thanks and links for 2024-W20

a post in the thanks and links series

Portrait of Meister Eckhart
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

2024-05-19 / notes

*a link / see the about page for more on links

2024-05-19 is 2024-W20-7* / ☛ see notes for this and all other posts in this series*

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US senator says Israel should nuke Gaza: Lindsey Graham, TV interview (!yt)*

When You’re Smiling – Mr Fish image via Chris Hedges: Israel’s Willing Executioners*

we have a worldview drilled into us, reinforced at every turn – a march of folly*

Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W20-4*


ten theses of secular dharma / Stephen Batchelor* … with some notes added

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thanks and links for 2024-W19

a post in the thanks and links series

Portrait of Meister Eckhart
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

2024-05-12 / notes

*a link / see the about page for more on links

2024-05-12 is 2024-W19-7* / ☛ see notes for this and all other posts in this series*

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establishment media: not a watchdog on the abuse of power but a narrative factory …*


asking in public why the US is not doing a better job manufacturing consent “is wild”*

Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W19-1*


letting Biden “literally assert that war is peace” makes endless war inevitable*

US politicians have at least eight reasons besides money and fear to be pro-Israel*

preferred solution for our nation of military enthusiasts: decapitation by kinetic action*

liberal world order slowly coming apart: collapse may be sudden, irreversible / Economist*

seven ways the current UUA and ideologues dehumanize UUs* / David Cycleback

ten theses of secular dharma / Stephen Batchelor* … with some notes added

further notes

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thanks and links for 2024-W18

a post in the thanks and links series

Portrait of Meister Eckhart
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

2024-05-05 / notes

*a link / see the about page for more on links

2024-05-05 is 2024-W18-7* / ☛ see notes for this and all other posts in this series*

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paying lip service to peace on social media while helping to make peace impossible*

Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W18-3*


image links to long article* discussed in Aaron Maté interview 2024-W18-3

how to change cloud-based artifacts from hurting us to helping us* / Yanis Varoufakis

the media feed the public a nonstop deluge of propaganda, people think it’s the news*

Jonathan Cook: The Israel-US game plan for Gaza is staring us in the face* / not pretty

Sermon for Gaza* / Chris Hedges, Harvard Divinity School grad, ordained minister (!?)

the WHCD: now a celebration of persecution rather than of free access to information*


no one is richer than Bernard Arnault, a Frenchman (!?)*

for 225 years, no tax on wealth acquired and held overseas / “non-doms” in the UK*

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thanks and links for 2024-W17

a post in the thanks and links series

Portrait of Meister Eckhart
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

2024-04-28 / notes

*a link / see the about page for more

2024-04-28 is 2024-W17-7* / ☛ see notes for this and all other posts in this series*

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in Gaza the sniper drones are crying like babies*

Le monde entier regarde Gaza mourir, et le monde entier regarde l’Occident regarda…*

The whole world watches Gaza die, and the whole world watches the West watchin…*

Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W17-3*

a single nuclear-armed sub can hit 160 targets, striking each with 5–25 “Hiroshimas”*

the US has 14 nuclear-armed subs, any one of which could trigger a nuclear winter (!?)



freedom of speech and thought once deeply embedded in UU churches is now gone (!?)

Patrick Lawrence: Becoming who we are* / not so much on seeing what we are not

ignorance is our problem / “it is ignorance of what we are not: we are not this ego” (!g)

the ego is easy prey for power (!*), and if we fall for power, it’s over for us as a species

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thanks and links for 2024-W16

a post in the thanks and links series

Portrait of Meister Eckhart
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

2024-04-21 / notes

*a link / see the about page for more

2024-04-21 is 2024-W16-7* / ☛ see notes for this and all other posts in this series*

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“Under US leadership, the violence will continue to escalate until the unruly natives …”*

Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W16-3*

we are guided by greed and the pursuit of power, governed by unelected sociopaths (!?)*

Sir Antony Fisher, founder and funder of conservative think tanks worldwide (!?)*

a decision to inflict suffering on the vulnerable … violence against ordinary people (!?)*


“and wishing we looked better and trying not to think about all the tiny arms and legs”*

First came the crushed bones … Then came the infections. For some, amputation … (!?)*

Blindsight / 2006 book (!?) by Peter Watts*

image: downloaded screenshot from OED factsheet on recluse*

Stuck Monkey / 2023 book (!?) by James Hamilton-Paterson – see 2004 author profile*

“The usual ghostly silence surrounded nuclear energy, the cleanest of them all, …” (!gb)*

video, prepared text: sermon by Rev. Shawn Gauthier* / covenant, beloved community

Rev. Marilyn Sewell: We believe in evolution – not only evolution of life forms, … (!? !*)*

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