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Harvey J. Kaye: 'Fighting For The Four Freedoms'

Harvey J. Kaye: ‘Fighting For The Four Freedoms’

Source:Amazon– Bill Moyers interviewed Harvey J. Kaye, about his book about President Franklin D. Roosevelt. “In January 1941, less than a year before Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s State of the Union address made it clear that a fight was inevitable, a fight to preserve, protect and defend four essential freedoms: freedom of speech and…

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Hey - Pat from StarterStory.com here with another interview.Today's interview is with Ray Moyers of HUSKYBEARD, a brand that sells beard care products.Some stats:Product: Beard care products.Revenue/mo: $3,500Started: November 2016Location: Queen Creek, AZFounders: 1Employees: 1Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?My name is Ray Moyers and I purchased Huskybeard 1 year ago, on June 15, 2018. Huskybeard manufactures all natural beard care products using only the highest quality ingredients sourced in the USA. All of our products are handmade in small batches to ensure the highest quality and longest shelf life.We mainly sell beard oils, beard balms, beard combs and beard brushes to bearded men. We have also found some success selling to women that want to introduce the bearded man in their life to the benefits of maintaining a healthy beard. We’ve had many women tell us that our products are the first beard products they’ve found that they like the smell of.I have had men that have used dozens of other products, and men that have used one product forever and refuse to use anything else, switch to Huskybeard because my products are “the best they’ve ever used.”imageHuskybeard has made an average of $3500.00 per month since I purchased it a year ago. This is a huge accomplishment when you consider the situation the company was in when I purchased it. I’ll get into that part of the story later in the interview.imageWhat's your backstory and what inspired you to acquire this new business?I am a serial entrepreneur. I’ve owned many companies. I’ve also had a myriad of full-time jobs with entrepreneurship as my side hustle. I’ve been looking for quite a while for an ecommerce business that I could purchase and grow to provide passive income for my family.At the time, I was working full time as the VP of Marketing for a shade sail company. I have 15 years of experience in web design, SEO, SEM, and online marketing.I needed to supplement my income to be able to provide for my wife and 6 kids so I started looking for an ecommerce business that fit the following criteria:It had to be an established business with sales history that had increased over time.It had to be in a niche I was interested in.The niche had to be a growing niche.It had to have a website that was good, but not optimized yet.It had to be generating enough income to justify the initial investment.It had to have a solid social presence.My plan was to purchase the existing business, redesign and optimize the heck out of the website (because that’s what I am already good at) and manage the day-to-day operations while the business grew.I found Huskybeard on the Shopify Exchange Market and it seemed like it checked all of the boxes for what I was looking for. Huskybeard had a solid sales history, a loyal customer base, the website was good but needed to be optimized, and the beard care niche was blowing up. It was a perfect fit.imageI purchased Huskybeard for $50,000.00. This seemed like a great bargain considering the $120,000.00 revenue the business claimed to have made over the previous 12-month timeframe.Take us through the process of acquiring the business and taking it over.Acquiring a business through the Shopify Exchange is pretty simple and straightforward. After looking through the listing, if you like what you see, you simply click on the button to make an offer and the process begins. If the seller accepts your offer, the sale goes into escrow at escrow.com you have a 10 day due diligence period where you communicate with the seller and make sure you’re comfortable with the deal. If you’re comfortable, the buyer pays escrow.com directly and holds the funds until the owner delivers the product (in this case, the product was Huskybeard.com, all social accounts, and all existing inventory). Once the buyer confirms they have received everything, escrow.com is notified and the funds are released to the seller.Huskybeard already had a solid offering of 10 oil scents, a few brushes, and one wildly popular folding comb when I purchased it. I was led to believe that the owner manufactured the oils himself. Come to find out, he was using a fulfillment company to manufacture and ship his products.The good news is, this manufacturer makes everything by hand in small batches and does a FANTASTIC job. They are incredible. They are the secret sauce behind my oils and balms. The formulas they use to manufacture my products are unique and amazing. 7 of the original oils were formulas that the original owner created.The other 3 were formulas provided by my manufacturer and fulfillment partners. Over the past year, I also purchased Black Tie Beard, a much smaller beard company with unique oil scents, and added their 5 scents to my product line bringing the total to 15 oils.imageAnother popular product on Huskybeard.com is the folding comb. Within days of purchasing Huskybeard, I quickly found out that the folding comb, that was by far the best selling product that Huskybeard offered, and that was solely responsible for the $12,000.00/month average revenue the previous owner claimed, was a piece of junk that fell apart after a few days of use.The comb was sourced from a cheap supplier in China and was severely lacking in quality. Every customer that purchased the original folding comb asked for a refund or exchange. I immediately removed the comb from my website and refused to sell it ever again.imageThe backlash from the sales of the sandalwood folding comb was insane. I spent the first few months as owner working all day, every day, trying to take care of thousands of upset customers. I was replacing and offering refunds on a product that I never received any revenue from. This was the most difficult challenge I had ever had to deal with.After about 6 months of hard work and a laser focus on customer service, complaints and requests for refunds on the comb subsided and I was able to catch my breath. I found a supplier in the Netherlands that makes a folding comb that is much higher quality, but costs 10 times