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Archive for the 'Geo-Politics' Tag
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Humor: Make Love
Great compilation, lots of kisses and dances – well just to get you forget what politics was all about – or is this actually what it is about.
The last flick alone is worth watching – young G.W. is showing us one of the building blocks of New Republican thinking.
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Data visualization: Leading surveillance societies around the world
Since 1997 two NGOs – the US-based Electronic Privacy Information Center and the UK-based Privacy International – have surveyed and assessed the state of surveillance and privacy protection in 47 countries. The annual Privacy & Human Rights Report compiled from their findings has by now become one of the most comprehensive surveys of global privacy and citizen rights.
Their “most recent report” published a few days ago has been created with the help of more than 200 experts from around the world and has grown to 1,100 pages. It shows trends of
“…an overall worsening of privacy protection across the world, reflecting an increase in surveillance and a declining performance of privacy safeguards…“, and
“…an increasing trend amongst governments to archive data on the geographic, communications and financial records of all their citizens and residents. This trend leads to the conclusion that all citizens, regardless of legal status, are under suspicion…
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Quote of the day: Iraq
I hate Iraq. I wish we had never gone to the place… Winston Churchill, 1926
Quote of the Day: Foreign Policy
Yee-ha Is Not a Foreign Policy… seen on a wall inside the Emerald City, Baghdad, Iraq …is this the end of the yellow brick road…
Data Visualization: Doctors of the World
The image below was created as a poster for Dutch doctors to hangs on the wall of their waiting rooms. With 170 inhabitants per doctor Cuba is still the world leader on that chart. Not unsurprising other (former) communist countries follow on the next positions (in some of those countries the numbers have already started to deteriorate).
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Quote of the day: Arabia
We have been rather lazy to put up new content on this site (sorry for that, but we are preparing for a quite large project in the moment) so now just another short one (much more to come the next weeks):From the prologue of one of the books we are currently reading (Imperial Life in [...]
