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It is not the freshest news. But it is still breaking, people are still absorbing it ,and it all till needs context.
The filthy greedheads and the doomed can't have exclusive rights to this news territory. The insane and the loyal opposition must have their say as well.
My take - the Russian armada is going to bomb the living fuck out of Aleppo. Not so much to help Assad as to show they can still break shit, and still matter in one of their few areas of influence outside of Russia.
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Good to hear a report from the homeland. Wish I could say more, but the kid is waiting for a ride to a friend's house. Lot's to comment on if I can find time.
I don't have much time, but I did have to comment on how dramtically our media has decayed since [probably] we invaded Iraq. I pinpoint that moment as it seems about time that our media became overtly propagandized in order squelch all dissent opposing western imperialism. Since that time, our own public media (NPR, PBS) have become media outlets for the deep state/banking cartel. Good to hear there are still enough people in the UK who recognize BS and are willing to put up a fight against it. Can't say that about the US as the population here has been so thoroughly brainwashed and dumbed-down the deep state can tell 'em to jump off cliff and they'll happily comply. Critical thinking has become a lost art in these parts.
That said, in these Orwellian times I still look to British drama and documentaries for escapism. But lately, quality British drama seems to be drying up as well. Hope it's not a case of globalism eliminating national culture, but somehow I think they're related. Screw the EU. God save the Queen.
Angela seems to be the Deutscher Maggie Thatcher and we avoided our USAttila the Hen with Trumpo the Clown. Nationalism has been the usual response to socialism and of course the Germans came up with their own inventive hybrid years ago. Now the US Nazis have big shoes, honk noses and fright wigs- so it's difficult to take them seriously- even if they are armed. Arm2geddon when i see the rise of urban campers everywhere. This shit's serious-- and the "political process" isn't addressing it *at all.* Corporate media sez unemployment is down, market is up.
The unemployment numbers don't reflect the working population any more than the stock market reflects the economy. It's a fun house mirror held up by the for-profit clicks-and-eyeballs media to mask a monetary system that started imploding at least 10 years ago... along with the spectacle "ideology" that has dominated the century... since the last economic revolution exactly 100 years ago.
Corp. Dem's Purge Bernie Progressives From DNC
https://youtu.be/_nX6bI-NWUw
Candidate For NYC Mayor Banned From Debates
https://youtu.be/SbatGzQq8bQ
It's been a circus for at least 40 years. And Trumpo the Clown is now the barker. RepubliCrats Inc. (The$Party) has written the script... and we all get on our marks and play every day. Progressives have been covering the Circus for a long time now.
You're still rockin' it, jeb. I'd still be hard-pressed to name someone whose writing I enjoy more than yours.
One writer I have become fond of lately is 'rogue journalist', Caitlin Johnstone on Medium. Here's a sample of her work...
How To Criticize Trump Without Being An Establishment Hack
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/how-to-criticize-trump-without-b...
Today was Rosa's 154th birthday.
Must have been Schroedinger. Rosa had been given the portal when she was born on Reformation Day. From that point it was a line to the gate at Ypres. Then extruded to a plane that extended scarcely 50 years of that rubber-like space-time thing. The divots the iron spheres made in the meadow had grown over and the boys in the white tent flakes had blown away. They rarely looked up for there was nothing there to see... but there was. Murmuration. Starlings. Baby stars... like Pleiades.
Who knows where the time goes.
he was more than six foot tall, traumatised, and had been the only boy with eleven or twelve it's the gap between that makes us sisters brother mine
and his father died slowly at home of his injuries, so there wasn't a pension
they made themselves into teachers, some,
those daughters, daughters,
of miners,
that were not men, but sang beside them, arm in arm,
making a garland of their lives together, all in all,
over the long years encompassing the loss of ourselves
to us.
And there's this... https://youtu.be/lq3s-Ifx1Fo
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