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Silly, Random & Fun

Feb 3, 2018Feb 2018

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Favorite instrumentals?

What are some of your favorite instrumental songs, and have you ever had difficulty finding one you heard because there were no lyrics to look up?

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Feb 8, 2018Feb 2018

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The Best Drone Photos From Around the World | Digital Trends

Some truly stunning images.

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Politics

Feb 8, 2018Feb 2018

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You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you - The Oatmeal

Swaying the masses.

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Religion & Spirituality

Mar 30, 2018Mar 2018

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LINKReligion and life on other worlds

How will not being alone affect different faiths?

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Politics

Jun 22, 2018Jun 2018

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Re: Melania's coat - True feelings, irony intended, extreme obliviousness, or a cry for help?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 28, 2018Jun 2018

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Do you think a civil war is coming in the U.S.? If Trump is ousted by legal means, would his supporters retaliate with violence? If so, what should be the response? Conversely, how bad would things have to get as far as descending into fascism for ...

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Silly, Random & Fun

Dec 16, 2018Dec 2018

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A venture into the Magic Kingdom on your way through Fantasyland.

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Dec 25, 2018Dec 2018

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LINKExploitation and Expropriation, or Why Capitalism Must be Attacked with Equal Force on Every Front

This really makes some critical observations, particularly as far as possible solutions go. I'm putting this in the Academic/Science category because I feel it might get lost in the Politics category and it is too important for that. Examining economic and cultural systems are undeniably academic pursuits, and the rubber is certainly hitting the road as far as the science of impending ecological disaster is concerned.

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Politics

Dec 26, 2018Dec 2018

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LINKLIVERPUTTY: George McGovern as a B-24 pilot

A fascinating story about a decent and honorable man. Quite the contrast to Brigadier Bone Spur.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jan 6, 2019Jan 2019

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"You ever get the feeling the world's filling up with bastards? I do. What I want to know is what happens when all the bastards run out of people to crap on? What happens when all that's left in the world is bastards? . . . The golden rule. Screw ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jan 7, 2019Jan 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Often easier said than done.

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Religion & Spirituality

Jan 30, 2019Jan 2019

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People are =/= to their religion I am most definitely an infidel in that I have no belief in any god or gods. A person’s individual godview is the most basic right possible that a human being can have. I personally reject Islam, Judaism, and ...

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Religion & Spirituality

Jan 31, 2019Jan 2019

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Anyone thinking theirs is the right religion is pretty much OK with that.

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Politics

Feb 3, 2019Feb 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKJohn Perkins: Economic Hit Man

From link - Perkins offers several ways to help stop "the corporatocracy and to end this insane and self-destructive march to global empire." Read between the lines of each and every media report and help others do the same. The majority of our media outlets – newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, television stations, radio stations, etc. – are owned by huge international corporations and these corporations aren't afraid to manipulate the news they deliver. Always seek the truth ...

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Love & Relationships

Feb 14, 2019Feb 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

I love her dark humor coupled with her wonderfully sweet musicality.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 24, 2019Feb 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Works without a god too.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 26, 2019Feb 2019

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Undeniably true imho.

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Politics

Feb 27, 2019Feb 2019

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WTF is wrong with people? "Indiana is wanting to add religious phrases to school, allow religious concepts to be taught in science class, and let kids take religious classes of campus for credit."

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Taboo Island

Mar 6, 2019Mar 2019

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Tu Vuo' Fa' L'Americano - Hetty & the Jazzato Band Cover of the Renato Carosone song.

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Taboo Island

Mar 7, 2019Mar 2019

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All I Hear Is Static - The Lillingtons (animated) I got so tired of the overproduced popular music of my high school years (class of '75), but was drawn back in by New Wave and Punk, both by the creativity and energy. Even later bands owe much of ...

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Taboo Island

Mar 7, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Gogol Bordello - Through The Roof 'n' Underground Carole mentioned the joy of cool finds. I wouldn't have known about this track/band if not for seeing the movie Wristcutters. Also enjoy the poster's video production for the song.

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Taboo Island

Mar 11, 2019Mar 2019

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Gene Summers - Baby Are You Kiddin'

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Taboo Island

Mar 12, 2019Mar 2019

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The Fool - Robert Gordon with Link Wray

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Politics

Mar 18, 2019Mar 2019

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How soon before the Yam-in-Chief starts muttering about who took the strawberries?

