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A number of thoughts and feelings are swirling at the moment after watching Peter van Uhm's 2011 TED talk in Amsterdam espousing the virtues of "the gun", calling out the express directives of the military as "the monopoly on the legitimized use of force" as directed by the "democratically...
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I don't watch many mainstream movies, but I'm a history buff and saw Iron Lady. To me it had good and bad points. The good was the way it portrayed a marriage under trickey circumstances and added the old age and death factor in a very personal way. The bad was how it made The State look normal...
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Re: Learning to live with 'boy energy,' Opinion Jan. 30 Medicating boys just because they learn differently sounds like something that was done in the 18th century, something I will not be participating in nor supporting with my kids. We as society have to be aware that we are all different,...
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This video pretty much asserts the moral argument that advertising to children is wrong. I found there to be interesting pyschological points about child development and how children learn, but it's presented from the angle of how marketers exploit these phenomenon to inject brand loyalty in a child's...
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Hello everyone, After some research, I've found that someone in the DEP(Delayed Enlistment Program) -- signing of a contract & leaving on a later date-- can get out of going to boot camp etc.. They'll just need to really fight it out to escape the death grip of the recruiters. It seems that...
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So I posted this on my blog after reading the truthout article (http://www.truth-out.org/77-trillion-wall-street-anything-keep-banksters-happy/1322841741) Stef commented on in the video. I hope it adds something other than more wasted bandwidth. "Only when the Federal Reserve becomes an instrument...
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THE 'INCORRECT’ SIX MILLION Alexander Solzhenitsyn , Nobel Prizewinner and author of The Gulag Archipelago , in a speech in Washington in 1975 had this to say of the Soviet system which was deemed worthy of recognition as one of 'our' Allies fighting 'for Democracy' against...
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Dirty Little Secrets - the hidden, awkward origins of World War 2 - t he unexpected views of four key diplomats who were close to events Just consider the following: · Joseph P. Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to Britain during the years immediately preceding WW2 was the father of the famous American...
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Hi all, just a heads up to let you know that I'm crowdfunding the follow-up to George Ought to Help animation. If you'd like to learn more and/or get involved, you can do all that at: http://igg.me/p/18477?a=85533&i=shlk Thanks in advance if you feel like joining in and/or helping to spread...
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Full article: http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/27/bogus.right.rebel/ [quote]... In a democracy, however, the government is the people's government. Of course, we did not all vote for whomever now sits in the White House and Congress. We are a large and vital democracy -- not a village of Stepford...