Midnight Oil- Beds Are Burning

Midnight Oil was a big advocate for the aboriginal natives of Australia.
This song still rocks today and still retains it's meaning in today's times.
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Ginette Kolinka, France

#OnThisDay in 1941, German authorities established the Kraków ghetto, where thousands of Jews were imprisoned. Over the next two years, most ghetto residents were murdered.

This woman inspires me every day
#BringBackOurGirls

R.E.M. - Man On The Moon
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Status Quo - In The Army Now
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My generation
The Jam - Going Underground
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XTC - Senses Working Overtime

Music has never been the same.
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Defense contractors’ greed is not just fleecing the American taxpayer; it’s killing Ukrainians. A contractor padding its profit margins means that fewer weapons reach Ukrainians on the front lines. Corporate greed is helping Vladimir Putin.
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The cover of TIME

For the first since World War II, our allies around the world are preparing for the United States to abandon them if Trump wins.

Richard Nixon lost a very close election in 1960. He had legitimate grounds to contest it, yet he chose not to.
Partly, he wrote, because of the impact on global democracy. 'Every pipsqueak politician... would start claiming fraud when he lost an election.'

Maybe the generation who matured after the monstrous destruction of WW2 do not appreciate the fragility of democracy. Or its importance.
Taking a wrecking ball to the institutions that guard our rights as citizens to advance your own cause is dangerous & historically illiterate.

#OTD 1946 in the Nuremberg trials, the Jewish poet Abraham Sutzkever testified about the murder of almost 80,000 Jews in Vilnius by Germans who occupied the city.
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Walter Sekules, who as a 10-year-old escaped the horrors of the Holocaust and Soviet detention camps, came to Northern Ireland in 1950. His story is being told in full for the first time in a children’s book.—by Noel McAdam for Belfast Telegraph tinyurl.com/yc56pnnm