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Instrumentals

Mar 18, 2019Mar 2019

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Royal Edinburgh Tattoo 2014 - Scotland the Brave Bagpipe and Drum Procession - End Performance I think hearing those drums I think I might have been ready to march into battle.

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Instrumentals

Mar 19, 2019Mar 2019

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Huevos Rancheros - The Lonely Bull

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Instrumentals

Mar 19, 2019Mar 2019

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Squidbillies Outro Lot of energy packed into this short piece.

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Instrumentals

Mar 19, 2019Mar 2019

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Twangy - The Jet Tones Part of another mix. This is great. Never heard it before.

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Music, Movies & Books

Mar 21, 2019Mar 2019

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LINKBizarre Paintings Of Mecha Robots And Werewolves Attacking East European Peasants Of The Early 20th Century

Eerie and powerful fantasy images.

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Mar 21, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

We're not very good stewards.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 21, 2019Mar 2019

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Whatever it is indeed.

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Politics

Mar 22, 2019Mar 2019

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If I had a nickle for every time I was asked that question.

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Taboo Island

Mar 22, 2019Mar 2019

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Tonio K. - H-A-T-R-E-D (Vinyl) Eins, zwei, drei, vier!!

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Health & Happiness

Mar 23, 2019Mar 2019

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"It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Politics

Mar 23, 2019Mar 2019

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This, this, this. A thousand times this.

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Silly, Random & Fun

Mar 23, 2019Mar 2019

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You sure? I could have sworn I left it right there.

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Politics

Mar 25, 2019Mar 2019

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LINK"The left never had a dog in this race. This was always an in-house squabble between different wings of the establishment. Late-stage capitalism is in terminal crisis, and the biggest problem facing our corporate elites is how to emerge from this ...

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Silly, Random & Fun

Mar 25, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Sometimes the best defense is a good offense.

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Religion & Spirituality

Mar 26, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

My take on Xian mythology... "God sent God to die for God so that God could forgive God's creations according to God's unbending rules." Too Rube Goldberg for my tastes.

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Taboo Island

Mar 30, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Eric Clapton & BB King - Hold on I'm coming

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General & Hellos

Apr 1, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINK‘Every War Is a War Against Children’

"Last year, an analysis issued by Save the Children estimated that 85,000 children under age five have likely died from starvation or disease since the Saudi-led coalition’s 2015 escalation of the war in Yemen. “Children who die in this way suffer immensely as their vital organ functions slow down and eventually stop,” said Tamer Kirolos, Save the Children’s Country Director in Yemen. “Their immune systems are so weak they are more prone to infections with some too frail to even ...

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Politics

Apr 4, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

"You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know." William Wilberforce

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Taboo Island

Apr 8, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Rolling Stones "Everything Is Turning To GOLD" 1979 - LONG VERSION

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Taboo Island

Apr 10, 2019Apr 2019

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Assange being arrested is some serious BS.

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General & Hellos

Apr 12, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

As evidenced by my PM chat the other night. She swore I wasn't speaking English.

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General & Hellos

Apr 13, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

The face that deserves a boot will be putting his in yours... repeatedly. Then you'll really see him crack a smile.

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General & Hellos

Apr 13, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Appraise the Lord! Tax the churches.

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Republican Atheists

Apr 18, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Some people see the writing on the wall... others whistle past the graveyard.

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General & Hellos

Apr 21, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

C-SPAN currently has war criminal Condoleeza Rice in a panel pontificating on US foreign policy. It is wholly repulsive seeing her trying to normalize mass murder in the service of empire.

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Instrumentals

Apr 26, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Soulful Strut/Young-Holt Unlimited

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Politics

May 7, 2019May 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKBig Tech and the Rise of Surveillance Capitalism

"A few years ago after the 2008 financial crash Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone described Goldman Sachs, that great titan of financial capitalism, as a “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” Fast forward almost ten years and you could say the same, and much worse, about surveillance capitalism, according to Shoshana Zuboff author of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New ...

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Politics

May 9, 2019May 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKStudy: At least 78% of humanitarian aid intended for Palestinians ends up in Israel's coffers

"While Europe may think of itself as part of an enlightened West, using aid to defend Palestinians’ rights, the reality is less reassuring. The aid may actually be making things significantly worse. Shir Hever, an Israeli economist who has spent years piecing together the murky economics of the occupation, recently published a report that makes shocking reading. Like others, he believes international aid has allowed Israel to avoid footing the bill for its decades-old occuption. But he ...

