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Reclaiming the possibility of democracy or creating libertarianism warlordism
Sophie’s Hobson Choice on Maggies Bullet Farm: George Miller’s nearly aboriginal-free post-apocalypse vision or JJ Abrams’ non-LGBTQ utopian dystopia -— What a lovely day for Star War’s POC clone diversity already signalled What remains certain is that Reconstruction failed, and … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Abraham Lincoln, American History, Capitalism, Civil War, Economic Policy, Economics, History, Industrial Revolution, Libertarians, Media, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, Political Science, Racism, Society, States, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged economic crisis, panic of 1873, Racism, reconstruction, Republicans
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From Ronald to The Donald: “There are Two Donald Trumps” like there are (at least) Two Amerikas
By ann summers We’ve moved from figures of speech to violent acts of speech on bodily figures; the history of the GOP and its Southern Strategy is now manifest in its ur-candidate, the WWE The People’s Bro-maniac tRump. As Ben Carson of … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, California, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Democracy, DHS, Equal Rights, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Free Speech, Government, History, information Technology, Internet, Justice, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, Police, Progressives, RNC, Ronald Reagan, Society, State Government, Tea Party, Technology, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Donald Trump, Law Enforcement, police, Republicans, Terrorism
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Slow Food is not a fast answer
By ann summers The need for better tools to analyze capitalism makes it important to look at the larger systemic pathologies that have brought us to a place where we tend to think less of Bread and Puppets and more … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Austerity, Economics, environment, FDA, History, Industrial Revolution, Investing, Media, Society, Stock Market, Uncategorized
Tagged agriculture, food, natural resources
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College continues to suffer the RWNJ objections to ‘anti-American’ campuses due to a ‘disbelief that liberalism still survives.’
By ann summers There are cyclical media stories over decades about business and medical graduate school programs wanting student recruits who have had a liberal education. The problem represents a continuing crisis of retraining and adapting higher education to not simply the needs … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Conservatives, Dept. of Education, Education, Education Policy, History, information Technology, Internet, Liberals, Libertarians, Logic, Media, Music, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, Philosophy, Progressives, Renaissance, States, Technology, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Higher Education, liberal arts
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A Balkanization too far: taking back The United Counties of America
By ann summers Malheur Wildlife Refuge’s standoff even with its indicted malingerers demonstrates the abject FAIL of the Bundystani attempt to create a county-level bantustan near Burns, Oregon. However, chances are the armed farces now cruising Burns in their flag-flying pickup trucks have nothing … Continue reading
Posted in California, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, DHS, DOJ, environment, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Federal Courts, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Green, History, Humor, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Local Government, Media, Nazis, Nazis/Nazism, Oregon, Police, Progressives, Racism, Tea Party, Terrorism, Terrorists, Treason, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Bureau of Land Management, Cliven Bundy, Guns, Law Enforcement, police, Terrorism
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Bundystani Barbarism – Going Medieval, new materialism & land jumping piracy
By ann summers The prototypical crypto-fascists terrorizing Eastern Oregon in the USA represent largely symbolic, yet armed, direct actions performed with the occupation of federal land and structures in order to promote issues of anti-governmental resistance on the behalf of land-owning individuals and their … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Conservatives, Conspiracy, Courts, DHS, DOJ, Economics, environment, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Federal Courts, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Green, History, Law Enforcement, Legal Analysis, Liberals, Libertarians, Local Government, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Neoconservatives, Oregon, Police, Progressives, Propaganda, State Courts, Terrorism, Terrorists, Theodore Roosevelt, Treason, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Bureau of Land Management, Cliven Bundy, Guns, Law Enforcement, Oregon, Racism, Racism in the United States, Republicans, Terrorism
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After week III, another two months of Bundystani insurgency, now with moronic extra-Constitutionality
By ann summers Evoking New York language values, Slate magazine has now labeled the East Oregon Bundystani as Jamokes trying to enforce Shania(sic) Law in an incursion by outsiders. We may not understand public land laws, but we understand how to … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Civil Liberties, Civil War, Conspiracy, Constitutional Law, Countries, DHS, environment, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Genocide, Government, Green, History, Humor, Justice, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Local Government, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Oregon, Police, Politics, Progressives, Propaganda, Tea Party, Terrorism, Terrorists, Treason, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Bureau of Land Management, Cliven Bundy, Law Enforcement, police, Republicans, Terrorism
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