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(8 comments) SHARE        Thursday, June 27, 2019
Trumping Up Wars: A Venerable American Tradition "Throughout its history, America has attacked countries that did not threaten it. To carry out such wars, American leaders have contrived pretexts to justify American aggression. That's what Donald Trump's administration-and especially its national security adviser, John Bolton-is doing now with Iran."

(6 comments) SHARE        Saturday, June 22, 2019
Is there an objective physical world amenable to scientific investigation? Only a few of our greatest thinkers have risen to the challenge of reformulating the rules of science and our fundamental conceptions of reality and what we can know about it. This is the most interesting and fertile intellectual opportunity of our age.
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(5 comments) SHARE        Thursday, June 6, 2019
Daily Inspiration — High energy from the sun Now there's a new mystery. There are gamma rays coming from the sun, and some of them have really high energies. With energies like that, you could make cosmic rays out of them without too much troublejust add a proton, and there are plenty of those around. But no one expected the sun to be producing gamma rays (or cosmic rays) of its own, especially at the high energy end. These gamma rays are so energetic that if we translat
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SHARE        Thursday, June 6, 2019
Daily Inspiration — Security and Paradox Belief is an affirmation of a previous worldview. Living in paradoxbelieving and not believing at the same timeis a movement into the future.
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(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 27, 2019
I used to think we fought the Civil War to end slavery Ending slavery is a noble idea. Endling slavery with armies and cannons and barbary and rape and theft and devastation of war was a madness for which we are still paying today.
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SHARE        Friday, May 24, 2019
Daily Inspiration — Turning Point After a time of decay comes the turning point. The eternal effulgence has receded gradually into shadow, and now begins its return. Deep transformation is already under way, not brought about by force but by a confluence of sources, unseen because they are dispersed. The movement is natural, arising spontaneously. It is profoundly difficult, yet demands no conscious effort. Awareness and intention can facilitate acceptance of
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SHARE        Saturday, May 18, 2019
Daily Inspiration — An Exchange of Gifts As long as you read this poem I will be writing it. I am writing it here and now, before your eye, although you can't see me. Perhaps you'll dismiss this as a verbal trick, the joke is you're wrong; the real trick is pretending this is something fixed and solid, external to both of us. I tell you better: I will keep on writing this poem for you even after I'm dead.
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SHARE        Sunday, May 12, 2019
For my Mom — Appreciation & Apology This year, I learned that trees have mothers, too. They gather light from branches high above, Dispatch their sugared sap imbued with love; Then mycorrhizal networks send it through To saplings starting up in mother's shade. Of course, not every tree can have a mom --The orphan tree farm and the potted palm-- But those that start their lives within a glade Take time for deeper roots and denser wood...
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(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 6, 2019
Trump’s America: A Glimmer of Understanding Last month, I read 2 books by Paul Williams that synthesized history for me. The 1st, Operation Gladio, filled gaps in my understanding of how evil became entrenched in our modern world. The 2d, The Killing of Uncle Sam, supplied a historical background for the characters I read about in the first. But while Gladio just left me with a sense of immense evil, Uncle Sam ends with some unexpected political prescriptions.

(20 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 3, 2019
Occupy the NYTimes The "liberal" intellectual (mainstream) press has abused the trust we have invested in them, and has long perpetrated a campaign of rolling deception. I want to see a thousand people picketing the NYTimes building on 42d Street, camping out day and night, chanting "Tell us the truth!".

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 2, 2019
Daily Inspiration — Earth Activist turns 90 For forty years, Joanna Macy's activism has been rooted in introspection and spiritual connection to a living earth. She has written about Buddhism and translated Rilke. Five of her ten books were published since her 80th birthday, as her productivity and her passion have increased with age. She still lectures around the world and teaches in the SF Bay Area.

(37 comments) SHARE        Sunday, April 28, 2019
Daily Inspiration — Whoa, man, that’s like some heavy-duty physics! We talk about a particular electron being in a particular place, or following a particular orbit. But this is a shorthand, a fiction. The truth is that every electron in the universe participates equally in this behavior, whatever it is, and all the electrons are continually checking in with each other and coordinating their behaviors, such that if you shine a light on this place and look, exactly one electron will appear und
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(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 27, 2019
Daily Inspiration — Happy Birthday Prokofiev I discovered this music when I was in college, more than 50 years ago. It remains my favorite symphony of the 20th Century, though the style is to play it too fast today, "because they can".
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(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 22, 2019
Daily Inspiration — The Language that Earth Speaks While persons brought up within literate culture often speak about the natural world, indigenous, oral peoples sometimes speak directly to that world, acknowledging certain animals, plants and even landforms as expressive subjects with whom they might find themselves in conversation. Obviously these other beings do not speak with a human tongue; they do not speak in words.
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(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 15, 2019
Daily Inspiration — Universal Mind and Individual Mind Old mystics, shamans, acidheads agree Connection universal binds us all The I that seems so separate and small Is but conceit, conditioned vanity. My mind in meditation doth defy My will, assimilates unbidden thought. Thus meditation's lesson aptly taught Asks who, if not my neurons, am this I? Our science if more honest, would concede Statistics show telepathy is real, Though not a force we hear or see or feel.
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(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 13, 2019
Assange is in no ordinary jail Assange is being held in England's equivalent of Guantanamo.

SHARE        Saturday, April 13, 2019
Daily Inspiration — Once in a Lifetime History says don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme. So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge. Believe that a further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells.
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(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 12, 2019
Daily Inspiration — WE have the power That is one reason why the huge public relations industry and the most immense propaganda agency in human history reached its sophisticated forms in the most free societies, the US and Britain. The propaganda industry arose about a century ago, when people came to understand that too much freedom had been won for the public to be controlled by force, so it would be necessary to control them via their opinions.
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(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 5, 2019
Daily Inspiration — There is no Way to Laughter. Laughter is the Way. The age of tragedy can be ended only with a revolt of frivolity. Tragedy will be driven from the world like a ludicrous old actress, clutching her heart and declaiming in a hoarse voice.
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SHARE        Thursday, April 4, 2019
Daily Inspiration — Eugène Bozza Eugene Bozza, born this day in 1905, was a man out of tune with his time, absorbed in the aesthetics of music, composing music that is pleasing and interesting to the ear while the world around him was mired in despair, his homeland was occupied by Nazis, and people everywhere were wailing in pain and loss from the Second World War. None of this is in Bozza's music, nor is there any concession to the intellectualization and ab
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