In France, there are always enough polling stations. Schools and town halls are polling stations. More people whose ballots to count? That's automatically more people to run polling stations and count the votes. The very notion that some areas may be disenfranchised by lack of polling stations is inconceivable.

In France, people must show ID to ( Read more... )

"What is the Matrix? Control."

This essay was originally written by Daniel A. Nagy and published on his Facebook page on July 7th, 2015. It is the second part in a series. The first part is available here: http://fare.livejournal.com/184653.html. Both parts were originally published on facebook: Part 1, Part 2.

In that first part, I have ( Read more... )

This essay was originally written by Daniel A. Nagy and published his Facebook page on December 11th, 2014. See also: Part 2.
"What is the Matrix? Control."

One essential element of the existing world order is a mysterious, yet very powerful entity commonly referred to as the "international community". To the uninitiated, it might look like ( Read more... )

Je ne me souviens plus d'où je tiens cette blague mais tous mes amis africains ou africanophiles s'accordent à en confirmer la vérisimilitude, et suspectent qu'elle est basée sur une histoire réelle, à peine épicée.

C'est l'histoire d'un jeune politicien africain idéaliste, qui vient en stage en France. Là, il est pris sous l'aile d'un ( Read more... )

This essay was written by my friend Perry Metzger.

Lets say your company has a business decision to make. Say there is a committee (already a bad idea but lets ignore that for now) assigned to the problem. Will you make the decision better or worse by adding a large number of people to the committee who aren't very interested in the topic, know ( Read more... )

The White Man has sinned, greatly ( Read more... )

While commenting on my previous postl33tminion makes himself the candid voice of the usual democratic propaganda ( Read more... )

It's amazing how well official propaganda works ( Read more... )

Repucrats and Demoblicans ( Read more... )

In a democracy as such, the total feedback control from the governed to the ( Read more... )