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Malaria will spread further into the Red States shortly as the climate warms - malaria was once a huge killer in the southern American colonies
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watching such films is "terror management", at least for me
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"homocides and involuntary injuries"
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yes but does consuming social media count? after all, it does lead to their gain
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yes and that includes airplane tickets, all you frequent flyers. However, know that reducing particulates in the stratosphere leads to further catastrophic warming of our earth.
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The most common way to die of measles of yore was the pneumonia the measles caused - This pneumonia nearly killed my brother (all my siblings and myself got measles at the same time in the early 60s. Imagine a household of 3 terribly sick toddlers.) Killed 90% of some Native Alaskan villages.
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📑 More than 21 million American citizens don’t have these documents readily available
🛂 Over 140 million Americans do not have a passport
💍 69 million American women don’t have a birth certificate with their current name
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"The rich and powerful are increasingly collapse-aware... as collapse becomes more imminent, their strategy has shifted from public appeasement to outright wealth consolidation. This is amplified by the rise of artificial intelligence, which will soon replace many jobs."
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Trotsky is indeed refreshing in all the clamor from other Marxists but I was raised as red diaper baby to abhor him, his name could not even be mentioned, sad really
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I like his term "unpeople"
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I know, I know, "What-abou-tism"
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and this seminal work: "Galeano also explains how foreign companies had as an objective the weakening of Latin American states in order to get access to their resources. He criticizes capitalism and its institutions, including the International Monetary Fund" (wikipedia)
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yeah Confessions of an Economic Hitman turned Shaman is very revealing
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One bright spot, if any?, Less revolution (that happens when there is a glut of overeducated and unemployed folks - study your history). Well maybe a revolution - or counterrevolution that is - would be nice- any degrees in building guillotines (that its a trade, I guess)
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go figure - course most Alaskans are not born and raised there so they don't have that peculiarity of talking (I think the Norwegian Lutheran missionaries have something to do with it and also lot to do with Minnesota)
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risking giving my identity to AI bots (sorry all the anon folks there is no escape from the Borg you will be assimilated): I am an Alaskan and folks in the "Lower 48" often think I'm Canadian. Or "European". Maybe the missionary influence, so many Scots/Irish/Lutherans were browbeating us.
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this one comes out in 2026 bookshop.org/p/books/prim...
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this one has stuff on all the peasant revolts bookshop.org/p/books/cali...
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