And the punishment for the severe crime of having a blog is 20 years (in Burma). Blogger Nay Phone Latt was sentenced to more than 20 years in jail for his “illegal Internet activities”.
As you can see from this photo, Nay is looking like anyone else in his mid 20s, he’s a devoted soccer Liverpool [...]
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Burma blogger jailed …
Posted in Asia, tagged Blogger, Burma, freedom of speech, human rights, Myanmar, Nay Phone Latt, Politics on November 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Communism = fun
Posted in Asia, tagged North Korea, Politics on November 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There are three errors in this photography of Kim Jong-Il of North Korea (who is, hopefully, stonedead by now). Find them, and you win a .. something something …
Sweden defeated the Soviet Union
Posted in Asia, Scandinavia, tagged Communism, Hockey, Politics, Soviet Union, Sweden, World Cup 1987 on November 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
… in hockey. In spring 1987, Sweden became World Champions in Hockey for the first time in 25 years. This was something huge back then. Since the Swedish victory in 1962, the Soviet Union had totally dominated world hockey together with the Czech Republic and a short intermission with the US. [...]
War is not the answer II …
Posted in Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Oceanica, Scandinavia, The Middle East, tagged anti-war, FRA, noninterventionism, Patriot Act, Politics, war, war on terror on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I feel that I have to treat last post at greater length. First of all, I am not a pacifist (as Lennon was). I believe that sometimes wars can be justified, but only if we are being attacked ourselves and/or it is in our own interest to take to action. I do not believe it [...]
War is not the answer …
Posted in Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Scandinavia, The Middle East, tagged anti-war, FRA, noninterventionism, Patriot Act, Politics, war, war on terror on November 6, 2008 | 9 Comments »
War is not the answer to free man from the evils in our world. I have come to understand that. I’ve seen and understood the emergence of principles that only give lip service to free-market principles and “limited government” ideas, but whose first priority, for which it is willing to sacrifice anything else, is military [...]
It’s an amazing global world
Posted in Africa, America, Asia, Oceanica, Scandinavia, tagged Capitalism, Globalization, Liberal, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Politics on October 27, 2008 | 44 Comments »
I just think the world is extraordinary. I mean get this – there are two visitors on my page seperated apart by great distances and they have a discussion about their differences and similarities. One is from the States and the other from Australia. They are debating economy and politics on a blog whose owner [...]
Louis CK “Everything’s amazing, nobody’s happy”
Posted in Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Oceanica, Scandinavia, The Middle East, tagged Conan O'Brian, Louis C K, Politics on October 25, 2008 | 31 Comments »
Louis C K was visiting Conan O’Brian some weeks ago talking about that we might need some of the problems with our economy that we have now.
I think he’s on to something here. This is extremely apparent when it comes to Iceland, a country that has turned from being a poor icy rock in the [...]
The wolves in Qom are laughing …
Posted in Asia, tagged Iran, Islam, Politics, Religion on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Islamic Republic of Iran, being under American sanctions, is currently enjoying the economic crisis in the world. When markets in Europe and America are going for a roller coaster Iran is barely untouched by the turmoil. Due to the sanctions Iran has not been infected by the American market disease and is therefore enjoying [...]
Russian rapper to Siberia …
Posted in Asia, tagged rap song, Rapper, Russia, Russian Military, Sibiria on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Russian “rapper” has been sent to the Russian tundra for making a rap song about the lousy living conditions in the Russian army. It’s well worth it to take a look. It’s a pretty sad story …
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/10/02/chance.russia.soldier.rap.cnn
(See the whole song here = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZ5UxTo6H0
#1 Hypocrite
Posted in Asia, Europe on August 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m going to do something now that is not that common for me – I’m going to defend Russia. Or, more exactly, not really defend Russia and the Russian aggression, but this time the west (including my own country and USA) has gone too far. Nowadays we can all read in the news how terrible Russia [...]
