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‘Sister Wives’ Family Reacts to Utah Decriminalizing Polygamy – PopCulture.com

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In March 2020, polygamy was essentially decriminalized in Utah. Governor Gary Herbert signed Senate Bill 102 into law, which reduced the crime of bigamy from a felony to infraction, putting it on par with a traffic ticket. Previously, "bigamy was a third-degree felony, legally punishable by up to five years in prison and up to a $5,000 fine," CNN reported. When combined with crimes like abuse, fraud, or child-bride marriages, it is still considered a felony. However, this opened up many doors for polygamists in the state, including Sister Wives' Kody Brown and his wives Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn.

In Sunday's Sister Wives episode, viewers get to see the Brown family's reaction to the news. After a fearful return to Utah when bigamy was still a felony, the Browns were thrilled to tell their children about what this means for their family. "We have some really fun, exciting news to tell the kids today. I'm just so excited," Robyn explained in a confessional in PEOPLE's exclusive clip. "This is news we've hoped to actually give our kids for 10 years or more," Kody added.

Robyn tells her children that "plural marriage is an infraction, which is like, equal to a traffic ticket, which is basically and essentially decriminalizing plural marriage." Wife Janelle also expresses relief over the news. "We're like, no longer felons for living our religion," she said. "For about 50 years after the Mormon pioneers came to Salt Lake in about 1847, they practiced polygamy it was part of the religion, it was just a thing that was done. It wasn't weird."

"[In] about 1890, they decided they wanted to try for statehood, so in order to do that, they had to outlaw polygamy, and it's been illegal ever since," Janelle explained. "For 150 years, we've been felons." Meri, who was raised in a polygamist family before marrying Kody, calls polygamy "basic human rights, civil rights. I don't think Kody sharing a bedroom with another adult woman is hurting anybody else." As for Kody, he released a statement to People explaining that he believes this new law will "ultimately lead to the freedom of all plural families everywhere."

This change in polygamy law is hard-earned and way overdue as the polygamist community in Utah has been marginalized for over a century. I feel that this is just the first step to destigmatize plural families," he said in the statement.

"Witnessing the law change last year and knowing it came from legislation is very promising. I hope it will ultimately lead to the freedom of all plural families everywhere. To witness the Utah Legislature make this change gave me both hope and joy, and even a sense of social acceptance," he continued. "It's an indirect victory for so many that worked so hard, but a huge victory still."

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Is Kaleh Married to Jarod on ‘Seeking Sister Wife’? Are They Still Together? – Distractify

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Season 3 of Seeking Sister Wife offers a rare glimpse into the everyday life of five polygamous families, including the North Carolina-based trio, Kaleh, Vanessa, and Jarod Clark.

As Jarod explained in a recently-released teaser, he met his first wife, Vanessa, while he was still in the military. He suggested they try polygamy about six-and-a-half years into the relationship but Vanessa shut down his first attempts. So, how did Kaleh come into the picture? Is she married to Jarod?

"We practice polygamy. Specifically, polygyny. Polygamy is the umbrella term for a multi-person relationship. Polygyny is geared more towards the male having separate wives and that's what we're striving to do," Jarod explained.

A Seeking Sister Wife teaser captures how the trio moves into their brand new home. But the big change might mark the beginning of a less-than-harmonious chapter in their lives. As the clip shows, Jarod and Vanessa have been struggling to integrate Kaleh into the family.

Jarod and Vanessa started out as a monogamous couple. Jarod took up an interest in polygyny about six-and-a-half years after they got married and he had some convincing to do at first.

"I introduced polygamy to Vanessa about three years ago, six-and-a-half years into our marriage. The response that I received from her was a flat, pure, unadulterated no," Jarod said.

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Vanessa struggled to come to terms with the concept in the beginning. As she explained in a clip, she was worried about how polygyny might impact her relationship with Jarod. What's more, she was convinced the new arrangement would only benefit Jarod.

"I thought it was more for you than it was for me. That was the biggest stigma that I had to get over," Vanessa told Jarod in a trailer.

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"I knew absolutely nothing about polygamy. It took me a lot of learning, background, history, everything, to actually understand the benefits of it. I realized I would have somebody who has my back with not only my children, with my husband, with my house, with everything," Vanessa added.

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‘Seeking Sister Wife’ Couple Sidian and Tosha Reveal Why Their First Plural Marriage Fell Apart in Exclusive Premiere Sneak Peek – PopCulture.com

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Sidian and Tosha Jones are looking to add another wife to the family after the polygamist couple's first plural relationship ended in heartbreak. The newcomers to Seeking Sister Wife share their story in a PopCulture.com exclusive preview ahead of the Monday, March 22 season premiere of the TLC series, revealing that their polygamous path hasn't always been easy.

