Category: Politics
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Brainwashing
I’m watching this video. It’s interesting. The video is about Pavlov and coercive persuasion, in prisoner of war camps, and in cults. I wonder how much brainwashing happens to American people who somehow get associated with a wartime enemy.…
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Text of Vladimir Putin’s Speech on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Text of Zilensky’s Address to the Russian People (all Translated to English)
Copied from The Print India: Citizens of Russia, friends, I consider it necessary today to speak again about the tragic events in Donbass and the key aspects of ensuring the security of Russia. I will begin with what I…
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Links About the Insanity Plea and Housing
Safety Walks wrote an opinion piece about a recent killing, where an unhoused person with mental illness pushed a woman, Michell Go, in front of a subway train, killing her. He turned himself in. The news stories noted, repeatedly,…
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Beach Cities IMC
I was in a South Bay group and got a message about a cop there who painted swastikas on cars, and it reminded me of “Beach Cities IMC”. This was a fake Indymedia site that posted a lot of…
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Corned Beef
This Easter we ran out of corned beef, despite having bought three packs of the stuff. St. Pats to Easter is, for Japanese Americans, corned beef season. I don’t know why, but it is. Maybe it’s a Catholic influence.…
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Letter to Congress about DeJoy
Dear ____: We need the USPS board to fire DeJoy and replace him with someone who isn’t out to sabotage the USPS. I sometimes sell on Ebay and other online stores, and have sent around 1,000 packages in the…
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
This ongoing story of the patients of Sakura Gardens ICF, formerly Keiro, is looking bad, with a looming threat that residents will be transferred to the Kei-Ai nursing home facility, which has the highest COVID-19 death rate in California.…
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
These are a few stories about how vaccination efforts to focus on the groups facing the most infection were undermined, and led to privileged people getting vaccinated. Los Angeles TL;DR: California and Los Angeles need to focus on getting…
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
Go to the Dashboard. This article shows you how to click on the map and compare the COVID-19 stats for different communities. We’ll see the large disparities between communities in Los Angeles County.