The American Fascists Are Most Easily Recognized By Their Deliberate Perversion Of Truth And Fact. Their

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

Henry A. Wallace

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

Henry A. Wallace

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

Henry A. Wallace

It is quite remarkable how this man was able to foresee what the future might hold.

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We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

Henry A. Wallace

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Albert Einstein

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Albert Einstein

If I might make a suggestion, once fascism has taken hold in the house, it might be best to burn the whole house down.

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Let us imagine God as a gigantic eternity that, according to Einstein, does not play dice. If he is eternal and greater than everything, can it be that he is everything? Let's say he is everything here, now, space and time, yesterday, tomorrow. Wouldn't we somehow be the greatest and the smallest in Him?

Let's say he doesn't need any proof that he exists, that he is existence and even non-existence. If we were not as insignificant as a blood vessel that has its purpose in our body and of which we are never aware.

God himself does not exist and yet he exists.

A whole universe with many galaxies, black holes, pulsars, black matter with curved space, hydrogen burning suns that light up the darkness, super novenas and all the matter that you hardly believe is evenly distributed cannot be God himself.

A concept that is far beyond our understanding and has nothing to do with the all too earthly perspective of a God.

We are stardust, iron, water, carbon, created from elements of the universe, so God is in us.

An eternity that expands and finally disappears into darkness when all the hydrogen is burned up. And finally collapsing to rise again.

In our view, the divine is an eternal everything that will eventually pass away to rise again.

No, the God you invoke does not hear us. We are made of Him and have the fantastic good fortune to be part of the whole.

But man is man's path to divinity or damnation, it is our responsibility.

God was never there and has never been absent, the divine lies within us and is called understanding, compassion and love.

Religions are not and will never be able to speak for eternity of the existence of all things through their claim to exclusivity.

Every night when we look up at the night sky we realise, through our knowledge of the stars, that we are looking into the past for a light whose source may no longer exist.

Here we feel divine in connection with the world and all that surrounds it.

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People have to be there for other people - that is the only thing that helps when times are hard.

The humanities teach us the value, even for business, of criticism and dissent. When there's a culture of going along to get along, where whistleblowers are discouraged, bad things happen and businesses implode.

Martha C. Nussbaum

Chelsea Manning, who's now set to be free May 17th [2017], after Obama shortened her sentence from 35 years to seven. According to her attorneys, she is already the longest-held whistleblower in U.S. history.

Amy Goodman

States and organizations that want to deny, hunt down, criminalize and lock away any corrective action have ultimately thrown their moral compass overboard in order to hide their ethical and moral depravity. This only goes to show that the so-called responsible parties really don't want to take responsibility.

A state or organization that creates special rights denies the principle of equality of a humanistic legal system and can therefore be considered criminal.

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Those who adhere to ethical and moral principles serve as beacons that bring the shadows of the world to light for us.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86.

Buxtun died May 18 of Alzheimer’s disease in Rocklin, California, according to his attorney, Minna Fernan.

Buxtun is revered as a hero to public health scholars and ethicists for his role in bringing to light the most notorious medical research scandal in U.S. history. Documents that Buxtun provided to The Associated Press, and its subsequent investigation and reporting, led to a public outcry that ended the study in 1972.

Forty years earlier, in 1932, federal scientists began studying 400 Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, who were infected with syphilis. When antibiotics became available in the 1940s that could treat the disease, federal health officials ordered that the drugs be withheld. The study became an observation of how the disease ravaged the body over time.

In the mid-1960s, Buxtun was a federal public health employee working in San Francisco when he overheard a co-worker talking about the study. The research wasn’t exactly a secret — about a dozen medical journal articles about it had been published in the previous 20 years. But hardly anyone had raised any concerns about how the experiment was being conducted.

“This study was completely accepted by the American medical community,” said Ted Pestorius of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaking at a 2022 program marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the study.

Buxtun had a different reaction. After learning more about the study, he raised ethical concerns in a 1966 letter to officials at the CDC. In 1967, he was summoned to a meeting in Atlanta, where he was chewed out by agency officials for what they deemed to be impertinence. Repeatedly, agency leaders rejected his complaints and his call for the men in Tuskegee to be treated.

He left the U.S. Public Health Service and attended law school, but the study ate at him. In 1972, he provided documents about the research to Edith Lederer, an AP reporter he had met in San Francisco. Lederer passed the documents to AP investigative reporter Jean Heller, telling her colleague, “I think there might be something here.”

Heller’s story was published on July 25, 1972, leading to Congressional hearings, a class-action lawsuit that resulted in a $10 million settlement and the study’s termination about four months later. In 1997, President Bill Clinton formally apologized for the study, calling it “shameful.”

The leader of a group dedicated to the memory of the study participants said Monday they are grateful to Buxtun for exposing the experiment.

“We are thankful for his honesty and his courage,” said Lille Tyson Head, whose father was in the study.

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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

However, unfortunately we are not all in this state of happiness, so we have a question and a new perspective. But if you ignore that, it's also easier.

It seems reasonable to posit that the assassination of the presidential candidate will have no influence on the current gun legislation.

Let us consider an alternative perspective. We may now be of the opinion that it would be beneficial for all members of society to procure firearms and ammunition in substantial quantities.

One might inquire as to why, if Project 2025 is to be implemented, it should not be accompanied by a robust resistance to deportations.

It is evident that criminal gangs are already armed. This observation does not pertain to the militias on the political right, but rather to Latin American and medieval gangs with American passports.

It would undoubtedly be entertaining to rid the country of a significant portion of its citizenry, deemed undesirable, if they were to be armed to the teeth.

Moreover, Trump himself has previously asserted that blood will flow if he is not elected. We assume that even if he is elected, he will not object to the shedding of blood.

Therefore, we call upon all liberals and Democrats, and we do not refer to members of the Democratic Party, but rather to those who stand behind the cause of democracy, to arm themselves.

Learning from history means that when the bad guys threaten violence and overthrow, the good guys have to be armed pacifists.

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There is, of course, a more prosaic approach: one must simply vote and choose reason over hatred. This will prevent the country from descending into a dictatorship.

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Men are fearful of being the subject of ridicule from women, while women are concerned about the possibility of being the victims of violence at the hands of men.

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As long as this situation persists, it is evident that there are inherent flaws in our societal structure. Those who accept this situation without question may be considered complicit in violence against women.

UN figures for 2022: 89,000 murders of women and girls

It is incumbent upon us all to take responsibility for the actions of our children. Rather than shielding our daughters from the realities of the world, it is our duty to educate our sons to respect women.

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