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#succession — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #succession, aggregated by home.social.

  1. South Korea trying to learn if Kim Jong-un has a son but daughter’s status as heir appears solid, Asia News

    SEOUL — South Korea’s National Intelligence Service says it is trying to determine if North Korean leader Kim…
    #EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #KimJongUn #KimJuAe #Politicalleadership #succession
    europesays.com/korea/151867/

  2. A quotation from Twain

    Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government, and earthly despotism would be the absolute perfect earthly government if the conditions were the same; namely the despot the perfectest individual of the human race, and his lease of life perpetual; but as a perishable, perfect man must die and leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it is the worst form that is possible.

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 10 “Beginnings of Civilization”

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85346/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #connecticutyankee #absolutepower #despotism #dictatorship #humannature #mortality #perfection #succession #tyranny

  3. Venice appeared as a kind of, but not quite, sovereign polity in the late 700s and 800s. Venetian society, no longer governed directly by Constantinople, nor really independent, had to survive between the two super-powers of their time, Byzantium and the Carolingian Empire.

  4. Now that #RupertMurdoch is leaving #NewsCorp & #Fox, do I need to start watching #Succession to see what happens next?
    #TvSeries
    Him leaving reminds me of the successful campaign with #ColorOfChange & #AngeloCarusone to get advertisers to leave the #GlennBeck show.
    I asked #Rupert how long he was going to support the money losing show.
    Beck was fired after this for lack of revenue after thia story.
    RUPERT AND ME: I QUESTION THE NEWSCORP CEO ABOUT SUBSIDIZING GLENN BECK
    shadowproof.com/2010/05/12/rup

  5. If you're familiar with #EasternHemlock #forests then you might picture them as a closed #canopy with sparse vegetation in the #understory.

    But when a fallen tree opens up that canopy, the #gap supports a profusion of #regeneration.

    youtu.be/KUwmGSudKHg

    Very cool to find this understory #heterogeneity at #RBWinterStatePark in #Pennsylvania.

    #ecology #succession