Star Wars

(ANTIMEDIA) Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Education has been given the boot for allowing the image of a pop culture icon to be published in his country’s high school curriculum. From the Associated Press on Monday:

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All-cash deals, rolled-up Warhols and concert cults + this day in history w/the Empire State Building plane crash and our song of the day by Matthew Dear on your Morning Monarchy for July 28, 2017.

Everyone familiar with Star Wars knows that the Empire is bad, and the Rebellion is good. But, why? Seriously. What makes life under Emperor Palpatine so unbearable, and what would make life under the New Republic so much better, for the ordinary citizens of the galaxy? 

Luke Skywalker’s heroic victory was that he resisted terror, renounced hate, and rejected aggression. Inspred by his son’s example, Anakin finally turned back from the dark side, and so was redeemed.
If we would but be similarly inspired, America could be redeemed as well. And we would finally step off the dark path.
#MayThe4thBeWithYou

So Inauguration Day in Washington came across as a decidedly odd, even slightly unsettling, affair: which is perhaps the only fitting end-point for what has been a decidedly odd, even slightly unsettling, presidential race. It also seemed to affirm my fears that we’re falling deeper into a bad place. What was most striking about the […]

Sing for peace, spin the black circle and open the BitChute + this day in history w/the telegraph system and our song of the day by Elbow on your Morning Monarchy for January 6, 2017.

Manson's alive, 'The Queen Is Dead' and 'Star Wars' blaster fire + this day in history w/Dreyfus Affair and our song of the day by Gringo Star on your Morning Monarchy for January 5, 2017.

I’ve been feeling a little weird lately, particularly over the Christmas season. A little off-balance. It was a weird sort of year. And this feeling was amplified a day or two after Christmas when Carrie Fisher died – something that was not only very sad for me, but also seemed to mess with my sense of […]

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