THE INHERITANCE LAWS CREATE MANY CASES OF ILL FEELING
IN THE FAMILY BOSOM...MANY CHILDREN COMPETE FOR THE LAND LIKE THE IRISH
AND THE LAND IS MORE AND MORE SCARCE
SMUGGLING IS NORMAL IN ALL THE FRONTIER LANDS IS ACCEPTED
TROMERO CALIMERO TRAGUDI - ΘΑΝΑΤΟΥΣ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΦΑΣΙΣΤΕΣ ,ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΞΕΝΟΙ ΦΑΣΙΣΤΕΣ ΚΡΕΜΑΣΜΕΝΟΙ UM BLOGUE DE KOISAS INCOMPREENSÍVEIS PARA VER DURANTE GREVES GERAIS OU GREVES DE ZELO
Κυριακή 1 Ιουνίου 2014
THE MORGADIO SYSTEM IS AN IBERIC SYSTEM - THE DISINHERITED HAD TO EMIGRATE TO BRAZIL TO ARGENTINA TO FRANCE IN THIS LAST HALF CENTURY TO EARN THEIR LIVELIHOODS - AND THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE OUTSIDE THEIR VILLAGES IN PARIS OR IN RIO OR BUEÑOS AIRES THAN IN MORA OR IN MOURA OU IN SERTÃ OU NOUTRO VILLAREJO QUALQUER
Παρασκευή 9 Μαΐου 2014
A NOVA MOEDA DA IDADE SEM GELO - SE O ÚLTIMO DEGELO SEPAROU A LIBRA ESTERLINA DA EUROPA POR ELEVAÇÃO DO NÍVEL MÉDIO OCEÂNICO A PRÓXIMA AFOGA A LIBRA DENTRO DA CITY COMO ACONTECEU AOS POVOS DOS PÂNTANOS DO QUE SE TORNARIA O MAR DO NORTE E O BÁLTICO E O CANAL DA MANCHA PROVAVELMENTE O MITO DO DILÚVIO VEM DOS SOBREVIVENTES DOS POVOS AFOGADOS POR ESSES METROS EXTRA DE ÁGUA QUE AFOGARAM UM A CINCO MILHÕES DE QUILÓMETROS QUADRADOS DE TERRA MAIS OU MENOS SECA E DESTRUIRAM A RETOMA ECONÓMICA EUROPEIA CIRCA TWELVE THOUSAND B.C.?
- A ESPECIALIZAÇÃO DAS SOCIEDADES DO PALEOLÍTICO SUPERIOR E DO NEOLÍTICO INFERIOR TORNOU-SE INDISPENSÁVEL AO TOTAL APROVEITAMENTO DOS RECURSOS NESSE MUNDO PÓS DILÚVIO A MOEDA DE TROCA COMEÇA A TORNAR-SE REGIONAL E MESMO INTER-CONTINENTAL É O CASO DO SILEX ESCANDINAVO E DOS PÓRFIROS DO URAL E DO ÂMBAR DA SAMMLÂNDIA E OVIAMENTE ADMITO-O DO BACALHAU DA NORUEGA E DAS COMUNIDADES LITORAIS ESPECIALIZADAS NA CAÇA DE MAMIFEROS MARINHOS E ARDÓSIA DE OLONETZ ....
- NO money in metalic or paper form are accepted by some societies, some rather prefer blondes, black virgins, cow's, sacred cows and other pecunia, some put salt in their savings and some prefer blood, put in some fidutiary bloodmoney please
- Anonymous It think you should really write a post on the debate exogenous vs endogenous money.
- All these bank discussions about it were just confusing. Need our endogenous money?
- just buy a 3-D printer
JÁ OS MAGLEMOSENSES FROM MAGLEMOSE THE GREAT MOSS OU MUSGO ...MUSCI...CHAMADO ASSI DEVIDO às grandes camadas de turfa que cobriam os líticos utensílios em Mullerup Zeland descobriram provavelmente a 1ª substância económica feita pelo Homo sap...The Glue
a cola ...fabricavam cola aquecendo casca de bétula há 6000 anos antes deste dia ...se bem que a tinta também se possa considerar uma produção industrial pra maquilhagem dos caçadores de pau feito ...olha o mamute..- is the coin that binds the society of 4,000 B.C.
