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‘Covid’ operations: Just join the dots
So, a global coronavirus pandemic is sweeping the earth and governments far and wide have closed their borders and ordered their populations to stay indoors, causing untold damage to the world’s economic systems.
By Steve Harrison6 years ago in The Swamp
Moderates Must Appeal to Progressives
Keep in mind this article is about facts. It’s not about how elections “should be” it’s about how elections are. The problem with moderates is that they get themselves worked up and frustrated when voters don’t do exactly as they are told.
By Walter Rhein6 years ago in The Swamp
Bring Back The Dunce Hat
Modern celebrity culture has indirectly created a platform for the dumbest and most ignorant in society to be popular. We have segregated the smartest and most talented people in western culture by encouraging low general knowledge from a young age.
By Max T6 years ago in The Swamp
A Widow's Freedom
I was miserable, being a useless, petted daughter with no voice. What was worse was that I didn't know it. I soon got a taste for freedom, though. I started noticing that my maids could choose their husbands for love more than I could. I started noticing how segregated we were from the men when they'd go on their own to play Poker. I started noticing how much I was treated like a pretty thing who was there as an ornament.
By Alexandra F6 years ago in The Swamp
Should the UK have a sugar tax on soda?
Over-consumption of sugar causes negative externalities in the UK (1). This article explains the imposition of a sugar tax (market-based policy) on soda firms, aiming to decrease the health risks, Negative Externalities of Consumption (NEoC), caused from overconsumption.
By Rowaboat6 years ago in The Swamp
The Global Impact of Coronavirus on Education
UNESCO states that the amount of students that are absent in schools globally due to the COVID-19 virus is “unparalleled”. Having an impact on almost 290 million students across the globe.
By Philip P.6 years ago in The Swamp
2020 The Year Of Living Dangerously
So deceptive, so sudden the world was thrust into a tailspin of regrettable decisions. The sheer scope of this great tragedy has pushed mankind almost to the brink of insanity. Governments the world over are trying desperately to combat this plague on two fronts, economically, and medically. The enormous amount of destruction in lives and livelihoods lost due to this scourge that has paralyzed nations around the globe continues.
By Dr. Williams6 years ago in The Swamp
The Family History of Former Vice President Joe Biden
**Please note: This article is not an endorsement of the Former Vice President or any candidate for President.** Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was born November 20th, 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania to Joseph Robinette Biden Sr. and Catherine Eugenia Finnegan. After the Scranton area fell into decline in the 1950s, Biden and his family moved to Claymont, Delaware before eventually moving to Wilmington, Delaware. Biden attended the University of Delaware where he was a double major in history and political science and where he played football as a halfback for the school's freshman football team. Biden would go on to attend the Syracuse University School of Law and would graduate in 1968.
By Bradley Greenland6 years ago in The Swamp
Secret Societies: Who Were The Assassins?
The Assassins were a group so feared, and whose reach was so far, that their very name became synonymous with murder for political means. While most of their history was lost with the fall of their strongholds, we do know some things about this organization, its founder, and the actions of its followers. And while they didn't invent parkour (at least not officially), they were certainly the auteur geniuses who came up with using the constant threat of knives in the dark as a way to keep a populace in line.
By Neal Litherland6 years ago in The Swamp
The Mason Missile, April 2, 2020
Greetings! The COVID-19, aka coronavirus crisis goes on and so do trump’s failures as a “president”, as well as the charlatanism of his cheerleaders. Many of them are the evangelical Christian wing, who can’t stop seeing trump-thrice-married adulterer, tax-business-wife-golf cheater, racist, sexist, ignoramus rich kid who got out of the draft through his father’s connections-as their Messiah.
By John Oliver Mason6 years ago in The Swamp
Greater Manchester Wants Police-Free Schools
In January of this year it was revealed that the number of homicides across the United Kingdom had fallen for the first time in 5 years. Yet the perception remains that, as a nation, we face a growing threat from violent crime and in particular from knife crime. It's a perception that evokes strong reaction, especially when the human cost of carrying a weapon hits home in our communities. Even a single life lost due to carrying a knife is one life too many.
By Shaun Ennis6 years ago in The Swamp
After the virus
After the virus Will the reckoning be helpful? When the emergency that is Corona-virus, passes and things everywhere return to “normal” what will that normal be? How will political governance change? Will there be a world wide shift in political ideology, away from materialism and towards humanism? (Humanism is defined as a belief in the advancement of humanity by its own efforts.) Will religions be weakened? How will politicians use the aftermath?
By Peter Rose6 years ago in The Swamp