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In 'My Booky Wook,' Brand admits to teaching his dog he couldn't come upstairs, enticing him upstairs, kicking him downstairs and then comforting him, for his own sadistic amusement. Childhood cruelty to animals is the sure sign of a psychopath.
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European exploration began long before Columbus.
This incredible animated map shows how Europeans explored and mapped the world over 1,200 years, from Viking voyages to the first photographs of Earth from space.
Watch the map come to life!
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Perhaps the best thing to remember when we see riots and arson attacks on historic buildings in France, or hundreds of drug addicts sprawled out on the streets of San Francisco, or thousands of murders per year in America’s cities, is that things don’t have to be this way. There are places in the world that you can visit that are not like this. There are a set of policy choices that we can make at any time that would ensure these things simply don’t happen, if our civilization had the will to enact them
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Am entirely convinced that the last 40ish lines of Paradise Lost are the greatest thing in all English poetry. The depth and emotional weight are incomparable.
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Why was the Jason Arday story broken by a racist blogger and not the mainstream press?
Because Times Higher Education was intimidated off the story by a letter from notorious libel firm Carter-Ruck.
I'm publishing the letter. Its central claim may be false.
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Been reading the forthcoming book…
- genius mother
- mystery “speech therapy”
- corporal punishment
- child sporting prodigy
- bizarre illnesses
- missing charity cash
- marathons, pig’s heads and jobs that don’t exist
And much, much more! dailymail.com/news/article-1…
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En 1979, un presentador de TV le preguntó a Milton Friedman si no le daba vergüenza defender un sistema basado en la codicia.
La respuesta se estudia hasta hoy:
«—Cuando ves la mala distribución de la riqueza, tan pocos que tienen tanto y tantos que no tienen nada… ¿nunca has dudado del capitalismo, de si la codicia es una buena idea?
—Primero dime: ¿conoces alguna sociedad que NO funcione con codicia? ¿Crees que Rusia no funciona con codicia? ¿Que China no?
¿Y qué es la codicia? Ninguno de nosotros es codicioso, claro. El codicioso siempre es el otro.
Los grandes logros de la civilización no salieron de despachos del gobierno. Einstein no construyó su teoría por orden de un burócrata. Ford no revolucionó el automóvil así.
Los únicos casos en la historia en los que las masas escaparon de la pobreza son aquellos donde hubo capitalismo y libre comercio.
—Pero parece premiar la habilidad de manipular el sistema, no la virtud.
—¿Y qué premia la virtud? ¿Crees que un comisario comunista premia la virtud? ¿Un Hitler? ¿Crees que los presidentes americanos eligen sus cargos por virtud… o por peso político?
Dime: ¿dónde están esos ángeles que van a organizar la sociedad por nosotros?
Yo ni siquiera confío en ti para hacerlo.»
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🧵After some 3 months in Europe, I'm beginning to prepare to go back home. A few thoughts as I reflect on my experience here this summer. First, American democracy is different from what exists in the #EU today, and that shouldn't surprise anyone, but should make us think. 1/10
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BREAKING: Gwent Police has charged eight men over alleged grooming gang activity in South Wales in the 1980s and 90s.
Shafaq Mohammed, 58, Syed Mohammed Ashan Taqvi, 65, Mohammed Sheikh Abdul Hannan, 54, Kevin Lawrence, 54, Sheikh Mohammed Tahir Ullah, 73, Aminur Rahman Chowdhury, 58, Shakeel Babur, 58, and Murad Ali, 57 have been charged with a range of sexual offences against children in Newport, Abergavenny and Swansea.
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You’ve got to admit it, Ann Widdecombe was one of a kind. Rest in peace, Ann.
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Louis, 17 ans, a été lynché à mort avec une violence inimaginable, filmé par ses agresseurs hilares, laissé agonisant pendant toute une nuit et retrouvé inerte sur un chantier à Narbonne.
Il est le symbole d'un pays à la dérive, miné par un ensauvagement que ni le laxisme ni l'aveuglement de nos dirigeants ne peuvent enrayer.
Il faudra oser la rupture avec 30 ans d'échecs si nous voulons rétablir l'ordre en France.