We Now Live In A Panopticon, A Global World-Prison by J. M. Porup

by J. M. Porup
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
www.JMPorup.com
The View From Abroad
February 6, 2014

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America’s freedom is under assault — by the very people who are supposed to protect it.

Under the guise of “fighting terrorism,” the secret police have staged a silent coup. The NSA, CIA, and the rest of the security apparatus now judge us in secret, and condemn us to harassment, imprisonment or death without trial or due process.

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Science Fiction Is Over–But The Future Is Now by J. M. Porup

by J. M. Porup
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
www.JMPorup.com
Originally published at wetheborg.com, Dec. 19, 2013
December 23, 2013

Science fiction, and its harness mate, “progress,” both have their roots in the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century. The sudden technological change was so striking, and had such a profound effect on people’s lives, that the only way to cope was to convince ourselves that these changes were not only good, but necessary. Hence “progress.”

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Exclusive: Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden are Food Terrorists! by President Dr. Robert Jones MD PhD DDS ODD

Satire Alert!

by President Dr. Robert Jones MD PhD DDS ODD (J. M. Porup)
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
www.JMPorup.com
November 33, 2013

USofAir_coverAs a multiple-Nobel-Prize-winning scientist and author, I have watched the attacks on the NSA with growing dismay. How dare these food-eating scum slander the National Sewer Agency like this?

Ever since we passed the glorious Amendment banning the cultivation, distribution, sale and possession of addictive caloric substances–”food” in ghetto street lingo–the National Sewer Agency has been working overtime to root out food terrorists cells wherever they are hiding in this great nation of ours. Continue reading