Category Archives: Politics

Japanese civilization

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 October 2013 Remark by a Japanese diplomat to Sir Edward Grey (1862 -1933), British Foreign … Continue reading

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Et tu, Brute!

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 October 2013 Fangs ain’t what they used to be, as reviewers joke about the declining … Continue reading

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Superfast evolution in Cairo

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.  11 October 2013 A confrontation between police and unarmed protesters. Police fire into the air. Fifty … Continue reading

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Hunted whistleblower gets gong

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.  9 July 2013 The prestigious Sam Adams Award was accorded yesterday 8 July 2013 to Edward … Continue reading

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Snake oil from faith healer

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 July 2013 Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, British Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007, is famous … Continue reading

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Dark satanic mills

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 July 2013 ART AND POLITICS The English painter, L. S.  Lowry, is famous for his … Continue reading

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Guantanobama

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.  1 July 2013   GUANTANOBAMA VISITS AFRICA US President “Guantanobama” is in Africa. Great stuff. His … Continue reading

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Conviction politics

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 May 2013 One definition of insanity is to continue to believe in stuff even when … Continue reading

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Those pesky natives

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 May 2013 …the colonists say that the natives want to go too quickly in their … Continue reading

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The Greening of America

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