Australian Aboriginal Art
Terpsichore is the muse of dance in Greek mythology. But this website is not only about dance alone; it's about all things which influence and are influenced by dance directly and indirectly; and that is just about everything…
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"The secret of happiness is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less" - Socrates c470-399 BCE
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Kristallnacht Nov. 9th 1938 - Nov 10th 1938 (The Night of Broken Glass), pogrom against Jews by Hitler, SA stormtroopers, the SS, Hitler Youth, and German civilians. It was vengeance for the assassination of Ernst vom Rath a German diplomatic official.
Fall of the Berlin Wall 9th Nov. 1989
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"An Appeaser Is One Who Feeds a Crocodile, Hoping It Will Eat Him Last" - Winston Churchill
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Internet Archive
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The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection
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THE FOLLOWING ARE LINKS RELATING TO IMPORTANT ISSUES WHICH INDIRECTLY AFFECT ALL OF US:
Genocide Watch
Relief Web/Disasters
CRISIS WATCH (TRACKING CONFLICT WORLDWIDE)
GLOBAL CONFLICT TRACKER
Forced labour, human trafficking and slavery
Refugees and IDPs - MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES
Mercy Ships Mercy Ships operates state-of-the-art hospital ships run by skilled volunteers to provide free healthcare in developing nations
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples' Organization
Global Witness |
Lost Pets International
Locust watch - (Desert Locust)
World Fires
World's Air Quality Index
Covid 19 - Global Tracker
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Canadian Historian Pierre Berton on "How To Roll a Joint"
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We think the late Juan Peron (former Argentinian president) got this right: In 1971, from his exile in Madrid, he would remember: “(…) See, it is no secret to anyone that when World War II ended in 1945, Yankee imperialism and Soviet imperialism met in Yalta … They make the talks (…) and divided the world… They draw the lines and said: from here to there it’s yours, from here to there is for us… the lines where Soviet imperialism should govern, and the others for the Yankee imperialism. Both drew the lines for avoiding jurisdictional conflicts (…). “
General Perón elaborated a complex doctrine, with a deep humanistic vision, endowed with a great understanding of the national and the international, which has not yet been fully dimensioned and implemented. He forecasted at the same time the fall of the USSR and the crisis of capitalism.
Latin Americans Are Souring on Democracy. That’s Not So Surprising Considering the Region’s History
"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? - Pablo Casals (Catalan cellist)
GLOBAL VOICES ADVOCACY
Fmr. Swedish Prime Minister Warns Bernie Sanders About Socialism – OpEd
"What we've discussed is how the darkest forces never give up. The French Revolution, the Soviet one, all the others, appear first as a liberating struggle. But they soon morph into military dictatorship.…..Christian Michel (from Putin's People by Catherine Belton)
WHETHER OR NOT YOU AGREE WITH HIPPOLYTE TAINE HIS WORK (L'ANCIEN REGIME) IS WORTH READING; SOME EXCERPTS HERE:
OPINION ABOUT TAINE’S WORK AND WHY IT WAS GENERALLY REJECTED:
…...the 'Left' came to see Taine's work as "a vile counter-revolutionary weapon." The French historian Augustin Cochin proved, however, that Aulard and not Taine had made the errors but by that time Taine had been defamed and his works removed from the shelves of the French universities.
Now Taine was not a professional historian. Perhaps this was as well since most professional historians, even when conscientious and accurate, rarely are in a position to be independent. They generally work for a university, for a national public or for the ministry of education and their books, once approved, may gain a considerable income once millions of pupils are compelled to acquire these.
……...He accepted Man and society, as they appeared to him, he described his findings without compassion for the hang-ups of his prejudiced countrymen…... (Lavoisier has been a symbol of the damage politics can do to science: 'The Revolution has no need for scientists'). Imaging a career in science: the ... - Google Books
Lavoisier
Just because he was born into the nobility, and despite everything he did for Science and France, they still decided to decapitate him, as if he was responsible for his place in society) (No. 728: Death of Lavoisier) (His impact on the American Revolution:Antoine Lavoisier, Chemist & French Gunpowder Wizard for the American Cause in the Revolutionary War. – Revolutionary War Journal)
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794)
Hippolyte Taine
…..the combined ignorance of ten millions is not the equivalent of one man's wisdom. A people may be consulted and, in an extreme case, may declare what form of government it would like best, but not that which it most needs. Nothing but experience can determine this; it must have time to ascertain whether the political structure is convenient, substantial, able to withstand inclemency, and adapted to customs, habits, occupations, characters, peculiarities and caprices. For example, the one we have tried has never satisfied us; we have during eighty years demolished it thirteen times, each time setting it up anew, and always in vain, for never have we found one that suited us. If other nations have been more fortunate, or if various political structures abroad have proved stable and enduring, it is because these have been erected in a special way…..
