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Lied to, we are.                                                                                                              Yoda, Senator from Dagobah             When you hear SCARY STUFF about Medicare for All, you are hearing propaganda from the for-profit health insurance companies and their plutocratic pals in the Republican Party.  Look for more reliable sources! I'm serious! A new study in The Lancet by a team of Yale epidemiologists finds that Medicare for All would save more than 68,000 lives and $450 billion in cost EVERY YEAR. Volume 395, Issue 10223 , 15–21 February 2020, Pages 524-533 Truth is...

...And It Seems Like Everything You Read Agrees??? WE ARE ALL BEING MANIPULATED! AND  IS  BEING RIPPED IN TWO HATEFUL HALVES. Yet we all agree, HATE SUCKS.  It keeps us from making up. It destroys the chance to make necessary compromises. (Hell, it makes "compromise" a dirty word.) It might  DESTROY AMERICA. “Although people today hate ‘the other side,’ I remain convinced that once they catch on to the game, they’ll hate being pawns even more.” DANNAGAL G.  YOUNG ... Does the idea of "being a pawn" rankle your bones as much as it does mine? Ms. Young wrote a powerful article that describes what we can do about it.  And maybe save America! Let’s disrupt the logic that’s driving Americans apart Check it out HERE.

There Must Be a Newfangled Reason, All Geopolitical, Religio-Cultural, Climatological Catastrophe Reason to Have Another Middle Eastern War! Noooo... Same old reason as always. * This 80 year old cartoon was posted on Twitter by Lee Carter. 1940 was the artist's date. True then, true now. The Military Industrial Complex just keeps on eating our lunch.  War with Iran might serve several other purposes, many of them for President Trump - big time distraction from Impeachment, etc.  But bottom line: War is big business. The biggest. * Cartoon found on Reddit     posted by Lee Carter, artist unknown 

"... How Can I Listen to Your (Alleged) Audiobook?" Well, SOME people.  There is an "Audiobook" sub-Reddit, and one current discussion is about the poor rich souls who record them, and how some use characterization (different voices, accents, etc.), and some don't, and which do you like, etc. Can I borrow your toothbrush? Folks have been sampling my honest efforts and rendering judgements of all sorts. Humbling. Anyhoo... Should you have an inexplicable urge to sample some, give it a shot HERE . Title: MIZ, Time Tripping with Amazing Females.   The audiobook is a "playlist" on YouTube. You can "Play All" and start at the first, or pick a chapter and it starts there. Please feel free to wax judgmental. Scooter *President Trump's favorite attribution of immutable fact.

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy; but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect . -- St Matthew v.43-48. ... And the rascally Dems made peace with the obdurate Repubs. Then the nation came together to heal a needy and troubled world. Amen

Propaganda's Secret Weapon REPEAT, Repeat , Repeat, repeat, repeat .... You know it's a lie, then you keep hearing it over and over, and the repetition will twist your mind. “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”  A law of propaganda: Nazi Joseph Goebbels.   Research experiments conducted by social scientists help illustrate why it’s so insidious for President Trump and his congressional defenders to keep  parroting  the debunked conspiracy  theory , which originated with Russian intelligence agencies, that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 U.S. election. People who are repeatedly exposed to the same false information, even if they’re initially told that it is false, feel fewer qualms sharing it on social media after each additional time they see it. In five experiments involving more than 2,500 Americans, Daniel Effron, who teaches organizational behavior at the London Business School, and Medha Raj, a PhD student at the Universit...

Think the Mighty Russian Internet Army Doesn't Watch You? I was amazed when some Republican pals bought into the "Not Russia, But Ukraine" bald faced lie, so I did a mild mannered blog post pointing out the obvious.  It got a lot of attention IN RUSSIA!  Here's the count of where this blog's readers were over the last few days: Hmmm. Usually I get maybe one or two views from Russia.   Make of it what you will.

Eleven Months Ago Settled : The Russian Troll Factory Significantly Interfered With the 2016 Election Ve Luff Breitbartski and Fox News!      Subject crushed .            Russians indicted.                  Research done proving Trump was helped.                    Yes, Russian Trolls Helped Elect Trump Social media lies have real-world consequences. By  Michelle Goldberg    Dec. 17, 2018 [Article here] Excerpt:  Respondents were asked to rate the accuracy of statements claiming that Hillary Clinton was suffering from a serious illness, that she’d approved weapons sales to the Islamic State as secretary of state, and that Donald Trump had been endorsed by Pope Francis. “Belief in these fake news stories (fake news items  proven  to be  planted by Russia...

China Exporting Killer Autonomous Drones To Middle East: Should You Be Scared? By Karan Sharma | Published: Monday, November 11, 2019, 12:00 * "Autonomous," as in "No direct human oversight," and "Makes its own kill decisions." Just call me "Tommy Gun Gertie."                                       These guys can also form up into SWARMS. They coordinate:   "You go in high, I'll go in low. Lefty, go 'round to the right. Mess 'em up. They can carry many weapons, grenades, incendiaries, lasers. And really loud speakers to talk to the targets. Pick a weapon, any weapon, and latch it to my belly button. China is churning out new ones by the day. The biggest market? The Middle East. The implications of that are mind boggling. My mind is boggled the most by the fact that these little murder machines are perfect for crowd control.  The algorithm: "Dispe...

THE MOST POSSIBILITIES! The Ongoing Flood of New Science Discoveries Only Bowls Me Over Occasionally.  This Is One of Those Times Our Galaxy Is Almost As Old As The Universe . I know, I know... I don't look that old. The overall universe is about 13.7 billion years old. That long since the Big Bang. Astronomers have known that the Milky Way is among the oldest of galaxies. The new study puts its age at 13.6 billion years. We live in one of the oldest of all galaxies. Think how many civilizations could be started, go for millions of years and die out in 13.6 billion years.  Sci-Fi city! Read a cool version of this story at Space.com

Mostly We Are Making Critters Go Extinct NOT WITH ROACHES, Just the Opposite. Cockroaches may soon be unstoppable—thanks to fast-evolving insecticide resistance What can I say? We are just tough mothers. It's just one (Fill in the Blank)-ocalypse after another.  ---A million species are at risk , sayeth the U.N. ---The foundations of life - microbes - are at risk. ---Birds, beautiful BIRDS , are down by a third. --- Pollinators, critical to our food supply, are in real trouble --- Fugus that can kill is overcoming all anti-fungals. ---Climate-ocalypse, of course, is the Big One . But roaches? Those fecund facilitators of filth? Those radiation-proof critters destined to survive a nuclear war?   They are getting tougher by the day. Almost impossible to kill with ANY chemicals.  Don't take my sissy words for it, check out that ultimately credible source:   Science Magazine. Some of us are beauty queens. ... Oh, and ebola i...

Kinda Catches the Essence of Pro-Life Hypocrisy While Crushing It on the Border Crisis A Super Twofer Big kid supporters... right up to the moment of birth. After that?  Meh. (I know everyone is currently distracted by "Send 'Em Back," but this one is deep .)