While the world is watching the civil war in Ukraine the European economics is sliding into oblivion. The Manufacturing PMI tells a story that should scare the hell out of the politicians of EU - so bad the business dynamics in manufacturing looks.


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Bumped into some statistics today and found it interesting enough to share:

• Murders (per capita) by country
• Rapes (per capita) by country
• Walking in the dark by country

Not obvious a priori, say?

I picked out some for you:

Country
Safety Perception
Murder rank
Rape rank

Sweden
85%
#16

Canada
82%

United States
82%

Denmark
81%

#14

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Historically, farmers tended to try and defend their crops, sometimes with weapons, sometimes with the tools of trade. But this is still amazing, as Reuters reports that:

Farmers armed with assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars forced Lebanese government troops to abandon an operation to destroy their illegal cannabis crop in ( Read more... )

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It is so strange to see some old movies nowadays. They have all the «wrong» values in them, did you notice? They teach being assertive, bold, funny, arrogant and non-compliant. That is totally not what we see these days, now it is all either fancy fantasy stories, or all sex and «regular life». The movies nowadays do not give up on the principles ( Read more... )

Sometimes the Japanese may behave strangely in our eyes. I do not mind in the slightest. It is all right, they behave in a totally appropriate manner. You would not mind yourself doing the same thing if you were them. You see, Japanese are a superior race, brought about by Gods to lead the world to total order and prosperity. If you think I am ( Read more... )

I call this interesting thing «The Factor of Money». What is it? It is one of the things quite wrong with the world from most people’s perspective. Although, to be fair, most of them do not realize it. And there is a minority who abuse the rest so it is quite ok for them. But let’s see.

A society is built on a number of factors that the society ( Read more... )