SILEX IN scandinavia and salty cod-fish as Norwegian currency in the same period
and slate and flint from Olonetz and Porphyry Stone from the Ural region
and that are the coins of the stone age ...and Ambar from SAMMLAND
PARA MANTER UMA INDÚSTRIA DE ARMAMENTO SEJA EM SÍLEX SEJA DE ORIGEM METALÚRGICA- É NECESSÁRIO UMA MOEDA DE TROCA PARA TER ESPECIALISTAS QUE NECESSITAM DE UMA RESERVA ALIMENTAR PARA SE DEDICAREM ÁS SUAS ARTES
- PARA O FERREIRO OU PARAO LAPIDADOR DE SILEX TEM DE HAVER UM COMERCIANTE QUE VIAJA PARA VENDER
OS PRODUTOS DESTES ESPECIALISTAS DA IDADE DA PEDRA OU DA DOS METAIS TANTO FAZ...
O COMERCIANTE VIAJA COM OS PRODUTOS MAS TEM DE OFERECER ALGO COMO DIREITO DE PASSAGEM
POR UMA SOCIEDADE ALTAMENTE TERRITORIAL E COM TERRENOS DE CAÇA OU DE AGRICULTURA E PASTAGEM
BASTANTE MARCADOS NUM MUNDO ONDE A ESCASSEZ DE PROTEÍNA É CÍCLICA DIRIA MESMO MAIS
É SAZONAL .....
TERIA DE HAVER UM LUCRO ALIMENTAR OU PROTEÍCO QUE ENCORAJASSE ESTA ESPECIALIZAÇÃO
JÁ NO EGIPTO SE IMOLAVAM ARTÍFICES CANTEIROS E BARBEIROS PARA SEGUIREM O FARAÓ NO ALÉM
A ESPECIALIZAÇÃO É PORTANTO UM RISCO
E SÓ ARRISCA QUEM É ÁVIDO PELO LUCRO
OU QUEM É MALUCO NO FUNDO HÁ POUCA DIFERENÇA
Κυριακή 4 Μαΐου 2014
WAR RUMORS - RUSSIA IS ATTACKING THE UKRANIAN'S ? RUSSIA WE WERE TOLD WAS EXTENDING HER CONQUESTS IN CENTRAL EUROPE ...HAD WE MADE NO CONQUESTS IN EUROPA?
IT
WAS TRUE THAT THE WARS ARE MADE BY RADICALS AND RADICALS
KILL THOUSANDS
OF POOR CREATURES FOR THE SAKE OF POWER ...
ELECTRIC POWER OR POLITIC
POWER IT'S THE SAME POWER...
people clamoured for ministers, on both sides, having ceased to regard themselves as more than the instruments of the people's wishes.
It was true that they were Radicals, and that the Radicals, till their turn of power came, had professed to hate war ; that they had denounced Lord Beaconsfield, and turned him out of office, for the jingoism which they were now adopting. But after we had seen them reddening the sands of Africa with the blood of tens of thousands of poor creatures who had been killed without a scruple to escape an adverse vote in the House of Commons, one could not deny that even they, or at least the politicians among them, might be willing, for the same object, to kill as many more in Asia. But why were the people themselves so eager ? Not one in a thousand of them could pretend that he had studied the question, and was satisfied that only a war could save our Indian Empire. Danger to the empire might be the excuse ; it could not be the motive. I began to think that Lord must have been right when he said to me : ' The reason why the English wish to fight Russia is that they enjoy fighting, and Russia is the only one of the Great Powers with whom they could fight with the slightest hope of a favourable result.' Prudent persons, before they undertake any important enter- prise, balance the result to be gained with the cost of gaining it. A war set going with Russia under the existing conditions would continue either till Russia was exhausted and fell to pieces in revolution ; or, if we were the unsuccessful party as it was at least possible that we might be till there was another rebellion in India. Either alternative promised in- calculable misery to millions of the human race ; yet we, who could not manage our own South Africa, who were letting Ireland slip from us, as wanting strength or wanting courage to hold it, were preparing with a light heart to carry fire and sword into the ends of the earth. Russia, we were told, was extending her conquests in Central Asia. Had we made no conquests in Asia ?
