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During the opening months of the First World War, in the midst of the incendiary jingoism roiling Britain, the poet Dorothea Hollins of the Women’s Labour League proposed that an unarmed, 1,000-strong ‘Women’s Peace Expeditionary Force’ cross Euro…

Source: Would the world be more peaceful if there were more women leaders? | Aeon Ideas

Aided by meterologists, the author embarked on a series of “wind-walks”.

Source: Where the Wild Winds Are: Nick Hunt weathers the storms of Europe

Charley Hill, the art world’s preeminent sleuth, relates his ongoing search for a missing masterpiece, a mission that so far has taken him to a Sicilian town that’s “wall-to-wall gangsters.”

Source: The Case of the Mafia and the Stolen Caravaggio – GARAGE

Responding to Russian-funded political advertisements, Facebook chairman Mark Zuckerberg declared last month that “we will do our part to defend against nation states attempting to spread misinformation.” But Facebook is effectively sowing disinformation by kowtowing to foreign regimes and censoring atrocities such as ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. In the name of repressing fake news and hate speech, Facebook is probably suppressing far more information than Americans realize.

Source: Facebook Censored Me and I’m Not the Only One – Foundation for Economic Education – Working for a free and prosperous world

Marx’s manifesto is famous for summing up his theory of Communism with a single sentence: “Abolition of private property.” But this was hardly the only thing the philosopher believed must be abolished from bourgeois society in the proletariat’s march to utopia. In his manifesto, Marx highlighted five additional ideas and institutions for eradication.

Source: 5 Things Marx Wanted to Abolish (Besides Private Property) – Foundation for Economic Education – Working for a free and prosperous world

‘ The Shanghai core index traded heavy in todays trading as concerns over the amount of IPO potentially coming to market start to take their toll. Shanghai

Source: Market Talk- October 30th, 2017 | Armstrong Economics