"I had a friend who was in a polygamous relationship, and what drew me to the lifestyle was learning that polygamy is a lot more than sex," Sidian explains of how he first came around to the idea of a plural marriage. "It is having more support in the house, more love to go around. You know, if somebody has any sort of problem, there's not just one other adult in the house to help tackle it, there's at least two others."

It was then that he and his first wife, with whom he shares two kids, decided to try polygamy. Enter Tosha, who learned about polygamy from Sidian and grew interested in the idea due to "the family aspect." Sidian then introduced Tosha to his first wife, who he says was "very accepting" of her new sister wife and "really wanted to bring her into the family." Tosha fit in immediately, and after about three months, the family transitioned into her living with them.

"After spending time with Sidian in his family, it really felt like I was meant to be there," Tosha says of the early days of their relationship. Sidian agrees that things between the two women "really fell into place easily" right off the bat, and that they would "switch off" time with him at night in their separate bedrooms, although nothing was scheduled.

"We were all getting along great. We loved it, the kids loved it for about six months, and that's when things fell apart," Sidian shares. "My first wife really started questioning whether polygamy was for her." When Tosha learned of the unrest in the house, she says she "really wanted to respect her position and give them opportunity to let them work on their marriage," so she decided to leave their home and see what would eventually happen.

It was clearly a tough time for Tosha, who when asked what her time apart from Sidian and the kids was like begins to cry. "Sorry," she apologizes. "I didn't expect that." Get to know the Jones family even more when a new season of Seeking Sister Wife premieres on Monday, March 22 at 8 p.m. ET on TLC and discovery+.

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Today is Monday, March 22, the 81st day of 2021. There are 284 days left in the year.

Today's Highlights in History:

On March 22, 1941, the Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state officially went into operation.

On this date:

In 1820, U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with Commodore James Barron near Washington, D.C.

In 1882, President Chester Alan Arthur signed a measure outlawing polygamy.

In 1894, hockey's first Stanley Cup championship game was played; home team Montreal defeated Ottawa, 3-1.

In 1945, the Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt.

In 1976, principal photography for the first "Star Wars" movie, directed by George Lucas, began in Tunisia.

In 1987, a garbage barge, carrying 3,200 tons of refuse, left Islip, New York, on a six-month journey in search of a place to unload. (The barge was turned away by several states and three other countries until space was found back in Islip.)

In 1988, both houses of Congress overrode President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act.

In 1991, high school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of recruiting her teenage lover and his friends to kill her husband, Gregory, was convicted in Exeter, New Hampshire, of murder-conspiracy and being an accomplice to murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

In 1993, Intel Corp. unveiled the original Pentium computer chip.

In 1997, Tara Lipinski, at age 14 years and 10 months, became the youngest ladies' world figure skating champion in Lausanne, Switzerland.

In 2010, Google Inc. stopped censoring the internet for China by shifting its search engine off the mainland to Hong Kong.

In 2019, special counsel Robert Mueller closed his Russia investigation with no new charges, delivering his final report to Justice Department officials. Former President Jimmy Carter became the longest-living chief executive in American history; at 94 years and 172 days, he exceeded the lifespan of the late former President George H.W. Bush.

Ten years ago: Yemen's U.S.-backed president, Ali Abdullah Saleh (AH'-lee ahb-DUH'-luh sah-LEH'), his support crumbling among political allies and the army, warned that the country could slide into civil war as the opposition rejected his offer to step down by the end of the year. NFL owners meeting in New Orleans voted to make all scoring plays reviewable by the replay official and referee; also, kickoffs would be moved up 5 yards to the 35-yard line.

Five years ago: Capping a remarkable visit to Cuba, President Barack Obama sat beside President Raul Castro at a baseball game between Cuba's national team and the Tampa Bay Rays (the Rays won, 4-1); Obama left the game early to fly to Argentina for a state visit there. Suicide bombers attacked the Brussels airport and subway system, killing 32 people. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton padded their delegate troves with victories in Arizona; Democratic challenger Bernie Sanders won caucuses in Utah and Idaho and Republican Ted Cruz claimed his party's caucuses in Utah. Rob Ford, the troubled former mayor of Toronto, died at age 46.

