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The algorithm has already chosen by Edoardo Moretti
Artificial intelligence has not arrived as a rogue intelligence. It has arrived as a loyal employee.
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#artificialintelligence #AI #Corruption
Artificial intelligence has not arrived as a rogue intelligence. It has arrived as a loyal employee.
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#artificialintelligence #AI #Corruption
The algorithm has already chosen by Edoardo Moretti
We like our fears about artificial intelligence served in futuristic packaging. Killer robots. Conscious machines. A cold metallic supermind plotting humanity’s irrelevance. These stories are comfo…
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January 21, 2026 at 8:58 AM
The algorithm has already chosen by Edoardo Moretti
Artificial intelligence has not arrived as a rogue intelligence. It has arrived as a loyal employee.
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#artificialintelligence #AI #Corruption
Artificial intelligence has not arrived as a rogue intelligence. It has arrived as a loyal employee.
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#artificialintelligence #AI #Corruption
When the playground has nukes by Robert Perez
Bullies operate on a simple logic: fear is cheaper than respect.
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#DonaldTrump
Bullies operate on a simple logic: fear is cheaper than respect.
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#DonaldTrump
When the playground has nukes by Robert Perez
There is a particular kind of bully who does not shove first. He clears his throat loudly. He lets you notice his friends behind him. He talks about how strong he used to be. He jokes about taking …
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January 21, 2026 at 8:57 AM
When the playground has nukes by Robert Perez
Bullies operate on a simple logic: fear is cheaper than respect.
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#DonaldTrump
Bullies operate on a simple logic: fear is cheaper than respect.
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#DonaldTrump
Pay to pray for peace by Gabriele Schmitt
In an era where public office has been treated as a branding opportunity, the question is not whether the scheme is real but whether it feels real. And it does.
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#DonaldTrump #Corruption
In an era where public office has been treated as a branding opportunity, the question is not whether the scheme is real but whether it feels real. And it does.
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#DonaldTrump #Corruption
Pay to pray for peace by Gabriele Schmitt
The idea that peace could be franchised, priced, and sold like a luxury condominium is grotesque but it is also perfectly on brand for the political culture that Donald Trump has cultivated for nea…
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January 21, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Pay to pray for peace by Gabriele Schmitt
In an era where public office has been treated as a branding opportunity, the question is not whether the scheme is real but whether it feels real. And it does.
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#DonaldTrump #Corruption
In an era where public office has been treated as a branding opportunity, the question is not whether the scheme is real but whether it feels real. And it does.
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#DonaldTrump #Corruption
Me My Mind & I #03: Social Lubricant #Cartoon by Patrick McWade
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January 21, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Me My Mind & I #03: Social Lubricant #Cartoon by Patrick McWade
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Pitirim Sorokin:The Renewal of Humanity by Rene Wadlow
The two World Wars convinced him that humanity was in a period of transition, that the guideline of earlier times had broken down and had not yet been replaced by a new set of values and motivations.
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The two World Wars convinced him that humanity was in a period of transition, that the guideline of earlier times had broken down and had not yet been replaced by a new set of values and motivations.
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Pitirim Sorokin:The Renewal of Humanity by Rene Wadlow
Pitirim Sorokin (1889-1968) whose birth anniversary we mark on 21 January, was concerned, especially in the period after the Second World War, with the relation between the values and attitudes of …
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January 21, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Pitirim Sorokin:The Renewal of Humanity by Rene Wadlow
The two World Wars convinced him that humanity was in a period of transition, that the guideline of earlier times had broken down and had not yet been replaced by a new set of values and motivations.
realovi.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/p...
The two World Wars convinced him that humanity was in a period of transition, that the guideline of earlier times had broken down and had not yet been replaced by a new set of values and motivations.
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When Empire Speaks of Freedom: War is on the Way by Javed Akbar
Empires do not export democracy; they export obedience.
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#colonialism #USImperialism #democracy
Empires do not export democracy; they export obedience.
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#colonialism #USImperialism #democracy
When Empire Speaks of Freedom: War is on the Way by Javed Akbar
Empires do not export democracy; they export obedience. That is the moral alchemy at the heart of imperial power—where domination is laundered into virtue and coercion is repackaged as goodwill. Th…
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January 20, 2026 at 8:18 AM
When Empire Speaks of Freedom: War is on the Way by Javed Akbar
Empires do not export democracy; they export obedience.
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#colonialism #USImperialism #democracy
Empires do not export democracy; they export obedience.
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#colonialism #USImperialism #democracy
Beyond Pinochet’s shadow in a Trumpian hemisphere by Emma Schneider
The question is simple yet alarming; how far right is Kast willing to take Chile?
