Monday, June 22, 2015

1st some recent stuff, then a few glitchy links

http://ralphnaderradiohour.libsyn.com/

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http://www.wired.com/2013/04/the-most-dangerous-manmade-lava-flow/

without cross http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/AP0201/girardw.htm

http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/AP0201/bert.htm

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=&as_epq=girard+versus+gans&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=

mishler.htm

four questionable ones looked up Feb '16

https://www.corbettreport.com/the-truth-about-the-zika-virus-with-jon-rappoport/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CorbettReportRSS+%28The+Corbett+Report%29

http://peakoil.com/enviroment/fukushima-meltdown-to-cause-10000-chernobyls-in-south-atlantic

http://enenews.com/nuclear-expert-im-disgusted-location-corium-fukushima-unknown-melted-fuel-burns-center-earth-itd-be-nice-rid-believe-impossible-retrieve-all-audio

See DanielRavenNest
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/politics-religion-society/105150-i-thought-april-fools-joke.html

'However, Islamism is only one symptom of a trend to violence that is much more global. It comes less from the South than from the West itself because it takes the form of a response of the poor to those who are well-off. It is one of the last metastases of the cancer that has torn the Western world apart. Terrorism is the vanguard of a general revenge against the West’s wealth. It is a very violent and unpredictable revival of the Conquest, which is all the more terrifying because it has encountered America along the way. The sources of Islamism’s strength include the fact that it is a response to the oppression of the Third World as a whole.' René Girard Girard

electro sensitivity
https://www.google.com/search?as_q=sharks+rupert+sheldrake+discussion+attacks&as_epq=electric+field&as_oq=fishing+depleted+consume+oceanic+current+chum&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=&gws_rd=ssl

does not count as having clean hands
https://www.facebook.com/AlterNetNews/photos/a.206928327506.133239.17108852506/10153073913257507/?type=1&theater

Piazolla Padova
https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0LEV1u_KMRVmaYA.S2l87UF;_ylc=X1MDOTU4MTA0NjkEX3IDMgRmcgNocC1kZGMtYmQEZ3ByaWQDcmFRTURLNHBRQk9saGM1cTFWenBuQQRuX3JzbHQDMARuX3N1Z2cDMTAEb3JpZ2luA3NlYXJjaC55YWhvby5jb20EcG9zAzIEcHFzdHIDc3BlZWR3YXkgYXQgBHBxc3RybAMxMgRxc3RybAMyMARxdWVyeQNzcGVlZHdheSBhdCBuYXphcmV0aAR0X3N0bXADMTQzODkxODg4Mg--;_ylc=X1MDOTU4MTA0NjkEX3IDMgRmcgNocC1kZGMtYmQEZ3ByaWQDcmFRTURLNHBRQk9saGM1cTFWenBuQQRuX3JzbHQDMARuX3N1Z2cDMTAEb3JpZ2luA3NlYXJjaC55YWhvby5jb20EcG9zAzAEcHFzdHIDBHBxc3RybAMEcXN0cmwDMjAEcXVlcnkDc3BlZWR3YXkgYXQgbmF6YXJldGgEdF9zdG1wAzE0Mzg5MTkzNzg-?p=speedway+at+nazareth&fr=hp-ddc-bd&fr2=sb-top-search&type=pr-bir-is__alt__ddc_dsssyc_bd_com&iscqry=

Post 1
http://daveatch.blogspot.com/2013/12/listening.html

Post -7
http://daveatch.blogspot.com/2014/10/7-so-called-islamic-state.html

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Greek-2004/2011/5/Aristotle-quote-1.htm

Jung & soul psychology
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CDIQFjADahUKEwjElOjn9JHHAhVIcz4KHSX2CoA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsamples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk%2F9781317773931_sample_865809.pdf&ei=aP3BVcTAN8jm-QGl7KuACA&usg=AFQjCNHeSSk44iby2tN43vlj__WY64HdHw&bvm=bv.99261572,d.cWw

http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft4g50068d;chunk.id=0;doc.view=print

http://crowsnestshamanism.com/blog/creativity-healing/

Glad Laura Poitras used the term "Kafkaesque." Maybe I'm very wrong, but it's seeming as though it doesn't just apply to surveillance "work," or just being under surveillance. On the edges I've been noticing something changing in our world (at my job I've been lucky; there's relatively a lot of concentration involved in DOING for others). Fine to talk about nations with completely revamped energy policies, but shouldn't we also begin talking about the total revolution in psyches required when people begin going everyday to meaningful jobs devoid of the Kafkaesque element?

