Category: Freedom
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Fuck the juridical system! U-S-A !!!
Arrersting without telling his rights. Senators asking for trial under the "military law" so that he does not even have rights (why waste money on Guantanamo if we are not using it?). Authorities already suspecting "Russian training". And of course, everything done over an American citizen who is accidentally injured to the throat and tongue…
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Prudery: Can it be taught?
Iran news media, "dressed up" Michelle Obama in the Oscars ceremony. [1] Her dress was too much for them to show to their viewers. Without referring to the case of Michelle (I do not think her dress was all that provocative that such a move from the Iranian media was needed), these is a real…
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Hyperbolic discounting, extensive margin, rebalancing, New Thought. Or... how economic jargon reshapes Society
Competitiveness, debt hair cuts, rebalancing, debt ceiling, zombie banks, deleveraging, automatic stabalizers, extensive margin, hyperbolic discounting (1, 2), Oops (3), price caps, minimum wage... Economic jargon is something more than just a set of weird words used by weird economy people. They are a tool of re-defining society. As Orwell very intuitively put it in…
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Evolution of Human Rights. (but whose?)
Once upon a time we had slavery. Once upon a time we had this... And this: And this: But then some people decided this was all too much... Why have slaves and have the obligation to shelter them and feed them? Doesn't anyone think of their poor master who lives in wealth while he can…
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Saudi Arabia, Shura Council, judging...
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has appointed 30 women to the previously all-male consultative Shura Council. [1] In the beginning I was ready to laugh at this news. Maybe write a provocative post to mock it too. But then it came to me. Who am I to judge another culture? Who am I to laugh at…
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