INSPIRATIONAL: Why was MLK assassinated?

Monday, January 15, 2018

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-15/ron-paul-who-killed-martin-luther-king-and-why

Ron Paul: “Who Killed Martin Luther King… And Why?”
by Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/15/2018 – 15:45

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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s own closest advisors begged him to avoid focusing on the Vietnam war.

It will alienate President Johnson, who is doing so much for the civil rights movement at home, they argued.

As Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams discuss below, MLK ignored his advisors, vocally opposed the war, and found much of the liberal establishment had turned on him (having applauded his work on civil rights in the US).

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I never connected this set of dots.

Argh!

I loved the “content versus color” spirit.

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INTERESTING: “Women are chimeras”? A unique new viewpoint

Monday, January 15, 2018

https://aeon.co/essays/microchimerism-how-pregnancy-changes-the-mothers-very-dna

We are multitudes
Women are chimeras, with genetic material from both their parents and children. Where does that leave individual identity?

Katherine Rowland is a journalist. Her work has appeared in Nature, the Financial Times, the Independent, OnEarth and other publications. She is the publisher and director of Guernicamagazine, and lives in New York City. 

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When Lee Nelson first began researching autoimmune disorders in the 1980s, the prevailing assumption was that conditions such as arthritis and lupus tend to show up more commonly in women because they are linked to female sex hormones. But to Nelson, a rheumatologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, this explanation did not make sense. If hormones were the culprit, one would expect these afflictions to peak during a woman’s prime reproductive years, when instead they typically appear later in life. 

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The self emerging from microchimeric research appears to be of a different order: porous, unbounded, rendered constituently. Nelson suggests that each human being is not so much an isolated island as a dynamic ecosystem. And if this is the case, the question follows as to how this state of collectivity changes our conscious and unconscious motivations. If I am both my children and my mother, if I carry traces of my sibling and remnants of pregnancies that never resulted in birth, does that change who I am and the way I behave in the world? If we are to take to heart Whitman’s multitudes, we encounter an I composed of shared identity, collective affiliations and motivations that emerge not from a mean and solitary struggle, but a group investment in greater survival.

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I found this to be stunning and paradigm shifting.

How do you make sense of all these factoids?

Not sure what to make of all this.

Very confusing!

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FUN: Is it me?

Sunday, January 14, 2018

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FINANCIAL: “Social (In) Security” Trust Fund reserves become depleted in 2035″

Sunday, January 14, 2018

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-09/social-security-proposes-immediate-and-permanent-reduction-benefits

Social Security Proposes “Immediate And Permanent Reduction” In Benefits
by Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/09/2018 – 16:47

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Literally tens of millions of people depend on it.

The Social Security Administration itself reports that 62% of recipients rely on the program for at least HALF of their income.

And further research by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) shows that, without Social Security, 22.1 million Americans would fall below the poverty line.

Needless to say, major cuts to the program would have nuclear effects.

And yet, year after year, the Social Security Board of Trustees publishes an annual report that describes the program’s terminal financial challenges in excruciating detail.They mince no words in plainly stating that Social Security pays out far too much money, and takes in far too little.

According to the 2017 Trustees report, “Trust Fund reserves become depleted in 2035.”

They’re practically giving us a date that we can circle on a calendar and mark “End of Social Security.”

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Unfortunately, all the politicians and bureaucrats that stole and spent it will be all dead and out of sight!

And there will be a lot of unhappy “Sheeple” look to hang someone out to dry.

Not sure, how it will be resolved. But it’s going to be dangerous and “unpleasant”.

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POLITICAL: We need DJT45 to remove AG Jeff Sessions for terminal stupidity

Saturday, January 13, 2018

Your letter was sent to: President Donald Trump (R)

The campaign used to send this message can be found here: https://downsizedc.org/ sessions-marijuana-policy/

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Subject: 8 reasons you should reverse Jeff Sessions’ marijuana policy.

Reversing Jeff Sessions’ marijuana policy will benefit your administration in multiple ways.

Here are the 8 points…

#1: This will hurt you next election. The American people increasingly favor marijuana legalization.

#2: You’ve been achieving great things with de-regulation. This policy goes in the opposite direction. In fact…

#3: It will hurt economic growth. Even the stock market has embraced the marijuana industry. Don’t cause market uncertainty.

#4: This policy will also harm your promise to reduce crime. It will reinvigorate the black market and refill our prisons.

#5: There are too many laws to enforce. Government should focus and prioritize. Enforcing federal marijuana laws is a distraction.

#6: Republicans are supposed to favor federalism. States should made these decisions, per the Tenth Amendment. This policy harms that federalism.

