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Category Archives: Economics
Attaboy! Sock it to ’em!
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. 13 August 2018 “When a thousand people believe some made-up story for a month – that’s … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Economics, Europe, France, Germany, History, Ireland, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Pakistan, Palestine, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Science, Turkey, USA
Tagged “21 Lessons for the 21st Century”, “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”, fake news, Religion, Yuval Noah Harari
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Oklahoma!
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. 19 March 2018 NO, NO, OKLAHOMA! לֹא תִּרְצָח The last time Oklahoma hogged the global limelight – … Continue reading
Posted in China, Economics, Egypt, Europe, Germany, Globalisation, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Justice, Pakistan, Politics, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Torture, UK, Uruguay, USA
Tagged Also Sprach Zarathrustra, Amnesty International, Beheading, Choctaw, Clayton Lockett, Council of Europe, Crucifixion, death penality, European Union, Exodus, Fred Zinnemann, Friedrich Nietzsche, gas chambers, Gordon MacRae, Hitler, Holocaust, Jesus Christ, King James version, Mary Fallin, Moses, Mount Sinai, Nazis, nitrogen gas, okla humma, Oklahoma, Old Testament, Oliver Cromwell, Red Indians, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Shirley Jones, Texas, Thou shalt not kill, Tulsa, Twin Towers, US Eighth Amendment, Virginia, World War II
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Bad losers
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 2018 “Elections change nothing.” Pronunciamento attributed to the then German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble … Continue reading
Posted in China, Economics, Europe, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Politics, UK
Tagged "Die Lösung, "Ode to Joy", Alexis Tsipras, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Bertolt Brecht, Bertrand Russell, Brexit, democracy, demos, direct democracy, European Central Bank, European Commission, International Monetary Fund, Joachim Gauck, populism, populus, Quisling, representative democracy, Schiller, Syriza, UK referendum on EU, Wolfgand Schäuble
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The heart and soul of the party
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 February 2018 DER UNENTBERHRLICHE Wirklich, er war unentbehrlich! Überall, wo was geschah Zu … Continue reading
Posted in Austria, Economics, Germany, Literature, Philosophy, UK, USA
Tagged movers and shakers, office life, Pindar, Pythian Odes, society, the life and soul of the party, Wilhelm Busch
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EU sticks it to UK
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 February 2018 It is of existential importance to the European Union that the secession of … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Politics, UK
Tagged Brexit, Daniel Hannan, Donald Tusk, Emperor Charlemagne, King Offa of Mercia, Soviet Union, UK Labour Party, United States of Europe, Wofgang Schäuble
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ANTIGONE1984 SPRINGS TO LIFE AGAIN
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. 20 February 2018 Antigone1984 is aiming to relaunch. This attempt may or not be successful. We … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Greece, Military, Politics, USA
Tagged Alexis Tsipras, austeritywar, death penality, democracy, human rights, market economy, partitocracy, Syriza
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The Last of England
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Posted in Belgium, Economics, Europe, Globalisation, Ireland, Literature, Politics, Religion, Scotland, UK, Wales
Tagged "Country Life", "The Long Revolution", A.N. Wilson, Alan Brien, Ars Poetica, Brexit, Clive Aslet, Cobbett, Crabbe, dark satanic mills, E.M. Forster, England, F.R. Leavis, Ford Madox Brown, Garden of Eden, George Sturt, Giles Fraser, Henry James, Horace, King George III, laudator temporis acti, OliverGoldsmith, Perry Anderson, Procrustes, Queen Elizabeth I, Raymond Williams (1921-1988), The Last of England, William Blake
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Revolting robots
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Posted in Australia, Brazil, Economics, Finland, India, Japan, Literature, Netherlands, USA
Tagged Cleveland Ohio, Czechoslovakia, Ford Motor Company, Karel Čapek, Luddites, Margaret Thatcher, Milton Friedman, Namibia, Ned Ludd, R.U.R, robot, Thomas Paine, UK Coal Miners' Strike 1984-85, universal basic income, Walter Reuther
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Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose!
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. France, 23 April 2017 SHOCK! HORROR! NEOLIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT FIGURE DEFEATS OTHER NEOLIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT FIGURES After a … Continue reading
IMMIGRATION
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Posted in Belgium, Economics, Europe, France, Germany, Globalisation, Greece, Italy, Literature, Politics, Portugal, Turkey, UK
Tagged A Jacobite's Epitaph, Aeneas, Aeneid, Ayn Rand, Brexit, David Cameron, democracy, European Coal and Steel Community, European Parliament, European Union, Herder, immigration, Jean Monnet, Juno, nationalism, Nigel Farage, Plato, populism, racism, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Troy, UK referendum 2016, UKIP, Virgil, xenophobia
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