Category Archives: USA

How to avoid CIA surveillance

Posted on 2017-03-10 by Andreas Moser

Are you also tired of the CIA, the NSA and others spying on you all the time? Are you worried about the heaps of data they are trying to collect? Do you also suck at technology and have no idea … Continue reading →

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“Slaves came to America to pursue prosperity and happiness”

Posted on 2017-03-06 by Andreas Moser

This is what Ben Carson, the new US Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, said today, calling African slaves “immigrants who worked even harder”. During the Republican primaries, I referred to Ben Carson as the most stupid candidate, despite the … Continue reading →

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Fascism, we’re on the way.

Posted on 2017-03-01 by Andreas Moser

This poster was for sale at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. until recently. It no longer is for sale now.

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Random Thoughts (8)

Posted on 2017-02-22 by Andreas Moser

I don’t understand why supermarkets, all around the world, by the way, are trying to force me to use a metal instrument when I want to buy some bread. You remember my article about the longest possible train journey and … Continue reading →

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Easily Confused (63) Politicians and Science

Posted on 2017-02-19 by Andreas Moser

Donald Trump: Justin Trudeau: What a difference an education makes.

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Easily Confused (62) GDP

Posted on 2017-02-15 by Andreas Moser

Donald Trump on GDP: I already understood more about GDP in 9th grade. But then, I just went to a regular public school. Robert Kennedy on GDP:

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Film Review: “Hell or High Water”

Posted on 2017-02-06 by Andreas Moser

Where The Hateful Eight failed, Hell or High Water succeeds: in reviving the Western genre. It’s not done with gory violence or with a cast of clichés, but with strong characters, well-acted and, above all that what makes a good … Continue reading →

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Random Thoughts (7)

Posted on 2017-01-31 by Andreas Moser

Don’t blame me for looking at your ( . )( . ) when you wear sunglasses and I can’t look at your eyes. In Venezuela, the richest country in South America between the 1950s and the 1980s, and still the … Continue reading →

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First they came …

Posted on 2017-01-28 by Andreas Moser

First they came for the scientists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a scientist. Then they came for the journalists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a journalist. Then they came for … Continue reading →

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Better than a Spy Novel: the Trump-Kremlin Files

Posted on 2017-01-10 by Andreas Moser

I was sitting in the park outside of the courthouse in Puno today, reading Nuestro hombre en La Habana and, fittingly, smoking a habano, when a gentleman in a suit – but without a hat – walked up to me and … Continue reading →

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