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The Central New York anniversaries keep rolling along, and local radio is no exception. WSEN’s The Dinosaur, at FM frequencies 94.1, 95.3 and 103.9 broadcasting out of the longtime WOLF studios near the Inner Harbor, will mark five years with a fundraising bash on Sunday, Jan. 13, 5 p.m., at the Liverpool Holiday Inn, 441 Electronics Parkway. The classic rock station officially premiered Jan. 20, 2014, after many weeks of temporary formats. That included three months of “Holly-FM” with a boatload of yuletide standards, followed by “WBTL,” featuring nonstop Beatles tracks. With radio stunts like that, local radio fans grew increasingly suspicious regarding the station’s ultimate plans. When The Dinosaur finally launched, several familiar voices from WOLF’s yesteryear were heard for on-air duties. Nick Caplan, who handles the morning-drive microphone, was known as “Sick Nick” back in the late 1970s for WOLF. And afternoon host Bob Brown was also a long-ago WOLF fixture; he departed rival classic rock station WSEN after a long run and relocated to The Dinosaur. “We represent the largest radio demo-

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BOOKS

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New works by Mary Karr and Tom Townsley hit the bookshelves BY RUSS TARBY Two gifted wordsmiths with ties to Syracuse University’s creative writing program have come out with new books. Mary Karr, author of a series of best-selling memoirs, and Tom Townsley, best known locally as a tasty blues harmonica player and songwriter, each have new volumes gracing their bookshelves. Karr’s collection of poetry riffs righteously on topics as disparate as basketball and “broken beloveds.” Meanwhile, Townsley’s paperback bounces carefreely between verse and straight, but often surreal, narratives dealing with dreams, doppelgangers and dialectics. In Tropic of Squalor (Harper Collins, New York City; 76 pages; $22.99/hardcover), her fifth book of poetry, Karr delivers nearly 40 pitch-perfect poems, sharp as a scalpel yet blunt as a butter knife. “Nothing should be oblique or in code,” Karr once said about her versifying. “No one should not understand a Mary Karr poem.” One of the reasons Karr’s work appeals to mass audiences is because she draws inspiration from everyday life. Her bold and clever observations routinely heighten commonplace concerns. For instance, she titled her 2006 book of poetry Sinners Welcome, a phrase she found on a sign posted at St. Lucy’s Church, 420 Gifford St., in Syracuse’s poverty-stricken inner city. A former weekly poetry editor for The Washington Post, Karr burst onto the American literary scene in 1995 when she put the prosodies aside to produce a memoir of her rough East Texas upbringing, The Liars’ Club, which spent more than a year on The New York Times Best-Seller List. Liars’ surprising success led to Cherry (2000), recollections of her rebellious teen years, and then to Lit (2009), which chronicled her struggle with alcohol and an eventual conversion to Catholicism. Always frank and often funny, Karr’s memoirs have earned critical acclaim and lucrative paydays, but she has always remained in awe of metered lines and matter-of-fact imagery. “Before I believed in God, I believed in poetry,” she recently told a reporter. Squalor’s first half features poems originally printed in magazines such as The

New Yorker, Poetry and Parnassus including heartfelt elegies to her hard-drinking oilman father and David Foster Wallace, the Ithaca-born writer who committed suicide in 2008. The poem “Looney Bin Basketball” is dedicated to former NBA player and coach Phil Jackson, while “The Awakening” is credited “from Czeslaw Milosz,” the late Polish poet. The book’s second half, “The Less Holy Bible,” contains 20 sequential poems exploring New York City from Hell’s Kitchen to Carnegie Hall. Many of these poems reflect Karr’s interest in a type of Catholicism called Ignatian Spirituality. But you’re unlikely to hear Karr use that highfaluting term. Instead, she calls herself a “cafeteria Catholic.” “Lord, I was Faithless,” one of her many musings about her father, concludes with reflections on: Whole years I lost in the kingdom Of mine own skull With my scepter the remote I sat enthroned in a La-Z-Boy Watching drama I controlled Only the volume on I was a poor death’s head then In my hook-rug empire With snowflakes of paper My favorite button is power Karr is SU’s Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature. She’s currently working on her fourth memoir, Just You Wait, due out in 2020. Meanwhile, she’s jumping genres to collaborate with award-winning country singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell — a fellow Texan — on three different record albums: Acoustic Classics, which dropped last summer; the recent release Christmas Everywhere; and an album of new material could be available next spring.

TOWNSLEY SLICES AND DICES For three decades, Tom Townsley has made his mark as a harmonica-blowing blues singer and longtime host of WAER-FM’s Sunday Night Blues show. He’s also a talented painter whose artwork has graced the cover of his 2004 CD Blue Roller. Although he now lives near Utica, he graduated from SU’s creative writing graduate program in 1983 and later taught writing there, where he befriended liter-

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Mary Karr circa 1996, during her time as a bestselling author with The Liars’ Club. Michael Davis photo

ary lions such as Raymond Carver and Jay McInerney. In fact, it was Townsley who loaned Jay a copy of a Jimmy Reed album to inspire the title of McInerney’s 1984 best-selling novel, Bright Lights, Big City. A minister’s son from Central Pennsylvania, Townsley is currently teaching at Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica. Blues fans have long enjoyed Big Tom’s clever wordplay as a tunesmith. When he fronted The Backsliders, he penned a song with the unforgettable title, “(I’ve Got) Too Much Blood in My Alcohol System.” Now his fans can discover another side of this multitalented man by perusing Night Class for Insomniacs (Black Rabbit Press, Utica; 84 pages; $15/softcover), his second collection of short works following his first, Reading the Empty Page. In Night Class, Townsley proves himself an especially deep thinker, juxtaposing erudite literary allusions against Dada-istic impressions of everything from French cuisine to talking dogs. Syracuse-area readers will relish poems such as “The Balcony,” based on the

Landmark Theatre’s legendary ghost, Clarissa. “Dialectic” depicts a canine reading Kierkegaard and questioning the concept of despair. “Metamorphosis” turns Kafka on his head, or his antennae, as the case may be. “Infinity Minus One,” one of Townsley’s shortest poems, describes a woman “plucking feathers from an angel’s wings/ with a pair of rusty pliers.” One of his best poems is “The Help,” a riotous imagining of dead poets doing household chores. There’s A.E. Houseman weeding the garden, Walt Whitman mowing the lawn, Robert Frost mending a fence, although Emily Dickinson refuses to speak and Sylvia Plath refuses to clean the oven. “Next time I’ll hire fiction writers,” Townsley promises his wife. Night Class’s first poem, “R.E.M.,” begins with the line, “I dreamt I was an insomniac,” which triggers a rephrasing of the question posed by the ancient Chinese koan: Is the poet dreaming he’s an insomniac or is he an insomniac dreaming that he’s a poet? In any case, Tom Townsley’s Night Class for Insomniacs occasionally astounds but invariably entertains.

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ake news is not a new thing, as demonstrated with the return of Project Censored’s annual list of under-reported stories in the new book Censored 2019: Fighting the Fake News Invasion. The book’s vivid cover art recalls both H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds and Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast concerning a fake alien invasion. And the situation today may feel as desolate as the cover art suggests. “But Censored 2019 is a book about fighting fake news,” editors Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff observed in the book’s introduction. In the end, they argued that “critical media education — rather than censorship, blacklists, privatized fact-checkers, or legislative bans — is the best weapon for fighting the ongoing fake news invasion.” Project Censored’s annual list of 25 censored stories, which makes up the book’s lengthy first chapter, is one of

BY PAUL ROSENBERG the best resources one can have for such education. Censorship and fake news are “intertwined issues” they write. Project Censored has long been engaged in much more than just uncovering and publicizing stories kept down and out of the corporate media. Over the years it’s added new analytical categories: sensationalist and titillating Junk Food News stories. Through it all, the list of censored stories remains central to Project Censored’s mission, which, the editors point out, can be read in two different ways, “as a critique of the shortcomings of U.S. corporate news media for their failure to adequately cover these stories, or as a celebration of independent news media, without which we would remain either uninformed or misinformed about these crucial stories and issues.” The cover art theme works at two levels, as the editors explain. The famous

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Orson Wells radio broadcast of the War of the Worlds on Oct. 30, 1938, used a number of dramatic devices to present the drama as though it were an actual crisis in progress. It became an example of the potential power of fake news in the radio media era. “The broadcast became legendary for allegedly leading to widespread panic throughout the United States,” the editors of Project Censored noted. That narrative about widespread panic is actually a more long-term form of fake news. Yet as Jefferson Pooley and Michael J. Socolow have documented in a series of articles over the past decade, both the audience size and degree of panic have been significantly inflated. They cited two main factors: newspaper editors, who saw radio as challenging their media dominance, and an influential media study, whose topline conclusions were at odds with some of its data.

