ADMIN: this is an interesting post bye young man, Moscow, doing on the street interviews with a broad spectrum of Russian Muscovites asking each if they agree with Plato’s statement, “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Dan Rather and his associate Elliot Kirschner explain here why it is important to teach the truth, no matter how unpleasant it is.
They write:
I was born 66 years after slavery was legally abolished by the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Not exactly ancient history. Today, that’s how long ago the Eisenhower administration was, or Elvis Presley’s first number one hit.
And the legacies of slavery — lynchings, Jim Crow, disenfranchisement — were woven tightly into the American tapestry of my youth. They still echo with us. Loudly and persistently. No matter how much some would want us to ignore the clamor of justice.
As much as we wish American history were different, tragedy is part of our reality. We do a grave disservice to future generations if we sanitize the truth. People can behave horribly. Societies that profess noble values can countenance violent bigotry. We can…
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From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 514):
Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint;
preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked,
from the throng of evildoers.
Psalm 64:1-2
Day after day, my heart breaks for the cities attacked by the enemy. Zaporizhzhia is under attack right now.
Please, pray for Odesa, as this city has been under continuous attacks for a week. Tonight’s missile strike seems to have caused destruction and fire in a temple and residential buildings. Do they pose a threat to the Russian army?
During the war, when so many people die and suffer daily, you reevaluate many things. With all the destruction brought upon our land, I caught myself thinking that we often take our culture and…
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“Interzone is a collection of short stories and other early works by William S. Burroughs from 1953 to 1958. The collection was first published by Viking Penguin in 1989, although several of the stories had already been printed elsewhere, including an earlier publication titled Early Routines. The title was inspired by the International Zone in Tangiers, Morocco, where Burroughs lived for a time and by which he was greatly influenced. A notable inclusion is ‘Twilight’s Last Gleamings’, written in 1938 in collaboration with childhood friend Kells Elvins, and widely thought to be Burroughs’ first attempt at fiction. The villain of the piece, Doctor Benway, was to play a pivotal role in Naked Lunch. (This story differs from another Burroughs piece titled ‘Twilight’s Last Gleamings,’ which was published in the 1970s collection, Exterminator!.) Interzone features many characters and concepts that would manifest themselves in Naked Lunch
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From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 513):
O God, you are my God;
earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Psalm 63:1
Last night, Russia destroyed 100 tons of peas and 20 tons of barley in yet another attack on the Odesa region.
Today, they killed two Ukrainian children (10 and 16 years old) when a missile hit their home in the Druzhba village of the Donetsk region.
There are reports that China may be providing military aid to Russia.
My mind is ready to explode with all this news, yet when I look around, I see the beauty of God’s creation, I listen to my son’s dreams, and try to find hope in everyday things. How do these worlds coexist? How do we make sense when living in both of…
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SI conference – Gothenberg, Sweden – Aug 61GUY DEBORD 1963: “The situationist movement can be seen as an artistic avant-garde, as an experimental investigation of possible ways for freely constructing everyday life, and as a contribution to the theoretical and practical development of a new revolutionary contestation. From now on, any fundamental cultural creation, as well as any qualitative transformation of society, is contingent on the continued development of this sort of interrelated approach. The same society of alienation, totalitarian control and passive spectacular consumption reigns everywhere, despite the diversity of its ideological and juridical disguises. The coherence of this society cannot be understood without an all-encompassing critique, illuminated by the inverse project of a liberated creativity, the project of everyone’s control of all levels of their own history. To revive and bring into the present this inseparable, mutually illuminating project and critique entails appropriating all the radicalism borne…
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From Atlantic Council By Peter Dickinson: Vladimir Putin will not be traveling to South Africa in August for a summit of BRICS leaders, it was confirmed this week. The change of plan reflects fears in Moscow that the Russian dictator may face arrest for war crimes if he attends the annual event in Johannesburg. In early 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Putin over his alleged role in the mass abduction of Ukrainian children. As an ICC signatory nation, South Africa would have been expected to arrest Putin if he entered the country.
Russia’s efforts to pressure South Africa into providing the necessary assurances clearly failed, leading to the July 19 announcement that Putin would not be attending. This exercise in damage limitation comes as no surprise. Speculation over Putin’s possible arrest in South Africa was rapidly becoming a PR disaster for the Kremlin, drawing…
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From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 512):
Trust in him at all times, O people;
pour out your heart before him;
God is a refuge for us.
Psalm 62:8
Over the past three days, Russia launched 56 missiles at Ukraine. Last night, they especially hit Odesa and Mykolaiv.
In Mykolaiv, they destroyed residential buildings, killed 2 and injured 19 people, including children.
In Odesa, an administrative building was destroyed, and residential buildings were damaged. At least 4 people were injured.
In Sumy, a drone hit a children’s recreation center building.
In the Chernihiv region, drones targeted residential buildings. There may be injured.
We’ve already had several air raids this night and who knows what morning news will bring.
Once God has spoken;
twice have I heard this:
that…
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dean ramser 