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Nov 11, 2019Nov 2019

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"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal." John Steinbeck

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Politics

Nov 10, 2019Nov 2019

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LINKA Guide To Bad Faith Arguments Against Bernie Sanders

"Before Senator Bernie Sanders announced he would run as a Democratic candidate for president in 2020, the establishment media was already previewing arguments that would be spread to suggest Sanders was still “unelectable.” Jonathan Cohn articulated it best in an article for In These Times. “It is important to remember so-called electability is no more a science than astrology. Indeed, it is often little more than calcified prejudice.” “Candidates up and down the ballot ...

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Politics

Nov 9, 2019Nov 2019

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LINKThe War Prayer

“Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth into battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble...

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Nov 8, 2019Nov 2019

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The Mariner's Revenge Song - The Decemberists

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Politics

Nov 8, 2019Nov 2019

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Bernie 2020!

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Nov 8, 2019Nov 2019

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Ramones - I Dont Wanna Go Down To The Basement

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Nov 7, 2019Nov 2019

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THE PARLOR ROOM SESSIONS: Winterpills (duo), "One Day" (Sharon Van Etten cover)

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Nov 6, 2019Nov 2019

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Hank Williams III and Jesco White - Straight to Hell

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Nov 2, 2019Nov 2019

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Fraudulent Steve

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Oct 30, 2019Oct 2019

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JIMMY SOUL - If You Wanna Be Happy RACHA STYLE

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Oct 29, 2019Oct 2019

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Jimmy Wakely - Mona Lisa 1950 (Country Music Greats) Singing Cowboy

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Quotes

Oct 25, 2019Oct 2019

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"Theologian: An uncommon individual who, though possessing finite abilities, has been called by God himself who, though possessing infinite abilities, requires the assistance of the former in explaining Himself to the rest of us.” [Translation: ...

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Politics

Oct 21, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKNot Evil, Just Stupid | The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics

"n an age of near universal literacy and information access in the developed world, stupid is an evil all its own. Perhaps the greatest of all evils. This is now abundantly clear with the poorly disguised attempt to smear a veteran and sitting congresswoman as a traitorous Manchurian candidate and its hilarious response. Despite the feverish conspiracy theories of the right, it has long been my position that Hillary Clinton, and the people who religiously tend to identify with her, are not...

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Politics

Oct 21, 2019Oct 2019

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LINKClinton Says Gabbard Is ‘Russian Asset.’ Everyone Is a Russian Asset – Rolling Stone

"Hillary Clinton is nuts. She’s also not far from the Democratic Party mainstream, which has been pushing the same line for years." - Matt Taibbi [rollingstone.com]

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Politics

Oct 19, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKKrystal Ball reacts to Ocasio-Cortez endorsing Sanders: 'Class power over girl power' | TheHill

"True leadership isn't picking the winning side just before the election, the way that Warren did when endorsing HRC. It doesn't look like picking the person who happens to have the identity most similar to yours. True leadership looks like wandering in the desert of democratic socialism the way that Bernie did for decades when the DLC and corporatists turned us into the party of Davos, and Bernie was essentially alone on the national political scene. And true leadership looks like backing ...

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Politics

Oct 17, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

AOC and The Squad endorse Bernie for president.

Is anyone else as excited about AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib endorsing Bernie Sanders for president as I am? These are some up-and-coming progressive powerhouses. They showed some real integrity imho.

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Politics

Oct 1, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKBernie’s Path to Victory

"It shouldn’t be surprising that the corporate media has recently ramped up its drive to isolate and attack Bernie Sanders. Nobody ever said that taking on the entire political and economic establishment would be easy. By insisting that Bernie’s star is fading, liberal pundits, the Democratic establishment, and their progressive proxies have done their best to create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which has then been borne out in recent polls. But the news isn’t all bad — far from it....

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Politics

Oct 1, 2019Oct 2019

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LINKTen Recent Democratic Primary Polls Good for Bernie Sanders Ignored by the Conventional Wisdom - CounterPunch.org

"The conventional wisdom for the Democratic Primary right now is that Senator Bernie Sanders is fading while Senator Elizabeth Warren is rising into a two-way race with former Vice-President Joe Biden. Nate Silver made the case after Debate 3 (September 12) in article form and has continued, via Twitter, to cherry-pick polls to fit this beatified narrative.I am a bit loathe to engage in the exercise that follows — that is to highlight the evidence that runs counter to this narrative. While it ...

