Given Friday is Canada Day and that it’s Pride Week in Toronto, it seemed only appropriate to launch this little series of fun (or, actually, mostly horrifying) facts. Though I must admit reasoning behind it reeks of self-promotion. Over the past two years or so, I’ve been working ...
foreign-language films that were submitted for Oscar consideration this year to a shortlist of nine from which the five nominees will eventually be chosen, I thought it might be an interesting time to provide some fun facts about several of the top contenders from this year’s impressive field...
I think the issues the above responders had were that your (simplified) definition of Socialism isn’t accurate - you described Communism…sort of, and that you’re talking about some wacky power plan that I’ve never heard of, and I watch the news pretty closely. Care to cite your ...
Over one billion people live there – and we’ve got some of coolest, wackiest and wild facts about China that will amaze you. Enjoy! Related:Communism vs Socialism – What’s the Difference? This is a country steeped inancient history and civilizationsthat were around way before many others!
about this actively serving, politician's demand that china sell tiktok or totally stop allowing any operations/use on american soil... because of the heavily implied heinous nature of controlling and twisting society via media to it's explicitly declared communism... even directly called china, ...
facts: many nuances of ‘frontier’ have been lost in the advent of Cyber. Add to that the inevitable merging into a complex whole of all existing businesses—and the steadily declining number of people who own them—and what results is an ossified plutocracy, mouthing about freedom and ...
Putin knows a thing or two about Communism! He’s also very bright! Effem 4. November 2021 at 06:25 Unrelated to this post, but curious why you think the Fed would announce policy that results in a 6bp increase in 10y inflation expectations (as of 10am the following morning)? Seems ...
about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. (Joseph Romm, Washington) - - She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open ...
Malaysia is the only place in the world where the war against Communism was won. The 12-year guerrilla warfare conducted by Communist forces was finally put down in 1960. This period was known as the Malayan Emergency.[9] According to a survey in 2010, Malaysians had the highest number of...
Religionplays an important role in the life of the Romanian people. Most of them are members of the Orthodox Church. Their religion was suppressed for more than 20 years under communism (Nicolae Ceausescu’s dictatorship). Even so, the Romanian persons have not forgotten to pray and hop...