as much to procure.I am committed to only offering high-quality products at Huskybeard, so the extra cost is worth it. The new comb is expensive, but it has received dozens of 5-star reviews. Customers that have purchased multiple folding combs in the past state that the new comb is the best they’ve ever used. The new comb can be found on my site here, and will be in stock for as long as Huskybeard is in business.imageHow have you improved the business since acquisition?As soon as I purchased the business, I got to work redesigning the site and optimizing it for organic traffic.This was easy for me since I have an extensive background of over 15 years doing web design and optimization. I like clean design that offers the customer a pain-free shopping experience. To start, I redesigned the homepage. The original homepage design consisted of a large header that took up at least ⅓ of the page above the fold, a simple text slogan, and then product after product until the bottom of the page.Old site:imageI dumped the header and added a call to action for new products. I kept the text area below the call to action, but changed the text to be keyword specific and more relevant to the brand image I wanted to create. Next, I added category callouts for each of my main product categories. I added a section for Instagram content that updates automatically with fresh content from my IG. Finally, I ended the page with a contact section so that customers don’t have to search for a way to contact me. This immediately helped with resolving the poor customer service Huskybeard had been known for. Customers could now see that I wanted to hear from them, and I wanted to help them have the best experience on my site. I also changed the color scheme of the site. There’s a well known design rule that the old site was breaking. The rule is “NEVER USE RED BUTTONS.” Our brains have been conditioned that red means stop. When you have a red button on your site, customers subconsciously think “Stop, don’t click that button.” This is the opposite of what you want the customer to do, especially if it’s a “buy” button.New site:imageimageimageI optimized all of the on page content for keywords and removed content that wasn’t “evergreen.” I fixed all of the broken links on the site and created 301/302 redirects for inbound links that were broken. I started working on adding content where there was thin content and pouring through the code in the back end to make sure everything looked good and there weren’t any black hat techniques being used. Finally, I added a plugin to make my site AMP compliant.Site traffic started to grow immediately and by the end of the year, monthly visits to Huskybeard.com were almost 3 times as high as they were before.imageI financed the purchase of the business with credit cards that offered 0% for an extended period of time. I don’t recommend doing this unless you have no other means to raise capital. If you do have to use a credit card, make sure it has an interest rate of 0% and pay it off before the 0% promotional interest period ends.I was planning on the business paying off the credit cards I used for the purchase. With the sales history data the previous owner provided, this should have been extremely easy. If Huskybeard could maintain an average monthly revenue of $12,000.00, like the previous owner claimed, the initial investment would have been paid off in less than a year.Unfortunately, Huskybeard only averages about $3500/month in revenue.Since launch, what has worked to attract and retain customers?Over the last year, I’ve discovered some unfortunate truths regarding advertising in the niche that I’m in.One of the problems with my niche is it’s over-saturated. There are close to 2000 beard care companies in the market today. That’s twice the number that existed when I purchased Huskybeard. It is extremely difficult to establish yourself as a leader in the market when everyone thinks they can just make their own beard care products and make it big. This over-saturation causes a surplus of products and options and, subsequently, drives prices down so low that there are razor thin margins on product revenue.Small margins is the second problem. I tried Facebook/Instagram ads, Reddit ads, Google ads, Quora ads, retargeting, I paid social marketing companies like Springbot and Adroll. Though I was able to bring in additional sales, the customer acquisition cost was far too high. When you sell a product that has a 50% profit margin, and you pay 50%, or more, of the retail price of the product to acquire 1 customer through marketing, you have a zero, or even negative, profit. It’s simple math. If I can sell a product for $10 and it costs me $5 to manufacture and ship the item and $5 to acquire the customer, I profit $0.After purchasing Huskybeard, and spending a lot of time diving into past marketing data, I found the previous owner had the same problem. That made me feel validated that it wasn’t something I was doing wrong!The data showed that Huskybeard spent $43,000 on Facebook ads and brought in $71,000 in sales before I acquired the company. This looks like a great ROAS (return on ad spend).However, on closer inspection, I found that the $43,000 ad spend brought in 2,797 sales at a cost of $15.59 PER WEBSITE PURCHASE. When you’re selling an item that retails for $12.99 to $19.99, and the COGS (cost of goods sold) is roughly 50%, and you spend $15.59 per sale on advertising, you’re losing money.imageWhat a huge disappointment this was! It was devastating to find out that, even though the business brought in $120,000 in revenue the previous year, it cost more than $120,000 to manufacture products and acquire customers. Huskybeard was operating in the red and that had to change, quickly.I learned that I couldn’t spend any money on advertising. My margins were too small and CAC was much too high.What does work though is good old fashioned hard work, providing the highest quality products and the most outstanding customer service in the industry. Rather than get discouraged, I put my head down and got to work. I dedicated myself to making sure every customer was ecstatic and more than pleased with their experience shopping at Huskybeard. Not only did this create loyal, repeat customers, but I found that my customers started to refer their friends and family to Huskybeard as well.I have also found success in setting up a quality email communication and marketing campaign. My favorite tool to use for this is Klaviyo. It’s a bit pricey but it gives me the ability to market to my existing customer base and communicate effectively