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Thirteen
Players
Ten
times a year the world’s central banking elite meets in Basel,
Switzerland for a night of fun, frolic, fellowship – and "secret
conversations that can shape the course of the global
economy."
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The
Rise & Decline of the State
Once in a great while a book appears that
offers a profoundly different view of the present and future and a
path to break out of the conceptual blocks that stymie our
thinking. Martin van Creveld, now a professor of history at the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has written not one, but two such
books.
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Bush
or Gore
Watching the presidential tussle, I swing between utter
terror and wry amusement. On the one hand, terror fills me as I
watch the transition from (the pretense of) elections to unabashed
mob rule. On the other hand, it’s bitterly amusing to watch
newscasters act as if it made any difference which stooge seats
himself in the Oval Office.
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Your
Guide to Hoi Cultcher
A little more than 30 years ago my benefactor Uncle Sam
decided I had soaked up enough education for a while and needed
some military training. Twenty-two months, twenty-eight days, and
eight and a half hours later, I pulled away from Fort Campbell,
pockets stuffed with my last months’ pay
($236.00).
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Alan
Stang publishes another unforgettable book - Perestroika
Sunset
Hardly,
he replied, with more than 300,000 American military personnel
still stationed in 100 countries around the globe. The US bombs
Iraq, Serbia, or Devil-nation-of-the-month, then out of nowhere
sends Marines to East Timor.
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Same
Old - SAME OLD, SAME OLD
With the old proverb in mind, "A new bush –
uh, make that broom -- sweeps clean" I took a look at President
Bush’s new Cabinet. "Oh, boy!" I thought with breathless
anticipation, "I’ll bet he’s really going to appoint some new
folks with new ideas who will break out of the
mold."
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Computer
Games Stunt Brains
By
Tracy McVeigh, Education editorSunday August 19, 2001The [UK]
Observer Hi-tech maps of the mind show that computer games are
damaging brain development and could lead to children being unable
to control violent behaviour.
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The
USA Patriot Act - Magna Carta Overthrown!
On Friday, October 25, 2001, that black day
in American history, George Bush signed into law the hilariously
misnamed USA Patriot Act into law. With that act, Bush and
the US congress betrayed the American people to tyranny.
Whether they realise it or not, they are systematically
dismantling Magna Carta, keystone of a thousand year heritage of
liberty.
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The
Leaven Community & The Agrarian Ideal: Debunking
Agrarianism
Community
is essential to agrarianism. To take up an agrarian life
style, we must build communities, and these communities must
leaven the rest of our society, because the modern world has gone
so far wrong that it cannot be corrected; it must be
rebuilt.
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Managing
Us - We're So Easy
The crucial truths of the current age may be these: First,
people will watch any television rather than no television.
Second, sooner or later they will begin to imitate what they see
on the screen. Third...
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Sex
& Property
In the
dull, dusty, stale, stiff-jointed and lumbering language to which
most modern discussion is limited, it is necessary to say that
there is at this moment the same fashionable fallacy about Sex and
about Property. In the older and freer language, in which
men could both speak and sing, it is truer to say that the same
evil spirit has blasted the two great powers that make the poetry
of life: the love of Woman and the Love of the
Land.
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What
Farming Needs Today
Farmers don’t take the initiative to learn on their own,
so they are always over-capitalized. They suffer from “heavy
metal poisoning,” that is, they constantly have to pay for
mountains of equipment they use only infrequently. Their
ownership of land also overcapitalizes them.
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