It is indeed difficult to paint a comprehensive picture of today’s Russia and not to drown in the accusations of russophobia or pro-Russian propaganda. Although I tend to take the more realistic view of the nominal democracy currently on offer (that is, it could be much worse if moderate Putin were to be deposed by […]
Accused Toronto attacker’s allegiance to a Muslim group ‘Al-Qaeda’
A parable on how media reports on ‘incels’.
THE accused Toronto killer posted a cryptic message to Facebook about his allegiance to a group for men who are Muslims prior to allegedly mowing down hordes of people in Canada’s most populous city.
Ten pedestrians were killed and 16 others injured when a man driving a white rented van sped along busy Yonge St and up onto the footpath for about 1km in the centre of Toronto at around 1.30pm on Monday.
One witness told CityNews that the driver was “hitting anything that comes in the way”.
Continue reading “Accused Toronto attacker’s allegiance to a Muslim group ‘Al-Qaeda’”How black men react to rejection
REJECTED by HR managers, Roger Eliott turned his rage into a spree that stunned New York.
OCTOBER 27, 1915
ROGER Eliott was a 22-year-old black man when he made a deeply disturbing speech to “exact retribution” against hiring professionals for rejecting him.
He was upset, he said, because managers continued to reject him summarily despite his belief that he indeed had the talent to ascend higher and become one of them.
Continue reading “How black men react to rejection”Do passports restrict economic growth?
This is an abridged version of a great BBC article ‘Do passports restrict economic growth?‘, also available as a podcast, with just a few notes of my own (I will write a longer post on it later) for those of my friends/readers who are short on time.
“What would we English say if we could not go from London to the Crystal Palace or from Manchester to Stockport without a passport or police officer at our heels? Depend upon it, we are not half enough grateful to God for our national privileges.” So wrote an English publisher named John Gadsby, travelling through Europe in the mid-19th Century.
For most of history, passports were neither so ubiquitous nor so routine.
Continue reading “Do passports restrict economic growth?”The terrourists from Iran
This piece of news caught my interest recently:
And I got a copy off BBC so I know it’s not a ‘foax’.
So if this passes the Senate into a law, I won’t be able to enter the US without a visa (as a tourist)?
Continue reading “The terrourists from Iran”Slovakia to colonize Hungary by 2020
Thursday, 11 March 2010, TASR
ŽILINA: Slovakia plans to set up a colony in the south of Hungary around 2020 as a base for further exploitation of their southern neighbor, SNS announced on Wednesday.
The project, which would send a tank to Budapest for the first time since Slota’s prophecy in 1997, is designed as a long-term joint effort of current Slovakia’s coalition government, said SNS, a Slovak parliamentary party.
SNS also plans to set up a base in the Hungary’s south that, after construction is completed, could serve as a forward base for slovakization missions to Hungary.
Slovak president Ivan Gašparovič declared in 2004 a vision of sending an exploitative mission to the southern neighbor.
The Slovak Nationalistic Party said in a statement that it had focused its Global Exploitation Strategy, first outlined in March, on two issues: “Why we are going to occupy Hungary” and “What we plan to do when we get there”.
SNS said it had pulled together detailed answers to those questions by polling more than 1,000 experts, from 13 different inns, taverns, bars, alehouses and pubs including those of Paštiná Závadka, Horný Vadičov, Nesluša and Kotrčiná Lúčka.
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