In years and years I've only run into one blog where folks went deeply into work psychology but which was still at my level [I brought up Anne Wilson-Schaef in that discussion and others mentioned others]. To me the "addictive" aspect of today's work segues into "legalism," the latter having something to do with comparing oneself to positive models in society at large as well as with "scapegoats" in the immediate environment. Obsessive comparing to scapegoats to me is equivalent to the pecking order I observed working with chickens. In Kafka-land fear of becoming the one pecked figures in blanket fashion...or so it seems. With all the terabytes of exposition out there, no one has provided any alternate adjectives as germane to the situation...other than perhaps those using "authoritarian

Harold Meyerson (The American Prospect) in "Work History" wrote about how quickly the Civil Works Administration came into being [and the CCC], but when it comes to seeing in these times what people could be doing, vs the Kafkaesque craziness of what they are doing, there's not much written. Well, changing energy priorities obviously would necessitate replacing the craziness with something else. What will the new roles be, and what totally new challenges will workers face under such circumstances? Who do we ask about this? The names Vandana Shiva, Wendell Berry, Wilson-Schaef, Barbara Ehrenreich, Ralph Nader, Bill Mollison, MSF, and Meyerson come to mind.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/07/14/filmmaker-laura-poitras-sues-us-over-kafkaesque-harassment

http://prospect.org/article/work-history-0

The most pernicious philosophies out there have to do with so-called processes. The invisible hand process. The process of "the market" (this is "neoliberalism," and you need to get a handle on this term). The process of meritocracy. Processes I'm prone to endorse myself have the same problems somewhat as these aforementioned...any associated with karma and any associated with Alfred North Whitehead's process theology. Well, right up front I acknowledge that processes involved in karma are to a big extent unknowable. Whitehead's process theology does assume some things that can't be proven [but you don't have to make a "leap" any more away from slow and gradual "natural selection," due to Rupert Sheldrake's critique of same].

The philosophy of meritocracy, for instance, would tell you that Donald Trump has earned the acclaim. The invisible hand has trickled down some spare change to us; but, via some manner of osmotic pressure mechanism, it transfers or pumps merit-recognition upwards to guys like Trump who have earned it (it doesn't say anything about Trump's "friends" at Fox). From the very inexact frame of meritocracy...Trump hypes the very inexact process of neoliberalism. But this also goes for all politicians on board with TPP.

With Juan Cole's share today...it's harder to take sides (so check it out on his page, or via mine). This article was before that, good background. But I'm gonna re-write an earlier caption--->Neither "the war on drugs" or the war against the self-proclaimed "Islamic State" appear to be geared to winding things up. Do defense interests want ISIL shut down asap? For sure the contraband of war is a headache for Turkey's gov in general, but sometimes I wonder if maybe key Turkish players stand to gain from trafficking as long as there's chaos. As odds go, though, likely the bombings are mainly a matter of AKP trying to obliterate anything associated with PKK prior to any snap election. TARGETING KURDS http://www.juancole.com/2015/07/turkeys-mainly-targeting.html

Good chart and rundown of the whole thing. They're talking about 3 AM 8/2...when it was 8/1 here.
^{CHART http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33750803?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central%3FSThisFB}

^{Cockburrn http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=14370}

Neither "the war on drugs" or the war against the self-proclaimed "Islamic State" appear to be geared to winding things up. Do defense interests want ISIL shut down asap? For sure the contraband of war is a headache for Turkey's gov in general [first comment], but sometimes I wonder if maybe key pols stand to gain as long as there's chaos; but the bombings are probably mainly a matter of AKP trying to obliterate anything associated with PKK prior to any snap election [second comment]. Gaining control of the corridor in question will impact the supply aspect "some" I suppose as is claimed, but hitting the Kurds it would seem could impact the struggle against ISIL itself. Things look too suspicious. Our involvement hasn't yielded anything decisive...except recently a treaty that will strengthen Iran's position, thank God. ERDOGAN MAKE MISTAKE? http://www.juancole.com/2015/07/historic-dumping-process.html

Guess Cole means that the PKK got the chance to return in the first place due to Bush. Re the present, looks to me like PKK jumped the gun in (allegedly) killing 7/22 the two policemen (revenge for an attack that actually ISIS claimed it launched). But also it looks like Turkey subsequently over reacted. Good (to me essential) chart in the first embedded link...BBC. BARZANI ASKS PKK TO LEAVE http://www.juancole.com/2015/08/another-legacy-barzani.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

"Lee went on saying that the state then ordered DBT to shift to an even lower threshold of 80% match, allowing also names to be reversed (thus a person named Thomas Clarence could be taken to be the same as Clarence Thomas). Besides this, middle initials were skipped, Jr. and Sr. suffixes dropped, and some nicknames and aliases were added to puff up the list."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Central_Voter_File

" Indeed, fully 1 in 7 African-Americans in those 27 states, plus the state of Washington (which enrolled in Crosscheck but has decided not to utilize the results), are listed as under suspicion of having voted twice."
http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/double-voters/

"Washington and Tehran Come in From the Cold" Peter Van Buren
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176028/

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/25184-hillary-clintons-real-scandal-is-honduras-not-benghazi

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32062-honduras-breaks-the-silence-protests-persist-against-corruption

Wake up. The people fighting the "good" war weren't making the decisions to turn the boats away. Do some research yourself, and do it on "blowback."

"Hillary Clinton's Real Scandal Is Honduras, Not Benghazi"
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/25184-hillary-clintons-real-scandal-is-honduras-not-Benghazi

Paul Cooke

" Martin Maloney
June 28, 2014 - 3:41 pm

@ jmreeves

You missed the most important security precaution of all – ditch Windows!

