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[thread] Citizens For Sanity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_Sanity

* PAC; ran ads in lead-up to 2022 U.S. elections supporting conservatives

https://persagen.com >> search: "Citizens For Sanity"

"stephen miller"

"Citizens For Sanity" AND "stephen miller"

Dark money group Citizens For Sanity runs Ohio attack ads against Sherrod Brown

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/09/13/dark-money-group-running-attack-ads-in-ohio-with-almost-no-public-disclosures

Stephen Miller

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110868530615144811

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110946168248147332

#CitizensForSanity #StephenMiller #DarkMoney #GOP #neoconservatism #SherrodBrown

Calamity: Libyan Floods deaths top 6,000

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/13/libya_floods

2023 Libyan floods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Daniel#Libya

* catastrophic cyclone

* 2 dams burst; flooded city of Derna

* storm victims buried in mass graves

* hope dwindles for those unable to locate friends/family

* Libya’s infrastructure crumbled: years of civil war, NATO intervention, political instability

Donate

Unicef: https://help.unicef.org/libya-floods/corporate_template?language=en

Islamic Relief: https://islamic-relief.org/appeals/libya-floods-appeal/

#Libya #LibyanFloods #ClimateDisaster #HumanitarianAid

Addendum 1

[2023-06-23] Organizers of Far-Right Rally Targeting Ottawa Schools Attended Secret Meeting at Toronto’s Elite Albany Club

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110600760608379283

[2010-10-15] Right-Wing Media Outlet Accredited For Leaders’ Debate is Also Registered as a Charity for Immigrants

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110600743773729266

#EzraLevant #RebelNews #trolls #disinformation #FarRight #WesternObserver #SunMedia #CultureWars #neoconservatism #FakeNews #Canada #education #AlbanyClub

Addendum 2

Court orders environment minister to unblock Rebel News founder on X

Ezra Levant launched legal action 2 yrs ago claiming minister violated his constitutional rights

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/steven-guilbeault-must-unblock-ezra-levant-1.6964294

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/environment-minister-must-unblock-rebel-news-founder-levant-on-x-under-court-order-1.6558377

* Steven Guilbeault must unblock Ezra Levant on Twitter/X

* Levant argued his inability to see/respond to Guilbeault's posts limited his ability to engage in debate on matters of public concern

#EzraLevant #RebelNews #trolls #disinformation #FarRight #Twitter

Addendum 1

[2023-06-23] Organizers of Far-Right Rally Targeting Ottawa Schools Attended Secret Meeting at Toronto’s Elite Albany Club

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110600760608379283

[2010-10-15] Right-Wing Media Outlet Accredited For Leaders’ Debate is Also Registered as a Charity for Immigrants

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110600743773729266

#EzraLevant #RebelNews #trolls #disinformation #FarRight #WesternObserver #SunMedia #CultureWars #neoconservatism #FakeNews #Canada #education #AlbanyClub

🎵 Morning ☮-in

[audio] Aerial Boundaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6pbzD4sRos

[live] Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaIN13aDbCc

See also: Harpejji

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110912485477772657

Namaste 🙏 🕊

#MorningPeaceIn #harpejji #MichaelHedges #AerialBoundaries

Addendum 3 cont'd 2/

[2020-03-30] Canadians w/o job before COVID-19: WEhat help can they get?

https://globalnews.ca/news/6749701/cerb-unemployed-graduates-students-coronavirus

* “huge oversight” - David Macdonald, senior economist, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

* Cdn gov.: CERB for those who lost income “for reasons related to COVID-19”

* other workers excluded f. CERB safety net are those who exhausted EI benefits beforehe pandemic

#Canada #Trudeau #Liberals #COVID19 #capitalism #pandemic #UBI #CERB #corporations #socialism #CPPA

🎵 Morning ☮-in

Enya - Orinoco Flow (Official 4K Music Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrk4X9ACtw

Namaste 🙏 🕊

#MorningPeaceIn #Enya #OrinocoFlow

Addendum 2 cont'd 3/

* residents who speak very little/no English who live in communities dominated by local news outlets that only provide news & information in English confront another serious problem

