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Monthly Archives: July 2014
NFL: reflecting barbaric mores
As Shutdown Corner points out, the NFL has upped their abysmal handling of the Rice situation (my emphasis): The NFL is still being criticized for giving Ray Rice a light, two-game suspension, as well it should. The league did a … Continue reading
Welcome to Gaza
Imagine you have a flatmate and he’s an asshole: on a regular basis he goes out and commits crimes – he even kills people. And once he’s done that, he comes back and hides in the flat – in a … Continue reading
Posted in civil war, military interventions, Musings, warfare
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The powerless get disciplined, the powerful not so much
BNP Paribas has just paid a rather large fine for circumventing US sanctions, HSBC paid a (significantly smaller) fine for laundering money of criminal organizations, yet in both of these cases the decision makers have been untouched – undermining any … Continue reading
Posted in Economic elitism, Hypocrisy, Modes of control
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