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Sep 30, 2019Sep 2019

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Johnny Burnette Trio-Train Kept A Rollin'

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Politics

Sep 29, 2019Sep 2019

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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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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 28, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKHunter Biden's Legal, Socially Acceptable Corruption - The Atlantic

"How did this get to be standard practice? The whistle-blower scandal that has prompted the fourth presidential impeachment process in American history has put a spectacle from earlier this decade back on display: the jaw-smacking feast of scavengers who circled around Ukraine as Viktor Yanukovych, a Moscow-linked kleptocrat, was driven from power. Ukraine’s crisis was the latest to energize a club whose culture has come to be treated as normal—a culture in which top-tier lawyers, ...

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Politics

Sep 28, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKThe Untold Story of the Trump-Ukraine ‘Scandal’: The Routine Corruption of US Foreign Policy – Consortiumnews

"This fundamental corruption of U.S. foreign policy, which includes overthrowing elected governments, is matched only by the corruption of a political system that exalts partisan political power above all else. Exposing this deep-seated and longstanding corruption should take precedence over scoring partisan scalps, whether Biden’s or Trump’s." ...

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Politics

Sep 27, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKAs Biden falters, Hillary attacks Trump and positions herself to enter presidential race

And it looks like there may be a "new" centrist for the MSM to fluff. The Hildebeast that would not die. [americanthinker.com]

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Quotes

Sep 27, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

"The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end." John Shelby Spong

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Instrumentals

Sep 24, 2019Sep 2019

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Hogan's Heroes Theme

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Sep 24, 2019Sep 2019

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Hogan's Heroes Theme

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Politics

Sep 22, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKDear Progressives for Warren: Your Class Is Showing - CounterPunch.org

Dear Progressives for Warren: Your Class Is Showing by ERIC DRAITSER ----- "Let me begin by making the apparently mandatory and sacrosanct ritual offering to the gods of progressive politics in 2019: “Sure, I like Warren. In fact, I agree with her on many issues. She’s not bad.” There. I said it. Can we do real politics now? ----- We’re at that ignominious point where people from all over the left end of the political spectrum in the United States are ...

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Quotes

Sep 22, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

"... the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped." ...

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 20, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

The Incredible Belief That Corporate Ownership Does Not Influence Media Content ALISON ROSE LEVY - SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 "As Sen. Bernie Sanders (CJR, 8/26/19) has recently noted, corporate ownership of media interferes with the core societal ...

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Politics

Sep 20, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKChained to its Past: A German Formula for Injustice toward the People of Palestine | Global Justice in the 21st Century

Chained to its Past: A German Formula for Injustice toward the People of Palestine "The GermanBundestag resolution on May 15ththat condemned the BDS Campaign as contributing to a rising threat of anti-Semitism in Europe is a grave cause of concern. It brands the BDS, a nonviolent Palestinian initiative, anti-Semitic and urges the German government to refuse support, not only to BDS itself, but to any organization that is supportive of BDS. It takes this stand, pointing out Germany’s ...

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 20, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Young Women Actually Make Up More of Bernie's Base Than Men Do "New findings from The Economist show that women under 45 make up a larger share of Bernie Sanders’ base than do men in their same age group, contradicting a popular narrative that...

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 20, 2019Sep 2019

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Can Democrats change the game for labor organizing in America? "The most sweeping proposal to reform the NLRA and union bargaining along these lines is the Workplace Democracy Plan by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), which has been co-sponsored by ...

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 20, 2019Sep 2019

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Sanders Hits Back at Rich Biden Donor: 'The Democratic Party I Represent Is the Party of the Working Class, Not Billionaires' "During a fundraiser for former Vice President Joe Biden in Chicago on Thursday, billionaire casino and real estate ...

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Sep 20, 2019Sep 2019

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Police Car - Larry Wallis

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 19, 2019Sep 2019

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TOP SANDERS ADVISER: 'HE IS A LITTLE BIT ANGRY' "There is sort of a thinly veiled contempt for the notion that Bernie Sanders has been saying the same thing for 30 years,” she said. "But when you talk to the people who support Sen. Sanders, ...

