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Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Mommy, am I gonna die?”— 4-year-old Ava Ellis after being inadvertently shot in the leg by a police officer who was aiming for the girl’s boxer-terrier dog, Patches “‘Am I going to get shot again.’”—2-year-old survivor of a police shooting that left his three siblings, ages 1, […]
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Reading is the ability to cheat in life’s open book test. Those who don’t use this ability will risk failing life’s challenges and become the victim of wicked traps set by those who lived before. America is a unique class of humans from any perspective, with the recent school shootings it seems a reminder is […]
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The administration’s handling of the Ebola crisis continues to be marked by double talk, runaround and gobbledygook. And its logic is worse than its language. In many of its actions, especially its public pronouncements, the government is functioning not as a soother of public anxiety but the cause of it. An example this week came […]
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“So far, the 21st century has been a rotten one for the western model,” according to a new book, The Fourth Revolution, by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge. This seems an extraordinary admission from two editors of the Economist, the flag-bearer of English liberalism, which has long insisted that the non-west could only achieve prosperity […]
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Having previously mapped the world’s Muslims, we thought it only politically-correct (and fair-and-balanced) to highlight where the world’s Christians make their home… But what about the Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, and others… Source: @ConradHackett and Pew Research
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GIH: We have recently witnessed many ‘firsts’ such as one of the largest storms in the Pacific, the most severe acute health risk in modern times, and a global financial system on the brink of collapse. The IMF is warning of ‘runs’ – and meanwhile, Russia is developing it’s new ROSSWIFT system. It has been reported […]
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Europe’s leaders, we assume under pressure from Washington, appear to be making a big weather-related bet with their taxpayers’ lives this winter. As they unleash funding sanctions on Russia’s big energy producers, Europe has pumped a record volume of natural gas into underground inventories in an effort to ‘outlast’ Russia and mitigate any Napoleonic “Winter […]
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Things appear to be going from worse to worst as the deadly Ebola epidemic surges on. The CDC has issued a Level 3 – Avoid All Non-Essential Travel – warning. CDC urges all US residents to avoid nonessential travel to Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone because of an unprecedented outbreak of Ebola. An outbreak of Ebola has […]
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Edward Bernays was the master of influencing and shaping public opinion who developed upon the ideas of earlier social psychologists and the work of his uncle, Sigmund Freud, in order to create techniques to manipulate the subconscious desires of the masses. Throughout his 103-year lifespan, the “father of public relations” was at the pinnacle of his […]
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Laura Knight-Jadczyk writes: A few years ago, when my book The Secret History of the World was published, I rashly promised that volume 2 would soon be completed and ready for publication. After all, I pretty much knew what I wanted to zoom in on – the topic of Moses and the creation of Judaism – and […]
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