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B.A. ; J.D. ; author of anti-novel "Skyscraper Heavens". https://johnrubens.wordpress.com; https://blogosphere45.blogspot.com

Site of deadly Oakland fire was an artist commune known as the GhostShip — Consequence of Sound

Upwards of 40 people are feared to be dead after a fire broke out at a warehouse party held in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland. We’re now learning more about the venue, which was a live-work artist commune known as … Continue reading →

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#WhiteWashedFences in #HuckFinn by #MarkTwain 1860’s #Whitelash 2016 Which one’s Pink? @pinkfloyd’s #TheWall

#VanJones: “It’s a white-lash I tell you; a #Whitelash!” @CNNPolitics “Give this guy a show.” #Affirmative Every #action requires = reaction. #HuckFinn I wonder if #whitelash commentary got #MarkTwain’s novel #HuckleberryFinn banned [#whitewashedfence] along with #ToKillAMockingbird by Harper Lee? Just … Continue reading →

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#PowerfulWomen: #Conway #Fonda #Seymour #Montgomery #Winfrey #Hepburn #Andrews…MaidenSurnames

Your Evening Briefing http://bloom.bg/2fQkeNu  1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes   John Matthew Rubens ‏@raftofwater 2m2 minutes ago @markets 50’s wife with an edge. 60’s wife with a little Samantha, 70’s woman, 80’s rocker, 90’s wonk, millennial thinker, power liaison. … Continue reading →

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#Study @washingtonpost #nytimesworld. How many MSM employees, affiliates, syndicated, veterans [former employees, affiliates et al.] open and/or maintain #fakenewssites on social media?

A case for Woodward, Bernstein and Andrew Ross Sorkin [or @jack and his @gov]? https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/bellicose-sounds-like-salve-when-pe-donald-j-trump-waxes-poetic-re-the-american-flag https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/study-washingtonpost-nytimesworld-how-many-msm-employees-affiliates-syndicated-veterans-former-employees-affiliates-et-al-open-andor-maintain-fakenewssites-on-social-media

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Bellicose Sounds Like Salve When PE Donald J. Trump Waxes Poetic re: The American Flag

@JohnKerry #speculativefiction [I didn’t get the sound on @twitter @gov] “It’s a good kind of State Department scare.” #Difficulties #Trump? https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/bellicose-sounds-like-salve-when-pe-donald-j-trump-waxes-poetic-re-the-american-flag

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I Forgive The Insurance Companies #FeelingsRMutual #Mutual

#Balkanization or #Mutuality @ForeignAffairs @JohnKerry shows us an intertwined hand or dual microphones sychronically adjusted @AskLiberty. https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/i-forgive-the-insurance-companies-feelingsrmutual-mutua

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#ObamaCare , #MedicalInsurers & #Doctors: A Bad Mix? Opinion of a Double-Suspended #Lawyer

Have the patients drive across town, preferably in dense traffic. “That’ll really get their blood pressure up, ‘Wow, Mrs. Insured, your blood pressure is extremely high!’” https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/obamacare-medicalinsurers-doctors-a-bad-mix-opinion-of-a-suspended-lawyer

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@ForeignAffairs: Amazing picture of Asia at night from the Suomi NPP satellite, 2012 [Nov/Dec 2016 at 77].

Shows Asia as it really is, stretchy silk road [luminous, especially at Pakistan/Indian border and near Japan]. From Anne-Marie Slaughter Foreign Affairs article, Volume 95, Number 6 at 76: How to Succeed in the Networked World, A Grand Strategy for … Continue reading →

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#Rollerball2: “It could lead to the 5th, but what about the 3rd? Whatever happened to the Third Amendment?”

#MosesGunn, Player’s Coach https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/rollerball2-it-could-lead-to-the-5th-but-what-about-the-3rd-whatever-happened-to-the-third-amendment

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“‘Cause Real News Is Boring and We Have Bills To Pay.”

#MediaBudgets https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/cause-real-news-is-boring-and-we-have-bills-to-pay

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