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    • … through a combination of fear-mongering and repression. One measure of the decline of the United States is this: Seventy-five years ago in the midst of the Great Depression, when American capitalism still retained the resources to implement a program of social reform, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared …

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    • … is a maliciously-named and defamed representative of a class of industrialists and financiers who were the movers and shakers of the Industrial Revolution. While they prodigiously reaped personal benefits of wealth and prestige, they also vastly improved the living conditions of the population at large …

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    • … the Mouse King. The real story is extravagantly disturbed. ETA Hoffman, as it turns out, was a supreme weird genre story teller a progenitor of Poe and Lovecraft, and to my way of thinking, Rod Serling. Hoffman, writing during the mechanicalization of the Industrial Revolution, was able to write …

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    • … it, but the book is very steam punk. If angels were running around during the Industrial Revolution, that’d be the setting for this. The basic premise is that the goddess that rules everything suddenly decides she hates everyone (there’s more to it than that, I just don’t feel like typing out a wall of text …

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    • … celebrations. Christmas became a big party, or series of smaller parties– but the riotous drunken feasts of yore were no more. As the Age of Reason progressed into the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, the celebration of Christmas began to lull. Many considered it an uncouth throw-back to heathen …

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    • … “This is not quite the third Industrial Revolution trumpeted when proposals were presented at the beginning of the year. “The 20 per cent target sounds nice in words, but is void because EU countries are allowed to accomplish approximately three-quarters of the effort outside EU borders, which translates …

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    • The Market Oracle Darryl Robert Schoon The American Dream, An Obituary - The American Revolution was an extraordinary event. The idea that freedom was an inherent right, that tyranny could be successfully opposed, that government could serve the people, not the few, was truly revolutionary in 1776 …

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    • Due to the Beijing Olympics and a string of unexpected headline-grabbing events, from the Tibet riots and Sichuan earthquake to the melamine milk scandal, this year has seen China garner an extraordinary amount of attention in the Western media. There has been a clear contrast even with 2007, when …

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    • … with the United States. It was Cuban sugar that Americans stirred into their morning coffee and U.S. industrial and consumer goods that steamed to the island. Castro called Cuba a ”colony of the United States” — and made it clear he wanted to break with old ways. But over the past five decades …

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    • … to the reality that we are in the midst of an industrial revolution, of sorts, with a multitude of components that are focused on very effectively and efficiently connecting people to ideas. This has changed everything around us, and people who are succeeding in this revolution are seeing how this connection …




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