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Vladimir Putin: Lenin Screwed up — Created “Time Bomb” Under Russia with Divisions Along Ethnic Lines

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Vladimir Putin accuses Lenin of placing a ‘time bomb' under Russia

Vladimir Putin has denounced Lenin and his Bolshevik government for their brutal repressions and accused him of having placed a “time bomb” under the state. The criticism of Lenin, who is still revered by communists and many others in Russia, is unusual for the Russian president, who in the past carefully weighed his comments about the nation’s history to avoid alienating some voters. At the same time, he signalled that the government had no intention of taking Lenin’s body out of his Red Square tomb, warning against “any steps that would divide society”.

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Koko: Getting dirty with open source databases

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Getting dirty with open source databases

“We have been forced to look elsewhere because it’s not economical. If I want to do some serious number-crunching, I’m not going to spend £60,000 for a box when I can get something like MySQL with zero licensing costs and which pretty much does the same thing. It might not be as polished, but the tooling has progressed immeasurably.“

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Antechinus: The Science of Reincarnation

Cultural Intelligence, Extraterrestial Intelligence
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The Science of Reincarnation

For nearly 15 years Jim B. Tucker, associate psychiatry professor at the UVA Medical Center's Division of Perceptual Studies, has been investigating claims made by children, usually between the ages of 2 and 6 years old, who say they've had past lives.The children are sometimes able to provide enough detail about those lives that their stories can be traced back to an actual person—rarely famous and often entirely unknown to the family—who died years before.

 

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Yoda: Muhammad Yunus on How to Change the World – Do the Reverse

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yoda with light saberMuhammad Yunus on How to Change the World: Do the Reverse

Everything we have done is the reverse of conventional. They go to the city, we go to the village. They go to men, we go to women. They say people should come to the bank, we say the bank should go to the people. They say you need to be job seekers, we say job creators. They say business is about maximizing profit, we say forget about profit, all we want to do is solve problems.