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Philip A Farruggio is an activist leader, free lance columnist and small businessman. He is blue collar from birth, as both his dad and grandad were Brooklyn , NYC longshoremen. Philip has a BA from Brooklyn College ( class of ' 74 ) in Speech & Theater.
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Thursday, March 12, 2020
The ' DemonCrats' Gift to Trump The DemonCrats, through their MSNBC and CNN minions, made sure that the public saw Sanders as not a ' Relief' but rather a radical threat to our nation's wellbeing. They got all their ' dreaming of glory' stooges in the Senate and Congress to first run for president to dilute the field as an affront to Sanders , the front runner for 2020. When that was not working well they ' circled the wagons' around Lunchbox Joe
Thursday, March 12, 2020The ' DemonCrats' Gift to Trump The DemonCrats, through their MSNBC and CNN minions, made sure that the public saw Sanders as not a ' Relief' but rather a radical threat to our nation's wellbeing. They got all their ' dreaming of glory' stooges in the Senate and Congress to first run for president to dilute the field as an affront to Sanders , the front runner for 2020. When that was not working well they ' circled the wagons' around Lunchbox Joe
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Monday, March 12, 2018
Conspiracy of Silence As terrible as those days were in the late 60s, at least there was hope that this insane empire be curbed and pulled back. Sadly, today it seems as if most of our 20 somethings and their parents do not even know what is going down. The Conspiracy of Silence is winning!
Monday, March 12, 2018Conspiracy of Silence As terrible as those days were in the late 60s, at least there was hope that this insane empire be curbed and pulled back. Sadly, today it seems as if most of our 20 somethings and their parents do not even know what is going down. The Conspiracy of Silence is winning!
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Monday, December 25, 2017
Season of the Rich As New Year 2018 is before us, we are truly in a ' Season of the RICH'. One need not be an accountant or financial whiz to know that this so called ' Tax Reform Bill ' is a super-rich man's gift to the super rich.
Monday, December 25, 2017Season of the Rich As New Year 2018 is before us, we are truly in a ' Season of the RICH'. One need not be an accountant or financial whiz to know that this so called ' Tax Reform Bill ' is a super-rich man's gift to the super rich.
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017
The Silence of the (Empire's) Lambs What is the solution to this mess? This writer plans to once again get out on the street corners of my town in a weekly peaceful protest.
Tuesday, December 5, 2017The Silence of the (Empire's) Lambs What is the solution to this mess? This writer plans to once again get out on the street corners of my town in a weekly peaceful protest.
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Friday, September 1, 2017
Hurricane Wars To this writer my experience with FEMA had been a sick joke. After the hurricane destroyed our home, and we had to live elsewhere for over FIVE months, we begged FEMA to help us.
Friday, September 1, 2017Hurricane Wars To this writer my experience with FEMA had been a sick joke. After the hurricane destroyed our home, and we had to live elsewhere for over FIVE months, we begged FEMA to help us.
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
And Empires Die And Empires Die 'Nothing ever seems to last, everybody changes oh so fast, promises made promises lost and pride is kept at any cost, And flowers die, and children cry, and lonely people carry on.' (Palermo& Farruggio 1970)
Tuesday, August 1, 2017And Empires Die And Empires Die 'Nothing ever seems to last, everybody changes oh so fast, promises made promises lost and pride is kept at any cost, And flowers die, and children cry, and lonely people carry on.' (Palermo& Farruggio 1970)
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Sunday, April 16, 2017
"In Trump We Trust"... With Monster Bombs Doesn't it remind you of what our Vietnam era military tried to do against the Viet Cong, what with all their tunnel systems? Did it do anything at all? You should know the answer: "NO!" The more we 'Shock and Awed' the VC, the more they kept on growing. We tried everything at our disposal at the time.
Sunday, April 16, 2017"In Trump We Trust"... With Monster Bombs Doesn't it remind you of what our Vietnam era military tried to do against the Viet Cong, what with all their tunnel systems? Did it do anything at all? You should know the answer: "NO!" The more we 'Shock and Awed' the VC, the more they kept on growing. We tried everything at our disposal at the time.
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017
2017 Amerika: A New Reich ...the movers and shakers of this Military Industrial Empire are even shrewder than the Nazi gang. What they did, successfully too, was create and maintain a 'Two Party, One Party' system. They made sure that the two parties, as is the case in the UK, seem to be at each other's throats... and they are on some issues.
Wednesday, April 12, 20172017 Amerika: A New Reich ...the movers and shakers of this Military Industrial Empire are even shrewder than the Nazi gang. What they did, successfully too, was create and maintain a 'Two Party, One Party' system. They made sure that the two parties, as is the case in the UK, seem to be at each other's throats... and they are on some issues.
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017
The Drug War on Us... Through Painkillers! They gave him OxyContin for his pain....Having a jackass so called ' MD ' like Gottlieb in charge is the same as the 'Fox guarding the henhouse.'
Tuesday, April 11, 2017The Drug War on Us... Through Painkillers! They gave him OxyContin for his pain....Having a jackass so called ' MD ' like Gottlieb in charge is the same as the 'Fox guarding the henhouse.'
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Sunday, April 2, 2017
"It's My Party... "It's My Party...And I'll cry if I want to" was a song sung by Leslie Gore in 1965. How apropos it is now to describe our political situation in 21st Century Amerika.
