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Fuck rights or liberation, with BlacKkKlansman Spike Lee says BLUE LIVES MATTER!

Spike Lee’s history lesson represents the worst of exploitative falsifications. There was NO student girlfriend. No CC Black Student Union contact. There was NO BOMB whatsoever. And Detective Ron Stallworth’s white partner was NOT Jewish. And guess what: His phone … Continue reading

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Kill your wife, blame the victim, post on yahoo. Maybe not in that order

I admit, sometimes I write comments on other websites, notably Yahoo News. Huffington Post put up a couple of articles, one saying that most homicides (women) are committed in Domestic Violence. Pure statistics. And the second is like unto the … Continue reading

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headlines –Trump being sued for inciting attacks at rally, judge did not dismiss it.

That would be ALL his statements. The dude incites his minions to be rabid fanatics who attack other Americans for simply not supporting the Thief in Command. Also blanket condemnation of all foreign nationals, immigrants, Blacks, Indians, “mexicans” and by … Continue reading

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Attention Fossil Fuel Addicts/Fanatics

The Anti-Science club, you know who you are. Your masters in Houston and Washington have instructed to respond to issues with specific chants/mantras. And to defer the related issues of White Supremacy and taking away American Indian Sovereignty.  The claims … Continue reading

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Maybe I CAN be the King of Sweden

I mean, Oscars, Nobels, CMAs etc, given out to some really questionable accomplices in various fields oops that was supposed to be Accomplishments eh… waste not, want not. Then I found this while trying to get alleged public notice information … Continue reading

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Bear Creek Massacre, January 29, 1863

The year 2014 will mark the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, on November 29, two days after Thanksgiving. But on this day, January 29 of the year before, a Shoshone village suffered an identical fate. The Bear Creek … Continue reading

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BIDDER 70 doc reduces super-activist Tim DeChristopher to a number, lonely

BUMMER. I was thrilled a documentary would tell the world about Tim DeChristopher. You might think his achievement would be more widely know. It’s a testament of the power he’s up against, added to the meager support he has received, … Continue reading

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Hello energy; Goodbye ecologically intact Colorado… or how the oil shale industry is soon going to destroy Colorado’s now semi-intact ecology

Today the headlines are screaming out that the US will soon become the Number 1 oil producer in the world. That idea is based on the US oil shale industry becoming greatly expanded and oil extracted from oil shale deposits … Continue reading

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The only thing the rich ever wanted was everything. Occupy wants it back.

Was it Utah Philips or Michael Parenti who said it, “the only thing the rich have ever wanted was EVERYTHING”? Do you wonder why Occupy’s demands have to be specific? To my mind, Occupy has a mandate that’s equally self-evident: … Continue reading

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Stephen Colbert- A Clown for President we could actually vote for!

As many of my friends and enemies alike have guessed, I am not a Democrat. I don’t vote for those jerks because they want big government to be run completely for and by capitalists, and therefore like to feed the … Continue reading

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Texas Gov. Rick GoodHair getting yet another job-creating Federal Bailout

38 new jobs but, like most of the “new jobs” of the “Texas Miracle” these are Federal “nanny state bailout” jobs which, like the other “new federal jobs” created, are pre-filled with existing out of state workers. And hopefully will … Continue reading

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LongmontCitizens– Joe Hill Festival with John McCutcheon and Elena Klaver

Joe Hill was a folk singer, on par with Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, and an IWW organizer. He was framed for murder, a murder proven to be committed by another man. And executed by Judicial Lynching firing squad in … Continue reading

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Cartographic traces of Lake, Colorado

Maybe like me you’re wondering how a landmark falls off the face of the earth, in particular Google Earth, assuming as we do that web crowdsourcing is archival, not perishable. A stagecoach watering hole in Kansas Territory, formerly Arapaho, was … Continue reading

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They shoot up churches, bomb mosques, and soon this…

Not the bombing of “Radical” Synagogues who oppose the non-genocide-but-enforced-enslavement-of-Arabs, through the use of many many instances of Murder, no, the IDF will take care of THAT part… This is about Guam, “liberated” by the U.S. from the Empire of … Continue reading

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US House Resolution 1553 offers go-ahead for Israel to attack Iran

House Republicans have crafted a resolution to offer US approval for Israel to use “all means necessary” to confront Iran, reviving Holocaust fears and misquoting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, where “wipe from the map” conflating the “Zionist Regime” with the Jews. Below … Continue reading

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Animal Liberation Lone Wolf betrayed by ATF informant, literature and tattoo

Pardon the delay, but when an activist is arrested for the literature he’s carrying, I’ve got to find that material. 34-year-old Walter Edmund Bond was arraigned today for setting the Denver Sheepskin Factory fire in May. ATF agents report that … Continue reading

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To GOL! or not to GOL! that was the question.

How would it have been played out in the press had the Team America gone on to at least a higher level of victory? We’ve already suffered through an anti-Immigrant slam against major league baseball, with all the appropriate “OUTRAGE! … Continue reading

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This is SOOOOOO Wrong.

So you know right away that I’m gonna laugh at it, don’t you? Senator Orrin Hatch from Utah wrote a Chanukah song. That’s only the first part of it. That part, a Mormon writing a song for a Jewish Holiday, … Continue reading

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Colorado Springs power plants not among world’s 200 dirtiest by much

Good news, Colorado Spring’s main power plant is not among the world’s 200 biggest carbon offender power plants. But our neighbors are. One quarter of the world’s dirtiest power plants (53) are in the US. All in red states, because … Continue reading

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Utah Phillips (d. 23.05.08) remembered

“We the American People are enormously wealthy, you know that? Who owns all those trees in the National Forest? This is not a rhetorical question– we do! Who owns all of that offshore oil you read about in the papers? … Continue reading

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Phony Sedon-y meet Social Ecology

I mentioned in my last post that I’d had a visceral negative reaction to Sedona — undeniably one of the most beautiful places on earth — which surprised and dismayed me. I had a vague sense that I was offended … Continue reading

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Cheney and other Perverted Torture Freak Scum…

There’s a standard, a psychological finding used to determine when somebody is a serial killer, and determine whether he is worthy of the death penalty. The prosecution doesn’t actually NEED it in many cases, but they always do the testing … Continue reading

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Tim DeChristopher on Democracy Now!

  Tim DeChristopher, a University of Utah disobedient civilian, was interviewed on Democracy Now! today. Amy Goodman asked him what relevance Edward Abbey had to his move to disrupt the bidding process for oil and gas leases in Utah’s red … Continue reading

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Activism heroics and roadkill

This is by no means a complete list of contemporary populist heros, but I’d like to start with comedian Stephen Colbert, who roasted President Bush at a Washington Correspondents Association Dinner, like a court jester gone rabid. With celebrated White … Continue reading

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Tim DeChristopher urban eco warrior

I am neither handy with a monkey-wrench, nor am I much of an outdoorsman, but when environmentalist Tim DeChristopher took the eco fight to a federal land lease auction, it was an example of disruptive activism for which I know … Continue reading

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