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WWI Decoy Howitzer
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Library of Congress images, animated.
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“If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable...”
– Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, February 1998 (via libertariancontrarian)
there’s a huge advantage to being a woman in politics: people are more reluctant to call your bs :)
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“A man filmed a group of girls attacking a 12-year-old girl in his...”
– Girl, 12, beaten while neighbor films - CNN.com
The 12-year-old suffered two black eyes, a bruised nose and bite marks on her hands. Holly Gingerella, the girl’s mother, said, “My daughter is doing OK. She doesn’t look very good, but she’s a strong child.” She said...
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“I would like you to imagine how it is for a growing boy in the age of ten to...”
– From the son of a feminist
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What Role For The Educated Woman?
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Sophomore Jamie Rosenthal of Radcliffe admits: “I think I’m bright, but I’m more delighted when i can be outbrighted than be brighter than someone else- particularly if it’s a man.”
Newsweek June 13, 1966
Did times change?
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Patients living with HIV are dying in denial →
For four years Shari Margolese has been in phone contact with a woman who lives somewhere in rural Ontario. Margolese doesn’t know anything about her — except that she is HIV-positive. Terrified by her status, the woman has refused to seek proper treatment for her disease. They talked about disclosure in their first phone conversation, said Margolese, a Toronto community consultant and HIV...
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“They make people believe that going to paradise depends on their...”
– Slavery’s last stronghold - CNN.com
so it’s not just in Christianity..
Perhaps most surprising, many slaves in Mauritania don’t understand that they are enslaved; they have been brainwashed, activists say, to believe it is their place in the world to work as slaves, without pay,...
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“A man wearing a powder-blue garment that billows at the arms and has fancy gold...”
– Slavery’s last stronghold - CNN.com
Real patriarchy
The issue is so sensitive here that we had to conduct most of our interviews in secret, often in the middle of the night and in covert locations. The only other option was to do them in the presence of a government minder, who was assigned...
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Why Are Some Countries More Expensive Than Others?
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Zenaide Muneton is a nanny in New York City. Last year, she made more than $200,000, Planet Money reports. Yes, with five zeros.
How in the world can Manhattan nannies be worth $200,000 a year? One answer is that they’re more talented than your typical babysitter. The highest-paid nannies can cook four-course macrobiotic meals and know their way around a Zamboni (those are actual...
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deontology and journalism business ethics
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“It could change my job, I guess. I could end up as greeter at Walmart next week.”
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Paul Nussbaum, reporter, The Philadelphia Inquirer, responding to news that the subject of his recent investigative reports is now part of a team that is buying the company that owns the newspaper. New York Times, Philadelphia Newspapers Set to Be Sold to Local Leaders.
Background: The...
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“In part because of rising prices for the metals it’s made of, it actually...”
– The penny’s days are numbered - Business - CBC News
Citing low purchasing power and rising production costs, the government has decided to phase the penny out of existence starting this fall, when the Royal Canadian Mint will stop distributing the one-cent coin to financial institutions.
A...
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libertarian socialism vs stupid workers
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Everyone is wrong wrong wrong about Property.
Libertarians are wrong because they fail to recognise and acknowledge that property is a social construct, not a state of nature.
Socialists are wrong to deny the utlility of property in efficiently allocating scarce resources.
I’m willing to admit property is...
