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 What was really the historical cause of the war between Israel and Palestine? Photo by  Fernández Salas | Unsplash The conflict started over 2000 years ago when the Romans invaded the Middle East and started enforcing their style of law on the people. It roots back to the days when Jesus was killed as the New Testament states that the Jews were chanting for the crucifixion of Jesus and the Romans were interested in keeping control but also of snuffing out some of the religious problems they were having as Jews advocated one God, and it caused a great deal of problems for the Roman religious system. After the death of Jesus, the Romans were in conflict with the Jewish people for another 150 years when they finally broke the resistance and disbanded the Jews, casting them out from the territory. It was this dispersion of people that would serve as a bit an anomaly in the typical conquered people’s history, as usually the people get absorbed into the other people that conquer be...

 Why was the Fender Rose Wood Telecaster the only guitar George Harrison hated? This indeed seems to be a question which has some irony built into it. George Harrison was given a Fender Rose Wood Telecaster in 1967 as a gift by Fender. His guitar would become iconic as it would make it’s way into the ‘Let it be’ video as well as it was used for their last public performance. So iconic is that guitar, that Fender decided to do a George Harrison Tele release and my good God is it a gorgeous guitar, yet; George only kept it for around a year as he would give it away in 1969. Ultimately the reason why he gave it away was because of the weight of the guitar. Being a solid body the guitar weighed a ton and he found it too much weight on the straps for it to be comfortable. The person that George gave the guitar to would hold onto it until 2 years after George’s death. His widow would buy the guitar for under a half million. Still, despite George only owning the guitar for a year it made ...

  Why are people at the bottom class so easily used by people at the top? Photo by  Andrea De Santis  on  Unsplash People that are on the bottom are easy to be used by anybody for anything. That’s the point of keeping people on the bottom is so that way you have an expendable population that will be ‘servant like’ in their complacency and will not spend a lot of time fighting against the system. There’s a natural balance that has to be achieved for this to occur. You have to keep people down low enough that their main focus is survival. If you keep the bulk of them right at this poverty level, where the only thing that that’s on their mind is getting to work and getting their paycheck so that way they can keep their power on, and keep the lights on, and keep the heat going, and some food in the cupboard, then as a ruling elite you’re laughing. As a ruler you’re laughing because the people have enough hope that they can still be something more than what they are but, ...

  Is there any difference between the United States and Canada? If so, how is that possible? · Photo by  Brianna R.  on  Unsplash Well, USA no doubt has a large influence on Canada as our main trading partner and main source of entertainment (movies etc) the USA has a lot of influence but, our history is unique and it did create a very distinct group that has some key differences between us and the US. The biggest of them is around the idea of socialism. The US treats Socialism like it’s the boogie man and the beginning of the end of modern society. It’s actually pretty humorous to hear some of the vitriol statements towards socialism and the ill-informed debates that happen down there over it. Independence — Canada is more Peaceful Don’t get me wrong, we still have our nut jobs and jerks here, but we are as a whole less belligerent than the US and the reason comes down to our unique history. The United States went to war with England to become independent. The resul...

  What makes you afraid of AI? I’ll give you one quick scenario that should help you understand the threat that we have upon us, and this is only from one particular angle — this isn’t the only thing it can do. Photo By:  Owen Beard | Unsplash An AI that can instantly look at your web history, analyze your phone calls, your text messages, your spending habits, your travel habits, what time you leave for work, what time you get home, how often you stay out late, and then makes a profile of you which it then cross references with the people’s profiles you hang out with and it then determines the likelihood of you having too many drinks tonight because you always do or worse. It profiles you and now it knows what Meyers Briggs type you are only much more precise. Given it knows you fairly well for using your phone calls, and conversations, aligning them with what you truly did, where you truly went, and figuring out just exactly how much you lie, how often you lie, and what you’r...

  Who is the most evil man in human history? What evil did he do? Where did he make his evil? Photo by Jonathan Mabey on  Unsplash The most evil would be the man responsible for the most deaths. These deaths are particularly horrendous because they are the deaths of his own people. Although one might think of Hitler or Stalin the winner of the most evil person is Mao Zedong from China. Ironically, Hitler comes in third after Stalin in second. Background and Context Mao’s story is one of those things where there was a perfect storm or an unfortunate chain of events which put him in a position of dictatorial and unchecked power with arguably completely delusional ideas blinded by his own self-image of grandeur, and he surrounded himself with sycophants. Mao’s story started in full after Chiang Kai-Shek and his Nationalist government gave way to Mao taking over with his Communist group in 1949. Kai-Shek’s Nationalists had loosely been in power since the late 1920s. Up until...

  What killed 90s alternative/grunge? The very nature of it necessitated that it be short lived as it was largely based around artists as opposed to a particular sound. If you were to try to lock it down to a specific sound the best you could really say is that it was anti-hair-metal/glam rock. Grunge was a response to the 80s, mullet hair, mustache wearing, Trans Am driving, one man will rule the world, narcissistic, macho man attitude in music. The 1980s seemed to be a regression on equality with objectifying females and portraying the high fiving jock stud muffins as some type of ideal to strive towards. There was an entire swath of people that didn’t identify with that image that the media and music industries of big big glam, make up, and costume rock that people just couldn’t connect to. It left them starving for some type of representation and it seen them turn away from mainstream looking for something more real that they could sink their teeth into which better represented...