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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

2024-02-18 / notes

*a link; see also the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

☛ see bit.ly/georgeatherton for some lightly edited notes from every post in this series

2024-02-18 is 2024-W07-7* / other notes for all posts in this series are under “▼” here

please copy and share whatever you like … and thanks for sharing with me new links to note*

hierarchy (!etymo) … chiaroscuro (!o !etymo)

Seymour Hersh: The SEALs and the Dhow / (!?) a tale for our times*

another tipping point gone by: forests in Canada emit more CO2 than they absorb*

community matters: in community – caring and sharing / a 3-minute video*

copyediting* … confirm a choice from commonly confused words / tenet tenant (!?)

Assange (!*) … Chris Hedges: Julian Assange’s Final Appeal / High Court, London*

… 20 years, 40 countries … nothing prepared me for Gaza / (!n) a doctor’s story*

the empire: one giant thought-controlled conformity machine / Caitlin Johnstone (!*)*

both Repubs and Dems are imperialist: at issue is how best to preserve US hegemony*

recovering corporate media journalist Jonathan Cook (!?) on pro-Israel bias at CNN*

western media won’t expose Israel’s shady past: that would show they were complicit*

image above links to interactive source with single-click zoom*

Palestinian land: 1946, UN plan 1947, 1949-1967, 2008 (!i) / see archived map*

“war as a means of genocide”: an excuse for it, a form of camouflage for it / Bill Astore*

why we have endless war, ecocide, injustice, and exploitation – brilliantly explained*

ten theses of secular dharma / Stephen Batchelor*

further notes are not appended to posts on fw

in community – caring and sharing

communities care … and share
concerns, as well as joys
and sorrows*

2023-02-14 / notes

*a link; see the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

a predator or existential threat is certainly a concern to members of any community

further notes are not appended to posts on fewer wurdz

a post in a series

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

2024-02-11 / notes

*a link; see also the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

2024-02-11 is 2024-W06-7* / other notes for all posts in this series are under “▼” here

please copy and share whatever you like … and thanks for sharing with me new links to note*

a Bartram box: one a year to subscribers in the 1730s (!?)

how to pronounce Nestlé correctly (!?) / spoiler alert: the T is silent

feeling “done” with COVID is not okay, given a mutating virus here for the long haul*

the Warsaw ghetto saw 500,000 starve, “a number Israel intends to exceed” (!?)

Aaron Maté on Gaza and Ukraine / Feb 7 interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano*

Seymour Hersh (!w2) … nonpartisan Substack column informed by principled insiders*

imagine the reaction if China set up a new military base this close to a US city*

watch the prescient 2016 John Pilger documentary on the coming war with China (!?)

evolve or die (out) – it’s time to wake up to what we are not: this ego / Needleman (!g)

helpful writing on Buddhism: Barbara O’Brien articles (!?), books by Steve Hagen (!?)

all may practice – if not as their “sole interest” (Steve Hagen) – the buddhadharma (!g)**

further notes are not appended to posts on fewer wurdz

a post in a series

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

2024-02-04 / notes

*a link; see also the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

2024-02-04 is 2024-W05-7* / other notes for all posts in this series are under “▼” here

please copy and share whatever you like … and thanks for sending me any new links of note*

origin of “stoke” in or as a place name (!?)

messianic politics will cleanse the US of “liberal elitists and other sinners” (!? !n)

a ready-to-use playbook for Trump, courtesy Atlas Network thinktanks / (Monbiot)*

McLuhan Lecture 2024 by Cory Doctorow (!w2 !?) – video and prepared text*

again and again, institutions fall prey to ideological capture – now the BBC*
/ it’s power: power cares only about more power; power couldn’t care less about people*

new UK law means jail for “rough sleepers” – the homeless – for being a “nuisance”*

affordable housing in Vienna: more than a policy, a foundational ideal (!?)

history professor Juan Cole on the betrayal of the Palestinians by the “free world”*

Jonathan Cook (!?) on “understanding what is really going on with … UNRWA”*

satellite imagery above via the Guardian* – pair with recent post from Chris Hedges*

Zoketsu Norman Fischer (!?) says you can “experience dukkha with equanimity” (!?)

a translation of Einstein’s God letter ends further notes for another fewer wurdz post*

Thanu Padmanabhan (!?) article: The Answer – embedded in footnotes elsewhere*

Stephen Batchelor (!?) article on Secular Buddhism, aka Buddhism 2.0 – archived PDF*

further notes are not appended to posts on fewer wurdz