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• Face to Face with the Big Consequences: Socrates, Gregor Samsa, Jesus and Anais Nin Writhing in the Throes of Death on an East Hollywood Breadboard

  
  The Nervous Breakdown — Authority: 515
  Yet another one of Milo Martins true personal mystical stories wherein Milo encounters a cockroach up close in the throes of death on his bread board in East Hollywood. Milo questions his own existence, mortality,and personal beliefs while empathizing directly with the mind and soul of the roach.
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• The Fruits of War are Death

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 547
  Tonight, I heard a riveting piece of documentary radio journalism, Boots on the Ground (part 5, Coming Home ), the story of those who come home from our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Some return alive and some dead.  The segment I heard portrayed the work of an officer who informs families that their loved one ...
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• HISTORY NEVER STARTS WHERE THE ZIONISTS PLACE IT

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 129
  A reply of mine on Facebook Ahmed Zaki, 9/11 and 7/7 were more than what you say, although I take your point. The machinations of the worldly imperial spirit on all sides knows no bounds. That spirit has no problem using selective arguments rather than going at the root cause of all that ails humanity concerning ...
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• Thank you, teens.

  
  CLPTeensburgh: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Teen Services — Authority: 119
  It’s Thanksgiving, and I’d like to take this post to thank the teens who come into the library and make our jobs and our days more interesting and fulfilling and challenging.  You make the library a real reflection of Pittsburgh.  Thanks for letting us into your lives.   Thanks also go to the teens who are ...
  4 days ago

• On turning the other cheek

  
  Avdat — Authority: 121
  According to Walter Wink, the interpretive key to Matthew 5:39 is that Jesus specifies being struck on the right cheek. Why the right cheek? In a right-handed world, the only way that one could strike a person on the right cheek is by delivering a back-handed slap, like a master would to his slave. Thus Jesus is ...
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• Posters for Iran…

  
  Robert L. Peters — Authority: 126
  Teheran, Iran I just received an e-mail from Iranian photographer Morteza Majidi, inviting me to create a poster to help support Iran’s opposition movement. Many in the international visual communication community have already responded to the call… view an online gallery of poster submissions here ; read more ...
  4 days ago

• Against Dominionism and Cruelty to Animals

  
  Pluperfecter: internet marketing, music promotions, web usability, blogs, social media, Peoria, IL — Authority: 121
  "A righteous person regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." Proverbs 12:10 (NKJV) "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy." Matthew 5:7 (NIV) "Incapable of respecting the Being and meaning of the Other, phenomenology and ontology would be philosophies of ...
  1 week ago

• Superficial As All Get-Out (So Get Out)

  
  ? The Macho Response ? — Authority: 141
  "Is Buddhism pacifist? One would think so, to hear the Declarations of the Dalai Lama and those who claim there has never been Buddhist war. So has Zen Buddhisms drift to militarism been only an aberration, after the timeless message of Gautama, the warrior-prince who, once he became the Buddha, preached nonviolence? ...
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• "DONT BE A SUCKER!" (1947). HOW ABOUT 2009+?

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 129
  Dont Be a Sucker! (1947) "Dont Be a Sucker!" (1947). How about 2009+? Tell it to the banksters who have arranged things so all those common people in the film will have to pay the banksters 23-trillion dollars in additional taxes to bail out those banksters who actually crashed the U.S. economy for just that ...
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• Full-spectrum dominance…

  
  Robert L. Peters — Authority: 126
  Washington, USA Full-spectrum dominance is a military concept whereby a joint military structure achieves control over all elements of the battlespace using land, air, maritime, and space based assets. Full spectrum dominance includes the physical battlespace; air, surface, and sub-surface, as well as the ...
  2 weeks ago

• War, What is it Good For? It Keeps Journalists Employed

  
  Fr. Ted's Blog — Authority: 130
  Sites keeps himself in focus I finished reading Kevin Sites’ IN THE HOT ZONE: ONE MAN, ONE YEAR, TWENTY WARS .  Kevin is credited with pioneering “solo journalism.”  As a reporter he has spent years in the world’s hot zones – covering war and conflict.   He spent 2005-2006 jetting around the globe ...
  2 weeks ago

• Call for Writers

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 158
  Gender Across Borders is planning a series to run mid-December on Women, Art and War. The site is currently soliciting writers to contribute articles relating to this topic. If you enjoy writing and have a passion for the visual or performing arts as well as women’s studies, international politics or human rights, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Soldiers Give Us Neither Freedom Nor Peace

  
  Zeal For Truth — Authority: 115
  Yesterday was veterans day in many countries around the world. And while mourning those who have died in conflict and war is a understandable and worthy effort, this holiday has long been used as a means of promoting imperialism, warmongering and soldier/military worship. If we truly desire to be advocates of peace, ...
  2 weeks ago

• an earnest chestnut for Remembrance Day

  
  Baroque in Hackney — Authority: 494
  [Reprised. This post was originally published this day last year. Im republishing it because I had forgotten it, and have now remembered it, and it stands. Like a tree. I spent half this morning reading a strangely tragic photojournalism piece about a young American soldier in Iraq; I watched the news  footage of ...
  2 weeks ago

• 21 Pacifist Thoughts on Veterans Day 2009

  
  Pluperfecter: internet marketing, music promotions, web usability, blogs, social media, Peoria, IL — Authority: 121
  (1) Contrary to mass brainwashing, you can be patriotic and anti-war. (2) Its possible to love your country and its ideals, but hate its warmongering. (3) Take a hard look at the Iraq and Afghanistan governments, corrupt and unpopular, before you thank the troops for fighting over there. (4) "Fighting to Defend ...
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• Remembrance Day… and Pacifism

  
  Robert L. Peters — Authority: 126
  Winnipeg, Canada This day of remembrance , gratitude, and reflection also seems like a suitable time to (re)consider pacifism … following is an excerpt drawn from a useful and more in-depth online posting, here . +  +  +  +  + Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling ...
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• Today I Remember

  
  mattwiebe.com — Authority: 93
  Today I remember all those who have met senseless and violent ends at the hands of those who signed up for honour and esteem in the eyes of their countrymen. Today I remember all those who have been murdered for the crime of being born on the wrong side of arbitrarily drawn lines on maps. Today I remember that ...
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• War is not healthy…

  
  Robert L. Peters — Authority: 126
  Looking back… to 1967 Lorraine Schneider (1925-1972), a doctor’s wife, mother of four and print-maker, created one of the most emotionally charged posters of the Vietnam War era out of concern that her eldest son would be drafted into the army… But when the poster was issued in 1967, few could foresee that ...
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• Remembrance Day blogathon

  
  impudent strumpet — Authority: 425
  One thing Ive always hated about life is that if you dont go around gloating about what youre doing, people assume youre ignorant. When I was in Montessori school, I wanted to play with these beads, but the teacher wouldnt let me because she said you had to be able to count to 10 to play with them. I could totally ...
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• Nonviolent revolution and the Berlin Wall

  
  jonathan stegall: creative tension — Authority: 409
  So today, Google’s homepage greeted me with a link to this archive of photos of the Berlin Wall , as it fell 20 years ago today. In November 1989, I was six years old, and the event was a vague, but certainly positive, event from my perspective. In November 1999, I was a high school student, intentionally very ...
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