OK, OK, so most people wouldn’t want to do that. They are comfortable with Windows programs, and perhaps they are using Windows programs because, for one reason or another, they have to.

What I really mean by “ditch Windows!” is never go online in Windows. The same applies if you have a Mac — never go online in Mac OS.

The safest way to go online in in Linux. The easiest way to switch to Linux is to get ahold of another computer – a laptop won’t clutter your workspace."
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an even easier way to gain the benefits of Linux is to use it in a virtual machine to go online with if funds don't stretch to an extra laptop

or even use a Linux Live Disk and reboot the computer and let Linux run live from the CDrom...

most Linux install disks can be run as a live session by booting up with them in the CD drive and setting your BIOS to boot from CD drive first.

Here's a link to a reputable version:

http://www.linuxmint.com/

you could always go minimal and get yourself a model B Raspberry Pi

http://www.raspberrypi.org/help/faqs/

http://reclaimtheamericandream.org/

The Fuse
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jacksonbrowne/thefuse.html

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30527-giroux-liberalism-s-failures-in-a-time-of-increasing-violence-racism-inequality-and-state-terrorism

"The condensation of all the separated scandals is the paroxysm of a process that begins with mimetic desire and its rivalries. These rivalries as they multiply, create a mimetic crisis, the war of all against all. The resulting violence of all against all would annihilate the community if it were not transformed, in the end, into a war of all against one, thanks to which the unity of the community is reestablished." René Girard

"According to Girard, in periods of collective crisis the phenomenon of scapegoating flourishes: specific groups of people (as a rule minorities) or even (marginal) individuals are identified, judged/condemned and persecuted as dangerous subjects, responsible for society's potential or actual disintegration; majority or authorities accuse, expel, or even eliminate them (morally or physically), in an attempt to 'remedy' the 'miasma,' which is supposed to have contaminated the previously immaculate community, and to reverse crisis." Panagiotis Roilos

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/panagiotis-roilos/european-animal-farm_b_1511619.html

"...and a lot of the discussion around bipartisan prison reform, which has really been spurred a lot by conservatives—the conservative group Right on Crime, the Koch brothers, Newt Gingrich—all of these people who now are very vocally speaking out for prison reform, a lot of what they are talking about is money. They’re talking about how much prison costs: $80 billion, we’re wasting all this money on incarcerating people, we could be doing other things.

"And I think, while it’s important, obviously, that mass incarceration is being challenged, we need to step back a little bit and think about whether this is where we want to place our emphasis, because, first of all, a lot of the legislation being proposed in Congress to sort of right some of these wrongs is taking that money that would be saved by decarcerating some people who are in federal prison, and redirecting it into what they call 'public safety measures,' like local police forces. So, that money isn’t being channeled into early childhood education or mental healthcare or real community resources that would promote lasting safety." Maya Schenwar (second guest)

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/7/17/the_war_on_drugs_is_a

René Girard

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Despite all appearances, this insanity is slipping through the cracks.

"So the result of these changes is the opposite of what American strategy was based on for the last half-century, the idea of dividing and conquering Eurasia by setting Russia against China, by isolating Iran, by preventing India, the Near East, and other Asian countries from joining together to create some kind of alternative to the dollar area. In fact, the American sanctions and the new Cold War policy of the neocons are driving these Asian countries together, in association with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, as an alternative to NATO, and the BRICS are trying to make an alternative to dealing with the dollar area and with the IMF and the World Bank that represent U.S. policy." Hudson TRNN

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Expert-Says-Greeks-Should-Not-Fear-a-Debt-Default-20150703-0003.html

below are just a few links that one day were glitchy (subj: May's antitrafficking legislation)

1st Politico article. Has petition in comments - advocates no punishment for trafficked minor sex workers
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/the-truth-about-the-effort-to-end-sex-trafficking-118600.html#.VYhJfvlVikp

2nd article
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/justice-for-victims-of-sex-trafficking-war-on-crime-118512.html#.VYhKJflViko

It was after May that I began reading previous anticipations re how anti-trafficking law might be changed (eventually changed in May). But after it was signed I've found no summaries re how it affected deportation turn around time for Central American kids. Does anybody know? Yes, I've found the official government version online, but as of yet have not found the time to wade through it.

2014 "That meant there was no protection for children in danger back home. Worse, it meant that child victims of human trafficking — children who were being taken into the US not by choice, but to be exploited for labor or forced into prostitution— were getting shipped right back to the traffickers to try again." Dana Hind

http://immigrantsandiego.org/category/central-american-refugees/

It's amazing how there's a wealth of material on the net about how a law might end up, but so little interpretation once a bill's signed.

Media referred to the anti-trafficking bill as just that--one thing. I can see that the JVTA of 2015 passed, but I don't know if the Protection of Children Act of 2015 was also signed back in May. I was reading in a number of places how it was anticipated the revised JVTA might mandate that immigrant children from central America be sent back as quickly as Mexican and Canadian children. I haven't gone over JVTA's official gov page. Just like to know if this feature I just mentioned was actually incorporated, or if there are other facets of the thing that lessen the craziness of such a change (if the change was in fact incorporated).