* they live in linguistic news deserts

#NewsMedia #journalism #LocalNews #FourthEstate #IndependentJournalism #LocalNews #NewsDeserts #multiculturalism #DigitalRights #HumanRights #democracy #disinformation

Addendum 2

Language Barriers Complicate the Geography of News Deserts

Lack of access to local bilingual news isolates people who speak little or no English

https://prospect.org/culture/2023-09-08-language-barriers-news-deserts

#NewsMedia #journalism #LocalNews #FourthEstate #IndependentJournalism #LocalNews #NewsDeserts #multiculturalism #DigitalRights #HumanRights #democracy #disinformation

Addendum 2 cont'd

* news deserts expanding: 2 decades ago U.S. had 9,000 newspapers; 2019: 6,700

*of U.S.' 3,143 counties, 200 have no newspaper/other sources credible news

* Half these counties only have 1 newspaper and 2/3 do not have daily newspaper

* losses especially glaring in Midwest, East

#NewsMedia #journalism #LocalNews #FourthEstate #IndependentJournalism #LocalNews #NewsDeserts #multiculturalism #DigitalRights #HumanRights #democracy #disinformation

Addendum 2

Language Barriers Complicate the Geography of News Deserts

Lack of access to local bilingual news isolates people who speak little or no English

https://prospect.org/culture/2023-09-08-language-barriers-news-deserts

#NewsMedia #journalism #LocalNews #FourthEstate #IndependentJournalism #LocalNews #NewsDeserts #multiculturalism #DigitalRights #HumanRights #democracy #disinformation

Addendum 36

Trump White House official Peter Navarroc onvicted of contempt of Congress

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/navararo-convicted-contempt-congress-1.6959797

Fmr. Trump adviser Navarro guilty for defying Jan. 6 committee subpoena

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/07/1198261601/peter-navarro-found-guilty-january-6-investigation

Peter Navarro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Navarro

* Trump administration, Assistant to President (trade adviser ...)

* ran unsuccessfully for San Diego office 5x

* fringe views significantly outside economic mainstream thought

https://persagen.com >> search: "Peter Navarro"

#PeterNavarro #Trump

Naomi Klein’s Journey Into Unnerving World of Naomi Wolf

After years of being mistaken for one another, Klein examines why Wolf went down conspiracy rabbit hole - and why so many people follow her

https://newrepublic.com/article/175254/naomi-klein-naomi-wolf-doppelganger-journey-unnerving-world

* good: Naomi Klein, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein

* bad: Naomi Wolf, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf

https://persagen.com >> search:

"Naomi Wolf"

"naomi klein"

#NaomiWolf #NaomiKlein #MomsForLiberty #M4L #antivaxx #neoconservatism #CultureWars #ConspiracyTheorists #populism #feminism

🎵 Morning ☮-in

Duran Duran - Hungry like the Wolf (Official Music Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJL-lCzEXgI

Namaste 🙏 🕊

#MorningPeaceIn #DuranDuran

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Notes on sources of information to Persagen

https://persagen.com/docs/sources.html >> [toggle] Contents

#persagen #CredibleSources #epistemology #journalism #ontology

Addendum 2

Megachurch Pastor Jack Hibbs’ Campaign to Out LGBTQ Students Begins at Home

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/megachurch-pastor-jack-hibbs-campaign-to-out-lgbtq-students-begins-at-home/

https://persagen.com >> search: "Jack Hibbs"

#JackHibbs #ChristianRight #KennethCopeland #ChristianNationalism #WordOfFaith #DominionTheology #ConspiracyTheories

Addendum 4

After Jacksonville shooting, Floridians see connections betw. FL education laws & anti-Black racism

https://19thnews.org/2023/08/jacksonville-shooting-florida-education-laws-racism

* FL banned AP African American Studies

* implemented anti-‘woke’ laws

* hostile climate for Black residents

Making sense of Florida’s nonsensical history curriculum

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110940177870461931

Florida Allows Far Right PragerU Materials in Public Schools

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110778061083490301

#DeSantis #CultureWars #MassShooting #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #GOP #whiteSupremacism