According to the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2017–2018, released in January 2018, a striking worldwide decline in basic human rights has driven an overall decline in the rule of law since October 2016, the month before Trump’s election. Fundamental rights — one of eight categories measured — declined in 71 out of 113 nations surveyed. Overall, 34 percent of countries’ scores declined, while just 29 percent improved. The United States ranked 19th, down one from 2016, with declines in checks on government powers and deepening discrimination. Fundamental rights include absence of discrimination, right to life and security, due process, freedom of expression and religion, right to privacy, freedom of association and labor rights. “All signs point to a crisis not just for human rights, but for the human rights movement,” Yale professor of history and law Samuel Moyn told The Guardian the day the index was released. “Within many nations, these fundamental rights are falling prey to the backlash against a globalising economy in which the rich are winning. But human rights movements have not historically set out to name or shame inequality.” This reflects the thesis of Moyn’s most recent book, Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World. Constraints on government powers, which measure the extent to which those who govern are bound by law, saw the second greatest declines (64 countries out of 113 dropped). This is where the United States saw the greatest deterioration, World Justice Project stated in a press release. “While all sub-factors in this dimension declined at least slightly from 2016, the score for lawful transition of power — based on responses to survey questions on confidence in national and local election processes and procedures — declined most markedly,” the press release stated. The United States also scored notably poorly on several measurements of discrimination. “With scores of .50 for equal treatment and absence of discrimination (on a scale of 0 to 1), .48 for discrimination in the civil justice system and .37 for discrimination in the criminal justice system, the U.S. finds itself ranked 78 out of 113 countries on all three subfactors,” World Justice Project stated. The four Nordic countries — Den-

mark, Norway, Finland and Sweden — remained in the top four positions. New Zealand, Canada and Australia were the only Top 10 countries outside of Europe. “The WJP’s 2017–2018 Rule of Law Index received scant attention from U.S. corporate media,” Project Censored noted. The only coverage they found was a Newsweek article drawing on The Guardian’s coverage. This pattern of ignoring international comparisons, across all subject matter, is pervasive in the corporate media. It severely cripples our capacity for objective self-reflection and selfimprovement as a nation.

Rohingya refugees from Myanmar wait to proceed to refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Nov. 3, 2017. Myanmar’s military systematically planned a genocidal campaign to rid the country of Rohingya Muslims, according to a report released on July 19, 2018. Photo by Tomas Munita/The New York Times.

2. “OPEN-SOURCE”

INTELLIGENCE SECRETS SOLD TO HIGHEST BIDDERS In March 2017, WikiLeaks released Vault 7, a trove of 8,761 leaked confidential CIA files about its global hacking programs, which WikiLeaks described as the “largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.” It drew significant media attention, but almost no one noticed what George Eliason of OpEdNews pointed out: “Sure, the CIA has all these tools available,” Eliason stated. “Yes, they are used on the public. The important part is (that) it’s not the CIA that’s using them. That’s the part that needs to frighten you.” As Eliason went on to explain, the CIA’s mission prevents it from using the tools, especially on Americans. “All the tools are unclassified, opensource and can be used by anyone,” Eliason explained. “It makes them not exactly usable for secret agent work. That’s what makes it impossible for them to use Vault 7 tools directly.” Drawing heavily on more than a decade of reporting by Tim Shorrock for Mother Jones and The Nation, Eliason’s OpEdNews series reported on the explosive growth of private contractors in the intelligence community, which allows the CIA and other agencies to gain access to intelligence gathered by methods they’re prohibited from using. In a 2016 report for The Nation, Shorrock estimated that 80 percent of an estimated 58,000 private intelligence contractors worked for the five largest companies. He concluded that “not only has intelligence been privatized to an unimaginable degree, but an unprecedented consolidation of corporate power inside U.S. intelligence has left the country dangerously dependent on a handful of companies for its spying and surveillance needs.”

Eliason reported how private contractors pioneered open-source intelligence by circulating or selling the information they gathered before the agency employing them had reviewed and classified it, therefore, “no one broke any laws.” As a result, according to Eliason’s second article, “People with no security clearances and radical political agendas have state-sized cyber tools at their disposal, (which they can use) for their own political agendas, private business and personal vendettas.” Corporate media reporting on Vault 7 sometimes noted, but failed to focus on the dangerous role of private contractors, Project Censored pointed out — with the notable exception of an op-ed in The Washington Post in which Shorrock reviewed his previous reporting and concluded that overreliance on private intelligence contractors was “a liability built into our system that intelligence officials have long known about and done nothing to correct.”

3. WORLD’S RICHEST 1

PERCENT CONTINUE TO BECOME WEALTHIER

In November 2017, Credit Suisse released its eighth annual Annual Global Wealth Report which The Guardian reported on under the headline, “Richest 1% own half the world’s wealth, study finds.” The wealth share of the world’s richest people increased “from 42.5 percent at the height of the 2008 financial crisis to 50.1 percent in 2017, or $140tn (£106tn),” The Guardian reported, add-

ing that “The biggest losers ... are young people who should not expect to become as rich as their parents.” “(Despite being more educated than their parents), millennials are doing less well than their parents at the same age, especially in relation to income, home ownership and other dimensions of well-being assessed in this report,” Rohner Credit Suisse Chairman Urs Rohner said. “We expect only a minority of high achievers and those in high demand sectors such as technology or finance to effectively overcome the ‘millennial disadvantage.’” “No other part of the wealth pyramid has been transformed as much since 2000 as the millionaire and ultra-high net worth individual (known as UHNWI) segments,” the report said. “The number of millionaires has increased by 170 percent, while the number of UHNWIs (individuals with net worth of USD 50 million or more) has risen fivefold, making them by far the fastest-growing group of wealth holders.” There were 2.3 million new dollar millionaires this year, taking the total to 36 million. “At the other end of the spectrum, the world’s 3.5 billion poorest adults each have assets of less than $10,000,” The Guardian reported. “Collectively these people, who account for 70 percent of the world’s working age population, account for just 2.7 percent of global wealth.” “Tremendous concentration of wealth and the extreme poverty that results from it are problems that affect everyone in the world, but wealth inequalities do not receive nearly as much attention as they should in the establishment press,” Proj-

ect Censored noted. “The few corporate news reports that have addressed this issue — including an August 2017 Bloomberg article and a July 2016 report for CBS’s MoneyWatch — focused exclusively on wealth inequality within the United States. As Project Censored has previously reported, corporate news consistently covers the world’s billionaires while ignoring millions of humans who live in poverty.”

4. HOW BIG WIRELESS

CONVINCED US CELL PHONES AND WI-FI ARE SAFE Are cellphones and other wireless devices really as safe as we’ve been led to believe? Don’t bet on it, according to decades of buried research reviewed in a March 2018 investigation for The Nation by Mark Hertsgaard and Mark Dowie. “The wireless industry not only made the same moral choices that the tobacco and fossil-fuel industries did, it also borrowed from the same public relations playbook those industries pioneered,” Hertsgaard and Dowie reported. “Like their tobacco and fossil-fuel brethren, wireless executives have chosen not to publicize what their own scientists have said about the risks of their products … On the contrary, the industry — in America, Europe and Asia — has spent untold millions of dollars in the past 25 years proclaiming that science is on its side, that the critics are quacks, and that consumers have nothing to fear.” Their report comes at the same time as several new developments are bringing the issue to the fore, including a Kaiser

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The Washington Post newsroom in Washington, May 18, 2017. Photo by Justin T. Gellerson/The New York Times.