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Daniel Pipes: - The Middle East Forum
Daniel Pipes (twitter)
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The World This Week | The Economist
Socialism ≠ Love and Kindness; Capitalism ≠ Greed and Fear - Bleeding Heart Libertarians
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TAIWAN (Online News):
Taiwan News
Taipei News
Radio Free Asia
The Next China Threat: An Invasion of Taiwan?
China's Africa Takeover
Journalists Imprisoned in China
Wang Liming is a renowned political cartoonist who works under the pen name of Rebel Pepper. His work focuses on political, cultural and societal developments across Asia.
Shen Yun seems like a kitsch dance troupe. But Beijing sees it as the propaganda wing of the Falun Gong movement, and a threat to their rule – and hounds the dancers from city to city, trying to sabotage their shows. By Nicholas Hune-Brown
Badiucao, human rights artist activist, critical of the Chinese communist regime
Falun Gong/Falun Dafa
明慧分类资料网, Attribution, Link
Top 20 Ancient Chinese Inventions
Chinese Philosopher Mo Ti (470 - 391 BCE)
……founder of Mohism (also given as Moism), a philosophical system advancing the concept of consequentialism (one's actions define one's character) and emphasizing universal love as the meaning of life and the solution to all conflict.
Frank Dikotter books (China)
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(Sarah Chayes Bio)
(Sarah Chayes: Global Kleptocracy)
GOODREADS, SARAH CHAYES……
Bill Moyers Journal: Sarah Chayes on Rebuilding Afghanistan (2008)
Bill Moyers Journal: Susan Jacoby on American Ignorance
The Open Mind: The "Dumbing Down" of America - Susan Jacoby
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Palestine; I just hate to include this because Gaza needs so much help and they’re getting so little from it’s own government...(GOVERNMENT MISMANAGING FUNDS, AGAIN)
What does Palestine do with all their money they get from Foreign Aid?
RAND | Palestine Initiative
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DEREGULATION :
Clinton, Republicans agree to deregulation of US financial system - World Socialist Web Site Government Wastes More Money than You Think | The Fiscal Times: If we saved only half of the $732 billion we waste, we could dump the sequester, fix our infrastructure, bolster education, and grow the economy
Here are some examples of how well meaning actions can backfire:
Even Palestinians question wisdom of anti-Israel boycotts after losing jobs at shuttered SodaStream factory)
Unlike Germany, which has acknowledged and apologized for crimes committed by its Nazi regime, Russia, as the legal successor of the Soviet Union, has yet to do so. Instead modern Russia under Vladimir Putin appears to glorify its genocidal past.)
Kaiser “Willie” (apparently the cousins addressed one another in such endearing terms) who was partly to blame for starting WWI, after he lost the war was graciously allowed to live the rest of his life in the Netherlands in peace and, I guess, as an honoured guest. King “Georgie” and Mary of England refused to give refuge to his cousin Tzar “Nicky”, and as a result the whole Russian family were all later assassinated by the Bolsheviks. To add insult to injury King Georgie’s wife Mary bought some of the dead Tzarina’s jewels. Whether this was done in an ethical manner or not I still find it very distasteful that this woman could wear the jewels of a dead relative who was brutally murdered. (Did the Germans purposefully arrange to send Lenin to Russia to start a revolution? )
[HELEN RAPPAPORT, in her latest book “The Race to save the Romanovs” refutes the fault rests on the British Monarchy]
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The late Boris Nemtsov (right), never afraid of anyone. He was assassinated : here is a clip from Brian Whitmore's THE POWER VERTICAL about Boris Nemtsov
Atlantic Council/Brian Whitmore
(Real Time with Bill Maher: New Rule – Tax the Churches (HBO)
Meet the 'Iron Prosecutor' Hunting Sicily's Top Godfather
(Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity) These are two brave women who are going after hard core, very dangerous criminals……
Thanks partly to Trump’s indifference, Erdogan is Capable and Willing to Destabilize the Balkans And NATO Pretends Everything Is Fine by Daniel Pipes
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NO COUNTRY/EMPIRE IS TOO BIG TO FALL:
Alexius I was the emperor of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern portion of the old Roman Empire based in Greece and Asia Minor, at the time of the First Crusade (1095–99). The first of the Comnenus dynasty, or ruling family, Alexius I inherited a weakened empire at the time of his crowning as emperor in 1081. Byzantium, as the empire was also called, was under attack from all sides, especially from the Seljuk Turks, who had recently converted to Islam. Nevertheless Alexius I managed to restore some of the strength to his land during his thirty-seven-year reign. Alexius I is best known in history as the Byzantine emperor whose call for help against the Turks and Islam was taken up by Urban II (see entry), the western pope and spiritual leader of the Catholic Church. This, in turn, played an important part in bringing about the First Crusade and launching the Crusade movement, which resulted in two centuries of conflict between the Christian and Islamic worlds.
