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Progressives, Socialists, and Black Lives Matter
Aug 5, 2021Aug 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
Nina Turner’s Loss Is Oligarchy’s Gain By Norman Solomon "The race for a vacant congressional seat in northeast Ohio was a fierce battle between status quo politics and calls for social transformation. In the end, when votes were counted ...
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Politics
Jul 30, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
Why It Matters That Seth Rogen Spoke Out Against Israel BY HADAS THIER Seth Rogen grabbed headlines this week for saying he thinks the state of Israel “makes no sense.” He’s right — and his strident words signal a broader shift among ...
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Mar 23, 2021Mar 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKBirds are forgetting their songs, scientists say – BGR
"Bird songs are awesome. You probably don’t pay them much mind, but the songs of birds are known to be soothing to humans, regardless of the setting. Bird songs can reduce stress and improve your mood, and on top of that, they perform for free, which is a nice bonus. Unfortunately, some species of songbirds are starting to lose their talent, and it’s entirely due to dwindling population numbers."
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Politics
May 2, 2022May 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKFormer NATO Military Analyst Blows the Whistle on West’s Ukraine Invasion Narrative – scheerpost.com
"The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense then turned to NATO to help it make its armed forces more “attractive”. Having already worked on similar projects within the framework of the United Nations, I was asked by NATO to participate in a program intended to restore the image of the Ukrainian armed forces. But it’s a long process and the Ukrainians want to go quickly. Thus, to compensate for the lack of soldiers, the Ukrainian government resorted to paramilitary militias. They are essentially...
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Religion & Spirituality
Jun 23, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by WilliamCharles
Maybe "think" is not used in the literal sense. ?
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Politics
Nov 24, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKThe Correct Response To "Give Biden A Chance": Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
"Western propaganda works to decouple imperialism-targeted nations and people from their governments. It's not Syria's government, it's "the Assad regime" with the Syrian people held as separate. It's not China's government, it's "the CCP" with the Chinese people held as separate. They always work to spin governments the empire doesn't like as these hostile, alien invaders of a nation which has nothing to do with them. They point at it like it's an ugly growth. "Uh-oh, what's that MADURO REGIME ...
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Quotes
Sep 10, 2021Sep 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
"To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and ...
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Taboo Island
Mar 14, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
The Daves I Know. In the comments, post songs about your name or just name songs you like. Maybe even name songs you hate, though many of those might be unbearably painful. My name has many to choose from.
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Taboo Island
Apr 5, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
People Who Died - Jim Carroll Band "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow Others... not so much.
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Health & Happiness
Apr 12, 2021Apr 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
Denise told me Larry's still in the ER with a lot of cactus needles in his leg. He fell ...
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Politics
Feb 27, 2019Feb 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
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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Quotes
Nov 7, 2022Nov 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles
“If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we ...
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Politics
Nov 11, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal." John Steinbeck
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Philosophy & Meaning
Mar 18, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKA forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago today - Los Angeles Times
"So we could forgive them... "
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Politics
Jul 27, 2019Jul 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKHey, Democrats: Robert Mueller still isn't going to do your job for you
"As Mueller made very clear in his opening remarks, nothing he said wasn't already covered in his report. As I have previously argued, what he established there provides strong grounds for opening an impeachment inquiry — not to mention how Trump has flagrantly violated the Constitution by collecting foreign bribes and directing the White House budget into his own pockets, plus about 50 other outrageous scandals. Mueller's report was a perfect tee-up for a broader hearing into all that stuff....
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Family & Parenting
Apr 4, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
Though there are those who will reject modernity with their last dying breath.
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Just for Laughs
Jan 20, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
This could have been an email. 😄
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Politics
Mar 18, 2021Mar 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKLet’s Stop Pretending Russia and China are Military Threats - CounterPunch.org
"Someone needs to say this, and it looks like it’s gotta be me: China and Russia are not our enemies. Somehow, the opinion-makers in the media, the bloated military brass with all their ribbons and stars and with little to do but worry about how to keep their massively overbuilt operation afloat with ever more taxpayer , and the members of Congress who like to gin up fears among the voters so they’ll keep voting for them have gotten everyone thinking that Russia is still hell bent on ...
