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Mickey !

Only half way through,

But I think we went to the same school !

HAHAHAHA !

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For real?

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Pastor Artur Pawlowski is being held up against the wall by the powers that should not be. A press release set for Monday July 24th states there will be a protest at the Consulate General of Canada in New York. This is set to take place on Monday July 31st - gathering at 1:30 - starting at 2:00 at 466 Lexington Ave, 45th Street New York, NY

Artur is a Canadian Pastor who spoke for 19 minutes at the Coutts border to truckers one Sunday in 2022. He faces up to 10 years in prison for pastoring to the persecuted. His sentencing is set for August 9, 2023.

This is important to all Canadians. Hope to see you there.

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I am ashamed of what Canada has become. It is not my birth country, but it is my country of choice. Or was. I am starting to rethink that. Not that I think my birth country is any better.

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No matter where you live, get in the game August 14th, Staten Island courthouse. Arrive at 10 begins at 11.

Details: https://twitter.com/ScottLoBaido/status/1681363794402967553

My birth region is within the Empire State, and IT recently banned the names of my high school teams because too indigenous.

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I read that the WEF had plans to advance their global agenda at the time of the economic collapse. Occupy wall street frightened them enough to delay it. That's when they ramped up climate change to capture the young generation.

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Thanks, Anne. While I'm certain the WEF has been scheming for a long time, I personally find it hard to believe that Occupy impacted their plans in any way.

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Mickster,

I was kidding 'bout the exact school. But when you showed that picture of those strap-bands that the kids wore, our grammar school kids wore them too, but for a different reason, as "street guards," during recess outdoor play, (or reckless abandonment, if that's a better tune).

So...

Our school was located down about 200 yards from a major avenue.

During recess, we kids on street guard would set up 2 "wooden horses," in street, blocking drive-through traffic, at school property line.

The town police would also set up 2 horses up at the avenue, to prevent cars going down toward our school, along the street.

But invariably people would push the upper horses away & drive down street to the school.

Now...

Those drivers may have felt they could defy the men in blue. But they had no freakin' idea of what waited for them. A bunch of wild banshee Catholic boys & girls, augmented by a pack of steady nuns.

So, kids would be playing & running, from the small strip of grounds just outside & bordering the school building, across the street, to the school's other playground. The wooden barriers were placed to prevent the kids from getting hit by cars.

So...

The people who first defied the police & now encountered the longer arms of the nuns.

Once, & i am NOT kidding, a man picked up one of the horses, tossed it wildly toward sidewalk, returned to his car, in an attempt to pass along the street.

Well...

We kids screamed to Sister Mary freakin' Serious, "What do we do now !"

With all the wisdom of Solomon, she screamed back, (as well as placing herself front & center at the now opened zone) "KIDS ! EVERYBODY IN THE STREET."

I'm sucking down my lunch of an Oscar Meyer sanguich, at morning break, & I'm thinkin', "This is freakin' insane !" & I piled into the street with my fellow Catholics !

WE WON !

The driver musta been a non-believer.

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I love that story, Paul! Kudos to Sister Mary freakin' Serious. 🙏

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Mick,

I Loved Your Story too !

It was a sincere Ode to Your Friend.

Blessings To You Both.

"Pay Attention"

To Your Dreams.

He might sing You

A Song of Thanx.

"Oh Mickey You're So Fine"

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Thank you for that reminder, my friend. 🙏

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60s counter culture rebellion. Yum.

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A-Peeling, awesome tale!!!!! Thanks for this great Saturday morning writing....

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You are most welcome, Malika! Thanks for reading and commenting. 🙏😇

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That's great! I had the distinction to be skooled in an English school, where the rats were knows as Prefects! Don't get me going!!!

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Thanks, Chris! And yes, indeed, the Brits have that whole prefect concept down for centuries, huh?

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Golly I hardly know what to say……imagine what the campfire crowd would hear if Mickey were camp counselor for the summer. LOL. Mickey is a collection of never ending stories all the way down to his socks. ~~~And what I read in the English school stories, marveling that tyrannical teachers and principals exist to make the lives of young people so miserable and memorable…..who must barely escape with their psyche into adulthood….how do they then know how to be parents from the examples they have known? Oh. Right! when the kids are old enough they are sent also to another boarding school, we don’t have to be parents, no problem. …..My brains are spaghetti today

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Thank you, Sharon! I *do* like telling stories!

And yes, I got outta school as soon as I could and never looked back.

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Its a wonder you turned out to nice and generous and funny and smart and open hearted ;-)

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You are very kind but I will say that being the architect of my own education has mostly worked out well for me.

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That, I think, offers hope now for families who are reaching out for homeschool options to fight the darkness hovering over our national education system……..inquiring minds want to know, and don’t want to be injected or objected, but fly free. ~~~What damage has been done to the kidlets, with Zoom tyrannies and lazy, selfish teachers….when it was all a sham And more…..sickening

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Since we have previously also spoken on the topic of kindness, I refer to a sweet little book I found the other day for $3.00 at our Half Price Bookstore, “Random Acts of Kindness,” Conari Press, wonderful and touching stories of uplifting human connections. A keeper for when your day is cloudy

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So good

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By the way, you’re inspiring me to do some reminiscing kinds of stories. I’ve got lots of them. Scrappy in the sixties

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Looking forward to 'em!

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Hey Mickey! Enjoyed reading this story and your writing made me notice something I hadn't thought of before--and I want to see if you agree or what your thoughts are on my observation: would you say the Occupy wall street movement is when activism died? The timeline does seem to correlate between OWS and the death of peaceful activism. Of course, we have BLM and Antifa now but their protests bring with them a very different vibe that's different than the 60s up to Wall St.--a negative, violent energy.

Do you agree with my theory?

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Thanks, Matthieu! I can't reply at length right now but I would say "activism" was coopted and commodified during the early 1960s civil rights protests. The parasites infiltrated and neutered that movement while the FBI infiltrated and violently ended potentially successful efforts like the Black Panthers and American Indian Movement.

And for the record: The vast majority of BLM events have been impotent and non-violent virtue signaling. As for antifa, during Occupy, it was just a term we used to declare one's status as anti-fascist. I'm not convinced it's anything like its portrayed to be today.

I'm planning another solo podcast very soon and it will touch on some of this.

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"Coopted and commodified" - Chomsky taught me how that works when I wrote a paper on his Manufacturing Consent book. (Let's not get started on the Covid Chomsky, okay? :)

Looking forward to your next solo podcast on this--I just remembered I need to listen to you solo podcast on "Controlled Opps"!

Will do that before bed.

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The cops and the dope smoking hippies deserve each other. We need a sustainable and spiritual deep return to a simpler way of life, not asinine battles between undereduated cops v.s. undereducated rebels.

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