with them. I run campaigns a few times a month that generate around $1000.00 in revenue from existing, repeat customers.imageHow are you doing today and what does the future look like?Today, Huskybeard is profitable. It generates enough revenue to cover my manufacturing and shipping costs and to pay for the monthly debt liability I created when I purchased the business. Unfortunately, there is no extra money to spend on growing the business, let alone paying myself and supporting my family.I lost my full-time job a few months ago in April of 2019 and was optimistic that if I put all of my time and effort into growing Huskybeard it would grow quickly and be enough to support my family. I was wrong. A week after I lost my job, in spite of all of the work I put in, sales stopped. I struggled for a month to increase sales and didn’t have any success. If something doesn’t change quickly, I’ll have to go back to work fulltime and make Huskybeard my side hustle again.Huskybeard continues to stay at the same level it has since I purchased it. It generates $2500.00 to $4000.00 per month online. I currently get about 17,000 visitors per month and all sales are through my online store. I attempted to get my products listed on Amazon but there are strict regulations and an approval process for products in the “Health and Beauty” category. I haven’t invested the time in getting my products approved on Amazon.I have approached local business (barbershops, salons) and have found some success getting Huskybeard products into a few B&M locations. I also have my product for sale in 4 Buffalo Trim barbershops in New York.This month, I will be launching a new product: Beard Creams. I am hoping this will entice some dormant customers to come back and make a purchase. I also hope to capture a new segment of the market that haven’t purchased from Huskybeard because they prefer creams over balms and oils.imageI am also planning to launch a new oil, balm, and cream scent each month from now on. I am hoping that my customers will be excited and look forward to trying the new scents each month and that this will generate some additional revenue.Through starting the business, have you learned anything particularly helpful or advantageous?It’s difficult to look back and recognize and face your mistakes. I feel like I was taken advantage of in the purchase of the business and that the previous owner’s claims of making $120,000 in less than a year were misleading. Yes, Huskybeard made $120,000 but it was not profitable. The mistake I made was not doing enough due diligence to discover this before the acquisition. Had I looked into the marketing ad spend and CAC prior to the purchase, I would have at least known what I was getting into.Fortunately, I made the decision early on to stop wasting money on advertising. One piece of advice the previous owner gave me was to put more money into advertising. He said that Huskybeard’s sales were only limited by the amount I spent on Facebook Ads and that that was the key to making more money. If I wanted to make more money, all I had to do was spend more on Facebook Ads. Luckily, I had the good sense to ignore that advise and stop the bleeding.I have found that the only way to succeed in this market is to work hard, have a great product, and the absolute best customer service. I know that the only reason I’m still in business today is because I work as hard as I can at making my customers happy. There’s nothing that benefits my company more than providing amazing customer service.What platform/tools do you use for your business?Huskybeard runs on Shopify.I use stamped.io to request reviews from customers. Reviews are invaluable and help convert window shoppers. Stamped is a great app because it automates the review request process.I use smile.io for my rewards program. Smile is a rewards app that gives customers points for purchases and other actions on my site. It integrates with stamped and gives rewards for different types of reviews on my site and social media. Customers can use their rewards points to make purchases on my site.I use Klaviyo for email marketing. It gives me the ability to automate email flows and send emails based on set timeframes and customer actions. I have flows set up for purchases, abandoned carts, engagement, returning customers, etc. I can also set up 1-off campaigns for sales and special events.I use Recharge for my recurring subscriptions on my site. Customers can subscribe to get the product of their choice sent to them on a regular schedule. Recharge has tons of options and works fantastic if you have a product that you want customers to subscribe to.I just started using ShoutOut for my affiliate and ambassador program. The app is great. It automates everything involved in running an affiliate or ambassador network.Finally, I use Shipstation to automate my shipping and fulfillment process. I can’t recommend Shipstation enough. I used a few shipping apps before settling on Shipstation and have been super happy with my shipping process ever since.Advice for other entrepreneurs who want to get started or are just starting out?My top tip for anyone looking to purchase a business is to make sure you do your due diligence and hyper-analyze everything before making a decision.Make sure you know the numbers and don’t take the business owner’s word on anything. They’re trying to sell their business so they’re going to make it look as enticing as possible.Don’t take anything at face value and uncover the hidden truths behind the facade.Are you looking to hire for certain positions right now?Huskybeard can’t afford to pay me, let alone any other employees right now. However, we are always looking for ambassadors to promote our brand. We pay our ambassadors a percentage of any sales they make. If you’re interested, please sign up here: Ambassador ProgramWe are also looking for anyone that would like to create content, reviews, blog posts, video reviews, etc. to promote our brand. We do set aside a small budget each month to send out free product to individuals that would like to review and promote our products. Contact us on our site or through Instagram @huskybeard if you’re interested. We also welcome link exchange requests and guest posts on our site.Where can we go to learn more?Website: https://huskybeard.comIf you have any questions or comments, drop a comment below!Liked this text interview? Check out the full interview with photos, tools, books, and other data.For more interviews, check out r/starter_story - I post new stories there daily.Interested in sharing your own story? Send me a PM

