I’m Sick and Tired of This Thing Called “Patriotism,”

by William Blum Writer, Dandelion Salad Originally published July 5, 2010 .. July 4, 2021

Some thoughts on “patriotism” written on July 4

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The Japanese pilots who bombed Pearl Harbor were being patriotic. The German people who supported Hitler and his conquests were being patriotic, fighting for the Fatherland. All the Latin American military dictators who overthrew democratically-elected governments and routinely tortured people were being patriotic — saving their beloved country from “communism”.

General Augusto Pinochet of Chile, mass murderer and torturer: “I would like to be remembered as a man who served his country.” 1

P.W. Botha, former president of apartheid South Africa: “I am not going to repent. I am not going to ask for favours. What I did, I did for my country.” 2

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Pol Pot, mass murderer of Cambodia: “I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.” 3

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Tony Blair, former British prime minister, defending his role in the murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis: “I did what I thought was right for our country.” 4

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Greta Thunberg.. -no way to sustain the Pretense that any politician is a true Climate Ally-

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This week in UK history, 1981: uprisings and riots all over the country

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“Britain is a paradoxically closed yet ‘open’ society ruled over by a patrician but condescendingly populist elite possessing the most remarkable cunning and duplicity well versed in a token recuperation of everything from below that raises its head in protest… Yet over the last decade the UK has lived through profound social turmoil. Mingled with the seemingly never ending hopelessness of drugs, drugs, drugs, drink, drink, drink, the place is alive with an unfocussed rebellion…

There is a path that leads out of this wasteland and during the summer of 1981 the unemployed started to travel its length unaided. The totality of desperation and misery produced its opposite – The nights were young and though the pubs had called time the firewater was freely circulating. In the space of 10 days in early July 1981. England was transformed. It will never be the same again. Every major city and town…

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Voter Suppression Law Precedent in Arizona.. by angry Brosephus and Jill Dennison

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court dealt a crippling blow to voting rights across the nation. The case involved a voter suppression law in Arizona, and the court ruled in favour of the state, allowing the voter suppression and disenfranchisement to remain law.

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Unfortunately, this does not bode well for We the People, for it may well be considered to have set a precedent for the other 40+ states that are passing or have passed voter suppression laws.

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3,300,000 of us are EXTRA DEATHS so far due to suppression of cheap, safe, authorised remedies like Ivermectin to qualify vaccines for ‘Emergency Use’.

The Biggest Crime Committed During Vaccine Heist

That’s why safe, cheap, readily available treatments were suppressed. Finally, when demand for their expensive and dangerous vaccines is falling, we are allowed peer reviewed confirmation of what they knew all along to appear in major Scientific Journals.

*note> we now know that 70% of Covid deaths may really have been hospitalised for ‘co-morbidities’, so the official numbers of Covid deaths are one more lying fraud, most died of other things, and our calculation that over 3 million could have bee saved by Ivermectin is now incorrect) see Jan 2022 Battalions of COVID Lies all Falling Apart

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Indigenous Communities in Danger of Being Erased from the Map in Brazil

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Indigenous Peoples protest in Brasilia, Brazil.
Indigenous Peoples protest in Brasilia, Brazil. © Andressa Zumpano

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The connection between clearcut logging and Canada’s hottest day on record

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The connection between clearcut logging and Canada’s hottest day on record

With temperatures set to soar to 47 C in B.C., forests provide a cool, wet place for animals and people alike to seek shelter

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ByEmma GilchristJune 28, 20214 min. readPhotographer TJ Watt stands beside the stump of a giant old-growth cedar recently felled in the Caycuse watershed. Old-growth forests provide a refuge from extreme heat. Photo: TJ Watt / Ancient Forest Alliance

In a moment of weakness a couple of weeks ago, I agreed to run a 20-kilometre stretch of the Juan de Fuca trail on the southwest of Vancouver Island with a group from my gym.

“It’ll be fine,” I thought, comforting myself with the thought (a.k.a. delusion) that it would be a fun, elongated walk in the woods.

But as the date rapidly approached, there was just one problem: our “fun walk in the…

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