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So, I’m in Ithaca NY, it’s late July. And the town is inundated with “Rainbow” people, as in nomadic groups of “hippies” that travel to and fro Rainbow gatherings, staying off the grid and distinguishing themselves from being homeless because they are operating from freedom of choice.

I’m pretty open and have the free time while unemployed, so I talked to them and plugged into their paradigms some. It’s interesting and as I saw them in Ithaca, they were enrolling as well.  Ithaca is exceptionally well insulated economically and has many good free food and social programs for the needy and underemployed, so if they are enrolling HERE…. The USA has a homelessness problem, and the Rainbow paradigm turns the circumstance into personal choice and there is freedom and pride possible in that.

There’s the contentious legend of a Hopi Indian prophesy that the spirits  of Indians will reincarnate as American non Indians and take over the nation from within. Whether or not the legend can be verified or falsified isn’t relevant, it’s an article of faith as much as the 6000 year old Earth is for many Christian Fundamentalists.

What is apparent is that Capitalism is broken and we live in a time where a good alternative can grow in prominence. The Rainbow way is one option, I fear the distribution of mental illness, drug addiction and alcoholism in their ranks may sabotage the more progressive elements. But as they travel and demonstrate a way to retain pride and choice even in “house-lessness”, as their diversity encompasses different aesthetics – the movement could grow, even shape the culture? I don’t know, but I’ll miss the dirty hippies when they are gone (and in fairness, many do master keeping clean body and clothes).

I have one Rainbow friend trying to enroll me into creating an online resource, but naturally this is something that already exists:

http://rainbowgatherings.ning.com/

http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/index.html

http://www.welcomehere.org/

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When people get ‘high’ they are after altered states of consciousness. But Human being is complete, as is. Altered states of consciousness are ours to access without drugs at all!

Throughout a day our brains go through several types of brainwave patterns.

Theta brain waves are the sweet spot for many brain functions, extreme relaxation, creativity, sometimes vibrant mental imagery. The magically potent absent minded hypnotic states of gnosis everyone drift in and out of daily would have theta wave characteristics.

Now ‘entrainment’ are techniques for inducing certain brainwave states. Listening to Theta wave frequencies, (around 4 to 8 hz) has been demonstrated to induce a theta wave brain state in the listener.

A binaural beat is two very close but different frequencies heard separately in each ear. The brain is not used to this and, confused, manifests an imagined “three dimensional” audio hallucination heard only within the head of the listener.

A monaural beat is similar to a binaural beat, but the two frequencies are played with speakers (rather than headphones)  such that the effect is interpreted by hearing and not just the brain. Some believe this is superior for brain wave entrainment, and any binaural beat becomes a monaural beat simply by not using headphones and instead using a speaker.

Binaural beats are very interesting however, Gerald Oster established that the neurological system and other parts of the body responds to binaural beats, even triggering the pituitary gland to flood the body with good feeling hormones like dopamine.

Now when you try this out it is important to intend to have a good experience. If you want to use the binaural effect for or to accent magical gnosis, believe in it’s effectiveness as you do so. This is because this is about your brain, and your subjective attitude is part of the brain and will make or break the experience.

I want to thank http://www.jetcityorange.com for the audio files I’m linking to this post. Go there and find many more really great resources for brain wave entrainment and meditation!

If you want to make your own binaural beats, there’s the open source GNAURAL.

My experience of binaural beats was using them in addition to masturbation to launch a sigil, the effect was to make the masturbation far more difficult to accomplish but definitely I arrived at what felt to be an impressively magical state of mind complete with tingly palms, which for me accompany my more powerful magic spells and acts.

If you want the binaural effect, you want really good headphones because turning the volume higher disturbs the quality of the tone. If you want a monaural effect, which may be more effective for pure brain wave entrainment – just play the noise through stereo speakers.

Right-click to download mp3 file or click to play file in your browser.

A better way may be to download and play on a media player that will repeat the audio, looping it, so you can spend more time with the sounds to get a more profound impact.

Theta Slide

I like the Theta Slide, but if you feel one part of the range is more your sweet spot, below are more targeted Theta ranges.

