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> “In many cases, a caesarean is a life-saving procedure and can be the right choice for a woman and her baby,” And in other cases it is a way to make life easier for medical staff? Here in Panama, babies are disproportionately born thro
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This is a quote from an interview, where Norman Finkelstein discusses the subject of thought policing. "What he should have done was in my opinion deliver one policy speech. 'This is where we stand on antisemitism. This is where w
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This occurred during the first government of Alan García https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accomarca_massacre
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"Even as their ad was inducing guilt in viewers for spreading trash, Keep America Beautiful’s members were fighting legislation that could have done much to address the problem." https://theintercept.com/2019/
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Kevin Anderson often stresses out this point. Besides there is this point regarding recycling: “It was propaganda that did not appear propagandistic. It also shielded corporate polluters from blame by shifting responsibility onto individual
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> Companies are even easier to control than people because their whole existence is made possible by laws and regulations of governments. And this is how we know the "small government" slogan is an absolute sham.
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> faster-growing, larger, longer-lasting vegetables are better product Whatever product fits into the economies of scale, and selective commoditization solely for the sake of profit concentration not nutrition or environment. But back to
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"Losing patience, he sent the message: You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city. The Spartan ephors again replied with a sin
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When forest-based hunter-gatherers become sedentary(fao.org)
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The Principle of Least Action applied to human collective instincts.
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Ted Nelson – Computers for Cynics (2015)(youtube.com)
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The concept of property is predicated on the existence of government, and we've just completed the circle. "Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor
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The adjective liber in Latin is what the slaves are not, that is, "unrestricted [people]". The root 'lewdh-, from which it comes, is also in Leute and ljudi (people). Liberty today seems to be often used to mean unrestrictedn
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Hambach Forest(en.wikipedia.org)
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> Plants ... who are resilient to all herbizides and selective bred for maximum spread into our ecologic niche. Ironically one of such plants is Cyperus Rotundus, very useful in times of famine. Perhaps we are living in hyperopic age, wh
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> since they’re just talking about fundamental observations of the mind which are universal I have to politely disagree. In fact there are lots of subjects in common between so called Eastern and Western philosophy. Maybe you are mostly
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You are welcome. Here is some material describing the grammar in case anyone is interested. http://www.invisiblebooks.com/CGCC.htm
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I'd go even further in the speculation. Have you seen how some Greeks today get upset at the thought the language of Homer did not sound like theirs? I think there is a similar phenomenon with many Chinese (I'm hoping the phenomen
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Ancient Greek and Sanskrit both have complex detailed grammars that leave little room for ambiguity. The language of the Dao De Jing has a minimalistic grammar, where more has to be inferred from context.
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Or get people to eat local as much as possible. The only people at risk from being more malnourished due to a scarcity of Cavendish bananas are those whose land has been plagued by the monoculture. And by the way https://www.inde
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Mass-surveillance makes impossible to have any honest cold-minded debate on the subject unless one is an important person, but here is some relevant material. https://www-cdn.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/201
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Here in Panama, many years ago Nestle became the main customer of tomato growers, and then through aggressive PR managed to make their canned tomato sauce into some sort of staple ingredient. There are at least three teams in this game, the
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It'd be more accurate to say 'commoditization favoring economies of scale for the sake of anti-competitive oligopolization demands X.' It then takes some PR money to make people 'demand' all the crap. Addded: the mi
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Heartbreaking, but at this point it does not really surprise that people of highly regarded intellect and achievement indulge in such horrible practices while most people around them turn a blind eye. On the other hand we should be wonderin
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"A calorie is a calorie" violates the second law of thermodynamics https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC506782/
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Russian cities are choking under smoke from Siberian wildfires(vox.com)
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Heatwaves amplify near-record levels of ice melt in northern hemisphere(theguardian.com)
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Greenland's ice sheet melting fast(independent.co.uk)
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Society tends to underestimate the power of inefficiencies and shortcomings to keep us in the right track by making it difficult to attain our immediate aspirations. The exception is in the case of the underclasses. In this case most people
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The Nobel Prize for Climate Catastrophe (2018)(foreignpolicy.com)
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