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Here’s How You May Already Be Getting Hacked

Here’s How You May Already Be Getting Hacked

Here’s How You May Already Be Getting Hacked (via Moyers & Company)

The following is an excerpt from Julia Angwin’s Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance. Who is watching you? This was once a question asked only by kings, presidents and public figures trying…

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BILL MOYERS CONVERSATION WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON ABOUT THE COSMOS.

Sun, moon, stars, quasars, motherf#@ker sound like Elroy Jetson.

-Doughboy (Boyz n the Hood)

The above is one of my favorite lines from the motion picture Boyz n the Hood. It immediately came to mind when I came across this conversation between two of my…

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Bill Moyers talks with Anthony Leiserowitz about climate change (January 4, 2013)

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Why not spend one of the last hours of 2012 watching Bill Moyers interview Junot Diaz?

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Naomi Klein on the Links Between Capitalism and Climate Change

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“You’re looking at a nation with a grotesquely unequal distribution of wealth and income, tremendous economic power on Wall Street, and now added to all of that is big money interests — the billionaires and corporations now buying elections. I fear very much that if we don’t turn this around, we’re heading toward an oligarchic form of society.”

-Senator Bernie Sanders (I) from Vermont on Moyers & Company 

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Prisoner Letter #1 on BAsics 1:13

7-7-12

I wanted to send a few words on the quote BAsics 1:13 “No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.”

This quote obviously has many layers, but to peel back a few of the layers and expose some of what it’s getting at I would relate this quote to the oppression of youth over all in America as well as around the world. This oppression is seen in the Barrios where the people are occupied by the pigs, it is seen in the projects where oppressed youth are chased into their own apartment by the occupied force and shot dead unarmed by those claiming to ‘Protect and serve.’ Our condemnation to an early death comes in various ways from flooding our neighborhoods with drugs to flooding other countries with guns and death squads which work to wreak havoc on communities around the globe. An early death is what youth around the world experience daily due to the work of U.S. Imperialism, whether this early death comes from children working in electronic waste or in coal mines, in working in cancer pesticide soaked fields in America or in sweat shops around the world. Our “fate” is sealed with the brand of felon which places us in a perpetual caste system where we are stripped of any so called rights or benefits. Our life of misery and brutality comes in a steel cage! All over America our youth are trapped in gulags where even children are held in solitary confinement by the thousands, this is the future of youth here in America. The system has destined so many who are not even born yet to this oppression by the building of so many prisons in its strategic task of continuing this mass incarceration.