Russia's Asiatic subjects, counted altogether, do not exceed thirty millions. The Empress of India has two hundred and fifty millions. Russia was attacking the Afghans.
Had we never attacked the Afghans ?
Russia was a danger to the Indian Empire. She might encourage disaffection there, and if she could she would. How could we know that she would ? and if she did, might she not plead our own example : only seven years ago we had formed a deliberate plan to stir up a revolt in Turkestan 1 We satisfy ourselves that when we do these things it is for the good of mankind, but that when others do them it is wicked and not to be permitted. Such a plea as this will hardly pass current in the intercourse of nations. For myself, I thought that the war now so clamoured for would be a wicked war, and I clung to my conviction that our better genius would somehow keep us out of it. The greatest fool in the House of Commons, if left to himself and to his own small under- standing, would steer the ship of the State better than the galaxy of genius had done which formed Mr. Gladstone's Ad- ministration ; but even they, I trusted, would still keep us clear of this fresh disaster.
Πέμπτη 10 Απριλίου 2014
JAIPUR - FROM JESTING PILATE -HUXLEY - I SHOULD SEND FIVE RUPEES TO GET THE DETAILS OF THE ADULTERY CURE ...SO MUCH CHEAPER THAN DIVORCE
AT JAIPUR we were fortunate in having an introduction to one of the great thakurs of the State. He was a mighty landholder, the owner of twenty villages with populations ranging from five hundred to as many thousands, a feudal lord who paid for his fief (until, a year or two ago, a somewhat simpler and more modern system of tenure was introduced) by contributing to the State army one hundred and fifty armed and mounted men. This nobleman was kind enough to place his elephant at our disposal. It was a superb and particularly lofty specimen, with gold-mounted tusks; ate two hundredweight of food a day and must have cost at least six hundred a year to keep. An expensive pet. But" for a man in the thakur's position, we gathered, indispensable, a necessity. Pachyderms in Rajputana are what glass coaches were in Europe a century and a half ago essential luxuries. The thakur was a charming and cultured man, hospitably kind as only Indians can be. But at the risk of seeming ungrateful, I must confess that, of all the animals I have ever ridden, the elephant is the most uncomfortable mount. On the level, it is true, the motion is not too bad. One seems to be riding on a small chronic earthquake; that is all. The earthquake becomes more disquieting when the beast begins to climb. But when it goes downhill, it is like the end of the world. The animal descends very slowly and with an infinite caution, planting one huge foot deliberately before the other, and giving you time between each calculated step to anticipate the next convulsive spasm of movement a spasm that seems to loosen from its place every organ in the rider's body, that twists the spine, that wrenches all the separate muscles of the loins and thorax. The hills round Jaipur are not very high. Fortu- nately; for by the end of the three or four hundred feet of our climbing and descending, we had almost reached the limits of our endurance. I returned full of admiration for Hannibal. He crossed the Alps on an elephant. We made two expeditions with the pachyderm; one over a rocky pass entailing, there and back, two climbs and two sickening descents to the tanks and ruined temples of Galta, and one to the deserted palaces of Amber. Emerging from the palace precincts I record the trivial and all too homely incident, because it set me mournfully reflect- ing about the cosmos our monster halted and, with its usual delibera- tion, relieved nature, portentously. Hardly, the operation over, had it resumed its march when an old woman who had been standing at the door of a hovel among the ruins, expectantly waiting we had wondered for what darted forward and fairly threw herself on the mound of steaming excrement. There was fuel here, I suppose, for a week's cooking. "Salaam, Maharaj," she called up to us, bestowing in her gratitude the most opulent title she could lay her tongue to. Our passage had been to her like a sudden and