In this episode, we discuss the intriguing factors at play in Hawaii, including billionaire interest in real estate, resistance from locals, green energy initiatives, Tesla’s involvement, 99-year leases, conspiracy theories, and the power of social …
The American Government explains its thefts from other countries as being justifiable because the U.S. Government has slapped sanctions upon those countries, and because these sanctions authorize the U.S. Government to steal whatever it wants to steal, from them, that it can grab. Here are just a few such examples: On May 26, Reuters headlined […]
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Nothing Changes With the Rich! You just can’t make this stuff up as a fiction writer (also, see below, at the end of this piece**). Demonic, but sturdy. Boring actuarial folk, or in this guy’s case, making loot illegally in the legal channel that is Illegal Wall Street: Thomas Peterffy became one of the world’s […]
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How NPR Divides and Conquers What is the result when a media outlet does a new story every day about the history of racism in the US, without ever mentioning the history of the multiracial radical labor movement whose white and BIPOC organizers were lynched for fighting for equality and freedom? I listen to NPR […]
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The Second American Civil War has a geographical dividing line rather different than the first Civil War did. The Mason-Dixon Line was a figurative reference for a long geographical border separating the Slave States from the Union States (a.k.a. “Free States” even though they were not exactly free). The boundary is show on maps and is easy to find. It is essentially a line running east-west across most of the territory now occupied by the Lower 48 US states. But the geographical divisions for this new war should be all circles, drawn around most of our large cities.
The system based on a combination of police brutality, mass imprisonment, and evictions at gunpoint may be collapsing, but if it’s going to fall in the direction we want it to fall in, we need to push it that way. And if we want to make that happen, we have to organize to stop the impending wave of evictions before it starts.
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On the Streets
Wide Open Eyes: Surfacing from VietnamThe tip of the proverbial iceberg when it comes to homelessness is what the average person sees on Newport’s streets – mostly men, some women, seeking a public or private building’s overhang to get out of the rain.
Weird cities continues with Paris, TN, home of the World’s Biggest Fish Fry. We attend the redneck arts and crafts festival, interview a one eyed owl and a snake and the wee Eiffel Tower as I sing to our holy catfish and take out a payday loan.
Given the bad weather in Florida I fled to Tennessee and Jamie and I decided to do a bit of V-logging, looking at the sights and symbols of Nashville. If you heard my interview with Conspirinormal a few months back, you know Nashville has quite a few oddities many are unaware of, some of which were new to me. We consider the Parthenon, Athena, the Bi-Centennial Mall, the high IQ of Taylor Swift and much more in this first of many road trip analyses.
