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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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virtue signalling Trumpites don’t care if politics, like pro wrestling, is sport or entertainment
By ann summers Do voters subscribe easily to Personality Cults? And can one base entire political candidacies on them as signalling and identify them by their discourse? Are they examples of pro-/con- discourse games as the Democratic candidates spar towards Philly and opportunistic mischief-makers … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Blogs, Celebrity, Conservatives, Democracy, Fascists/Corporatists, Free Speech, Humor, Libertarians, Media, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, Politics, Presidential Elections, Progressives, Propaganda, Richard Nixon, RNC, Ronald Reagan, Society, Sports, Television, Trolls, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Republicans
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Word Cloud: BELLTONGUE
by Nona Blyth Cloud A human being is made up of all the experiences of a lifetime — sometimes a few carelessly spoken words, long forgotten by the speaker, can change the course of the hearer’s life forever. I do not know if … Continue reading
Posted in Baha’i, Civil War, Poetry, Racism, United States, Word Cloud
Tagged Belltongue, Black History, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Robert Hayden
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Word Cloud: RIFT
by Nona Blyth Cloud We sometimes forget how closely History is following behind us. Only 50 years ago, it was still illegal for people of different races to marry in 16 U.S. states, mostly in the South. It wasn’t until … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War, Constitutional Law, Louisiana, Mississippi, Poetry, Racism, Word Cloud
Tagged African American, Black History, Interracial Marriage, Natasha Trethewey, Pulitizer Prize, Rift
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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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Redefining “Substance Abuse” for Fertile Women While Lead Poisoning Investigations Continue
by Nona Blyth Cloud The Center for Disease Control (CDC) just issued a report that tells all women of child-bearing age they should stop drinking alcohol entirely, even if they have no plans to get pregnant, because they could possibly … Continue reading
Posted in CDC, Crime, Reproductive Rights, State Courts, United States, Women's Rights
Tagged CDC, Child Endangerment, Drinking Alcohol, Flint Michigan, Lead Poisoning, Substance Abuse
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The beginning of Turner Diaries II(I) or the end of the Bundy insurgency
By ann summers “Avenge me…” the Red Dawn protagonists’ father cries out, and with his passing, will LaVoy Finicum’s legacy be a 2015 novel that could become The Turner Diaries for a new generation of RWNJ. Finicum’s 241-page apocalyptic cowboy thriller … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Breaking News, Conservatives, Conspiracy, Courts, Crime, DHS, DOJ, environment, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, FFS Update(s), Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Green, Justice, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Literature, Local Government, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Oregon, Police, Political Science, Politics, Progressives, Propaganda, Racism, State Government, Tea Party, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized, United States, War
Tagged Cliven Bundy, Guns, Law Enforcement, Officer Involved Shootings, police, Racism, Terrorism
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Bundystan now riddled with bulletpoints as Fluffy Unicornists seek Freedom Vanilla creamer
By ann summers TarpBoy LaVoy, the Fluffy Unicorn whisperer of Eastern Oregon, like most of his band of Unicornists has been coming out from his tarp in anticipation of Groundhog Day, one of the few days in Pennsylvania where fewer … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Civil Liberties, Civil War, Conservatives, Conspiracy, Constitutional Law, DHS, environment, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, History, Humor, Law Enforcement, Libertarians, Local Government, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Neoconservatives, Oregon, Politics, Propaganda, Racism, Revolutionary War, Society, Terrorism, Terrorists, Theodore Roosevelt, Treason, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged bundy, Law Enforcement, police, Republicans, Sovereign Citizens, Terrorism
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Fluffy Unicornists prepared to announce their withdrawal plan: “Honor without Prosecution”
one persons’s paramilitary cosplay & Roman fasces is another’s…red crayon By ann summers While tarp boy LaVoy announced that the Bundy gang will reveal their “exit Plan” on Friday at 7pm at a venue yet to be determined although the Burns, … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrity, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Civil War, Conservatives, Conspiracy, Constitutional Law, Democracy, DHS, DOJ, environment, Equal Rights, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Federal Courts, Fraud, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Government, Green, History, Humor, Justice, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Local Government, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Neoconservatives, Oregon, Police, Progressives, Racism, Revolutionary War, Spring, State Government, Tea Party, Theism, Theodore Roosevelt, Treason, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Cliven Bundy, Congress, Law Enforcement, police, Racism, Terrorism
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Crisis of Freedom Vanilla Creamer in the armed East Oregon bantustan standoff
By ann summers Apparently there is a shortage of Freedom Vanilla Creamer at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge among other necessities in the Eastern Oregon Bundy sleepover. Unfortunately new groups of armed fellow travelers have offered their munitions for an already taxed patriot … Continue reading
Posted in Breaking News, Celebrity, Civil Liberties, Civil War, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, DHS, DOJ, environment, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Free Speech, Government, Green, History, Humor, Law Enforcement, Libertarians, Local Government, Media, Neoconservatives, Oregon, Political Science, Politics, Revolutionary War, Uncategorized, United States, Weird News
Tagged Law Enforcement, police, Republicans, Terrorism
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