I think this segment below was from a rundown put up in March, but there's nothing I can find that explains what was finally formed up at signing time.

"(1) treat children from non-contiguous countries similarly to Mexican and Canadian children, but (2) strike the current requirement that the child be able to make an “independent decision to withdraw the child’s application for admission” before proceeding with voluntary return..."

http://immigrationpolicy.org/special-reports/guide-children-arriving-border-laws-policies-and-responses

Been reading about this for a number of weeks. Don't know exactly how I got started. Here's something I encountered a while back first, then something I found more recently...

"Only children under 8 years old could remain with adults in our rooms." 52:56

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/4/14/immigrant_mothers_in_detention_launch_second

"But that’s not how children are treated if they come from “contiguous countries”: Canada or Mexico. Before 2008, a child from Mexico apprehended at the border would just be turned right around and sent back — the same way an adult immigrant would be.

"That meant there was no protection for children in danger back home. Worse, it meant that child victims of human trafficking — children who were being taken into the US not by choice, but to be exploited for labor or forced into prostitution— were getting shipped right back to the traffickers to try again." Dana Hind

http://immigrantsandiego.org/category/central-american-refugees/

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/178

Here is a statement from a year ago anticipating the worst in the next version of the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2008...

"Now, Congress and the administration agree that it's important to respond to the current crisis by sending back tens of thousands of Central American children — as quickly as possible. And that would require changing the TVPRA to expand the current screening system to Central American kids in addition to Mexican ones."

http://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5898349/border-children-mexican-central-american-deport-quickly-2008-law

At this point there is nothing I can find that tells whether or not the quick deportation process (applicable to Mexican children immigrants) ended up applicable to Central American kids as well in the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/178"></a>.

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No one seems to want to summarize what's in https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/178 . As of March there was still the quick-return for Central American kids provision in the bill...which holds for Mexican kids and, if they're being trafficked, sends them straight back to their traffickers. Here below is what some organizations a year ago were NOT looking forward to in the revamped version of the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2008.
http://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5898349/border-children-mexican-central-american-deport-quickly-2008-law

for searches

Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act

H.R. 515 S. 572 S. 166 H.R. 514 H.R. 357 H.R. 468 H.R. 469 S. 205

(1) treat children from non-contiguous countries similarly to Mexican and Canadian children, but (2) strike the current requirement that the child be able to make an “independent decision to withdraw the child’s application for admission” before proceeding with voluntary return;
For example, the “Protection of Children Act of 2015,” which the House Judiciary Committee moved forward on March 4, 2015, would enact the above four changes—but additionally, expand from 72 hours to 30 days the time limit for CBP to transfer remaining unaccompanied children to HHS custody. That bill, among others, also proposes restricting HHS’ ability to provide counsel to unaccompanied children.
http://immigrationpolicy.org/special-reports/guide-children-arriving-border-laws-policies-and-responses

https://www.covenanthouse.org/help-the-homeless/

https://endslaveryandtrafficking.org/

Finland http://www.vox.com/2015/2/18/8063785/finland-schools-education

"I assume that the reason for the attractiveness of the narcissistic person lies in the fact that he portrays an image of what the average person would like to be: he is sure of himself, has no doubts, feels always on top of the situation. The average person, in contrast, does not have this certainty; he is often plagued by doubts, prone to admire others as being superior to himself. One may ask why extreme narcissism does not repel people. Why do they not resent the lack of real love? The question is easy to answer: real love is so rare today as to be almost outside the field of vision of most people. In the narcissist one sees someone who at least loves ONE person, himself." Erich Fromm "Greatness and Limitations of Freud's Thought" p. 49

"According to Girard [René Girard], in periods of collective crisis the phenomenon of scapegoating flourishes: specific groups of people (as a rule minorities) or even (marginal) individuals are identified, judged/condemned and persecuted as dangerous subjects, responsible for society's potential or actual disintegration; majority or authorities accuse, expel, or even eliminate them (morally or physically), in an attempt to 'remedy' the 'miasma,' which is supposed to have contaminated the previously immaculate community, and to reverse crisis." Panagiotis Roilos (this article is at Huff Po)

This comment will relate something I heard about in the 90s on PBS. By that time it seemed logical, but it was at the same time disappointing. At my church in the 70s I liked Gerald Derstine a lot [I guess Phil D's father], because he was one visiting preacher who didn't demand too much participation from the audience.

'(Phil) Derstine is typical of those evangelicals who, for one reason or another, got mixed up in the “goings-on” in Central and South America and who, as a result, became entangled in the CIA’s dirty little war against communism in that area of the world in the 1970s and ’80s.[2]

'Derstein told reporters at the 1987 National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Washington DC that he had become involved in the “happenings” in Central America at the behest of the National Security Council (NSC), specifically as a result of Oliver North’s entreaties. Derstine’s assertions as to his connection to the NSC are supported by a November 1985 report in a Florida newspaper, the Sarasota Harald-Tribune, that U.S. Rep. Andy Ireland (R-FL) had personally accompanied Derstine to a National Security Council briefing together with Oliver North prior to his September 1985 trip to the Honduras-Nicaragua border region.' http://roadruin.blogspot.com/2013/11/overcoming-christ-inanity.html

That whites aren't in this case entitled to comment is over moralizing. The article's already shared on Kevin Alexander Gray's page, and Gray's not telling whites to get gone. I guess is the one white distinguished enough to be the exception. Horse feathers.

