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100's of posts today, and this is the ONLY top priority one.
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Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.
— Molly Ivins (lived in Austin, and loved the Hill country)
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Beautiful Pete. Thank you.
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I heard the 14th St. line ended up in Brussels Belgium. I loved them so as a kid, I snuck on for free rides.
My favorite was through Georgetown, then the long beautiful ride through in the Potomac woods to Glen Echo.
Stinking diesel busses were such a step backwards from a good tram system.
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Chris Hitchens offered the definitive catalog of past church wrongs to right. Caution: blinding brilliance.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=JZRc...
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If you never watch another Chris Hitchens speech, watch this blinding blast of truth.
ahttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JZRcYaAYWg4&t=845s
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inspired this cinematic requiem to progress-as-usual. Throughout human history, what seemed like progress often backfired.
Some of the world's foremost thinkers, activists, bankers, and scientists challenge us to overcome progress traps,
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biology, and politics to reveal how technological advancement, debt, overconsumption, and ecological destruction are threatening the future of humanity.
Ronald Wright’s bestseller A Short History of Progress
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Surviving Progress explores the dangerous paradox at the heart of modern civilization: what we call "progress" might actually be leading us toward collapse.
Based on Ronald Wright’s concept of the “progress trap,” this documentary journeys through history, economics,
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Original title : Surviving Progress
Directors : Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks
Cast : Ronald Wright, Mark Levine, Robert Wright, Jane Goodall, Marina Silva
Produced by Martin Scorcese
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We allowed conservatives to defund education for 60 years only to finally cash it in now. An uneducated uninformed populace is the only environment that allows authoritarianism and fascism to rise.