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Following issuance of another so-called 'Consultation Document' by the UK government: The 'Golden Rule' — or 'Royal Law' — is to love others as you love yourself. Vaccine mandates are not only unloving, according to this simple precept, but tear up Magna Carta, our foundational Consitutional text! They strip people of the right to work and dispropo…
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Remember Matt Hancock's parting words as he ran away from reporters? "Get our there, and get your vaccine!" Do you think, after years of fraud and mismanagement, he finally got religion at the last-minute and started telling the truth? This is the most recent entry in Abdiel LeRoy's VERSES VERSUS EMPIRE series of political poetry and prose.…
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The Associated Press fired journalist Emily Wilder on May 19, 2021, two days after she posted the following tweet: " 'Objectivity' feels fickle when the basic terms we use to report news implicitly stake a claim. Using 'Israel' but never 'Palestine,' or 'war' but not 'siege and occupation' are political choices—yet media make those exact choices al…
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I, and thousands more independent authors, have been scammed for years by Amazon's audiobook retailer, Audible, which pays authors a lousy 25% share of the royalties it takes in, and then incentivizes subscribers to return audiobooks anyway by recycling a single credit. And every return is deducted against the author's account! I am part of the 'Au…
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Plague was an abolitionist when wielded by Moses. So again today with Covid. When Moses and his brother Aaron first appeared together at Pharaoh's court to demand the liberation of their people, Aaron threw down his staff, which turned into a snake. Though, like the snake, Covid at first appears viperous and venemous, it is the opening gambit in a …
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Plague's role in the Bible is that of an abolitionist. Moses wielded it against Pharaoh to free an enslaved people. Covid is our champion in the overthrow of oppressive power structures and their leaders. For context, go to Exodus 7 in the Bible, and to find out how Trump's story ends, go to Exodus 14:28 and 2 Kings 1:16.…
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I'm loving the podcast, Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classics. The most recent episode is on Eurydice whom Orpheus lost when bringing her up from the Underworld, because he turned back and looked at the last second.I then read the poems on Eurydice by Carol Ann Duffy and H.B. Then came up with a poem of my own, identifying with Orpheus' regret.…
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