Quotation Of The Week
“Nothing to fear in God; Nothing to feel in death; Good can be attained; Evil can be endured”
- Epicurus, 3rd century BCE
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“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly”
- Martin Luther King Jnr
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“Consider what the world might have done with the $5.5 trillion expended by the government to create, store, and deploy nearly 65,000 nuclear weapons held by the USA and USSR during the 19080’s. Imagine the improvements in health, education, environmental protection, transit, technology, sustainable development and foreign aid that might have changed the course of civilisation if these resources had been redirected for the greater good.”
- Prof. John Wargo, Green Intelligence
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“Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny” – Alex Haley
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“You cannot have clarity of perception until you understand that everything is interconnected, and in doing so remove the compartmentalisation of your knowledge” – JF
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“There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.”
- Schopenhauer, Die Kunst Recht zu Behalten
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“Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life”
- Fernand Braudel (1902-1985)
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“I discovered to my amazement that average men and women were delighted by the prospect of war. I had fondly imagined what most pacifists contended, that most wars were forced upon a reluctant population by despotic and Machiavellian governments”
- Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970), The Autobiography Of Bertrand Russell
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“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living hand to mouth.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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“The first answer is ‘war’. War not only creates a supply of news but a demand for it. So deep rooted is the fascination in a war and all things appertaining to it that…a paper has only to be able to put up on its placard ‘A Great Battle’ for its sales to go up”
- An anonymous editor with the Northcliffe Media Group (inc. The Times & Daily Mail) in 1899
Quotation Of The Week
“As speculators or financial dealers they constitute the gravest single factor in the economics of Imperialism [war]….Each condition of their profitable business throws them on the side of Imperialism….there is not a war, or any other public shock, which is not gainful to these men; they are harpies who suck their gains from every sudden disturbance of public credit….The wealth of these houses, the scale of their operations, and their cosmopolitan organization make them the prime determinants of economic policy. They have the largest definite stake in the business of Imperialism, and the amplest means of forcing their will upon the policy of nations…Finance is the governor of the imperial engine, directing the energy and determining the work”
J.A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study (written in 1902 – have we learnt anything in the intervening 107 years?)
Definitions: Fascism (2)
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion [Robert Paxton]
Definitions: Fascism (1)
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power [Benito Mussolini]
Quotation Of The Week
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address to the nation, January 17, 1961
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“The broad mass of a nation…will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one”
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1933)
History vanishes from one in 20 UK schools
The Telegraph – History has effectively vanished from the classroom in almost one in 20 English secondary schools. Official figures show that in 131 state schools, not a single pupil sat GCSE history last year. That is 4.1 percent of all 3,159 maintained mainstream secondary schools whose results are published by the Department of Children, Schools and Families. Read article
The Biochemist – “History is a race between education and catastrophe”.(HG Wells). Therefore not to learn it……
Quotation Of The Week
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
- Niels Bohr (Danish physicist 1885 – 1962)
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“WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”
- George Orwell, 1984
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“The bombing was a terrible time. How would you feel? We were all crowded together in one room. If anything hit our house, we wanted to know where everyone was. We wanted to be able to get to each other. We huddled together and waited to die. Overhead we heard the aircraft, felt the ground shake, heard the world around us shaking.
People watch war in the movies and they think they know what it’s like. They don’t know. If they knew they wouldn’t allow it to happen. Only very sick, bad people would want to make war”
- Hibba, aged 16. An Iraqi refugee now living in Jordan. Her family left Iraq in July 2003 when she was 10. From “Children of War – Iraqi children speak” by Deborah Ellis.
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“The climate suddenly reached a warm peak around thirteen thousand years ago, when it was actually slightly warmer than today. Then it grew colder again, reaching another near glacial period which began around eleven thousand years ago and ended a thousand or so years later”
- Dr Francis Pryor, Britain BC
Revealing Quote In the Melbourne Age
“There is not, now, much value in arguing about the science of climate change. Even if it’s wrong, enough people now believe it that it may as well be right. “
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“Are Governments able to change climate? If Governments could change the galactic path of the Solar System, the variable energy emitted by the Sun, changes in cosmic ray flux, the wobbles in the Earth’s orbit, the behaviour of bacteria and plate tectonics, then I would be convinced that they could change climate. Governments should never forget King Canute”
- Professor Ian Plimer, “Heaven & Earth. Global Warming: The Missing Science”