The reaction of the Sanders crowd was lousy. I'll work for Sanders, but I'm not most FOR Sanders. I'm more for Jill Stein. It would have been a good idea for Sanders to turn the "speech" right there into a debate, and BLM should have had activists going into this thing that could have made the point...via debate. Does anyone know about when Fox invited the teenager Rachel Parent to more or less argue her point re GMOs. Of course, they thought they'd put her in her place, but at least they had the nerve to enter into discussion with a genius (granted, the format was agreed on ahead of time). We have a situation where the country's going down in a spiral. Presidential candidates, one could have guessed, aren't usually the ones to come up with a truthful, objective, and encompassing perspective on such dire situations [FDR being an exception]. This is a job for Bill Moyers (whoops, he's out of the picture). This is a job for Town Meeting of the Air (whoops, that was 40 years ago). Whoops, the frames to look at all this through will not be televised. Guess we'll have to bring to mind the last commentators we heard via Moyers. Here's what I wrote about all this last night on Gray's page...

An economic system had to distribute in a more fair manner due to dwindling resources. A way to resolve conflicts had to be found due to so many nukes lying around. So, what happened? Exactly what the just shared AlterNet article said happened...the most retrograde approach conceivable.

Don't know bout yall, but I'm reading a bit of Henry Giroux and Chris Hedges these days. We need to go far beyond all the old analyses...to explain the craziness that's going down today. IMO we might also delve a little into Erich Fromm's concept of "group narcissism" and René Girard's concepts of mimesis and THE SCAPEGOAT. "Kafkaesque" is also a term applicable IMO; it's not just applicable to surveillance [though I don't doubt MLK were he here would apply it to our current MIIC...because, just like before, he'd realize certain issues are joined]. The economic axe could fall on anyone, and everyone's afraid it will; and therefore everyone is at everyone else's throat. Face it, the AlterNet article's right, and neither The Secret nor the doctrine of "abundant living" are gonna put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Not Marx either IMO. It's gonna take something a little deeper...or at least more apropos.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/20/1394902/--Orwell-Huxley-and-America-s-Plunge-into-Authoritarianism-by-Henry-A-Giroux#

"G.Y.: Why the metaphor of 'fire'?

C.W.: That’s just my tradition, brother. Fire really means a certain kind of burning in the soul that one can no longer tolerate when one is pushed against a wall. So, you straighten your back up, you take your stand, you speak your truth, you bear your witness and, most important, you are willing to live and die. Fire is very much about fruits as opposed to foliage. The ice age was all about foliage: 'Look at me, look at me.' It was the peacock syndrome. Fire is about fruits..."

Dr. Cornel West 8/19/15

"In addition, a pedagogy of historical, social, and racial amnesia is constructed and ciculated through a highly popular celebrity culture and its counterpart in corporate-driven news, television, radio, and entertainment to produce a culture of stupidity, censorship, and diversionary spectacles."

Henry Giroux 8/21/15

War lords sell the Congo's minerals to corporations, I guess cheap. If there's no authority, it's free booter land. Five million dead since 1998.

Haven't figured out how to get the actual url for a pdf doc in Windows 8...first citation

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=congo&as_epq=faced+with+a+gun+what+can+you+do&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=&gws_rd=ssl

Monday, April 20, 2015

-10) Whitehead, Tao Te Ching, & Dreams

daily concerns (off topic) in normal font

THE SCOPIC PAST AND THE ETHICS OF THE GAZE

Weather http://wavy.com/weather/forecast/

Google http://www.google.com/advanced_search

http://www.commondreams.org/

René Girard

http://prn.fm/category/archives/alternative-visions/#axzz26ySyu8Fl

russia pivots to eurasia
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=12786

a greek bailout is really a bailout of western banks
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/video_michael_hudson_and_bill_black_with_greece_the_west_is_20150701

Sunday 6/20 Giroux http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/20/1394902/--Orwell-Huxley-and-America-s-Plunge-into-Authoritarianism-by-Henry-A-Giroux

4th weekend
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-15/china-mocks-g7-gathering-debtors-warns-confrontation-will-be-disaster-europe

http://www.alternet.org/magical-mystery-tour-american-austerity-how-one-state-destroying-democracy-and-poisoning-its-people#.VXioi0JOIzQ.blogger

http://prn.fm/chris-hedges-06-21-15/

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=14018

http://prn.fm/alternative-visions-06-13-15/

http://www.juancole.com/2015/04/conflicts-sunni-shiite.html

July 2

Sometimes we need someone
https://www.facebook.com/sparksofhope.org/photos/a.199796516780761.46393.172504182843328/682325891861152/?type=1&theater

