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	Bread and circuses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bread and circuses is a derogatory phrase which can describe either government policies to pacify the citizenry, or the shallow, decadent desires of that same citizenry.
		"Bread and Circuses" is an episode of Star Trek, in which Captain Kirk and crew discover a planet whose society is based on ancient Rome.
		In Toronto, a coalition of social activist groups calling itself bread not circuses led organized protests with the (successful) goal of blocking the city's bid for the 2008 Olympic Games, stating that the city should not be spending public money on entertainment when so many people were going hungry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bread_and_Circuses (445 words)

	Servant Leadership Blog: Bread and Circuses II
		Bogle desribed "Bread and Circuses" as follows, “during the first half of the first century, the Roman emperors kept their popularity high and their populace peaceful by providing what we today cynically call bread and circuses.
		Circuses were the shows—the chariot races, the gladiators, the sporting events, the theatre—that took place in the great hippodromes of the Roman Empire.
		He also goes on to talk about today’s bread and circuses, “Much of our bread, as it were, goes, not to keep the masses peaceable, but to a fairly small elite, including the fabulous compensation paid to corporate chief executives and star athletes and entertainers.
	servantleadershipblog.com /servant-leadership/blog/2006/01/bread-and-circuses-ii.html (648 words)

	bread - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about bread (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bread has been a staple of human diet in many civilizations as long as agriculture has been practised, and some hunter-gatherer peoples made it from crushed acorns or beech nuts.
		Potato, banana, and cassava bread are among some local varieties, but most breads are made from fermented cereals which form glutens when mixed with water.
		The earliest bread was unleavened and was made from a mixture of flour and water and dried in the sun on flat stones.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /bread (453 words)

	Bread and Circuses (TOS episode) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Bread and Circuses" is a second season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, broadcast on March 15, 1968.
		It is episode #43, written by Gene Roddenberry, and Gene L. Coon, based on a story by John Kneubuhl, and directed by Ralph Senensky.
		Its name is a reference to the phrase "bread and circuses".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bread_and_Circuses_(TOS_episode) (1361 words)

	Anthony de Jasay, "Bread and Circuses" in the Modern Welfare State, Is the Worm Finally Turning?: Library of Economics ...
		As vital as the bread and the oil for keeping the people happy, were the numerous and frequent circuses scattered all over the city, where gladiators fought wild beasts and each other.
		In the modern welfare state, the equivalent of the gladiators are professional football players and athletes, and the equivalent of the circuses are mainly provided by the television networks out of the advertising revenue they attract.
		Bread they can earn and no doubt they would continue to get some, in the modern welfare state, even if they failed to work for it; but by way of circuses, most of them are reduced to watching television.
	www.econlib.org /library/Columns/y2004/Jasaycircus.html (1576 words)

	Bread and Circuses
		Those scornful words "bread and circuses," panem et circenses in Latin, become more meaningful when you understand that Roman citizens became increasingly addicted to free distributions of food and the violent gladiatorial and other contests held in the Coliseum and the chariot races of the Circus Maximus.
		Thus, bread and circuses, is a phrase now used to deplore a population so distracted with entertainment and personal pleasures (sometimes by design of those in power) that they no longer value the civic virtues and bow to civil authority with unquestioned obedience.
		Bread and Circuses has also become a general term for government policies that seek short-term solutions to public unrest.
	www.thomasjamesmartin.com /breadcircus.htm (1124 words)

	Bread And Circuses
		The term, "bread and circuses", is an ancient one, dating back to Roman times.
		The seniors, part of the "Greatest Generation", are not dummies: They know which side their bread is buttered on.
		The "greatest generation" likes bread and circuses also, but they are hep on how to milk the system.
	www.shout.net /~bigred/PanCirc.htm (725 words)

	Graham Collier : Bread And Circuses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		graham collier : bread and circuses : johnny mathis : the hits of various composers : wangen rieger organ of st. martin (guggenmos), john cage : john cage volume 14-sonatas and interludes.
		groovenics : listen and learn : the times table manowar : louder than hell, monstrosity : in dark purity, graham collier %3A bread and circuses.
		graham collier %3A bread and circuses, mike wilhelm : wood and wire, jodee : joyful noise london so brass crees : gabrieli music for brass - vol 1.
	www.cd-discounts.net /graham-collier-%3A-bread-and-circuses.html (1129 words)

	Bread and Circuses
		In his book Bread and Circuses, Patrick Brantlinger analyzes the idea of "bread and circuses" as a narcotic for the masses throughout history.
		The meme "bread and circuses" is almost, as Brantlinger discovers, worn out as a metaphor for television; it has become a truism, as Minow said, that TV is "an intellectual wasteland".
		Circuses or television are civilization's cure for energy--to draw it off so that we sleep, and threaten nobody.
	www.spectacle.org /496/dream.html (1722 words)