#7: You promised during your campaign to respect the decisions made about marijuana in the states.

#8: Reversing an underling’s mistake will show the American people that you are both prudent and in charge.

Sincerely,
ferdinand reinke

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End the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” now. Focus resources on treatment; not punishment.

The Gooferment can’t keep drugs out of its prisons! How can they keep them out of a free society.

Portugal is a shining example of how to do it.

AND, by ending the “drug war”, what will all the illegal drug gangs do? Stop shooting everything in sight in turf wars. Pepsi and Coke driver don’t shoot it out for shelf space.

I trust that WalMart, Walgreens, RiteAid, CVS, and others will do a far better job delivering “clean” and “safe” drugs to those who want them while keeping treatment options front and center.

Prohibition ended because “We, The Sheeple” refuse to convict. The same should happen now.

Don’t let the politicians and bureaucrats keep killing addicts with a policy that is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient.

Send your thoughts to your representatives now!

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RANT: Disband the Federal Gooferment’s “private armies”

Friday, January 12, 2018

The FBI has become, along with other “deep state”agencies like the IRS, a political Praetorian Guard. I have read the constitution and find no authority for the Federal Gooferment to have this, and many other, private armies. DJT45, who for the wrong reasons, may be correct to disband the FBI. Let the States do their job of “police work”.

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RANT: Twitter is evil

Thursday, January 11, 2018

I recommend: UNDERCOVER VIDEO: Twitter Engineers To “Ban a Way of Talking” Through “Shadow Banning,” Algorithms to Censor Opposing Political Opinions https://www.projectveritas.com/2018/01/11/undercover-video-twitter-engineers-to-ban-a-way-of-talking-through-shadow-banning-algorithms-to-censor-opposing-political-opinions/ by @Project_Veritas

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RANT: I guess we are doomed?

Thursday, January 11, 2018

 

The Editors’ Quote of the Day:
 By Hugh James Latimer | January 5, 2018 |   

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A public that can no longer distinguish between truth and fiction is left to interpret reality through illusion. Random facts or obscure bits of data and trivia are used to bolster illusion and give it credibility or are discarded if they interfere with the message. The worse reality becomes—the more, for example, foreclosures and unemployment skyrocket—the more people seek refuge and comfort in illusions. When opinions cannot be distinguished from facts, when there is no universal standard to determine truth in law, in science, in scholarship, or in reporting the events of the day, when the most valued skill is the ability to entertain, the world becomes a place where lies become true, where people can believe what they want to believe. This is the real danger of pseudo-events and why pseudo-events are far more pernicious than stereotypes. They do not explain reality, as stereotypes attempt to, but replace reality. Pseudo-events redefine reality by the parameters set by their creators. These creators, who make massive profits peddling these illusions, have a vested interest in maintaining the power structures they control. – From: Chris Hedges “Empire of Illusion”

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Like the lemmings that follow the leader over the cliff to their death.

We need to rid our society of these Judas goats who are leading us.

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POLITICAL: Interesting switch — switch income tax to payroll tax?

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2018/01/screwing-trump-ny-may-scrap-its-income.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 2018
Screwing Trump: NY May Scrap Its Income Tax for a Payroll Tax

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The state of New York may end its income tax and instead expand its payroll tax as a way to outmaneuver the new federal law that limits deductions for state and local taxes, according to WGRZ.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday during his State of the State address that he is exploring how to make the switch. California and New Jersey leaders have also discussed similar steps and other alternatives.

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Good for retirees and pensioners?

I love when levels of Gooferment fight each other.

Hopefully “We, The Sheeple” will wake up and see how they are being robbed.

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SECESSION: Is there an automatic right to secession?

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/4/jeff-sessions-ramp-federal-enforcement-marijuana-l/

Billion-dollar pot industry is dazed and confused by Justice Department’s reversal
By Jeff Mordock – The Washington Times – Thursday, January 4, 2018

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions moved Thursday to revoke the Obama-era see-no-evil policy on federal enforcement of marijuana laws, announcing that federal law enforcement will no longer look the other way even in states that have legalized use of the drug.

The decision doesn’t change the state policies, but it does give U.S. attorneys the freedom to decide how strongly to enforce federal law that classifies marijuana as an illegal substance.

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Does this give California a clear reason to leave “These United States of America”?

While everyone would like to think that “secession” was “settled” by the War Of Northern Aggression, it wasn’t. Like the demise of the Soviet Union, it really doesn’t matter what the “central authority” wants. Collapse occurs.

There is an internationally recognized to “self-determination”. Does that de facto entail an automatic right to secession?

Certainly seems to, to me.

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