unexpected fall of manna. She thanked us; she blessed the great and charitable Jumbo for his Gargantuan bounty. Our earthquake lurched on. I thought of the scores of millions of human beings to whom the passage of an unconstipated elephant seems a godsend, a stroke of enormous good luck. The thought depressed me. Why are we here, men and women, eighteen hundred millions of us, on this remarkable and perhaps unique planet? To what end? Is it to go about looking for dung cow dung, horse dung, the enormous and princely excrement of elephants? Evidently it is for a good many of us, at any rate. It seemed an inadequate reason, I thought, for our being here immortal souls, first cousins of the angels, own brothers of Buddha and Mozart and Sir Isaac Newton. But a little while later I saw that I was wrong to let the consideration depress me. If it depressed me, that was only because I looked at the whole matter from the wrong end, so to speak. In painting my mental picture of the dung-searchers I had filled my foreground with the figures of Sir Isaac Newton and the rest of them. These, I perceived, should have been relegated to the remote background and the foreground should have been filled with cows and elephants. The picture so arranged, I should have been able to form a more philosophical and proportionable estimate of the dung-searchers. For I should have seen at a glance how vastly superior were their activities to those of the animal producers of dung in the foreground. The philosophical Martian would admire the dung-searchers for having discovered a use for dung; no other animal, he would point out, has had the wit to do more than manufacture it. We are not Martians and our training makes us reluctant to think of ourselves as animals. Nobody inquires why cows and elephants inhabit the world. There is as little reason why we should be here, eating, drink- ing, sleeping and in the intervals reading metaphysics, saying prayers, CAWNPORE or collecting dung. We are here, that is all; and like other animals we do what our native capacities and our environment permit of our doing. Our achievement, when we compare it with that of cows and elephants, is remarkable. They automatically make dung; we collect it and turn it into fuel. It is not something to be depressed about; it is something to be proud of. Still, in spite of the consolations of philosophy, I remained pensive. Cawnpore From Jesting Pilate FROM its advertisements much may be learned of a nation's character and habits of thought. The following brief anthology of Indian adver- tisements is compiled from newspapers, magazines, medical catalogues, and the like. Several of the most characteristic specimens are taken from the Cawnpore Congress Guide, an official publication intended for the use of delegates and interested visitors. It is with one of these appeals to India's most enlightened public that I make a beginning. Beget a son and Be Happy by using the SON BIRTH PILLS, my special secret Hindu Shastrick preparation, according to direc- tions. Ladies who have given birth to daughters only WILL SURELY HAVE SONS NEXT, and those who have sons MUST HAVE MALE ISSUES ONCE AGAIN by the Grace of God. Fortunate persons desirous of begetting sons are bringing this marvelous Something into use for brightening their dark homes and making their lives worth their living. It is very efficacious and knows no failure. Self-praise is no recommendation. Try and be convinced. But if you apply, mention- ing this publication, with full history of your case, along with a con- sultation fee ot Rupees Ten (Foreign one guinea) only giving your "Word of Honor" to give me a SUITABLE REWARD (naming the amount) according to your means and position in life, just on the accomplishment of your desire in due course of time, you can have the same Free, ABSOLUTELY FREE. Act immediately, for this FREE OFFER may not remain open indefinitely. Here are some pleasing Hair-oil advertisements from various sources: Dr. *s Scented Almond Oil. Best preparation to be used as hair oil for men who do mental work. The effects of almond oil on brain are known to everybody. Jabukusum is a pure vegetable oil, to which medicinal ingredients and the perfume have been added to prevent