Tööandjate manifest on saanud üllatuslikult palju vastu päid ja jalgu ühiskonnategelaste, ajakirjanike, poliitikakujundajate ja lausa peaministri poolt, et kohati võib jääda ekslik mulje, et seal midagi head üldse ei ole. Kahju, kui manifestis esitatud mõtted nii lihtsalt sumbuvad.Mina tahaksin hakata tööandjate eeskõnelejaks selle unistuse eest, et riigival […]

Eilne asi, aga Andres Võrk ilusti kirjutab, et sotsmaksu lagi on regressiivne idee. Ja osa medsüsteemi läheks kinni http://bit.ly/bM3IXV # Powered by Twitter Tools […]

Whose day was it to watch Clifford Levy?It was June, 2010, and the New York Times’ Moscow bureau chief was visiting Tallinn’s Pae Gymnasium.Levy reported that Estonia, “...a small former Soviet republic on the Baltic Sea, has been mounting a determined campaign to elevate the status of its native language and to marginalize Russian, the tongue of its former […]

Siin on mõned päris toredad fotod lugevatest inimestest. […]

1 The ‘Dirty Secrets’ that Purify a Dirty War: A Colonial Tale of Dancing Boys, a Journalist, and the Human Terrain System in Afghanistan 2 In the Conflicts Around Wikileaks, Is Julian Assange Really the Problem? 3 Montgomery McFate: Gone from the Human Terrain System 4 Neocolonialism: It’s Post-Independence, Not Post-Colonial 5 Withdrawing from Afghanistan: […]

Paul Goble Staunton, September 8 – Those Russians now making enough to pay for food and clothing but not major purchases constitute that country’s new “working poor,” an incipient working class that increasingly views its interests as being different than those of the state and itself as a segment of society ignored or oppressed by the state, according to a […]

Above are stills from a lovely biomechanical bug animation by Autofuss. It's titled "The Experiment" and you can watch it here. (Thanks, Stacey Ransom!)... […]

Tegelikult olen küll juba pea nädala Eestis tagasi, aga täitmata on Montrealis antud lubadus teiseks osaks Civicus World Assembly’l tekkinud tähelepanekutest.* * *Laupäevaõhtuseks õppevisiidiks valin Montreali linnavalitsuse külastuse, sest tegu on väidetavalt esimese suurlinnaga Põhja-Ameerikas, kus on kokku lepitud linnavõimu ja -kodanike koostöösuhetes - […]

The most common New Year’s resolutions deal with health & fitness, money, career, relationships, and travel. Sorry to be blunt, but if you’re not making steady progress at your top resolution right now — September 6th — you haven’t set up systems to maintain ongoing accountability, and chances are you’ll fail again in January. On the other [...] […]

As a once subscriber to the London Review of Books I remember the consistently amusing  (if sometimes a bit overly self-consciously so), personals section in their classifieds, where a lot of overeducated and mildly frustrated people try to be witty enough to catch the interest of their potential soul-mates within what is roughly the character limit of […]

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Austatud proua kultuuriminister Laine Jänes! Ühe asutuse juhi jaoks pole just igapäevane asi pöörduda ministri poole avaliku kirja vormis. Teen seda aga häda sunnil, kuna juba pisut rohkem kui poole aasta jooksul ei ole mina Eesti Riikliku Sümfooniaorkestri (ERSO) direktorina saanud ainsatki vastust Teile saadetud kirjadele. Tõsi, kolmandate isikute vahendus […]