	Safe Haven \| Bread and Circuses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bread and Circuses is defined as "Offerings, such as benefits or entertainment, intended to placate discontent or distract attention from a policy or situation".
		In order to keep the people of Rome from becoming too too unhappy with their lives, the government provided them with enough food (bread) so they wouldn't starve and enough entertainment (circuses) so they would be amused.
		The most famous of all the circuses in Rome was the Circus Maximus.
	www.safehaven.com /article-2825.htm (1978 words)

	IDS93\STAR TREK:TOS Season 2 - Bread And Circuses
		Synopsis - After discovering the wreckage of the SS Beagle, the crew is led to an Earth-like planet in the equivalent of the 1960s, only the Roman civilization never fell in its history.
		Bread And Circuses really delves into our own history and asks the question, what would civilization be like today, had the Roman Empire never fallen?
		I acknowledge that my comments will become the property of Deepspace93.com and may be edited or deleted for reasons of inappropriate content.
	originaltrek.deepspace93.com /tos2/eptos43.shtml (157 words)

	Bread and Circuses for the Native Barbarians by Gaurang Bhatt
		Bread and Circuses for the Native Barbarians by Gaurang Bhatt
		It is understandable that the relatives of the unfortunate victims may have a yearning for the cold dish of vengeance, in their mental palate, whose taste has been dulled by the fumes of long burning fury and distinctly altered by the gravid state of their grief.
		Ecclesiastes — I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
	www.boloji.com /blunt/00502.htm (988 words)

	Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 22, Episodes 43 & 44: Bread And Circuses/ Journey To Babel
		In Episode 43, entitled Bread and Circuses, Kirk, Spock and McCoy visit a former colleague who now holds sway over a parallel Roman Empire mixed with modern technology and televised gladiator fights.
		In Episode 44, entitled Journey to Babel, Spock is in a dilemma as his ailing father needs a transfusion in order to live » continue reading » while the Enterprise is crowded with alien ambassadors and he has replaced Captain Kirk on the bridge of the Enterprise.
		"Bread and Circuses" Captain Kirk (William Shatner), Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), and First Officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy) discover that Captain Merik (William Smithers), commander of the long-missing Starfleet vessel S.S. Beagle, has become "First Citizen of the Empire" in a re-creation of ancient Rome on an obscure, unnamed planet.
	www.dvd24x7.com /b-star-trek-original-22-episodes-43 (687 words)

	Bread and Circus
		Back in Roman times when the emperor Augustus was busy buying off the population with his bread and circuses act while grabbing more and more power, a satirist called Juvenal”; wrote about how the system worked.
		Somehow, this concept of bread and circuses popped into my mind just after a part of a young celebrity’s anatomy popped out to public scrutiny at halftime at the Superbowl.
		Circuses and slanted news threaten the health of the Republic.
	www.progressivewritersbloc.com /BW/BreadAndCircuses.htm (927 words)

	Bread and Circuses
		Bread and circuses became the method that the ruling class of ancient
		This method kept their sheep fat and happy, even as they fleeced them and sent them off to plunder the free world.
		The circuses have changed from the gladiator contests live in the coliseum, to the good vs. evil games on our modern televisions.
	www.strike-the-root.com /4/wasdin/wasdin10.html (614 words)

	The New American - Bread and Circuses - February 10, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		America, by contrast, retains much of her fundamental religious and cultural heritage, especially outside the decrepit urban zones of the east and west coasts.
		While the unsavory influence of mass entertainment now reaches into the remotest villages and farmhouses, our addiction to bread and circuses has not so neutralized our citizens that they "meddle no more" in the affairs of the state.
		And the surest way to escape the rip tide of media-promoted immorality is to recommit ourselves to the moral virtues and family values of a more civilized age, an age that may yet be revived if we do not entertain ourselves into oblivion.
	www.thenewamerican.com /tna/2003/02-10-2003/vo19no03_bread.htm (2650 words)

	Bread and Circuses...Rome re-visited - by Darrel Mulloy
		Watching their fellow citizens slaughtered before their eyes, and feeling elated that those on the floor of the arena were not themselves, entertained people.
		It is the duty of all of us to take our attention away from the Florida battleground and start to look at what we can do to stop Emperor Clinton from fulfilling his legacy of taking away the lands that rightfully belong to the states and the people.
		State size pieces of land in Alaska are being claimed as road less, and off limits to logging, the main purpose for that land since the late 1800’s.
	www.sierratimes.com /archive/darrel/eddm120500.htm (1050 words)

