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It seems like something ugly is rising its head in America. Americans can not see that because they do not have that experience. I do. I grew up in the Soviet Union, I lived through its end, and I lived through what came after. After came the struggle for democracy. As it turns out, it … Continue reading It seems like something really ugly is creeping up
Originally posted on funcactus:
What is modern art? Many people, actually most of them, think, that modern art is not an art at all. They say: “It’s a garbage!”, “Even I can do that!” – they say. Lets take just a simple white painting, which is nothing but a white paint on a paper. So… Continue reading Modern Art
If you google the word “brainwash”, the first article that pops up is Wikipedia’s “Mind Control”. The notion has been around forever, CIA and KGB has been experimenting with it, books have been written about it, we’ve seen bunch of movies and so on. But normally people do not think much abut it, unless you … Continue reading Brainwashing at its Best
For years now I have been hearing about how we can change our own lives, health and wealth by merely thinking good thoughts. There are thousands of books written about it and even scientists working on it. Positive thinking has become a cliche which we know of, but when life throws stuff at us we … Continue reading Hopeful for Happiness – Lucky Encounter
Chemistry is a funny thing – chemists give us medication that save our lives and they poison us at the same time by introducing for instance lead in the air that we breathe, or they introduce stuff called CFC that allows us to fight bad odor from sweat, or have a neat hair-do but at … Continue reading People Who Truly Lived Their Lives – Clair Patterson
Originally posted on Home for a Nomad:
There was a flooding in Tbilisi, Georgia on June 13th. A natural disaster, not even close to the big ones like Katrina for instance, but for those who live in Tbilisi it was a tragedy. It took place near the zoo, there were some residential houses in the area and a… Continue reading Tbilisi Flooding June 13, 2015
Out of all atrocities conducted by the Communists Ukrainian Holodomor was probably the most outrageous. The word itself means killing by starving, and that’s exactly what it was, a man made famine which was aimed at the extermination of the entire nation. The situation for such famine was ripening in Russia since the Revolution in … Continue reading Evil of Communism – Holodomor