OSCILLATION
https://www.aer.com/science-research/climate-weather/arctic-oscillation

http://michael-hudson.com/2015/05/greek-debtline/

latest weisbrot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xArcEnzGUsk

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-15/china-mocks-g7-gathering-debtors-warns-confrontation-will-be-disaster-Europe

"Fear and isolation constitute an updated version of Big Brother. Fear is managed and is buttressed by a neoliberal logic that embraces the notion that while fear be accepted as a general condition of society, how it is dealt with by members of the American public be relegated to the realm of the private, dealt with exclusively as an individual consideration, largely removed from the collapse of authoritarian control and democratic rule, and posited onto the individual’s fear of the other."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/20/1394902/--Orwell-Huxley-and-America-s-Plunge-into-Authoritarianism-by-Henry-A-Giroux#comments

"The condensation of all the separated scandals is the paroxysm of a process that begins with mimetic desire and its rivalries. These rivalries as they multiply, create a mimetic crisis, the war of all against all. The resulting violence of all against all would annihilate the community if it were not transformed, in the end, into a war of all against one, thanks to which the unity of the community is reestablished." René Girard

Predestination

http://www.trinityfoundation.org/journal.php?id=284

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=freedom+kairos+moment&as_epq=internet+encyclopedia+philosophy+&as_oq=predestined+foreordained+predestination&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=&gws_rd=ssl

http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Time

http://korolev.msk.ru/books/oct11b/3819_Religiovedenie_ENCYCLOPEDIA_OF_RELIGION_ER_Vol_12_RNYING_MA_PA_SCHOOL_SOULs.html

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=predestination+whitehead+kairos&as_epq=&as_oq=lacunae+lucuna&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=&gws_rd=ssl

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/16/1393657/-No-revote-on-trade-bill-today-But-Boehner-wants-to-keep-options-on-it-open-until-July-30#

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/15/germany-is-bluffing-on-greece/#

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/15/whats-really-going-on-at-fukushima/#

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3015

The whole thing in a nutshell, June 7's show 54:12. Sometimes I wish I could send the robber barons straight to hell, but that's not what I'm called to do in this life. http://prn.fm/category/archives/alternative-visions/#axzz26ySyu8Fl

http://billmoyers.com/2015/06/01/discarding-elderly/

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-close-in-on-creating-black-hole-in-lab/

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2008/04/black-holes-at-lhc-what-can-happen.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/hillary-clintons-two-fore_1_b_3714765.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-sorscher/what-is-a-corporatist-age_b_7042618.html

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30527-giroux-liberalism-s-failures-in-a-time-of-increasing-violence-racism-inequality-and-state-terrorism

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=&as_epq=how+agencies+get+dismantled&as_oq=austerity+slash+shortfall&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=&gws_rd=ssl

"In such a society, cynicism replaces hope, public life collapses into the ever-encroaching domain of the private while social ills and human suffering become more difficult to identify, understand, and engage critically. Zygmunt Bauman points out that 'the exit from politics and withdrawal behind the fortified walls of the private' means not only that society has stopped questioning itself but also that those discourses, social relations and public spaces in which people can speak, exercise, and develop the capacities and skills necessary for critically encountering the world atrophy and disappear." http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/20307-hope-in-the-age-of-looming-authoritarianism?tsk=adminpreview#comment-1151647650

http://www.thisisthezerohour.com/

Rohr IV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJyY-sNsgV8 x

Naomi Klein on Global Neoliberalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKTmwu3ynOY

IMF Emptier http://michael-hudson.com/2015/03/the-imf-emptier/

http://jackrasmus.com/

http://www.commondreams.org/

http://www.juancole.com/

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.counterpunch.org/

http://billmoyers.com/content/...

https://www.facebook.com/HuffPostPolitics

new millenials, cole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N74sRm_6kCo

Bacevich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmo1O8cB7ew

cole, isis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmCt3XPHplk

Important stuff from May

parking lights
https://www.google.com/search?as_q=hyundai&as_epq=lights+coming+on+by+themselves&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=&gws_rd=ssl

food thing, Japan
https://dunrenard.wordpress.com/page/2/

antipsychotics http://www.buzzfeed.com/catferguson/the-antipsychotic-boom#.tcyLaV1RY

tren al nubes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYljeGjd4XI

shorebreak? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_vAiO8mVnI

http://ecocult.com/2014/whats-the-deal-with-american-spirit-cigarettes/

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/fbi_proposals_for_mandatory_security_backdoors_20150429

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/10/ispy-cia-campaign-steal-apples-secrets/

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/americas-dirtiest-cops-cash-cocaine-texas-hidalgo-county-20150105

http://www.encod.org/info/CIA-agents-caught-while-crossing.html

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140901192001-29817943-dea-complicity-in-drugging-america

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2015-05-04/underlying-causes-of-urban-poverty-and-racial-strife-in-baltimore-and-across-the-country

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%9308

"What happened next was astounding -- by the standards of 1933 and, for that matter, of 2010. Indeed, Hopkins' initiative and ambition should be a model for our response to today's Great Recession. Hopkins' program, the Civil Works Administration (CWA), began operating on Nov. 9. He summoned governors and mayors to meet with him in Washington on Nov. 15 and submit proposals to put people to work. As the proposals came in, he approved them: 122 on Nov. 20, 109 on Nov. 21. By Nov. 26, he had approved 920 projects for Indiana alone, and 48,500 Indianans were already on the job, on the CWA's payroll, by that day.

