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From the author of the article who was not at Rolling Stone at the time:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-taibbi-rolling-stone-uva...

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The point of these articles is to be aware of the past so as to avoid the same often repeated mistakes as societies. Especially when he was denounced for advocating peace and against wars and militarism by the mainstream media which seems to be a societal constant like our addiction to forever wars and bombings and economic sanctions.

Excerpts:

Fifty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down in Memphis.

Every major press outlet in the United States will commemorate his life this week. The Washington Post is running a series of commentaries. The New York Times ran an emotional editorial written by the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who was with King in Memphis that fateful day.

Neither paper will mention that they each denounced Dr. King in his later years.

The condemnation of what became known as King’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech was universal. One hundred and sixty-eight newspapers denounced him in the days that followed. These editorials had a peculiarly vicious flavor. It was clear that King’s main transgression was not knowing his place.

The Washington Post wrote that King had “diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, and his people.”

The New York Times, in “Dr. King’s Error,” reminded King that his proper battlegrounds were “in Chicago and Harlem and Watts.”

They said King, as an individual, was of course free to think about Vietnam, but, as a leader of black people, he had an obligation to stay in his lane, i.e. to “direct [his] movement’s efforts in the most constructive and relevant way.”

Poisonously, and characteristically – for this is a propaganda trick that sadly has survived to this day – the Times also took King to task for his suspicious failure to admonish the Vietnamese enemy. “It is possible to disagree with many aspects of United States policy in Vietnam,” the paper hissed, “without whitewashing Hanoi.” Even back then, domestic criticism was always linked to comforting a foreign enemy.

Perhaps they seen lots of lying from their governments and the media mouthpieces and so have developed an ingrained disbelief of authority and the establishment and this pervades to all parts of life.

Just like how all the mainstream media attacked MLK and the government treated him like a domestic terrorist. Now we lionize him.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29973075

Australians definitely seem to have embraced living in an authoritarian and autocratic state. There are way too many examples in recent memory:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/09/austr...

Threatening journalists for exposing Australian war crimes:

https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and-marketing/jail-threa...

And of course how the Australian government has disavowed Julian Assange.

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/12/australia-julian-assange-wiki...

Dictatorships will be freer for Australians at this rate.

The Chinese government, and now others will also look more seriously into these matters, seems justified in building their Great Firewall after these constant stories of the surveillance state at work domestically and internationally.

We can't even keep the NSA from illegally prying into alleged "domestic terrorists" like Martin Luther King and Muhammad Ali:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/nsa-surveillan...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29968101

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

You could create a tiered tax structure - which would be unpopular - where the yearly tax increases with time. In addition, you could have a progressive increase in tax based on the number of residences you have.

The US government saw and treated him as a domestic terrorist and Russian/communist agent. The NY TImes and mainstream media famously attacked him and he was hated by 75% of Americans.

The NSA illegally spied on him and other alleged domestic terrorists:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29968101

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/nsa-surveillan...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-martin-luther-kin...

He famously called the US government "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/21/king-o...

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/15/martin-luther-king-jr-ml...

https://www.history.com/news/martin-luther-king-jr-fbi-j-edg...

https://www.vox.com/2016/1/18/10777146/mlk-day-martin-luther...

It will take a while for all their planned new 150 nuclear power plants to come onstream. Till then coal and other sources of energy will be used.

https://www.cnet.com/news/why-the-us-should-learn-from-china...

Naples is great for some superb pizza as well and its enduring influence on us:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/naples-pizza-original-...

Which country is that? Japan?

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

It would be nice to learn what the terms of the deal are and if it is about chargebacks or concessions on payment terms and fees.

There seems to be no downside for ATT/DirectTV dumping the channel OAN.

According to the article the channel is still available on other platforms:

On its website, OAN tells viewers they can watch on a KlowdTV for $4.99 or $9.99 per month, as well as on Verizon FiOS, CenturyLink PRISM, GCI, and Vidgo.

We should never ever rely on emails for anything important. We should always confirm and authenticate important matters with a separate channel like meeting in person or video calling or calling the persons to confirm the veracity of an important action that was written in an email. Unfortunately that is not the case and there are so many such frauds.

The use of email for important matters leads to Business Email Compromise fraud:

https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-scams-and-crimes...

The BBC is a propaganda mouthpiece of the state just like everywhere else. Even private media outfits in the UK are mouthpieces of the state like Reuters and Bellingcat.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-of...

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-02-25/Reuters-BBC-participat...

They also exempted private jets:

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/co...

Yachts and private jets belong to the rich class and these exemptions are in line with most hypocritical legislation around the world.

Links to the sources:

https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/climate-impact...

https://www.transportenvironment.org/wp-content/uploads/2022...

It’s interesting to see another South Korean company in the creative Youtube space succeed like Gangnam Style. Had no idea Baby Shark was from South Korean company Pinkfong. South Korea is clearly super creative even on Netflix shows like Squid Games.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0

How about the surveillance security state that illegally watches over all our moves. I don’t care as much about annoying diaper ads as the way the government illegally snoops into our lives as Snowden exposed.

Politicians here in California and the US are no different. The rules they advocate, mandate and prescribe to the masses do not apply to them.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/S-...

https://abc7news.com/london-breed-french-laundry-san-francis...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-03/skelton-...

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/18/opinions/california-gover...

https://www.brproud.com/news/former-president-obama-celebrat...

The biggest defense on a societal level is a pervasive use of MFA for all applications, a good patching policy and backups.

The video to it with the slides by Lyle Goldstein:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRs5501GExc&list=PLBrPYoChOf...

The wonders of when the green movement meets corruption and cronyism.

Instead of performative art of greenwashing talks, very simple steps like a carbon tax or even a consumption tax would move mountains. Or encouraging nuclear energy for electricity or preventing myriads of rules, regulations and restrictions on solar energy.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/20/revealed...