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My Dad, the Mafia, and Machine Guns in the Kitchen | Mickey Z.

My Dad (lower right) and his crew back in the day Mickey Z. -- World News Trust September 29, 2020 Preface: I must’ve been about thirteen or so. My family was still living in a fourth-floor walk-up. School was closed for a Catholic holiday and I was hanging out in my room with my best friend Robby — playing Puff basketball and talking about the girls in our class. Robby’s Dad was a made man who o ...

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A Few Notes on Synchronicity | John Michael Greer

Sept. 2, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Back in July, when I realized there were five Wednesdays on that page of the calendar and I didn’t have anything lined up for the fifth, I asked my readers what they ...

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Algorithms And Red Wine: Is The 'Digital Hive' A Soft Totalitarian State? | Joe Bageant

Joe Bageant at Innie's Cafe in Belize Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Oct. 24, 2010 -- Ferrara, Italy -- Sitting in a bottliberia, one of those wine bars that brings out food to match your particular ...

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Some Conspiracies Are Real: The Nazi-CIA Connection | Mickey Z.

meme template Mickey Z. -- World News Trust August 19, 2020 So far, the year 2020 has been sort of a grand unified compilation of centuries worth of conspiracies and theories. But I’m not here to tal ...

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Study unveils the unstable nature of some topological phases | Ingrid Fadelli

Image representing time-reversal symmetry. Credit: McGinley & Cooper Aug. 11, 2020 (Phys.org) -- In recent years, physicists worldwide have been conducting studies exploring the characteristics and d ...

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later | Mickey Z.

A bombed-out temple in Nagasaki. Photo credit: Cpl. Lynn P. Walker, Jr. (Marine Corps) - Wikipedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust August 2, 2020 “From the very concept of strategic bombing, al ...

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Donald Trump, American Dictator | umair haque

Trump Doesn’t Need to Delay an Election to Spoil It July 30, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) --By now, you’ve probably heard that Donald Trump announced he wants to… delay the election. Cue a firestorm. So. H ...

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Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ | Ann Gibbons

A 72-meter ice core drilled in the Colle Gnifetti Glacier in the Swiss Alps entombs more than 2000 years of fallout from volcanoes, storms, and human pollution. NICOLE SPAULDING/CCI FROM C. P. LOVELU ...

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The World is Horrified by Trump’s America | umair haque

Trump Led America Off the Cliffs of Disease, Poverty, Authoritarianism, and Chaos, and the World is Appalled July 29, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- Every single day, every single person I talk to who’s n ...

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Why Zuck is Betting on Social Collapse | umair haque

Image: Medium Why Facebook Helps Authoritarians Steal Elections and Sow Hatred July 27, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- In case you haven’t noticed, Facebook appears to give zero effs about preserving the ...

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American Democracy Will Die in 100 Days | umair haque

Photo: Medium …Unless Americans Start Understanding How to Fight Nazism — Now July 26, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- Americans being abducted off the streets. A mayor being attacked with chemical agents. ...

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