Glenn Beck in Israel, Days of Rage on Wall Street, The Mayor of Philadelphia, Flash MObs, and Who are You?

Everybody is manifesting who they are. Calls for love and nonviolence, calls for rage and economic equality, calls for looting and beating,

calls for courage,

calls to bring Down the Government, calls to Expand the Government.

There are movements to eradicate Jews and

to Remember the Holocaust.

Movements

to feed the poor and to stop the assault on women and children in Afghanistan, in Congo,(video)  in the USA, in that crazy place called Iran.

Efforts to get rich no matter what and

efforts to preserve our natural habitats and beauty, to stop those who treat our fellow beings with cruelty.

Oh, that grown-ups of wisdom and love were running the show...

This is a time to educate yourself. Watch films, read materials from "the other side" if you want to be able to talk, to communicate with each other. I hope everyone who reads this will not be trying increase the divides between us, but to softly open hearts.

We walk about

Manifesting who we are. Preaching nonviolence is not necessarily practicing it. Who you think you are, Be Really.

Do you want to Be Right and punish others, embarrass those who are wrong or who disagree with you, do you want to bring down public humiliation on those who are working against your noble goals--?

or do you want

Hearts to Open,

Enlightenment to come,

Peace to reign?

How do you think you can do that? What do you think will make that happen? Do you want results, change, love and relief, or do you want to smugly Display your Correctness?

Anyway, that's what i ask myself from time to time...

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad

 Syria's Tyrant

 Philly Mayor to Youts: Grow up: AP news

destroying forest--/a-battle-is-under-way-for-the-forests-of-borneo

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111782564

UK looters shoot at the unarmed

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/20/riot-shooting-footage-violence-organised

wall street

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Rich rich rich:   http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph

caring for all children?

western materialism?

Get some peace, whereever you may find it.

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dr. martin luther king, jr. says:

As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. Always avoid violence. If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in your struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos. (1956)

We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence. We want to love our enemies. If I am stopped, our work will not stop, for what we are doing is right. — 1956, in Montgomery, Alabama

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love. (1958)

A fifth point concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but he also refuses to hate him. (1958)

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction ... The chain reaction of evil — hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. (1963)

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. (1963)



oh, hitler

W.A.R.



 

frederick douglass

 

Neda Soltani Do not Forget

peace prize for chinese dissident

glenn beck and israel jeruselam post

 

The Face of Cruel: HERE

 

"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

Be as you wish to appear.

— Socrates

"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers." — Socrates

Machine | Fiction | The Implausibility of Goodness

I quite enjoy being lax about my sense of the word 'fiction' in these articles (as you, er, may have noticed). Because fiction is not, of course, restricted to prose novels and short stories. Fiction is the unreal; the unreal that - as I like to think, in the case of literature - informs and casts light on the real, but that can also be used to manipulate it and, in some cases, to engulf the real entirely.



One of my odd little obsessions, whenever something is happening in the wider world that excites or distresses me, is to go over in my head, again and again, a speech I'd quite like a public figure to make. It could be any public figure, really. Someone with a voice; someone who will be heard. In this case, as you can probably guess, I wanted someone to talk about Egypt. Not a journalist, or a blogger, or any one of us people who don't really matter - but I wanted them at least to admit the great gulf between ideals and practicalities; admit that our countries have been complicit in several cases in doing the unethical thing for the purposes of realpolitik, admit that the West is paralysed by a patronising fear that instability will instantly lead to dangerous fundamentalism and that this is considered a valid reason not to stand up for democracy - and admit that it is no longer ethical or practical to do anything other than demand that Mubarak be removed from office. I wanted the fiction of diplomatic language, with all of its fucking ambiguities and hedge-bets and pathetic insinuations, the use of ambivalence to obfuscate, to disappear just for once, because it's not helping at all. Why are the only people giving direct answers the ones who are lying directly, like Khamenei, hatefully and very deliberately, misappraising the situation as an Islamic revolution in Egypt? (And, of course, there's no point getting started on Berlusconi, who has to be trolling. He just has to be.)


I got what I wanted, sort-of, when Nick Clegg came onto Daybreak and said that he found the Egyptian protests "incredibly exciting" - which reminded me firstly of the trouble he got into when he referred to the illegal war in Iraq as an illegal war in Iraq in Parliament, and secondly of the belief that I do still hold; that he isn't a bad man so much as he is a weak man. Naive, perhaps, but I'm not sure I believe that anyone who's been touched by Beckett can be bad. Complicated, definitely, but not bad. (That does sound naive - even elitist and stupid - but I think I'm going to leave it in). But it troubles me that he was able to show instinctive sympathy and joy for a protest that he was dealing with in a detached, almost abstract sense - but that the same sympathy failed to break through in his spiels about tuition fees. When faced with the pressures of local reality, where was that sympathy for another sort of protest of the economically disillusioned youth against the government?


The saddening thought is the flipside of the Romantic dream; it's all too easy to be good when you're alone - when your actions are detached from personal costs that society will always bring. And goodness within society can never be truly good, because it's too complex; it's measured by one's possibly unconscious motives. It's easy to be good instinctively, like stamping out fires spread by a molotov cocktail as more missiles rain down upon you, or by blurting out how you really feel about a situation you're supposed to be toeing the company line upon. It's near-impossible to be good in a considered way. A hermit who steps away from the world is good in the meannest of ways, because he removes all opportunities to be bad.


A position I've always tried to take is to be good, while wearing life lightly - which I'm aware I'm falling away from with all of this hand-wringing about morality. Irritating earnestness is really uncomfortably close to attempts at sincerity. But, as they're saying Mubarak may go today - as they have, admittedly, said before - I find myself considering that uncomfortable fact that I don't want to be in a country where David Cameron's in charge. But I don't care for Ed Miliband either. All of the smaller parties are, in their own, often horrible way, hopelessly naive. And, more than any of these people, I'm concerned - ethically speaking - with the political system in place and - practically speaking - with any of the alternative possibilities. So, kids...where do we go from here?


Glenn Beck, who's nothing if not direct in his explanations of a given political situation, seeks to connect the economic protests in Greece and the tuition fee protests in London with the situations in Tunisia and Egypt by simply not bothering to give any details, shouting instead that "the fires are spreading". In one sense, he's an imbecile. In another, perhaps he has a point. The Internet is showing signs of a...universality beyond the machinery of politics. The possibility - if I may again be naive - of the goodness of individuals.


P.S. Fans of either actual fiction or sincerity gone wrong should check out Michael Rosen's caustic and slightly pointless comments on the Guardian live feed. He begins very well, with a sarcastic assertion that the women in hijabs protesting clearly can't stand up for themselves, and then goes downhill fast until he ends up making Hitler comparisons for comic effect.

Glenn Beck and the Mainstream Media: After the Rally

My friends and some family along the east coast sent some reports about the Restoring Honor Rally in DC. Friend says, half a million there.
I remember once, Jim Lehrer came to K-State and spoke about the need for strict, professional reporting that allows viewers to see the basics and make decisions on the facts.
That came to mind when an irritated blogger friend sent this:   Media Shovels Viewers Away

 So-exactly what is it about glenn beck that is scaring people?

Glenn Beck and family pic from adoption website



Glenn Beck Rally

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/08/28/glenn-beck-restoring-honor-rally-draws-tens-of-thousands-to-na/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-deggans/the-genius-of-glenn-beck_b_699147.html

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/alveda-king-speaks-glenn-becks-dc-rally/story?id=11504453

Glenn Beck Baby Pic