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Rising through resistance is not merely a test of strength but a demonstration of vision and resolve. His ability to continue to rise through the ranks with vast amounts of resistance is legendary. https://lnkd.in/ghYW3bKB

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🧡 Happy National Principals Month, Mrs. Norris! 🧡 Curious about Mrs. Norris' favorite thing about school as a child? Or what is on her bucket list? Find out the answers and more in this video where Superintendent Dr. Maglisceau chats with Mrs. Norris, Principal of MartinElementary School! 🎥 Watch here: https://lnkd.in/g5SvpCPT

War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement. In war a physical force is to be created, and it is the executive will which is to direct it. In war the public treasures are to be unlocked, and it is the executive hand which is to dispense them. In war the honors and emoluments of office are to be multiplied; and it is the executive patronage under which they are to be enjoyed. It is in war, finally, that laurels are to be gathered, and it is the executive brow they are to encircle. The strongest passions, and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace. Hence it has grown into an axiom that the executive is the department of power most distinguished by its propensity to war: hence it is the practice of all states, in proportion as they are free, to disarm this propensity of its influence. - James Madison

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Good morning from sunny, bright, currently 6 degrees above the average daily high, Sauna Summer Bahrain. Today is Wednesday 14 August 2024. What better way to start the day than with Andrei. When you hear that the German government is going to start lauding fallen SS and Nazi Party leaders from WWII as the embodiment of military ideals for the current military to aspire to you understand why voicing peaceful disagreement especially founded on facts based reality to the government that falls within protected freedom of speech carries imprisonment. You understand why the UKG and USG, amongst others, also want to censor freedom of speech contrary to the government’s statements. Israel shows us where this leads today for those adverse to history, learning lessons from history or silo it away as irrelevant to today. Seriously, I am wondering where in the West can one get a good, classical/old world substantive, education? Our educational system may be excellent in neoliberal and neoconservative principles and discourse. But what if these principles are both wrong and incomplete substantively? Where does one go for a good education? https://lnkd.in/dhbk7T3F

Read the attached interview, from this long-serving "Great Statesman"

https://lnkd.in/ebCA9ciC If you are ever to hear a full commencement speech of our current times, given by one who has dedicated his life to all things history, this may the one worth listening to.

Learn your history.