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Agnes C. Poirier Journalist, writer and broadcaster (gate.io login
Maria Margaronis is London correspondent for The Nation
Maria Margaronis | The Nation
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Masha Gessen Articles (Russian American journalist, activist, author)
Catherine Ford, Calgary Herald "a thorn in the side of pompous politicians, overbearing bureaucrats and anyone in the public eye who is overstuffed with his or her own self-importance.”
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Trump/Russia: Part 1 - Follow the money | Four Corners
Trump/Russia: Part 2 - Secrets, spies and useful idiots | Four Corners
Trump/Russia: Part 3 – Moscow Rules | Four Corners
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"While the exact reasons for intentional animal cruelty may vary, nine typologies have been identified by Kellert and Felthous (1985, 1122-1124). In the cases within the animal cruelty database, we see these typologies over and over":
PLEASE COULD YOU HELP RESCUE SHELTERS GET STRAY ANIMALS OFF THE STREETS; SPAY AND NEUTER PLEASE. ANIMAL RESCUERS AND SHELTERS ARE SO OVERWHELMED AND STRETCHED TO THE MAX SPACE-WISE AND FINANCIALLY; IT’S JUST NOT FAIR, AND PARTICULARLY FOR THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE THE HEART TO TURN STRAYS AWAY AND END UP HOARDING THEM, WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW. (International Spay/Neuter Network)
PLEASE DON’T LET YOUR PETS OUT OF YOUR HOUSE UNLESS THEY’RE SUPERVISED, PARTICULARLY CATS WHICH ARE CONSIDERED PESTS AND ARE SCAPEGOATED. PLEASE DON’T LEAVE YOUR DOG OUTSIDE ON A LEASH; IT COULD BE STOLEN AND USED FOR BAIT.
PLEASE DON’T GET A PET IF YOU HAVE A VIOLENT PARTNER OR FAMILY MEMBER, AND WATCH OUT FOR ABUSIVE PET SITTERS (INSTALL A CAMERA IF YOU CAN) [Fred Victor -pet friendly shelter Toronto]
ANIMALS SHOULD NOT BE GIFTS; I WOULD SHOW THE ANIMAL FIRST AND THEN LET THEM CHOOSE.
IF YOU’RE MOVING AND CAN’T TAKE YOUR PET WITH YOU, PLEASE DROP YOUR PET OFF TO YOUR NEAREST SHELTER; DON’T FEEL GUILTY HERE….. IT’S FAR BETTER YOUR PET GOES TO A SHELTER THAN BEING LEFT WHERE IT CAN’T FEND FOR ITSELF, OR JUST STARVED TO DEATH IN YOUR HOUSE.
PLEASE DON’T KEEP CONSTRICTORS (pythons, boas, anacondas etc) WITH MAMMALS. SNAKES ARE GREAT ESCAPERS AND NOT ONLY CAN THEY EAT YOUR OTHER PETS BUT ALSO GET OUT AND HARM OTHERS, OR EVEN KILL SMALL CHILDREN. SNAKES HAVE ALSO BEEN KNOWN TO SUDDENLY KILL THEIR OWNERS. PLEASE BE RESPONSIBLE AND AT LEAST KEEP OTHER SMALLER NON POISONOUS SNAKES….AND PLEASE DON’T RELEASE THESE LARGE SNAKES WHEN YOU ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO LOOK AFTER THEM; TAKE THEM TO A HUMANE SOCIETY SPECIALIZING IN EXOTIC PETS.
