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Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

-George Carlin

Pedophile panic and coming political violence. What the Paul Pelosi case revealed

BY ANITA CHABRIA, © The Los Angeles Times
November 24, 2023

A unicorn costume, a hammer and a belief that pedophiles are using public schools to destroy democracy: The trial of David DePape for attacking Paul Pelosi was strange and disturbing.

But take away the costume and the hammer, and the reasoning for DePape’s vicious attack is alarmingly mainstream — pedophile panic.

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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

-Epictetus

‘First light’: NASA receives laser-beamed message from 10 million miles away

By Ashley Strickland, © CNN
November 24, 2023

An innovative experiment flying aboard NASA’s Psyche mission just hit its first major milestone by successfully carrying out the most distant demonstration of laser communications. The tech demo could one day help NASA missions probe deeper into space and uncover more discoveries about the origin of the universe.

Launched in mid-October, Psyche is currently en route to catch humanity’s first glimpse of a metal asteroid between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft will spend the next six years traveling about 2.2 billion miles (3.6 billion kilometers) to reach its namesake, located in the outer part of the main asteroid belt.

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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

-Mark Twain

Israel’s Genocidal Antisemitism Against the Arab Civilians of Gaza

BY RALPH NADER, © Counterpunch
November 24, 2023

“It should never have happened,” an elderly Holocaust survivor of a Nazi death camp told the New York Times. He was referring to the colossal failure on October 7th, of Israel’s touted high-tech military and intelligence operations that opened the door to Hamas’ attack on Israeli soldiers and civilians. In many parliamentary countries, the government ministers who are responsible for this kind of failure would have immediately been forced to resign. Not so with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s ministers.

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When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy – some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.

-Nikos Kazantzakis

‘Green’ Multinationals Exposed: How the Energy Transition is Being Hijacked by Corporate Interests

© CORPWATCH
November 14, 2023

Private sector projects to solve the climate crisis have soared in the last decade: green energy options from British Gas and NextEra; Tesla electric cars; panels from JinkoSolar in China; and Siemens wind turbines in the North Sea. Yet how many truly mark a departure from business-as-usual by industry?

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