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Fake solidarity; false choice

Friday, 1 May 2009 by Mike Gogulski
mind control, politics | 6 Comments »

If you sat down in a nice-looking, ostensibly respectable restaurant and opened the menu to find that only bullshit, horseshit and dogshit were on offer, which would you choose? Or would you choose not to eat there at all? [caption id="attachment_1779" align="aligncenter" ...

Educating for anarchism #2

Thursday, 14 August 2008 by Mike Gogulski
diary, philosophy | 7 Comments »

Got a call from a potential new client today, looking for a translator to work with on a regular basis. However, they do quite a bit of government work and sent me a job to quote on for a state-owned ...

Why Slovakia?

Tuesday, 12 August 2008 by Mike Gogulski
diary | 3 Comments »

A lot of people have asked me how I came to live in Slovakia. Answering that casts us back to around 1997 when I read Roger Gallo's Escape from America. The book advances the Perpetual Traveler, or PT, philosophy, and provides ...

What is “fraternité” really all about?

Sunday, 27 July 2008 by Mike Gogulski
crime, mind control | No Comments »

From The Times Online: French face prosecution for 'insulting' civil servants The offence — which carries a maximum sentence of six months in prison and a €7,500 fine — dates from Napoleonic times and is designed to protect “the dignity ... of ...

Stealing for thieves

Tuesday, 15 July 2008 by Mike Gogulski
crime, mind control | 5 Comments »

From ABC News: Day of Reckoning? Super Rich Tax Cheats Outed by Bank Clerk Technician in Liechtenstein Turns Over Names of Americans With Secret Bank Accounts [caption id="attachment_204" align="alignright" width="231" caption="Heinrich Kieber, fuckface extraordinaire"][/caption] Hundreds of super-rich American tax cheats have, in effect, turned ...

Educating for anarchism

Thursday, 3 July 2008 by Mike Gogulski
diary, philosophy | 23 Comments »

I was just finishing up at the post office this morning, mailing out the letters I wrote yesterday, when I got a phone call from a client. (Matters of inconsequential fact have been changed to protect identities and my business relationships.) Client: ...

It’s good having friends at the central bank

Tuesday, 17 June 2008 by Mike Gogulski
economics | No Comments »

Someone walked away with a cool €13 million or so. Not bad for a day's trading. Another victory for the market? Certainly a victory for having the right connections to the masters of the currency universe. From The Guardian: Slovaks open probe ...

Random acts of war

Monday, 16 June 2008 by Mike Gogulski
war | No Comments »

From The Washington Post: Britain, E.U. Plan Iran Sanctions 16 June 2008 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday announced plans for new sanctions against Iran and a small increase in troops for Afghanistan, handing President Bush a symbolic boost on the last ...

Irish referendum scuttles Treaty of Lisbon, hooray!

Friday, 13 June 2008 by Mike Gogulski
politics | No Comments »

It's being widely reported that referendum results in Ireland on ratifying the Treaty of Lisbon will come in with a clear defeat for the agreement. The Irish failure to ratify means that the entire Treaty is now off the table, since ...

Iran roundup

Thursday, 12 June 2008 by Mike Gogulski
war | No Comments »

I can barely keep up with all the Iran articles, let alone comment on them. The last few days, in brief: Press TV, 10 June 2008: Israel launches 'Iran Command' for war BBC, 10 June 2008: US and EU issue new Iran ...