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Politics
Sep 28, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKThe Right Way to Impeach Trump There's no good argument for Nancy Pelosi's narrow approach focusing on Ukraine. There are five other key scandals that demand public hearings.
"Let’s start with the good. The Democratic Party’s response to a whistleblower’s report that President Trump urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to interfere in next year’s presidential election has been swift and strong. In endorsing an impeachment inquiry, Democratic leaders have united the party behind a true confrontation with the president of the kind progressives have longed for since the beginning of his administration—those earnest and freshly indignant days before ...
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Politics
Sep 29, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKMSNBC Pundit Who Accused Those Who Prefer Sanders to Warren of 'Sexism' Sparks Viral Outcry From WomenforBernie | Common Dreams News
"Female supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders are not taking kindly to a MSNBC political pundit who said Friday—in a clip that has since gone viral—that there "may be something to" the charge that voters who prefer Sanders over rival Elizabeth Warren are inherently sexist. Though not a remark from someone as a high a profile as former secretary of state Madeline Albright—who in 2016 said there was a "special place in hell" for women who didn't back Hillary ...
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Instrumentals
Nov 12, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
Luna / Boom-Boom-Boom (cover)
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Quotes
Dec 25, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
"Giving money and power to government is like giving liquor and car keys to teenage boys." P.J. O'Rourke :-----: Even more so with individual politicians. The ones at the top at least used to be expected to do it with a little more ...
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Politics
Nov 26, 2018Nov 2018

Posted by WilliamCharles
Chris Hedges is a national treasure.
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Quotes
Apr 7, 2021Apr 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
There are some exceptions to the rule, but I've seen this demonstrated time and again.
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Politics
Mar 20, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
Yeah... what if?!?
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Just for Laughs
Apr 30, 2021Apr 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
Are you the Muah'Dib?
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Just for Laughs
Oct 8, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
The punchline of an old joke.
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Instrumentals
Feb 25, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
Starman Theme - Sagan Tribute
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Politics
Sep 30, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
A truly sad reality. How can we change this? Can we change it?
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Taboo Island
Mar 3, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
Rapalje "Drunken Sailor" Can't get much more Tiki than a sea shanty, aye?
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Politics
Nov 11, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKA forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago today - Los Angeles Times
Posted for Veterans Day "On the 30th anniversary of the massacre, Thompson went back to My Lai and met some of the people whose lives he had saved. “There were real good highs,” he told me, “and very low lows. One of the ladies that we had helped out that day came up to me and asked, ‘Why didn’t the people who committed these acts come back with you?’ And I was just devastated. And then she finished her sentence: she said, ‘So we could forgive them.’ I’m not man enough to do...
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Instrumentals
Jul 25, 2019Jul 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins - Imagine (Lennon)
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Music, Movies & Books
Jan 7, 2019Jan 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKMegumi Mesaku (missmegoo) playing wonderful reggae!! - YouTube
Makes me smile. Hope it does you as well.
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Taboo Island
Apr 6, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
ROLLING STONES JIVING SISTER FANNY
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Just for Laughs
May 15, 2022May 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles
Finally! A rational bible presentation.
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Politics
May 30, 2022May 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKThe Lincoln Memorial Dedication — White Supremacy Rules Why couldn’t America get it right?
At the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial on May 30, 1922, the black spectators who showed up early to be present up front were all cleared out and moved to roped-off segregated seating in the rear. One historian noted that instead of emancipation being the focus, it was the reunification of the North and the South. This is the centennial of that dedication.
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Politics
Sep 25, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKAndres Auraz: Biden’s Peace for Afghanistan Is a Humanitarian Disaster – scheerpost.com
"The U.S. withdrew its troops and with them all humanitarian aid while freezing Afghanistan’s foreign reserves, leading to mass deprivation for Afghanistan’s innocent civilian population."
