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Jun 03 2011

Charlie Chaplin final speech in The Great Dictator vs. Inception Soundtrack

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Every generation thinks that it’s all new and then you see something that comes from the past in the case of this from 1940 reminding us that nothing changes and the same issues are around today as have been part of civilisation for a long time.

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Nov 30 2010

Your Story Ep 57 : John. Writing, Work Ethic and Celebrity

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Talent, hard work and good fortune this is what made the success for John Birmingham
Sometimes we can read a book that has a significant impact on our understanding of things. To come to an understanding of what Sydney is… it’s history and personality, I needed to read Leviathan : The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney …

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Apr 18 2010

Knowledge is a Scary Thing.

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A few years ago I was introduced to John Perkins’ book Confessions of an Economic Hitman and was duly shocked by it and it’s revelations of corruption and manipulations of the economic elite to strip mine any and everything for their gain. Then his follow up book The Secret History of the American Empire: …

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Jan 03 2010

Mouseland – A Cautionary Tale.

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While watching Michael Moore’s Sicko tonight on YouTube I discover the name of Tommy Douglas (1904-1986), regarded in 2004 as The Greatest Canadian. Now I don’t care who they are but if a country names a single person, particularly  a politician, The Greatest in that country I think there is something probably going for …

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