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Study: Youth Less Interested in Environment, Civic Activity
Martha Irvine The Ledger CHICAGO | They have a reputation for being environmentally minded do-gooders. But an academic analysis of surveys spanning more than 40 years has found that today’s young Americans are less interested in the environment and in … Continue reading
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Bloodline
New Digital Video BLOODLINE investigates the popular belief that Jesus married Mary Magdalene, who fled to southern France with their child. In an adventure worthy of Indiana Jones, filmmaker Bruce Burgess and team crack the shadowy secret society, known as … Continue reading
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Emmanuel Goldstein (George Orwell) Ignorance is Strength (1949)
Panarchy.org Note: Here is George Orwell at his best. This is Chapter I of The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, to be read preferably after Chapter III (War is Peace) because it ends in a suspended way that allows … Continue reading
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George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946
Vincent Ferraro Mtholyoke.edu Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization … Continue reading
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Murder puts spotlight on Kindoki ‘witchcraft’
BBC News The were more than 100 injuries on 15-year-old Kristy Bamu’s body when he was drowned in a bath in an east London flat on Christmas Day 2010. His sister Magalie and her boyfriend Eric Bikubi, who have been … Continue reading
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Total candour was only way to stop him
David Marr Sydney Morning Herald No Kevin. This isn’t a breakdown in civility. Your colleagues are at last telling us why you were sacked. And here the political is inescapably personal: you couldn’t run the place. The result was, as … Continue reading
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