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Tue, 13/12/2022 - 19:14
Preparation time: 15 min.Cooking time: about 1 hr. Luscious caramels make a welcome gift at Yuletide. They can be made a week to 10 days ahead of presentation, as long as they are wrapped airtight and stored for the interim in a cool, dark place. For 64 candies (about 1½ lbs.) you will need: 2 […]
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Tue, 13/12/2022 - 19:00

Get ready for The Best Christmas Ever with a trio of festive tales set in the world of Doctor Who Candy Jar Books have announced a brand new collection of festive short stories in Doctor Who spin-off series The Lucy Wilson Mysteries. Arriving just in time for Santa to leave under the tree, The Best […]

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Tue, 13/12/2022 - 16:28
A good friend made a Facebook post saying “Sadly it turns out that the latest AI photo app y’awl using to look hot and sexy is built off the back of a training set full of work stolen from artists without payment. How disappointing. We sorted this shit years ago with Creative Commons licensing. It’s […]
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Tue, 13/12/2022 - 14:42

Reporting from inside the federal courtroom where the US is prosecuting Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, The Grayzone learns of disturbing acts of diplomatic espionage. Saab’s advocates insist he is imprisoned for violating Washington’s economic blockade. Authorities in Cape Verde, opened official government communications which Venezuela intended for Iran, including a sealed letter sent by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following the arrest of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab in June of 2020. The revelations came […]

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Tue, 13/12/2022 - 06:00

The confusion about the term ‘imperialism’ can be resolved upon recognising that the term was originally popularised to explain warfare, but not national exploitation, whereas the subsequent evolution of the term sought to explain national exploitation, but not warfare. Therefore, the term ‘imperialism’ must provide an answer to the question, how do relations of national exploitation create the long-term conditions for warfare?
My PhD thesis, Imperialism: How Declining Currency Hegemony Leads to War, argues that the Indian Political Economy (PE) tradition provides useful insights to answer this question

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Tue, 13/12/2022 - 04:00

Sir Ian McKellan meets his match in Doctor Who’s John Bishop as the pair star as wife and husband in riotous musical comedy panto Mother Goose “Once they’ve seen your Twankey, a Goose will surely follow,” as Sir Ian McKellan himself described the Shakespearean actor’s return to panto for Mother Goose. The knight of the […]

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