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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Authentic Inuit Art
Nelson H. H. Graburn (source 
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Creation and Exclusion in the Canadian North Nelson H. H. Graburn University of California, Berkeley, USA Abstract Modern Inuit commercial arts grew out of the desires of multiple non-Inuit agencies and persons active during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Competing visions, of art production as substitute for welfare, art as continuity with pre-modern crafts, art as Canadian national symbol, art as the expression of extreme … Continue reading
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George Bizos
Editorial (source )
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Bizos was the son of Antonios (known to his family and friends as “Antoni”) Bizos, the mayor of the small village of Vasilitsi, south of Koroni and Kalamata on the Messinian peninsula of the Peloponese, Greece. Koroni (Κορώνη is a town and municipality in Messenia, Greece of Arvanite origin Kalamata (Καλαμάτα Kalamáta, formerly Καλάμαι Kalámai) is the second-largest city of the Peloponnese in southern Greece … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Biography, Diaspora, Eminence, Europe, Humanity, Middle East
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Bush Threatens Humanity to “Save” Israel
Editorial (source )
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Where’s the outrage? Where is the screaming NYT’s headline, “Madman Bush Ready to Launch World War III if Ahmadinejad Possesses Nuclear Arms”? Where are the TV commentators blasting this latest evidence of maddening
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Positive and Negative Liberty
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Negative liberty is the absence of obstacles, barriers or constraints. One has negative liberty to the extent that actions are available to one in this negative sense. Positive liberty is the possibility of acting — or the fact of acting — in such a way as to take control of one’s life and realize one’s fundamental purposes. While negative liberty is usually attributed to individual … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Global issues, Philosophy
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“Capitalism Is The Worst Enemy Of Humanity”
Evo Morales (source )
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Speech by Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma during the United Nations meeting on Climate Change, New York, September 24, 2007 ( UN photo ) would like greet the panel, and on behalf of the Bolivian peoples, I want to say that I am pleased that there is such a great gathering to debate global warming and climate change. Today in our discussions, we must be … Continue reading
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