Permanente study (published December 2017 in Scientific Reports) finding much higher risks of miscarriage, a study in the October 2017 American Journal of Epidemiology finding increased risk for glioma (a type of brain tumor), and a disclosure by the National Frequency Agency of France that nine out of 10 cellphones exceed government radiation safety limits when tested in the way they are actually used, next to the human body. As The Nation reported, George Carlo was a scientist hired by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association in 1993 to research cellphone safety and allay public fears, heading up the industry-financed Wireless Technology Research project. But he was unceremoniously fired and publicly attacked by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association in 1999, after uncovering disturbing evidence of danger. Carlo sent letters to each of the industry’s chieftains on Oct. 7, 1999, reiterating that the Wireless Technology Research project had found the following: “The risk of rare neuro-epithelial tumors on the outside of the brain was more than doubled ... in cell phone users”; there was an apparent “correlation between brain tumors occurring on the right side of the head and the use of the phone on the right side of the head”; and “the ability of radiation from a phone’s antenna to

cause functional genetic damage (was) definitely positive.” Carlo urged the CEOs to do the right thing and give consumers the information they need to make an informed judgment about how much of this unknown risk they wish to assume, especially since some in the industry had repeatedly and falsely claimed that wireless phones are safe for all consumers “including children.” The Kaiser Permanente study involved exposure to magnetic field non-ionizing radiation associated with wireless devices as well as cellphones and found a 2.72 times higher risk of miscarriage for those with higher vs. lower exposure. Lead investigator De-Kun Li warned that the possible effects of this radiation have been controversial because “from a public health point of view, everybody is exposed. If there is any health effect, the potential impact is huge.” “The wireless industry has ‘war-gamed’ science by playing offense as well as defense, actively sponsoring studies that result in published findings supportive of the industry, while aiming to discredit competing research that raises questions about the safety of cellular devices and other wireless technologies,” Project Censored summarized. “When studies have linked wireless radiation to cancer or genetic damage, industry spokespeo-

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ple have pointed out that the findings are disputed by other researchers.” This is the exact same strategy used by the tobacco and fossil-fuel industries described in the 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway. While some local media have covered the findings of a few selected studies, Project Censored noted, “the norm for corporate media is to report the telecom industry line — that is, that evidence linking Wi-Fi and cell phone radiation to health issues, including cancer and other medical problems, is either inconclusive or disputed. As Hertsgaard and Dowie’s Nation report suggested, corporate coverage of this sort is partly how the telecom industry remains successful in avoiding the consequences of (its) actions.”

5. WASHINGTON POST

BANS EMPLOYEES FROM USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO CRITICIZE SPONSORS On May 1, 2017, The Washington Post introduced a policy prohibiting its employees from criticizing its advertisers and business partners, and encouraging them to snitch on one another.

“A new social-media policy at The Washington Post prohibits conduct on social media that ‘adversely affects The Post’s customers, advertisers, subscribers, vendors, suppliers or partners,’” Andrew Beaujon reported in The Washingtonian the next month. “In such cases, Post management reserves the right to take disciplinary action ‘up to and including termination of employment.’” Beaujon also cited “a clause that encourages employees to snitch on one another: ‘If you have any reason to believe that an employee may be in violation of The Post’s Social Media Policy ... you should contact The Post’s Human Resources Department.’” At the time, the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, which represents the Post’s employees, was protesting the policy and was seeking removal of the controversial parts in a new labor agreement. A follow-up report by Whitney Webb for MintPress News highlighted the broader possible censorship effects, as prohibiting social media criticism could spill over into reporting as well. “Among The Washington Post’s advertisers are corporate giants like GlaxoSmithKline, Bank of America and Koch Industries,” Webb wrote. “With the new policy, social media posts criticizing GlaxoSmithKline’s habit of making false and misleading claims about its products, inflating prices and withholding crucial drug safety information from the government will no longer be made by Post employees.” Beyond that, Webb suggested it could protect the CIA, which has a $600 million contract with Amazon Web Services. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos purchased The Washington Post four months after that contract was signed. “While criticism of the CIA is not technically prohibited by the new policy, former Post reporters have suggested that making such criticisms could endanger one’s career,” Webb noted. He added that in 2013, former Post writer John Hanrahan told Alternet, “Post reporters and editors are aware that Bezos, as majority owner of Amazon, has a financial stake in maintaining good relations with the CIA — and this sends a clear message to even the hardest-nosed journalist that making the CIA look bad might not be a good career move.” “Corporate news coverage of The Washington Post’s social media policy has been extremely limited,” Project Censored noted. It’s part of a much broader problem, identified in Jeremy Iggers’ 1998 book Good News, Bad News: Journalism Ethics And The Public Interest. Iggers

argued that journalism ethics focused on individual reporters completely missed the larger issue of corporate conflicts whose systemic effects fundamentally undermined journalism’s role in a democracy.

6. RUSSIAGATE: TWO-

HEADED MONSTER OF PROPAGANDA AND CENSORSHIP

Is Russiagate a censored story? In my view, not exactly. This entry seems to reflect a well-intentioned effort to critically examine fake news–related issues within a “censored story” framework. It’s important that these issues be raised — which is one reason why I suggested above that Project Censored add “fake news” as a new analytical category to examine annually along with its censored stories list, “junk food news” and “news abuse.” What Project Censored calls attention to is important: “Corporate media coverage of Russiagate has created a two-headed monster of propaganda and censorship. By saturating news coverage with a sensationalized narrative, Russiagate has superseded other important, newsworthy stories.” As a frustrated journalist with omnivorous interests, I heartily concur — but what’s involved is too complex to simply be labeled “propaganda.” On the other hand, the censorship of alternative journalistic voices is a classic, well-defined Project Censored story, which suffers from the attempt to fit both together. In April 2017, Aaron Maté reported for The Intercept on a quantitative study of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show from Feb. 20 to March 31, 2017, which found that “Russia-focused segments accounted for 53 percent of these broadcasts.” Maté wrote: “Maddow’s Russia coverage has dwarfed the time devoted to other top issues, including Trump’s escalating crackdown on undocumented immigrants (1.3 percent of coverage), Obamacare repeal (3.8 percent), the legal battle over Trump’s Muslim ban (5.6 percent), a surge of anti-GOP activism and town halls since Trump took office (5.8 percent), and Trump administration scandals and stumbles (11 percent).” Well and good. But is this propaganda? At Truthdig, Norman Solomon wrote: “As the cable news network most trusted by Democrats as a liberal beacon, MSNBC plays a special role in fueling rage among progressive-minded viewers toward Russia’s ‘attack on our democracy’

that is somehow deemed more sinister and newsworthy than corporate dominance of American politics (including Democrats), racist voter suppression, gerrymandering and many other U.S. electoral defects all put together.” Also true. But not so much propaganda as Project Censored’s broader category of “news abuse,” which includes propaganda and spin, among other forms of “distraction to direct our attention away from what we really need to know.” To fully grasp what’s involved requires a more complex analysis. On the other hand, the censorship of alternative journalistic voices is far more clearcut and straightforward. In a report for Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, Robin Andersen examined Russiagate-inspired censorship moves by Twitter, Google and others. A key initial target was the Kremlin-backed RT news channel. “RT’s reporting bears striking similarities to alternative and independent media content, and that is why letting the charges against RT stand unexamined is so dangerous,” Andersen noted. In fact, the government’s intelligence report on RT included its reporting on the dangers of fracking as part of its suspect activity. Beyond that, the spill-over suppression was dramatic: “Yet in the battle against fake news, much of the best, most accurate independent reporting is disappearing from Google searches,” Anderson said. “The World Socialist Web Site (Aug. 2, 2017) reported that Google’s new search protocol is restricting access to leading independent, left-wing, progressive, anti-war and democratic rights websites. The estimated declines in traffic generated by Google searches for news sites are striking.” There were declines for AlterNet.org (63 percent), DemocracyNow.org (36 percent), CounterPunch.org (21 percent), ConsortiumNews.com (47 percent), MediaMatters.org (42 percent) and TheIntercept.com (19 percent), among others. On top of that, Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi pointed to a much broader stifling of alternative views: “Two years ago, remember, the American political establishment was on the ropes ... From Trump to Bernie Sanders to Brexit to Catalonia, voter repudiation of the status quo was the story of the day. The sense of panic among political elites was palpable. “Two years later, the narrative has completely shifted. By an extraordinary coincidence, virtually all the ‘anti-system’ movements and candidates that so terrified the political establishment two

years ago have since been identified as covert or overt Russian destabilization initiatives. “We’ve jumped straight past debating the efficacy of democracy to just reflexively identifying most anti-establishment sentiment as illegitimate, treasonous and foreign in nature,” Taibbi wrote. “Many people suffer when lies are reported as facts, but it seems that corporate media are the only ones that profit when they reinforce blind hostility — against not only Russia but also legitimate domestic dissent,” Project Censored noted.

