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I'm an old Pogo fan. For some unknown reason I persist in outrage at Feudalism, as if human beings can do much better than this. Our old ways of life are obsolete and are killing us. Will the human race wake up in time? Stay tuned...
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Taibbi has been a journalist, and let the chips fall wherever, which also means, never become part of the story you're reporting. That's high praise (well-deserved I think), and a near-impossibility in this case, even without an embarrassed media establishment hellbent on making him the villain of the story, in hopes of a spectacle that could displace the real story. Which also says something about culture.
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Wait. Protecting the troops? Yes. That's what we were told those contractors are doing over there. What the troops are doing, is protecting American business interests, aka "our vital interests."
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As people spoke, the conversation turned to other mass displacements, that theirs was not the first nor worst such disaster. That as white people, they were being treated much better than other refugees with darker skin. They felt embarrassment and even guilt at what they saw as undeserved privilege, despite having lost everything.
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All media messages are designed to arouse, not inform. Ambient fear became the backdrop of our lives. As a result, we react instead of communicating. Social fragmentation is the toxic byproduct of competing feudal internet fiefdoms. Series: Antisocial Media (8 Articles, 9550 views)
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We might be asking ourselves how long we're going to continue pretending there's an election going on. Even before this great honking sabot was thrown in the gears, the election process was already sabotaged until the remains were unrecognizable without dental records.
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Here in Palestine, life is extremely difficult to keep hope alive. Decades
of ethnic cleansing, destruction of local people's lives, segregation and
apartheid. Every single day now a Palestinian or two are killed. Yesterday
Netanyahu announced his success in forming the most extremist, fascist
government in Israeli history so things likely will get worse. Series: Reports from Palestine (58 Articles, 46156 views)
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The storied wooden boat, which was sailed toward the Marshall Islands in 1958 to interfere with US nuclear testing, set sail from Key West, Florida on Friday morning, and will arrive at the Hemingway Marina in Havana on Saturday morning, New Years Eve day. The 34-foot ketch belongs to Veterans For Peace, and implements its mission "to end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons." Series: Peace Boat (3 Articles, 3420 views)
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Kevin Young, co-author of Levers of Power, argues that the route to successful protest does not involve building public opinion, but instead on disrupting "business as usual" until the powers that be in business and politics have to give in. MKL knew this and applied it!
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Information isn't what drives collective behavior. Not who controls the past, or what they know. It's who controls this moment's media spotlight. And that's going to be the most terrifying, fascinating, media-enriching jackass of the hour. It won't matter that everybody hates him. That's the only form of "bipartisanship" left now.
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So we're crammed into the Seperator. We're all communicating, suddenly, face to face. This is the last thing the machinery was designed to deal with. The Surveillance Capitalists have been diligently isolating us into little tiny markets-of-one for the last half-decade. Series: The Big Mirror (12 Articles, 16727 views)
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Veterans For Peace is sailing the Golden Rule all over the United States to educate people about the growing danger of nuclear war, and to promote the historic UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which the UN General Assembly passed by a vote of 122-1 in June 2017.
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A chaotically polarized electorate, social fragmentation, cultural incoherence, and logarithmically increasing carbon emissions are the extremely toxic byproduct of the algorithmic attention-mining that sustains and drives the privately-owned digital services our very lives now depend on for food, water, medicine, electricity, transportation, shelter, the clothes on our backs, our children's education.
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Do you think his bizarre career is coming to an end? Really? The next day a "debate" is staged as if this parasite was a letitimate contender for the highest office of public trust. Of course we thought it was the Office of the Presidency we were inviting into our living rooms. Instead we dignified and legitimized a deadly criminal.
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the humans who lit up this doomsday machine are long dead. The self-maintaining and adaptive algorithms have become a rueful joke, if they are acknowledged at all. But make no mistake: not intelligent, or hostile, or evolving into some new hybrid species, its intention is more like that of a toaster, just one simple function to perform endlessly. Earth will be a barren rock long before it fixes us in its malevolent gaze.
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