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The Magic of Rare Earth Elements & the Hypocrisy of Clean Energy What is the purpose of the game Monopoly? To drive your opponents into poverty so that you get rich. This is the meaning of success that we all grew up on. Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek Nomads of Mongolia Mongolia. I’ve always wanted to go there. About seven years ago, I packed what I had into a storage unit (I’ve never been big on material possessions, I’m a serious wanderer) and took off with a small bag, my most important possession being my computer to write on, and began traveling wherever I wanted to go. This didn’t mean staying in resort hotels, it meant going off the beaten track and living in places for periods of time, from a few months in Sucre, Bolivia, Costa Rica and the Sahara Desert, to almost three years in Luxor, Egypt, and many places in-between. I made it back to Phoenix, Arizona from Egypt about six months into the pandemic. Mongolia could well have been next on my list. But now, with the way things are ...

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Thanks to Иван for recommending this article... Sweden Suspends Moderna Shot Indefinitely After Vaxxed Patients Develop Crippling Heart Condition By  Jack Davis New concerns are being raised about side effects from the Moderna vaccine against the coronavirus. Swedish health officials have now decided that a moratorium on giving the Moderna vaccine to anyone under 31 will be extended indefinitely, the U.K.  Daily Mail  reported. The pause on the Moderna shots had been scheduled to end on Dec. 1. Finland, Iceland and Denmark have taken similar steps. Norway is encouraging men under 30 not to get the Moderna shot, but is not mandating it. For months, the  Moderna vaccine  has been under scrutiny because of data that shows young men who receive it are at increased risk for  myocarditis , an inflammation of the heart muscle, and pericarditis, an inflammation of the sac around the heart. The Daily Mail reported that one U.S. study that has not yet been peer-revie...

Goodbye Mr Marx Darren Allen Many of the problems with socialism, both  official and unofficial , in fact many of the problems with the world, can be traced back to Karl Marx. Not that all leftists are, say, Marxist materialists — many today are idealists (e.g. pacifistic Buddhists) — nor that all leftists are uncritical of Marx — they understand that completely uncritical adulation is absurd and are often intelligent enough to see the more obvious flaws in Marxist philosophy. Nor even that all have read Marx — I’d guess that most haven’t. Rather, Marx is the source of — and we might say embodies — leftism as a whole, as a gestalt. Through understanding his philosophy, and seeing through it, it is possible to gain a more radical understanding of the humdrum world — or at least see through the unspoken, and quite insane, assumptions of leftism. Marx’s economic and social theories were based on a rationally apprehendable, law-like universe, a continuation of Western civilisation’s pe...