7. REGENERATIVE

AGRICULTURE AS “NEXT STAGE” OF CIVILIZATION The world’s agricultural and degraded soils have the capacity to recover 50 percent to 66 percent of the historic carbon loss to the atmosphere, according to a 2004 paper in Science, actually reversing the processes driving global warming. A set of practices known as “regenerative agriculture” could play a major role in accomplishing that, while substantially increasing crop yields as well, according to information compiled and published by Ronnie Cummins, director of the Organic Consumers Association in May 2017. “For thousands of years we grew food by depleting soil carbon and, in the last hundred or so, the carbon in fossil fuel as well,” food and farming writer Michael Polin wrote. “But now we know how to grow even more food while at the same time returning carbon and fertility and water to the soil.” Cummins, who is also a founding member of Regeneration International, wrote that regenerative agriculture offers a “world-changing paradigm” that can help solve many of today’s environmental and public health problems. As The Guardian explained: “Regenerative agriculture comprises an array of techniques that rebuild soil and, in the process, sequester carbon. Typically, it uses cover crops and perennials so that bare soil is never exposed, and grazes animals in ways that mimic animals in nature. It also offers ecological benefits far beyond carbon storage: It stops soil erosion, re-mineralizes soil, protects the purity of groundwater and reduces damaging pesticide and fertilizer runoff.” “We can’t really solve the climate crisis (and the related soil, environmental, and public health crisis) without simultaneously solving the food and farming crisis,” Cummings wrote. “We need to stop putting greenhouse gas pollution into the

atmosphere (by moving to 100 percent renewable energy), but we also need to move away from chemical-intensive, energy-intensive food, factory farming and land use, as soon as possible.” In addition to global warming, there are profound economic and social justice concerns involved. “Out-of-touch and out-of-control governments of the world now take our tax money and spend $500 billion a year mainly subsidizing 50 million industrial farmers to do the wrong thing,” Cummins wrote. “Meanwhile, 700 million small family farms and herders, comprising the 3 billion people who produce 70 percent of the world’s food on just 25 percent of the world’s acreage, struggle to make ends meet ... The basic menu for a Regeneration Revolution is to unite the world’s 3 billion rural farmers, ranchers and herders with several billion health, environmental and justice-minded consumers to overturn ‘business as usual’ and embark on a global campaign of cooperation, solidarity and regeneration.” If you’ve never heard of it before, don’t be surprised. “Regenerative agriculture has received limited attention in the establishment press, highlighted by only two recent, substantive reports in the New York Times Magazine and Salon,” Project Censored wrote.

8. CONGRESS PASSES

INTRUSIVE DATA SHARING LAW UNDER COVER OF SPENDING BILL

On March 21, House Republicans released a 2,232-page omnibus spending bill. It passed both houses and was signed into law in two days. Attached to the spending provisions that made it urgent “must-pass” legislation was the completely unrelated Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act of 2018, also known as the CLOUD Act. “The CLOUD Act enables the U.S. government to acquire data across international borders regardless of other nations’ data privacy laws and without the need for warrants,” Project Censored summarized. It also significantly weakens protections against foreign government actions. “It was never reviewed or marked up by any committee in either the House or the Senate,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s David Ruiz wrote. “It never received a hearing. It was robbed of a stand-alone floor vote because congressional leadership decided, behind closed doors, to attach this unvetted, unrelated

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data bill to the $1.3 trillion government spending bill.” Congressional leadership failed to listen to citizen concerns, Ruiz wrote, with devastating consequences: “Because of this failure, U.S. and foreign police will have new mechanisms to seize data across the globe. Because of this failure, your private emails, your online chats, your Facebook, Google, Flickr photos, your Snapchat videos, your private lives online, your moments shared digitally between only those you trust, will be open to foreign law enforcement without a warrant and with few restrictions on using and sharing your information, privacy and human rights,” concluded Greene Robyn Greene, who reported for Just Security. “The little corporate news coverage that the CLOUD Act received tended to put a positive spin on it,” Project Censored noted. “(A glowing Washington Post oped) made no mention of potential risks to the privacy of citizens’ personal data, (and a CNET report that) highlighted the liberties that the CLOUD Act would provide corporations by simplifying legal issues concerning overseas servers.” Because of this failure, U.S. laws will be bypassed on U.S. soil. Greene noted that the CLOUD Act negates protections of two interrelated existing laws. It creates an exception to the Stored Communications Act that allows certified foreign governments to request personal data directly from U.S. companies. “This exception enables those countries to bypass the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty process, which protects human rights by requiring foreign governments to work with the Department of Justice to obtain warrants from U.S. judges before they can access that data for their criminal investigations,” Greene explained. “The version of the bill that was included in the omnibus does include some improvements over the earlier version to help to mitigate the risks of bypassing the MLAT process. . . two changes (that) are important improvements. . . many of the other changes to the bill are only partial or ineffective fixes to problems privacy advocates, human rights advocates, and even a former high-ranking official at the U.S. State Department have raised. Several other concerns have been left entirely unaddressed.” “While the bill sponsors did try to address some of the concerns that have been raised, the improvements are not enough to shift the balance so that the CLOUD Act will be a boon, rather than a threat, to privacy and human rights,” Greene concluded.

10. FBI RACIALLY

PROFILING “BLACK IDENTITY EXTREMISTS”

New Zealand’s Whanganui River was recently acknowledged by the country’s Legislature as a living thing, thanks to advocacy by the Maori tribe. Photo by Gordon Images.

9. INDIGENOUS

COMMUNITIES AROUND WORLD HELPING TO WIN LEGAL RIGHTS OF NATURE In March 2017, the government of New Zealand ended a 140-year dispute with an indigenous Maori tribe by enacting a law that officially recognized the Whanganui River, which the tribe considers their ancestor, as a living entity with rights. The Guardian reported it as “a world-first,” although the surrounding Te Urewera National Park had been similarly recognized in a 2014 law, and the U.S. Supreme Court came within one vote of potentially recognizing such a right in the 1972 case Sierra Club v. Morton, expressed in a dissent by Justice William O. Douglas. In addition, the broader idea of “rights of nature” has been adopted in Ecuador, Bolivia and by some American communities, noted Mihnea Tanasescu, writing for The Conversation. The tribe’s perspective was explained to The Guardian by its lead negotiator, Gerrard Albert. “We consider the river an ancestor and always have,” Albert said. “We have fought to find an approximation in law so that all others can understand that from our perspective treating the river as a living entity is the correct way to approach it, as an indivisible whole, instead of the traditional model for the last 100 years of treating it from a perspective of ownership and management.” But that could be just the beginning. “It is a critical precedent for acknowledging the Rights of Nature in legal systems around the world,” Kayla DeVault reported for YES! magazine. Others are advancing this perspective, DeVault wrote:

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“In response to the Standing Rock Sioux battle against the Dakota Access pipeline, the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin amended its constitution to include the Rights of Nature. This is the first time a North American tribe has used a Western legal framework to adopt such laws. Some American municipalities have protected their watersheds against fracking by invoking Rights of Nature.” “(If the New Zealand Whanganui River settlement) was able to correct the gap in Western and indigenous paradigms in New Zealand, surely a similar effort to protect the Missouri River could be produced for the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River nations by the American government,” DeVault wrote. The same could be done with a wide range of other environmental justice disputes involving Native American tribes. Tanasescu described the broader sweep of recent developments in the “rights of nature,” noting that significant problems have resulted from the lack of specific guardianship provisions, which are integral to the Whanganui River law. “By granting natural entities personhood one by one and assigning them specific guardians, over time New Zealand could drastically change an ossified legal system that still sees oceans, mountains and forests primarily as property, guaranteeing nature its day in court,” Tanasescu concluded. “A few corporate media outlets have covered the New Zealand case and subsequent decisions in India,” Project Censored noted. “However, these reports have not provided the depth of coverage found in the independent press or addressed how legal decisions in other countries might provide models for the United States.”