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Quotes

Sep 19, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted." D.H. Lawrence

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Sep 19, 2019Sep 2019

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The Duck Song

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 19, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

First-time voters for Bernie Sanders don't care about his age, say he speaks to what matters to them and would've voted for him in 2016 " supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders say they're not concerned about his age as the 77-year-old from Vermont ...

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 19, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Bernie Sanders hits 1 million donors "One million people have donated to Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, his campaign said Thursday. He is the first candidate to announce reaching that milestone."

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 19, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Biden support falls, Sanders gains in new polling

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Sep 19, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKTimelapse Of The Future | notestoponder

So if proton decay turns out to be a thing, matter itself will collapse?

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Politics

Sep 18, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKBernie Sanders Wants to Alleviate Senior Loneliness

"According to a study published in March, one-third of American seniors feel lonely. The same study found that nearly 30 percent of seniors reported they socialized with family, friends, or neighbors once a week or less. Senior isolation is correlated not just to a decline in mental wellbeing but also physical wellbeing, with another study concluding that “Lonely people are 50 percent more likely to die prematurely than those with healthy social connections.” Senior loneliness is a public...

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Politics

Sep 18, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKNo America, It's Not Gonna Be Okay

"I am a newly retired optimist. I used to believe that things would always be okay: that no matter how bad circumstances seemed in the world, I trusted that people would do the right thing, that goodness would prevail, that the rational center would hold. I used to believe that our system of checks and balances would protect us from overreaching parties and mentally-unstable presidents and political leaders lacking a working moral compass. I used to believe that most people were ...

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Politics

Sep 18, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKThe Danger of Inspiration in a Time of Ecological Crisis - CounterPunch.org

"The problem is that the Green New Deal does rely on one bit of magical thinking—the techno-optimism that emerges from the modern world’s underlying technological fundamentalism, defined as the faith that the use of evermore advanced technology is always a good thing. Extreme technological fundamentalists argue that any problems caused by the unintended consequences of such technology eventually can be remedied by more technology. (If anyone thinks this definition a caricature, read “An ...

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Politics

Sep 17, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKIsrael Spies and Spies and Spies, by Philip Giraldi - The Unz Review

Israel Spies and Spies and Spies This time the target was Donald Trump Philip Giraldi • September 17, 2019

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 17, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Bernie Sanders Is the Frontrunner. Obviously. He leads the declared candidates in the polls, and he's dominating in fundraising. So why is he being ignored?

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 17, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

At best, I see Warren as Bernie-lite. At worst, a corporatist kneecapper meant to try to take the wind out of Bernie's sails. Interested in seeing the responses of others here to this piece. :-----: Warren would be a more effective president ...

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 17, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

The Working Families Party Has Written Itself Out of History "When we were first politicized as teenagers, it wasn’t common to hear unapologetic demands for universal health care, family leave, paid sick days, and a living wage. For all the ...

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 16, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Joe Biden Is a Phony, Plain and Simple Norman Solomon • 4/24/2019 "Let’s be blunt: As a supposed friend of American workers, Joe Biden is a phony. And now that he’s running for president, Biden’s huge task is to hide his phoniness. ...

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 16, 2019Sep 2019

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Will Clinton Democrats Vote for a Progressive Against Trump? Ted Rall • September 16, 2019 "Centrists call Bernie’s backers sore losers and say leftists are untrustworthy supporters of a man who never officially declared fealty to the ...

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Sep 16, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Ric Ocasek - Emotions in Motion

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 15, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Why Elizabeth Warren Isn’t the Leader America Needs Posted by March Twisdale | Sep 14, 2019 | "Bernie Sanders appealed to not just deep, liberal democrats. He also drew the support of those who are on the conservative edge of the Democratic ...

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 14, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

This was written pre-debate. A lot of what is written post-debate about Bernie focused on his hoarseness. I remember distinctly over at the Balloon-Juice-dot-com blog (rabidly anti-Bernie, even more so after 2016 as they blamed Bernie supporters for ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 13, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

I often find myself in an awkward situation. I read or hear about some sad or tragic occurrence that absolutely breaks my heart, but I don't share it with anyone. The reason in those circumstances is that there's really nothing anyone can do about ...

