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Monday, January 03, 2005



Trend at workplaces dominated by Haskews and Riches Magazine Toasts Unabashed Alcoholism

Eye on Politics & Law Lords: How Evil Works
Catastrophic political convulsions when the best laid plans of mice and men are smashed in seconds. Dinosaurs either evolve or die ...

Arendt innovatively observed that both European totalitarian regimes ruled not merely through violence, like ordinary dictatorships, but through ideology, education, and propaganda that terrorized people "from within." She noticed that the Communist parties and the National Socialist parties played similar roles within Soviet and Nazi government and culture, and that Stalin and Hitler played similar roles within their parties. She also pointed out that both regimes were obsessed with, and in some way dependent upon, the persecution of "enemies," internal and external. While such observations may now seem obvious, for some forty years that was about as far as any serious comparative analysis ever went.


Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives [Human beings have always told stories to explain deluges such as this. Most cultures have deep at their core a flood myth in which the great bulk of humanity is destroyed and a few are left to repopulate and repurify the human race. This catastrophic, genocidal nature is a long way from the benign and rhythmic circle of life in "The Lion King ]
• · Look back at Weimar – and start to worry about Russia
• · · Remains of FBI agent's daughter found in drum ; [Diplomadic license Undimplomatic Diplomads]
• · · · PEACE on Earth? Forget it. Nowadays, Christmas is a battlefield in the culture wars. "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas" has come to mean that there are endless arguments about nativity scenes, Santa Claus and reindeer on public property, Christmas carols in public schools, and the greeting "Merry Christmas" vs. "Happy Holidays." What 'happy holidays'?
• · · · · Knowledge of the ocean and its currents passed down from generation to generation of a group of Thai fishermen known as the Morgan sea gypsies saved an entire village from the Asian tsunami Sea gypsies' knowledge saves village
• · · · · · Iraq's jailed Mrs Anthrax 'dying'