Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Event Horizon Chronicle: The Secret Antarctic Cover-Up

Event Horizon Chronicle: The Secret Antarctic Cover-Up: Courtney Brown has posted some new remote viewing results, at his Far Sight Institute website , having to do with ancient, Atlantean ruins o...

Event Horizon Chronicle: Trump's Greenland Gambit and the Technate of North...

Event Horizon Chronicle: Trump's Greenland Gambit and the Technate of North...: Donald Trump's very public proffer in recent days to buy Greenland from Denmark has been met with amusement in many quarters, as if it w...

ResoluteReader: T.M.Devine - The Scottish Clearances: A History of...

ResoluteReader: T.M.Devine - The Scottish Clearances: A History of...: I had the pleasure of reading Tom Devine's new book The Scottish Clearances on holiday on the Isle of Mull, near where, it turns out, ...I had the pleasure of reading Tom Devine's new book The Scottish Clearances on holiday on the Isle of Mull, near where, it turns out, he wrote at least some of the book. It is a sobering experience when you look out on the landscape which he describes in the introduction like this:

The Scottish Highlands, contrary to the image projected in countless tourist brochures, are not one of the last great wildernesses in Europe but in many parts can be more accurately described as a derelict landscape from where most of the families who once lived and worked the soil are long gone.
This history is never far from view in the Highlands. The region is littered with abandoned homes, farmsteads and villages. Devine explains that contrary to much popular belief, it is wrong to see this "derelict" landscape as the product just of the infamous Highland Clearances, but rather of an extended process of change that took place across Scotland. This change has been neglected in both academic and popular history, and Devine's book aims to rectify this. Devine explains the broader context:
The Scottish experience of rural transformation was a national variant of broader developments in Europe. A primary determinant across the Continent and in Britain as a whole was a sustained revolution of increasing population which soon generated immense pressures on traditional modes of food production... different nations and regions took a wide spectrum of roots to agrarian modernisation... In Scotland, and much of mainland Britain, the pattern was different again with landed magnates deploying their power to introduce far-reaching changes from above. Some of their decisions resulted in dispossession of traditional rural communities on a large scale.

ResoluteReader: Ian Gilligan - Climate, Clothing & Agriculture in ...

ResoluteReader: Ian Gilligan - Climate, Clothing & Agriculture in ...: Precisely why humans made the transition to agriculture from their historic hunter-gatherer and forager modes of production is a discussio...

ResoluteReader: Robert Poole - Peterloo: The English Uprising

ResoluteReader: Robert Poole - Peterloo: The English Uprising: During the massacre of peaceful protesters by cavalry and yeomanry at St. Peter's fields in Manchester on August 16 1819, several cava



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