One Friday afternoon in October, I met my sister, Sandy, to ride the Richard Martin Trail in Elkmont, Alabama. She was coming from work as a nurse at Huntsville Hospital and I was trekking over from Franklin, Tennessee after a busy week, eager to get outside and explore some new territory and to experience a […]
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When I decided to add outdoor cycling back into my regular exercise routine, I naturally began to search around for the best biking trails in the area. I just happened onto this organization (Rails-to-Trails Conservancy) without having ever heard of their work before. I’m astounded and appreciative that there are a lot of really creative
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I’m at the Emerald Coast this morning. I have never seen the beach like this before. The reason, of course, is because Hurricane Ida is scheduled to hit Louisiana with full Category 4 force later today. Don’t even ask me what I am doing here at a time when others are evacuating. Is it some
Since the Biden Administration’s roll out of the “Door-to-Door Campaign to Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy” in low vaccinated states (the South, of course), I have been contacted by two former medical practitioners with whom I’ve had no contact with for multiple years. I have been stopped by neighbors “reminding me” to “be responsible and take the
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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before morning. Henry Ford Please note: This speech has been altered in the Congressional Record, however it is published verbatim in James Traficant’s book; America’s Last Minuteman ____________________________________________________________________
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~Edmund Burke FINAL ACCOUNT is an urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity
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Why speak up? If you sit by and see a system engaged in wrong-doing, and you do nothing, even if you don’t participate in it any longer, even if you resign, you are perpetuating a system of wrong-doing. You have become not only part of the wrong-doing but party to it. And for me when
Knowledge without the willingness and courage to speak is useless, because for integrity there is no substitute. All over the globe anti-lockdown protests have been growing in strength and numbers, even though the US press corps have largely suppressed the news of this fact from people in the West. This clip from London is inspiring.
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After the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) devastated central Europe, it took seven years to reach a treaty, called the Peace of Westphalia. Predominant in this treaty was the inviolability of borders and a declaration of non-interference in the domestic affairs of sovereign states going forward. The American War of Independence (1775-1783) created the United States
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Note: I am researching to increase my own understanding of what is happening in the world today. I did not author this piece but found the backstory of the Green New Deal so foundational to filling in many puzzle pieces that I felt compelled to share it here. It is my hope that perhaps you
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