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Logic
“I know what you are thinking about,” said Tweedledum; “but it isn’t so, nohow.” “Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.”
Lewis Carroll, always there to wake us up.
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Spread the word
Fundamentalist religious groups such as Creationists are quite expert at spreading their word — of course it is one of the demands their religion makes of them that they try to convert the heathen. Their opposing numbers are not always that good at propaganda: they are less ruthless, less world-wise, and often less keen, because [...]
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This week saw renewed students’ protests in France, directed against the policies of the Sarkozy government, the minister of education Xavier Darcos in particular. Teachers joined in. The eye of the Paris correspondent of the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad was caught by the 61 year old Claude Palacios, or rather by the placard she was [...]
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Squatters at “the Rijks”
International days of action by squatters came to a head in Amsterdam when squatters occupied a wing of the Rijksmuseum (empty while the whole museum is being renovated and being renovated and being renovated… world without end. Amen).
Best thing was the text which graced the front of the building: “Modern capitalism absorbs everything, attacks every [...]
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