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LATEST ARTICLES ( 210 )

• The Bitter Truth Beneath Sarcasm

  

  (Note: this is a long post. For the lazy ones or those who do not have time enough, it is perfectly safe to go straight to the conslusions and final thoughts... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2024 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Cynics and Patriots

  

  I often wonder, can cynics be patriots? How does a cynic entertain a patriotic feeling? Before trying to make my point, I will clarify what by I mean here, sinc... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2024 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Power of Semantics in Minds Shaping

  One of the things we, in our consensus-fabrication team, feel most proud of is our skill in manipulating semantics and the vocabulary in order to confound,... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2024 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Noise and the Decadence of Man

  -Schopenhauer In many animal species, including Homo sapiens, males need to attract the females' attention in order to have a chance of passing on their genes t... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2023 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Did the Kremlin Take Revenge on Prigozhin?

  I really doubt governments engage in vengeance, which is emotional behaviour, whereas governments have by definition no emotions: they are usually ready to do... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2023 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Manco You-punky and the Mannequins

  

  For its fair quality-price ratio, the Brasa Viva is arguably the most popular grillroom in Moquegua's capital city (we are in Peru). Its online rating is high... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2023 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Hispanic Peculiarity

  It is any given midday of the mild winter in Torata, a small village in the mountains of Peru. A large group of schoolkids, dressed in blue and white, appear... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2023 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Torata and the Mining Canon

  Torata is a village of around 2,000 inhabitants, located on the valley of its namesake river, some 2,300 metres above sea level and 20 miles upstream from the... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2023 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• On Western ‘sanctions’

  So, what is a sanction? Depending on the dictionary, this word may be defined as: - Action by one or more states toward another state calculated to force it to... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2023 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Registration of Tourists in Belarus

  In this post I will explain most of what you need to know about registration when you travel to Belarus as a tourist on a visa valid for no longer than ninety... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2023 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• On Friendship, and Maybe Also Love

  Hardly an adult man is to be found, at least in the Western culture, who has never been told, by a woman he courted and who rejected him, something like this:... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2023 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• On Nuclear Porn

  Most people would agree with the idea that the world is basically governed by Big Money. There are exceptions, but I think we may assume as a fact that this... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2023 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• On Nuclear Porn

  Most people would agree with the idea that the world is basically governed by Big Money. There are exceptions, but I think we may assume as a fact that this... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2023 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Will Cultural Colonization Ultimately Defeat Russia?

  

  The reflection I mean to set forth here stems from a casual - you may say funny observation: when I visited Georgia this summer, I realized that many women did... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2022 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Overcoming Defeatism

  I confess that at the beginning of September, after the Ukrainian "Kharkov counter offensive", and influenced by the heavy criticism for Vladimir Putin and his... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2022 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Trading Places

  

  Almost four decades ago Hollywood released a comedy titled Trading places. In the plot, two filthy rich old billionaires discuss on whether people, once... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2022 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Foreign Toponyms

  

  When we allude to foreign proper nouns and toponyms we bump into a couple of linguistic obstacles, translation and transliteration, which present two different... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2022 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Thesis on Visa Restrictions to Russians

  

  Visa isuing policies can be either symmetrical or asymmetrical. Whereas the first type is, I assume, a matter of bilateral agreements between two given countrie... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2022 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Slava Ukraini

  Yes, I also uttered that watchword once. But before scolding me with swinish fury in your comments, please let me tell you how it happened. It was my very... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2022 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The International Rules-based Order

  For the past few months, one expression is being repeated by the leaders, politicians, elites and journalists all over the West: A rules-based international... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2022 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL