With the financial crisis in the world, causing a real debacle in Iceland and eastern Europe, liberals should now be honest and scrutinize their support for these countries. A leopard never changes its spots, or will at least have a rough time to do so. Iceland was until the liberalization era starting in 1991 an [...]
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Latvia wrestles with freedom of speech
Posted in Europe, Scandinavia, tagged Economics, Estonia, freedom of speech, Iceland, Politics, Sweden, the financial crisis on December 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »
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 [...]
Geysergate
Posted in Europe, Scandinavia, tagged Alistair Darling, financial crisis, Politics on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The tale of the mystery letter …
Did Alistair Darling read this letter?
If he did not – why did he lie about it? What reasons did he have?
Icelanders are NOT terrorists
Posted in Europe, Scandinavia, tagged Alistair Darling, financial crisis, Geir Haarde, Gordon Brown, Iceland, Politics on October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m back in Oslo. Apart from being extremely tired (my plane left Keflavik at 7.45 am GMT) I’m also sad for leaving the island. It’s a neat place with nice and friendly people. The country is extraordinary in its shape and the nature one of a kind. Although they have some problems at the moment, [...]
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 [...]
Protectionism or Free Trade?
Posted in America, Europe, tagged Free Trade, protectionism, the economic crisis on October 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I couldn’t resist to add this to my blog. I answered a comment made by Elizabeth from the PurpleStates who asked me if not local government (i.e. local production/consumption/trade etc.) would be the answer to save us from the domino effect that is caused by the fact that we live in a globalized world. Well, here [...]
The circles on the water surface are spreading …
Posted in Europe, tagged Bradford & Bingley, Nationalization, Northern Rock, statism on September 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This millennium was going to be the millennium of freedom and capitalism. It would have been a well-deserved time off from all the wars and illiberal ideologies such as Socialism and Nazism that controlled the century before. But Fukuyama’s prophecy (The End of History and the Last Man) seems to have been erroneous. Instead of [...]
Pathetic Stories
Posted in America, Europe, tagged crazy doomsday environmentalists, global warming, hypocrites, Iceland, Naomi Klein, Pope Benedict XVI, tree huggers on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The world seems to be filled up to the end limit with people who don’t know to be quiet when they ought to. Lucky for you all you have this blog to read all about it.
First out is Mr. Pope Bene-dickhead. It seems that Pope Benedict XVI condemned unbridled “pagan” (if love for money would be a [...]
Thank you Oðin I’m not Italian
Posted in Europe, The Middle East, tagged freedom of speech, Italy, Pope Benedict XVI, Sabina Guzzanti on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An Italian comedienne (Sabina Guzzanti) who said that Pope Benedict XVI would go to Hell and be tormented by homosexual demons is facing a prison term of up to 5 years. The law that was enforced by former Fascist dictator Benito Mussulini and prohibits verbal attacks on the Pope and the Italian Prime Minister. The case [...]
The E.G. West Center
Posted in Europe, tagged CIE, Comparative and International Education, privatization, The E.G. West Center on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I would just shortly like to do some commercial for a university research center called the E.G. West Center. The E.G. West Center is the only institution devoted to international and comparative educational research that is dedicated to understanding the role of choice, competition and entrepreneurship in the delivery of “Education for All”. Much of [...]
#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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
These student organizations do NOT represent me!
Posted in Europe, Scandinavia on May 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In a pathetic approach to make a go for youths’ right in Europe, the President of LSU (the main student/youth organization in Sweden), Hanna, writes on her blog (in Swedish) (http://lsuordforande.blogspot.com/2008/05/smack-mosquito.html) how awful it is that the police get more possibilities to fight juvenile criminality. Recently, a new kind of a device has hit the [...]
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