all affectations (sic) of the hair and the brain. There are several panaceas on the Indian market. There is, for exam- ple, Sidda Kalpa Makaradhwaja which "is a sure and infallible specific for all Diseases, and it never fails to effect a satisfactory cure in the patient, be his ailment whatever it may. Among the various diseases amenable to its administration, to state a few, are the following: Debility, general or nervous, including Nervous Prostration, due to whatever cause, Loss of Memory, Giddiness and Insanity . . . Asthma and Consumption, all stomach troubles . . . Cholera ... all Kidney and Bladder Troubles ... all Acute and Chronic Venereal Diseases . . . Leprosy of all kinds, White, Black, Red, etc. . . . Rheumatism, Paralysis, Epilepsy . . . Hysteria, Sterility . . . and all Fevers, including Malaria, Pneumonia, Influenza, and such other poisonous ones." Not a bad medicine, but I prefer the "Infallible Cure for Incurable Diseases, Habits, and Defects'* advertised in the Cawnpore Guide. The announcement runs as follows: I have discovered the natural system of cure for all diseases, habits, defects, failings, etc., without the use of deleterious and pernicious drugs or medicines. Being Scientific, it is absolutely safe, simple, painless, pleasant, rapid, and infallible. Diseases like hysteria, epilepsy, rheumatism, loss of memory, paralysis, insanity and mania; addiction to smoking, opium, drink etc.; impotence, sterility, adultery, and the like can be radically cured duly by My System. Come to me after everyone else has failed to do you good. I guarantee a cure in every case undertaken. Every case needs to be treated on its special merits, and so applicants should furnish me with the complete history of the health of the patient and general occupation from birth, height, measurement over chest or bust, waist and hips, and a photograph with as little dress on as possible, along with a consultation fee of Rupees Five, without which no replies can be sent. If the buying of a postal order were not so insuperable a nuisance, I should send five rupees to get the details of the adultery cure. So much cheaper than divorce.
Δευτέρα 7 Απριλίου 2014
CHRONICON SAXONICUS 867 ANNO DOMINUS - DOGS OF IMENSE SIZE -PRUSSIA 856 AD MONSTER DOGS IN TRIER - THE MONSTERS AMONG US IN TIMES OF WONDERS AND FAMISHED POOR PEOPLE
LONDON'S FAMISHED
POOR
LEADERS OF RANK AND FASHION GO SLUMMING.
SHOCKING SIDELIGHTS
ON GREAT CITY'S
UNDERWORLD.
(By Wilkinson Sherren;
LONDON, December 31, 1903.
Among the rich in England there is a sudden boom in slumming. Though often spoken of as the "wealthiest city in the world," London presents this -winter a startling spectacle of contrasting luxury and dire distress. The Thames Embank- ment gradually developed into the clear- ing-house of human -wreckage, until a week or two ago the scandal became so great that the Salvation Army, -with official en- couragement, took tho situation in hand. Every night officers from General Booth's headquarters escort thousands of derelicts to shelters and "doss-houses," where warmth and soup are provided free.
»So compelling has this glaring demon- stration of London misery become, how- ever, that all sections of society, and »li political partie« in the realm have awak- ened to the necessity for action. Conserva- tive politicians charge all the unemplry
ment to the account of the Freetraders, |
who have maintained England's policy of . free imports. They contend if a tariff j were imposed on manufactured goods im-
ported from abroad there would be greater industrial activity in home centres, and I many ot these penniless wrecks would bs I ' employed. Liberals, on the other hand,
blame the British bystem of land tenure, and say the only hope is to make it pos- sible for country laborers to secure access
! to small holdings, so that they may not
DEAD OR MERELY SLEEPING?
It is hard to tell very often whether the human wrecks along the Embankment are dead or slumbering. Their pallid faces have the hue of death. Sometimes in the grey dawn police do come upon unfortunate victims crushed beneath Fortune's wheel-starved to death, under the shadow of luxurious hotels.
j drift to towns in the mistaken expectation of improving' their position.
