I’ve seen the latest exchange between you and {a dear and caring person] and I’m not sure what’s happening. You seem to be turning on those who have been your key supports over the past few years. We (dear person and I to be specific) have held you as a friend and, when you were in need, provided you with support and the means to stay afloat - both you and your ridiculous "publication". Your online practices have become increasingly more questionable. You unilaterally censor

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To students of history and the great conflicts of the last century, the American claims of having won both world wars, now voiced with Trumpian certainty, ring hollow. The properly educated realize that there is a fundamental difference between being the reason that a war was not lost and being the reason that it was won. But the American psyche, reflected in the parochial, self-congratulatory polemics of its secondary school systems, is steadfast and unerringly stupid. So, l

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The Message Issues Forth!! n 2025 I believe that people are generally accustomed to the notion that their privacy and ability to stay secluded, at least in the virtual sense, has largely disappeared. With AI and the algorithms of covert data collection, people are used to the rather repugnant notion that hidden entities are massing information about them, including how they tend to think and react under a whole spectrum of circumstances. However, such a perception is relative

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The role of populist crusading victim has served Meed Ward well over the years. It has allowed her to mask her rather shallow grasp of the duties of civic governance and stewardship behind a curtain of aggrieved indignation. I find it very difficult to give any credence to her movement demanding respect for politicians. It is the latest of her self-promoting clarion calls. I have great respect for some politicians - Obama (both), Stephen Lewis, Lester Pearson, Bill Davis, P

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