"H. G. Wells, in his Outline of History takes another view of the case. “It is not perhaps true,” he writes, “to say that the world became miserable in those ‘dark ages’
"More likely an ignorant aristocracy took the place of a corrupt one—always, the beggar on horseback’s first act is to persecute the learned."
From
Healing, The Divine Art by Manly P. Hall
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A Word dropped careless on a Page by Emily Dickinson
A Word dropped careless on a Page
May stimulate an eye
When folded in perpetual seam
The Wrinkled Maker lie
Infection in the sentence breeds
We may inhale Despair
At distances of Centuries
From the Malaria-
It'd be interesting to see what the sort criteria are for the Trending page. It really seems like the site moderators are trying to bury the 60 Minutes/CECOT and Epstein stories. Now, why would that happen? 🤔
https://t.co/HI4OIBv9el
Yesterday, this page had an embedded YouTube video that had been made private. Today, the video is off the page. Interesting read though.
"Produced by Oriana Zill de Granados,the report reflects 60 Minutes’ long-standing approach to accountability journalism. By bringing hidden practices into public view, the investigation challenges official narratives and gives voice to people who otherwise would remain unseen."
"The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (1975) is a piano composition by American composer Frederic Rzewski. The People United is a set of 36 variations on the Chilean song "¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!" by Sergio Ortega and Quilapayún..."
(From Wikipedia)
Since ICE/CBP have "bean" in Chicago they've:
🚩Shot and killed an unarmed father of two, Silverio Villegas González;
🚩Shot a US citizen five times and bragged about it;
🚩Been caught drunk driving after leaving the Broadview facility;
🚩Admitted to lying in federal court;
🚩Admitted to arresting people “based on how they look”;
🚩Violently detained a daycare teacher;
🚩Tear gassed Chicago police officers, twice;
🚩Zip-tied small children and elderly women in the middle of the night after breaking down their doors and smashing windows in South Shore;
🚩Tear gassed a children's Halloween parade;
🚩Detained multiple US citizens both in Chicago and nationwide;
🚩Mocked Chicagoans who’ve been teargassed;
🚩Shot protestors, journalists, and a Minister with pepper balls;
🚩Arrested a City Council member for asking to see a warrant authorizing detentions being carried out at a hospital;
🚩Slammed a 15-year-old US citizen to the ground and detained him for five hours;
🚩Pepper sprayed a one-year-old child;
🚩Put a resident in a chokehold on the side of the street on the West Side;
🚩Pinned a WGN employee to the ground before detaining her;
🚩Pointed weapons at civilians and media on multiple occasions;
🚩Denied clergy leaders’ request to administer Communion to detainees;
🚩Violated ICE’s own internal guidelines, subjecting detainees to inhumane conditions.