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#chile
The question is simple yet alarming; how far right is Kast willing to take Chile?
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#chile
Beyond Pinochet’s shadow in a Trumpian hemisphere by Emma Schneider
Chile is at an inflection point. The election of José Antonio Kast, a politician whose ideology treads uncomfortably close to the darkest chapters of Chile’s history, has thrown not just Chile but …
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January 20, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Beyond Pinochet’s shadow in a Trumpian hemisphere by Emma Schneider
The question is simple yet alarming; how far right is Kast willing to take Chile?
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#chile
The question is simple yet alarming; how far right is Kast willing to take Chile?
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#chile
The long arc under pressure by Markus Gibbons
Martin Luther King Jr. has become a monument Americans visit without reading the plaque.
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#martinlutherking
Martin Luther King Jr. has become a monument Americans visit without reading the plaque.
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#martinlutherking
The long arc under pressure by Markus Gibbons
Martin Luther King Jr. has become a monument Americans visit without reading the plaque. His words are quoted, his image softened, his radicalism carefully laundered for bipartisan comfort. During …
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January 20, 2026 at 8:15 AM
The long arc under pressure by Markus Gibbons
Martin Luther King Jr. has become a monument Americans visit without reading the plaque.
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#martinlutherking
Martin Luther King Jr. has become a monument Americans visit without reading the plaque.
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#martinlutherking
January 20, 2026 at 8:14 AM
From Infrastructure to Intelligence: The Next Frontier in Urban Development by Annelie Marchesteiner
Today, urban administrations face a 21st-century version of an age-old question: how can cities make decisions that remain viable for the future?
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Today, urban administrations face a 21st-century version of an age-old question: how can cities make decisions that remain viable for the future?
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From Infrastructure to Intelligence: The Next Frontier in Urban Development by Annelie Marchesteiner
From the bustling streets of Babylonia to the soaring skyscrapers of New York, from the intellectual hubs of Alexandria to the megacities of Shanghai, cities have always been engines of innovation,…
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January 20, 2026 at 8:13 AM
From Infrastructure to Intelligence: The Next Frontier in Urban Development by Annelie Marchesteiner
Today, urban administrations face a 21st-century version of an age-old question: how can cities make decisions that remain viable for the future?
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Today, urban administrations face a 21st-century version of an age-old question: how can cities make decisions that remain viable for the future?
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New World Order in Search of Humanity, Law and Order by Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
Is the New World Order a hypothetical phenomenon or a convenient reality to be imagined?
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#humanitarianism #peace
Is the New World Order a hypothetical phenomenon or a convenient reality to be imagined?
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#humanitarianism #peace
New World Order in Search of Humanity, Law and Order by Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
Paradox of Time and History Is the New World Order a hypothetical phenomenon or a convenient reality to be imagined? How do you assess its evolving substance for the future? Who would usher the New…
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January 19, 2026 at 8:35 AM
New World Order in Search of Humanity, Law and Order by Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
Is the New World Order a hypothetical phenomenon or a convenient reality to be imagined?
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#humanitarianism #peace
Is the New World Order a hypothetical phenomenon or a convenient reality to be imagined?
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#humanitarianism #peace
When they came for the …allies by John Reid
In recent weeks, an unsettling chapter has opened in the fraught relationship between government power and academic freedom, one that should alarm anyone who values civil liberties.
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In recent weeks, an unsettling chapter has opened in the fraught relationship between government power and academic freedom, one that should alarm anyone who values civil liberties.
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When they came for the …allies by John Reid
In recent weeks, an unsettling chapter has opened in the fraught relationship between government power and academic freedom, one that should alarm anyone who values civil liberties. The Trump admin…
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January 19, 2026 at 8:33 AM
When they came for the …allies by John Reid
In recent weeks, an unsettling chapter has opened in the fraught relationship between government power and academic freedom, one that should alarm anyone who values civil liberties.
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In recent weeks, an unsettling chapter has opened in the fraught relationship between government power and academic freedom, one that should alarm anyone who values civil liberties.
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The day an Indian woman took power by Avani Devi
On January 19, 1966, Indira Gandhi became the Prime Minister of India.
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#IndiraGandhi
On January 19, 1966, Indira Gandhi became the Prime Minister of India.
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#IndiraGandhi
The day an Indian woman took power by Avani Devi
On January 19, 1966, Indira Gandhi became the Prime Minister of India. It was a political event, of course, but it was also something quieter and more radical: a psychological earthquake. A woman s…
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January 19, 2026 at 8:33 AM
The day an Indian woman took power by Avani Devi
On January 19, 1966, Indira Gandhi became the Prime Minister of India.
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#IndiraGandhi
On January 19, 1966, Indira Gandhi became the Prime Minister of India.