At the same time that white supremacists were preparing for the “Unite the Right” demonstration in Charlottesville, which resulted in the murder of Heather Heyer in August 2017, the FBI’s counterterrorism division produced an intelligence assessment warning of a very different, although actually nonexistent threat: “Black Identity Extremists.” The report appeared to be the first time the term had been used to identify a movement, according to Foreign Policy magazine, which broke the story. “But former government officials and legal experts said no such movement exists, and some expressed concern that the term is part of a politically motivated effort to find an equivalent threat to white supremacists,” Foreign Policy reported. “The use of terms like ‘black identity extremists’ is part of a long-standing FBI attempt to define a movement where none exists,” said former FBI agent Mike German, who now works for the Brennan Center for Justice. “Basically, it’s black people who scare them.” “It’s classic Hoover-style labeling with a little bit of maliciousness and euphemism wrapped up together,” said William Maxwell, a Washington University professor working on a book about FBI monitoring of black writers. “The language — black identity extremist — strikes me as weird and really a continuation of the worst of Hoover’s past.” “There is a long tradition of the FBI targeting black activists and this is not surprising,” Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson told Foreign Policy. A former Homeland Security official told them that carelessly connecting unrelated groups will make it harder for law enforcement to identify real threats. It’s so convoluted that it’s compromising officer safety, the former official said. “The corporate media (has) covered the FBI report on ‘black identity extremists’ in narrow or misleading ways,” Project Censored noted, citing examples from The New York Times, Fox News and NBC News. “Coverage like this both draws focus away from the active white supremacist movement and feeds the hate and fear on which such a movement thrives.” Paul Rosenberg is a senior editor with Random Lengths News.

THINGS THAT MATTER

CORRUPTION IN THE EMPIRE STATE, TAKE TWO BY LUKE PARSNOW

his time last year, in the Jan. 3 article “More Retrials For Corrupt Pols On 2018’s Docket,” I wrote a column saying that 2018 needed to be a real year of reckoning for corruption in New York state government. It was a year filled with multiple trials and convictions of high-profile state lawmakers and officials that highlighted several types of regular wrongdoing, from extortion in the Legislature to bid-rigging schemes deep inside New York’s economic development programs. Despite the constant news of yet another state official found guilty of corruption charges and despite the added pressure that it was an election year, including for the governor, addressing corruption was as scant in the Legislature’s 2018 political priorities as it ever has been. As the Legislature reconvenes this week for a new six-month session, we must continue to demand for that year of reckoning. 2019 will not be filled with the trials and convictions of a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the former state Assembly speaker, former Senate majority leader or the former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president. But the need to tackle this problem head-on remains just as urgent. 2019 also comes with a new tectonic shift of power in Albany. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, freshly re-elected overwhelmingly to a third term, will preside over a complete Democratic-controlled government — something that has only happened two other times in the last half-century. Democrats won a sizable majority in the state Senate in November’s elections. Democrats in Albany, and to some extent Gov. Cuomo, have attempted for the last few years to illustrate themselves as the party that wants to address ethics reform. They have religiously placed the blame on Senate Republicans for any lack of progress. Now they are in control, and they have to walk the talk. They should immediately introduce

campaign finance reform, which includes closing the limited liability company loophole, which allows big donors and special interests to circumvent the state’s campaign finance laws and funnel millions of dollars to the candidates of their choice. They should put strict campaign contribution limits on state vendors to stop the endless pay-to-play culture in Albany. They should pass a law that enacts an outright ban or strict limit on the amount of outside income that lawmakers earn when they are not in session. Jobs back in their home districts have the potential to create conflicts of interest with their governmental duties and create opportunities for corrupt bargains. The Committee on Legislative and Executive Compensation addressed this in December when it agreed to give the Legislature their first pay raise in 20 years while limiting outside income to 15 percent. Yet the move has received hostile reactions from legislators, and its future cannot be guaranteed. Lawmakers should also impose term limits on leadership posts in both chambers in order to stop entrenching individuals in powerful positions for decades where they can learn to abuse them for financial gain. This is an area where Democrats repeatedly trip over themselves when claiming to be the anti-corruption party. Senate Republicans passed such a measure multiple times over the last few years, but it has never been taken up in the Assembly. “Term limits are not something that the conference supports,” Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said two years ago. But it is something the people support, and that’s why it should become standard. The Legislature should also dissemble the useless Joint Commission on Public Ethics and replace it with something much more effective. JCOPE was created seven years ago to serve as a corruption watchdog, but its record of oversight has been abysmal and its close ties to the

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governor and the Legislature undermine its independence. None of these are new demands. They have been topics of conversation for years, so it honestly should not be so taxing to initiate these reforms before the Legislature leaves town again in June. But remember, this is Albany we’re talking about. Gov. Cuomo began his third term with a flashy swearing-in ceremony on Ellis Island on New Year’s Day. And while he spent a good portion of his inaugural speech talking about corruption, it was

about corruption in Washington and the actions of President Donald Trump. The same governor who announced his first run for the office in 2010 on a mission of stopping corruption in Albany did not breathe a single word about it in his speech last week, even as it remains one of New York’s most dire dilemmas. Does that mean nothing will get done? Of course not. But as sad as it is, it is likely that one year from now I’ll be writing about how 2020 needs to be the year of reckoning for corruption in New York.

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1.09 – 1.15 MUSIC

TIMESTABLE

Trumansburg. $15/advance, $18/door. (607) 387-5939; tburgconservatory.org. Reef The Lost Cauze. Fri. 10 p.m. World-touring hip-hop emcee from Philadelphia with special guests King Magnetic, Tallbucks, Realio Sparkzwell and MadKap the Writer. Funk N Waffles, 307 S. Clinton St. $13/advance, $18/door. (315) 474-1060; funknwaffles.com.

LISTED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER:

THURSDAY 1/10 GNARC. Thurs. 9 p.m. Livetronica duo blends influences from house, funk, hip-hop, soul, metal, indie and more together with improvised structures, plus JDell at Funk N Waffles, 307 S. Clinton St. $5/advance, $7/door. (315) 474-1060; funknwaffles.com.

SATURDAY 1/12 Youth Orchestra Winter Concert. Sat. 4 p.m. Presented by the 50-student-strong youth branch of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra. Ithaca College, 201 Muller Center, Ithaca. $10. ccoithaca.org.

FRIDAY 1/11 Doo Wop Project. Fri. 8 p.m. Enjoy classic doo wop twists on modern hits at the Turning Stone Resort Casino’s Showroom, Thruway Exit 33, Verona. $29, $44. (877) 833-SHOW; turningstone.com.

Shot of Poison. Sat. 7 p.m. A Poison tribute band, plus LoveBone and The Passenger. Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St. $16/advance, $20/door. (315) 299-8886; thewestcotttheater. com.

Hiroya Tsukamoto. Fri. 8 p.m. Tsukamoto imparts a mood of peace and tranquility, fusing folk, jazz and world music on guitar. Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, 5 McLallen St.,

Marcus Curry, Bob Price and Friends. Sat. 7:30 p.m. Enjoy the show

The Outlaws. Sat. 8 p.m. Scant seating remains for the Southern and country rock kingpins at the Turning Stone Resort Casino’s Showroom, Thruway Exit 33, Verona. $19. (877) 833-SHOW; turningstone.com. Bead N Bone. Sat. 9 p.m. A night of American reggae and soul, plus Chameleonize at Funk N Waffles, 307 S. Clinton St. $7/advance, $10/door. (315) 474-1060; funknwaffles.com.

SUNDAY 1/13 Old-Time Music Jam. Every Sun. 1 p.m. Jam session for all sorts of ramblers and pickers is open to both

spectators and players, followed by a potluck dinner at 5 p.m. Kellish Hill Farm, 3192 Pompey Center Road, Manlius. $5/suggested donation. (315) 682-1578. Symphoria. Sun. 3 p.m. Enjoy Vivaldi’s vividly descriptive “Four Seasons” and Bach’s sparkling Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, along with Melinda Wagner’s “Little Moonhead” at St. Paul’s Syracuse, 220 E. Fayette St. $5-$32/adults, $25/seniors, $5/students, free/under age 18. (315) 2995598; experiencesymphoria.org.

MONDAY 1/14 Pearly Baker’s Best. Mon. 8:30 p.m. This band knows more than 230 Grateful Dead songs, making sure they never play the same track twice. Funk N Waffles, 307 S. Clinton St. $5. (315) 474-1060, funknwaffles.com.

