Tuesday, December 26, 2017
On The First Day Of Christmas
- that chimes with the family's-home theme, but JD suggests this alternative:
Monday, December 25, 2017
Sunday, December 24, 2017
MUSIC: JD's Third Christmas Collection
Nollaig Chridheil gu h-uile agus Dia a 'beannachadh
sìth air an talamh agus deagh rùn dha na fir uile *
* A wonderful Christmas and God bless you
Peace on earth and goodwill for all men
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Friday, December 22, 2017
Sunday, December 17, 2017
Thought for the day: inequality
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http://uk.businessinsider.com/economist-intelligence-unit-downgrades-united-states-to-flawed-democracy-2017-1?r=US&IR=T |
"Scheidel’s book* shows that historically, the only way high inequality has been flattened has been through catastrophe: disease, famine, world war, societal collapse or communist revolution."
- Quoted in "Evonomics": http://evonomics.com/inequality-predicts-homicide-rates-better-variable/
Is there another way?.
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*Walter Scheidel, "The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century", Princeton, January 2017
https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10921.html
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