Category: Modern Civilization
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Oxfam, expensive charity, useless drugs, truths, lies...
The charity Oxfam has cast doubt on an international scheme that aims to boost the provision of the most effective treatment for malaria. The UK government has contributed £70m to the Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria (AMFm). Oxfam says there is no evidence the programme has saved the lives of the most vulnerable people. The…
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"Manifest Destiny", wrong values, correct mottos...
Clothing giant Gap has pulled a controversial T-shirt off its warehouse shelves after outraged consumers lashed out via social media. The simple, dark-blue T-shirt with "MANIFEST DESTINY" printed on it in stark white letters was part of the "Gap x GQ" collection, a joint effort between Gap and GQ Magazine to showcase America's best new designers. [1] The term which caused…
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Atheistic France (again) as a proponent of Free Speech. Thank God!
France is once more in the front line of defending the right of Free Speech. French magazine Charlie Hebdo published satirical sketches of the prophet Mohamed, while at the same time the French administration has prohibited a protests against the recent US film which "insults" Muhammad [1]. Of course this had as a result the…
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Why we need more bullfights!
Our sterilized misguided society cannot stand what is real. Animal activists cry against bullfights. They torture the animals, they claim. But has anyone seen the terrible conditions under which the animals we eat everyday are kept and then slaughtered? Isn’t that “torture”? Todays people really believe that their food grows into the form of chicken…
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The Light Bulb Conspiracy (or Planned Obsolescence)...
The light bulb burned out. Again. You must be really bored to go and change it. But if you knew what lies behind a light bulb burning out, you may be more irritated and angry... Behind every bulb that burns out lies hidden the Light Bulb Conspiracy. No it is not a joke or part…
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