3.29.2016
The World Is Not Converting to Renewable Energy Fast Enough to Save It
3.28.2016
***** A monumentally valuable gift for you. I received it weeks ago and I share it with you. All of us in Western culture are taught in a million ways white supremacy. For many of us, is.....
***** A monumentally valuable gift for you. I received it weeks ago and I share it with you.
All of us in Western culture are taught in a million ways white supremacy. For many of us, it is taught as so benign. It is taught so unintentionally. Making it all the more Insidious.
The gift I received was a sentence that caught my eye in some article, I have no recollection of the article itself. It was the notion that people of color are the color of Earth, the color of nature. By implication, white people, like me, are not the color of Earth, are not the color of nature. More the color of death, the color of bleached bones.
Quickly this is showing promise as a tool that I was never human enough to even realize I wanted or needed. When I think to do so this notion naturally and easily allows me to catch a glimpse of we white folks as not the superior, but the mutant, the deathly mutations that in point of fact we are. It is not people of color that are in the final stages of destroying Earth. It is we white ones.
No, it is not my desire to learn to hate myself, or to view white people as inferior. But I welcome this potential 2x4 to wack some of the notion of white Supremacy out of me that permeates my every pore.
''You make my world better, just knowing that you exist.'' Surely one of the nicest things that has ever been said to me.
''You make my world better, just knowing that you exist.'' Surely one of the nicest things that has ever been said to me.
Must read. Don't stop after the first paragraph or two. 'The Psychological Foundings Of Suicide Bombers: A Palestinian Approach.....
***** Having saved myself, yes, that's absolutely how experience it, I do what little I can to try and help others save themselves , and therefore, I am more determined about nothing than to avoid enabling the vast majority who fiercely pursue walking death.
***** Having saved myself, yes, that's absolutely how experience it, I do what little I can to try and help others save themselves , and therefore, I am more determined about nothing than to avoid enabling the vast majority who fiercely pursue walking death.
***** Chris Hedges. Everything he writes, every week, is must read. The most important intellectual alive today. ''Revenge is the psychological engine of war. Victims are the blood currency. Their corpses are used to sanctify acts of indiscriminant murder. Those defined as the enemy and targeted for slaughter are rendered inhuman. They are not worthy of empathy or justice. Pity and grief are felt exclusively for our own. We vow to eradicate a dehumanized mass that embodies absolute evil. The maimed and dead in Brussels or Paris and the maimed and dead in Raqqa or Sirte perpetuate the same dark lusts. We all are Islamic State.''.......
***** Chris Hedges. Everything he writes, every week, is must read. The most important intellectual alive today. ''Revenge is the psychological engine of war. Victims are the blood currency. Their corpses are used to sanctify acts of indiscriminant murder. Those defined as the enemy and targeted for slaughter are rendered inhuman. They are not worthy of empathy or justice. Pity and grief are felt exclusively for our own. We vow to eradicate a dehumanized mass that embodies absolute evil. The maimed and dead in Brussels or Paris and the maimed and dead in Raqqa or Sirte perpetuate the same dark lusts. We all are Islamic State.''.......
http://m.truthdig.com/report/item/we_are_all_islamic_state_20160327
3.27.2016
82% of Israelis back soldier who executed wounded terrorist
3.24.2016
***** VIDEO: Israeli soldier executes unarmed, wounded Palestinian attacker Maybe even worse than the murder itself is the fact that no one in the vicinity seems at all moved by it.
3.23.2016
***** must must must read. F*** Clinton. ''This ideological change in the Party led to the Clinton-era 1990s policies that gutted our industrial base, ripped apart the social safety net (ending “the era of big government”), and financialized our economy.....''
***** must must must read. F*** Clinton. ''This ideological change in the Party led to the Clinton-era 1990s policies that gutted our industrial base, ripped apart the social safety net (ending “the era of big government”), and financialized our economy.....''
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/23/america_has_abandoned_the_90_percent_partner/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
3.20.2016
***** Pls reply: If everyone went to college what percentage of those who went to college would have a job that either used their skills and or paid back for their education? My guess is about 1%. This education thing may be the nastiest scam ever. It is......
