Monthly Archives: March 2012

“Books not burned” sensation

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.    In our post last Sunday 4 March 2012 , in a passage now deleted from … Continue reading

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Selling off the family silver

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.    10 March 2010 PRIVATE AFFLUENCE, PUBLIC SQUALOR “First of all the Georgian silver goes, and … Continue reading

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Cosa Nostra

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Watch out, Martians!

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  8 March 2012 STAR WARS Here we go again. According to yesterday’s Guardian, UK Prime Minister … Continue reading

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A Georgian joke

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   7 March 2012 იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე სტალინი In a letter to the Guardian yesterday alluding to … Continue reading

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Cable cars: theory v. praxis

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.    6 March 2012 INTERVENTION IN FREE MARKET BY GOVERNMENT OPPOSED TO INTERVENTION When you get … Continue reading

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UK seeks torture “assurances” from Jordan

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   5 March 2012 PONTIUS PILATE It’s that man again, Abu Qatada. He just won’t go away. … Continue reading

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Rinascimento

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  Paris, 4 March 2012   After launching the blog experimentally on 7 October 2011 and then … Continue reading

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Qualunquismo

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.    3 March 2012 SO WHAT? “The times are out of joint, but we were not … Continue reading

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God and Mammon

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   2 March 2012 GOD AND MAMMON COLLUDE TO STAMP OUT PROTEST Bailiffs protected by police evicted … Continue reading

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