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REMINDER: [Day 110 of the ongoing and now accelerating genocide] Israel is
still killing 200-300 civilians daily in Gaza (half of them children) and
injures twice as many daily. People injured have very little medical care
and die regularly of infested wounds or get their limbs amputated with
kitchen knives without anesthesia (1100 children had their limbs amputated
as such). Casualties (injured and killed) are now 3.2% of the 2.3 million
population (equivalent to 11.2 million US victims). Israel continues to
deny humanitarian aid (food, water medicines including anesthesia) with
Egypt's collusion. Famine is spreading especially among the 400-500,000
civilians left in North Gaza (but also in other regions of Gaza). Deaths
are thus accelerating. Diseases (Hepatitis A, Leishmania, intestinal and
skin disorders) are spreading with no treatments. Israel rendered most of
the hospitals and clinics inoperational. Kidney dialysis patients, cancer
patients, and other patients are dying as there are no treatments. Winter
storm arrived today and 1.9 million people have no shelter. 110 journalists

JUSTIN LEBLANC and MICHELLE SUTTER get us going with a California bill (AB-83) aimed at keeping foreign money out of our elections.

LYNNE FEINERMAN and LEONA MORGAN describe the HAUL NO campaign against Uranium mining near the Grand Canyon.

VINNIE DE STEFANO updates us on the FREE ASSANGE campaign with a boost from DR. RUTH STRAUSS.

WENDI LEDERMAN tells us the latest about the horrific COP CITY fight in Atlanta with the fate of a major first and the civil rights of a whole city at stake.

MYLA RESON introduces us to the debate over the Chevron Deference Doctrine now facing decimation by the Supreme Court, possibly open the door to an era in which government has no ability to regulate anything.

MARY BUTLER-STONEWALL ESQ. discusses corruption at the EPA.

Then, with an introduction from MIKE HERSH, we take a deep dive into the issue of national heath care with CALCARE proponent PAUL NEWMAN, ACA Godfather JOEL SEGAL and nationally prominent campaigner DR. WILLIAM BRONSTON.  For nearly a full hour we explore the incredibly important labyrinth of public “illness management” and how it’s done better in places like Cuba.

“To make the organization of propaganda possible, the media must be concentrated, the number of news agencies reduced, the press brought under single control, and radio and film monopolies established. The effect will be still greater if the various media are concentrated in the same hands. When a newspaper trust (ie, monopoly) also extends its control over films and radio, propaganda can be directed at the masses and the individual can be caught in the wide net of media.” – Jacques Ellul (1965)

 When Edward Bernays (the nephew of Sigmund Freud) wrote his famous 1928 book, Propaganda, he titled the first chapter of the book “Organizing Chaos”. The quotes below are taken directly from that chapter.

What was strikingly obvious to me in reading the book is that Bernays – in the year before the Great Wall Street Crash of 1929 - wasn’t making any effort to sugar-coat the fact that he actually believes that propaganda is an essential and desirable fact of modern life.

Mystic Pizza is a thoroughly enjoyable, consummately unoriginal musical play, from top to bottom. This retread of the 1988 movie is essentially a coming of age story about three young women in the eponymous Mystic, a seaside town in Connecticut. The trio – Daisy Arujo (Krystina Alabado), her sister Kat (Kyra Kennedy) and their friend Jojo Barboza (Gianna Yanelli) – are searching for romance and their pathways in life, yearning for a more fulfilling life than mere housewifery and drudgery in proletarian Mystic. This timeworn plot is, however, set in a fairly novel social milieu, namely a community with many residents of Portuguese descent, a minority group that doesn’t get much attention in U.S. pop culture.

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Lies Exposed 

Detective Richardson sat in his unmarked black police car, watching Sheila and Sara walking towards their house. Sheila was about three feet in front of Sara, walking fast, hips swinging from side to side. Sara seemed to be almost running to keep up with her mother, looking back over her shoulder every few steps as if someone were following them to their home. When they got to their front stoop, Shelia stopped abruptly, and Sara bumped into her backside because she was looking backwards.

“Girl! Look where you going!” Sheila shouted at Sara as she continued up the steps, looked in the mailbox, took out some mail, glanced through it then unlocked her front door and entered with Sara behind. The door closed with a solid shut. Richardson made a note in his notebook, snapped it shut and put his pencil in his upper coat pocket. He had been sitting here, about three houses down from Sheila’s for about forty-five minutes. As he went over his notes while waiting, he refreshed his memory.

McCarthy talking at a microphone

“Joseph McCarthy is the only major politician in the country who can be labeled “liar” without fear of libel.”Joseph Alsop

“The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205 names that were made known to the Secretary of State (Dean Acheson)as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.”  – Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, February 9, 1950, at a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia

“If somebody would only smuggle me aboard the Democratic campaign special with a baseball bat in my hand, I’d teach patriotism to ‘Little Adlai’.” – Joe McCarthy, mocking 1952 Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson)

"I call Marco Rubio, 'Little Marco’. That frightened little puppy couldn't be elected dog-catcher in Florida." – Donald Trump (mocking Republican rival Sen Marco Rubio during 2016 campaign)

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