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a post in the thanks and links series
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Meister Eckhart – d. 1328* – known for saying, inter alia, that a thank-you is enough*
thank you so much, all who share
an interest in one or more
items noted – with links – below
2024-11-03 / notes
*a link / see the about page for more on links
2024-11-03 is 2024-W44-7* / ☛ see notes for this and all other posts in this series*
candidate with a moral blind spot you can drive a genocide through / Kevin Tillman (!?)*
Chris Hedges interviews Ilan Pappé: a master class in the history of Israel (!?)*
$2.5 trillion: a good place to start for British reparations to Palestinians (!?)*
making the impossible possible: Ending War 101 (!?)*
Aaron Maté on current events* / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W44-4*
George Monbiot: The Invisible Doctrine / video …1:01:05*
flag/ensign of the East India Company (!?) / Boston Tea Party, 1773 (!?)
UUs, once non-creedal and pluralistic, have, for all practical purposes, an orthodoxy (!?)*
further notes
current links are here and now – and subscribing to posts is forever free*
also free: instead of subscribing online, just email a request for updates*
Meister Eckhart – d. 1328* – known for saying, inter alia, that a thank-you is enough*
thank you so much, all who share
an interest in one or more
items noted – with links – below
2024-11-03 / notes
*a link / see the about page for more on links
2024-11-03 is 2024-W44-7* / ☛ see notes for this and all other posts in this series*
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candidate with a moral blind spot you can drive a genocide through / Kevin Tillman (!?)*
Chris Hedges interviews Ilan Pappé: a master class in the history of Israel (!?)*
$2.5 trillion: a good place to start for British reparations to Palestinians (!?)*
making the impossible possible: Ending War 101 (!?)*
Aaron Maté on current events* / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W44-4*
George Monbiot: The Invisible Doctrine / video …1:01:05*
flag/ensign of the East India Company (!?) / Boston Tea Party, 1773 (!?)
UUs, once non-creedal and pluralistic, have, for all practical purposes, an orthodoxy (!?)*
further notes
current links are here and now – and subscribing to posts is forever free*
also free: instead of subscribing online, just email a request for updates*
2024-10-27 is 2024-W43-7*
*a link / see the about page for more on links
the divide between Shia and Sunnis is beginning to melt / John Mearsheimer (!?)*
truth tends to have a marked anti-Israel bias (!?)*
“remaking the Middle East”: destroying the world as we have known it (!?)*
queerer than we can suppose / Haldane (!?)
four stages of acceptance / Haldane (!? !* !*)
Aaron Maté on current events* / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W43-3*
the Darién (mis)adventure (!?)
Portugal, Madeira, and the birth of modern capitalism (!?)
the longest-running bilateral alliance, temporarily suspended 1580–1640 (!?)
Portuguese Empire before union with Spain in 1580 (!?) / map*
lightly edited transcript of Jacob Needleman’s afterword to the Dhammapada (!?)*
without an overlay of magical beliefs, religious doctrine, or striving … / Robert Saltzman(!?)**
further notes
current links are here and now – and subscribing to posts is forever free*
also free: instead of subscribing online, just email a request for updates*
*a link / see the about page for more on links
the divide between Shia and Sunnis is beginning to melt / John Mearsheimer (!?)*
truth tends to have a marked anti-Israel bias (!?)*
“remaking the Middle East”: destroying the world as we have known it (!?)*
queerer than we can suppose / Haldane (!?)
four stages of acceptance / Haldane (!? !* !*)
Aaron Maté on current events* / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W43-3*
the Darién (mis)adventure (!?)
Portugal, Madeira, and the birth of modern capitalism (!?)
the longest-running bilateral alliance, temporarily suspended 1580–1640 (!?)
Portuguese Empire before union with Spain in 1580 (!?) / map*
lightly edited transcript of Jacob Needleman’s afterword to the Dhammapada (!?)*
without an overlay of magical beliefs, religious doctrine, or striving … / Robert Saltzman(!?)**
further notes
current links are here and now – and subscribing to posts is forever free*
also free: instead of subscribing online, just email a request for updates*
2024-10-20 is 2024-W42-7*
*a link / see the about page for more on links
Aaron Maté on current events* / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W42-4*
truths that come out like the sun / Patrick Lawrence on Gaza, Israel, and the US*
“Israel and the U.S. will probably win this round. But ultimately, they …” / Hedges (!?)*
Ladbrokes odds on US presidential election (!?)*
like any approach to understanding the world, science has its limits (!?)*
not conventionally religious, but with beliefs not based on evidence / Hossenfelder (!?)*
the indifference various forms of power incessantly encourage us to cultivate (!?)*
“the edifice within” and the need to dismantle it (!?)* / Lawrence, this and the line above
further notes
current links are here and now – and subscribing to posts is forever free*
also free: instead of subscribing online, just email a request for updates*
*a link / see the about page for more on links
Aaron Maté on current events* / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W42-4*
truths that come out like the sun / Patrick Lawrence on Gaza, Israel, and the US*
“Israel and the U.S. will probably win this round. But ultimately, they …” / Hedges (!?)*
Ladbrokes odds on US presidential election (!?)*
like any approach to understanding the world, science has its limits (!?)*
not conventionally religious, but with beliefs not based on evidence / Hossenfelder (!?)*
the indifference various forms of power incessantly encourage us to cultivate (!?)*
“the edifice within” and the need to dismantle it (!?)* / Lawrence, this and the line above
further notes
current links are here and now – and subscribing to posts is forever free*
also free: instead of subscribing online, just email a request for updates*
2024-10-13 is 2024-W41-7*
*a link / see the about page for more on links
endless war for US-Israeli hegemony / Aaron Maté*
Orwell: sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield*
instead of teaching our kids, we should be learning from them / Daniel Younger (!?)*
Atrocity Inc: How Israel sells its destruction of Gaza* / Max Blumenthal
violence begets violence*
Zias Abu Helaiel was an icon in Hebron, a peacemaker … (!?)**
Aaron Maté on current events* / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W41-3*
we are organic and need time to rest; algorithms aren’t and don’t / Harari on AI (!?)*
“If you think about the whole of human history …” / Harari (!?)*
opening of supermarkets: “the single most destructive act to our communal Sabbath” (!?)*
want nothing more than needed to be and let be, not even this wanting nothing more**
further notes
current links are here and now – and subscribing to posts is forever free*
also free: instead of subscribing online, just email a request for updates*
*a link / see the about page for more on links
endless war for US-Israeli hegemony / Aaron Maté*
Orwell: sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield*
instead of teaching our kids, we should be learning from them / Daniel Younger (!?)*
Atrocity Inc: How Israel sells its destruction of Gaza* / Max Blumenthal
violence begets violence*
Zias Abu Helaiel was an icon in Hebron, a peacemaker … (!?)**
Aaron Maté on current events* / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W41-3*
we are organic and need time to rest; algorithms aren’t and don’t / Harari on AI (!?)*
“If you think about the whole of human history …” / Harari (!?)*
opening of supermarkets: “the single most destructive act to our communal Sabbath” (!?)*
want nothing more than needed to be and let be, not even this wanting nothing more**
further notes
current links are here and now – and subscribing to posts is forever free*
also free: instead of subscribing online, just email a request for updates*