One year ago: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered all nonessential businesses in the state to close and nonessential workers to stay home. The Senate voted against advancing a $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package that Democrats said was tilted toward corporations, but negotiations continued. (Approval would come by week's end.) Kentucky Republican Rand Paul became the first member of the U.S. Senate to report testing positive for the coronavirus; his announcement led Utah senators Mike Lee and Mitt Romney to place themselves in quarantine. The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the pandemic was first detected, went a fourth consecutive day without reporting any new or suspected cases of the coronavirus.

Today's Birthdays: Composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim is 91. Evangelist broadcaster Pat Robertson is 91. Actor William Shatner is 90. Former Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is 87. Actor M. Emmet Walsh is 86. Actor-singer Jeremy Clyde is 80. Singer-guitarist George Benson is 78. Writer James Patterson is 74. CNN newscaster Wolf Blitzer is 73. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is 73. Actor Fanny Ardant is 72. Sportscaster Bob Costas is 69. Country singer James House is 66. Actor Lena Olin is 66. Singer-actor Stephanie Mills is 64. Actor Matthew Modine is 62. Actor-comedian Keegan-Michael Key is 50. Actor Will Yun Lee is 50. Olympic silver medal figure skater Elvis Stojko is 49. Actor Guillermo Diaz is 46. Actor Anne Dudek is 46. Actor Cole Hauser is 46. Actor Kellie Williams is 45. Actor Reese Witherspoon is 45. Rock musician John Otto (Limp Bizkit) is 44. Actor Tiffany Dupont is 40. Rapper Mims is 40. Actor Constance Wu is 39. Actor James Wolk is 36.

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Kaluma: It ends with lunch and selfies – The Standard

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His Bill has caused slay-queens and woman-eaters sleepless nights since he tabled it.

Homa Bay Town MP Peter Kaluma (pictured) has bravely fought for his space since he was elected in 2013. Today, he has become a regular feature in the living rooms of many families through press invitations.

But his latest task is particularly challenging, given that his Luo Nyanza backyard is awash with leaders keen to establish a vocal presence. He has carved himself a niche through rather controversial legislative proposals, which have some element of fighting for the oppressed. The most controversial is the Succession Law (Amendment) Bill.

His submission before Parliament last week, championing the Bill, was nearly poetic. This is a very small proposed amendment with far-reaching and material consequences, he said, evoking Mark Twains sage counsel,its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog.

On the face of it, it seems that Kaluma was once again stepping up to a task Ndiritu Njoka, chairman of the Maendeleo ya Wanaume lobby, had seemingly abdicated; fighting for the rights and freedoms of men. His Bill wants widowers to inherit property from their late wives, too, without proving that they depended on the deceased.

And the Bill does not stop at that, he expounded, it also seeks to block slay-queens and woman-eaters in his words, people who are hiding with you from your family from succeeding their lovers.

The Bill proposes that only legal spouses of a deceased would take over their property and not, again to quote Kaluma non-verbatim, anyone who has lunch with you and takes pictures, ostensibly as proof of marriage.

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As he made his case for the Bill, the MP formerly famed in Bunge as Akuku Danger the famed polygamist made clear that his proposed change would not affect those in polygamous marriages. Spouses in such unions would still be entitled to property belonging to their deceased partners.

The two-time MP came out as a defender of the sanctity of marriage, only that he sounded like a champion of polygamous partnerships. The speech was in itself almost like an ode to polygamy.

We are allowed to marry many women because we passed the Marriage Act that recognises polygamy and even allows for the issuance of certificates, he said at some point.

But that is not the first time Kaluma has fought for men. In 2015, MPs rejected his proposed amendment to the Childrens Act that sought to lock estranged spouses out of child support. Had his Bill become law, women would have lost the right to demand child-upkeep from deadbeat dads.

The Bill proposed to give parents of children born out of wedlock equal custody rights to the child and the same responsibilities.

At the time, Kaluma was battling a custody and child-support case involving his former wife, Mary Akinyi Ojera. While shooting down the Bill, some MPs read mischief in Kalumas intentions.

We are not in the House to create laws to fix our domestic problems, Aden Duale, then Majority Leader, said.

Another of his Bills that got nowhere was his proposal to have some 40 counties secede from Kenya in the wake of the disputed 2017 presidential election.

The MP had cited marginalisation as a ground for secession, and his proposal had received the nod by the elections and boundaries body, IEBC. But the publicised legislation that proposed to create the Peoples Republic of Kenya fizzled into thin air in the months that followed.

But Kaluma hasnt just fought within Bunge, he has exchanged blows in public as well.

