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Artificial announcements, search results and bitcoin cheese + this day in history w/Bill Clinton impeached and our song of the year by Trevor Something on your Morning Monarchy for December 19, 2017.

(ANTIMEDIA) — As the homeless problem continues to surge in San Francisco, an animal advocacy and pet adoption clinic has taken the novel, if dystopian, approach of hiring an autonomous security robot unit to clear out vagrants. The SPCA (the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) deployed a K5 robot manufactured by Knightscope, a Silicon Valley-based robotics company, to help discourage homeless people from erecting tents on the sidewalks and streets near the clinic.

Workplace cults, disgraceful verdicts and hotel room footage + this day in history w/the Long Island Railroad massacre and our song of the day by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club on your Morning Monarchy for December 7, 2017.

Guilty pleas, watch the throne and penis-free politicians + this day in history w/Poppy Bush invades Somalia and our song of the day by Ron Gallo on your Morning Monarchy for December 4, 2017.

Misleading labels, high hopes and a nuclear supervolcano + this day in history w/JFK's joint moon mission and our song of the day by Josh Ritter on your Morning Monarchy for September 20, 2017.

While initial reports concealing the forced eviction of Russian diplomatic and consular offices from their property by the US State Department has generally been discussed in terms of geo-political implications, there is another angle which hitherto has been ignored. There is an increasing likelihood that part of the reason why the US kicked the Russian diplomats and their staff out of properties they have held for decades, is due to a desire of local and federal US actors to get their hands on properties that are worth millions on the open market.

CA-12 is made up of the city of San Francisco and the congressmember is Nancy Pelosi. With a D+34 PVI, it's one of the bluest districts in the country. Hillary beat Trump 86.2% to 8.7%.The district is about 44% white, 31% Asian, 15% Latino and 6% African-American. It has the 37th highest median income of the 435 congressional districts-- $77,577. I used to live there.

It’s half a century since the summer of love changed San Francisco forever. Today, big tech has moved in, while artists have moved out in search of cheaper cities. James Stewart visited to take the temperature of this famous hippy hotspot
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Aaron Millar talks to some of the summer of love’s big characters about the 60s utopian dream and why it matters in current political times
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The new issue of the Harvard Business Review carried an adaptation by urbanologist Richard Florida from his new book, The New Urban Crisis, warning about "a sterile sameness" that's been hard to miss taking over cities we all used to love and feel inspired by. I don't think Florida is as worried about it as I am...