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tirsdag 9. august 2011
by René Clausen Nielsen
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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue.  It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion - Oscar WildeThe Soul of Man under Socialism.

Jeg forventer dog ikke, at vi i morgen vågner op til et socialistisk London, hvor alle “uromagerne” er kunstnere. Men det er et sejt citat med så mange fejltagne, implicitte antagelser, at man kun kan være fan.

tirsdag 8. februar 2011
by René Clausen Nielsen
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Store hjerner om Egypten

Jeg er de sidste dage stødt ind i nogle af mine yndlingspolemikeres tanker om revolutionen/oprøret/demonstrationerne i Egypten. Jeg har samlet nogle af deres udgydelser nedenfor. Jeg er endnu ikke faldet over (omend jeg aktivt har forsøgt at falde) væsentlige kvinderettighedsbaserede … Continue reading

tirsdag 8. februar 2011
by René Clausen Nielsen
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It should be mentioned that there’s another element to the military-industrial complex issue, which he [Dwight D. Eisenhower] didn’t bring up. At that time, in the 1950s, as he certainly knew, the Pentagon was funding what became—a lot of Pentagon funding was going into creating what became the next phase of the high-tech economy at that time: computers, micro-electronics, shortly after, the internet [...] That is, the public pays the costs and takes the risks, and eventual profit is privatized, in the case of computers and the internet, after decades. So that’s another aspect of the military-industrial complex which is worth keeping in mind. - Noam Chomsky