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The Quake touches on a variety of topics including progressive politics, promoting democracy, football, general interest, happiness and fulfillment, news and opinion media, - these all seem to come up a lot. There are a lot of links to quality sites well worth visiting and many worth subscribing to. Thanks for visiting.

The Quake supports democracy of the kind that benefits citizens as a whole, not just a small percentage of the top elite individuals and gargantuan corporations. No to authoritarianism. It's not the answer, it's the symptom of an economic system that is unwell.

Progressive politics channels: YouTube etc.

david pakman

majority report

glenn kirschner

More perfect union

TYT [young turks]

pondering politics

dollemore

farron balanced farron cousins [ring of fire]

rational national canada

some more news

humanist report

channel 5 not fake news

meidas touch podcast on u tube

secular talk

robert reich

AJ+

patriot act hasan minhaj

brian tyler cohen @bryantylercohen

market exit

chris norlund

second thought

then & now

now this impact, prev. now this news

prx shows incl. "rising" sound school, and prx remix

last week tonight

right wing watch

damage report

Other likeable links

brendan miller

sisyphus 55

cold fusion

cole hastings

Upper echelon

zeteo zeteo - a strong bias for the truth, founded by mehdi hasan, formerly msnbc and a guest everywhere

turning to corporations doesn't help [levi hildebrand, formerly future proof]

the guardian

new york times' the daily podcast

semafor the world today
reveal news investigative reporting & more
legal eagle lawyer
msnbc you-tube site
cnn.com news site
associated press
Itv news uk ItvX
national world's u-tube site
the recount news aimed at gen zee
washington post, podcasts, u-tube
PBS newshour episodes, live on 3-4pm M-F pacific USA time
on kqed livestream
john cooper
rob reiner twitter
dem underground
TPM talking points memo
crooked media
back to the vax podcast
the intercept and podcasts
the atlantic + podcasts
the white house
bernie sanders "we can do better, we must do better"
sludge exposing corruption
crooks & liars
washington week youtube site
common dreams
daily kos
california health advocates
politico & politico podcasts
democracy now
robert reich website
rick wilson
no copyright sounds
axios & axios today podcast
the daily beast + the new abnormal pod
media matters
international business times
yahoo finance
fivethirtyeight homepage
euronews online
npr news & npr podcasts
foreign policy
channel 4 (UK) news
channel 5 uk
explore with us
jonathan freedland
how appealing
public citizen
pro publica
vox
move on
democracy forward
justice democrats
we're in hell

daily DC

just security

national memo

american oversight
democracy docket
vina erickson never has so little meant so much

xe.com currency currency exchange converter

Tom Nicholas UK and abroad

mac option key symbols

free dictionary.com

annualcreditreport.com the one that's actually free, link fixed

Bitcoin value scan: how's it doin'?

DW crypto currencies documentary

the legal af podcast

cryptosRUs with george

coin telegraph

open secrets

thought slime

abroad in japan "it's not that everything is inherently weird"
nathaniel drew

johnny harris new link 2022

retire cheap in asia: JC based in thailand

Online tv & tv streams
CNA singapore
france 24 english, french nu link [freqent URL changes]
franceinfo
KQED livestream supported by.... u
washington week youtube site
DW german intntl news in english with live stream
sky news new link mar 2025
tvr britanny, france
elonce tv argentina
rtl muenchen deutschland
telemolise southern italia
global news canada
city news canada
the project australia
bbc live news stream

sfgovtv san francisco, calif., usa

Radio
times radio
kqed san francisco radio
kalw san francisco radio
kazu nat. public radio

bbc world service

c-span radio

Radio programs and podcasts
BBC assignment

BBC health check

here & now

open street maps, organic maps, ord surv maps

the world [PRX, prev: PRI]

On point radio podcasts, other link

on the media

You tube live streams

lise leblanc therapist, bpd etc.

Quaking laffs
Vintage moshe kasher works the room

jokes about american health care

trump rally in NYC -- so strong, people

classic dave allen on xtian religion

i so pale i so pale

Apple computers know about dongles
Best of takeshi's castle vol.1

Tech
Apple computers & icloud MacMost

tech altar

how to smartphone

Proper honest tech

Previous posts and links
Commuting from jb to singapore

golden era of aviation thai airbus 380 departing kansai, japan

einzelganger

drinkaprch Cbd

Electric cars EV's
inside ev's inside electric vehicles

allcarselectric.com [aka] green car reports

plugincars.com electric vehicles summary

route planner for electric cars

May 2025
Snowballing psychosis
"Mentally ill users might be accidentally jailbreaking ChatGPT into reinforcing their delusions. Enkrypt uncovers new LLM exploit embedded into images" observes this Australian journalist via Coin Telegraph.

What's with the current US White House admin's obsession with Ukraine's alleged rare minerals and what's the catch they don't mention? [ABC News In-depth, Australia].

