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Belling the Cat |
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And what emerged from McCain’s defeat was
nothing less than an incoherent collection of imbeciles like Jim
Jordan of Ohio... |
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Debby Long |
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“If I became a monster today,
and decided to kill them, one by one, they would become aware
only after most of the flock had been slaughtered, thought the
boy. They trust me, and they’ve forgotten how to rely on their
own instincts, because I lead them to nourishment.” - The
Alchemist, Paul Coelho, 1988
Belling the Cat is a medieval fable about a group of mice who
gather together to debate plans to protect themselves from a
rapacious cat who silently sneaks up and devours them, one by
one. One mouse proposes placing a bell around the cat’s neck so
that they can hear the cat coming. The mice nod their heads in
approval of the plan until one mouse asks: “Who will volunteer
to place the bell on the cat?” All of the mice become silent.
Now picture the Republican Party: picture Mitch McConnell;
picture Mike Pence; picture Kevin McCarthy.
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Accusations In
A Mirror |
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Donald Trump must be found guilty of
Incitement of Insurrection by the Senate. |
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By
Debby Long |
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 “Humanitarianism is the expression of
stupidity and cowardice.” - Adolf Hitler
The term “Accusations in a Mirror” is defined in international
human rights law as a common technique for inciting genocide by
accusing one's intended victims of precisely the crimes that one
intends to commit against them” - Kenneth Marcus, a former Staff
Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
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The forever chemicals fueling a public
health crisis in drinking water |
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About 700 PFAS-contaminated
sites have been identified across the US while those exposed to
enough chemicals can face devastating health consequences |
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By Tom Perkins |
The Guardian |
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 In 2002, the French multinational Saint-Gobain
boosted production of chemically weatherproofed fabrics that it
produced in its Merrimack, New Hampshire, plant. Soon after,
serious health problems began hitting residents living near the
facility.
The Merrimack Citizens for Clean Water (MCCW) advocacy group
says people there suffer from high levels of cancer,
cardiovascular issues, autoimmune disorders, kidney disease and
developmental disorders. That includes an alarming number of
children facing rare and aggressive cancers, said MCCW?s Laurene
Allen, who lives in the city of about 30,000 that sits an hour
north of Boston.
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Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak shows global manipulation is
out of control? |
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Company's work in 68
countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents |
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By Carole Cadwalladr |
The
Guardian |
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 An explosive leak of tens of thousands of
documents from the defunct data firm Cambridge Analytica is set
to expose the inner workings of the company that collapsed after
the Observer revealed it had misappropriated 87 million Facebook
profiles.
More than 100,000 documents relating to work in 68 countries
that will lay bare the global infrastructure of an operation
used to manipulate voters on an industrial scale? are set to be
released over the next months.
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How Supercharged Blue Heroin Ravaged
This Small Town In Ohio |
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By Mitch Stacy |
AP |
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 MARION, Ohio (AP) The usual
hand wringing
over the heroin problem turned into panic in this small city in
May when a supercharged blue-tinted batch from Chicago sent more
than 30 overdose victims to the hospital and two to the morgue
in a 12-day stretch.
Like many places in America, Marion an hour's drive north of
the capital, Columbus has gotten used to heroin. Emergency
crews in the city of 37,000 have become accustomed to treating
an overdose patient about once a day for the past year or so.
But they were stunned when the unprecedented onslaught began on
May 20.
They say if it hadn't been for naloxone, an antidote carried by
paramedics, most of the survivors probably would have died, too.
They ranged in age from their late teens to early 60s.
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Fraud |
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Activists
began campaigning to change the understanding
of the 2nd Amendment in the late 20th century |
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By Larry Laird |
lairdslair |
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of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the
word fraud,on the American public by special
interest groups that Ive ever seen in my life
time. The real purpose of the Second was to
ensure that state armies the militias would
be maintained for the defense of the state.
The very language of the Second Amendment refutes
any argument that it was intended to guarantee
every citizen an unfettered right to any kind
of weapon he or she desires.?
---- Chief Supreme
Court Justice Warren Burger
Justice Burger said
in no uncertain terms, before gun lobbyists
and activists began campaigning to change the
understanding of the 2nd Amendment in the late
20th century, nobody considered it to be an
individual right.
In 2008, the right
wing contingent on the most recent Supreme Court
(the same people who said that corporations
are people) decided to throw away centuries
of juris prudence and extend the 2ndAmendment
as an individual protection for gun owners?
right to bear arms. During the case, United
States v. Emerson, the Supreme Court decided
that the 2nd Amendment is not a collective protection
for gun ownership in militias, but rather a
protection for individuals to own and operate
weapons. This decision flies in the face of
centuries of settled law and, like Citizens
United v. FEC is just another case where right
wing extremist wearing robes have perverted
our country's longstanding understanding of
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Martin
Luther's Revolution |
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The Reformation did a lot more than transform Christianity. |
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BY ELIZABETH BRUENIG |
Moyers and Co. |
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 Theology
is morality is politics is law and whether or not it's immediately obvious,
the world is steeped in theology. In contemporary America, and especially in the
more secular precincts of Western Europe, it seems unlikely that one could look
at a property deed or a government budget and find, just beneath its explicit
reasoning, traces of old theological disputes and their resolutions. But they're
there, and examining them offers a view of what might have been, had history
in particular, the Protestant Reformation, ignited 500 years ago this October by
a German monk named Martin Luther unfolded differently.
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 There
is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The
strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way
through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that
democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. |
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- Isaac Asimov |
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One
man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but
for real bona fide stupidity nothing beats teamwork. |
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Twain |
The
latest on Covid-19 infections and deaths in and around Marion and Marion
County. 
In
2009, one of the founders of the online eyeglass maker Warby Parker approached
management consultant Adam Grant about becoming an early investor. Grant says he
declined because the company's founders weren't working at their startup full
time; he also says it was the worst financial decision he's ever made.
