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More than ever, Bernie Sanders is public enemy number one for power elites that thrive on economic injustice. The Bernie 2020 campaign is a direct threat to the undemocratic leverage that extremely wealthy individuals and huge corporations constantly exert on the political process. No wonder we’re now seeing so much anti-Bernie rage from leading corporate Democrats -- eagerly amplified by corporate media.
In American politics, hell hath no fury like corporate power scorned.
Rogue Machine’s West Coast premiere of award winning British playwright Mike Bartlett’s Earthquakes in London is, according to Rogue’s artistic director and the drama’s co-director John Perrin Flynn, “quite simply, the best play I have read about global warming.” This three hour-ish, UK-set tour-de-force takes a deep dive into the pressing subject of climate - as well as family - crisis. It is an epic play that goes back and forth in time and is mainly for more daring theatergoers and environmentalists who take their drama and politics seriously.
With the caveat that said ticket buyers have slept well the night before and hence can be very alert and pay close attention to the complex characters and storylines that shift on theatrical tectonic plates. For example, the pivotal role of the climate scientist father, Robert, is played by Paul Stanko as a young man and then in his maturity by Ron Bottitta. Robert is being wooed by energy companies, so we see him
before and after - but this might confuse some viewers.
Civil Liberties, Environment, Immorality, Nonviolent Activism, North America
Indigenous people in Canada are giving the world a demonstration of the power of nonviolent action. The justness of their cause — defending the land from those who would destroy it for short term profit and the elimination of a habitable climate on earth — combined with their courage and the absence on their part of cruelty or hatred, has the potential to create a much larger movement, which is of course the key to success.
Alfred Molina renders a devastating depiction of dementia in Florian Zeller’s award winning The Father. Ably directed by Jessica Kubzansky, this one-act Alzheimer-palooza is staged in what is usually described as a “cinematic” way, with intercutting and perhaps even montage used to indicate Andre’s (Molina) increasingly fragmented, confused perception of reality. The lighting and sound designers, respectively Elizabeth Harper and John Zalewski, adroitly enhance the loss of his bearings, with David Meyer’s shape shifting sets adding to Andre’s sense of mental mayhem.
At one point race is effectively used for shock value - not in a cultural, ethnic sense but in a visual way that jolts the senses. Andre is also always looking for his watch, which he accuses caregivers (as a convenient ruse to sack them, so he can maintain his ephemeral sense of independence) and others of stealing. But in contrast to, say, Rolexes, Andre’s watches are more akin to Salvador Dali’s melting timepieces, symbolizing the distortion of the passage of time.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Cambodia's authoritarian leader Hun Sen is not
panicking about the possibility of the deadly coronavirus killing
anyone in his Southeast Asian nation.
And he's not evacuating Cambodians trapped in China where more than
1,000 people have perished from the disease.
Instead, Prime Minister Hun Sen told Cambodians to stay and experience
Wuhan's dystopian lockdown.
He also allowed more than 2,000 people, including about 600 Americans,
to dock in Cambodia's port after their Westerdam cruise ship was
turned away by five countries amid unsubstantiated fears that it might
carry a coronavirus victim.
"Westerdam is now sailing for Sihanoukville, Cambodia, arriving at 7am
local time on February 13 & will remain in port for several days for
disembarkation," Holland America Line announced on February 12.
"All approvals have been received & we are extremely grateful to the
Cambodian authorities for support," it said on @HALcruises, the ship's
official Twitter site.
Hun Sen said everyone else in Cambodia should strip off their medical
<<SNIP>>
The Number Needed to Vaccinate (NNV)the number of patients will need to be vaccinated for one patient to benefit. The larger the number, the worse the efficacy of the vaccine (or drug). A few examples are listed below:
Examples of Important Numbers Needed to Vaccinate (NNV)
Autoimmune disorders are an important and under-appreciated issue that desperately needs the attention of every autoimmune disorder awareness group and autoimmune disorder support group, especially in the case of Type 1, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (T1D), an established autoimmune disorder whose treatment teams and T1D patients themselves are often unaware of or are in denial.
What medical teams - and their autoimmune disordered patients - often aren’t aware of is the fact that most autoimmune disorders are caused by commonly-injected aluminum-adjuvanted vaccines.
There is a large variety of autoimmune disorders (see partial list further below) and many of them begin months or years after the heavy early vaccination years when so many cocktails of vaccines are injected into the muscles of babies and young children. Many autoimmune disorders only manifest themselves when a final vaccination tips the patient’s immune system over into its clinical manifestation.
Autoantibodies
Elections, I think most of us can agree, usually bring out the idiocy, superficiality, and illogic in everyone who can muster any. Imagine supporting, as many did, Sanders and then Trump because they were both “outsiders.” On Tuesday, I heard somebody on CNN announce that Sanders and Klobuchar were both “change candidates” (because you’d have to change every bit of the platform of one of them to match that of the other?). Tokenism no longer embarrasses voters or even the candidates who openly campaign on it. When voters are asked on television how they choose a candidate, they talk about temperament, personality, debating skills, and intelligence.
The mainstream media imposes some serious certainties on the 2020 presidential election that drive me into a furious despair, e.g.:
Even though Bernie Sanders, winner of the first two Democratic primaries, is now leading in the national polls, he “can’t and won’t” be the party’s nominee “because in coming weeks,” writes Liz Peek in The Hill, “Democrats will make sure that Socialist Bernie does not get the nomination. More will realize that he will lead the party to a calamitous loss, and they will look for an alternative. Overwhelmed by ads, underwhelmed by others in the race, they will come to realize that Mike Bloomberg is the best they’ve got.”
Hey progressives, America is not a socialist country! Get it?