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#IndiraGandhi
Alexandre Marc : Con-federalism, Cultural Renewal and Trans-frontier Cooperation by Rene Wadlow
He started a non-conformist student journal while still in secondary school during the Russian Revolution, asking for greater democracy opposed to Marxist thought.
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He started a non-conformist student journal while still in secondary school during the Russian Revolution, asking for greater democracy opposed to Marxist thought.
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Alexandre Marc : Con-federalism, Cultural Renewal and Trans-frontier Cooperation by Rene Wadlow
Alexandre Marc (19 January 1904 – 22 February 2000) was born as Alexandre Markovitch Lipiansky in Odessa, Russia in 1904. He later simplified his name by dropping Lipiansky (which his s…
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January 19, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Alexandre Marc : Con-federalism, Cultural Renewal and Trans-frontier Cooperation by Rene Wadlow
He started a non-conformist student journal while still in secondary school during the Russian Revolution, asking for greater democracy opposed to Marxist thought.
realovi.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/a...
He started a non-conformist student journal while still in secondary school during the Russian Revolution, asking for greater democracy opposed to Marxist thought.
realovi.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/a...
Me My Mind & I #02: No Bells of Saint Crazy #Cartoon by Patrick McWade
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January 19, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Me My Mind & I #02: No Bells of Saint Crazy #Cartoon by Patrick McWade
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ASEAN’s Multilateral Dilemma: Continuity and Change from NAM to BRICS by Anis H. Bajrektarevic & Evi Fitriani
ASEAN’s enduring strength has never been its ability to project power, but its capacity to manage diversity through restraint, process, and dialogue.
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ASEAN’s enduring strength has never been its ability to project power, but its capacity to manage diversity through restraint, process, and dialogue.
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ASEAN’s Multilateral Dilemma: Continuity and Change from NAM to BRICS by Anis H. Bajrektarevic & Evi Fitriani
(No Asian Century without true multilateralism) ASEAN’s enduring strength has never been its ability to project power, but its capacity to manage diversity through restraint, process, and dia…
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January 18, 2026 at 8:46 AM
ASEAN’s Multilateral Dilemma: Continuity and Change from NAM to BRICS by Anis H. Bajrektarevic & Evi Fitriani
ASEAN’s enduring strength has never been its ability to project power, but its capacity to manage diversity through restraint, process, and dialogue.
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ASEAN’s enduring strength has never been its ability to project power, but its capacity to manage diversity through restraint, process, and dialogue.
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Faith in the crossfire by Virginia Robertson
World Religion Day arrives each year with soft language about harmony, shared values, and the human hunger for meaning.
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#WorldReligionDay
World Religion Day arrives each year with soft language about harmony, shared values, and the human hunger for meaning.
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#WorldReligionDay
Faith in the crossfire by Virginia Robertson
World Religion Day arrives each year with soft language about harmony, shared values, and the human hunger for meaning. It is a day designed to remind us that faith traditions, at their best, are m…
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January 18, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Faith in the crossfire by Virginia Robertson
World Religion Day arrives each year with soft language about harmony, shared values, and the human hunger for meaning.
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#WorldReligionDay
World Religion Day arrives each year with soft language about harmony, shared values, and the human hunger for meaning.
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#WorldReligionDay
#eBook Mating center by Frank Belknap Long
The lovely woman approaching him on the travel strip was non-sex-privileged, he could tell by her attire but she looked at him boldly.
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#OvieBooks #OvieBookshelves #TheOvi #DownloadFreeeBook #OviPublishing #Ovi
The lovely woman approaching him on the travel strip was non-sex-privileged, he could tell by her attire but she looked at him boldly.
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#OvieBooks #OvieBookshelves #TheOvi #DownloadFreeeBook #OviPublishing #Ovi
#eBook Mating center by Frank Belknap Long
The lovely woman approaching him on the travel strip was non-sex-privileged, he could tell by her attire but she looked at him boldly. As she came abreast of him she stumbled, and he instinctively …
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January 18, 2026 at 8:43 AM
#eBook Mating center by Frank Belknap Long
The lovely woman approaching him on the travel strip was non-sex-privileged, he could tell by her attire but she looked at him boldly.
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#OvieBooks #OvieBookshelves #TheOvi #DownloadFreeeBook #OviPublishing #Ovi
The lovely woman approaching him on the travel strip was non-sex-privileged, he could tell by her attire but she looked at him boldly.
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#OvieBooks #OvieBookshelves #TheOvi #DownloadFreeeBook #OviPublishing #Ovi
January 18, 2026 at 8:42 AM
NATO’s cracks that will never heal by Thanos Kalamidas
Whether Trump ever invades Greenland or not is almost beside the point. The damage is already done.