Low Theta

Mid Theta

High Theta

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I went to my first Unitarian Church service this past week, I may do it again this week. The Unitarian church is a fairly free thinking church encouraging people to find their own religion and to provide an umbrella and community for folks as they do that.

So you’d think it’s a good match for the paradigm piracy of a Chaos Magician, yes? Well, I get the impression it’s based on the idea that all the world religions have something good to offer, which isn’t a bad thought. But it leaves something out – the adversary, the cults that exist in opposition to the righteous mainstream faith.

This got me thinking about the Adversary, to Americans the most famous example is Satan. And there is a lot of occult activity around Satan, and chaos magicians are not infrequently part of it.

In Occult magic, Satanism may imply a deity to be worshipped or make deals with, or a metaphor for independence, personal power and self reliance. But it’s not infrequent a given Satanist will change their mind about Satan in their practice.

Satanism is certainly a ‘left hand’ paradigm. This left hand, right hand business may have something to do with tantra originally. Very simply, if it is believed the power is coming from without, as in prayer to God, that’s right hand path. If it is believed the power comes from yourself, that’s left hand path.

To those familiar with the Christian paradigm, certainly it should be crystal clear God is a jealous God and demands your exclusive worship and reliance. That ‘no other Gods’ stuff, it includes having the arrogance to use your own power. The Egyptians took it one further, graven images for them were means to exert personal control over a God – no wonder Jews hold the graven image as being so forbidden.

Now there is the misunderstanding that Satanists kill people and do gruesome stuff. That does happen, but the people doing it aren’t Occultists. The Satanism they practice may the one taught them by Christians, not Satanists preceding them. There are some cults that deal with human sacrifice, but these tend to be pagan rather than Satanic.

When you look at Satanism, is there evil to be found? Really Anton LaVey, author of The Satanic Bible, love him or hate him – his influence colors all of Satanism. Which means there is an ethical foundation that a European black metal ‘Satanist’ would find down right ‘goody goody’. The really evil stuff isn’t organized, it takes personal mental illness to kill people for satan. The closest I’ve found to evil organized Satanism, what is offensive is their Nazism and not their theology, to the extent the theology can be distinguished from the Nazism.

Should you be a Satanist? Meaning the occult Satanist with a system of ethics? The ethics in a nutshell: do unto others as you’d have them do unto you – but never turn your cheek, destroy those that attack you! I’m not a Satanist myself, though the ethics have a kind of primal masculine appeal. Christian God is perfectly evil, insane and awesome as He is – and intellectually I can not accept Christianity. Satanism – it’s Christian. (And if you wanna talk about Set, that Egyptian religion is awfully close to Christianity).

Generally if you are most comfortable with an elitism ala Ayn Rand and a flavour of Corporatist right wing politics, modern Satanism might be a good fit for you. Such a cold conservatism is very much at odds with genuine Christianity or Buddhism or what have you, but it is an excellent fit for modern Satanism.

In Hoodoo, the stories of the blues musician making a deal with the devil to get the talent – it’s doctrine. As in, if you want to learn to play guitar, go find yourself a crossroads with your guitar and wait for the devil to come and make you a deal. But it’s doubtful this devil has any relation to Satan or Lucifer, or that there’s a soul lost in the transaction. Hoodoo is African American folk magic, and the African roots, they also exist in the African Yoruba religion and Voudon and such. Papa Legba is one name of the god of the crossroads, and his depiction is most often that of a jet black devil.

The Hoodoo formula specifying a crossroads and most often referring to the man you are meant to meet as the ‘dark man , or Black man’ – it’s clear to me it’s not the devil, but Papa Legba that is generous with gifts of musical and artistic talent. If you’re going to try this yourself here’s the authoritative Lucky Mojo article on cross roads magic

Here’s Papa legba’s sigil, perhaps a good idea to make this sigil and leave an offering (whiskey, candy, cigar) if you mean to meet the dark man at the cross roads.

Now a thought about duality. Someone reading this is scandalized, they understand that if it isn’t right with God, it’s the work of the DEVIL. And that I’m not condemning Satanism, that I’m bringing up crossroads work, certainly my soul is damned and the poor soul reading this needs to confess and say several “hail Mary’s”!