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 13, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Be sure to check out Matt Taibbi's interview of Bernie on his podcast. :-----: "The third Democratic debate was a bizarre affair, marked by whimsical outbursts by Kamala Harris (“Hey-y-y-y, Joe” seemed to catch everyone off guard), the ...

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 13, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Didn't watch tonight's debate, though flipping past saw Bernie sounded a bit hoarse (throat strained from his rallies?). Will catch clips and highlights. Anybody have some feedback on it? Will also be combing the net for articles reviewing it, ...

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General & Hellos

Sep 11, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKAllende’s Last Speech

On another 9/11 anniversary. :-----: "The people must defend themselves, but they must not sacrifice themselves. The people must not let themselves be destroyed or riddled with bullets, but they cannot be humiliated either. Workers of my country, I have faith in Chile and its destiny. Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seeks to prevail. Go forward knowing that, sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again where free men will walk to build a ...

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Sep 11, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

UB40 - A Place in the Sun

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 11, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

"This fundamental difference will likely, at some point in this primary, come to the fore. Some Sanders' supporters, while sympathetic to Warren, believe that Sanders' vision for a grassroots revolution is key to beating Trump and changing the ...

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Instrumentals

Sep 11, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Karl Jenkins & Adiemus-Palladio 1st Movement from Diamond Music

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Politics

Sep 11, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

"After 9/11, America was so outraged by the deaths of thousands of innocent American civilians over a political beef, that in response we killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians over a political beef." LanceThruster

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 9, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

What do you all think of this piece. I want Bernie to bump it up a notch as noted. :-----: "I am deeply worried that you have stayed mostly around or under 20 percent among the Democratic candidates. To some extent it’s because of the plethora of...

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Leftists

Sep 9, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

From Caitlin Johnstone: "There’s nothing moderate about so-called “centrists”; they’re violent extremists and their ideology threatens our entire world. But even if they were moderates, moderation and incremental change isn’t what we need ...

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 9, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

R'amen, Bernie. R'amen.

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 9, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Be sure to read the entire Sam Smith piece. :-----: "We shade our eyes and scan the decay. We know that this place, this country, this planet, is not the same as the last time we looked. There are more bodies. And fewer other things: choices, ...

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Politics

Sep 9, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINK28 Reasons I'm DONE Talking To My Conservative Friends And Family

Old article from 2015. It's only gotten worse in my view. :-----: "I’m a Southern girl. Born in the South, raised in the South, and have rarely lived anywhere BUT the South. I actually love the South. I’ll die in the South. Being a Southern girl, I have more than my share of right-wing friends, neighbors, and family members — and some of you have in recent years crossed the line into nut-jobbery."

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Leftists

Sep 9, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

"As GOP fearmongering about the so-called looming socialist menace continues to intensify ahead of the 2020 elections, President Donald Trump has reportedly expressed concern behind the scenes that anti-socialist messaging may not be as popular or ...

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Quotes

Sep 8, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

This link work? The Bern Notice is worth subscribing to.

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Politics

Sep 8, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKProgressives Explode After ABC Panel Featuring Chris Christie and Rahm Emanuel Launches Attack on Medicare For All | Common Dreams News

WTF?!? "The ABC political show "This Week" on Sunday devoted a chunk of time to attacking Medicare for All, drawing fire for the segment's panel makeup and language. Of particular gall to critics was the fact that the panel's nominal liberal was former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a fiercely right-wing Democrat whose decades-long career in Washington, as Intercept editor Ryan Grim recently detailed in his book "We've Got People," has been devoted to stifling the party's progressive wing....

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General & Hellos

Sep 8, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKAll Children Deserve Free School Lunch. Every. Single. One.

Am really glad I came across this writer (Kathy Copeland Padden). She writes: "The number of American children living in food-insecure households continues to grow at an alarming rate. This is a public health crisis of epic proportions as proper nutrition is necessary not only for a healthy body but a healthy mind. Hungry kids are at an automatic disadvantage in the classroom. Children who are hungry cannot learn. Through no fault of their own. It’s become acceptable in this country to...

