Ten Minute English and British History #04 -Alfred the Great and the Rise of Wessex
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in economic history Tags: British history
Lavrentiy Beria: Stalin’s Architect of Terror
01 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, Marxist economics Tags: Stalin, USSR
Secret Files: How shredded Stasi files are reconstructed | People & Politics
01 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of information, law and economics, Marxist economics Tags: East Germany, fall of communism, fall of the Berlin wall
Hamas’ use of human shields must stop @amnestynz
01 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime
UK Counter-Terrorism Force Assigned To Protect Butchers from Vegan Terrorists
01 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
Since vegan activists in Great Britain have become more violent, the country’s counter-terrorism task force has been assigned to protect people employed with the meat industry.
The UK Daily Mail reveals that the British Poultry Council and the National Pig Association requested support from authorities after increasing threats against employees at farms and slaughterhouses from animal rights terrorists.
In recent years, vegans have been litigating in English courts seeking protections from discrimination and having their lifestyle recognized as legally protected. Sofar, they have failed since it is not the typical philosophical belief such as if one belongs to a religious organization or sect.
During May, the Daily Mail also reported that staff at a family-run butcher establishment in Kent were living in fear resulting from vegan thugs threatening to firebomb the butcher shop, with the outside of the building being covered in Animal Liberation Front graffiti.
It is good British…
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Mapping changes in BBC reporting of Palestinian demand for ‘right of return’
01 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
In July 2013 the BBC News website produced a backgrounder intended to inform audiences about what it considered to be the five “Core Issues” of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians: Jerusalem, borders, settlements, refugees and security. Although that backgrounder is no longer available online in its original form, in a section titled ‘refugees’ the Palestinian position was presented thus:
“Formally, they maintain the “right of return”, arguing that without it a great injustice would not be put right. However, there has been regular talk among Palestinians that this “right” could be met by compensation.”
In other words, the BBC presented the Palestinian demand for the ‘right of return’ for refugees as a formality and steered audiences towards the view that the issue would be resolved on a practical level by means of compensation.
Over the past nine months, however, audiences have seen changes in the BBC’s presentation of that…
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Day 1 of @EugenieSage’s #plasticbagfascism: single use bag for meat, 15 cent thick bag that might recycle as a shoe bag in suitcase. 15 cent bag isn’t worth putting aside
01 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Green fascism, recycling, The fatal conceit
Why NASA Spun Astronauts Around, But Doesn’t Any More
01 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: space
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