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Strength to Struggle – The Statesman

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The bourgeois of France had always come away with everything. Since the revolution of 1789, they had been the only ones to grow rich in periods of prosperity, while the working class had regularly borne the brunt of crises. But the defeat of Napoleon III during the Franco-Prussian War offered an opportunity for a change of course. The prospect of a conservative government that would leave social injustices intact, heaping the burden of the war on the least well-off, triggered a new revolution on 18 March.

Adolphe Thiers and his army had little choice but to decamp to Versailles. To secure democratic legitimacy, the insurgents decided to hold free elections at once. On 26 March, an overwhelming majority of Parisians (190,000 votes against 40,000) approved the motivation for the revolt, and 70 of the 85 elected representatives declared their support for the revolution. On 28 March a large number of citizens gathered in the vicinity of the Htel de Ville for festivities celebrating the new assembly, which now officially took the name of the Paris Commune.

Although it would survive for no more than 72 days, it was the most important political event in the history of the nineteenthcentury workers movement, rekindling hope among a population exhausted by months of hardship. Committees and groups sprang up in the popular quarters to lend support to the Commune, and every corner of the metropolis hosted initiatives to express solidarity and to plan the construction of a new world.

One of the most widespread sentiments was a desire to share with others. It was not the impetus of a leader or a handful of charismatic figures that gave life to the Commune; its hallmark was its clearly collective dimension. Women and men came together voluntarily to pursue a common project of liberation. Self-government was not seen as a utopia. Selfemancipation was thought of as the essential task. Two of the first emergency decrees to stem the rampant poverty were a freeze on rent payments and on the selling of items valued below 20 francs in pawn shops.

Nine collegial commissions were also supposed to replace the ministries for war, finance, general security, education, subsistence, labour and trade, foreign relations and public service. On 19 April, three days after further elections to fill 31 seats that became almost immediately vacant, the Commune adopted a Declaration to the French People that contained an absolute guarantee of individual liberty, freedom of conscience and freedom of labour as well as the permanent intervention of citizens in communal affairs.

The conflict between Paris and Versailles, it affirmed, cannot be ended through illusory compromises; the people had a right and obligation to fight and to win! Even more significant than this text were the concrete actions through which the Communards fought for a total transformation of political power. A set of reforms addressed not only the modalities but the very nature of political administration. The Commune provided for the recall of elected representatives and for control over their actions by means of binding mandates (though this was by no means enough to settle the complex issue of political representation).

Magistracies and other public offices were also subject to permanent control and possible recall. The clear aim was to prevent the public sphere from becoming the domain of professional politicians. Policy decisions were not left up to small groups of functionaries, but had to be taken by the people. Armies and police forces would no longer be institutions set apart from the body of society. The separation between state and church was also a sine qua non. But the vision of political change was not confined to such measures: it went more deeply to the roots.

The transfer of power into the hands of the people was needed to drastically reduce bureaucracy. The social sphere should take precedence over the political ~ as Henri de SaintSimon had already maintained ~ so that politics would no longer be a specialised function but become progressively integrated into the activity of civil society. The social body would thus take back functions that had been transferred to the state. To overthrow the existing system of class rule was not sufficient; there had to be an end to class rule as such.

All this would have fulfilled the Communes vision of the republic as a union of free, truly democratic associations promoting the emancipation of all its components. It would have added up to self-government of the producers. The Commune held that social reforms were even more crucial than political change. They were the reason for its existence, the barometer of its loyalty to its founding principles, and the keyelement differentiating it from the previous revolutions. The Commune passed more than one measure with clear class connotations. Deadlines for debt repayments were postponed by three years.

Evictions for non-payment of rent were suspended, and a decree allowed vacant accommodation to be requisitioned for people without a roof over their heads. There were plans to shorten the working day, the widespread practice of imposing specious fines on workers simply as a wage-cutting measure was outlawed on pain of sanctions, and minimum wages were set at a respectable level. As much as possible was done to increase food supplies and to lower prices.

Social assistance of various kinds was extended to weaker sections of the population ~ for example, food banks for abandoned women and children ~ and discussions were held on how to end the discrimination between legitimate and illegitimate children. All the Communards sincerely believed that education was an essential factor for individual emancipation and any serious social and political change. School attendance was to become free and compulsory for girls and boys alike, with religiously inspired instruction giving way to secular teaching along rational, scientific lines. Specially appointed commissions and the pages of the press featured many compelling arguments for investment in female education.

