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IN MEMORIAM: Agustin Blazquez, April 17th, 1944-October 27th, 2022.

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by Laurence Jarvik Agustin Blazquez (1944-2022) It is with great sadness we report that Agustin Blazquez passed away October 27th, 2022 in Bethesda, Maryland at age 78, from a stroke.  Agustin was my dear friend of thirty years, and also my artistic collaborator as producer-director of The Trump Effect: Deprogramming the American Mind (2017).  I first met him at a hearing in the 1990s where we both testified to Congress about serious problems at PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. His testimony struck me as both honest and courageous, paying no heed to any careerist considerations. In addition, with his ponytail, beard, and wearing a colorful outfit, there was no way that anyone could see him as anything but a blacklisted artist. Years later, I attempted unsuccessfully to help get his  Covering Cuba 7: Che: The Other Side of an Icon aired on PBS. Even though Agustin had met Che personally in Cuba, and even though PBS had broadcast numerous pro-Che Guevara programs, and eve
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THE GRAY HAIR DECEPTION

  by Agustin Blazquez   GRAY HAIR DECEPTION  by Agustin Blazquez   This issue has been bothering me for quite some time.   It began when out of the blue the majority of FOX NEWS male newscasters begin to display unjustifiable Gray Hair from one day to the next.   The most obvious was that the different newscasters each day displayed Gray Hair in different places and different quantities! As far as I know that is unnatural. Sometimes some younger newscasters also displayed different quantities of Gray Hair per day. I thought that I was getting crazy! This cannot be!   I found this very odd because FOX NEWS is a serious source of accurate information in the middle of so many dishonest and deceptive   television networks. What is going on at FOX? I didn’t notice that the invasion of Gray Hair was affecting the other television stations.   After a while I realized that the Gray Hair oddity didn’t affect the females newscasters!   I am a firm believer in equality in relation to sex. I belie
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