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I have never been a Jacobin-lover, and think they mostly provide a negative example for the Left, but this is why they are dear to freeedom fighters everywhere. https://t.co/z9uMDhGqDm

— William Clare Roberts (@MarxinHell) June 25, 2019

I like Nathan’s tweets. I’m always hearting them. I gotta figure out a way to customize my twitter feed.
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Trump YET AGAIN publicly bragging that he sent in his marshals to execute a criminal suspect without trial, not even pretending there was an attempt to arrest him. This is pure dictatorship stuff, I don't understand why this story isn't much, much bigger.https://t.co/wi3w59orUO https://t.co/HS5IiFnNEb

— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) October 15, 2020

I dunno about Super Bowl contender, but they are definitely in the conversation for NFC champion.

Wide open is right. Its just too early to predict anything. Heck i still think the Eagles could be dangerous by December.

Key injuries are gonna derail half these teams. And who knows when Covid will strike a team or two or three.

With no fans, this should be the year where Home Field Advantage doesnt mean as much. Though i guess it might matter if Green Bay wins it. Cold weather and all.
Or Chicago. We should probly root against those two.

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Rams 4-1
Seattle 5-0
Green Bay 4-0
Tampa Bay 3-2
New Orleans 3-2
Carolina 3-2
Chicago 4-1
Arizona 3-2
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Gerald Horne. Historian.

Massive respect to everyone still experiencing time as a linear sequence

— Colin Barrett (@ColinBarrett82) October 14, 2020

Japanese supercomputer shows how humidity affects the aerosol spread of coronavirus https://t.co/5W3bB0qbl5 pic.twitter.com/ZJrHttN0wd

— Reuters (@Reuters) October 14, 2020

It's actually worse, he thinks it's okay if states "criminalize LGBTQ" pic.twitter.com/9e9vxkUAaH

— Gary Alexander (@grylxndr) October 14, 2020

I wonder if this causes people in Alabama to wear masks https://t.co/ACx74EdPET

— Dangerdav (@dangerdav) October 14, 2020

I realized the other day, that i know the EXACT date i became a Ram fan. December 8, 1968. That is the day my dad and i watched the Rams play the Brian Piccolo Bears on TV. Rams lost 17-16. Loved the Horns on black and white TV.

So, after that game, I started paying a ‘little’ attention to pro football and i started looking to see how the Rams were doing. They lost to the Unitas Colts the next week 28-24. Finished 10-3-1. Out of the playoffs.

The first 49er-Ram game I was aware of was in October of 1969. (I didnt even know who all the teams were in the NFL at that point)
George Allen’s Rams won 27-21, over John Brodie. That was the year they started 11-0, of course.
That was the year the dark and dreary Viking-Curse began.

The 49er rivalry seems more intense back then. I could be wrong, but thats how it seems.

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49ers lead series 71-67-3
series:https://www.49erswebzone.com/alltimescores/opponent/los+angeles+rams/

Vegas Raiders are 3-2, and looking pretty dangerous.

I remember when every single celebrity-pundit said Gruden was an idiot for letting K.Mack go, etc etc.

I cant stand Gruden, but I remember thinking at the time, they were jumping the gun. He may know what he’s doing. We dunno yet. Celebrity-Pundits arent allowed to say “we dunno yet.” Its not good TeeVee.

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Um…..Ice Cube supports Trump.
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We've reached the point where Joe Biden has more credibility in the hood than Ice Cube. 2020 is the twilight zone.

— I Smoked The Good Old Days Of Segregation (@Dknight10k) October 14, 2020

i see a Judge extended the Virginia voter-registration after the Cable was ‘accidently’cut. Every MSM article on the topic emphasizes the word ‘accidently’ in the headline.

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A federal judge extended the deadline for registering to vote in Virginia by 48 hours after the state's online voter registration system went down because of an accidentally severed cable. https://t.co/y2yaRVKjAA

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 14, 2020

link:https://www.rainbowbuilders.org/health/russia-usa-life-expectancy
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Post-war USSR: a spirit of optimism

Let us start chronologically, with the case of Russia after World War II. Between 1946 and 1964, Russia went through the period of fastest increase in life expectancy in its history. It should be noted that Joseph Stalin was still in power until 1953. This might surprise many, but all the data used here comes from international organizations like UN organs (UNPD), the World Bank, the IMF etc. and from recognized Western academics like Angus Maddison’s team. This is definitely not some kind of “communist propaganda data”.

From 1953 on, Nikita Khrushchev progressively introduced some degree of liberalization. The fact that the rise in life expectancy slowed during this time is certainly not due to his policies, but rather to the fact that life expectancy in the Soviet Union came close to life expectancy in the most industrialized Western countries.

However, Khrushchev’s policies were not that popular among many senior members of the Communist Party and did not lead to faster economic growth. He was deposed in 1964 and replaced by Leonid Brezhnew who undid many of Khrushchev’s reforms and imposed a more conservative policy. Until 1973, this did not have any impact on economic development: between 1950 and 1973, the Soviet Union maintained an almost constant yearly growth rate of 3.3%, ranking between the postwar booms of the US (2.5%) and France (4.0%). However, as soon as Brezhnev came to power in 1964, the rise of life expectancy slowed down abruptly or stopped altogether in the European Soviet Republics of the USSR (Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania shown on the chart above; for the other republics, click “Select countries”).

The Soviet model reaches its limits

“As a Nordic immigrant to the United States, I noticed something else, too. Americans, and many others around the world, did not seem fully aware of how much better things could be.”
― Anu Partanen, The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

— Mark (@masada2118) October 14, 2020