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Jun 23, 2019Jun 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKWhy Don’t We Hear About More Species Going Extinct? • The Revelator
"We’ve been hearing it for years: The world is in the midst of a biodiversity crisis, with species going extinct at a rate 1,000 times faster because of human impact on the environment. Most recently a report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services estimated that as many as a million species risk extinction in the coming decades due to human-related activities. All of which raises the question: If so many species are ...
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Taboo Island Atlantis
Aug 31, 2019Aug 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
The Rolling Stones - Starfucker live 1973
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Quotes
Jun 18, 2021Jun 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” Carl Sagan
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Politics
Sep 10, 2021Sep 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
9/11 is the litmus test. So many of the things that reverberate to today are based on the unwillingness to demand full, open and transparent investigations of the attack, the crime scene forensics, and the apparent response failures. Anyone not in ...
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Quotes
Mar 19, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by WilliamCharles
""A national day of prayer"? Does that scare the spine out of anyone? Especially when you consider that it's all those dog-shit religions that start these fucking wars to begin with. Ninety percent of every war that's ever been fought is because of ...
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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues
Sep 7, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
Good piece from Kathy Copeland Padden Four Reasons You Suck for Being a “Stop Sanders” Democrat "Time to grasp that “incremental change” means “we will not piss off our wealthy donors so the peasants can have healthcare.” People are ...
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Taboo Island Atlantis
Jun 5, 2019Jun 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
Doop - Doop
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Politics
May 2, 2022May 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKNot Our Apocalypse: Why Americans Should Disown the Russia-Ukraine War
"Biden’s ungodly proxy war with Russia, this time using Ukraine as a pawn to force regime change against Putin (it was Syria the first time), seems like a moment to remind people of one key point: When the government tells you something or some nation is a “threat”- a “national security threat” or threat to “U.S. interests”- just remember that it has absolutely nothing to do with you. State power brainwashes us from birth to death into falsely identifying ourselves with its ...
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Politics
Nov 16, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that ...
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General & Hellos
Apr 8, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKHow The Democratic Party Stole The Primary From Sanders In 2016-Then Tried To Cover Up Their Crime
Yet there is still denial this even happened. :-----: "The Democratic leadership, the mainstream media, and likely most of Hillary Clinton’s supporters will never address the sabotage of American democracy that they were complicit with in 2016. This is apparent because despite all the details that have come out about the theft of the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, the political and media class is approaching the 2020 race with the assumption that the contest for the Democratic ...
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Politics
Mar 29, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKEven in a Pandemic, Andrew Cuomo Is Not Your Friend
"In chaotic times, New York governor Andrew Cuomo wants to convince you he is the calm, competent leader you need. It’s been effective — so effective you might miss that even in a pandemic, Cuomo is fighting to protect the rich and impose austerity, including devastating Medicaid cuts, on everyone else."
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Politics
Aug 6, 2021Aug 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
On this anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, I thought I'd link this Paul Fussell essay. It's from the Free Republic link because all the other sites with the full essay are pdf. I actually gave Gen. Paul Tibbets a copy of ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Mar 26, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Quotes
Jan 16, 2023Jan 2023

Posted by WilliamCharles
“The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” ― Delos Banning McKown
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Apr 7, 2021Apr 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKIncredible Scale Model of Ancient Rome Located in EUR by Italo Gismondi
"Tucked in the residential Roman neighborhood of EUR, a sprawling 1:250 scale model displays the glory of ancient Rome. Known as the Plastico di Roma Imperiale, the plaster model was commissioned by Mussolini in 1933 and depicts Rome in the 4th century AD at the time of Constantine I. It now sits in the Museum of Roman Civilization, a museum opened in the 1930s to demonstrate the history of ancient Rome. The plaster model is a masterpiece created by archaeologist Italo Gismondi, who worked on...
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Religion & Spirituality
Jul 14, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
I like Matt's cut to the chase approach. I shared it with a believer I chat with because she thinks she's got theism boiled down to its essence (no denomination or church) where what she needs to do to get right with Jesus is just selectively based ...
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Quotes
Apr 8, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
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Taboo Island
Apr 10, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
The Smiths - Panic
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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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Silly, Random & Fun
Oct 3, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
Trump's ego combined with experimental drug treatments means he is not the most cooperative patient.
