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The views of Lindon’s friends changed to people living ordinary lives, working in harmony. With white rings over their heads. “Joining me is not the slavery you imagine,” the Silent King continued. “It is unity. You retain your will; indeed, you are useless to me without it. I merely coordinate you to exert more power than you could separately.”
Will Wight • Dreadgod (Cradle Book 11)
People v. Davis
Deon Davis appeals pretrial detention granted under the Illinois Pretrial Fairness Act due to unlawful possession of a firearm; court finds evidence sufficient for detention and upholds decision.
ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.netA week later, the publication of an anti-lockdown manifesto called the Great Barrington Declaration grabbed attention.13 Co-authored by epidemiologists from Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford, it declared, “Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing
... See moreAlex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
The libertarians were different. They slipped more easily into the American stream. In their insistence on freedom they could claim to be descendants of Locke, Jefferson, and the classical liberal tradition. Some of them interpreted the Constitution as a libertarian document for individual and states rights under a limited federal government, not a
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
He would be called the second Columbus. He had rediscovered America, it would be said. He was also seeing relationships and interrelationships between the Earth and life on Earth in a way that others before him had failed to do. So it would be perfectly fitting also to say that he was among the first ecologists.
David McCullough • Brave Companions
En passe de devenir une figure emblématique, mais controversée, du mouvement africain-américain, Williams va faire de la section locale de la NAACP une véritable « unité de combat10 », essentiellement composée de vétérans expérimentés11, décidée à mettre un terme à l’injustice raciale et à l’« Empire invisible » (terme par lequel s’autodésigne le K
... See moreElsa Dorlin • Se défendre (French Edition)
Shimon Peres signed the accord, in secret,
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
As the meeting commenced, the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany put up another proposition, this one demanding the immediate suspension of Rey Diaz’s position as Wallfacer and his trial before the International Court of Justice for crimes against humanity. The US representative declared, “After substantial investigation, we believe
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