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Descartes was ‘poisoned by Catholic priest’ For more than three and a half centuries, the death of René Descartes one winter’s day in Stockholm has been attributed to the ravages of pneumonia on a body unused to the Scandinavian chill. But in a book released after years spent combing the archives of Paris and the Swedish [...] The always-insightful Walter Williams comments on Haiti; and the political climate that made this earthquake so disastrous. Some expect Haiti’s 7.0 earthquake death toll to reach over 200,000 lives. Why the high death toll? Northern California’s 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was more violent, measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, resulting in 63 deaths and 3,757 injuries. The 1906 [...] Contrary to the popular delusions about the positive benefits of controlling business, the CIC (Investment Climate Department, part of World Bank) released a study that found that business corruption is directly correlated with restrictive legislation. Illustrated by the graph below:
This should come to no surprise to anybody with even the slightest understanding [...] |
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