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Just for Laughs
Oct 8, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
Buffet style all the way.
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Politics
Mar 22, 2021Mar 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
"Since the mid-1970s, there's been an international consensus for resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict. It's called a two-state settlement, and a two-state settlement is pretty straightforward, uncomplicated. Israel has to fully withdraw ...
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Taboo Island
Mar 8, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
Yo La Tengo & Nick Lowe - Rollers Show - Brooklyn NY 10.10.15 Love this leisurely arrangement he did with Yo La Tenga.
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General & Hellos
May 15, 2019May 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKTrump Made Millions of Dollars From Drug Money Laundering in Panama: Report
It's always been more about privilege than party status. Part of the protection comes from the privileged knowing that opening a particular can of worms will potentially reveal their own perfidy. :-----: "President Donald Trump made tens of millions of dollars in profits by allowing Colombian drug cartels and other groups to launder money through a Trump-affiliated hotel in Panama, according to a new investigation by the organization Global Witness. In the early 2000s, Trump was having ...
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Politics
Nov 3, 2021Nov 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
Pretty much. Mah.Thur.Fah.Curse.
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Politics
Mar 12, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
"Today the societies and peoples of the developed countries are tragically experiencing the capitalist crisis created by its own market. Capitalist governments think that it is more important to save the banks than to save human beings, and it is ...
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Quotes
Dec 31, 2022Dec 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. —Henry David ...
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Politics
Sep 4, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKColumn: Break some eggs, Elizabeth Warren: Drop out and back Bernie - Chicago Tribune
"Sanders represented the progressive faction in 2016. But Hillary Clinton and establishment Democrats, through former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, rigged the primaries and leveraged all that Wall Street cash and the superdelegates to cynically take Sanders out." "Sanders is a true lefty, not a faux lefty, and perhaps it would be a good thing for the country to have left and right meet in the November 2020 Thunderdome and just end this incessant bickering once and for all."
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Quotes
Aug 4, 2020Aug 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
"And as I say to my grandchildren, ‘Don’t look at me. I just got here myself.'” – Kurt Vonnegut
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Quotes
Nov 3, 2021Nov 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.” ― Lily Tomlin
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Politics
Mar 20, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
And he's got a whole cadre of Ned Beattys.
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General & Hellos
Mar 31, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKHow Israel is working to remove Palestinians from Jerusalem - The National
"The 350,000 Palestinian inhabitants of occupied East Jerusalem are caught between a rock and hard place, as Israel works ever harder to remove them from the holy city in which they were born, analysts and residents warn. That process, they say, has only accelerated in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s decision a year ago to relocate the American embassy to Jerusalem, effectively endorsing the city as Israel’s exclusive capital. “Israel wants Palestinians in Jerusalem to ...
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Instrumentals
Jul 27, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
Last of the Mohicans - Jenny O'Connor
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Music, Movies & Books
Jul 28, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
The man in the sky.
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Politics
Oct 5, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
This is true always.
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Quotes
Nov 12, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
"If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature." - Julian Assange
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Taboo Island Atlantis
Dec 22, 2022Dec 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles
Tom Waits - God's Away on Business
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Religion & Spirituality
Mar 1, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
Waiting for an answer. Waiting... waiting...
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Music, Movies & Books
Apr 7, 2021Apr 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKThe Man Who Saved the World - Wikipedia
"On 26 September 1983, the computers in the Serpukhov-15 bunker outside Moscow, which housed the command centre of the Soviet early warning satellite system, twice reported that U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles were heading toward the Soviet Union. Stanislav Petrov, who was duty officer that night, suspected that the system was malfunctioning and managed to convince his superiors of the same thing. He argued that if the U.S. was going to attack pre-emptively it would do so with more than...
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Politics
Oct 3, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
Biden is my enemy for any number of reasons. This repulsive corporate tool can shill for Rethuglican votes. FCKBDN
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Jun 9, 2019Jun 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKFree Fall — Part 1 by David Chandler
Sometimes I get so frustrated with the skeptic community. They could do the same type of demonstrations/experiments that they do for claims of psychic ability or communications with the dead. They'll participate in debates on evolution, or the existence of God... but 9/11? Generally, crickets. :-----: David Chandler writes: "By the way, does this sound like conspiracy theory to you? Notice that I have not theorized, or even hypothesized anything. I am observing and analyzing public ...