"Animals run no risk of going to hell, they are there already" Victor Hugo
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. - Notebook, 1894 - Mark Twain
(There are more who don’t like the cat compared to the dog; the much misunderstood cat is actually not subservient but not independent either; there is a difference. Cats need their humans and other pets around, and don’t like being kept alone in the dark with no sound. If the human behaves like a jerk the cat will lose respect. Generally people who dislike cats either don’t know/understand them (or fear them) or have low self esteem)
Kitten Takes Care Of Her Mom's Corpse | Animal in Crisis EP18 (if anyone says cats are aloof they should take a look at this
JSFM Japanese Society of Feline Medicine (JSFM)
IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I WENT TO A SHELTER (I FOUND IT VERY DISTRESSING); THIS ARTICLE INFORMS US SOFT BACKGROUND MUSIC COULD RELAX THE ANIMALS……PLEASE CONSIDER THIS IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY
THE RESCUE ANIMAL MP3 PROJECT (MUSIC FOR ANIMALS IN SHELTERS)
Animals just love music:
Mad Bull Singing Opera In Big Sur California
Dog Singing Classical Music
Elephants Dancing to Violin! Adorable!
Video: Elephants sway in unison to live classical music in zoo
Donkey Loves Sound of Violin
Concert for the sheep
Cat loves music
Dog Singing Classical Music
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Voice of the Shuttle
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Winklevoss Capital
Daniel Pipes - MIDDLE EAST FORUM
RUSI | Royal United Services Institute
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Scholarly journals:
Ashgate Joins Routledge
Tolerance.ca® - 24 Hour World News
By William BARAK - Wurundjeri people (1824 - 1903)
Born in Victoria, Australia. Dead in Victoria, Australia.
Terpsichore is the muse of dance in Greek mythology. But this website is not only about dance alone; it's about all things which influence and are influenced by dance directly and indirectly; and that is just about everything…
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"The secret of happiness is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less" - Socrates c470-399 BCE
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Kristallnacht Nov. 9th 1938 - Nov 10th 1938 (The Night of Broken Glass), pogrom against Jews by Hitler, SA stormtroopers, the SS, Hitler Youth, and German civilians. It was vengeance for the assassination of Ernst vom Rath a German diplomatic official.
Fall of the Berlin Wall 9th Nov. 1989
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"An Appeaser Is One Who Feeds a Crocodile, Hoping It Will Eat Him Last" - Winston Churchill
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Unsplash - The internet’s source of freely-usable images.
gateio
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Internet Archive
10 Sites for Free Stock Photos
The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection
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THE FOLLOWING ARE LINKS RELATING TO IMPORTANT ISSUES WHICH INDIRECTLY AFFECT ALL OF US:
Genocide Watch
Relief Web/Disasters
CRISIS WATCH (TRACKING CONFLICT WORLDWIDE)
GLOBAL CONFLICT TRACKER
Forced labour, human trafficking and slavery
Refugees and IDPs - MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES
Mercy Ships Mercy Ships operates state-of-the-art hospital ships run by skilled volunteers to provide free healthcare in developing nations
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples' Organization
Global Witness |
Lost Pets International
Locust watch - (Desert Locust)
World Fires
World's Air Quality Index
Covid 19 - Global Tracker
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Canadian Historian Pierre Berton on "How To Roll a Joint"
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We think the late Juan Peron (former Argentinian president) got this right: In 1971, from his exile in Madrid, he would remember: “(…) See, it is no secret to anyone that when World War II ended in 1945, Yankee imperialism and Soviet imperialism met in Yalta … They make the talks (…) and divided the world… They draw the lines and said: from here to there it’s yours, from here to there is for us… the lines where Soviet imperialism should govern, and the others for the Yankee imperialism. Both drew the lines for avoiding jurisdictional conflicts (…). “
General Perón elaborated a complex doctrine, with a deep humanistic vision, endowed with a great understanding of the national and the international, which has not yet been fully dimensioned and implemented. He forecasted at the same time the fall of the USSR and the crisis of capitalism.
