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Alex Utopium

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Wordsmith and Political Analysis Technician 📋

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Alex Utopium
@alex.utopium Sep 30, 2018, 6:18 PM UTC

No pirates like your own

The legendary pirate Francis Drake made a living looting Spanish ships, disrupting the trade routes between the old and new world with his piracy. This was all under contract by the British governmen…

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Alex Utopium
@alex.utopium Sep 23, 2018, 9:36 AM UTC

Book Review Roundup - Economics and Philosophy, 23rd September

Here is a quick run-down of the 4 latest books I've read and reviewed in my mission to build up my personal library. I'm also sharing my reviews. If you have any suggestions to books I should read, p…

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Alex Utopium
@alex.utopium Sep 16, 2018, 12:53 PM UTC

Critique on 'Common Inheritance'

After reading Peter Kropotkin's "Conquest of Bread", I've had a few days to think about one of the concepts introduced in the book: 'Common Inheritance'. This article presents a few thoughts I person…

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Alex Utopium
@alex.utopium Sep 10, 2018, 12:52 PM UTC

The Swedish Election 2018 - My Initial impression

As the 2018 Swedish Election has passed and the only votes left to count is the ones that comes in internationally, and will just shift the result in minor ways, what we see now in the result tables…

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Alex Utopium
@alex.utopium Sep 6, 2018, 9:32 PM UTC

Micro Parties of Sweden - Self-defense and national security Policies

A couple of days ago I made a little article on where the different mainstream parties stand in regard to national defense and I wanted to make another one on the, for me, most interesting of Sweden'…

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Alex Utopium
@alex.utopium Sep 2, 2018, 11:38 PM UTC

Why I think Sweden shouldn't join NATO

A new wave of pro-NATO voices can be heard in the Swedish political discussion and I believe that it is the wrong way to go down for the currently neutral (at least on paper) Sweden. Staying out of N…

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Alex Utopium
@alex.utopium Aug 27, 2018, 11:42 AM UTC

Economics of Healthcare

This is a debate article and a reply to @denmarkguy and his excellent blog post about healthcare, which can be viewed here. It would make more sense to read his article first, since the focus on this…

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Alex Utopium
@alex.utopium Aug 21, 2018, 10:38 PM UTC

Private Security & Me

The first apartment I rented when I moved here to Norway was a pretty sweet one: Recently built, everything in pristine condition. One of the first nights there I headed toward the door to the outdoo…

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Alex Utopium
@alex.utopium Aug 18, 2018, 6:41 PM UTC

Fake Money? 💰

A few years back I was waiting a table at a restaurant here in Oslo. I believe it was a Tuesday. One of the guests was an older gentleman from Germany that had a meal and knocked down a couple of dri…

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Alex Utopium
@alex.utopium Aug 16, 2018, 2:00 PM UTC

Cars are Sexist? Dissecting a bias

Treading the political landscape is a hard task and trying to decipher the message politicians is trying to inject on voters can be an even harder task. Today, I'm going to give you a real life case…

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