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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Flower blossom
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Newton and Lennon
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. 28 April 2012 Any two bodies in the universe attract each other with a force that … Continue reading
Posted in China, Military, USA
Tagged Balikatan, gravitation, Lennon, Newton, Paracel Islands, Philippines, Santayana
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Calling MPs to account
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. 27 April 2012 Today, at the request of UK political activist and former Green Party member … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, UK
Tagged Conservatives, Lib Dems, petition, UK Coalition Government
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Arbeit macht frei
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. 25 April 2012 Sign over the entrance to British internment camp in Kenya in the 1950s: … Continue reading
Hemingway
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. 24 April 2012 TRUST NOT, RUE NOT In his recent memoirs, Mr Peter Hain, a former … Continue reading
Posted in Ireland, Media
Tagged Athene, Ernest Hemingway, judiciary, Lord Salmon, Peter Hain
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Me and them
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. 23 April 2012 I have never learned to regard myself as a “member of society”. For … Continue reading
Bank robbery
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Posted in Economics, Germany, Literature
Tagged bank robber, Brecht, Dreigroschenoper, Macheath
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Yorktown redux
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. The following is an updated version of our report “EU waves white flag” published on 29 … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, USA
Tagged air passenger data, data protection, European Parliament, Martin Callanan, Sophie in't Veld, Yorktown
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