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Academic (e.g., Science)

May 12, 2019May 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKDavid Attenborough: Animals are a source of infinite fascination | New Scientist

We need to return the love of the "mother" who has nurtured all life. :-----: "Do we need to do more to prioritise animals and the environment over human activity? Yes, we have to. There are whole areas – the rainforest, for example – that have to be protected for the animals and for the whole of the climate of the planet. That’s a priority if ever there was one. Do you think in 50 years’ time people will look back and say, what were they doing? We’re suffocating ...

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General & Hellos

May 13, 2019May 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKU.S. Has Spent Six Trillion Dollars on Wars That Killed Half a Million People Since 9/11, Report Says

I think both the body count and the dollar amount is low. :-----: "The United States has spent nearly $6 trillion on wars that directly contributed to the deaths of around 500,000 people since the 9/11 attacks of 2001. Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs published its annual "Costs of War" report Wednesday, taking into consideration the Pentagon's spending and its Overseas Contingency Operations account, as well as "war-related spending by the ...

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General & Hellos

May 13, 2019May 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Remembering The Meeting 50 Years Ago That Led To ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’ ""What’s in this pill?” I asked the doctor. He came over and patted the top of my head and said, “Dear, dear, you don't have to worry about it.” It was 1966, ...

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Politics

May 15, 2022May 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKThe killing of Shireen Abu Akleh - Columbia Journalism Review

"EARLY ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, Shireen Abu Akleh, a renowned journalist with Al Jazeera’s Arabic service, was shot in the head and killed while reporting on an Israeli raid in Jenin, a city in the occupied West Bank where Israeli forces said they were searching for suspects in recent killings of Israeli and foreign nationals. The Palestinian health ministry was quick to report that the Israeli army killed Abu Akleh, and journalists who witnessed the killing subsequently corroborated that ...

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Instrumentals

May 31, 2022May 2022

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Rocks Off - The Rolling Stones

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Instrumentals

Jun 16, 2022Jun 2022

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David Garrett - Viva La Vida

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Posts

Jun 18, 2022Jun 2022

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The Second Waltz - Dmitri Shostakovich

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Instrumentals

Jun 19, 2022Jun 2022

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It's ironic that one of the States' Rights issues that is conveniently overlooked a was a state's right to choose not to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.

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Politics

Jul 15, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKThree Illuminating Quotes About The War In Ukraine

"Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, and Chris Hedges have lent their expertise to the subject of the war in Ukraine with some recent comments that help bring some much-needed clarity to an often confusing and always contentious issue."

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Politics

Aug 6, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles

To the surviving people of Palestine, I am truly so very sorry that you, your families, your neighbors, and your country suffer so as a brutal slaughter is waged across your land. I have tried to remain informed and active politically so that I ...

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Politics

Aug 7, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles

I look at the pictures of Palestinian dead and injured, mangled almost to a point beyond recognition, suffering in agony and grief and terror if alive, the children without any understanding as to why... as I would seeing high beams on the road at ...

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Instrumentals

Aug 12, 2022Aug 2022

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Happy Talk - Victor Silvester

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Instrumentals

Aug 20, 2022Aug 2022

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Here Comes My Baby

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Aug 21, 2022Aug 2022

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One Day - Sharon Van Etten

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Politics

Aug 27, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKThe Democratic Party is a Fifth Column for Right-wing Lunacy - CounterPunch.org

"How does one wrap one’s mind around the fact that at the very moment a Democrat-led House select committee was investigating the January 6 insurrection, the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) was pouring money into the primary campaigns of some of the worst of the election denialists, whose lies fueled the Brownshirt thuggery on that terrible day? Is it possible that the Democrats don’t understand the risks of working to strengthen and consolidate the most virulently racist, xenophobic,...

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Instrumentals

Sep 3, 2022Sep 2022

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A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - Moonrise Kingdom

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Quotes

Sep 11, 2022Sep 2022

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“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones”

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Politics

Sep 19, 2022Sep 2022

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When the church has been an integral part of proclaiming the Divine Right of Kings, it pretty much negates any of their own claims to authority.