Within this quote lies the mode of oppression that will continue so long as we allow it. Current events here in Amerika show this to be true and these events continue to accelerate in this death march we experience in America.

On April 9, 2012 in the small town of Eloy, Arizona two migrant workers were murdered in cold blood when they were ambushed by armed racist militia members. This event was handled as ‘business as usual’ by the bourgeois media. With known racist militias like Border guardians and minutemen operating in Arizona, where is the outrage? This is the “tolerance” that is being built in America, this is the “early death or a life of misery and brutality” I think of when I read this quote. But this type of brutality is not confined to fascist volunteer groups, on the contrary this early death is issued out directly from the state itself! The recent murder of a Black man in his 60’s, a Mr. Chamberlin who was issued an early death by the White Plains, New York police gave us all a reminder of legal lynchings  in case we forgot. Mr. Chamberlin whose “crime” was setting off a medical alert, his service in the marines did not prevent his killers from calling him n***** and even though you hear him telling his killers he knows they are gonna kill him you can still hear his killers laughing and taunting him (1). This is the long lineage of legal lynching and white supremacy that infects the society we currently live in, it is the stark boldfaced oppression that clings to us like a wet T-shirt- it engulfs us like a shower of hot fish oil.

Our oppression in America is a long filthy lineage, a goat path cut all the way back to the earliest days of empire. Prisoners like the slave are used for the interest of our captors in many ways. When America gained its independence from Britain and the U.S. Constitution was created , it was only from the pressure of slave owners that the slaves were listed as three fifths of a person for the sole purpose of increasing the slave owners’ representation in the U.S. Congress. In a more contemporary similar light prisoners are counted as residents of a county, not as an act of equal treatment of “citizens” which would entitle prisoners to tax dollars for programs etc. rather to increase the population for more bourgeois representation in mostly white rural areas. Once more captives are used for the interests of the captors. This is the history of our oppression, of our misery and brutality. Our oppression comes not just in the physical form, that is not only with the lash or the gun but it is a deep psychological oppression, one most don’t even realize or identify. Even amongst ‘movement people’ most do not realize the underlying psychological oppression that straddles the mindset of oppressed people in America, it is done with stealth and in the dark, but all you need to do is take off the blinders and see what has been in front of you for so long. George Washington himself had owned 160 slaves at the time of his death, not only that but he was a fourth generation slave owner! Imagine four generations of owning Black people and get a picture of his mentality. Think about what this means when such a scoundrel who owned humans has statues and portraits, monuments and schools named after himself all over the U.S., he is America’s hero, how does this make Blacks and other oppressed feel? It is akin to Israel today having statues and portraits of Hitler, Goering or Rommel in Israel, schools and parks named after these maggots how would Jews feel calling Mangele a “founding father”?

As I began writing about this quote one of the things that keeps coming to mind when I think of so many being sealed off and condemned to an early death,  despite my own condemnation in this concentration camp, this concrete coal mine where I resist the vampires of the state and these torturous conditions I still think of the recent spike in violence in Chicago’s streets. Having come from street life I understand that life very well. But to see poor people cutting down other poor, oppressed doing the job of the oppressor is too much. Capitalist society teaches us how to think even in the womb because it has taught our parents to teach us. The street activity is not something we have invented, it derives from acute contradictions of living under oppression in Imperialist America, it is a process of historical materialism. The reason why people are in the street chopping each other down some may think it’s just “drug wars” or “power grabs” this is on the surface, but historical materialism will show us these actions are brought on from years of state oppression where people ain’t got shit, but at the same time are told, taught and fed the false oppressor idea that they need to have certain cars, jewelry, and other bullshit, these are false ideas, propaganda the oppressor drills into our minds, instead of us building our independent institutions like newspapers, clinics, etc. for our communities, we are instead listening to the oppressor and wanting to “ball” wanting to “live large” like our oppressors. Once the oppressor allows crumbs (dope) to infect our communities,  the people do anything and everything to get a piece of the oppressor pie, while the oppressor sits back and watches us cannibalize ourselves. The oppressor creates oppressor culture or capitalist culture, as society is drunk or high on oppressor culture the oppressor no longer needs the whip because the oppressed now oppress each other, he has essentially created millions of small time oppressors. There is in capitalist America a manufactured culture of “want” in place, firmly lodged that escapes reality. It is precisely this leap away from reality which helps to reinforce the oppression so many face on a daily. We need to firmly identify our oppression, only then will we begin to uproot it. We are good enough to be used to go fight other oppressed people around the world but not good enough to be free from misery and brutality. We need to get busy but get busy on ending our oppression, Eldridge Cleaver said in his better days that Blacks “are asked to die for the system in Vietnam, why not die right here in Babylon fighting for a better life …”? (2) Now this can apply to current circumstances in America in that oppressed people are asked to go die for the state in its wars for empire around the world but why not use our life to struggle here in America for freedom from our oppressors? This does not mean being a martyr but if we can end our life in some stupid shit or some crazy shit, why not use our life for some revolutionary shit? Some free the people shit.