Interesting to see how this doco has aged over the last year or so. Certainly been a lively year for the topic and the story continues. DW crypto currencies documentary.

Meaty issues
Has the UK accepted chlorinated chicken from the USA?
AI [stating as per Guardian]: "No, the UK has not accepted chlorinated chicken from the USA. Both the UK and the EU have banned chlorine-washed chicken due to concerns about animal welfare and potential masking of poor hygiene standards. The UK government has explicitly stated that chlorine-washed chicken will not be part of any future trade deal with the US."

However, environmentalists and health experts have pointed to issues with accepting imported beef from the States. But the initial outcry and red flagging surrounding tariff negotiations was mostly with regard to the chicken production methods. That said, caution advised for those seeking their protein from slaughtered sources.

Falling in line
Why Russians support Putin. The same motivations apply to other nations' citizens.

Democracy is not dead
The month of May always seems to generate optimism even in years whose first quarters can seem inexpressibly forlorn. And so it is again in this year of the Wood Snake.

Is the US doomed to permanent authoritarianism? Are things going to pot? Will anyone stand up to the strong-arm erosion of just and unperverted democracies? When all seems lost, look to some surprisingly telling recent events. The people of three nations have successfully recently fought back against their bully pulpits: Australia, Canada, and South Korea.

Even just this month, the rightwing coalition led by Peter Dutton, until only recently ahead of Labor rival Anthony Albanese, surprisingly lost, as Aussies got spooked by Dutton's hero worshipping of Donald Trump across the pond.

Similarly, and shortly before that, Canadians were stunned when the American president threatened to annex their nation and suddenly what seemed like a certainty, that the Conservatives would be enjoying an easy victory over the Liberals, was turned upside down, ending up in a joyous celebration of nationhood as Mark Carney got the nod to repulse an alien big brother takeover.

On December 3rd 2024 South Korea's leader declared martial law but, instead of bowing down to their new self-appointed dictator, that nation's citizens resisted their "president turned rogue" Yoon Suk Yeol, and democracy was restored.

Even before those, we can look at countries like Poland, Slovenia, and Romania, seemingly lost forever to tyranny, clamber back from the pit of hell. And even further back: Argentina, Italy, Spain, and then into the dark abyss of the WW2 era where only mass destruction was able to thwart evil.

Of course, nothing is guaranteed. There seems no way back for Hungary or North Korea or indeed a significant slice of currently suffering humanity.

But greed crazed megalomaniacal despots, like all humans, don't last forever. They can be upended, they often upend themselves by going too far, thinking themselves indestructible and without boundaries, until left isolated, rejected by their support systems, and ultimately self-annihilating -- victims of their own fatal flaws.

April 2025
Susan saves States
Susan Crawford. She fights for workers and women's rights. She won the Wisconsin Supreme court election referred to as the "People vs Elon Musk" having withstood a tsunami of cash from far right interests to stymie the frustration of the people as Wisconsinites stood up to authoritarianism, corruption, and cruelty in America's desperate bid to retain its fragile democratic republic. A ray of hope in a darkening world.

The Independent UK: "Britain must allow US chlorine-washed chicken into UK markets if it wants relief from sweeping tariffs, Donald Trump has indicated. It comes after the UK failed to avoid tariffs imposed on the global economy, with the US president slapping a 10 per cent levies on all British exports to the United States." Insert you own reaction here!

When, and when not to, use Wi-fi on your mobile. "Ziss iss ze ansa...." explains Useful Things.

March 2025
American solutions
USA - 'Another World is Possible': what a polarized U.S. might learn from other countries. [On Point, March 20, 2025].

The past tried to predict 2025.

This speech accidentally exposed the truth about the US. Ben Norton of Geopolitical Economy Report illuminates.

Meet the Yarbros.

How Soviet Russian style tactics are being used to deceive Americans.

The death of capitalism by Benn Jordan.

Richard wolffe on USA's global fallout.

Paul warburg on how America has forgotten what made it great.

Stock$: wobble or wipeout
Wall Street alarm bells are ringing following Trump's bizarre antics, and Tesla insiders are selling their own overvalued stocks. Uncertainty, tarrifs, hiring cutbacks, firings, impending tax cuts for the ultra wealthy are just some of the reasons for market decline.

Can Jimmy future proof inequality?
Did Jimmy the giant escape the alt-right just to be brainwashed?

February 2025
Nirvana day
Nirvana Day, also known in Mahayana Buddhism as Parinirvana Day, is a Buddhist holiday celebrated in February.

The two most frequently days to celebrate it by Buddhist sangha communities are February 8th or, even more common, February 15th, but also on other days of this month. Often, for practical purposes, it's celebrated on the nearest date of whichever day of the week is used by that community to typically gather anyway. Good plan.

Why do we gossip?

Why do we gossip.

January 2025

Jaron Lanier resonates now more than ever (as interviewed on channel 4).

Happy New Year to one and all

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