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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Time to begin the begin
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. 31 December 2012 We began the year with a bang. We are ending it with a … Continue reading
Posted in Greece, Syria, Torture, UK, USA
Tagged Auld Lang Syne, Hellas, Not with a bang but a whimper, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert "Rabbie" Burns
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Anglo-Saxon nightbird
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. 30 December 2012 In our post “A butterfly existence” on 22 December 2012, we quoted the … Continue reading
Like chalk and cheese
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 December 2012 Cooperation ≠ Competition ——– You might perhaps care to view some of our … Continue reading
Cultivate your garden
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 December 2012 KEEP OUT OF POLITICS AND CULTIVATE YOUR GARDEN This was the advice of … Continue reading
Good King Wenceslas
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It was 4 B.C….
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. Christmas Day, 25 December 2012 IT WAS 4 B.C…. “And it came to pass in those … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Religion
Tagged Bethlehem, Caesar Augustus, Christmas Day, Cyrenius, King James Bible, Nazareth, St Luke's Gospel, the Nativity
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Anti-Christ
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. Christmas Eve, 24 December 2012 They prate of God; believe it, fellow-creatures, There’s no such … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Religion
Tagged Anti-Christ, Bethlehem, Crucifixion of Christ, Jerusalem, Jesuits, Jesus Christ, religious brainwashing, virgin birth
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You get the government you deserve
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 December 2012 “Venalis populus, venalis curia patrum” “The government are shits, but so are the … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Politics
Tagged Petronius Arbiter, Petronius Aribtier, Rome, Specimen Belli Civilis
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A butterfly existence
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. 22 December 2012 “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Russia, USA
Tagged lepidoptera, Speak Memory, St Petersburg, Vladimir Nabokov
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Πλούτος
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. 21 December 2012 “Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Economics, India, USA
Tagged Harvard University, J K Galbraith, John F. Kennedy, The Affluent Society, wealth
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