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Swede's Journal
Swede's Journal
January 3, 2022

Beach House - 10 Mile Stereo

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January 3, 2022

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe

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January 3, 2022

Marjorie Taylor Greene refers to democrats as "termites"

At the nine-minute mark of this youtube video. The panel discuss the chilling comparisons of dehumanizing people just before a genocide.

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January 3, 2022

Talk of civil war moves beyond theoretical as distrust of elections grows

By the Editorial Board
In perhaps the saddest statement since Jan. 6 on the state of American Democracy, Republican lawmakers across the country have been asked to say three simple words: Joe. Biden. Won. But they just can’t bring themselves to do it, even though Biden beat President Donald Trump by more than 7 million popular votes and trounced him in the Electoral College toll. In other words, those GOP lawmakers refuse to recognize the will of the people. Which means they no longer recognize democracy.

https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-talk-of-civil-war-moves-beyond-theoretical-as-distrust-of-elections-grows/article_ac7ce090-9ebc-52ab-804e-b2d30317fa07.html

January 2, 2022

Congresswoman Openly Advocates End To American Democracy

“Marjorie Taylor Greene is a troll. But it’s not either or. She can be a troll, and she can be a serious threat to democracy,” Mehdi Hasan says to Chris Hayes, discussing Rep. Greene suggesting a “national divorce” between red and blue states.


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January 2, 2022

Seattle Kraken fan called a hero after noticing Canucks staffer's cancerous mole during game Social

A Seattle Kraken fan is being praised as a hero after helping the assistant equipment manager of the Vancouver Canucks identify a cancerous mole on his neck in the middle of a game.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/seattle-kraken-brian-hamilton-cancer-1.6301987

January 2, 2022

Prepare for Right-Wing U.S. Dictatorship Before 2030, Scholar Urges Canada

A Canadian political scientist has urged his country's government to prepare for the possibility of the United States becoming a right-wing dictatorship before 2030.

In an op-ed published in The Globe and Mail on Friday, Thomas Homer-Dixon, an executive director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in British Columbia, warned his country had to prepare for the worst-case scenario.

"By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence," Homer-Dixon wrote.

https://www.newsweek.com/prepare-right-wing-dictatorship-america-2030-scholar-urges-canada-1664810

January 1, 2022

Denver Mass Shooter Lyndon McLeod Identified On Social Media As A 'White Supremacist' And 'Nazi'

After keeping his identity secret for more than 24 hours following a shooting spree in multiple locations that claimed five lives on Monday night, law enforcement officials in Denver finally named Lyndon James McLeod as the gunman who ultimately died after a brief shootout with police.

A Twitter account for Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists, which describes itself as a group that is “Exposing fascists and disrupting their organizing in so-called Colorado,” tweeted to this writer that McLeod “was a white nationalist.” The group pointed to its own tweet making a similar claim.

https://newsone.com/4267885/denver-mass-shooter-lyndon-mcleod-white-supremacist-report/

January 1, 2022

Florida breaks single-day COVID case record

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday reported more than 75,900 new cases of COVID-19 in Florida.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/florida-breaks-single-day-covid-case-record

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