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  Darkest Christmas - December...

  Peter Harmsen

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  December 1942 saw the bloodiest Christmas in the history of mankind. Men were killing each other in greater numbers than ever before. The Holocaust continued, and innocent civilians were murdered by the thousands throughout the evil Nazi empire, even as the perpetrators celebrated the birth of Christ. 
   
   
   
  Millions stationed in far-off lands amid the greatest conflict in human history feared this was their last Christmas in freedom, or their last Christmas alive. At the same time as the slaughter continued unabated, throughout the world there were random acts of kindness. These gestures also straddled religious barriers and sometimes included those of non-Christian faiths. 
   
   
   
  At the same time, Christmas 1942 saw the injunction of "good will to man" distorted in ugly and callous ways. In Berlin, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels spent time with his family while still buried in feverish fantasies about the Jewish world conspiracy. 
   
   
   
  Christmas 1942 saw the entire range of man's conduct towards his fellow man, reflecting the extremes of behavior, good and bad, that World War II gave rise to. The way the holiday was marked around the world tells a deeper, more universal story of the human condition.

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  Plato's Crito

  Plato

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  The Athenian court has found Socrates guilty and sentenced him to death. While he is waiting to be executed, his friend Crito comes to the prison to persuade him to escape and go into exile. Socrates responds by examining the essence of law and community, probing the various kinds of law, making distinctions that go far beyond the particular issue of whether or not Socrates should escape.

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  Quit Porn Effortlessly! The Easy...

  Hackauthor²

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  "Stop using pornography, without feeling like a victim or experiencing deprivation." This book will enable you to quit your online sex addiction immediately, painlessly, and permanently, without willpower or any sense of loss or sacrifice. It will neither judge nor shame you, nor push you to take painful measures. The Easy-Peasy method, based on Allen Carr's "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking," views pornography as a psychological dependency. The method focuses on changing the way porn users perceive their habit and helps them realize that internet pornography offers no benefits. 
  EasyPeasy works metaphorically like a magic button. For me and many others, the method felt like magic because quitting was so simple and enjoyable! The idea that something is missing when you don't watch pornography is the voice of your brainwashing. By reading this book, you will break through this brainwashing. There is so much to gain and so little to lose. You should dare to read this book.

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  The Afterburn of Dreams - Spoken...

  Ashley Capes

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  Spoken word poetry from Australian poet Ashley Capes - commissioned and recorded during the early stages of the pandemic. Poems are drawn from Ashley's collections, released in various forms over the last 15 or so years. 
  Words, voice - Ashley Capes 
  Piano - Sean Foran 
  Drums - John Parker 
  Acoustic Bass - Samuel Vincent 
  I find myself deeply indebted to everyone who helped, from offering moral or studio support, and of course, the musicians who helped and inspired me, thank you! 
  Ashley

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  The Civil Rights Act of 1964

  Various Various

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  This program is read by an AI-based synthesized voice.

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  The Abercrombie Age - Millennial...

  Myles Ethan Lascity

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  Be popular and good-looking—it's the key to a happy life. Luckily, with a bit of know-how and money, you, too, can have it all. At least, that's what teen pop culture was selling in surround sound at the turn of the millennium. From movies like Clueless to TV's Dawson's Creek to the music videos on MTV's Total Request Live and the catalogs of Abercrombie & Fitch, a consumer-minded ethos drove pop culture storytelling as millennials came of age in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But in the long shadow of the Great Recession, the upwardly mobile aspirations fostered by the era's popular culture and media seem to have been thwarted. Many millennials today lack the wealth their parents had at the same age, and the gaps between rich and poor rival those of the Gilded Age. 
   
   
   
  The Abercrombie Age reconsiders teen popular culture from the turn of the twenty-first century, revealing how it told young people that life not only could but surely would get better. Far from frivolous or forgettable, the era's superficial, materialistic culture sold millennials unrealistic expectations of what life could offer, setting up a stark juxtaposition with the realities of today.

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