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[ with thanks to Norman Rockwell ] The ASHEVILLE GLOBAL REPORT is a weekly newspaper produced by patriot volunteers here in Asheville, North Carolina. In it you will find news that the mainstream media, coerced by corporations, choses not to print. [ from LAST AND FIRST MEN, by Olaf Stapledon, 1930, page 33:
In the Far West, the United States of America openly claimed to be custodians of the whole planet. Universally feared and envied, universally respected for their enterprise, yet for their complacency very widely despised, the Americans were rapidly changing the whole character of man's existence..... This, perhaps, would not have mattered, had America been able to give of her very rare best. But inevitably only her worst could be propagated. Only the most vulgar traits of that potentially great people could get through into the minds of foreigners by means of these crude instruments. And so, by the floods of poison issuing from this people's baser members, the whole world, and with it the nobler parts of America herself, were irrevocably corrupted... ]