tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61668712011-11-28T01:24:01.281+01:00Tinethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442329710467703684noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166871.post-65341741236870842662008-09-26T00:51:00.002+02:002008-09-26T00:54:00.088+02:00

Middle class people don’t like talking about class, as I’ve noticed. Maybe because the middle class is often so large that you can easily choose to dismiss the lower and upper classes as “exceptions”.Even I, who have been (in a slightly naïve way, I should say) making a big effort to display solidarity with the lower classes, recently realised that I had been very self-righteous about it.My mum

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Some stupid Finnish-language newspaper that mum reads on the net had published a list of "10 Reasons You Aren't Rich", taken from the US economy magazine The Street.Mum isn't rich, so she read it out aloud and tried to see if it applied to her. But it occurred to us that this list wasn't about people who are actually poor, but about people who have a high income and pretty good jobs, but squander

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Apparently the proceedings in the Gaza Strip were planned long since. The EU and USA, unhappy with "terrorist"-labelled Hamas being elected into parliament, not only kept denying the Hamas government fundings and diplomatic support to make it "fail" in the eyes of voters, but also pressured Fatah to take action and overthrow the government.Reuters AlertNet reports the following:Edward Abington,

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Sometimes, when I for some reason need to remind myself of the ignorance of this world, I read the comments at englishrussia.com.This time I came across someone expressing genuine wonder at the fact that Ramzan Kadyrov (and many other Chechens) are "white", but still Muslim. Well, this guy, as opposed to all too many of the other commentators over there, didn't seem to be ignorant in a bad way,

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I belong to the people who have learned to instinctively ignore any ads on the Internet. I remember a lecture in marketing where my teacher, in his 50's or 60's, spoke about the great advertising possibilities in search engines: "People search for a certain term, and look! Here are some results!" He pointed at the "Sponsored Links" in a screenshot of Google.I blurted out, "But they're ads ...!",

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As I was researching an entry about Henrik Vibskov's piggy scarves, I came across material that suggests that keffiyehs "have been increasingly associated with neo-nazis in Germany since the late 1990's". Uhh, WTF??Is it the "anti-Zionist" (= "anti-Jewish", according to false logic) connotations of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle? Or is it an attempt to adopt/destroy yet another youth

Tinethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442329710467703684noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166871.post-1160938804838798212006-10-15T18:33:00.001+02:002008-07-03T16:20:27.632+02:00

In Pravda.ru, October 9th, Nikolai Nevsky presents the theory that those who ordered the assassination of journalist Anna Politkovskaya were neither Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov nor the current Russian administration.(It should perhaps be noted that PRAVDA On-line is an internet publication whose only affiliation with the conservative/populist/Communist paper Pravda is that the staff of

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I believe that you, as opposed to your president, cannot be too simpleminded to not understand what the truth is. But you are concealing and distorting the truth.You spoke today of the terrible deeds of the HisbAllah fighters, who are firing Katyusha rockets into Israeli territory, reaching cities as relatively far into the country as Haifa. At least 34 Israelis have been killed, half of them

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I'm a big fan of the anime series Full Metal Alchemist, and an even bigger fan of the manga by Arakawa Hiromu that the anime is based on. Thus, it was with great excitement that I started to watch the recently made movie, which is basically a sequel to the anime. However, my expectations were not quite met.The film begins as the two alchemist brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric have been separated

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"Many independent monitors have stated that it has almost definitely been rigged", I wrote about the elections in Ukraine back in November last year. But - rigged by whom, how, and to what extent?Today I happened to read an article by Johannes Wahlström about the same topic. After a few paragraphs, I even stopped noticing the frequent mistypings and, not least, comma mistakes, because the things

Tinethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442329710467703684noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166871.post-1085768226877726272004-05-28T20:15:00.002+02:002008-07-03T16:25:39.242+02:00

In the West, heroin is bought in powder form, and the user melts it down himself and shoots it up with his own needle. In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, however, it's usually the dealer who melts down the powder, and the heroin shot is sold directly from the needle - the same needle that all other customers use. In the moment when you badly need a fix, you probably don't really reflect on who

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Today, at a magazine to which I occasionally contribute with illustrations and articles, I proofread an article about Judaism's halakha laws regarding sexuality.The author was refreshingly positive in her views of the nidda laws that force a couple to stay physically apart during the woman's menstruation and seven days after it. Not that I don't think the nidda laws are despicable, but it's rare

Tinethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442329710467703684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166871.post-1070566682121488052003-12-04T20:38:00.002+01:002008-07-03T16:32:11.692+02:00

Okay, now everyone who has ever wanted to accuse me of ‘anti-Semitism’ will finally be able to think that they have sturdy evidence for that.But what the hell. One of the advantages of writing in a blog is, after all, that no one ever reads what you’ve written ...So, what’s the fuss all about?Well, a long while ago, I bought some clothes from the worker’s rights abusing company H&M by mail order.

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Today, September 14th, is the referendum on whether Sweden should join the European Monetary Union.The government’s problem is, that they’ve already promised the EMU that Sweden will join, and they’ve already taken several steps towards that goal. Still, much to their dismay, leftist forces and other “no”-leaning activists pressed for a popular vote on the matter, instead of letting the same

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In my Russian class, we are currently writing a short essay within the subject of ’words’ – the way they are built or formed, or how they have evolved through time. Possible subjects include “Expressive (‘diminutive’) nouns”, “Prefigal derivations of the verb быть”, ”The relation of the adjectives хороший and добрый”, and ”Differences and similarities of the two different words for freedom –

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