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a brilliant strategy
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And some good news
Some heartening actions and developments signal that the idea of human rights that include women's rights has not been cancelled by ultra-orthodox misogyny in Israel ( Read more... ) -
Unbelievable --
but the source is (apparently) an Israeli pro-human-rights group (including knesset members), so it's worth at least considering -- and very disturbing:
http://youtu.be/nITLob098W8
What the Hell? The slow, agonizing train-wreck continues . . .
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Now we know
"Why Nations Fail". But anybody with half a brain knew already. What we (or I, at any rate) *didn't* know was that our economists have been so f**king brainwashed about being "objective" instead of analyzing the truth of what's always been in front of their noses that they've been advising TPTB based on abstract models with politics carefully ( Read more... ) -
"blue chip" nations?
NPR reporters analyzed the announcement today that Apple will be making their first ever distribution of dividends to stockholders this way: Apple has amassed a huge pile of profit, and stockholders have been bugging management to send some of it to loyal supporters. Apple is throwing them a stringy little bone to shut them up, because Apple is in ( Read more... ) -
Inventive Greeks
Here's how Greek citizens are coping with falling employment, wages, and services ( Read more... ) -
Why I loath religion
Something new: a "price tag" enforced by West Bank "settlers" against nearby Palestinians as a way of punishing everyone for any efforts by the Israeli government to restrict or shrink back illegal outposts on stolen land ( Read more... ) -
Here comes Brazil --
This is a surprise, though less of one if you've ever read Olaf Stapeldon (sp ( Read more... ) -
Ah, the French . . .
Better late than never ( Read more... ) -
Dreams may come -- what then?
Chasing dreams with sophisticated electronic brain mapping ( Read more... )