Meanwhile wealthy men and women in their West End mansions have heard the wail of the starving denizens of London's back alleys more this winter than ever be- fore. Tremendous impetus has been given to the Personal Service Association, born | just a year ago, whose ? members pledge
themselves to devote personal efforts to better the lot of those who exist miserably in the shadow of metropolitan poverty. How widely the movement has gripped society may be seen from the fact that tne president of this new organisation is the Marquis of Salisbury, son of the famous Conservative ex-Premier, and a vice-pre- sident is Mrs. Asquith, wife 'of the head of the Liberal Party to-day.
For it has become known to all that while the ingenuity of. British statesmen has been bent on organising a territoiial force of volunteers, and men have bean enthusing over the rapidly-growing bat- talions of citizen soldiers, an army of a different character has been mustering the capital of the British Empire.
London is a magnefc that draws all types of people from the country, and a tradition that her streets arc paved with gold at- tracts not only the ambitious but the un- fortunate from every part of the land. During the summer months the presence of the social failures is not so noticeable, bo cause of the lure of the open road and the facilities for sleeping out in the parks. But now, with the arrival of winter, rich and comfortable London is confronted with her spectral army of failures and unfortu- nates, of unemployables and genuine out
of-works.
By an irony of circumstance London's spectacle of want and woe assumes its most wretched and heartrending phase within hail of the Houses of Parliament, where nt» raw has yet been devised to benefit the lot of th<- distressed to any material extent. The Thames Embankment has the national "talking shop" at one end and Blackfriars Bridge at the other, and between thefee points there is a nightly parade of the army of despair, a large number of whom belong to the class described by Gorky as "crea- tures that once were men." Above them may be seen the sparkling windows of
ONE OF LONDON'S HOMELESS WOMEN.
Bound for some railway arch, with a bag oí shavings for-her bed and scraps of broken food in her basket.
famous hotels shining cheerily in the night -symbols of well-being in brutal juxta- position to human misery.
To accompany one of the emissaries of the Salvation Army at midnight is to come full tilt against tragedy. Men, stupeäed with sleep blunder by with moth-like mo- tions, or snatch fitful repose on the seats.
To each is given a food ticket, but most of the recipients might be dead men for all the response it evokes.
There have been many pilgrimages in the history of England, but none like the nightly journey of homeless and starving
men along the Thames Embankment to the Millbank Shelter, for a basin of soup and a hunch of bread. I saw all sorts and con- ditions of men too dazed by ills-self-in- flicted and fate-inflicted-even to enjoy the brief respite from the cold horror of the streets. Drugged with weariness, gaunt with hunger, fevered with impotent de- spair, the battalions'of the lost looked like dismal caracatnres of the busy and well employed people who carry on the work ol London. As a handful of chaff is scattered in the air and lost, so the members of this
midnight supper party disappeared. ¡
Shelter of any kind is their life's great problem. Old women may be seen carry- ing bits of broken food in their baskets or a bed of shavings in a sack, which the,y spread under a railway arch. Their faces are seamed with lines of sordid care; tlteiv
mouths are shaped in the curves of a hope- '? less destiny. Other unfortunates limp the streets all night, snatching brief intervals
of unquiet slumber on doorsteps, to be sup- ! plemented with "forty winks" on E-nbank- j
ment seats till moved cm by the police.
The British workhouse is a notoriously ' unpopular institution -with the poor folk it ! was designed by law to help. Poverty in Britain is still considered to be more or less of a crime, anêl social failures incur some stigma even now by availing them,-." selves of the help the Poor Law affords.
A few days ago there came to light the case of two old people yvno preferred to die of destitution rather than go into the workhouse. Sarah Smith, aged 71, earned her bread by cleaning doorsteps, and had never applied for an old age pension, the probability being that she had not heard of the scheme. Isaac Harris, agEd 63. formerly a policeman and a publican, though practically starving, declined to apply for relief of any kind, stating that he "would not lower himself" by do'ng so. The coroner spoke the epitaph over these two unfortunate people, in which the ugly word starvation figured as a con- tributory cause of death. So, it will be seen, pride is not an exclusive attribute of the highest ranks of British society.