But look at what trying to be really pure and good and never anything bad or carnal actually does to a person. The Catholic Priesthood is a fine example – they are so not carnal they commit to celibacy! And what do we know about Catholic Priests? Many of them rape little boys and the other priests cover it up!

What is the lesson here?

The more you repress a thing, the stronger it becomes. No kidding.

That’s why whenever there is a killing in the name of Satan, the person doing it is almost ALWAYS from a severe Christian background, and always they convert back to fundamentalist Christianity once imprisoned!

You know how you destroy an enemy, utterly, irrevocably and forever? YOU MAKE FRIENDS WITH THEM!

And that’s what we need to do with our dark side. If you make it wrong, repress it – it will grow stronger till you cannot control it or yourself. And if that’s what you’re up to, you are a believer in the devil and live life in an awesome struggle with that devil. But if you accept who you are, warts and all, that part of you that isn’t socially acceptable – it’s something you can control as long as you accept it, you may find an acceptable way to express it. People that author horror books or movies or really angry cathartic speed metal music, they couldn’t do that well without loving the worst part of themselves.

If you are just an occultist, what is the value of the adversary? As Phil Hine points out, “the devil grants wishes!”. From a Chaos Magic point of view of “nothing is true, everything is permitted!”, there’s no barrier between the magician and any God or idea the magician would wish to experiment with – even the DEVIL!

Most of us were born into an Abrahamic faith or a dualistic faith featuring an Adversary. Because the devil is one of the earliest boogie men we experience in life, the symbol holds tremendous subconscious power. You need not believe in the devil consciously to use the devil magically and get an awesome result. That subconscious fear is all good, part of the anti-intellectual backbone of an effective magical experience.

But the devil isn’t right for just anyone to work with. If you consciously fear the Devil in your belief system, it’s not cool to challenge that fear magically, if anything magic may exacerbate the fear into an emotional handicap. I don’t fear the devil, my position is closer to that of an Atheist – but I don’t work with the Devil myself. The lore is just too negative, the devil may grant wishes but never happiness.

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Of the people that consciously practice magic there’s many different ideas about magic, how it works and who can do it.

Certainly many people willing to suspend disbelief enough to indulge the idea that occult magic could be real, are unable to really believe magic is something they can do personally.

And it’s true, there are magicians that get results in ways few people could. The Catholic Christian tradition is rich with Saints possessing faith enough to manifest miracles – real magic to the extent such saints, some lived in the full light of history. I know my own prayers when I tried being Christian, they were spectacularly unreliable. So what are they doing that I’m not?

Chaos magic suggests an answer and labels it “gnosis”. In distinguishing it further, it’s determined that ‘gnosis’ consists of a single minded consciousness and entertains the idea this opens a window to the unconscious, perhaps a collective unconscious, where reality hacking is possible.

That doesn’t help much to imitate the saints, few of us have it in themselves to believe so fervently, without doubt and single mindedly to even be able to test if it enables miracle working.

But there is the sexual orgasm. At the moment of climax – the mind is blank with exstacy. If gnosis delivers magic, most of us are capable of sexual orgasm.

And this is no new idea. When Aleister Crowley suggested he’d sacrificed many kids in the pursual of his magic, he certainly was indulging misunderstanding – but he clearly was referring to using masturbatory orgasm to fuel the fires of magic.

There even some that would suggest this is the reason Orthodox religion and government has historically tried to control sex, because orgasm is power and thereby dangerous.

This is why sigil magic is so damn effective, being clear about the requirement of gnosis and the commonality of using orgasm to ‘launch’ the sigil.

But even that’s not necessary. Try this:

Simply describe an experience you would like to have. It can be a sexual fantasy, a new job … anything. With this written down, light a candle, close the lights. in candlelight, masturbate. mark the paper the desire is written on with your semen or vaginal moisture. Put the paper away, or bury it.

Almost certainly you’re result will come to you. If it doesn’t, try sigil magic as described here, it always works.

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Well, what have I learned so far? American Social Services are something of a nightmare. Fingerprinted and photographed like a criminal, having a ton of paperwork and responsibilities incurred – all so I can be rejected for emergency money to secure an apartment, (I’m staying in a hunter’s cabin with a fireplace so I don’t have an emergency according to them).