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Politics
Aug 6, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKBanksy painting sprayed in West Bank resurfaces in Tel Aviv : NPR
"TEL AVIV, Israel — A long-lost painting by the British graffiti artist Banksy has resurfaced in a swank art gallery in downtown Tel Aviv, an hour's drive and a world away from the concrete wall in the occupied West Bank where it was initially sprayed. The relocation of the painting — which depicts a slingshot-toting rat and was likely intended to protest the Israel occupation — raises ethical questions about the removal of artwork from occupied territory and the display of such ...
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Politics
Mar 7, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKMoA - Nord Stream Attack - White House Counters Hersh's Reputation With Weak 'Intelligence'
So much media gatekeeping.
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Politics
Sep 5, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKThe US allows in the Harvard student of Palestinian background it deported, but he will not be able to speak out freely like his classmates
"Mr. Ajjawi has said that he wants to become a doctor and that he is nonpolitical. His lawyer, Albert Mokhiber, described him on Tuesday as a Palestinian refugee who had attended United Nations schools in the refugee camps of Lebanon. Set aside the question of whether an exiled Palestinian raised in a refugee camp can ever truly be “apolitical.” It’s clear that Ismail Ajjawi will not have the same right to speak out freely as his Harvard classmates enjoy. He will have to be ...
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Politics
Aug 27, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKThe Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous “Educated Proletariat” – Radio Free
It wouldn't serve their purposes for the "wrong" people to get educated. Mah.Thur.Fah.Curse.
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Politics
Mar 18, 2021Mar 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKPutin challenges Biden to a live public debate after Biden calls Putin a 'killer' | American Military News
"On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin challenged U.S. President Joe Biden to a live debate just hours after a new interview in which Biden said Putin is a “killer.” “I’ve just thought of this now,” Putin told a Russian state television reporter, ABC News reported. “I want to propose to President Biden to continue our discussion, but on the condition that we do it basically live, as it’s called. Without any delays and directly in an open, direct discussion. It seems to ...
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Politics
Mar 19, 2021Mar 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKBiden Should Stop Making Excuses -- It's Time to Leave Afghanistan
"Forty years ago, the whimsy of Cold Warriors motivated the United States to turn its imperial gaze upon that long-battered country. The subsequent actions and decisions — from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan to the first George Bush — led directly to the attacks of September 11 and the U.S. invasion of that nation. Twenty years later, the U.S. military remains in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, generations have seen foreign armies invade, retreat, invade again, yet never ultimately prevail. ...
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Politics
Mar 21, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
"After 9/11, people were so outraged by thousands of innocent people being killed over a political beef, that they went and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people over a political beef." LanceThruster
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Politics
Nov 12, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKWhy the Corporate Media Won’t Call It a Coup
"Army generals appearing on television to demand the resignation and arrest of an elected civilian head of state seems like a textbook example of a coup. And yet that is certainly not how corporate media is presenting the weekend’s events in Bolivia. No establishment outlet framed the action as a coup; instead, President Evo Morales “resigned” (ABC News), amid widespread “protests” (CBS News) from an “infuriated population” (New York Times) angry at the “election fraud” (Fox...
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General & Hellos
Sep 7, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKWarren Isn't the New Hillary, She's Obama 2.0 (and that's not a compliment)
"A recent Monmouth University poll showed Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren tied atop the 2020 Democratic field at 20 points apiece. Warren’s rise in the polls over the summer has prompted, and in some cases revived, a debate amongst progressives as to who exactly she is. To some, she’s the best suited to further the progressive agenda and enact progressive reforms. To some, she’s a close second to Bernie; to some, a distant second. To others, she’s a fraud; a neoliberal wolf in a ...
