![]() ![]() "VW" car symbols show alphabetical symbolism from German socialism.Buddha was/is adorned with the swastika. Do Buddhists perpetuate the same mistakes about socialism today? Hitler tilted his symbol 45 degrees and oriented it in the direction of the "S" letter shape to emphasize it as alphabetical symbolism for "socialism." Hitler also designed the "SA" symbol to show another "S" letter shape for "sturmabteilung." The "SS" symbol for "schutzstaffel" is similar too. Millions lived in poverty and died under socialism. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Kim thugs and many others touted "socialism" by the very word. The swastika has been used for over three thousand years by billions of people in many cultures and religionsincluding Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduismas an auspicious symbol of the sun and good fortune. Hitler believed that too when he touted "socialism" by the very word in his voluminous speeches and writings. All socialists believe that socialism is beneficent and produces well-being. The swastika means "well-being" and "good fortune" from the Sanskrit language. Rather, Hitler’s cross is actually the hakenkreuz, or hook-cross, which, according to Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, is used as. ![]() ![]() Some Buddhists in other countries support socialism too. Nakagaki, an ordained Buddhist priest, argues that the Nazi cross is neither a swastika nor did it derive from the traditions that had made the swastik a sacred symbol. Does the Buddhist swastika encompass the same dogma touted by Adolf Hitler: SOCIALISM? Do Buddhists and Buddhism embrace socialism? Do some Buddhists hide links between the Buddhist swastika and Hitler's cross? China requires Buddhists to support socialism and the socialist government. ![]()
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What John Sandford is attempting with Dead Watch is a true political thriller. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. From the author of the number-one-bestselling Prey novels comes an extraordinary story of murder, passion, and deadly ambitiona political thriller like no other. ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. DEAD WATCH by John Sandford a Thriller Political, Suspense book ISBN-0425215695 ISBN13-9780425215692 with cover, excerpt, author notes, review link, and availability. Dead Watch John Sandford 3.99 11,431 ratings532 reviews Sometimes, justice isn't enough. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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Taking a unique personal detail from the past and showing how it lingers in what is an otherwise very normal life for the protagonist ![]() ![]() Aunt Angustias is sternly religious, determined to maintain the standards of the past, and insists that Andrea must obey her in all things. Grandmother is very old and frail, and her mind is beginning to fail. ![]() The house is old, run-down, dirty and over-stuffed with furniture and trinkets, relics of when the family owned the whole house, before they had to divide it into two and sell the other half. When she arrives at her grandmother’s house in the middle of the night, she discovers the family is no longer wealthy – quite the reverse. Now she is an orphan, existing on a tiny stipend granted to her by the state to enable her to study. She is enthralled at the idea of Barcelona, having only childish memories of earlier visits to her then wealthy relatives. The Civil War is over but Spain is still suffering its after-effects when Andrea comes to Barcelona from her provincial home to study literature at the University. ![]() ![]() ![]() Likewise, just as some journalists decried the overapplication of labels like depression and anxiety, there has been a steady flow of columns warning against the pathologizing of ‘normal behaviour’ by labelling it as a symptom of Autism or ADHD. It is common to come across posts from professionally diagnosed users claiming that the conditions have been caricatured, minimised, or made light of by other content creators. Just as in the 2010s movement against the stigma of mental health issues, there has been a significant backlash to this kind of social media content. Users with autism and/or ADHD produce content that challenges stigma, encourages acceptance and pride in those that share the conditions, and (perhaps most controversially) suggests that viewers who recognise some of the traits and behaviours exhibited in themselves may be undiagnosed members of this group. On the (relatively) new social media platform TikTok, a similar wave of social campaigning is emerging around neurodiversity. 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