It looks like I’ll sublet something for a month or two, see if I can manage to score a job. The problem being, of course, that a job isn’t hard to find – a job that pays more than minimum wage and isn’t just part time – That’s hard to find. I may go the temp route – which may pay well and be full time – for a week or two, unless I luck out and find an employer happy to pay the temp agency a premium to hire me over anyone else that doesn’t incur that added expense.

Which brings us to a new idea. In paradigms of power, which includes everything from Napoleon Hill to Hoodoo, but especially the former – there’s the critique that such ideas enable capitalist exploitation. Why? Because if I’m responsible, it’s MY fault the business that once employed me for tech support is now outsourcing to India to cut costs. In a nutshell, paradigms like Law of Attraction and Napoleon Hill – the focus on being responsible and thinking positive, it may involve not exposing yourself to ‘negative’ news, and taking responsibility for a situation where you’re screwed by an employer. Is such coaching therefore, enabling of capitalist exploitation? Am I, given I personally promote personal responsibility and even law of Attraction myself -a cog in this exploitive system?

The answer is paradoxical of course, because I am and am not all at the same time.

I lost my job because my employer did not consider the possibility of an economic downturn hurting his bottom line and, unprepared, had little choice. A better manager of an employer may have found a way to retain me, because I provided a lot of value with my artistic and technological skill sets. So in my specific example, taking responsibility for my life and moving on – it takes heat off my former employer.

Now there are other examples where heat is truly warranted. I once could count on a tech support position anytime I need a job, but those jobs dried up not because the cost was too much or the function unnecessary – but because people living in India, prisons and elsewhere could do it so much cheaper. The business paradigm of outsourcing really does MORE damage to American jobs than undocumented workers in the USA ever could! HEAT is warranted! I should be angry! This situation is not my fault!

To accomplish anything requires the leap of faith that it is even possible, this is where ‘positive thinking’ in its various forms becomes relevant. And then you turn to the news! Should you? What if the news is bad? Right now, often the news is VERY bad! Won’t that make you feel powerless, and defeat your efforts to believe in the possible?

So here’s the thing. You are powerful, I am powerful. If the News is bad – you are never powerless, you can vote, you can boycott, you can organize! And if you DO SOMETHING, you get to be powerful in the face of negativity! The news isn’t dis-empowering – it’s your apathetic response that is dis-empowering!

If I lose my job unjustly, of course there’s justice to pursue! But being miserable to justify the idea of being damaged by the injustice – that makes you weak and a victim! Being powerful is making sure your life turns out well and that justice prevails!

So, no – paradigms of power need not enable exploitation – not if the power is legitimate. Because exploitation is always threatened by power!

But also, very important to keep close to your heart:

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

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Hi all,

So I’d been living with my uncle Dan on a farm in upstate NY. saving up money for me to relocate to ithaca NY, where the job situation is fairly decent compared to the rest of the nation.

And yesterday evening, an electrical fire started and the house, it went up in flames. My mac, my external hard drive with my last ten years of artwork and files, my comics in progress – my pet cat Aries – all up in flames!

And.. I’m essentially homeless now.

So, if I don’t post much for the next few weeks….

I’m okay, this laptop I’m typing on smells smokey, but it survived. Right now in a motel room paid for by Red Cross.

I’m going to see if I can score some kind of housing in Ithaca with social services and find a job. It’s relocating to Ithaca the hard way, but hey. I’m also going to pitch a business plan to the local credit union and see if they will extend a loan, it’s an interesting idea and I have the resume and skills to back it up!

I’m not giving up on this site, I’ll keep you posted.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_funding

From that wikipedia article:

Crowd funding (sometimes called crowd financing or crowd sourced capital), inspired by crowdsourcing, describes the collective cooperation, attention and trust by people who network and pool their money together, usually via the Internet, in order to support efforts initiated by other people or organizations. Crowdfunding occurs for any variety of purposes, from disaster relief to citizen journalism to artists seeking support from fans, to political campaigns.

