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Good morning! It’s Day 2 of the Prison Strike
Hyde Correctional in North Carolina has targeted three organizers of the strike for repression - Randy Watterson, Tod J Martin, and Jace Buras. Call in to Hyde Correctional and tell them: no repression for striking prisoners! Keep your hands off our people!
https://incarceratedworkers.org/phone-zaps/support-striking-prisoners-hyde-correctional-nc
Solidarity with the nationwide prison strike in the U.S! ✊👊
Good. I was worried when you came out with, “It’s my first day and I’m going to lift ALL the weights!”
Carry on.
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Start slowly. Don’t quit. Prefer free weights to machines.
Here’s the Bible of weight training: *Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training* by Mark Rippetoe
Norman Finkelstein is a mentat.
This article by him on charges of anti-semitism against Jeremy Corbyn is excellent.
http://normanfinkelstein.com/2018/08/20/finkelstein-on-corbyn-mania/
On this day in 1953 British intelligence and the CIA overthrew the elected government of Iran. Shortly after he was elected President in 1951, Mohammed Mossaedgh moved to nationalize Iran’s oil. Two years later he was ousted in a coup and Shah Reza Pahlavi put in power.
Soon after the term “blowback” was coined within US intelligence agencies.