Pete’s blog

Continuing from last week’s (or yesterday’s) mail, South Africa’s constitution does not allow propaganda for war in its freedom of expression clause. You might wonder what would happen in a war situation - would the government be able to broadcast moral boosting propaganda? Well, free of expression is one of the so called […]

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Freedom of thought is one of the few freedoms that is entirely enforceable by yourself and never impinges on the freedoms of others. People may attempt to control or manipulate your thoughts, but you can resist or question this. You can always hide your thoughts – saying one thing and thinking another. […]

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Onto freedom of information and speech… I have been reading a lot of troubling stuff lately with regards to this – mostly in America. The following quote is a very prophetic prediction that comes from a computer game called ‘Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri’, released in 1999:
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth’s final […]

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Philanthropist: a person who seeks to promote the welfare of others, especially by donating money to good causes. Origin: from Greek philein ‘to love’ + anthropos ‘human being’.
Was reading something in the Economist last week which made me think about tonight’s topic.
Philanthropy is a very difficult thing to understand in theory or with maths […]

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