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“The emperor only values his throne and will do anything to protect it, while all others are mere resources to be exploited,” writes Aleksandar Đokić, a Serbian political scientist and former lecturer at RUDN University in Moscow. “In other words, the Russian empire is knowingly throwing its own people, people of its own...
Berezikov's lawyers believe that their client was tortured at the police station during the several hours that she was looking for him. She managed to take a photo of Berezikov’s back in the courthouse: the lawyer believes there were stun gun bruises on it. “He told me in the courthouse: I won’t make it to 15 June. I’m...
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For a month the two men could not tell their psychologist what had happened to them, only that it was horrible beyond words. “If there’s hell somewhere, it’s worse than that,” said one....
This book and also Brave New World should be on every school curriculum.
Instead of the classic hat-throwing, flower-holding, and joyful smiles, Chinese students opted for defeated poses (with many literally just ‘laying flat’), apocalyptic backgrounds, or purely sarcastic shots where they are seen throwing their graduation thesis....
Yikes. There is quite a pattern developing in the religious right, in the US at least. We are turning back the clock folks.
Unironically, tariffs would help here IMO to bring Ukrainian exports to the price levels set by EU wages....
With many states and smaller local governments in the U.S. banning or attempting to ban books, Illinois' state government is doing the opposite, penalizing book bans by withdrawing funding from libraries that restrict or remove books due to "partisan or doctrinal" disapproval.
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Bluetooth, AirDrop and such file-sharing services are crucial tools in China, where the so-called Great Firewall has resulted in one of the mostly tightly-controlled internet regimes. In recent years, anti-government protesters have often turned to AirDrop to organise and share their political demands. For instance, some...
A D.C. judge has ruled that a man who smokes medical marijuana in his apartment must stop after a neighbor complained that the odor from his marijuana crept into her home and caused a nuisance.
It’s not news but I didn’t really find a place for it.
A heavily edited video commenting on US pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer’s research on the COVID vaccine produced by Project Veritas, a controversial far-right media outlet that spreads conspiracy theories, has gone viral in mainland China with additional claims that the COVID-19 virus was mutated and spread by Pfizer....
