Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
First Citation in “Russian”: Путин обнял заплакавшую жительницу Петербурга
I demoed CiteIt for Bezod today. First we did a citation in English. Then we cited an article on mail.ru:
Заметив реакцию женщины, Путин вернулся, выслушал жалобу на проблему ее дочери, а затем обнял.
The Art of the “Deceptive Answer”
What Trump actually agreed to was the following:
Trump may, or may not have asked James Comey for his loyalty, but if he did, Trump didn’t ask Comey to put his hand on the Bible when Comey’s allegiance was requested.
German post: “Überprüfen lässt sich das nicht”
Here is a German quote:
Überprüfen lässt sich das nicht, denn das Internet bleibt abgeschaltet. Der Sicherheit im Land werde alles geopfert, hieß es zur Begründung.
The Mythology Behind the Grameen Bank
The day after the color revolution in Bangladesh, Mohammed Yunus, founder of the Grameen bank, a darling of the west, and a favorite of the Clinton foundation was coronated as “Chief advisor” to the new interim government. To understand the man, and how he will govern in Bangladesh, it is important to understand his history.
Before occupying his newest role as Bangladeshi Juan Guaido, Mohammed Yunus rose to fame in the 1990s, for his Grameen bank, a bank whose purpose was to give micro-loans to poor people. It eventually expanded to create a cottage industry with his Grameen Telecom, Grameen Fisheries, Grameen Danone Food and more!
In his effort to promote the Grameen Bank, Mohammed Yunus has made outrageous claims about his micro-loan program. He once said, Poverty will be eradicated in a generation. Our children will have to go to a `poverty museum’ to see what all the fuss was about.
Even after 40 years of founding his ‘revolutionary’ institution, Bangladesh remains as poor as ever with 71.4% of the population living on less than $5.50 a day, while 1.3 million children are engaged in child labor. Sadly, people in Bangladesh experience poverty first-hand, and life, itself, is the poverty museum.
- https://www.historicly.net/p/the-mythology-behind-the-grameen
Think Tank Information Laundering
In their recent podcast, Adam Johnson asks that journalists and “Think Tanks” dislose the interests of their funders, arguing
that if they did, most think tanks would go away because the enterprise serves as a giant information laundering operation:
This is a very liberal demand which is like can you at least disclose the people know and I think that’s really where you give the game away because if they did that they would be far far less funded and far less influential because they kind of nominal or widely perceived neutrality or or kind of academia sheen or branding is what gives them power
Teen smashes state fishing record for tiger trout
Krall’s father, Robert Krall, told Fox News Digital that his son “was very excited when he landed the fish and even more excited when he found out he is the new Wyoming state record holder for tiger trout.”
Jimmy “Mr. Beast” Donaldson: Success Formula
Why has Jimmy been so successful why did his videos catch on Jimmy’s popularity with younger viewers is probably based on the idea that he thinks like they do most of idea that he thinks like they do most of the videos on Jimmy’s Channel could be thought of as connected to the question what would a kid do with millions of dollars younger viewers live vicariously through Jimmy he represents their own immaturity and impulsivity here they see a young adult just a few years older than them handing out millions of dollars to people crushing cars driving trains into pits setting houses on fire building towers made of Lego bricks and playing all types of extreme games
Citizens United: Against the Suppression of Corporate Knowledge
In the Citizens United case, Justice Anthony Kennedy raised concerns that corporate knowledge would be lost if corporations were unable to engage in speech (political donations): Government silences a corporate objector, and those corporations may have the most knowledge of this on the subject. Corporations have lots of knowledge about environment, transportation issues, and you are silencing them during the election.
This argument is as artificial as classical economics’ concept of Homo Economicus because it ignores how humans and society actually function.
In reality, when corporations “speak” to provide their “knowledge‘, it isn’t to distribute publications about the environment that their scientists discovered when they studied global warming. Rather, it means that they pay money to political front groups that pay political consultants to create 30-second ads on a completely different wedge issue, like gay marriage or CRT or DEI.
George Washington: Bigotry and Citizenship
On August 21, 1790, George Washington wrote:
for, happily, the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.