#Western

Interesting study by Finnish and Japanese researchers concludes no evidence for "anthropogenic climate change." https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.00165.pdf Whether or not this study is valid, the fact that it is done by Finnish
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For those who don't know Edward Bernays was a J who wrote a book called "Propaganda" where he explained that in a modern democracy the official power structure (the government)
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WRONG!That is NOT the Mughal (or Moghul) way of dressing.That is the costume of Hindus of Northern and Northwestern India.What you are doing right now is cultural appropriation.Here is an
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Conservationists are rescuing giraffes stranded on an island in Lake Boringo in western Kenya after heavy rains led to the flooding of their rangeland habitat, threatening the animals with drowning
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To the tankies and other morons who oppose the Hong Kong protests because they don't do enough to address racism, migrant rights, economic inequality, and other issues, then I just
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1/6 Isolate China! Build a broad alliance of democracies! So where to start? Five Eyes, of course: US, UK, Australia, Canada and NZ. Anglo-Saxons together. Four former settler colonies. English
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New Education Policy: Thread on why learning Persian is important.1. Large part of Indian history is recorded in Persian. It was the court (official) language of the Muslim rulers. It’s
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THE RICHMOND VAMPIRE A somewhat recent urban legend, this one takes us to Richmond, Virginia in the 1920s. Specifically, Church Hill Tunnel. The tunnel had been abandoned in the early
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Sorry, you mean watch a video in which someone *laughs'* at the fact farming Falahi communities live in tents? Or conveniently ignores the history of the Palestinian communities living in
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As Covid we couldn’t talk to elders anymore to work on our language so I deep dived into our texts, I spent many many hours transcribing, transliterating, translating but also
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I’ve been reading several research papers lately with drawing as a task, and it’s gotten me riled up enough that it’s time for a rant thread. The short of it:
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Most people who study early medieval history have probably encountered _Anglo-Saxon England_ by F. Stenton. Still a useful book. No question it's important, but have you ever read the end?
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The fall of the USSR/Eastern Bloc in 1989-91 removed any real incentive for the Western ruling classes to make concessions to their own working classes, since capitalism no longer had
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Thread: A plea for companies, businesses & government bureaucracies to be more #CALD inclusive in paperwork & admin. As demonstrated by my Vietnamese name. For this rant to work &
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Language competence matters. Being culturally sensitive helps. But proper #China #competence requires a clear understanding *how* the Chinese party-state suppresses liberal democratic thought and practice, both at home and abroad.
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1/ For our final 2C story, I traveled to Colorado’s Western Slope (in the before times, last fall). This hot spot, which extents into eastern Utah, is the largest in
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