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#NATO #greenland #DonaldTrump
Whether Trump ever invades Greenland or not is almost beside the point. The damage is already done.
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#NATO #greenland #DonaldTrump
NATO’s cracks that will never heal by Thanos Kalamidas
Whether Trump ever invades Greenland or not is almost beside the point. The damage is already done. The sentence has been spoken, the thought normalized, the unthinkable turned into a cocktail-part…
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January 17, 2026 at 8:44 AM
NATO’s cracks that will never heal by Thanos Kalamidas
Whether Trump ever invades Greenland or not is almost beside the point. The damage is already done.
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#NATO #greenland #DonaldTrump
Whether Trump ever invades Greenland or not is almost beside the point. The damage is already done.
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#NATO #greenland #DonaldTrump
The Big Bang #Poem #Painting by Nikos Laios
We fragile things,
We scurry across
The Earth in ignorance
Of the majesty of creation.
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We fragile things,
We scurry across
The Earth in ignorance
Of the majesty of creation.
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The Big Bang #Poem #Painting by Nikos Laios
We fragile things,We scurry acrossThe Earth in ignoranceOf the majesty of creation. At night I look up atThe cosmic fabricOf the universe throughA wineglass in wonder;At the billions of starsSwirli…
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January 17, 2026 at 8:43 AM
The Big Bang #Poem #Painting by Nikos Laios
We fragile things,
We scurry across
The Earth in ignorance
Of the majesty of creation.
realovi.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/t...
We fragile things,
We scurry across
The Earth in ignorance
Of the majesty of creation.
realovi.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/t...
The man with the match, the party with the petrol by Jemma Norman
Robert Jenrick’s jump from the Conservatives to Reform UK is being treated like a plot twist.
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#ConservativeParty #Tories #ReformUK #RobertJenrick
Robert Jenrick’s jump from the Conservatives to Reform UK is being treated like a plot twist.
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#ConservativeParty #Tories #ReformUK #RobertJenrick
The man with the match, the party with the petrol by Jemma Norman
Robert Jenrick’s jump from the Conservatives to Reform UK is being treated like a plot twist. In truth, it is the logical final scene of a drama that has been badly written for years. He did not ju…
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January 17, 2026 at 8:40 AM
The man with the match, the party with the petrol by Jemma Norman
Robert Jenrick’s jump from the Conservatives to Reform UK is being treated like a plot twist.
realovi.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/t...
#ConservativeParty #Tories #ReformUK #RobertJenrick
Robert Jenrick’s jump from the Conservatives to Reform UK is being treated like a plot twist.
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#ConservativeParty #Tories #ReformUK #RobertJenrick
Me My Mind & I #01: Why I don’t watchTV #Cartoon by Patrick McWade
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January 17, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Me My Mind & I #01: Why I don’t watchTV #Cartoon by Patrick McWade
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Robert M. Hutchins: Building on Earlier Foundations by Rene Wadlow
Much of our current work for a more just and peaceful world builds on the thinking and efforts of earlier foundations.
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Much of our current work for a more just and peaceful world builds on the thinking and efforts of earlier foundations.
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Robert M. Hutchins: Building on Earlier Foundations by Rene Wadlow
Much of our current work for a more just and peaceful world builds on the thinking and efforts of earlier foundations. An important foundation is the leading role of Robert M. Hutchins, long-…
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January 17, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Robert M. Hutchins: Building on Earlier Foundations by Rene Wadlow
Much of our current work for a more just and peaceful world builds on the thinking and efforts of earlier foundations.
realovi.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/r...
Much of our current work for a more just and peaceful world builds on the thinking and efforts of earlier foundations.
realovi.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/r...
Orbán’s assault on the planet by Brea Willis
Viktor Orbán appears determined to swim against the tide of reason, championing policies that not only resist environmental responsibility but actively undermine it.
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#ViktorOrban #environment
Viktor Orbán appears determined to swim against the tide of reason, championing policies that not only resist environmental responsibility but actively undermine it.
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#ViktorOrban #environment
Orbán’s assault on the planet by Brea Willis
In the age of wildfires, unprecedented floods, and storms that seem scripted by a dystopian novelist, one would think that every world leader would instinctively recognize the urgency of protecting…
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January 16, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Orbán’s assault on the planet by Brea Willis
Viktor Orbán appears determined to swim against the tide of reason, championing policies that not only resist environmental responsibility but actively undermine it.
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#ViktorOrban #environment
Viktor Orbán appears determined to swim against the tide of reason, championing policies that not only resist environmental responsibility but actively undermine it.
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#ViktorOrban #environment