Sunday, April 2, 2017"It's My Party... "It's My Party...And I'll cry if I want to" was a song sung by Leslie Gore in 1965. How apropos it is now to describe our political situation in 21st Century Amerika.
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Saturday, April 1, 2017
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars, but ourselves...Cassius Today, as I write we just had the 14th anniversary of one of the most heinous acts our country has ever perpetrated: The pre-emptive attack, invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Saturday, April 1, 2017The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars, but ourselves...Cassius Today, as I write we just had the 14th anniversary of one of the most heinous acts our country has ever perpetrated: The pre-emptive attack, invasion and occupation of Iraq.
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Thursday, March 9, 2017
The Elephant ( and Jackass ) in the Room Major General Smedley Butler's 1935 essay said it: 'War is a Racket'. Wake up sheeple!
Thursday, March 9, 2017The Elephant ( and Jackass ) in the Room Major General Smedley Butler's 1935 essay said it: 'War is a Racket'. Wake up sheeple!
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Monday, February 20, 2017
Inherit the Hypocrisy Watching Inherit The Wind should allow you to see how rigid and foolish many of our fellow citizens still are. Just yesterday our new president had a rally in Melbourne, Florida. The first plan in his agenda was for his wife to lead the mob in prayer.
Monday, February 20, 2017Inherit the Hypocrisy Watching Inherit The Wind should allow you to see how rigid and foolish many of our fellow citizens still are. Just yesterday our new president had a rally in Melbourne, Florida. The first plan in his agenda was for his wife to lead the mob in prayer.
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Monday, February 13, 2017
Let Them Eat Gadgets... There is something magical when two complete strangers look each other in the eye and actually communicate! If those of us who wish to see real and viable political and economic change occur do not go back to face to face verbal contact...
Monday, February 13, 2017Let Them Eat Gadgets... There is something magical when two complete strangers look each other in the eye and actually communicate! If those of us who wish to see real and viable political and economic change occur do not go back to face to face verbal contact...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Eddie Activist... Gone but Never Forgotten Before he got really ill, Ed always told me to ' Never give up the challenge '. I haven't and I won't!
Wednesday, February 8, 2017Eddie Activist... Gone but Never Forgotten Before he got really ill, Ed always told me to ' Never give up the challenge '. I haven't and I won't!
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Forty Plus Years Later & Nothing Changes It was the Recession of 1974 and I was looking for a job. I went thru the Sunday Times Classifieds each and every week looking for perhaps some sort of management opportunity. Before I knew it I was hired by a linen service company.....
Tuesday, January 24, 2017Forty Plus Years Later & Nothing Changes It was the Recession of 1974 and I was looking for a job. I went thru the Sunday Times Classifieds each and every week looking for perhaps some sort of management opportunity. Before I knew it I was hired by a linen service company.....
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Saturday, January 7, 2017
One Evening in '88 on a Flight to Phoenix Reading about the current controversy over the U.S. abstaining on the Security Council's Israeli settlement resolution, it brought a memory back to this writer. First off, a little about this writer if I may....
Saturday, January 7, 2017One Evening in '88 on a Flight to Phoenix Reading about the current controversy over the U.S. abstaining on the Security Council's Israeli settlement resolution, it brought a memory back to this writer. First off, a little about this writer if I may....
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Monday, December 19, 2016
Love that Dirty Water... and Dirty Wars! Get out on the street corners of your towns and cities to demand drastic cuts in the military spending, an end to our unnecessary bases worldwide, and bringing back both our military personnel and sanity to our foreign policy!
Monday, December 19, 2016Love that Dirty Water... and Dirty Wars! Get out on the street corners of your towns and cities to demand drastic cuts in the military spending, an end to our unnecessary bases worldwide, and bringing back both our military personnel and sanity to our foreign policy!
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Friday, September 30, 2016
21st Century Amerika, A Reality Show If anyone took the time out and viewed the recent Presidential (so called) debate, one would realize how reality television has merged with politics. Mel Brooks or Woody Allen could not come close to capturing the absurdity of it all. Making sure that the two 'third party' presidential candidates were not allowed to participate, this charade of intelligent concern for issues became a farce.
Friday, September 30, 201621st Century Amerika, A Reality Show If anyone took the time out and viewed the recent Presidential (so called) debate, one would realize how reality television has merged with politics. Mel Brooks or Woody Allen could not come close to capturing the absurdity of it all. Making sure that the two 'third party' presidential candidates were not allowed to participate, this charade of intelligent concern for issues became a farce.
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Friday, September 9, 2016
Good Cops/ Bad Cops All baby boomers who lived in cities will remember the 'cop on the beat'. He was the guy the neighborhood knew and usually trusted. He chased the punks off of the corner and made sure the Mom and Pop stores were secure at night...Good Cop! Most likely he came from a neighborhood not so far from our own, similar to ours in many ways.
Friday, September 9, 2016Good Cops/ Bad Cops All baby boomers who lived in cities will remember the 'cop on the beat'. He was the guy the neighborhood knew and usually trusted. He chased the punks off of the corner and made sure the Mom and Pop stores were secure at night...Good Cop! Most likely he came from a neighborhood not so far from our own, similar to ours in many ways.