	Bread & Circuses - a Roman Mystery short story
		By putting his eye to one of the cracks between the horizontal slats, Jonathan could see the marble counter where bread was sold to the public between dawn and noon.
		She set a platter of bread drizzled with olive oil on the table.
		In the sack was some of the free grain which would be ground and kneaded and baked into bread for Roman citizens.
	www.romanmysteries.com /characters/breadcircuses.htm (7913 words)

	Bread and Circuses, or Who Cares Who Won the Super Bowl?
		The Roman satirist Juvenal said "the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddle no more and long eagerly for just two things — bread and circuses." Juvenal wrote this passage at a time when the republic's memory had faded into the glorious past, succeeded by a string of dictatorial emperors.
		All there was left was the riches of empire and a huge mass of poor ignorant city dwellers to be kept in order.
		However, today, with the enormous power of the television screen to keep people pacific and even willing to vote for their own undoing, the Republicans and the Media don't even bother with the bread part of the equation anymore.
	www.unrealitycheck.com /articles/sports.htm (620 words)

	Bread And Circuses lyrics - 10000 Maniacs @ Lyrics Find (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		No mortal skin and bone can live on bread and circuses alone
	www.lyricsfind.com /1/10000-maniacs/unknown-album/bread-and-circuses.php (295 words)

	Bread and Circuses
		Bread and Circuses has also become a general term for government policies that seek short-term solutions to social unrest.
		For a complete listing of article comments, questions, and other discussions related to Thomas James Martin's Care of the Soul topic, please visit the Discussions page.
		Care of the Soul - Bread and Circuses - http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/14653/102611
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/14653/102611 (472 words)

	The Seattle Times: Opinion: The fiscal foolishness of bread and circuses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Beware of congressional bread and circuses — they are attempts to divert your eyes from the real work of the Republican leadership.
		The president and Congress are serving up bread and circuses and the American public is having a good time on our credit card.
		But the enormous gap between our spending habits and our revenues threatens our financial standing in the world and pushes the payments onto our children and grandchildren.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/opinion/2002223931_floyd30.html (793 words)

	Apr 04 Bread and Circuses David Petch 321gold .... inc
		Apr 04 Bread and Circuses David Petch 321gold....
		Here chariot races were held before nearly 250 000 cheering fans.
		Therefore, reproduction, modification, storage in a retrieval system or retransmission, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or otherwise, for reasons other than personal use, is strictly prohibited without prior written permission.
	www.321gold.com /editorials/petch/petch040405.html (1922 words)

	www.myspace.com/breadandcircuses
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	The Hidden History of the Roman Empire - World History lesson plan (grades 6-8) - DiscoverySchool.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ask if any students are familiar with the phrase "bread and circuses." If so, ask them to explain its meaning.
		In ancient Rome, bread and circuses were used to keep the underprivileged poor people quiet.
		Tell students they will explore the concept of bread and circuses in ancient Rome, specifically the use of public arenas for free entertainment.
	school.discovery.com /lessonplans/programs/hiddenrome (788 words)

	Rome Roman bread and circuses Colosseum
		The leadership was sitting on a powderkeg, which, while never quite exploding, never disappeared either.
		Before the circuses the Roman masses found an outlet for their frustrations as members of rival gangs which sprang up throughout the city.
		Unemployed toughs roamed the streets hunting rival gangs.
	www.periclespress.com /Rome.html (796 words)

	Star Wars: Message Boards
		The Democrats want to hand out "free" health care (Bread) for the masses and Michael Moore wants to entertain the village idiots with his crackpot conspiracy theories, which can be found in his latest Joseph Goebbels-like propoganda film, "Fahrenheit 911" (Circuses).
		All to pacify the eternally unhappy Marxist peasants.
		Date Posted: Jul 25, 2004 07:27 PM The Democrat Party should rename itself the "Bread & Circuses Party".
	forums.starwars.com /thread.jspa?threadID=185602 (440 words)

	dallasobserver.com \| News \| Bread and Circuses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Julia's days in Dallas were as full as her plate, and her schedule was a snapshot of the complicated intertwining of the kitchen with Dallas society--a strange, symbiotic system that makes chefs into stars, inspires fundraising with food, and demonstrates the price (in dollars) people will pay to bask in others' celebrity.
		Julia's visit was a social study in Dallas' desperate need for bread and circuses.
		It was already 7:20 p.m., and the invitation had been for 7 sharp, but anyone could tell that the event had not yet begun.
	www.dallasobserver.com /issues/1996-10-31/feature2.html (709 words)

	The Truth Seeker - Bread and Circuses
		In ancient Rome they had bread and circuses, today we have bread and the modern media.
		And as Israel Shamir points out in “On The Move” the consequences of the troubles in Afghanistan could reach further than many yet realise.
		While Imperial Rome had its circuses and intrigues it was nothing compared to its modern day counterpart.
	www.thetruthseeker.co.uk /article.asp?ID=190 (867 words)

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