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Politics

Sep 19, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKRoyal Money: Charles III and the Wealth Dimension - CounterPunch.org

"Once the fixated adoration with the late Queen Elizabeth II starts cooling, the accountants of public welfare and decency will be stunned to realise the costs and wealth associated with the royal institution. Her successor, Charles III, is continuing in that vein, a jarring note of wealth and pomp even as prices rise and the hefty bills for citizens (should we say subjects?), bite. The argument that the monarchy makes money for the British state and others in the Commonwealth starts to ...

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Instrumentals

Sep 26, 2022Sep 2022

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The Girl I left Behind Me/Redwing - Pioneer Valley Fiddlers

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Politics

Oct 3, 2022Oct 2022

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LINKGermany and EU have been handed over a declaration of war – The Vineyard of the Saker

"The sabotage of the Nord Stream (NS) and Nord Stream 2 (NS2) pipelines in the Baltic Sea has ominously propelled ‘Disaster Capitalism’ to a whole new, toxic level. This episode of Hybrid Industrial/Commercial War, in the form of a terror attack against energy infrastructure in international waters signals the absolute collapse of international law, drowned by a “our way or the highway”, “rules-based”, order."

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Politics

Oct 23, 2022Oct 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKHow Long Will the GOP Continue to Shrink the Middle Class Rather than Grow It?

"A middle class, when mishandled, can be a powerful and fearsome thing, as the rulers of Iran and Russia are discovering. Both regimes are now teetering on the edge of collapse because of popular uprisings that would not have happened without a middle-class in each country. People paralyzed by grinding poverty rarely revolt — it takes a lot to produce “barrio uprisings” — because their lives are consumed with day-to-day survival issues. But when people are prosperous enough that ...

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Politics

Nov 30, 2022Nov 2022

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LINKWhy the West hesitates to condemn racism It’s simple: support for Israel, the rightward political shift in the West, and the colonial roots of the global order.

"The West’s unwavering support of Israel and its apartheid-like policies targeting Palestinians also makes any unequivocal criticism of racism difficult for these countries. But there’s also a deeper reason: the role that racism and colonialism have played in shaping the current global order. Committing to reparative action for these past crimes could threaten the West’s privileged standing on the global stage."

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Politics

Dec 2, 2022Dec 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles

Fucking Kabuki theater.

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Politics

Dec 7, 2022Dec 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKTerminating the Constitution

"Despite the evidence to the contrary we are not, in fact, living through an alternative reality simulation. This all actually happened: In the last two weeks, Donald Trump pledged solidarity with the January 6 rioters, dined with two Holocaust-denying fans of Adolf Hitler, and called for the termination of the Constitution. And he remains the front-runner and clear favorite for the GOP nomination for president in 2024."

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Politics

Dec 10, 2022Dec 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles

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LINKChris Hedges: Israel & the Rise of a New Fascism

"The mask is being lifted from the face of Israel’s apartheid state, exposing a grinning death’s head that portends the obliteration of the few restraints against killing Palestinians."

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Politics

Dec 27, 2022Dec 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles

Years ago, from Mad Magazine (from memory) WAR (sung to to the tune of More) War, helps to keep the population down. War, means less people in a crowded town. War, let's us try out new artillery. War, gives our soldiers foreign trips for free. War...

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News & Links

Jan 2, 2023Jan 2023

Posted by WilliamCharles

It still sounds weird to my ears to have news reports talking about prayers for someone (in this case, the Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin) being universally expressed. Of course I wish him well, but prayers not being part of it.

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Politics

Jan 24, 2023Jan 2023

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Leslie Jones on classified documents.

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Quotes

Feb 16, 2023Feb 2023

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“When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara – one of the great prophets of Christian "Liberation theology".” ― Dom Helder Camara Archbishop of Recife in ...

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Apr 7, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by WilliamCharles

Burning Sensations - Belly of the Whale

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Instrumentals

Apr 14, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by WilliamCharles

Lost On You - Kasia Lipert

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Quotes

May 22, 2023May 2023

Posted by WilliamCharles

Titus Pullo: Forculus, if you be the right god for the business here, I call on you to help. If you would open this door, then I would kill for you a fine white lamb, or, failing that, if I couldn't get a good one at a decent price, then six pigeons....

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Politics

May 29, 2023May 2023

Posted by WilliamCharles

Battle Hymn of the Republic - Robert Fisher

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Instrumentals

Jun 1, 2023Jun 2023

Posted by WilliamCharles

Yellow Bird - Chet Atkins Arrangement

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Politics

Sep 27, 2020Sep 2020

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