To become a genuine public service, education had to offer equal opportunities to children of both sexes. Moreover, distinctions on grounds of race, nationality, religion or social position should be prohibited. Early practical initiatives accompanied such advances in theory, and in more than one arrondissement thousands of working-class children entered school buildings for the first time and received classroom material free of charge. The Commune also adopted measures of a socialist character. It decreed that workshops abandoned by employers who had fled the city, with guarantees of compensation on their return, should be handed over to cooperative associations of workers.

Theatres and museums ~ open for all without charge ~ were collectivized. The Commune was much more than the actions approved by its legislative assembly. It even aspired to redraw urban space, as demonstrated by the decision todemolish the Vendme Column, considered a monument to barbarism and a reprehensible symbol of war, and to secularize certain places of worship by handing them over for use by the community. There was no place for national discrimination and foreigners enjoyed the same social rights as French people.

Women played an essential role in the critique of the social order. In many cases, they transgressed the norms of bourgeois society and asserted a new identity in opposition to the values of the patriarchal family, moving beyond domestic privacy to engage with the public sphere. The Womens Union was centrally involved in identifying strategic social battles. Women achieved the closure of licensed brothels, won parity for female and male teachers, coined the slogan equal pay for equal work, demanded equal rights within marriage and the recognition of free unions, and promoted exclusively female chambers in labour unions.

When the military situation worsened in mid-May, with the Versaillais at the gates of Paris, women took up arms and formed a battalion of their own. Many would breathe their last on the barricades. The Paris Commune was brutally crushed by the armies of Versailles. During the semaine sanglante, the week of blood-letting between 21 and 28 May, a total of 17,000 to 25,000 citizens were slaughtered. A young Arthur Rimbaud described the French capital as a mournful, almost dead city.

It was the bloodiest massacre in the history of France. The number of prisoners taken was 43,522. One hundred of these received death sentences, following summary trials before courts martial, and another 13,500 were sent to prison or forced labour, or deported to remote areas such as New Caledonia. Passing over the unprecedented violence of the Thiers state, the conservative and liberal press expressed great relief at the restoration of the natural order.

And yet, the insurrection in Paris gave strength to workers struggles and pushed them in more radical directions. Paris had shown that the aim had to be one of building a society radically different from capitalism. The Commune embodied the idea of social-political change and its practical application. It became synonymous with the very concept of revolution, with an ontological experience of the working class.

The Paris Commune changed the consciousness of workers and their collective perception. At a distance of 150 years, its red flag continues to flutter and to remind us that an alternative is always possible.

(The writer is Professor of Sociology, York University, Toronto)

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Dark Side of the Ring: Confidential Preview: The Von Erichs Revisited – Bleeding Cool News

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Two weeks into VICE TV's Dark Side of the Ring: Confidential, and host Conrad Thompson and docuseries creators Evan Husney and Jason Eisener have taken viewers into a deeper dive into their previous looks at the mysteries surrounding the death of "Gorgeous" Gino Hernandez as well as the unanswered questions involving Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Vince McMahon, and "The Montreal Screwjob," the series returns with a new chapter Tuesday night. Re-examining the most explosive episodes from the first two seasons and featuring never-before-seen moments, unanswered questions, and secrets uncovered, this week's spotlight turns to the triumphs, tragedies, and hopeful future on one of professional wrestling's legendary families with a look back at "The Last of the Von Erichs."

Here's a look at the trailer for this week's episode- and don't forget what's still ahead for the remaining five episodes. March 30: "The Killing of Bruiser Brody"; April 6: "The Life and Crimes of New Jack"; April 13: "The Last Ride of the Road Warriors"; April 20: "The Final Days of Owen Hart"; and April 27: "Cocaine & Cowboy Boots: The Herb Abrams Story."

Here's a look at the video the producers put together of scanned family images from Kevin Von Erich, set to "Utopia Theme" by Todd Rundgren's Utopia:

Here's a look back at the official trailer and overview for Dark Side of the Ring: Confidential:

Dark Side of the Ring: Confidential: Through deleted scenes, bonus clips, and new interviews, the trio will expand on the stories told in some of the most popular episodes of Dark Side of the Ring, tackling unanswered questions, taking viewers behind-the-scenes of the making of each episode and digging deep with special guests including Tommy Dreamer, The Blue Meanie, Savio Vega, and former WWE referee Mike Chioda. Each episode will explore a major moment from the series, including the Von Erich brothers' tragic deaths, The Montreal Screwjob, conspiracy theories surrounding Gino Hernandez's death, and more.

