- This is Filip Spagnoli's blog, which is mainly about human rights - including political and economic human rights such as the right to participate in government (democracy being a subset of human rights) and the right not to suffer poverty - seen from the perspective of politics, art, philosophy (hence p.a.p.), law, economics, statistics, psychology etc.
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- Income Inequality
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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Overpopulation Discourse and the Alarmism of Fake Accuracy
(source) So it appears that humanity will welcome its 7 billionth member. The United Nations claims that the baby in question will be born today, on October 31st. Well, “welcome” isn’t exactly the right word. The number, like the 6 billionth … Continue reading
Posted in economics, poverty
Tagged alarmism, fake accuracy, John Pitre, October 31, overpopulation, population, population growth, United Nations, world population
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Political Jokes & Funny Quotes (107): Incarceration
(source) More serious stuff on incarceration. More jokes.
Posted in comedy, political jokes and funny quotes
Tagged humor, incarceration, joke, prison
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The Causes of Human Rights Violations (32): The Just World Fallacy
(source) Here’s another psychological bias that causes human rights violations to persist: the just world fallacy. It seems that we want to believe that the world is fundamentally just. This strong desire causes us to rationalize injustices that we can’t … Continue reading
Human Rights Maps (157): Homicide in NYC is Primarily a Problem of and for Male African Americans
Apparently, it’s more dangerous to be a male black person in NYC than a person of any other race or gender: (source, where you can find an interactive version of these maps) African Americans represent only 25% of NYCs population, … Continue reading
Posted in data, human rights maps
Tagged Black people, causation, correlation, gender, homicide, human rights, maps, murder, New York City, numbers, race, statistics, United States, violence
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OMB, Occupy My Blog all this talk about the “7 billionth person” (cue scary music) http://yhoo.it/taaMMO – perhaps I should post this again: http://wp.me/pd52p-aOz Facebook can make you pretend that you have friends, Twitter that you are important; where’s the … Continue reading
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