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HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY Yes, we are a time of multiple and extreme crises, when the tendency is to be afraid or attack the other. But remember the Conspiracy of Love. It has been going for tens of thousands of years and beat both Hitler and the Illuminati as well as helped your parents produce you.... Oakland too is a tough time and we are working hard to get the stories out, notably at www.cine-SOURCE.com. If you have any Oakland insights, visions or dramas, let us know. Thanks

HAPPY RELIGIOUS OR TEMPORAL BLESSINGS In these extremely difficult times, I wish you the best in ideas, feelings, impeccability and endurance to guide you through. I also include my mother, due to her example of surviving the Holocaust as a romantic teenager, and my magazine, cine-SOURCE.com, which we just resurrected from a malware attack.... Indeed cineSOURCE has reported on Oakland film and art since our first issue in April 2008. If you want to join our rebuilding of cineSOURCE, which will run well over $1000, please check out our new issue (out in a couple of days), write an article (and a shout out to Karl Cohen for doing two!) or subscribe https://www.cinesourcemagazine.com/#paypal. If you are interested in my mother's journey, her book "Love at the End of the World", $18, makes an excellent gift, which I can deliver curbside in Oakland or ship for $7. Also for $18, I have "Micro Master" paintings and "I Hella Love Oakland" T-shirts, call 510 220-2126. Thanks for your interest, keep up the good work and remember: It is in the darkest hour that people decide to turn towards the light. All our best (and thanks to Nick Blair for the above photo and Sulay Shah for his great programming).

cineSOURCE, a West Oakland magazine, just published an amazing article: THE QANON GAME, CONSPIRACY KING TRUMP AND US. It has breaking news on the QAnon phenom, notably it started as an internet game, and the fact that Trump is a master at manipulating conspiracy theories. Indeed dealing with it brings some of our most advanced intellectual issuescybernetics, spiritual community, radical forgiveness, post-modernism and multiculturalismto bear on a real-world problem. It would be fascinating if it were not so frightening, as the saying goes. See the article https://www.facebook.com/cinesourcemagazine/posts/10164521991165581

A LONG DRIVE, PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY Well, I just had a very interesting 2000-mile race through America and here's my full-of-surprises story, "Pre-Election Report from the American Road". Spoiler: it was not as bad as I expected. Indeed, I remain hopeful as I head out into the bad lands of West Texas looking for hot springs. Best Regards, Doniphan http://cinesourcemagazine.com/index.php

THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF WEST OAKLAND WORKS For more information about Oakland film and art, see our magazine cine-SOURCE.com. Or for our new big project, The Conspiracy of Love, for more info see: https://www.facebook.com/The-Conspiracy-of-Love-110851054117285/?modal=admin_todo_tour