What we need to finally realize is that we are condemned to an early death, it is a war on poor people that has gone on in America since its founding in one form or another, it evolves with the concrete conditions of society but remains a war none the less. This is not a conventional war fought with the military, rather it uses soft power for the most part with its court system, prisons, schools, media and culture mostly. But when you fight a war it don’t stop on the battlefield – the frontline is everywhere! For too long the people been thinking so long as the U.S. military is not monitoring our neighborhoods we must not be at war and for this we are paying through the nose with generations murdered and imprisoned.

In a recent news program it discussed an August, 2002, CIA audit that found over 700 people do not belong in Guantanamo and yet Rumsfield called them the “worst of the worst” but were really caught in a web of deception. This program went on to explain that the trained interrogators were told to “develop a state of learned helplessness”. (3) The program described how the abuse, treatment and brutality was all used to develop a state of learned helplessness, it was uncanny how I seen the similarities in the oppressed in America, especially in the SHU’s who undergo torture in the form of isolation and sensory deprivation. This mirrors what Guantanamo develops to break down those held captive in that gulag and this can also be seen out in society with our neighborhoods under attack by the state with hyper policing, gang injunctions, stop & frisk and murder or incarceration; this is a method of developing a state of learned helplessness in our communities where people begin to see they are occupied and an attempt to melt away our rebelliousness and compel us to conform and take on the oppressor culture and mentality. The oppressors would label us all criminals or the worse of the worse, but this is a cowpatty of distortion;  the real worse of the worse is U.S. Imperialism and I say no more of that!

With a clenched fist from the robbin Island of America.

Notes:  (1) 5-7-12 NPR “Democracy Now”

                (2) eldridge cleaver, “Soul on Ice”, Delta Books, 1968. Pg 137.

                (3) PBS, “Moyers & Company” 5-26-12.

From prisoner in California

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"Everything Begins a Seed" - Vandana Shiva

Scientist and philosopher Vandana Shiva will appear on 'Moyers & Company' this weekend to talk about GMO seeds, food safety and making peace with the earth. See local listings: http://billmoyers.com/schedule

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Door Closes to Open Internet, But All May Not Be Lost

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Luis Alberto Urrea shares memories of Tijuana garbage pickers on Moyers & Company.

Born in Jalisco, my father was brought to the border by his bracero father and older brothers. By age 5, he was shinning shoes to provide for his mother and sisters, when there would be large gaps in visits from my grandfather and uncles. Many times, his life was not very far from a garbage picker's. I appreciate Urrea telling the stories of a border town world not far from my father's...

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"Whatever threat Iran poses is very, very limited, and certainly does not constitute any kind of justification for yet another experiment with preventive war."

- Andrew Bacevich, a West Point graduate and Vietnam veteran-turned-scholar, to Bill Moyers on "Moyers & Company." Watch the episode, which aired last week, here.

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Moyers & Company (December 29, 2012)

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TV WORTH WATCHING:

MOYERS & COMPANY

Public TV, Friday - Sunday ET (Check local listings); 2/3/2012-2/5/2012

One of Bill Moyers’ guests tonight is moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt (that’s his job title, not an opinion), who tries to explain why there is such a deep divide right now between rich and poor, and between the two political parties – and to warn about the long-term ramifications if that divide continues. Local PBS member stations can present this program any time between Friday and Sunday on their local schedules. To find it in your area, click HERE.

- David Bianculli