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THURSDAY 1/10 Brian McArdell & Mark Westers. (Guilfoil’s Irish Pub, 501 Burnet Ave.) 6 p.m. Deyquan Bowens. (Sugar Magnolia Bistro, 316 S. Clinton St.) 6 p.m. Karaoke. (Phoenix American Legion, 9 Oswego River Road) 6 p.m. Donna Dennihy. (Moondog’s Lounge, 24 State St.) 7 p.m. Open Mike. (Kellish Hill Farm, 3191 Pompey Center Road) 7 p.m. Open Mike. (Monirae’s, 688 Route 10) 7 p.m. Frenay and Lenin. (Shifty’s, 1401 Burnet Ave.) 8 p.m. Shawn Halloran. (Kitty Hoynes Irish Pub, 301 W. Fayette St.) 8 p.m. Max Eyle & Anthony Saturno. (Phoebe’s Restaurant, 900 E. Genesee St.) 9 p.m. Frita Lay Dance & Drag. (Trexx Nightclub, 319 N. Clinton St.) 10 p.m. Lady D and The Shadow Spirits. Lazy Bones. (Otro Cinco, 206 S. Warren St.) 10:30 p.m.

FRIDAY 1/11 Custom Taylor Band. (Sharkey’s, 7240 Oswego Road, Liverpool) 6 p.m. John Spillett Jazz/Pop Duo. (Bistro Elephant, 238 W. Jefferson St.) 7 p.m. Pepper and Sassafras. (Brae Loch Inn, 5 Albany St.) 7 p.m. Kennadee & Friends. (Kitty Hoynes Irish Pub, 301 W. Fayette St.) 8 p.m. Old Rope Factory. (Moondog’s Lounge, 24 State St.) 8 p.m. The Shylocks. (Pastas on the Green, 1 Village Blvd North) 8 p.m. Jesse Derringer. (Cicero American Legion, 5575 Legionnaire Drive) 8:30 p.m. Joe Driscoll. (Shifty’s, 1401 Burnet

Ave.) 9 p.m. The Old Main. (King of Clubs, 406 S. Clinton St.) 9 p.m. Dirtroad Ruckus. (Timber Tavern, 7153 State Fair Blvd.) 9:30 p.m. Jam Factor. (Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St.) 9:30 p.m. Tiger. (Coleman’s Irish Pub, 100 S. Lowell Ave.) 10 p.m.

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LEARNING

North Syracuse Art Group. Every Wed. 10 a.m. Bring your own supplies and learn, exchange art knowledge, share fine art with others and work your media. North Syracuse Education Association, 210 S. Main St. Free. (315) 699-3965. Improv Comedy Classes. Every Wed. 6-8 p.m. Drop-in classes at Salt City Improv Theater, Shoppingtown Mall, 3649 Erie Blvd. E., DeWitt. $15. (315) 410-1962. Open Figure Drawing. Every Wed. 7-10 p.m. All skill levels are welcome: if you can write your name, you can draw. Westcott Community Center, 826 Euclid Ave. $8. (315) 453-5565. Learn to Paint. Every Thurs. & Sat. 10:30 a.m., 1 & 3:30 p.m. Learn in four easy lessons for beginners and intermediate painters. CNY Artists, Shoppingtown Mall. $20/two-hour class. (315) 391-5115, CNYArtists.org. Onondaga Lake Open House. Every Fri. noon-4:30 p.m. Come experience the lake cleanup firsthand at the Onondaga Lake Visitors Center, 280 Restoration Way, Geddes. Free. (315) 552-9751. Improv Drop-In Class. Tues. 6:45 p.m. Every other week Syracuse Improv Collective provides instruction to help a person gain confidence with becoming a better improviser, actor, listener and communicator at Echo, 745 N. Salina St. $10. syracuseimprovcollective.com.

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Syracuse University Men’s Basketball. Wed. Jan. 9, 8 p.m., Sat. 6 p.m. The Orange battles Clemson (Wednesday) and Georgia Tech (Saturday) at the Carrier Dome, 900 Irving Ave. $15-$110. (888) DOME-TIX. Syracuse Crunch Hockey. Fri. 7 p.m. The puck-slappers take on the Cleveland Monsters at the Onondaga County War Memorial Arena, 515 Montgomery St. $16-$20. (315) 4734444, Syracuse crunch.com.

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Syracuse Toastmasters. Every Wed. 8 a.m. Learn leadership and public speaking qualities in a positive, constructive environment at the Syracuse Tech Garden, 235 Harrison St. goodmorningsyracuse.toastmastersclubs. org. Smartass Trivia. Every Wed. 7-10 p.m. Brainy fun with Steve Patrick at Vendetti’s Soft Rock Café, 2026 Teall Ave. Free. (315) 399-5700. Trivia Night. Every Wed. 7-9 p.m. Brain power with DJs-R-Us at Cicero Country Pizza, 8292 Brewerton Road, Cicero. (315) 699-2775. Trivia Night. Every Wed. 7-9 p.m. Nightly prizes. The Brasserie, 200 Township Blvd., Camillus. Free. (315) 487-1073. Trivia Night. Every Wed. 7-9 p.m. Come out and test your brainpan against others. Stingers Pizza, 4500 Pewter Lane, Manlius. Free. (315) 6928100. Trivia Night. Every Wed. 8-10 p.m. Nightly prizes. The Distillery, 3112 Erie Blvd. E., DeWitt. Free. (315) 449-BEER. Trivia Night. Every Wed. 8-10 p.m. Winning the mental match leaves a bad taste in your opponents’ mouths, plus nightly prizes. Saltine Warrior Sports Pub, 214 W. Water St. Free. (315) 314-7740. Smartass Trivia. Every Thurs. 7-10 p.m. Steve Patrick hosts his quiz show at Pizza Man Pub, 50 Oswego St., Baldwinsville. Free. (315) 638-1234. Trivia Night. Every Thurs. 7 p.m. Nightly prizes to those with the answers to general knowledge questions. Lamont Tavern, 108 Lamont Ave. Free. 487-9890. Trivia Night. Every Thurs. 7-9 p.m. Prizes for contestants, who needn’t be part of an established team. Sitrus Bar, Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, 801 University Ave. Free. (315) 380-6206. Trivia Night. Every Thurs. 7-9 p.m. Gray matters at this DJs-R-US contest at Spinning Wheel, 7384 Thompson Road, North Syracuse. Free. (315) 4583222. Trivia Night. Every Thurs. 7-9 p.m. Brainstorming at Trappers II Pizza Pub, 101 N. Main St., Minoa. Free. (315) 656-7777. Trivia Night. Every Thurs. 7 p.m. Cranium conundrums at RFH’s Hideaway, 1058 Route 57, Phoenix. Free. (315) 695-2709. Trivia Night. Every Thurs. 7-9 p.m. Battle of the brains with DJs-R-Us at Smokey Bones, 4036 Route 31, Liverpool. (315) 652-7824.

Trivia Night. Every Thurs. 7-9 p.m. Nightly prizes. Dublin’s, 7990 Oswego Road, Liverpool. Free. (315) 622-0200. Trivia Night. Every Thurs. 7-9 p.m. Nightly prizes. RFH’s Hide-A-Way, 1058 Route 57, Phoenix. Free. (315) 695-2709. Trivia Night. Every Thurs. 7-9 p.m. Show your zest for knowledge and competition, plus nightly prizes. Sitrus on the Hill, 801 University Ave. Free. (315) 475-3000. Trivia Night. Every Thurs. 7:30 p.m. Diamond Dave knows the answers at Munjed’s Mediterranean Cafe and Metro Lounge, 505 Westcott St. Free. (315) 425-0366. Trivia Night. Every Fri. 7-9 p.m. Nightly prizes. Lamont Tavern, 108 Lamont Ave., Solvay. Free. (315) 487-9890. National Railway Historical Society. Fri. 7 p.m. The Utica-Mohawk Valley chapter of choo-choo aficionados meets at the Zion Lutheran Church, French and Burrstone roads, New Hartford. Free. (315) 853-5400, (315) 327-8653. Mindfulness Meditation. Every Sun. 10 a.m.; through Jan. 20. Focus on deep breathing and open up your mind at Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St., Auburn. $5. (315) 2536669, auburnpublictheater.com. Syracuse Wedding Bridal Show. Sun. noon-3:30 p.m. Dresses, tuxes and more at the New York State Fairgrounds’ Horticulture Building, 581 State Fair Blvd. Free/tickets required at syracusewedding.com. (315) 4879333. Trivia Night. Every Mon. 6:30 p.m. Knowledge is good at Marcella’s Restaurant, Clarion Hotel, 100 Farrell Road, Baldwinsville. Free. (315) 4578700. Smartass Trivia. Every Tues. 7 p.m. More brainy fun with Steve Patrick at Nibsy’s Pub, 201 Ulster Ave. Free. (315) 476-8423. Team Trivia. Every Tues. 8 p.m. Drop some factoids at Coleman’s Authentic Irish Pub, 100 S. Lowell Ave. Free. (315) 760-8312. Rosamond Gifford Zoo. Daily, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. The zoo, located at 1 Conservation Place, features some pretty nifty animals, including penguins, tigers, birds, primates and the ever-popular elephants. $8/adults, $5/ seniors, $4/youth, free/under age 2, half-price admission in January and February. (315) 435-8511. Onondaga Lake Skatepark. Daily, noon-4 p.m.; through March, weather permitting. The park is open for anyone older than age 5. Helmets must be worn, and waivers (available at the park) must be signed by a parent.

