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John Lennon, 34 years, long time gone
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imagine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlgyahhkpfs.

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Schooling The World, Documentary Film
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schooling the world.

the film looks at colonialism and its effects on indigenous peoples and also looks at the colonizers and their progeny.. http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/schooling_the_world_2010/.

do you know the people whose land you live on.. the payomkawichun people lived in the valleys i call home.
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NFL bans Player for using a 'switch' on his son
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nfl commissioner roger goodell placed minnesota viking's player adrian peterson on indefinite suspension for using extreme measures in disciplining his son using a tree branch switch.. sports illustrated covered details about how the process works with the players union, the player, and the nfl.. www.si.com/nfl/2014/11/17/minnesota-vikings-adrian-peterson-suspended.

i remember vivid scenes in kingdom halls and in the homes of jws who used extreme measures to discipline their children.

a father and assistant p.o.
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"Big Eyes" the story of artist Margaret Keane
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the tim burton film is ready for release.. www.thewrap.com/big-eyes-premiere-finds-audience-howling-at-christoph-waltz-and-amy-adams-dueling-artists/.

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Muslim refuses to stand for the National Anthem
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cleveland cavaliers basketball player dion waiters stayed in the locker-room during the national anthem at a recent game.

asked why he responded 'i am rededicating myself to my muslim faith'.

another basketball player recently refused to stand for the anthem while on the court and was fined by the nba, dion chose to remain in the locker-room.. have you heard of followers of islam refusing to stand for the national anthem or to say the pledge of allegiance on religious grounds.. .
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Prince on Saturday Night Live
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did you catch it.. http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/watch-princes-electric-prformance-from-tonights-saturd-1653735759.

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Lucy Turns 40....+ 3.5 Million
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1974, paleoanthropologist donald johnson and team discovered "lucy" in central ethiopia.

it was not only the find of a lifetime it profoundly changed scientific views on when and where humans began to look human.. www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-lucy-qa-20141101-story.html.

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The High Cost Of War
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britain is refinancing some soverign war bonds dating from the crimean war, napoleonic war and wwi, 2 $billion worth.

2 century old debt.. our president has been reluctant to begin another war when the debt of the previous two wars hangs heavy.

those of the prowar persuasion have insisted on 'boots on the ground' a move that would require 100,000s of personnel in the middle east and allocating billions in debt to cover the cost.. "every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed" president eisenhower.
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Marilyn Penton passes
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i saw in the periodical the new creation that jim penton's family lost marilyn, ontario canada, july 23rd, 2014.. jim has written some excellent authoritative works on the history of the watchtower.. condolences.

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The great Jack Bruce of Cream passes
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the premier bassist of his generation, his songs made many love babies.

rock on forever jb..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwdo0juekqm.

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