Category: State
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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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Torture, CIA & Art serving evil...
Congress will investigate if CIA has given unauthorized access to classified material to the creators of the film Zero Dark Thirty, concerning torture practices used to extract information. (1) Genuine art is rare. Most of the times, art serves the ones in power. And once more, films of Holywood try to make us used to…
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Depardieu, France, taxes, successful governments...
Gérard Depardieu has said he is handing back his French passport and social security card, lambasting the French government for punishing "success, creation, talent" in his homeland. A popular and colourful figure in France, the 63-year-old actor is the latest wealthy Frenchman to seek shelter outside his native country by buying a house just over…
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