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Aquaman. Jason Momoa as the beefcake underwater warrior in this DC Comics romp. Destiny USA 19 (IMAX). Daily: 11:40 a.m., 3, 6:20 & 9:40 p.m. Destiny USA 19. Daily: 12:10, 3:30, 6:50 & 10:10 p.m. Great Northern 10. Daily: 1, 4:05 & 7:15 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 10:15 p.m. Movie Tavern. Daily: 12:40, 1:45, 5:30 & 9:20 p.m. Bohemian Rhapsody. Rocking biopic about Freddy Mercury and the glamrock band Queen. Destiny USA 19. Daily: 11:55 a.m. (sing-along), 3:10, 6:35 & 9:55 p.m. Bumblebee. Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena in a Transformers offshoot. Destiny USA 19 (RPX). Daily: 12:50, 4:05, 7:10 & 10 p.m. Destiny USA 19. Daily: 1:30, 4:45, 7:40 & 10:40 p.m. Great Northern 10. Daily: 1:35, 4:35 & 7:30 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 10 p.m. Movie Tavern. Daily: 12:45, 4, 7:15 & 10:35 p.m. Creed II. Dolph Lundgren joins Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone in this punchy boxing sequel. Destiny USA 19. Daily: 9:30 p.m. A Dog’s Way Home. Family flick about one pooch’s 400-mile journey. Destiny USA 19. Daily: 1:10, 4:10, 7 & 9:45 p.m. Great Northern 10. Daily: 1:30, 4:30 & 7 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 9:40 p.m. Movie Tavern. Daily: 1:45, 4:45, 7:45 & 10:45 p.m. Escape Room. Students encounter mayhem in this familiar scare package. Destiny USA 19. Daily: 11:50 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 7:50 & 10:30 p.m. Great Northern 10. Daily: 1:50, 4:50 & 7:45 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 10:30 p.m. Movie Tavern. Daily: 10:45 a.m., 4:25, 7:30 & 10:35 p.m. Free Solo. Soaring National Geographic documentary about mountain climbing thrills a Yosemite. Hollywood (Recliners). Daily: 4:10 p.m. The Grinch. Benedict Cumberbatch lends his voice to this Dr Seuss cartoon. Hollywood (Recliners). Daily: 6:25 p.m. Sat. & Sun. matinee: 11:50 a.m. & 2:05 p.m. Holmes and Watson. Sleuth spoof with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. Movie Tavern. (Stadium). Daily: 4:05 & 10:40 p.m. If Beale Street Could Talk. James Baldwin’s love story set in 1970s Harlem. Destiny USA 19. Daily: 12:05, 3:15, 6:10 & 9:10 p.m. Great Northern 10. Daily: 1:20, 4:20 & 7:20 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 10:05 p.m.

Mary Poppins Returns. Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep and Dick Van Dyke in the much-anticipated Disney sequel. Destiny USA 19. Daily: 1, 4:20, 7:20 & 10:20 p.m. Great Northern 10. Daily: 1:15, 4:15 & 7:05 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 9:55 p.m. Movie Tavern. Daily: 11:20 a.m., 2:55, 6:40 & 10:05 p.m. Mary Queen of Scots. Saiorse Ronan tangles with Margot Robbie in this sumptuous period piece. Destiny USA 19. Daily: 12:20 p.m. The Mule. Clint Eastwood as a senior-citizen cocaine smuggler in this offbeat character study. Destiny USA 19. Daily: 12:35, 3:40, 6:25 & 9:15 p.m. Great Northern 10. Daily: 1:05, 4 & 6:40 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 9:45 p.m. Movie Tavern. Daily: 12:35, 3:55, 7:15 & 10:35 p.m. On the Basis of Sex. Felicity Jones plays Ruth Bader Gisnburg during her early days as a lawyer. Destiny USA 19. Daily: 12:45, 4, 7:15 & 10:25 p.m. Manlius Art Cinema. Daily: 7:30 p.m.; Sat. & Sun. matinee: 2 & 4:30 p.m. Movie Tavern. Daily: 11:10 a.m., 2:35, 6 & 9:25 p.m. Ralph Breaks the Internet. Disney’s frenetic follow-up to the 2012 Wreck-It Ralph cartoon. Destiny USA 19. Daily: 12:40, 3:55 & 6:45 p.m. Movie Tavern. Daily: 11:15 a.m. & 2:30 p.m. Replicas. Science-fiction thrills with Keanu Reeves. Destiny USA 19. Daily: 1:05, 4:25, 7:35 & 10:35 p.m. Great Northern 10. Daily: 1:40, 4:40 & 7:35 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 10:25 p.m. Second Act. Breezy romcom with Jennifer Lopez. Destiny USA 19. Daily: 9:25 p.m. Movie Tavern. (Stadium). Daily: 5:45 & 8:55 p.m. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The webslinger flies high in this Marvel Comics cartoon. Destiny USA 19. Daily: 12:30, 3:50, 7:05 & 10:05 p.m. Great Northern 10. Daily: 1:45, 4:45 & 7:40 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 10:20 p.m. Movie Tavern. Daily: 10:55 a.m., 2:20, 5:45 & 9:10 p.m. Vice. Christian Bale under lots of makeup to portray the lovable Vice President Dick Cheney. Destiny USA 19. Daily: 11:45 a.m., 3:05, 6:15 & 9:20 p.m. Movie Tavern. Daily: 12:30 & 7 p.m. The Upside. Thoughtful comedy with Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston. Destiny USA 19. Daily: 12, 3:20, 6:40 & 9:50 p.m. Great Northern 10. Daily: 1:10, 4:10 & 7:10 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 10:10 p.m. Movie Tavern. Daily: 11:45 a.m., 3:15, 6:45 & 10:20 p.m. Widows. Intriguing crime drama with Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez and Liam Neeson. Hollywood (Recliners). Daily: 8:30 p.m.

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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Sat. 7:30 p.m. Revealing documentary about the screen star’s secret invention that helped win World War II. Temple Society of Concord, 910 Madison St. Free; donations welcome. (315) 475-9952. Dinosaurs Alive. Wed. Jan. 9-Sun. & Wed. Jan. 16, noon. Michael Douglas narrates this large-format travelogue about paleontologists in search of Jurassic-era critters. Bristol IMAX at the MOST, 500 S. Franklin St. Film: $6. Film and exhibits: $17/adults, $15/ children under 11 and seniors. (315) 425-9068. East of Eden. Tues. 1 p.m. James Dean vaulted to cinematic stardom in this 1955 classic at Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St., Auburn. Free. (315) 253-6669. Hubble. Wed. Jan. 9-Sun. & Wed. Jan. 16, 2 p.m. Leonardo Di Caprio narrates this large-format Space Shuttle spectacle. Bristol IMAX at the MOST, 500 S. Franklin St. Film: $6. Film and exhibits: $17/adults, $15/children under 11 and seniors. (315) 425-9068.

