa para hacer que la ideología triunfe sobre el racionalismo.