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The Colonized Hive Mind | Mind Matters

The Colonized Hive Mind | Mind Matters

Published by Jenni Sidey

Do you ever feel a sense of despair at how boring and clone-like some people are? You probably experienced this with some dull family/extended-family members or old friends, as you sit alone sober in the kitchen at parties or get-togethers. Booze is a good antidote for this, as it stupefies the intellect, but not everyone drinks alcohol. I’m no intellectual snob, but I’ve often felt a bit like the late British historian and TV broadcaster, Kenneth Clarke, sitting at a table with TV celebs the Kardashian’s, as they celebrate Kim’s latest rear-end implants, although that is something Kenneth’s late sleazy son, Alan, would’ve relished! (Kenneth Clarke, not to be confused with the Tory politician who shares the same name, was a refined, classy gentleman who narrated a TV series during the late 1960s called Civilization. He sounded snobbish but he wasn’t a snob. If he saw what passes for civilization today, he’d be spinning in his grave!) But back to Normies: It’s difficult and irritating being surrounded by many people who seem to not care …

Welcome to McKinley: How the U.S. almost colonized a chunk of Cuba

Welcome to McKinley: How the U.S. almost colonized a chunk of Cuba

Published by Jenni Sidey

In an abandoned cemetery on Cuba’s Isla de la Juventud stands the weathered headstone of Estefania Koenig. When she died in 1981, at the ripe old age of 95, she was the last American of what had once been called the McKinley Colonies. A century ago, it was a thriving citrus-growing community, American in everything except the letter of the law. Then came a couple of devastating hurricanes — and the closure of a geopolitical loophole. The story of the McKinley Colonies is more than a forgotten footnote in history. William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States (from 1897 until his assassination in 1901), was America’s last unabashed expansionist-in-chief. Under his watch, the U.S. snapped up Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Cuba from Spain (with full sovereignty over the former three and only temporary control over the latter). McKinley matters today because the current occupant of the White House is a fan: Trump name-checked him in his second inaugural address, and his own musings about acquiring the Panama Canal, Canada, and Greenland …