Mesopotamia was one of the world’s first civilisations, along with the Chinese, the Indians and the Egyptians. Like the others, it sprang up on the banks of rivers, where flood plains guaranteed fertile soils and rivers provided easy navigation. Not coincidentally, these riverine civilisations developed the world’s first
Open Sesame Sesame has been cultivated by man for thousands of years, used as an oil, eaten as a sweet (halva), enjoyed as a dip (tehina), preferred as a crust on a tasty slice of pan-fried Atlantic bluefin tuna and appearing often at #12 as Crispy Sesame Chicken on
Ezra Levant rebelnews.com Is it OK for the government to sterilize people? Before the Holocaust against the Jews even began, the Nazis were engaged in eugenics — as in, weeding out people who were considered medically or genetically inferior. The mentally disabled. The sick, deaf, and blind. Homosexuals. Anyone the
Tom O’Connor MNZM, JP. SEPARATISM This is the second of a series of articles on inter-ethnic relationships in New Zealand in the early 21st century and the development of an informal duality of citizenship, the acceptance of that duality by community leaders and the long-term potential for
It’s bad enough when Bruce Pascoe fabricates a phony-baloney “Aboriginal history” — but his alleged fabrications about himself may be even worse. Let’s not beat around the bush: Dark Emu is garbage. It makes Chariots of the Gods look like rigorous scholarship by comparison. Its fanciful tales of
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Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more
Jacinda Ardern, for all her posturing and wind-bagging about climate change, isn’t even deigning to grace the world’s biggest climate gab-fest. Probably she knew she’d be competing for the cameras with the media’s favourite climate pinup-girl. There’s nothing a diva hates worse
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Following World War I, fascism evolved in Europe as a political and economic system. Extreme nationalism, authoritarianism, and a state-run economy are its three main traits. Indeed, in terms of economics, fascism is primarily a left-wing ideology, with more in common with socialism than any conservative, free-market
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Yu Tao mercatornet.com Yu Tao is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Western Australia (UWA), where he teaches contemporary Chinese society, politics, language, and culture. Trained as a political sociologist, Yu’s primary academic mission is to make sense of the social foundations and mechanisms
Here’s a weird time-perspective for you to consider: we live closer in time to Cleopatra than she did to the building of the great pyramids. The Great Pyramid of Giza was more than 2600 years old when Cleopatra was alive. By contrast, she lived less than two thousand
It would seem that all things good and rewarding come packaged as a tort/torte. Tort law is there to redress a wrong done to a person and provide relief, something beneficial… while the German torte is there not only to provide relief and make a person feel great but
Imagine the career-lifespan of a doctor who didn’t want to treat AIDS patients, because he didn’t want to “get the gay on him”. Or a surgeon who refused to operate on a motorcycle crash victim: “they’re only organ donors, anyway”. On the other hand, liberal Hollywood
