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In the U.K local Councils have been urged to address a “chronic shortage” in the number of allotments being allocated by urban developers as demand for the plots of land reaches unprecedented highs. Allotments are small plots that were originally made available at small cost during the First World War to help people grow their …
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In his 1821 Independence Day address to the U.S House of Representatives, John Adams said, America "goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all." America will "commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example." …
corporotic, cor-por-o-tic n. Rule by unaccountable international corporations that promote sex, pornography, nationalist posturing and the antics of public “personalities” in order to the divert public attention away from real social and political issues and safeguard and promote their own political and commercial interests. Thus, corporatocracy, the political system that under the current Republican regime …
Whenever there is a rebellion in any country you can be sure that the establishment crushes it with every weapon in its power. What we are seeing vis-a-vis Obama is the whole corporatist media and their hangers on attempting to crush the man who wants to change the corrupt and anti-democratic culture of Washington D.C. …
"The trouble with the idea of the good and generous war (the author here was talking about the Second World War) is that it leads to the launching of wars of choice that can then be "shaped" to benevolent ends. But war is a method of killing people whom you intend to kill and killing …
