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RUN: Rise Up Now – Fight the Fascists

Watched NBC News inadvertently on Sunday and discovered it is rife with right wing attitude and ‘lesson’ stories. Reminded me strongly of how brainwashed we were when I was growing up. Obviously the 1% is afraid of us now and … Continue reading

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Fight the Agitprop, Rise Up Now

Watched NBC News inadvertently on Sunday and discovered it is rife with right wing attitude and ‘lesson’ stories. Reminded me strongly of how brainwashed we were when I was growing up. Obviously the 1% is afraid of us now and … Continue reading

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Boiling the Censorship Frog

First they come for your “porn”. To protect the children, don’tcha know? Then they come for your erotica. Slippery slope when wet, right? Then they come for your horror. All those unhealthy images. Next they come for your young adult … Continue reading

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Climate Change Tarantella: A Plea for Culture Change

If you inform yourself of climate changes, you clearly see the pattern compressing and worsening. Yes, it’s always changed, but never this steeply this fast, and never with such consequences. It is not inevitable to collapse a stable system. That’s … Continue reading

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News-Like Shows

As Paddy Chayevsky warned in the script for the astonishingly-prescient film NETWORK, in 1976 mind you, the first hard shove toward the complete downfall of media journalism came when news organizations were placed under the entertainment banner and became responsible … Continue reading

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We Don’t Feel So Good These Days

Mononucleosis is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, which is a retrovirus – goes dormant and can surface to flatten us. Its origins remain mysterious. Lyme disease, another retro virus, almost certainly came from biological weapons experiments on Plum Island. It … Continue reading

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Wake and Rise

The country as a whole needs to wake up to the control mechanisms, the lies, and the false fronts put up by the manipulators of society that prey upon us, steal our work, destroy our lives, and enslave us. Corporate … Continue reading

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It’s (not) the Thought that Counts, It’s the Stuff

“[Fighting piracy is] becoming a full time job. There’s literally scores of sites containing pirated copies of my ebooks, and every time I get a DMCA notice served on one another springs up. It’s getting to the point where it’s … Continue reading

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We Are This Society

We Are This Society. We live in a society now that has allowed food to become poison, greed a virtue, and sadistic cruelty praiseworthy. We are part of a society that pollutes its air, land, and water as fast as … Continue reading

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