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The Jihad definition according to the original arab meaning

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Islam Jihad today is like Christian Crusade yesterday. As explained in a text below by an Arab scholar, Jihad didn't mean Holy War but only an inner struggle against one's own evil (In Occident, James Conrad... published 14 months ago

2 comments    education politics religion

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The Aryan race: the origin of the Myth

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The term Aryan ("noble", "spiritual") originates with the Indo-Iranian self-designation arya, attested in the ancient texts of Hinduism. Under the British Empire, the British rulers exploited that idea in... published 15 months ago

8 comments    education politics history

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[World Famous Scientist] Rosalie Bertell: "Scientists are economic prisoners"

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Written by Wendy Jewell Rosalie Bertell holds a doctorate in biometry (the statistical analysis of biological observations and phenomena), is an environmental epidemiologist and a... published 6 months ago

4 comments    education politics war

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1984 - The primary aim of modern continuous warfare: maintain the stability of a hierarchical society.

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The Malthus Factor: Poverty Politics and Population in Capitalist Development It examines how Malthusian arguments portrayed agricultural modernization as a humanitarian attempt to forestall a food crisis in... published 15 months ago

3 comments    business technology education

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Bush's Shadow Army

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Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. With its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and... published 15 months ago

3 comments    politics war bush

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Only 16% of Americans think the government is telling the truth about 9/11 but they're nearly doing anything ?

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According to the new New York Times/CBS News poll, only 16% of Americans think the government is telling the truth about 9/11 and the intelligence prior to the attacks: "Do you think members of the Bush... published 8 months ago

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The war left US in debt... Hamilton suggested the First Central Bank.57

First Bank of the United States: the first US Central Bank

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The First Bank of the United States was needed because the government had a debt from the Revolutionary War, and each state had a different form of currency. It was built while Philadelphia was still the... published 14 months ago

0 comments    education finance history

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[Russian Pravda Newspaper] Weapons of the Future - Weather, Plasma and Money

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Let's imagine that a country at war is using meteorological weapons: an earthquake is followed with hard rains and draughts. An enemy will most likely ask for help after such a powerful impact. It will be the... published 15 months ago

1 comment    finance politics war

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Interview with John Perkins author of 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man'

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DANIEL MCLEOD: You place economic hit men in a long line of imperial agents including Roman centurions, Spanish conquistadors, and 18th and 19th century colonial powers. All of these approaches relied on... published 15 months ago

2 comments    business finance money

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Declassified National Archives: Chase National Bank [Rockefeller's Bank], Jewish Accounts, and Nazi Germany

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"It has been known since the war years that the Nazi government built dollar exchange in the United States until the June 14, 1941 Executive Order freezing German assets. The Germans sold special German... published 14 months ago

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