Most Evil Women in History: Satan's Daughter Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche

Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, (born July 10, 1846, Röcken, near Lützen, Prussia [Germany]—died Nov. 8, 1935, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach [Germany]), sister of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who became his guardian and literary executor.An early believer in the superiority of the Teutonic races, she married an anti-Semitic agitator, Bernhard Förster. In the 1880s they went to Paraguay and founded Nueva Germania, a supposedly pure Aryan...

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In Loving Memory of Hermann Scheer (1944-2010): "Hero for the Green Century" (Time Magazine)

AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting today from San Francisco. And we were planning to spend the hour today with the author and philosopher Derrick Jensen, here in California for a big event — just before a big event he was having tomorrow here in California. But just before we went on air, we learned of the death of Hermann Scheer. He is a pioneering German politician and economist who helped make Germany a renewable energy powerhouse. Hermann Scheer...

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The End of the Owls by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

I speak for none of your kind,  I speak for the end of the owls. I speak for the flounder and whale in their unlighted house, for the seven cornered sea, for the glaciersthey will have calved too soon,  raven and dove, feathery witnesses, for all those that dwell in the sky and the woods, and the lichen in gravel, for those without paths, for the colorless bog and the desolate mountains.Glaring on radar screens,  interpreted...

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"We Are All Star Dust" - Symphony of Science - God is Dead: Long live The Scientific Method!

Parable Of The MadmanHave you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morninghours,ran to the market place, and cried incessantly:"I seek God! I seek God!"As many of those who did not believe in Godwere standing around just then,he provoked much laughter.Has he got lost? asked one.Did he lose his way like a child? asked another.Or is he hiding?Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? emigrated?Thus they yelled and laughed.The...

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