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How One-Party Control Fuels State Corruption and Cover-Ups

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Ending Blue State Corruption

Robert B. Charles – Nationally, only seven states in the 2020s had one conviction for public corruption. If this sounds like good news, it is not. In 2025, 38 states are one-party controlled, some blue ones for years, creating potential for public corruption and cover-ups.

As the late Senator Edward Brooke, enemy of public corruption, warned: “When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing; you have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all society.”

Aesop offered this irony. “We hang the petty thieves, and send the great ones to public office.” Political crimes are always serious. Until corrected, they persist. Continue reading →

Most Genuine Human Progress Is Made Very Slowly

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gradual stepsCatherine Ryan Hyde – There’s a little mountain in a state park near my home. It gains about 1,500 feet in two miles. So, four miles round trip. About two hours out of my life, not counting the drive. Even if you wouldn’t take this hike today you can probably accept that you could work up to it.

I’d estimate that in the past eight years I’ve climbed this one little mountain 40 times. I’ve done lots of other mountains. More dramatic ones. Mt. Katahdin in Maine. The Grand Canyon, rim-to-river and back. Half Dome. The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. But I’m putting the others aside for this illustration. I’m just concentrating on 40 trips up that one 1,500-foot mountain. The cumulative elevation is the equivalent of hiking from sea level to the top of Mount Everest. Twice. Continue reading →

Propaganda Mind Control: Turning Truth Backwards

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Jon Rappoport  September 25 2013

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Now and then, if you take a popular advertising or PR slogan and turn it backwards, you get something more interesting.

Remember GE’s “Progress is our most important product”? Try “Product is our most important progress.”

Or “There’s no I in team” becomes “There’s no team in I.”

More esoteric? If you have a little surrealism in your blood, you can do a Zen koan with “Think outside the box,” making it, “Box outside the think.”

Propaganda mainly exists to put the truth backwards, because for some reason people like it that way.

The Vatican has some high-level propaganda pros working for it. They float the idea that in-house pedophiles are just occasional wanderers from the ethical status quo.

Whereas the priesthood is closer to an ad for men who like little boys.

“You can wear an official robe and we’ll protect you. If you get caught, we’ll move you around from diocese to diocese until you disappear, and you’ll never have to serve a day in jail or pay a fine. Ask yourself if this profession is right for you…”

The government wants us to believe that alternatives to oil are extremely difficult to come by (except for nuke reactors that can destroy life on Earth).

Presidents will always pay lip service to gaining independence from foreign oil.

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