Mary Queen of Scots. Fri. & Sat. 4 & 7 p.m.; Sun. 1 & 4 p.m.; Mon.-Wed. Jan. 16, 7 p.m. Saiorse Ronan tangles with Margot Robbie in this sumptuous period piece. Cinema Capitol Twin, 234 W. Dominick St., Rome. $7/adults, $6/military and students. (315) 3376453. Pandas. Wed. Jan. 9-Sun. & Wed. Jan. 16, 1 & 3 p.m. Kristen Bell narrates this large-format study of several cute cubs in China at the Bristol IMAX at the MOST, 500 S. Franklin St. Film: $6. Film and exhibit hall: $17/adults, $15/ children under 11 and seniors. (315) 425-9068. Turned Out. Sat. 7:30 p.m. Syracuse native Tyrone “Tizak” Jackson’s comedy-drama about same-sex relationships will feature cast members during this red carpet event at the Palace Theatre, 2384 James St. $10. palaceonjames.com. Welcome to Marwen. Fri. & Sat. 4:15 & 7:15 p.m.; Sun. 1:15 & 4:15 p.m.; Mon.-Wed. Jan. 16, 7:15 p.m. Director Robert Zemecki’s fact-based fantasy chronicle with Steve Carell. Cinema Capitol Twin, 234 W. Dominick St., Rome. $7/adults, $6/military and students. (315) 337-6453.

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nent of authenticity. I almost always advise you to be yourself with bold candor and unapologetic panache. Speak the truth about your deepest values and clearest perceptions. Be an expert about what really moves you, and devote yourself passionately to your relationships with what really moves you. But there is one exception to this approach. Sometimes it’s wise to employ the “fake it until you make it” strategy: to pretend you are what you want to be with such conviction that you ultimately become what you want to be. I suspect now is one of those times for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) The students’ din-

ing hall at Michigan State University serves gobs of mayonnaise. But in late 2016, a problem arose when 1,250 gallons of the stuff became rancid. Rather than simply throw it away, the school’s Sustainability Officer came up with a brilliant solution: load it into a machine called an anaerobic digester, which turns biodegradable waste into energy. Problem solved! The transformed rot provided electricity for parts of the campus. I recommend you regard this story as a metaphor for your own use. Is there anything in your life that has begun to decay or lose its usefulness? If so, can you convert it into a source of power?

CANCER (June 21-July 22) If you grow veg-

etables, fruits and grains on an acre of land, you can feed 12 people. If you use that acre to raise meat-producing animals, you’ll feed at most four people. But to produce the meat, you’ll need at least four times more water and 20 times more electric power than you would if you grew the plants. I offer this as a useful metaphor for you to consider in the coming months. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should prioritize efficiency and value. What will provide you with the most bang for your bucks? What’s the wisest use of your resources?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Modern kids don’t

spend much time playing outside. They have fun in natural environments only half as often as their parents did while growing up. In fact, the average child spends less time in the open air than prison inmates. And today’s unjailed adults get even less exposure to the elements. But I hope you will avoid that fate in 2019. According to my astrological estimates, you need to allocate more than the usual amount of time to feeling the sun and wind and sky. Not just because it’s key to your physical health, but also because many of your best ideas and decisions are likely to emerge while you’re outdoors.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) NASA landed its

robotic explorer Opportunity on Mars in January 2004. The craft’s mission, which was supposed to last for 92 days, began by taking photos and collecting soil samples. More than 14 years later, the hardy machine was still in operation, continuing to send data back to Earth. It far outlived its designed lifespan. I foresee you being able to generate a comparable marvel in 2019, Virgo: a stalwart resource or influence or situation that will have more staying power than you could imagine. What could it be?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In 1557, Welsh math-

ematician Robert Recorde invented the equals

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BY ROB BREZSNY sign: =. Historical records don’t tell us when he was born, so we don’t know his astrological sign. But I’m guessing he was a Libra. Is there any tribe more skillful at finding correlations, establishing equivalencies, and creating reciprocity? In all the zodiac, who is best at crafting righteous proportions and uniting apparent opposites? Who is the genius of balance? In the coming months, my friend, I suspect you will be even more adept at these fine arts than you usually are.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) There’s a modest, one-story office building at 1209 N. Orange St. in Wilmington, Delaware. More than 285,000 businesses from all over the United States claim it as their address. Why? Because the state of Delaware has advantageous tax laws that enable those businesses to save massive amounts of money. Other buildings in Delaware house thousands of additional corporations. It’s all legal. No one gets in trouble for it. I bring this to your attention in the hope of inspiring you to hunt for comparable situations: ethical loopholes and workarounds that will provide you with extra benefits and advantages.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) People in

the Solomon Islands buy many goods and services with regular currency, but also use other symbols of worth to pay for important cultural events like staging weddings and settling disputes and expressing apologies. These alternate forms of currency include the teeth of flying foxes, which are the local species of bat. In that spirit, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I’d love to see you expand your sense of what constitutes your wealth. In addition to material possessions and funds in the bank, what else makes you valuable? In what other ways do you measure your potency, your vitality, your merit? It’s a favorable time to take inventory.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) In 1984, sing-

er-songwriter John Fogerty released a new album whose lead single was “The Old Man Down the Road.” It sold well. But trouble arose soon afterward when Fogerty’s former record company sued him in court, claiming he stole the idea for “The Old Man Down the Road” from “Run Through the Jungle.” That was a tune Fogerty himself had written and recorded in 1970 while playing with the band Creedence Clearwater Revival. The legal process took a while, but he was ultimately vindicated. No, the courts declared, he didn’t plagiarize himself, even though there were some similarities between the two songs. In this spirit, I authorize you to borrow from a good thing you did in the past as you create a new good thing in the future. There will be no hell to pay if you engage in a bit of self-plagiarism.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Rudyard

Kipling’s The Jungle Book is a collection of fables that take place in India. Three movies have been made based on it. All of them portray the giant talking snake named Kaa as an adversary to the hero Mowgli. But in Kipling’s original stories, Kaa is a benevolent ally and teacher. I bring this to your attention to provide context for a certain situation in your life. Is there an influence with a metaphorical resemblance to Kaa: misinterpreted by some people, but actually quite supportive and nourishing to you? If so, I suggest you intensify your appreciation for it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Virginia Woolf

thought that her Piscean lover Vita Sackville-West was a decent writer, but a bit too fluid and effortless. Self-expression was so natural to Sackville-West that she didn’t work hard enough to hone her craft and discipline her flow. In a letter, Woolf wrote, “I think there are odder, deeper, more angular thoughts in your mind than you have yet let come out.” I invite you to meditate on the possibility that Woolf’s advice might be useful in 2019. Is there anything in your skill set that comes so easily that you haven’t fully ripened it? If so, develop it with more focused intention.

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to conduct any lawful business permitted in the Limited Liability Company Law or the law of other states in which the Company may conduct its business. Notice of Formation of Plunkie Point Road LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/26/18. Office location: Onondaga Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 4000 Old Stone Lane, Camillus, NY 13031. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Formation of Pure Clothing of NY, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on December 17, 2018. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Jacob Honan, The Sugarman Law Firm, 211 W. Jefferson St., Syracuse, NY 13202. Purpose is any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of RICHARDS ENTERPRISES I,

LLC — Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York on 1/3/19. Office location: Cortland County. Secretary of State of New York designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. Secretary of State of New York shall mail process to P.O. Box 137, Homer, New York 13077. The principal office of the limited liability company is located at 137 South Main Street, Homer, New York 13077. The limited liability company was formed for any lawful business purpose. Notice of Formation of Rita Armideo Clay Commons, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/20/2018. Office location: Cortland County, NY. SSNY is the designated agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Rita Armideo Clay Commons, LLC at 101 North Main Street Homer, NY 13077 which is also the principal

business location. The purpose is any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of Shady Pond LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/23/2018. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 5700 South Bay Rd, Cicero, NY 13039. Purpose is any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Shannon Doepking Softball Camps LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/19/2018. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1301 E. Colvin St., Syracuse, NY 13244. Purpose is any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Spruce Hill Farm, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/24/18. Office location: Onondaga County. SSNY

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Notice of formation of TRIM Accounting & Tax Consultant, LLC, Art of Org filed with the Sec’y of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/2/2018. Office location: Onondaga County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: LLC, 8662 Snowshoe Trl, Cicero, NY 13039 Purpose: any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of: T. D. H. Development_, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on: December 21,2018. Office location: County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 5858 E. Molloy Rd., Syracuse, New York 13211. Purpose: any lawful purpose. Notice of Qualification of 613 Walnut Avenue LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/28/18. Office location: Onondaga County. LLC

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