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Will you volunteer to join the Internet of Bodies? — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 18, 2021 It was at my first-ever gym job. The clientele was obscenely wealthy yet they yearned for what we trainers had: muscular physiques. One of my co-workers, Warren, used to chuckle: “They have the money but we have the toys.” “Toys” become our code word for muscles and the lust for toys kept our personal training business afloat. On one particular day, I re ...

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The Girl Who Fell to Earth — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 16, 2021 Imagine this: An attractive, white, blonde, smart, tough, and articulate male teenager survives a plane crash that kills all of the other 91 passengers (inc ...

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In Medicine We Trust? — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 14, 2021 Watching the once-skeptical Left become cheerleaders for Big Pharma is reminding me of two anecdotes from the mid-2000s. The first took place when my wife a ...

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Toward the Breaking Point | John Michael Greer

June 2, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- The great changes, the changes that matter, don’t always announce themselves with the blare of amplified voices or the distant thunder of cannons and bombs. As often a ...

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America the Temporary — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 11, 2021 America is a nation built upon myth. If you don't believe me, consider the slave-owning Florentine merchant-adventurer after whom this country was named. Am ...

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Fake News + Bad Journalism = The New Normal — Mickey Z.

(Media Burn) Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 9, 2021 I’ve been interviewed dozens and dozens of times. Those experiences have sometimes left me shaking my head when I’d find factual errors in the e ...

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“There are valises everywhere!” (my only Hamptons vacation) — Mickey Z.

Greetings From The Hamptons Beach is a piece of digital artwork by Flo Karp Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 7, 2021 I’ve visited the notorious Hamptons a couple of times as a day trip. But only onc ...

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Mask Hysteria in Vaccination Nation — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 3, 2021 Planet Fitness is now mask-optional. I can blissfully work out each morning with dozens of other people — all of us sweating and breathing heavily — many wit ...

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Government scare tactics, media hype, and creepy men (in 1942!) — Mickey Z.

“WARNING! Our Homes Are in Danger Now!,” produced by the General Motors Corporation, 1942 Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 31, 2021 Have you ever heard of the Phantom Barber of Pascagoula? His story ...

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Tales From the Pre-COVID Subway Days — Mickey Z.

(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 28, 2021 “You can’t get romantic on a subway line…” (“Everybody Wants Some,” Van Halen) Thanks to COVID-19 and its patchwork quilt of (over)responses, so ...

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New Research Challenges the Accuracy of the COVID Counts — Mickey Z.

Jessica Rinaldi/Boston Globe Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 26, 2021 Recently, I outlined several valid reasons to question the methods by which Covid cases and deaths have been counted. For that, ...

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