Essentially, crowd funding is a paradigm where you can present a business plan or project to an online community and if they like it, collectively they will fund it so that you can get that business or project started. A post modern way to finance your business or project!

If you’ve been looking at e-commerce as a means to an other end, if you’re working to raise money do what you really want to do – the concept of crowd funding may change everything for you.

As a rule of thumb, people like to support projects that will help more people than yourself. And really, this is also a key to magical results. When you make your desire large enough to help many people, it can enroll the energy of many people to forward that will magically. Crowd funding translates this magical principle into an economic reality.

And crowd funding isn’t just about money, everyone that contributes has a stake in your getting that project done! So if you’ve a habit of procrastination without a boss or someone else to answer to, a crowd funded project has an entire crowd of people to answer to.

I’m going to share some useful website resources related to crowd funding. If you browse the successful projects on these sites and have a project you love that is what would make your life  better to be pursuing, you can pretty much figure what you need to do and how best to do it by following the example of projects successfully funded this way.

Read the terms of the sites, usually the site takes a small percentage of the donations for their costs and for profit. Some sites will give you the  money raised for your project if it meets your goal or not, others only give money to projects that meet their funding goal (this creates more competition  and often larger amounts are raised for popular projects).

If you want more information than I’m providing here, you can purchase the same course I did here, http://90minutecashadvance.com/1/indexb.html – it costs just $1 (or did when I bought it) and is worth every penny – but you do get signed up for a terribly expensive magazine or newsletter you need to contact their customer service to cancel. So remember to cancel unless you don’t mind recurring monthly payments of $67.77.

So here are some valuable Crowd Funding resources:

http://www.greedyorneedy.com this is a site for making requests for stuff, under $100, that you need or simply want. The Site donates $100 to the 2 most popular requests regularly, one for need and another for greed – but users can make private donations as well. Some of the “need” requests are heartbreaking.

http://www.kickstarter.com This is primarily a creative oriented Crowd funding site, it only pays out to successfully funded projects and is in beta, so you need to have your project approved and be invited to participate.

http://www.quirky.com/ if you are an inventor, this is the site of a manufacturing company that crowd sources ideas for things to manufacture and sell online. If you invent or design a hot selling item, you get paid a percentage of sales.

http://www.indiegogo.com This is the site for crowd funding of independent movies and videos, if you need money to make that movie or video – this is the place to get funding.

http://rockethub.com/ a good grass roots crowd funding site for creative projects. I believe they give you all the money you raise if you meet your goal or not.

http://www.sellaband.com If you are a musician or in a band and need to raise money to publish a recording and/or promote your performances, this is the crowd funding resource for you!

http://www.createafund.com This site give you the resources to create your own fund for others to crowd fund, but you have to supply the crowd, it’s not a community site as the other crowd funding resources are. You get to keep ALL of the money raised this way, the site takes no percentage at all.

http://www.growvc.com This is for attracting venture capital to your online business start-up. Very cool if you’re thinking big.

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Articles about Confirmation Bias:

http://skepdic.com/confirmbias.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

What confirmation bias is, is the tendency for any person to come to evidence already with an opinion, and to pay much more attention to and credit as more relevant the evidence that supports that opinion, and to pay less attention to, or even dismiss or discredit, evidence contrary to that already existing opinion.

Skeptics are fond of claiming belief in religion, the supernatural and the occult is only possible because of the reality of confirmation bias. We believe the horoscope because we pay more attention when a coincidence confirms the horoscope and when the horoscope is irrelevant to that given day, we don’t notice that. The same with other divination, prayer, magic and so forth.

Now the catch phrase of Chaos Magic is – “There is no truth, everything is permitted.” So while a skeptic is very concerned with evaluating ideas for truth, a Chaos Magician really isn’t interested in truth as much as results.

The reason to work with occult magic is because you believe in luck, you understand there are waves of luck  and unluck – and likely you believe there is a way to impact that luck. Actors say “break a leg” as magic charm to make a performance go well, many people have objects they believe to be lucky, the daily horoscope gets a fair amount of attention, sales people know to keep a positive mental attitude  means better sales… and so forth.

