Captured Europe

The Future of the Captured State

Sadly captive elephant populations are in decline. Only an approximate 420 remain in Laos.

What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of reading.

In captivity, the giraffe sleeps intermittently around 4.6 hours per day, mostly at night.

But the impact has been limited, owing to the authorities ability to stuff debt down the throats of captive local banks, insurance companies, and pension funds.

It seeks desperate forms of survival, and that is why, as the great Peruvian Cesar Vallejo said once, it lights its captive torch and prays angrily.

That first war among socialist states shattered the myth of inviolable fraternal bonds between the Soviet Union and the captive nations of Eastern Europe.

In India, financial repression is used as a means to marshal captive savings to help finance massive government debts at far lower interest rates than would prevail in a liberalized market.

This is the first sign of institutionalization of organizations and movements outside Putin s orbit, and outside captive public institutions, like the State Duma and government controlled television.

Unlike in the bygone era of superpowers and captive nations, American influence can no longer be defined by the ability to install and depose leaders from the US embassy.

It's almost as if somebody came into your home and rewired your walls so that the next time you turned on the light switch, the toilet flushed three doors down, or your dishwasher went on, or your computer monitor turned off.

But if we are pointing the finger at Sea World for what it does to its captive animals, we should also look more broadly at the way we confine performing animals.

We've seen the creation of small computers in the '70s and early '80s, and who would have thought back then that every single person would not have just one computer but probably 20, in your home, and in not just your P.C. but in every device in your washing machine, your cell phone.