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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Money for old rope
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Posted in Economics, Luxembourg
Tagged Becks, Budweiser, Heineken, Peugeot, Stella Artois, Tesco
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Herd mentality
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Posted in Literature, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Cicero, Emperor Augustus, herd mentality, Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Octavian
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Neither politicians nor soldiers
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 January 2013 “Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideas and … Continue reading
Posted in Algeria, China, France, Literature, Military, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Albert Camus, Nobel Prize for Literature
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Land of limitless opportunity
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Hail to the chief!
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Ideologues
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Posted in USA
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Gunfire under Acropolis
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Posted in Europe, Germany, Greece, Politics, Revolution, USA
Tagged Acropolis, Antonis Samaras, New Democracy Party, partitocracy, Simos Kedikoglu, Syngrou
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Torture film big hit in US
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Posted in Canada, Pakistan, Torture, USA
Tagged Christopher Gelpi, Gary Younge, Jessica Chastain, Kathryn Bigelow, Osama bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty
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Knobbly carrots
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Posted in Economics, UK
Tagged food waste, Frankenstein foods, GM crops, knobbly carrot, Maggie Lloyd
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Organise!
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. 12 January 2013 THERE IT IS And if we don’t fight if we don’t resist if … Continue reading