"'Ickes was concerned about the return on the taxpayers' investment,' Robert Sherwood writes in his 1948 biography Roosevelt and Hopkins. 'Hopkins did not give a damn about the return; his approach was that of a social worker who was interested only in getting relief to the miserable and getting it there quickly.'

"By Christmas, the CWA was employing 2.6 million Americans. A few weeks later, Congress appropriated an additional $950 million, funding the expansion of the program to encompass a total of 4,264,000 workers. Thirteen million Americans had been unemployed at the start of November; by early February, that figure had dropped to 9 million."
https://prospect.org/article/work-history-0

sailing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MFlPB52vpI

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/11/04/voter-disenfranchisement-that-right-wing-media/201451

some of 43 faces
https://www.facebook.com/telesurenglish/photos/a.492297374247003.1073741828.479681268841947/639686672841405/?type=1&theater

OK, tell me what's wrong with this logic?
“If U.S. government-funded researchers can discover these flaws, it is quite likely that Chinese, Russian and Israeli researchers can discover them, too. By quietly exploiting these flaws rather than notifying Apple, the U.S. government leaves Apple’s customers vulnerable to other sophisticated governments.”
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150310/05460630269/cia-holds-special-annual-hackathons-looking-to-undermine-apple-encryption-privacy.shtml#comments

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/windmill-lane/artists/

dean magraw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox2YSo4Yg6U

http://andilit.com/2015/04/21/living-more-like-wendell-berry/

http://www.academia.edu/6406046/Jacques_Ellul_s_Anti-Democratic_Economy_Persuading_Citizens_and_Consumers_in_the_Information_Society

http://www.jacques-ellul.org/lassociation/presentation-de-laije/228-version-anglaise

http://kosmopolitica.org/contributors/

http://leaksource.info/2014/09/16/snowden-leaks-did-not-impact-terrorist-communication-encryption-tactics-flashpoint-report/

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/237953-john-oliver-grills-edward-snowden

Bennis US/Iran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAo4u49TP1o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=&go=Go

Chomsky dialogues, Truthdig
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/noam_chomsky_exceptionalism_concept_held_by_every_great_power_20150415

-9) Monbiot/bt corn, Molly Ivins, detention centers
http://daveatch.blogspot.com/2015/03/9-links-from-end-of-march-15.html

- 8) http://daveatch.blogspot.com/2014/12/yin-yang-jung.html
detention centers, quotas, trafficking

-3) "more unsorted" post http://daveatch.blogspot.com/2014/04/3-girard-related-links-april-2014.html

1) http://daveatch.blogspot.com/2013/12/listening.html

René Girard

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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from Wikipedia

http://palaeos.com/

serpentine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0gVjLdzR-c

funky town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naAg-catM2s

"Since I've Lost You"

The sun is shining, there's plenty of light
(Oh, yeah)
A new day is dawning, sunny and bright
(Oh, yeah)
But after I've been crying all night
The sun is cold and the new day seems old

Since I lost my baby
(Since I lost my baby)
Oh, since I lost my baby
(Oh, since I lost my baby)

The birds are singing and the children are playing
There's plenty of work and the bosses are paying
Not a sad word should a young heart be saying
But fun is a bore and with money I'm poor

Since I lost my baby
(Since I lost my baby)
Oh, since I lost my baby
(Oh, since I lost my baby)

Next time I'll be kinder
(Next time I'll be kinder)
Won't you please help me find her?
(Won't you please help me find her?)

Someone just remind her
(Someone just remind her)
Of this love she left behind her
(Of this love she left behind her)

Till I find her I'll be trying ta
(Till I find her I'll be trying ta)
Everyday I'm more inclined ta
Find her

Inclined ta
Find her
Inclined ta find my baby
Been looking everywhere
(Baby)
Baby, I really, really care

Oh, determination is fading fast
(Oh, yeah)
Inspiration is a thing of the past
(Oh, yeah)
Can't see how my hope's gonna last
Good things are bad and what's happy is sad

Since I lost my baby
(Since I lost my baby)
Oh, since I lost my baby
(Oh, since I lost my baby)

I feel so bad
(Since I lost my baby)
I feel so sad
(Since I lost my baby)

Everything is wrong
This heart is hard to carry on
(Since I lost my baby)
I'm lost as can be
(Since I lost my baby)

What's gonna happen to me?

Ooo
Each day through my window I watch her as she passes by.
I say to myself, you're such a lucky guy.
To have a girl like her is truly a dream come true.
Out of all the fellas in the world, she belongs to me.

But it was just my 'magination, running away with me.
It was just my 'magination, running away with me.

(Soon) Soon we'll be married and raise a family. (Oh, yeah)
A cozy little home out in the country with two children, maybe three.
I tell you, I can visualize it all. This couldn't be a dream, for too real it all seems.

