From Jane Dean: Farming was not a good thing for us all according to the book I am reading. People got smaller and sicker when farming was introduced about 6ooo years ago. Too late, there is now nothing to hunt or gather. We set a trap from one of the hundreds of rabbits we are …
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Fake news segments are being used across the United States. The Center for Media and Democracy found that 77 local TV stations were slipping corporate video news releases (VNRs) into their regular news programs and pretending that one of their reporters had produced them as original news. VNRs are videos that promote commercial brands and …
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"All empires develop systems that put the blame for disasters on subject peoples". * Now what could he be thinking of? Could he be thinking of Iraq and the "dysfunctional" government of Maliki? Clearly, it is wholly the fault of the Iraqis if they don’t embrace Western democracy. It couldn’t possibly be the destabilization caused …
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"Nobody had properly analysed the root cause of imperialism. but everybody recognised the prime characteristics of the phenomenon: aggression was necessary to its spirit, whether it be aggression for bad or good causes, and when the empire lost its aggressiveness then the excitement of imperialism itself…was lost." "Farewell the Trumpets", by James Morris It is …
Epicurus taught that true pleasure is gained from intellectual discussion and long-term friendship, that happiness is sitting in the shade in a Summer garden discussing philosophy, and that life is to be lived to the full, but with simplicity and moderation.
