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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

APOCALYPTO.....AMERICAN STYLE!


Fascinating piece by Chris Hedges.

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“Why,” Diamond writes, “did the kings and nobles not recognize and solve these problems? A major reason was that their attention was evidently focused on the short-term concerns of enriching themselves, waging wars, erecting monuments, competing with one another, and extracting enough food from the peasants to support all these activities.”




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