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Politics

Sep 7, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKWarren and Clinton talk behind the scenes as 2020 race intensifies

"WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren's team doesn't want to talk about Hillary Clinton, but that doesn't mean the 2020 presidential candidate isn't talking with her party's 2016 nominee. The two women have kept a line of communication open since the Massachusetts senator decided to run for president — though only a conversation around the time of Warren's launch has been previously reported — according to several people familiar with their discussions who spoke to NBC on the condition of ...

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 7, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

America’s Billionaires Congealing Around Warren and Buttigieg by Eric Zuesse "The Democratic Presidential candidates who have been the most backed by billionaires have not been doing well in the polling thus far, and this fact greatly ...

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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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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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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 7, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

There's a blog site (Balloon Juice) that despises Bernie. They linked this article crowing about it supposedly indicating Bernie's campaign is out of gas. I think it is far too early to read too much into polls, particularly since some seem to be ...

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Politics

Sep 7, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKThe Case for Sanders/Warren 2020: The Populist Dream Team Ticket to Win A Green New Deal | Common Dreams Views

Author David Goodner writes: "My analysis five years ago accurately predicted the impact a populist primary campaign from the left would have on Hillary Clinton and the Democratic establishment. I was also right about the jump start such a campaign would give to social movement organizing and the progressive agenda after the election was over. But Bernie wasn’t yet a proven star all the way back in November of 2014, and I incorrectly called Warren “far more charismatic and popular” ...

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Politics

Sep 6, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKThe Democratic Party’s Addiction to Dirty Money

"The problem is far bigger than Joe Biden. Other candidates in the race have gamely attempted the same two-step, violating pledges to reject special interest money and hosting big-dollar fund-raisers. The machinery of the Democratic Party is primed to run on big piles of cash and showers its favor upon those candidates who reliably stack the green. Even as voters demand that the party shed the influence of plutocratic interests, much of the shift toward rejecting the status quo has been ...

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Politics

Sep 6, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKBernie Is the Best Candidate on Palestine

"Bernie Sanders has repeatedly denounced the brutality of Israel’s occupation and stood up for Palestinian rights. He’s the only candidate who has a chance of breaking the bipartisan pro-Israel consensus."

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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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Taboo Island Atlantis

Sep 5, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Immigrant Song - Rubber Chicken Cover

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Bernie Sanders - The Revolution Continues

Sep 5, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Interested to hear some of your thoughts on who you would like Bernie to choose as a running mate. Also who you think he'll choose, as well as people you would love to have considered, whether or not they were the most strategic choice. I keep ...

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General & Hellos

Sep 5, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKWe Heard Three Visions for Saving the Planet Last Night. Only One Will Work.

"Last night’s climate town hall was seven hours long. You can be forgiven for not watching the whole thing; I didn’t. But if you tuned in for a two-hour stretch in the middle, you got to see the Democratic primary race’s three top contenders — Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders — lay out their visions for how to solve the climate crisis. And they were very different visions. Biden promised a return to the old status quo. Warren promised carrots and sticks to make ...

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General & Hellos

Sep 5, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKThe Problem With Warren - CounterPunch.org

"All of the above issues, however damning they are of Warren’s record and character, pale in comparison to the contextual circumstances in which she entered the Democratic primary race. Sanders’ surprise success in the 2016 primary, in which he came very close to beating establishment favorite Hillary Clinton, is what created the energy and momentum for a progressive insurgency to happen in the first place. It was Sanders who brought issues like universal healthcare, free public college ...

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Politics

Sep 5, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKWhy They Hate Bernie

"The Democratic establishment was fine with Sanders when he was just a lonely voice fighting for progressive values, as long as the gravy train for consultants, lobbyists, donors, and former politicians kept on running. But once he went from just a voice in the wilderness to the head of a movement that threatened to upend this arrangement, something had to be done. This was why the prevailing media narrative around Sanders swiftly changed as his chances increased over the course of 2016. Where ...

