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"“nce 1983, Soviet news agencies have circulated articles which accuse the US. Army's Chemical and Biological Warfare Division of creating the AIDS virus in their Fort Detrick facility in Maryland. The Soviets' published evidence is based largely on the fact that this laboratory is concerned with both the development of biological weapons and AIDS research.
Even if the virus was engineered at Fort Detrick, a fiel
." — May 12, 2024 02:26PM
"“nce 1983, Soviet news agencies have circulated articles which accuse the US. Army's Chemical and Biological Warfare Division of creating the AIDS virus in their Fort Detrick facility in Maryland. The Soviets' published evidence is based largely on the fact that this laboratory is concerned with both the development of biological weapons and AIDS research.
Even if the virus was engineered at Fort Detrick, a fiel
." — May 12, 2024 02:26PM
“Maybe your college professor taught that the legacy of colonialism explains Third World poverty. That’s nonsense as well. Canada was a colony. So were Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. In fact, the richest country in the world, the United States, was once a colony. By contrast, Ethiopia, Liberia, Tibet, Sikkim, Nepal and Bhutan were never colonies, but they are home to the world’s poorest people.”
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“I respect ordinary thieves much more than I respect politicians. Ordinary thieves take my money without pretense. Unlike typical politicians, these thieves don’t bore me with silly explanations of why their thievery is for the greater good. Nor do ordinary thieves insult my intelligence by proclaiming that they’ll use the money that they steal from me to make my life better than I would have made my life had my money not been swiped from me.”
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The Year of Reading Toni Morrison
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We'll be reading Toni Morrison's books in chronological order. I won't be creating a reading schedule to keep this informal, and I won't be closing th ...more
understanding toni morrisons Paradise
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this is a discussion group about the book Paradise and too ask questions
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