Feudalism

GUJO-HACHIMAN, GIFU PREF. – Alan Booth, a writer rarely given to dispensing easy compliments, could be a dyspeptic traveler when destinations did not live up to his expectations. After a long walk through the mountains of Gifu Prefecture, the riverine settle…

No politician from either of the Two Party/One Party imbroglio will ever mention anything about this Absentee Landlord disgrace. Sadly, absentee landlords have been with us since time in memoriam. These people were even mentioned in the story of Jesus in the …

Good morning on Sunday, August 4, 2019, National Chocolate Chip Day. In the U.S. it’s Coast Guard Day, Sisters’ Day, and Single Working Womens’ Day.  I will call my sister! Today’s Hili is up early because I couldn’t sleep. News of the Day: Now there’s been…

Zulu king Goodwill Zwelithini. File photo: ANA THIS week, unemployment in South Africa edged to 29%, the worst its been since 2008. Then Eskom posted an eye-watering, breathtaking R20.7 billion annual loss.In other news, King Goodwill Zwelithini will struggl…

National culture is difficult to achieve due to a trend towards Islamising aspects of Malay literature, says Faisal Tehrani. (Facebook pic) LANGKAWI: The religionisation of Malay literature over the decades has become a stumbling block to realising the natio…

Ten thousand desert rats, 10,000 fish, 14,000 sheep, 1,000 lambs, 1,000 fat oxen and many more creatures slaughtered, cooked and served: that is how Ashurnishabal of Mesopotamia (883-859 BCE) pampered almost 70,000 guests for 10 days. The Archbishop of Yorks …

On the 18th June this year, climate change demonstrators glued themselves to a main street in the centre of Brisbane, protesting what they regard as a climate emergency and to voice their objection to the recent approval of the Adani coal mine in Australias G…

Anselm's "satisfaction theory of the atonement" is much maligned, often by those who, in my opinion, are dealing with a caricature of what Anselm actually advances in his eleventh-century work Cur Deus homo? His model often gets lumped in with penal substitut…

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Climate change alarmists and left-wing groups all seem to agree that the Earth is doomed and the year 2030 is the “tipping point” to stop climate change. But Think Progress additionally warned that if President Donald Trump is reelected in 2020, the Earth is …