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The Kek Wars, Part Four: What Moves In The Darkness | John Michael Greer
Aug. 8, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last week’s thrilling episode of The Kek Wars, we saw how a band of outsiders linked by the network of online forums loosely called “the chans,” and armed with the ...
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Was the 2016 election legitimate? It's now definitely worth asking the question | Virginia Heffernan
Credit: Talking Points MemoJuly 28, 2018 (Los Angeles Times) -- We need to talk about a forbidden subject: the legitimacy of the current president. There’s been a code of silence around President Don ...
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Russia and the far right’s cozy affair | E.J. Dionne Jr.
Image: Los Angeles TimesJuly 29, 2018 (Washington Post) -- The links among Vladimir Putin, President Trump, and segments of both the Republican Party and the American conservative movement seem bizar ...
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The Kek Wars, Part Two: In the Shadow of the Cathedral | John Michael Greer
July 25, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last week’s thrilling episode of The Kek Wars, we talked about the way that America’s managerial aristocracy and its broad penumbra of lackeys and hangers-on retre ...
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The Massacre of Inn Din: How Rohingya Are Lynched and Held Responsible | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 18, 2018 “In my four years as High Commissioner, I have heard many preposterous claims. That claim is almost in its own category of absurdity. Ha ...
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Fat consumption is the only cause of weight gain | Laura Graham
Credit: CC0 Public Domain July 13, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- The only thing that causes weight gain is fat consumption, a new study finds. Scientists from the University of Aberdeen and the Chinese Aca ...
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Global warming may be twice what climate models predict | Alvin Stone
Sunset. Credit: Patrik Linderstam, Unsplash July 5, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A new study based on evidence from past warm periods suggests global warming may be double what is forecast. Future global warmi ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- June 28, 2018 -- FCNL
Nuclear Calendar June 28, 2018 June 26-29 House considers FY 2019 Defense appropriations bill (estimate). June 28 8:00-9:00 a.m., John Harvey, "Six Months After the NPR," Mitchell Nuclear Deterrence ...
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Dorothea Lange documents children caged by the U.S. government (in 1942) | Mickey Z.
Photo: Dorothea Lange, 1942 (public domain) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 25, 2018 More than just a “good war,” former NBC newsman and renowned The Greatest Generation author Tom Brokaw deemed W ...
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Braiding may be key to using time crystals in quantum computing | Lisa Zyga
Braiding time crystals. Credit: Bomantara and Gong. ©2018 American Physical Society June 20, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Braiding two different modes of time crystals can generate states necessary to perform ...
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War Is A Racket | Major General Smedley Butler, USMC
A speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC I. WAR IS A RACKET WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most viciou ...
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