Isaac
- Laura Slot
- 6 November 2024
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People of the Past
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Empire of Distrust
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- 2 October 2024
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“Oh, What’ll You Do Now?”
- Laura Slot
- 25 August 2023
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On Action in the Face of Destruction "I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’" -Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (1963) Is…
Long Live All Who Can’t Be Fooled
- Laura Slot
- 15 June 2022
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A poem by HK & The Saltimbanks This is my first post in a couple of weeks. I intend on blogging more in the nearby…
Dutch Debate is Dead
- Laura Slot
- 5 July 2023
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Debate Remains Dead. And They've Killed It. Listen to this article A popular song about the Covid restrictions was ‘We’ve Lost Dancing’ in 2021. In…
All Talk, No Action
- Laura Slot
- 13 January 2023
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Journalism Since the Great Financial Crisis In early 2009 I attended a memorable panel discussion at Columbia University’s Journalism School in New York. A handful…
Empire of Distrust
- Laura Slot
- 2 October 2024
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Centuries ago, the Italian philosopher and priest Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) wrote, "Good can exist without evil, whereas evil can not exist without good." The good…
Until Morale Improves
- Laura Slot
- 28 May 2024
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"The beatings will continue until morale improves." ~Cartoonist and illustrator Gerald Scarfe (1936) Many years ago a friend of mine was managing a sales team.…
Computer Still Says No
- Laura Slot
- 7 February 2024
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De ‘hamsterwiel’-jaren
- Laura Slot
- 10 June 2021
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Waar ging het mis? Zal het straks mis gaan, is het al mis gegaan, of allebei? Voormalig econoom en oud-werknemer van Lehman Brothers Michael Krieger,…
From Ponzi to Ponzi
- Laura Slot
- 23 March 2021
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I met Bernie Madoff at a party in Florida. It was just a year or so before December 2008, when he got arrested and began…
The Daily Boycott
- Laura Slot
- 11 June 2024
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The boycott is incredibly powerful as a means to dismantle and undermine anything unrighteous. It has been a few years since I have spent a…
Old Wild Horses
- Laura Slot
- 28 December 2023
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All wisdom found outside the rational mind has consistently received a bad rap, particularly during the last fifty to one hundred years. Much attention was…
“Oh, What’ll You Do Now?”
- Laura Slot
- 25 August 2023
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Isaac
- Laura Slot
- 6 November 2024
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In the winter of 1821, a boy named Isaac Tange was born in a coastal town on the North Sea, Vrouwenpolder, in the United Kingdom…
People of the Past
- Laura Slot
- 14 October 2024
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Much of our modern world depends on selling the future. When selling anything from mortgages to new medication, the latest vacuum cleaner or tickets to…
The Modern Hero
- Laura Slot
- 24 January 2024
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Empire of Distrust
- Laura Slot
- 2 October 2024
- 2
Centuries ago, the Italian philosopher and priest Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) wrote, "Good can exist without evil, whereas evil can not exist without good." The good…
Computer Still Says No
- Laura Slot
- 7 February 2024
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Humor is often prophetic. The sketch from Little Britain –‘Computer says No’– is exactly twenty years old. An unfriendly, cold-hearted hospital receptionist conveniently suspends all…
The Modern Hero
- Laura Slot
- 24 January 2024
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