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SOPA to affect the future of the internet

If you are unaware of SOPA, which is the Stop Online Piracy Act, then it is about time you looked into it, as it is something that could change the course of the way we use the internet, forever. The act is going to vote in the USA, and if passed, will cause a full scale change in the law, allowing the government of America powers to shut down, without warning, or grounds for appeal, any website contravening copyright laws.

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Rents Now Unaffordable

The housing charity Shelter has conducted a special research about the costs and the prices of renting a property. It has found some peculiar trends and has observed some quite disturbing facts about the current housing policy of private rentals that circulates unofficially within the industry. Amusingly, now not even a Spinal Cord Injury compensation, for people that have undergone an accident due to the negligence of the employer, would be a financial injection strong enough to satisfy the demand for finances in the housing sector for a single person.

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Twenty Years Later

Twenty years ago Russia celebrated the fall of the communist regime - it was achieved hard, with the support of the ordinary people, with the participation of soldiers who threw the red barrettes and joined the public, with the death of patriots who wanted something better for their country. This is how the heroes of modern Russia were born, but this is also the time when they died simply because nowadays Russia struggles to call itself democratic and its people More

Famine Problems

Famine is the easily described as poverty. However, this might appear to be wrong. According to the standards of delivering meaning in the English language, poverty means the lack of a necessity and not absolute starvation. This is why we would now use famine as ’absolute starvation'- the starvation that even animals do not experience.

This is, however, a true situation in Eastern Africa. The Economist has drawn a graphic that indicates the famine levels in troubled Easter African countries. More

Indonesian Boom

Among the economies with the brightest future ahead, Indonesia seems to be the one that captures the eye of Asia. The country, been known for its steady flow and cheapness of the labor, is now changing quickly in response to the economic boom in the country. The demand for Indonesian economic hosting of big tech and clothing industries has been largely influenced by the hostile Chinese economy that undertook a quite disappointing approach in dealing with its western investors. So, More

The European Union is doubtful over the legal justifications for Denmark’s border plans

The European Commission has expressed serious doubts in regards to the Danish government’s plans to check merchandise and goods at its borders in an effort to prevent drugs and weapons from smuggling into the country. A recent ‘legal assessment'of the proposals has raised doubts over where the new Danish measures would alight with European and International laws, according to Pia Ahrenkilde-Hansen, a commission spokeswoman. Interior ministers of the European Union said they had agreed to provide greater leeway for nation More

The next European crisis

Is another European crisis coming to the continent? This is the question that many of the economists and specialists in the elite magazine editions trying to answer as the problem with the migration from North Africa to Europe persists. Thousands of migrants have flown into the areas of the European Union thus forcing the implication of refugee law in rates higher than ever.

The Economist Intelligence Unit, a specialized research body within the Economist Magazine, has tried to look for More

High Level Visit

Mrs Hilary Clinton, the US Secretary, has visited Egypt in the most high official visit in the country since the fall of Hosni Mubarak. The US Secretary has had a conversation with the Military Council and the Prime Minister of the country regarding the establishment of democracy in the country and evaluating the relationships between the US and Egypt.

Undoubtedly, this process can be understood as an event aiming to strengthen the positions of US in the Middle East. Obama More

Defence Ratings

Defence budgets that are allocated for the development and maintainance of military personnel and technology by different countries are a major economic indicator. They are also a figure that displays the aspirations and the security aims of a nation and can be used to reveal the level of readiness of countries to engage in military activities.
The first place, once again as the Economist indicates (http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/03/defence_budgets), is Saudi Arabia. They might not use the DNA Testing for military More

Yoke of imperialist oppression

There seems to be a recurring joke I encounter wherever I am in the world that the only two words spoken by ever man on earth are “coca” and “cola”. This seems to be exactly what has gone on over the last fifty years – the slow oppression of people beyond one’s own borders, just like the Empires of old. The streets of Marrakech are unavoidably tarnished by the relentless march of American imperialism. The road leading to Tunis carries More