One of the most shocking stories of want and woe this -winter has been told to the magistrate at Willesden, a northern district of London. The authorities ha'ed
a man before the court for non-payment . of the poor rate-a levy made on the pub- lic for the assistance of the indigent. In answer to the charge he handed the magis- trate a letter from his wife couched in the following terms:
"Poer rates! Why, there are none poorer than we are, and if you take my husband away I don't know what -will be- come of me and the children. If you knew what we have gone through you would have pity. A few months ago my baby, aged eight months, died of starvation, and at night the parish undertaker called for the body and placed it in his handbag, in which was another body." Such cases frequently crop up. confirming the truth of the saying, "HalF the world does-not know how the other half lives." Police Court authorities in such cases excuse the payment of the rates, but there are thousands whose plaint is never heard.
Ugly pospibilities of modern civilised life are made terribly plain by this leal torn from the page of living London-the
poor taxed for the poor, and their offspring when dead carried away like a parcel from the store.
1171 ANDOVER GIGANTIC PIG LIKE THING
PRIEST STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
O CHUPA-CABRAS SURGE COM MAIS FREQUÊNCIA
NOS ANOS DE MISÉRIA DO MÉXICO ANOS 90
NA IRLANDA UND ENGLAND NOS ANOS DE 1874 E 1905 DEAD SHEEP
o jornalismo prefere os temas sobrenaturaes à miséria humana é natural
1855 great sea serpent - silver lake new york
Michigan - scores of airships 1896-97
1925 THE YETI DOESN'T EXIST
BUT HE DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH BRAINS TO REALIZE IT
Society at large is uneasy. The groans of the slaves of hunger have at last pene- trated into the secluded atmosphère ot mansions and castles. Nobody is ignorant of the fact that winter has let loose the hounds of cold and wet upon England's army of unwilling martyrs. Social students, knowing the close connection between de- spair and violence, have agitated in season and out of season among tlie well-to-do for sympathetic attention to social problems. Hence the establishment of this Personal Service Association, which ca'ls for nvn and women to visit regularly through the winter one or more families in the poorer i districts of London.
1 Some of the best-known names in English
life are associated with this effort and ap- peal. They work in co-operation with various philanthropic agencies. Al- ready many families have been lifted out of the ranks of distress by the ¡ persistent interest and influence of a
friend. Young girls and boys have been rescued from illness and idleness, side , people given the chance of recoveiy, and j wage-earners persuaded to make provision
I for the future. Besides the actual services
I rendered, real friendships have been formed j between the helper and the helped, and
some understanding arrived at of eacñ other's problems.
Sentimental sops for economic woes is the generaî verdict passed bj- Socialists on Icindly and ameliorative efforts such as those fostered by this association. Some pobtical theorists foresee the red rag of revolu- tion, and talk wildly of the omnipotence ot the proletariat.
Sober and competent observers discount wiLd prophecies, and look hopefully to Parliament to work out a scheme of salvation _ for the unemployed and of care and disciplinary control of the unemployables. This problem figures largely in the general election in England to-day.
Though the visits of the moneyed to the moneyless is a healthy sign of the state ot public sentiment, there are still many places never penetrated by well to-do visitors, where lurid lights from the under-
world shine in ominous warning.
Among the stunted and starvling freqiienters of the Anarchist and Socialist clubs in the East-End of London can be heard the threats bom of dangerous prOpaganda. There congregate many different i types-idealists more or less broken in the machinery of modem conditions, men obsessed with enthusiasm, half crazy with theories of immediate social betterment who find inspiration in despair, and who in- toxicate themselves on revengeful dreams. They have no country; men of eyery nationality, they are united by a creed that, maintained with aposto'ic fervor, gains many recruits in times of distress.
Social workers on London's East side are therefore sounding the warning that it left alone in their misery, the half-starved, worklesB atoms in the slums may, by the forces of desperation, be brought into dangerous cohesion under the goadir* gibes
of reckless agitators.
