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John McCain Is Dead

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John McCain Barack Obama John McCain dies 9 years to the day after Ted Kennedy of the same kind of cancer. Sen. John McCain, 1936-2018, was Arizona's senator for more than three decades and twice ran for president. U.S. Sen. John McCain died nine years to the day after his good friend Sen. Ted Kennedy of the same kind of cancer. McCain, R AZ., died Saturday a little more than a year after he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer that affects roughly 10,000 Americans a year. Kennedy, D Mass., a close friend of McCain's in the Senate, was diagnosed in May 2008 and died Aug. 25, 2009. "History does rhyme," Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New York, said in a tweet. It's hard to feel anything but overpowering sadness about John McCain. Last time I felt this way was 9 years ago to the day when his friend across the aisle, Ted Kennedy, succumbed to the same cruel cancer. History does rhyme. There will never be

Kofi Anan is Dead

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Lake Shastina CA August 19, 2018 Kofi Anan Kofi Atta Annan April 8, 1938 to August 2018 18 was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary General of the United Nations, from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the UN were the co recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organization founded by Nelson Mandela. It is clear to see the omissive and complicit behavior of the United Nations and other supranational levels of government. There has been an in continuo Chemical Assault Scorched Earth in the United States for 31 years. Anan nor the United Nations have recognized concrete history. National and groupist interests sway the hand at every level of governance. Mass destruction in Africa and the Middle East escalates with usually only the United States to check such. This is increasingly difficult in an environment when this state is abusive and permits abu

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Fall of the Anglo Paradigm PT. IV

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Chapter 2 Under the Color of Law: The Ecology of Despotism Deus Ex Machina Definition of deus ex machina 1: a god introduced by means of a crane in ancient Greek and Roman drama to decide the final outcome 2: a person or thing (as in fiction or drama) that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty the shipwreck, far from being a tragic peripety, is the deus ex machina which makes it possible for Defoe to present solitary labour. as a solution to the perplexities of economic and social reality. The New Latin term deus ex machina is a translation of a Greek phrase and means literally "a god from a machine." Machine in this case, refers to the crane that held a god over the stage in ancient Greek and Roman drama. The practice of introducing a god at the end of a play to unravel and resolve the plot dates from at least the 5th century B.C. Euripides (circa 484 406 B.C.) was one playwright who mad