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Good story - India - first polio-free year ---
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Bipolar life - can we finally talk about it publicly? ---
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US no longer the land of the free? - a knowledgeable commentary - important - will we wake up in time? - where is the outrage? - where is the courage to be at-risk in order to be free? ---
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Free? - civil rights? - constitution? - while there is no courage in our Congress or Administration - a 16 yr old has the courage of her convictions - her civil rights and receives vicious threats - human progress? - back to Dark Ages - ignorance is bliss ---
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Incredible - Martin Luther King Jr. legacy? - 'I have a Dream'? - progress? - the new Jim Crow - more blacks are under correctional control today in the US than were enslaved in 1950 - more blacks are disenfranchised today than in 1970 - more blacks are incarcerated in the US today, percentage-wise, than were in South Africa under Apartheid - the War on Drugs was designed as a counter-revolution against the Civil Rights movement - our criminal justice system isn't a crime prevention system but a caste system - worse than even I thought ---
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King-washing - Pentagon - Boeing - misusing King's quotes ---
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Iran - regime change - follow the money - petrodollars - sobering - transparency? - laughable - duplicity? - how would/will we know? - Pepe Escobar/TomDispatch - a logical sequence/analysis? - stay tuned ---
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Are we assassinating Iranian scientists? - or - is Israel impersonating our intelligence agents and putting our agents at risk? - probably ---
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Another reason I can't go back to KS - Speaker of the House - incitement to violence? - have they no shame? ---
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Woody Guthrie - in Oklahoma? - Is this Land Made for You and Me? - the 99% - hope!! ---
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The 1% - Wall Street - greed - illegal? - but still free ---
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Social Justice - US rank among 32 OECD countries? - 27th - Exceptualism to 'At Least We Aren't Last' ---
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"I'm not disappointed in President Barrack Obama" - I don't watch many videos but this is good and necessary ---
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More - Obama isn't really that hard to understand - I think Drum is right ---
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personal note - I've really become much more dissatisfied with the media - the press including the WashPost seems to put 'their' interpretation (opinion) on 'news' - it's interesting - but almost disgusting - to read front page articles in which the author seems to indicate that s/he thinks they're on a direct brain wave with the person about whom they're writing - almost like they think they're inside the person's mind - brings to mind Susan Sontag's thought - originally regarding interpretation of art - but - for me - certainly relevant to 'reporting' - resulting in a 'shadow world' ---
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"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world — in order to set up a shadow world of meanings."
--- The Writer's Almanac
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Right/Left - Liberal/Conservative - can we somehow get back to debate/consideration of the real questions rather than nonanswers to questions? - rationality? - reality? ---
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Immigration - Romney - this person is presidential material? - to lead the country? ---
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Chris Hedges is suing Obama and Panetta regarding the Authorization of Military Force - Hedges has seen the direct result of this type legislation as a war correspondent - he's been there - including their prisons - reality ---
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And will protestors at the Nat'l political conventions be at-risk? - militarization of the police in those cities - 1st amendment rights? - be serious ---
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The New Groupthink - teams - committees - don't work the best - introverts are the most creative working in privacy - I feel better already ---
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I'm not young enough to know everything.
--- J.M. Barrie
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Calvin Trillin - pretentiousness - ACI - does this ever fit the political pundits ---
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Cartoons:
Peace? - p__ on it ---
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Martin Luther King Jr - poverty ---
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I voted ---
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Voting help ---
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Did someone say food stamps? ---
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War actions - which is wrong? ---
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Life is a choice - don't regret ---
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Dalai Lama
Genuine friendship can only be based on trust and affection, which can only arise when there is a mutual sense of concern and respect.
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20s/30s/40s/50s - continues - would like some 'deep' cold to help 'control' insects for next summer
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