By Unknown author - Original from the then "Secretaría de Prensa y Difusión" (now "Secretaría de Medios de Comunicación") of the Argentinian Government. Published 1947., Public Domain, Link
Latin Americans Are Souring on Democracy. That’s Not So Surprising Considering the Region’s History
"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? - Pablo Casals (Catalan cellist)
GLOBAL VOICES ADVOCACY
Fmr. Swedish Prime Minister Warns Bernie Sanders About Socialism – OpEd
"What we've discussed is how the darkest forces never give up. The French Revolution, the Soviet one, all the others, appear first as a liberating struggle. But they soon morph into military dictatorship.…..Christian Michel (from Putin's People by Catherine Belton)
WHETHER OR NOT YOU AGREE WITH HIPPOLYTE TAINE HIS WORK (L'ANCIEN REGIME) IS WORTH READING; SOME EXCERPTS HERE:
OPINION ABOUT TAINE’S WORK AND WHY IT WAS GENERALLY REJECTED:
…...the 'Left' came to see Taine's work as "a vile counter-revolutionary weapon." The French historian Augustin Cochin proved, however, that Aulard and not Taine had made the errors but by that time Taine had been defamed and his works removed from the shelves of the French universities.
Now Taine was not a professional historian. Perhaps this was as well since most professional historians, even when conscientious and accurate, rarely are in a position to be independent. They generally work for a university, for a national public or for the ministry of education and their books, once approved, may gain a considerable income once millions of pupils are compelled to acquire these.
……...He accepted Man and society, as they appeared to him, he described his findings without compassion for the hang-ups of his prejudiced countrymen…... (Lavoisier has been a symbol of the damage politics can do to science: 'The Revolution has no need for scientists'). Imaging a career in science: the ... - Google Books
Lavoisier
By Unknown author - <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.schuster-ingolstadt.de/Chemie.htm">http://www.schuster-ingolstadt.de/Chemie.htm</a>, Public Domain, Link
Just because he was born into the nobility, and despite everything he did for Science and France, they still decided to decapitate him, as if he was responsible for his place in society) (No. 728: Death of Lavoisier) (His impact on the American Revolution:Antoine Lavoisier, Chemist & French Gunpowder Wizard for the American Cause in the Revolutionary War. – Revolutionary War Journal)
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794)
Hippolyte Taine
By Libb Thims
derivative work: <a href="//
…..the combined ignorance of ten millions is not the equivalent of one man's wisdom. A people may be consulted and, in an extreme case, may declare what form of government it would like best, but not that which it most needs. Nothing but experience can determine this; it must have time to ascertain whether the political structure is convenient, substantial, able to withstand inclemency, and adapted to customs, habits, occupations, characters, peculiarities and caprices. For example, the one we have tried has never satisfied us; we have during eighty years demolished it thirteen times, each time setting it up anew, and always in vain, for never have we found one that suited us. If other nations have been more fortunate, or if various political structures abroad have proved stable and enduring, it is because these have been erected in a special way…..
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Daniel Pipes: - The Middle East Forum
Daniel Pipes (twitter)
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The World This Week | The Economist
Socialism ≠ Love and Kindness; Capitalism ≠ Greed and Fear - Bleeding Heart Libertarians
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The Next China Threat: An Invasion of Taiwan?
China's Africa Takeover
Journalists Imprisoned in China
Wang Liming is a renowned political cartoonist who works under the pen name of Rebel Pepper. His work focuses on political, cultural and societal developments across Asia.
By MC2 Jeffry Willadsen - http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imageRetrieve.action?guid=b0dfb429fc2994ec775529382add91183204ac40&t=2, Public Domain, Link
Shen Yun seems like a kitsch dance troupe. But Beijing sees it as the propaganda wing of the Falun Gong movement, and a threat to their rule – and hounds the dancers from city to city, trying to sabotage their shows. By Nicholas Hune-Brown
Badiucao, human rights artist activist, critical of the Chinese communist regime
By The original uploader was Asdfg12345 at gate.io. - Source: http://photo.minghui.org, Link
Falun Gong/Falun Dafa
明慧分类资料网, Attribution, Link
By Joffers951 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link
By Joffers951 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link
Top 20 Ancient Chinese Inventions
Chinese Philosopher Mo Ti (470 - 391 BCE)
……founder of Mohism (also given as Moism), a philosophical system advancing the concept of consequentialism (one's actions define one's character) and emphasizing universal love as the meaning of life and the solution to all conflict.