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General & Hellos
May 17, 2019May 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKCollege Democrats Protest New DCCC Vendor Policy - The Atlantic
"Another potential problem the students have expressed is keeping young people engaged. “The next generation of grassroots activists and organizers are really not happy with the way the Democratic Party is conducting itself,” Pearce says. If the party makes it harder to challenge incumbents, they’ll also make it harder for young people looking for change to feel excited about a candidate. “When we have younger voices and voices that better represent young people, they’re more likely to...
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Politics
Apr 11, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKKris Kristofferson - Here comes that rainbow again (1982) - YouTube
"Them candies ain't two for a penny." [m.youtube.com]
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Music, Movies & Books
Apr 9, 2021Apr 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
Just finished watching Elmer Gantry. The female lead loosely based on Aimee Semple McPherson. Love checking out the multiple links. Didn’t realize how much it differed from the book.
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Politics
Sep 30, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
Russia Could Never Discredit The US Empire The Way These Guys Just Did "If Vladimir Putin were every bit the election-meddling demon the Democrats say he is, and if he had unlimited time and unlimited resources to create the perfect ...
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General & Hellos
Apr 12, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKChelsea and Julian are in Jail. History Trembles. - Craig Murray
"Tonight both Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange are in jail, both over offences related to the publication of materials specifying US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and both charged with nothing else at all. No matter what bullshit political and MSM liars try to feed you, that is the simple truth. Manning and Assange are true heroes of our time, and are suffering for it."
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Instrumentals
Sep 13, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
Looney Toons Overture
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Politics
Jun 6, 2019Jun 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
What it's like anytime I see Dolt 45 as the public face of these United States. We've gone beyond farce. Truly Bizarro World.
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General & Hellos
Aug 8, 2019Aug 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINK"Don't Look Away": Videos and Images of Weeping Children and Loved Ones Spread as ICE Arrests 680 in Mississippi | Common Dreams News
"In total, ICE agents carried out raids in six Mississippi cities, leaving outrage and despair in their wake. According to local news reports, workers suspected of being undocumented were rounded up, placed on buses, and sent to an ICE facility in Louisiana. "Children finished their first day of school with no parents to go home to tonight," reported the Jackson Free Press. "Babies and toddlers remained at daycare with no guardian to pick them up. A child vainly searched a workplace parking ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 5, 2021Apr 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
LINKMaking Anger your Ally | Toko-pa's Official Website
"Anger is one of those emotions that’s been long-stricken from the social palette of acceptability. Especially for women, who are taught that being angry makes you unlikeable, and being unlikeable is a kind of rejection from Femininity itself. So many set about a lifetime of unspoken penance to becoming ‘a nice person.’ You turn down your volume, soften your step, retract your talons and acquiesce. But a terrible thing is lost in the suppression of anger – your relationship with one ...
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Quotes
Sep 13, 2021Sep 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
"What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil;...
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Quotes
Dec 27, 2021Dec 2021

Posted by WilliamCharles
A good man is gone.
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Quotes
Jul 22, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles
“I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.” ― A.E. Housman, Last Poems
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jan 1, 2019Jan 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles
Don't Panic.
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Agnostic, Atheist, Humanist, Secularist, Skeptic, Freethinker
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WilliamCharles's Groups
Taboo Island Atlantis
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Culteral Anthropology - My own take
2 members, Host
Topic of the day
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Just for Laughs
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Progressives, Socialists, and Black Lives Matter
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Quotes
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Out Of The Illusion
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Singles/Mingle/Chat
1655 members
Trump Pinata
1137 members
Human Sexuality: Everything About It
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Ethical Sluts
428 members
Instrumentals
374 members
Leftists
372 members
Sex, Love, and Kinky Things, What's Your Pleasure?
358 members
Political debate
309 members
COVID-19
283 members
Conservative Atheists
253 members
Left Coast Non Believers
207 members
Political Posts, Articles and Memes
162 members
Older women and younger men
134 members
Conservative Bashers
118 members
Pro Gun Rights
114 members
Tales from the Lockdown
82 members
Common Ground
56 members
Agnostic SoCal
48 members
Desert Island Discs
23 members
Conservatism Is Not ALL Bad
7 members
Community Senate
386 members