Epstein Secrets

he latest issue of National Geographic I ran across a wonderful article about Trajan's Column which has a statue of St. Peter installed on it's by a Renaissance pope on top that towers over the ruins of Trajan's Forum which once included two libraries and a grand civic space paid for by war spoils from Daci

f work, and helped destroy the Iraqi state, which spurred the insurgency, the Sunni-Shia civil war, and later the transmogrification of al Qaeda in Mesopotamia into the Islamic State — weren't at The Haig defending their transgressions. I don't have a problem with Kissinger speaking at Yale University, in

cientists John Padgett and Walter Powell, after considering examples of epochal, collapsing change in political and biological systems of all sorts - Renaissance finance markets, coral reefs, innovation clusters, and others - summed up their conclusions in a little koan-like package of logic: “In the short run

d, nomadic societies into a tight, enduring and largely effective authoritarianism. Wittfogel argued that the “irrigation societies” of Egypt, China, Mesopotamia, and South America all reflected this link between survival and water control. Power pooled in the hands of what he called a “Hydraulic Bureaucracy”.

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(and disastrous) Paris Peace Conference of 1919. “Lloyd George, to my delight, had forgotten my presence,” Toynbee wrote, “and began to think aloud. ‘Mesopotamia...yes...oil...irrigation...we must have Mesopotamia; Palestine...yes... the Holy Land... Zionism... we must have Palestine...; Syria... h’m... what i