Frank Dikotter books (China)
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(Sarah Chayes Bio)
(Sarah Chayes: Global Kleptocracy)
GOODREADS, SARAH CHAYES……
Bill Moyers Journal: Sarah Chayes on Rebuilding Afghanistan (2008)
Bill Moyers Journal: Susan Jacoby on American Ignorance
The Open Mind: The "Dumbing Down" of America - Susan Jacoby
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Palestine; I just hate to include this because Gaza needs so much help and they’re getting so little from it’s own government...(GOVERNMENT MISMANAGING FUNDS, AGAIN)
What does Palestine do with all their money they get from Foreign Aid?
RAND | Palestine Initiative
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DEREGULATION :
Clinton, Republicans agree to deregulation of US financial system - World Socialist Web Site Government Wastes More Money than You Think | The Fiscal Times: If we saved only half of the $732 billion we waste, we could dump the sequester, fix our infrastructure, bolster education, and grow the economy
Here are some examples of how well meaning actions can backfire:
Even Palestinians question wisdom of anti-Israel boycotts after losing jobs at shuttered SodaStream factory)
Unlike Germany, which has acknowledged and apologized for crimes committed by its Nazi regime, Russia, as the legal successor of the Soviet Union, has yet to do so. Instead modern Russia under Vladimir Putin appears to glorify its genocidal past.)
Kaiser “Willie” (apparently the cousins addressed one another in such endearing terms) who was partly to blame for starting WWI, after he lost the war was graciously allowed to live the rest of his life in the Netherlands in peace and, I guess, as an honoured guest. King “Georgie” and Mary of England refused to give refuge to his cousin Tzar “Nicky”, and as a result the whole Russian family were all later assassinated by the Bolsheviks. To add insult to injury King Georgie’s wife Mary bought some of the dead Tzarina’s jewels. Whether this was done in an ethical manner or not I still find it very distasteful that this woman could wear the jewels of a dead relative who was brutally murdered. (Did the Germans purposefully arrange to send Lenin to Russia to start a revolution? )
[HELEN RAPPAPORT, in her latest book “The Race to save the Romanovs” refutes the fault rests on the British Monarchy]
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By Igor Podgorny - Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link
The late Boris Nemtsov (right), never afraid of anyone. He was assassinated : here is a clip from Brian Whitmore's THE POWER VERTICAL about Boris Nemtsov
Atlantic Council/Brian Whitmore
(Real Time with Bill Maher: New Rule – Tax the Churches (HBO)
Meet the 'Iron Prosecutor' Hunting Sicily's Top Godfather
(Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity) These are two brave women who are going after hard core, very dangerous criminals……
Thanks partly to Trump’s indifference, Erdogan is Capable and Willing to Destabilize the Balkans And NATO Pretends Everything Is Fine by Daniel Pipes
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NO COUNTRY/EMPIRE IS TOO BIG TO FALL:
Alexius I was the emperor of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern portion of the old Roman Empire based in Greece and Asia Minor, at the time of the First Crusade (1095–99). The first of the Comnenus dynasty, or ruling family, Alexius I inherited a weakened empire at the time of his crowning as emperor in 1081. Byzantium, as the empire was also called, was under attack from all sides, especially from the Seljuk Turks, who had recently converted to Islam. Nevertheless Alexius I managed to restore some of the strength to his land during his thirty-seven-year reign. Alexius I is best known in history as the Byzantine emperor whose call for help against the Turks and Islam was taken up by Urban II (see entry), the western pope and spiritual leader of the Catholic Church. This, in turn, played an important part in bringing about the First Crusade and launching the Crusade movement, which resulted in two centuries of conflict between the Christian and Islamic worlds.
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Polly Toynbee - The Guardian
Agnes C. Poirier Journalist, writer and broadcaster (gate.io login
Maria Margaronis is London correspondent for The Nation
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown | Voices | The Independent
Masha Gessen Articles (Russian American journalist, activist, author)
Catherine Ford, Calgary Herald "a thorn in the side of pompous politicians, overbearing bureaucrats and anyone in the public eye who is overstuffed with his or her own self-importance.”
