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2024-10-06 is 2024-W40-7*

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please share with everyone, as it says on the cover / UUnderWorld :: 2024-09*

beliefs in this and that stem from unconscious tendencies that favor species survival (!?)*

“the dream world we have been lulled into over a lifetime” (!?)*

Aaron Maté on current events* / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W40-3*

“a universal language of human care still spoken by some among us in the world” (!?)*

the rich keep us too poor, sick, busy, and brainwashed to figure out what’s going on (!?)*

Jeremy Corbyn: smeared as antisemitic to keep a pro-Palestinian leftist out of power (!?)*

unity in talking antisemitism: as in how parents unite to pretend to believe in Santa (!?)*

2024-09-29 is 2024-W39-7*

a Rose Garden campaign* / Ross Barman: Kamala Harris needs to get out more (!?)*


Israel has lost its humanity: everything is acceptable / Gideon Levy (!?)* … at 37:36*

Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W39-4*

the pollution paradox: the worse the pollution, the more money spent on lobbying (!?)

finance is the answer … what was the question? / satire alert: George Monbiot, video*

Bibi’s standing inside Israel has soared / Seymour Hersh, Lebanon gambit (!?)**

terrorist attacks by a state that condemns terrorist attacks on its own citizens / Walzer*

faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen* / hmm

the economy: “booming” for elites but not for the average person / Umair Haque (!?)*

2024-09-22 is 2024-W38-7*

AI isn’t a tool, it’s an agent. AIs are already becoming active agents … / Yuval Harari (!?)*

kicking the existential can down the road until the system does what it is wired to do (!?)*

Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W38-3*

irony: saving democracy with undemocratically selected Harris/Walz / no primaries (!?)*

the obtuseness of the old regime – not the work of revolutionaries – triggers revolt (!?)*

Israel runs an open-air shooting gallery … Total impunity. Murder as sport. / Hedges (!?)*

none are more dangerous than believers in winning unwinnable wars (!?)*

Aldous Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy (!?)

reading of the Dhammapada and an afterword by Jacob Needleman (!?)

2024-09-15 is 2024-W37-7*
Hindi: ठीक है, बाबू (ṭhīk hai, bābū) / so, maybe, tickety-boo (!? !o !mw !wikt !collins)


Jill Stein and Butch Ware interviewed by Chris Hedges

antisemitism: weaponized as perfect cover for dispossession and extermination (!?)*

faithful creatures of the profit-hungry corporate war machine / Starmer and Harris (!?)*

left stupefied as the imperium conducts its violent, illegal business (!?)* / Lawrence

all art is political: it opposes the status quo or supports it or distracts from it (!?)*

that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude (!?)*

“century-old European ethnic nationalisms” that Zionists chose to mirror, not reject (!?)*

“freedom, reason, and tolerance” (!?) / see NAUA*

UUA/CUC* jumped the shark (!?) / lost the plot (!?)**

Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W37-3*

2024-09-08 is 2024-W36-7*

Jill Stein and Butch Ware interviewed by Chris Hedges

Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W36-3*

Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think- / Ray McGovern (!?)

corporate-controlled mainstream media: a cornerstone of MICIMATT*

rules-based order: the US makes the rules, gives the orders; others obey or else (!?)*

deeply question who and what you are and how perception happens / self-inquiry (!? !*)*

wanting something to be or not to be / attachment or aversion: poisons (!?)*

maybe Buddhism was inherently secular from the outset / Secularizing Buddhism (!?)*