WHO? - Part 2 of 5
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WHAT DO YOU DO? - CONT'D
Norms and Standards
"setting norms and standards and promoting and monitoring their implementation"
This is partially correct. The WHO organization publishes something called the "Technical Report Series" since approximately 1948. WHO also publishes other standards and guidelines in selected subjects. However, how effective are they? If we estimate the total number of standards, guidelines, recommendations and so on in any subject that the WHO…
WHO? - Part 1 of 5
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Exactly. Today we are going to take a critical look at the World Health Organization(WHO). We will do so because (generally speaking) very few people (if any) dare to touch "sacred cows". Health being one of the most basic human necessities and politics being one of the most powerful forces on earth, the WHO embodies both quite effectively. As such their aura as public benefactors and health promoters gives them…
WWI - The End
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Today many countries (mostly in the West) commemorate (we can't say celebrate because this would be politically incorrect) the end of WWI which ended on Nov 11, 1918 only 96 years ago. They also "remember" the beginning of WWI, which started on 28 July 1914.
Today is a strange day, a day in which to have different views of an event is to be a traitor of sorts. To have…
Nobody Listens! Nobody Helps! Vote Anyways!
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No, we have not lost whatever few neurons we still managed to retain. However, consistent with our inconsistency, we consistently keep sending out the same (inconsistent) message: Things are not what they seem. F&P
Yesterday a similar article was posted advocating for the exact opposite. Vote? Don't Vote? Huh? What's going on?
That's right, we are advocating for you to vote. Have we gone mental? Has our chu-chu (train) derailed?…
Nobody Listens! Nobody Helps! Vote Nobody!
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Over time we published several articles describing our point of view about voting (we are against it, if you really want to know) including Dont Be A Spoilsport Dont Vote, To Vote Or Not To Vote Is The Question and Every Vote Discounts. This last one was done in a more or less formal and formalized format that you would expect to find in typical voting advocacy brochures, websites or speeches.…
State Terrorism - Part 2 of 2
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FUD
As you can see, throughout the history of humankind most people were oppressed one way or another. This is not to say that things remained equally bad since a few thousand years ago; most certainly not. Things have been improving steadily, although in order to see this improvement we must look at very large time periods (see The Law of Political Systems Direction). But the oppression is undeniable and the…
State Terrorism - Part 1 of 2
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By our own volition we are generalists. Our job is to point at the obviousness of the big picture and remind you that it exists by forcing you to think about it. As all humans are differential machines, we are only sensitive to immediate and large changes. Very large differences happening beyond our attention span are… well… not paid any attention at all. This is, of course, part of our…
Lesson #226 - Austrian Economics For Dummies - The Rationality Of Action
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When people are engaged in acting purposefully (this is, trying to attain a goal) they act rationally in a subjective manner and this is confusing and deserving of an explanation. It is pretty obvious that when a person is trying to achieve a goal, this person is trying to do so in a conscious manner. We have seen this in the previous lessons. This much is a given. However, the…
The Cathedral And The Bazaar - Part 4 of 4
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THE OBSERVER - CONT'D
Secrets
Politicians rely on secrets. Since they lie for a living and as such any leaked secret is a threat to their jobs. Politicians have two ways to keep secretes: technological or procedural. The technological solution typically involves some sort of encryption for which most politicians are completely useless. Furthermore, many secrets are transmitted by face-to-face meetings only, which makes encryption impractical. This leaves us with the…