The diversity in Caucasus
Posted in Asia, Europe, tagged Caucasus, Diversity, Ethno-Linguistic groups, People, Wikipedia on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is an image that I got from Wikipedia. It’s a map on the Ethno-Linguistic groups in the Caucasus region. Talk about great diversity – and ALL of them wants their own little piece of land which they can put up a flag on and say that it’s theirs. Rather complicated situation.
What about digging down [...]
Gory Gori
Posted in Asia, Europe, tagged 2008 South Ossetian War, Bombing, Georgia, Gori, Russia, Stalin, war on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Russian aircraft dropped bombs on the Georgian town of Gori this Tuesday, injuring several civilians. It’s a little bit ironic actually. The city which gave birth to our time’s probably worst dictator Joseph Stalin is now being bombed to the ground – by Russians.
Now it is reportedly occupied as a consequence of the 2008 South [...]
Sport’s fraternizing the world
Posted in Asia, Europe, tagged China, Natalia Paderina, Nino Salukvadze, Olympics, Peace, war on August 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Meanwhile Russia is using strategic bombers and ballistic missiles against Georgia’s civilians outside of the South Ossetian conflict, Russian and Georgian medalists have shared a podium and an embrace at the Beijing Olympics, calling for peace in the escalating dispute between their two countries. Russia’s Natalia Paderina and Georgia’s Nino Salukvadze took the silver and [...]
Georgia vs. everybody
Posted in Asia, Europe, tagged Abkhazia, Georgia, Russia, South Ossetia, Soviet, Tbilisi, war on August 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The tiny country Georgia is at war with everyone. The tinier “neighbors”/self-governed Georgian territories South Ossetia and Abkhazia have, together with Russian troops, kicked out the Georgians for good. This conflict sure is an excellent example on how complicated international conflicts can be at times. I mean, I support Georgia and I don’t believe for [...]
China is blocking me !!!
Posted in Asia, tagged blocking, blogging, China, Chinease democracy, democracy, dns_unresolved_hostname, freedom of speech on August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With Beijing 2008 finally at hand, China’s Tibetan occupation remains Hollywood’s cause célèbre. And why wouldn’t it be? Which other oppressed minority has the Beastie Boys, Michael Stipe, and Richard Gere as spokespeople, and has a spiritual leader who’s achieved pop star status (Dalai Lama).
Funniest thing in the world though, China has blocked bloggers from [...]
Under construction
Posted in Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Scandinavia, The Middle East, tagged blogging, Newbie on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As you might have seen “Pro Libertate Nostra” is under construction. I’m still a newbie to this so I’m learning the best I can but it is still hard to get certain things. Like how can I get more people to my blog, what is a tag, what design looks best etc. A lot to [...]
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Posted in Asia on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is dead. As the leader of the Swedish Nobel Academy Horace Engdahl said one of the most magnificent trees in the forest has finally fallen. Solzhenitsyn made himself famous with his harsh criticism against his mother Russia (back then the Soviet Union) and thanks to his work we now know of most atrocities [...]
The worst thing about censorship is ***********
Posted in Asia, Europe, Scandinavia on June 9, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’ve always been against censorship. When I was young I remember I reacted strongly against the Swedish school I attended for censoring the “sex”- scenes in Braveheart only because we had some hardcore religious people in our class. Not that I necessarily WANTED to see Mel Gibson do that girl in some enchanted Gaelic forest [...]
One more terrorist down!! Farc is on the run …
Posted in America, Asia, Scandinavia, The Middle East on May 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Happy news folks! The terrorist leader Marulanda might be dead. A national news magazine had earlier reported the death of Manuel “Sureshot” Marulanda on 26 March, citing the defense minister, Juan Manuel Santos. Santos said reports from guerrillas suggested Mr Marulanda died of a heart attack, although he also told the Semana news magazine that [...]
May 1st?
Posted in Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Oceanica, Scandinavia, The Middle East on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I pity the fool … who is attending the communist circus on May 1st. =)
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