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You saved the best for last. Your interview with Monica Harris is a game changer for me that inspired me to be to be a paid subscriber. 75 year old white male from Canada on a pension but wants to acknowledge the important work you do and have been following you for past year or so. Your own journey is an inspiration as a Canadian fed up with main stream media. Keep up the good work.

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Years ago at a powwow I met chief ovid mercurdy along the Fraser river. He talked along very similar lines to forgive moving forward embracing our differences and similarities. To stop dwelling on past wrongs to embrace and grow in our society.

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Thank you, Tara, for this fabulous interview! I plan to purchase Monica Harris' book and also give a donation to the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism. Well done to you both!

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What an inspiring lady. Great interview.

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This interview is good medicine (and a tear jerker) for the last workday before the end of year holidays. The theme of the story about meeting the guy at the water slide is something I've been saying here in Canada--my neighbours are my neighbours, and there are other forces attempting to divide us. If we focus on remaining connected and what we build in our communities together, it effectively undermines the will of those who would shame and 'other,' who would play us off each other for their own gain. Happy End of Year Festivities to Tara & the Lean Out Team.

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Thank you so much for this message of clarity and hope.

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For me, the key point of this interview was the comment by the "scary guy" who said that they want to divide us. This is a class war, something that for all the talk about protecting the vulnerable seems to have been missed. The way that those who see themselves as our rulers maintain their status, privilege, wealth and power is to divide us.

This is the way that the Romans controlled their empire. The British upper class are especially adept at pitting different groups against each other. Monica referenced the events of October 7th. That event is the direct descendent of the Balfour Declaration and the drawing of Maps dividing up the Ottoman Empire. Those Maps were drawn (In secret) to ensure conflict. Conflict which allowed the British, then American Empires to maintain their control of events in that part of the world.

We do have more in common than we know, but for those who see privilege as their birthright, it is imperative that we not understand that.

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inspiring interview!

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Just getting a chance to listen to this now, as the holidays are winding down. Wow!! So inspiring, I will have to check out her book. (Although I thought there have been three Black supreme court justices, not two?). Thank you Tara for a great year and your fantastic journalism.

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I don't care that you have a guest who applauds genocide. In fact, I think that it is good to hear from that perspective. I was even amused with the narrative around her poolside chat with a neo-nazi. But when she spoke of her support of apartheid Israel, I understood that she had more in common with him than with her supposed "hero" MLK. Perhaps she should listen to Nelson Mandela when it comes to the Palestinians. But her other hero is probably P.W. Botha.

Nevertheless, her views are not why I am cancelling my subscription. I simply assumed you would have the common sense - if not the moral decency - to come to the defense of an occupied people who have been suffering under an apartheid system for decades. Now that they are being submitted to a genocide at our expense, it is even more important to defend them. Instead, you explicitly endorse the occupiers. Good luck with that.

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