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Tyranny Takes Many Forms

by Frank Schiavone has been added to Cackle - the sound of your opinion site.

On a cold December night in 1773, some seriously annoyed British subjects held a tea party aboard three ships in the service of the East India Company. Now this wasn’t your typical, genteel English tea party. In fact, it was more like a rowdy masquerade party hell-bent on raising a ruckus.

Samuel Adam’s Sons of Liberty, in their amateurish Narragansett costumes, quickly dispatched 45 tons of very expensive tea into Boston Harbor. Their purpose was not to caffeinate local fish populations but to send a message to King George and the British Parliament some three thousand miles away.

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A new article “Biodiversity and Why it Matters” has been added to Cackel - The Sound of Your Opinion site.

By Frank Schiavone

Habitat and species loss is a major challenge in Southern California. In fact, Southern California has been identified as one of eight “hot spots” worldwide where species loss is occurring at unprecedented rates. Many of the plant and animal communities here rank as some of the most threatened in the world. According to a nationwide survey of biologists by the American Museum of Natural History, “seven out of ten biologists believe that we are in the midst of a mass extinction of living things, and that this loss of species will pose a major threat to human existence in the next century.”

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