***** Pls reply: If everyone went to college what percentage of those who went to college would have a job that either used their skills and or paid back for their education? My guess is about 1%. This education thing may be the nastiest scam ever. It is a way to make the folks with a college education feel justified in their economic over privilege and at the same time keep those without an education believing that it is their fault that they don't have a decent, living wage , job, rather than the fault of those with education.
Remember how the people sent the bankers in Iceland to prison? Seems like we should be doing the same thing to GMOs Scientists, scientists who developed fracking, scientist.......
Remember how the people sent the bankers in Iceland to prison? Seems like we should be doing the same thing to GMOs Scientists, scientists who developed fracking, scientist who developed Deepwater Drilling, scientist who developed nuclear power, scientists developing the robots that are automating everyone's jobs.... And somehow the Liberals, almost all scientists are liberals, can't understand why white people whose livelihoods are being destroyed by their science, can't understand why they are pissed off. I suppose it was the same for the Liberals back in the 1930s in Germany. Of course those liberals just joined Hitler's regime and developed his weapons, developed as computers for cataloging the Jews for extermination comma Etc. And the Liberals can't understand why the non-intellectual elites get so pissed off. Incredible stupidity.
3.19.2016
***** very important article. I don't know that the article says this, but authoritarianism is the predictable, very likely results, of having been abused substantially earlier in one's life. ' the rise of American authoritarianism.'
3.18.2016
***** Matthew Desmond Will Change the Way You Relate to America's Poverty Crisis Desmond's new book 'Evicted' takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge.
***** Understanding the fundamental roots of conflict and suffering: An interview with Rich Forer
3.17.2016
St Patrick's day. My friend just enlightened me. ''It is strange that in my family the potato famine was talked about often. The deliberate starvation of the Irish people. I learned nothing about it in American school. But hey people in America think St. Pats day is a wonderful thing. Yet not to my family........ '''
It is strange that in my family the potato famine was talked about often. The deliberate starvation of the Irish people.
I learned nothing about it in American school. But hey people in America think St. Pats day is a wonderful thing. Yet not to my family... He was a horror. The snakes he drove from Ireland.... Non Christians.... Gypsy, Druid, and other religious and native culture people's. When I was little the teacher told us to wear green to celebrate and I told my family I had to do it... Lol I was sent in black clothing with a note... We do not celebrate this day as it is the celebration of a man who was evil itself.
Strange they don't teach about the real story in schools...
3.16.2016
***** Regarding Bernie and me: despite that I find him a godsend, last chance for us all, I am aware that my nervous system has kept me on the sidelines.......
***** Regarding Bernie and me: despite that I find him a godsend, last chance for us all, I am aware that my nervous system has kept me on the sidelines, just sending on favorable posts, but not diving in with what little resources I have or time to support the campaign. I think I have just understood why. A combination of feeling that the odds were too low that he would win the nomination, and not being drawn into efforts to win an election, that that was not promising enough. Now that it appears extremely unlikely that he will win the nomination I suspect I will begin working substantially , including limited funds, toward the campaigning. Odd, right? The reason is that now I feel that any efforts are less about getting him elected, not that that wouldn't be wonderful, but more about building, and advancing, sowing the seeds for, doing the education for.. a movement. I don't think I can resist participating in, working in furtherance of, that. And yes, this is contrary to what I had earlier said, that I would not work to advance anyone, that had not taken an unequivocal stand against the genocide of Palestine. But as I wrote last week I have undergone a substantial shift in that I seem to be finally finally finally metabolising that the disintegration of society and Humanity has begun but that there are still current and future survivors to protect and help, even in Palestine, and surely Bernie is the way Superior option in that regard for Palestine than are any of the other candidates.
3.15.2016
***** drop-in centers. The best way to reach homeless kids is rarely used
LA sued over seizure of homeless people's belongings
3.13.2016
***** Witness. A one-in-a-million glimpse at what it is to be a human being. God bless his little soul.
***** People pushed absolutely to the wall can be the luckiest of us all because sometimes they find that they have nothing left but to act for pure morality, pure goodness, pure Justice itself, the ultimate aesthetic experience, the ultimate ecstasy. This is much what I experience in my life from moment to moment. And it is what I have always envied, always craved, without for the longest time knowing what it was.