"We are putting the finishing touches on season three of 'Dark Side of the Ring' and the excitement is building but the fans absolutely demanded more, sooner!" said Morgan Hertzan, Executive Vice President and General Manager, VICE TV. "We wanted 'Dark Side' fans to know we're listening and we've made 'Dark Side of the Ring: Confidential' just for them as a way to thank them for their incredible loyalty to this hit franchise with new, bonus content to tide them over. Evan Husney and Jason Eisner are masters of their craft and 'Dark Side' superfans will get to sit down with them to get the inside track on everything that's remained behind-the-scenesuntil now."

Before the year wrapped, Vice TV announced that two spinoff serieswould join the third season of Dark Side of the Ring in 2021. Produced by Jailbirds producer 44 Blue Productions,Dark Side of the Football will shine a light on stories that live in the shadows of America's favorite sport. It will explore the sometimes-flawed men behind the masks; the coaches, teams, and leagues who control their fates; and the untold story behind bizarre and tragic off-the-field events facts often hidden to shield fans from discovering unsettling truths about the game they love.

Produced by America's Top Dog producer Railsplitter Pictures and Battle of the Blades producer Insight Productions,Dark Side of the '90s will look at the most captivating pop-culture moments, trends, and personalities of the decade through interviews with people who studied the time period. Each episode will dissect the nostalgia, uncovering the surprising dark truths underlying the glitz, the glamour, and the headlines.

Serving as Television Editor since 2018, Ray began five years earlier as a contributing writer/photographer before being brought onto the core BC team in 2017.

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Talentopia Announces Merger of Impactian and Aims to Recruit Top Remote Technology and Legal Writers – PRNewswire

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Talentopia, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-Based Remote Talent Company has merged with Impactian, an Extraordinary Talent on Demand platform. EToD platform first started to leverage cutting-edge technologies to provide the innovative 'Talent as a Service' hiring model to enterprises, startups or law firms. Effective immediately, Impactian'sEToD platform will be known as Talentopia. The merger shows Talentopia's growth, position, and most importantly, long-standing commitment to acquiring the best and the brightest talent in the world.

The merger is to run a new hiring and interview platform that companies can utilize to find their talented remote developers and professional writers. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-Based Talentopia will take advantage of the innovative EToD platform's thorough vetting process to further grow an elite talent network of developers and writers. Employers who hired pre-vetted candidates would be sure to get the exact candidate they needed.

The new brand name, Talentopia,and its platform, Talentopia.com, will now focus on bothonline remote developer sphere andskilled legal and technology writers for various application domains. Similar to Impactian, Talentopia will work to gather the top 2% professionals of each field and match them with jobs and independent cases that best match their expertise and interests. Talentopia nowseeks to find hundreds of highly motivated and experienced writers who are interested in the following:

Candidates should be equipped with:

To optimize the recruitment process and identify the top-notch talents and to meet the future trend of remote jobs and gig economy transformation, Talentopia has consistently invested in innovative technologies to accelerate and optimize the recruiting process while retaining strong cloud-based vetting system. Despite the merger, the core value and culture of recruiting top talents will remain intact. Talentopia will continue to operate as a utopia for talents and empower them to grow their professional career.

Before joining Talentopia, interested writers will need to undergo two steps of challenging assessments. If you think you would like to be one ofthe extraordinary talents in the new Talentopia network, please click hereto expedite the screening process by finishing the 60 mins test in advance. For more information on this role, please visit Talentopia's website via the following link https://www.talentopia.com/technical-writer-jobs. Visit https://hire.talentopia.comto apply now!

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The Real Purpose of ‘Cancel Culture’ | News Talk WBAP-AM – WBAP News/Talk

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A culture is far deeper than politics. Its a national identity encompassing history, education, arts and entertainment, science, health, relationships everything constituting the core values of any country.

Individualism has traditionally been the common denominator anchoring all other aspects of Americas cultural distinctiveness. Valuing sovereignty of the individual makes American culture exceptional; therefore, Cancel Culture warrants attention.

It is understood that cancelling individuals, books, monuments, etc. is a form of banishment because they express something objectionable or offensive. Objectionable or offensive to whom follows, but lets now focus on the culture part. In essence, cancelling someone or something means erasing behavior or beliefs which really means erasing ideas.

Remember Barack Obamas 2008 Obama-Biden-ticket presidential campaign statement, We are five days away from fundamentally transforming [basically changing] the United States of America.

Now, President Bidens continuation of transforming America also includes cancelling ideas. So: America is basically changing into what, and whos doing the transforming and cancelling?