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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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Politics

Sep 4, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKWill Bernie Sanders Will Be Our President in 2020? - CounterPunch.org

"Now, we know the Democrats always rig their primaries. They don’t count mail-in ballots that are primarily from independents and poor people, they bar independents from voting in some states, they repress the votes of young people and people of color, they have a rigged delegate system, and they have a biased corporate media that really is propaganda. They could rig it against Bernie last time because Hillary could keep it close against him even if the rules were fair. 2016 was a two horse ...

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Politics

Sep 3, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKArticle: Tulsi Gabbard's Exclusion from Debate Stage is Further Proof that United States is Democracy Free | OpEdNews

"Hawaiian Congresswoman and Democratic Party presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard will not be speaking at the third Democratic primary debate in Texas on September 13th. According to the DNC's arbitrary rules, Gabbard failed to meet the two percent threshold in the number of polls required to qualify (4). She did, however, surpass the individual contribution requirement by over thirty thousand donors and received two percent or more of the vote in several "non-qualifying" polls, including from ...

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Politics

Sep 2, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKLying for Israel: Why Nearly Everyone in Washington Does It - American Herald Tribune

"There is no benefit for the United States when an American Ambassador excuses the brutality of a foreign government, quite the contrary as it makes Washington an accomplice in what are often undeniably war crimes. Even though Congressman Lieu was clearly read the riot act and made to fly right by his own party’s leadership, it took considerable courage to speak up against both Israel and an American ambassador who clearly is more in love with the country he is posted to than the country he is...

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Politics

Sep 2, 2019Sep 2019

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LINKThe Hidden History of Butte's Working Class - CounterPunch.org

"The ideology of capitalism (meritocracy, equality of opportunity, individualism, etc.) with its interpretive frameworks (seeing the world as a limited-sum game, etc.) produces a conception of competition that shapes and sustains economic practice and labor relations. Hegemonic capitalist ideology organizes the dominant understanding of competition both within classes and between them. In terms of competition within classes, the ideology highlights, on the one hand, competition in the ...

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Sep 2, 2019Sep 2019

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LINK'Zionism is at the core of Jewish identity, so anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic' -- A response

"It seems like the attacks on Palestinian rights advocacy as a form of anti-Semitism just keep increasing. At my institution – University of Massachusetts Amherst – we had the lawsuit and political campaign to stop the event “Not Backing Down”. Ironically, this event, intended as a response to charges of anti-Semitism, was itself smeared as anti-Semitic. Recently the House overwhelmingly passed HR 246, the anti-BDS bill. (Even one member of “the Squad” voted for it, not to mention...

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Politics

Sep 2, 2019Sep 2019

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LINKThe Last Act of the Human Comedy

"There is nothing new to our story. The flagrant lies and imbecilities of the inept and corrupt leader. The inability to halt the costly, endless wars and curb the gargantuan expenditures on the military. The looting of a beleaguered populace by the rich. The destruction of the ecosystem. The decay and abandonment of a once-efficient infrastructure. The implosion of the institutions, from education to diplomacy, that sustain a functioning state. The world has seen it before. It is the familiar ...

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Sep 2, 2019Sep 2019

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Baby You Know Me - Wolfsuka

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Aug 31, 2019Aug 2019

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Presidents of the United States - Video Killed the Radio Star

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Aug 31, 2019Aug 2019

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Leo Kottke with Emmylou Harris - Here Comes That Rainbow Again

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Aug 31, 2019Aug 2019

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Megumi Mesaku (missmagoo) Subway Reggae

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Aug 31, 2019Aug 2019

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LP - Halo Live

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Aug 31, 2019Aug 2019

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All I Hear is Static - The Lillingtons

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General & Hellos

Aug 31, 2019Aug 2019

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"An injury to one is an injury to all."

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General & Hellos

Aug 31, 2019Aug 2019

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LINKWhen establishment Democrats attack the "hard left," what are they really afraid of? | Salon.com

""Hard Left" is Marxists, Marxist-Leninist, Trotskyists, Leninists, Stalinists, Maoists, Spartacus League, Guevaras. Bernie, AOC, DSA, Warren, FDR ain't "hard left." If you use "HL," you are grossly misinformed about left-wing politics. You might have missed the Cold War. In short, “hard left” is a bogeyman term so far as American politics is concerned — one meant to put Democrats constantly on the defensive, either cowering or fighting with each other. It recalls the worst days of ...

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