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The dismantling of USAID a year later and what it says about us as a country

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Source: PBS.org I love John Oliver. I hate watching his show. Actually, I don’t hate watching his show; however, I’d be lying if I said that the topics he covers are often guaranteed to generate a wave of anger that requires immediate attention.   He recently covered the dismantling of USAID a year after DOGE and the Regime went to town on it. When it was first announced what they were doing, the responses were vocal and that the results of destroying the United States’ flagship of goodwill and the most effective agency for combating starvation, illness, and death would be scores of millions displaced, sick, and dead.   I’mi not going to repeat Oliver’s figures or research, though. I don’t even need, much less want to review the ghoulishness criminality of the likes of Mike Benz, and others who actually celebrated the agency’s demise. What I do want to consider is the disconnect between people who espouse Christian love and compassion but celebrate the destruction of lives acr...
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ALL THIS AND WORLD WAR THREE

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At this point, I really don’t think it’s worthwhile asking why the megalomaniac in the White House decided to bomb Iran . Every time he says something, the responses range from outrage to even-voiced (from the mainstream, anyway), and none of it is particularly helpful.   Yes, we should continue to react with outrage; normalizing the toddler in chief’s behavior and his posse committed to profiting from that behavior isn’t up for debate. The moment we become complacent, is one more moment closer to accepting the idiotic as legitimate. However, asking why is redundant and pointless at a certain point.   I can think of three reasons right off the bat: To paint himself as a decisive, powerful ruler leader; both to cow his opponents and banking on bolstering the MAGA Republicans (and maybe the entire quisling party ) to win at the mid-terms. OR To use the war effort as an excuse for canceling the elections altogether. Even if the US isn’t at war in November, he’s enough of a douch...
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LOSAR TASHI DELEK! ལོ་གསར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། BOD GYAL-LO! བོད་རྒྱལ་ལོ།

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This is a special Happy New Year greeting to my Tibetan friends in the U.S., Europe, India, Nepal, and elsewhere. I’ve been remiss because I feel I’ve lost touch with Tibet and her culture of late. Not that I’m not still translating some dharma texts, not that I’m not aware of the PRC’s continued attempt to crust Tibet and Sinicize her. No, I’ve been focussed on writing about and fighting the encroaching fascism in this country, right down to the state I live in. The U.S.   may not have quite as notorious a system as the lao gai in China, but we still incarcerate more people per capita than any country in the world, including China. As more detention centers are built across the country, we can only assume that they will replicate conditions not so different from Drapchi, say. There are extensive reports of abuse ranging from starvation to beatings to sexual assault in many of the ICE concentration camps (let’s call them what they are), but anyone who’s followed the plight of the i...
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