Speaking of air borne toxins from car exhaust, there’s a theory that there were so many serial killers in the late 1960s to early 1980s due to the lead added to automobile gas to get rid of ‘knocking’ noises in car engines starting in the 1920s. With the invention of the catalytic...
In America Barack Obama has failed to depver the immigration reform he promised, and Repubpcan presidential candidates would rather electrify the border fence with Mexico than educate the children of illegal apens. America educates foreign scientists in its universities and then expels them, a ...
“THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure co...
“It’s an eternal tension — always like this,” Kanstroom tells me, theatrically smashing his two fists together. “The struggle for the soul of the country has played out over immigration.” The tension is older than the nation. In Colonial times, individual towns decided which outsiders ...
political events in Mexico made emigration to the United States popular. This was welcome news to American employers like the Southern Pacific Railroad, which desperately needed cheap labor to help build new tracks. The railroad and other companies flouted existing immigration laws that banned importing...
who had been part of the Berkeley Food Co-op and the Free Speech Movement, but despite their hippie leanings they were still mostly bourgeois middle-class white kids who had some understanding of things like good financial practices, the need to follow local laws, and basic business ethics. ...
populists, such as Pat Buchanan, since the Nineties. Donald Trump’s speech on immigration is connected with different ideological positions—conservatism, paleo-conservatism, nativism, white suprematism—that form the puzzle of Trumpism, which has become a reference for international populists. Further...
laws involving "crimes against nature." Is it also an implication of Rand's principles? Yes indeed, if we look at Rand'spracticeas well as at her teaching. People who disagreed with her, even about things that were their own business, were condemned, browbeaten, and even "expelled" ...
Around the same time, in most colonized areas of the world there was a huge immigration to the larger cities as the countryside declined economically, whereas the larger cities were thriving on foreign capital. In Egypt’s Cairo (occupied from 1882 to 1954), for example, the population grew ...
There was an unmentioned driver to the Turkish oppression of Jews in the late 19th Century. The Islamic rulers were worried about Jews entering a land with a low population. So *Muslim only* immigration was encouraged. This can be seen in reports from the time, such as this one that detai...