What seems to be a re-imagination of an idyllic Utopia, and the transforming-cancelling is effectuated by the socially agitated and politically aggressive Woke. *

Utopia has meant different idyllic places for different purposes. Sir Thomas Moore first coined the term (as a pun) by taking the Greek ou-topos no place and combining it with eu-topos a good place. So, ironically, Utopia means that in reality a good place is nowhere.

Marx sold communism as a workers Utopia. Hitler sold fascism as Aryan Utopia. Todays power-players are selling socialism as nondiscriminatory, non-merit-oriented, equity-for-all Utopia.

Of course, we know from the Bibles Garden of Eden story that even Adam and Eves idyllic Utopia vanished once their real human nature (free will) was activated by exercising choice (eating the apple) and gaining knowledge (carnal sex and the existential world).

Communism, fascism, and socialism differ in name only. In practice they are identical because they all are collectivist social systems powered by an elite who control the economy, the means of production, and the cultural zeitgeist.

But since outright communism (Russia) and fascism (Germany) failed, the largest socialist organization in the United States the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has to be more inventive in selling their brand of collectivism. The organization is a member of Socialists International which reveals global aspirations, but its name cleverly obscures the presently active but hidden agenda for America.

From the DSAs official website (operative words in bold):

We [Democratic Socialists] are socialists because we share a vision of a humane international social order based both on democratic planning and market mechanisms to achieve equitable distribution of resources, meaningful work, a healthy environment, sustainable growth, gender and racial equality, and non-oppressive relationships.

Translation: voters put us in power (democratic), but we share a vision to control globalized planning, execution of production, and distribution of goods; we define meaningful; we decide what is healthy and sustainable; we demand preferences for those we decide need equality (we define equality); and we decide who is oppressing whom.

Who now pavesthe way and keeps the socialists in power? The Woke and the implementation of cancelling Americas culture of individualism. Woke activists find or create what can be sold to an ignorant/apathetic/indoctrinated public as racial-social discrimination or injustices while encouraging certain fabricated-into-group-members to become victims and assuring that others of different fabricated-into-group-members are made to feel guilty about the victimization.

Cancelling activists are silencing opposition to the Wokes claims. To facilitate cancelling, Political Correctness is employed to make the task easier by forbidding incorrect freespeech, thus preventing as many independent thinkers as possible from actually saying anything objectionable or offensive on threat of cancelation.

Self-muzzling individuals who swallow the poison pill of Political Correctness (coated with sweet promises of Utopia to cover the venom) make the cancellers job even easier. There has never been nor will there ever be a dictatorship that does not crush dissent one way or another.

Ergo: The real purpose of Cancel Culture is to obliterate the fundamental values of advanced civilization liberty, individualism, and reason. Because of Americas prominence, to accomplish that global goal this countrys entire culture of individualism must be destroyed first, meaning everything from language to eating habits.

Collectivist elites are writing new scripts to old playbooks, directing the current show, and working their prestidigitation behind a curtain that now encircles the globe to surround what has become theater-in-the-round. Here are a few of them:

The first two are the biggest stars in the Democratic Socialist galaxy. Barack Obama A Saul-Alinsky-community-activist-political-heir. His publically acknowledged mentor? Frank Marshall Davis, a card carrying communist. Bernie Sanders I dont mind people calling me a communist.

Joe Bidena self inflated-lecturing-opportunistic front for functional elites like Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg. Harris (Americas next president!) is daughter of a Marxist professor, talks the collectivist talk Medicare for all and raised bail for looting rioters.

Buttigieg? An active socialist since a teenager. His Marxist-scholar father? A devotee of Antonio Gramsci who wrote, Karl Marx is for us a master of spiritual and moral life He is the stimulator of mental laziness, the arouser of good energies which slumber and which must wake up for the good fight.** Hows that for Woke?

The true-targeted-non-fabricated victims of all this? American culture and the sovereignty of each individual who inherited it from thinkers who understood human flourishing to be served by individual exercise of free will, rational personal choices, and factual knowledge in this here-on-earth real world instead of an existing-nowhere utopian world peddled by wannabe tyrants.

Americans needing to wake up are not the Woke. They are. . .Who? Look around, near as well as far.

* Must-read companion books: George Orwells 1984 is a brilliant (and chilling) fictional tale of the future endgame for tyrants everywhere. Evan Sayets The Woke Supremacy is a brilliant (and chilling) examination of Americas current real-life fast-step march to reach the endgame of tyranny here and now.