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Trump/Russia: Part 1 - Follow the money | Four Corners
Trump/Russia: Part 2 - Secrets, spies and useful idiots | Four Corners
Trump/Russia: Part 3 – Moscow Rules | Four Corners
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"While the exact reasons for intentional animal cruelty may vary, nine typologies have been identified by Kellert and Felthous (1985, 1122-1124). In the cases within the animal cruelty database, we see these typologies over and over":
- to retaliate against an animal
- to retaliate against another person
- to satisfy a prejudice against a species or breed
- to express anger through an animal
- to enhance one's own aggressiveness
- to shock people for amusement
- to displace hostility from a person to an animal
- to perform non-specific sadism
PLEASE COULD YOU HELP RESCUE SHELTERS GET STRAY ANIMALS OFF THE STREETS; SPAY AND NEUTER PLEASE. ANIMAL RESCUERS AND SHELTERS ARE SO OVERWHELMED AND STRETCHED TO THE MAX SPACE-WISE AND FINANCIALLY; IT’S JUST NOT FAIR, AND PARTICULARLY FOR THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE THE HEART TO TURN STRAYS AWAY AND END UP HOARDING THEM, WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW. (International Spay/Neuter Network)
PLEASE DON’T LET YOUR PETS OUT OF YOUR HOUSE UNLESS THEY’RE SUPERVISED, PARTICULARLY CATS WHICH ARE CONSIDERED PESTS AND ARE SCAPEGOATED. PLEASE DON’T LEAVE YOUR DOG OUTSIDE ON A LEASH; IT COULD BE STOLEN AND USED FOR BAIT.
PLEASE DON’T GET A PET IF YOU HAVE A VIOLENT PARTNER OR FAMILY MEMBER, AND WATCH OUT FOR ABUSIVE PET SITTERS (INSTALL A CAMERA IF YOU CAN) [Fred Victor -pet friendly shelter Toronto]
ANIMALS SHOULD NOT BE GIFTS; I WOULD SHOW THE ANIMAL FIRST AND THEN LET THEM CHOOSE.
IF YOU’RE MOVING AND CAN’T TAKE YOUR PET WITH YOU, PLEASE DROP YOUR PET OFF TO YOUR NEAREST SHELTER; DON’T FEEL GUILTY HERE….. IT’S FAR BETTER YOUR PET GOES TO A SHELTER THAN BEING LEFT WHERE IT CAN’T FEND FOR ITSELF, OR JUST STARVED TO DEATH IN YOUR HOUSE.
PLEASE DON’T KEEP CONSTRICTORS (pythons, boas, anacondas etc) WITH MAMMALS. SNAKES ARE GREAT ESCAPERS AND NOT ONLY CAN THEY EAT YOUR OTHER PETS BUT ALSO GET OUT AND HARM OTHERS, OR EVEN KILL SMALL CHILDREN. SNAKES HAVE ALSO BEEN KNOWN TO SUDDENLY KILL THEIR OWNERS. PLEASE BE RESPONSIBLE AND AT LEAST KEEP OTHER SMALLER NON POISONOUS SNAKES….AND PLEASE DON’T RELEASE THESE LARGE SNAKES WHEN YOU ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO LOOK AFTER THEM; TAKE THEM TO A HUMANE SOCIETY SPECIALIZING IN EXOTIC PETS.
"Animals run no risk of going to hell, they are there already" Victor Hugo
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. - Notebook, 1894 - Mark Twain
(There are more who don’t like the cat compared to the dog; the much misunderstood cat is actually not subservient but not independent either; there is a difference. Cats need their humans and other pets around, and don’t like being kept alone in the dark with no sound. If the human behaves like a jerk the cat will lose respect. Generally people who dislike cats either don’t know/understand them (or fear them) or have low self esteem)
Kitten Takes Care Of Her Mom's Corpse | Animal in Crisis EP18 (if anyone says cats are aloof they should take a look at this
JSFM Japanese Society of Feline Medicine (JSFM)
IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I WENT TO A SHELTER (I FOUND IT VERY DISTRESSING); THIS ARTICLE INFORMS US SOFT BACKGROUND MUSIC COULD RELAX THE ANIMALS……PLEASE CONSIDER THIS IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY
THE RESCUE ANIMAL MP3 PROJECT (MUSIC FOR ANIMALS IN SHELTERS)
Animals just love music:
Mad Bull Singing Opera In Big Sur California
Dog Singing Classical Music
Elephants Dancing to Violin! Adorable!
Video: Elephants sway in unison to live classical music in zoo
Donkey Loves Sound of Violin
Concert for the sheep
Cat loves music
Dog Singing Classical Music
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