And here’s the point, if the lucky rabbit’s foot can be scientifically proven to hack probability, or if it cannot – it makes no difference. Because we live in a subjective appreciation of the world, if you believe the rabbit’s foot is lucky, the rabbit’s foot is lucky – with it you are  more confident, and life itself – you have reason to, with confirmation bias, look for evidence of good luck! Compare that to looking for reasons to be right about how much your life sucks!

Occult Magic is not science, when starting with spells you should always work for easy results – a sigil spell to enjoy a nice piece of apple pie kind of thing.  Why? Precisely to grow your belief, to encourage confirmation bias.

Confirmation bias is bad when it comes to politics, keeping you from appreciating valid points made by the political party you aren’t affiliated with, increasing polarization of thought.

But when it comes to religion or magic – belief is important, and confirmation bias helps develop that belief, that faith.

Maybe you don’t believe in magic, but if you believe in luck, if you think there  might be a way to hack your personal luck – that’s all magic is!

Zos, or Austin Osman Spare, invented a magic system that became the basis for chaos magic developed by Peter Carrol. Chaos magic is a meta-paradigm, a theory of how magic works that can be applied to any other magic system:  Belief plus desire plus ‘gnosis’ equals magic. Belief can be literal belief or even simply a suspension of disbelief, desire is distinguishing the result you want to produce and ‘gnosis’ is any moment the conscious mind is quieted allowing access to the subconscious mind. Any conversational hypnotist knows very well that normal consciousness is marbled with ‘absent minded’ hypnotic gnostic states of mind as well, but stronger more concentrated gnosis can be made available with ceremony, meditation or sexual orgasm.

Become self aware of your own confirmation bias, and you may become wiser about evaluating your beliefs and opinions, especially political ones. But understand it has its use to develop strong belief for magical purposes.  Magic is not science, if you want to have the unfair advantage of magic, you have to let go of  trying to prove its real and simply allow yourself to believe it is real. Try magic for yourself before discounting it, but if you want positive results allow yourself to believe and allow the confirmation bias do its thing. The results, those are always real and be it magic or be it coincidence, a magician doesn’t care and you shouldn’t either.

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Obama Signs Healthcare reform bill

President Obama signs the Healthcare reform Bill.

There’s a lot of  controversy with this bill. Conservatives fear it will bankrupt the nation and fear being forced to buy health insurance. Outside of preventing insurance companies from not covering children with pre-existing conditions, most of the regulation do not go into effect for four years.

Really the bill would be a very good one if there were a public option giving consumers an alternative if private for profit insurance companies charge too much money or refuse to pay for important Doctor mandated medical procedures.

As it stands, insurance companies would be fined $100 a day for every day they refuse to cover someone for being a high risk due to a pre-existing condition – that makes it a sound business decision to withhold coverage for a year if the subject might die without the procedure.

Mandating insurance by all citizens, the reasoning is sound – if healthier people pay into the insurance program then sicker people can be covered and the the insurance company can still make a profit. The problem is, with no public option, the private insurance companies can raise payment rates as high as they care to if they work together cooperatively – and the government is going to pay part of the bill if citizens cannot.

A non profit public option, like Medicare for all, isn’t the medical care everyone will want – but if it existed, private for profit insurers would be forced to match the quality and price of public Medicare.

It’s is true that some doctors will not take Medicare, because they do not pay enough. The bigger picture is that Medicare has a beaurocracy setting prices it pays and it pays low or high to different states and counties. Medicare can be fixed and it can be made available to everyone.

So, between now and the 4 years from now when the healthcare (insurance) reform bill becomes law of the land – there is hope that a public option can be made law and thereby salvage this bill.  Obama got this legislation passed, and He can build on that success.

I know it’s offensive to many to be forced to buy insurance. But look at your paystub right now if you have a job,  look at where your tax money is going. Notice, you are ALREADY paying for Medicare. Already you’re paying for other people’s healthcare – so demand that payment be for healthcare YOU have access to as well! Then, if you buy a private insurance – you can know the only way they can keep customers is doing a better job than Medicare!

Here’s a link to EFF.org’s page helping you contact your political representative! Also, check out the electronic frontier foundation site, I encourage you to support them! They are on the frontlines fighting for privacy rights and civil rights for people online!

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