***** People pushed absolutely to the wall can be the luckiest of us all because sometimes they find that they have nothing left but to act for pure morality, pure goodness, pure Justice itself, the ultimate aesthetic experience, the ultimate ecstasy. This is much what I experience in my life from moment to moment. And it is what I have always envied, always craved, without for the longest time knowing what it was.
***** Israeli soldier says it is his job to frighten 5-year-old Palestinians
Scientists can tell when your motives are truly altruistic, and when you’re secretly being selfish
Ontario to test guaranteed minimum income to ease poverty
***** WE PALESTINIANS WAKE UP EVERY DAY AND TEACH THE REST OF THE WORLD LIFE, SIR. The Palestinians are a breathtaking, impossibly, divinely Humane people. Maybe the most Humane people on Earth. Of course we are trying to exterminate them. They show the rest of us to be the Twisted cripples that we are.
Neither Obama or Trump have created this disease unbridled ignorant hatred that we see sweeping across the country.. Between them they have simply caused it to come into the open. Now.......
Neither Obama or Trump have created this disease unbridled ignorant hatred that we see sweeping across the country.. Between them they have simply caused it to come into the open. Now we get to see if the antibodies, the people of goodwill, are strong enough, numerous enough, good enough, able enough to go beyond their lip service good intentions, to deal with it before it kills the body.
3.09.2016
***** To reformulate slightly something that I've seen and admired on Facebook recently, and to encapsulate everything that I know and believe, if you want to be joyful and have less suffering in your life, devote.......
***** To reformulate slightly something that I've seen and admired on Facebook recently, and to encapsulate everything that I know and believe, if you want to be joyful and have less suffering in your life, devote your life to helping the neediest be more joyful, and have less suffering in their lives. That's what I live for well over a decade now and having tried everything else that Society has to offer that Path is the Holy Grail.
Although it may well appear the opposite, joyful is how I would categorize my every breath. Agonized but joyful. I envy no one on earth or in history their quality of life.
Although it may well appear the opposite, joyful is how I would categorize my every breath. Agonized but joyful. I envy no one on earth or in history their quality of life.
To the Liberals constantly disparaging, attacking, belittling, taunting the uneducated, ignorant Americans, stop it!!! Do you taunt.......
To the Liberals constantly disparaging, attacking, belittling, taunting the uneducated, ignorant Americans, stop it!!! Do you taunt people who are physically crippled? Not in public you don't. And you attacked those who do. The white, uninformed, uneducated people that you constantly disparage have been systematically and deliberately crippled intellectually and informationally by the rulers. They are in revolt against you and you deserve it. Figure out how to help them, how to make up for your years of neglect and bigotry, and stop attacking them.
***** Sanders is no better an individual in my view, and less capable by far, then President Obama. We saw how much difference it makes who the president is, very very little, unless.....
***** Sanders is no better an individual in my view, and less capable by far, then President Obama. We saw how much difference it makes who the president is, very very little, unless the citizenry remains militantly and totally committed on the stage every day along side of that individual for as long as they are in office. And we totally completely 100% failed to do this as Citizens for all eight years that President Obama was in office. One of the things I love about Sanders, and I did about Obama too, is they are very explicit about this. We ignored Obama in this obvious truth. If we elect Sanders, and we continue to ignore this obvious truth, on my god do we deserve what we get.
I don't think it's the money with Hilary, I think it's being a member of the club, finally. She was born outside the club of the financial Elites. And her pitiful little ego, she will do anything to anybody to remain in that club now. I think that's entirely what she is about. Pleasing the Masters. Remaining a member of the club.
I don't think it's the money with Hilary, I think it's being a member of the club, finally. She was born outside the club of the financial Elites. And her pitiful little ego, she will do anything to anybody to remain in that club now. I think that's entirely what she is about. Pleasing the Masters. Remaining a member of the club.