All posts with 'Politics & Economics' tag
Gasoline Prices Around The Globe
Gasoline prices in the major capital cities. Per gallon, in US dollars.
As you can see on the chart above, gasoline prices in the world are quite different. Londoners have the most expensive gas on the planet, what is quite explainable for the island with a high standards of living. Fortunately, their distances are shorter than […]
Faces of Africa
You has a hundred people but the food enough only for ten of them. What should you do?
Ask for food for 90 people.
Ask for a gun and 90 cartridges.
Zimbabwe Inflation
10 million Zimbabwean dollars and the grocery market prices in Harare. Photos by Bishop Asare / EFE and Reuters respectively.
Being under the Mugabe’s regime for over a twenty years Zimbabwe (a not so small and pretty populated African country situated to the north of South Africa) experienced the most crazy inflation in XXI century word. […]
No more magic mushrooms in Amsterdam
Boing Boing linking to BBC’s story about magic mushrooms ban in the Netherlands. Sad news.
The Netherlands used to be the only country in the world where government haven’t abused people with the stupid precepts on what they should do and what they shouldn’t with their own lives and with their own bodies. The Netherlands […]
Divided States of America
European analyst Vsevolod Istomin has predicted the break-up of the United States into 19 independent states. As designated on the map:
Read More..>>Gun self-defense posters
Oleg Volk has a large collection of pro-self-defense posters in his Livejournal blog. Here I have picked up three of them that I liked a lot:
Read More..>>A man without brain has worked for government for decades
44-year-old French civil servant went to the hospital with mild pain in his left leg. Research ( computed tomography scan and MRI) have shown that he virtually have no brain.
Being an infant he has suffered from hydrocephalus - too much cerebrospinal liquid on the brain. But by the age of 14 all hydrocephalus treatment was […]
US states as contries by GDP
Interesting map found on the Strangemaps blog: it represents US states as countries with comparable GDP (Gross Domestic Product).
If California was a separate country it would take the France’s place #8. GDP of Texas compares to that of Canada. Florida - US third largest GDP - is comparable to South Korea. The “poorest” US state […]