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How to Green Our Parched Farmlands & Finance Critical Infrastructure | Ellen Brown
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Drought-stricken farmland in California. Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Sept. 2, 2022 There are work-arounds the United States can use to fund affordable housing, drought responses, and other urgently-needed infrastructure that was left out of the two recent spending bills. Congress has passed two major infrastructure bills in the last year, but imminent needs remain. The 2021 Bipartisan ...
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Captain Kirk Blasts Into Space | Marcia Dunn and Rick Taber
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William ShatnerOct. 13, 2021 (Phys.org) -- Hollywood's Captain Kirk -- 90-year-old William Shatner -- blasted into space Wednesday in a convergence of science fiction and science reality, reaching ...
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What’s missing from the debate about guns? — Mickey Z.
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Still photo of Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry (1971) Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 28, 2021 I haven’t written much about guns in my life so I thought it was time to do what I do best: Add in some ...
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The Girl Who Fell to Earth — Mickey Z.
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Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 16, 2021 Imagine this: An attractive, white, blonde, smart, tough, and articulate male teenager survives a plane crash that kills all of the other 91 passengers ...
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'Nihao Mars': China's Zhurong Rover Touches Down On Red Planet | Sébastien Ricci
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Mars (seen in an image released on March 3, 2021 taken by China's Tianwen-1 probe which carried the rover) is the the most prestigious of all prizes in the competition for dominion of space. May 15, ...
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to… Something — Mickey Z.
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(credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World News Trust January 22, 2021 Growing up in a blue-collar, working-class environment set the stage for non-stop masculine conditioning in my youth. This, in turn, ...
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U.S. Holiday Travel Surges as U.S. COVID-19 Cases Soar Past 12 Million
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Credit: Democracy Now Nov. 23, 2020 (Democracy Now) -- A surge in holiday travel already has started ahead of Thanksgiving, despite warnings from public health experts -- including the Centers for ...
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Friends and Other Strangers — Mickey Z.
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Urban Graffiti (Ryan McGuire, Gratisography) Mickey Z. — World News Trust November 13, 2020 A couple of weeks ago, I made plans to hang out with a friend in the city. (Reminder: Every New Yorker who ...
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All the Leaves are Brown | Mickey Z.
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(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust October 16, 2020 “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” (Joni Mitchell) Each fall, even the most nature-oblivious humans can’t help but notice — ...
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Cabs and Cab-Nots | Mickey Z.
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Still photo of Robert DeNiro on the set of “Taxi Driver” (credit unknown) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust October 4, 2020 Until recently, yellow cabs were a major part of the NYC experience. Thanks to ...
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'I don’t care if you melt': Another tale from a misspent youth | Mickey Z.
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YouTube screenshot Mickey Z. -- World News Trust August 23, 2020 (Names changed to protect the guilty) Hank was a close friend of mine during my late teens and early 20s. He and I had some ...
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‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech | Yanis Varoufakis | The Guardian
In his new book, the maverick Greek economist says we are witnessing an epochal shift. At his island home, he argues it’s now the ‘fiefdoms’…
