This photograph is worth more than thousand paintings. Ironically, it reminds me of the famous quote by George Bernard Shaw, “I would trade all the paintings of Jesus for one photograph”.
Welcome to North Korea!
Source: bringtheruckuss
A very colourful look at US trading partners and exports in the past decades from the Wall Street Journal. Thanks Wandering Reveries!
(via thepoliticalnotebook)
Secular liberal democracy of the American and European variety, with its firm rejection of religion in public life, is not the exclusive model for a legitimate democracy.
Source: newsflick
The paradox of India’s new prosperity: Rediff.com Business
But the challenge facing our political elites is to articulate a cogent conception of what power is for - to connect the exercise of power with an idea of its purpose. It follows that one of the core responsibilities of those who wield political power is to show the long-term effects of short-term choices; to identify the collective consequences of individual actions to uncover the systemic patterns generated by diffused centres of decision making.
In this way, the democratic process becomes a form of political learning: A continuous revision of what a society takes its interests to be. That, ultimately, is the point of insisting on the enduring centrality of politics, of a political perspective.
The democratic process must become a form of political learning rather than political churning, then it is sustainable and equal democracy.
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How many times you see Putin laughing?
tnoma:petapeta:saitamanodoruji:yaruo:「俺の時代がもうすぐ来る！」
「それは、どうかな？ニヒヒ」
Source: yuga.ru
An Astrophysicist looking at cool stars
