As we: ▪ look at our world through the eyes of millions of witnesses testifying via the internet about the crimes and corruptions that are disrupting and destroying life on a scale we could never imagine without those proliferating witnesses;1 ▪ listen to PWOCs (Person/People WithOut Conscience) desperately trying to deny and cover-up their “secret […]
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Placebo “– a fake treatment [using] an inactive substance like sugar, distilled water, or saline solution –”1 — “1 a pill, etc., containing no active substance, given to satisfy a patient or to serve as a control in an experiment … 2 something said only to flatter or mollify.”2 Considering the recent sugar fraud,3 should we
Professor J. Rufus Fears[1] in his lecture series, The Wisdom of History, alleges that Lesson/Law One of history is, “We do not learn from history.” This short phrase sums up the tragedy within many past and current events and the woeful reflections of this Déjà Vu blog. Why is it that so many “giants,” elites,
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?— Who has the greater moral hazard: the poor begging alms or the rich denying them??— If social security, health care, public education, and other government insurance programs that share the risks and costs of life are moral hazards, what of private insurance programs that externalize and share the risks and costs of ownership and/or
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By lavish self-presentation, BK is a b-b[1] oilman; though by comparison to the BM-types[2], BK is of the bottom-rung variety. He began a dream-project—a massive, corporate retreat for b-b comrades who were said to crave a western, cowboy experience on a big ranch. BK bought sections of land on a river; fenced it with miles
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*(et us all) Collateral damage is not collateral to those who are damaged. Stop sound-biting. Fact check talking points. End the free-market charades. Reflective is better than reflexive. Listening is more efficiently effective than talking. Ask not what your enemies are doing to you, but what you are doing to yourself. Remember the Pharisees.
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Eliot* was a crusader. He stood for justice, truth, and consequence. He presented a virtuous face to the world. But behind his words there was an opposing story. It was not a story he wanted made public. It was conducted in secrecy. It violated the principles he presented to the world. He hoped his words
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