From the desk of Mike Williamson, SurvivalBlog’s Editor At Large: You too can have a degree in Twitter [1]. And the department head is currently on vacation with the “Fashion marketing” students in Europe. They will grow no food, build no structures, improve no productivity, but they will expect to be taken seriously when civilization collapses.
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California Mandate Gives Parental Control to the State and Big Pharma [2]. – William Lehr
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Dad-of-two gunned down with sawn-off shotgun by vandals cheats death when pellets hit his iPhone [3]. – JBG
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University approves ‘history’ class that doesn’t mention both World Wars [4] – T.P.
“The new introductory ‘history’ course leaves out, among other things, the Progressive Era, World War I, women’s suffrage, the Great Depression, FDR, the New Deal, World War II, McCarthyism, the Cold War, the Korean War, the nuclear arms race, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the JFK assassination, Freedom Summer, the United Farm Workers Union, the Vietnam War, Stonewall, Watergate, Second Wave Feminism, the Iranian hostage crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, globalization, the 9/11 attacks, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
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Bird flu outbreak (mostly) spares backyard chickens – USA Today [5]. – T.P.