SOCIAL OUTCASTS SLEEPING ON THE EMBANKMENT.
Day and night the Embankment by the side of the Thames is
the resting-place of many of London's homeless ?wanderer,
though it is at night that the horde gathers in full force
to receive tickets for food and shelter. The police often
have difficulty in rousing the starving slumbers.
Δευτέρα 10 Μαρτίου 2014
THE ROAD TO THE FMI OR IMF OR FIM OR FIN OR FINIS OR WHATEVER IS FOREVER OPEN
Officially, US debt stands at more than $17 trillion. In reality, it is many
times more. The cost of the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq may be more
than six trillion dollars. President Obama's illegal invasion of Libya cost
at least a billion dollars and left that country devastated. The costs of US
regime change efforts in Syria are likely thus far enormous, both in dollars
and lives. That's still a secret.
So who in his right mind would think it is a good time to start a war with Russia over Ukraine? And worse, who would commit the United States to bail out a Ukraine that will need at least $35 billion to survive the year?
Who? The president and Congress, backed by the neocons and the so-called humanitarian interventionists!
The House voted overwhelmingly last week to provide $1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine. That is just the beginning, you can be sure. But let's be clear: this is not money for the population of that impoverished country. The Administration is sending a billion dollars from US taxpayers to wealthy international bankers who hold Ukrainian debt. It is an international bank bailout, not aid to Ukrainians. And despite the escalating anti-Russia rhetoric, ironically some of that money will likely go to Russia for Ukraine's two billion dollar unpaid gas bill!
So who in his right mind would think it is a good time to start a war with Russia over Ukraine? And worse, who would commit the United States to bail out a Ukraine that will need at least $35 billion to survive the year?
Who? The president and Congress, backed by the neocons and the so-called humanitarian interventionists!
The House voted overwhelmingly last week to provide $1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine. That is just the beginning, you can be sure. But let's be clear: this is not money for the population of that impoverished country. The Administration is sending a billion dollars from US taxpayers to wealthy international bankers who hold Ukrainian debt. It is an international bank bailout, not aid to Ukrainians. And despite the escalating anti-Russia rhetoric, ironically some of that money will likely go to Russia for Ukraine's two billion dollar unpaid gas bill!
Πέμπτη 27 Φεβρουαρίου 2014
O ALIENISTA - MACHADO DE ASSIS Y ASSAD - THE BASTILLE OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE IS KAPPUT ....THE UCRANIAN - VENEZUELAN - SYRIAN DEBACLE
The ALIENISTA OR THE ALIENADO ANALISTA OR Psychiatrist" follows the scientific efforts of
Dr. Simão Bacamarte, a prominent Portuguese physician whose obsession for discovering a universal method to treat and consequently cure pathologic disturbs drives inhabitants of the small Brazilian town of Itaguaí to fear, conspiracy and revolutionary attempts.
In a short space of time,
Bacamarte's madhouse, popularly named "Green House", passes to take inside of its walls not only mentally ill patients but also healthy citizens who, according to the doctor's diagnoses, are about to develop some sort of mental illness.
Porfírio, the town's barber, indicts Bacamarte for his corruptive influence over the Municipal Assemlency, which since the beginning approved the experiments taken place at the Green House, "the Bastille of human Knowledge".
Dr. Simão Bacamarte, a prominent Portuguese physician whose obsession for discovering a universal method to treat and consequently cure pathologic disturbs drives inhabitants of the small Brazilian town of Itaguaí to fear, conspiracy and revolutionary attempts.
In a short space of time,
Bacamarte's madhouse, popularly named "Green House", passes to take inside of its walls not only mentally ill patients but also healthy citizens who, according to the doctor's diagnoses, are about to develop some sort of mental illness.
Porfírio, the town's barber, indicts Bacamarte for his corruptive influence over the Municipal Assemlency, which since the beginning approved the experiments taken place at the Green House, "the Bastille of human Knowledge".
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