But it was just my 'magination, once again.
Running away with me.
Tell you it was just my 'magination,
Running away with me.

[Paul:] Every night on my knees I pray.

Dear Lord, hear my plea.
Don't ever let another take her love from me.
Or I will surely die. Hmm

(Her love is) heavenly.
When her arms enfold me.
I hear a tender rhapsody.
But in reality, she doesn't even know me.

Just my 'magination, once again.
Running away with me.
Oh, tell you it was just my 'magination,
Running away with me.

I never met her but I can't forget her.
Just my 'magination,
Ooo yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Running away with me.

Ooo, just my 'magination running away with me.
She's in my mind and hard to find.
Just my 'magination...

We've got Iraq, Iran, Turkey, the PKK, Syria, and US air power all enlisted to take on the self proclaimed "Islamic State." Do we need to keep records all phone calls placed in North America? Hysteria over "disrespectful" blacks, father raping Latinos, and IS has racked up how many more deaths than these nutjobs claiming to be Muslims? The candidates need to get a grip. Seems when you're in office you have to placate the Virginia Nulands, the prison industry, the detention industry, the army surplus hawkers, and the Gaza pulverizers...before one day you decide to open a couple windows. I'm bout ready to hear Nader or Bill Curry talk about Jill Stein. Or WE need to get a message to Sanders.
http://www.npr.org/2015/06/24/417192057/right-wing-extremists-more-dangerous-than-islamic-terrorists-in-u-s

3. Strange Dream Content Is Accepted Without Question

The odd events and content that occur in dreams are typically accepted without question by the dreaming mind. According to Hobson, the unquestioning acceptance of dream content is due to the strength of our internally generated emotions and perceptions ('Dreaming,' 5). Within the dream, these strange and illogical events, perceptions and objects are not seen as being out of place. If the dream is remembered upon waking, the content of the dream is seen as odd or even difficult to explain. Kendra Cherry

http://psychology.about.com/od/statesofconsciousness/tp/characteristics-of-dreams.htm

dreams considered with reference to Whitehead's ideas

http://www.dreamgate.com/pomo/whitehead_and_dreamwork.htm

Tao Te Ching Ontology [correspondence of Tao Te Ching to Whitehead], William Meacham

http://www.bmeacham.com/whatswhat/TaoTeChingOntology.html

Saturday, March 28, 2015

- 9) Links from end of March '15, detention centers, Kane photo

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/3/25/part_2_migrant_women_appear_via

Wed
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/noam_chomsky_exceptionalism_concept_held_by_every_great_power_20150415

- 8) http://daveatch.blogspot.com/2014/12/yin-yang-jung.html

Post 1 http://daveatch.blogspot.com/2013/12/listening.html

Google http://www.google.com/advanced_search

Weather http://wavy.com/weather/forecast/

Bennis http://wbai.org/programupdates.php?programupdate=613

http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/le-show-harry-shearer

MONBIOT ON THE CORN
http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-test/10959-immoral-maize-definitive-account-of-chapela-affair

Work, Mar 22
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29643-the-growing-degradation-of-work-and-life-and-what-we-might-do-to-end-it

http://www.creators.com/opinion/molly-ivins/archive.html

MOLLY IVINS "Though no one actually knows, they now suspect there is no serial killer, nor is this a matter of a copycat killer or two. What has happened is that an entire class of predatory men has realized it can get away with this."
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=20020515&id=3A1PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WR8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6673,4142330&hl=en

http://twelfthbough.blogspot.com/2010/03/protect-and-serve.html

“ 'The impunity during the dirty war in the 1970s in Mexico set the conditions for today’s disappearances. If something had been done before, this would not be happening today.' These were the words of Yanett Bautista, member of the Foundation Nadia Erika Bautista from Colombia. She discussed how the families of the disappeared have driven the process of justice in Colombia. Families are the one searching for their relatives and presenting law initiatives to Congress." http://nomorebloodinmexico.org/tag/forced-disappereance-in-mexico/

"When CCA made its 2012 offer to 48 states to buy the state prison systems outright, that offer came with one important condition: the state would have to 'guarantee' a 90% occupancy rate." left in Alabama dot com (link below)

"Five Corporations You've Never Heard of Are Making Millions From Mass Incarceration"
Truthout, 1/19/15
http://truth-out.org/news/item/28501-five-corporations-you-ve-never-heard-of-making-millions-from-mass-incarceration

http://www.leftinalabama.com/diary/11152/part-5-private-prisons-sweetheart-contracts-fill-beds-pad-profits

It seems the oligarchs, plutocrats, deficit hawks, and the infamous 47 are concerned not didley about predator entities & principalities rendering absolute chaos in Iraq, Colombia, Mexico, and increasingly in the U.S. It seems the last history they wanna review is how Zbigniew Brzezinski's logic convinced Carter to begin beefing up the mujahideen. Time to GET OUT. Blowback flying from the fan. Phyllis Bennis is right. Check out what the Shiite militias do when the U.S. goes in to help, first comment.

old trains in Kane http://www.panoramio.com/photo/67941112

Weisbrot, collapse of centr left http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=13509