** Il Grido del Popolo, 4 May 1918

Alexandra York is an author and founding president of the American Renaissance for the Twenty-first Century (ART) a New-York-City-based nonprofit educational arts and culture foundation (www.art-21.org). She has written for many publications, including Readers Digest and The New York Times. Her latest book is Soul Celebrations and Spiritual Snacks. Read Alexandra Yorks Reports More Here.

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Marvel's What If revealed an even darker version of the Age of Apocalypse with its depiction of a world devoid of both Charles Xavier and Magneto.

The original "Age of Apocalypse" storyline was jumpstarted by Legion, the powerful but unstable son of Charles Xavier, venturing into the past on a mission to kill Magneto. Reasoning that doing so would allow his father to create a peaceful utopia uncontested, Legion's efforts instead resulted in the premature death of Xavier -- setting up Magneto to lead a ragtag bunch of freedom fighters against a more aggressive Apocalypse.

But in one reality -- as shown in 2007's What If? X-Men: Age of Apocalypse by Rick Remember, Dave Wilkins, Anthony Washington and Nate Piekos -- things could have gone even worse for the world.

In this reality, the temporal assault Legion attempted resulted in many more deaths than the young mutant intended -- with a mysterious blast of energy resulting in his demise as well as the deaths of both Xavier, Magneto, and scores of civilians. A fully terrified humanity united against mutants, with camps erected and protected by Sentinels to contain the mutant race. With neither Xavier or Magneto around to rally mutants, things turned for the innocent mutants all around the world. While non-mutant heroes became popular and a handful of mutants went into hiding within the Savage Land, Apocayplse bided his time and raised an army in secret.

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Eventually, the villain staged a massive and sudden assault that resulted in the deaths of almost every hero (such as most of the Fantastic Four, who were wiped out after refusing to become Apocayplse's horsemen) while what few survivors were left (such as Namor) were forced to serve under the rule of Apocalypse. Two of the mutants to escape to the Savage Land were Scott Summers and Jean Grey, who got to spend years together raising their son, Nathan. When the forces of Apocalypse finally reached the Savage Land though, Nate's parents were killed in the assault. Nate was only saved by the efforts of their friend, Sauron, who took him to a handful of remaining allies who'd been waiting for Nate, as the now-deceased Doctor Strange believed him to be the one being capable of beating Apocalypse.

Brought to the ruins of New York by Sauron's ally Wolverine, Nate meets the rest of the resistance, known as the Defenders. Led by the new Sorceror Supreme Brother Voodoo, the handful of other remaining heroes -- a Mjolnir wielding Captain America, Brian Braddock clad in an Iron Man suit, a mechanically enhanced Thing, Wolverine, Sauron, Colossus, and Molecule Man -- were the last line of defense against the rule of Apocalypse. Notably, Brother Voodoo refused to allow Nate to try and alter the past in honor of Stephen Strange's final fears about breaking the timeline -- and instead led the group in a massive attack against the ancient villain.

Approaching his fortress and fending off attacks from a horde of symbiote Spider-Men, the battle took a dark turn upon the arrival of Holocaust, resulting in the deaths of Thing, Sauron, and Colossus. The Defenders barely escaped by venturing into Dormamu's realm. But Brother Voodoo was forced to stay behind to cover their exit from the Dark Dimension, and Nathan stole the Eye of Agamotto so it could be further used in battle, dooming Voodoo. The remaining Defenders made quick work of this world's Horsemen -- Namor, Storm, Juggernaut, and Hulk -- at the cost of Brian Braddock's life. Finally confronting Apocayplse, Nathan and Molecule Man were able to destroy the tyrant.

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But Nathan's full plan -- to use Apocayplse's armor and the Eye of Agamotto to venture into the past and save everyone -- results in the demise of the Molecule Man. Captain America was forced to unleash a massive blast of lighting to stop Nathan from becoming "another tyrant" in his efforts to save a broken world. The blast killed Nathan and moved through the now open time portal -- becoming the unstoppable blast of energy that killed Xavier, Magneto, and Legion so many years ago and doomed this world.

In the end, only Wolverine and Captain America survive the battle, setting out afterward to explore the wreckage of the world. This is a reality where everything fell apart for the heroes due in part to the brutal methods they had to embrace to just survive, and Nathan Summers only made things worse in his attempts to fix everything. It's a word so dark, that even Captain America ends up giving in to more grisly solutions to their problems. It's proof that while the original Age of Apocalypsepainted the picture of a horrific world, the alternative could have been even worse.

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