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2021-11-15T21:32−08* / at the about* post – at bit.ly/dateposted – anyone can link to this post from its date: November 15, 2021
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video link copied from website for ThorCon Power !?
TED founder Chris Anderson is lead investor*
What is high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)? ! !? / thorium is fertile, not fissile !? / posts that mention thorium !*
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video link copied from website for ThorCon Power !?
TED founder Chris Anderson is lead investor*
What is high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)? ! !? / thorium is fertile, not fissile !? / posts that mention thorium !*
image: from Google Books , Dangerous Ideas (Eric Berkowitz, Beacon Press, 2021), screenshot of a frame
… to silence others is as old as the urge to speak … speech exerts power !gb
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“Languages are not lost, they are taken.”
—James Griffiths, Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language
… to silence others is as old as the urge to speak … speech exerts power !gb
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“Languages are not lost, they are taken.”
—James Griffiths, Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language
2021-11-14T22:28−08* / at the about* post – at bit.ly/dateposted – anyone can link to this post from its date: November 14, 2021
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image: from Guardian article, archived*
from the article:
from the article:
The Viking Age is traditionally defined as AD 793 to 1066, presenting a wide range for the timing of the transatlantic crossing. Ordinary radiocarbon dating – determining the age of organic materials by measuring their content of a particular radioactive isotope of carbon – proved too imprecise to date L’Anse aux Meadows, which was discovered in 1960, although there was a general belief it was the 11th century.
The new dating method relies on the fact that solar storms produce a distinctive radiocarbon signal in a tree’s annual growth rings. It was known there was a significant solar storm – a burst of high-energy cosmic rays from the sun – in AD992.
In all three pieces of wood examined, from three different trees, 29 growth rings were formed after the one that bore evidence of the solar storm, meaning the wood was cut in 1021, said the University of Groningen archaeologist Margot Kuitems, the study’s first author.
It was not local indigenous people who cut the wood because there is evidence of metal blades, which they did not possess …
2021-11-13T21:27−08* / at the about* post – at bit.ly/dateposted – anyone can link to this post from its date: November 13, 2021
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2021-11-12T17:20−08* / at the about* post – at bit.ly/dateposted – anyone can link to this post from its date: November 12, 2021
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COP26 declaration (!n)
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COP26 declaration (!n)
I'm on my way home from #COP26, full of frustration and fury after reading the draft declaration. The world's powerful governments propose to do more to defend the fossil fuel industry than to defend life on Earth.
— George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) November 12, 2021
A Sydney man has set an ambitious target to phase out his alcohol consumption within the next 29 years, as part of an impressive plan to improve his health.
The program will see Greg Taylor, 73, continue to drink as normal for the foreseeable future, before reducing consumption in 2049 when he turns 101. He has assured friends it will not affect his drinking plans in the short or medium term.
Taylor said it was important not to rush the switch to non-alcoholic beverages. “It’s not realistic to transition to zero alcohol overnight. This requires a steady, phased approach where nothing changes for at least two decades,” he said, adding that he may need to make additional investments in beer consumption in the short term, to make sure no night out is worse off.
Taylor will also be able to bring forward drinking credits earned from the days he hasn’t drunk over the past forty years, meaning the actual end date for consumption may actually be 2060.
To assist with the transition, Taylor has bought a second beer fridge which he describes as the ‘capture and storage’ method.
Brilliance from @TheShovel https://t.co/TOLGHUy87z
— Extinction Rebellion (@ExtinctionR) November 7, 2021
2021-11-11T21:20−08* / at the about* post – at bit.ly/dateposted – anyone can link to this post from its date: November 11, 2021
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from the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) description on YouTube:
Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger shares his story about the journey from his father's house of deceit and hatred to the ranks of the Jewish people. Horrified by his father's part in the effort to rid the world of Jews, Bernd found himself drawn to Jews, Holocaust survivors who did not hold him responsible and related to him with kindness and friendship. He eventually came to the realization that he wanted to join the Jewish nation. In this video he tells his fascinating story and ends with advice on how to prevent hatred from spreading in the future.
2021-11-10T17:43−08* / at the about* post – at bit.ly/dateposted – anyone can link to this post from its date: November 10, 2021
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from a Globe and Mail review of two new books on Israel/Palestine:
Both authors also agree on four fundamental issues underlying the quagmire: First, the occupation must end. Once this happens, they claim it will forge a path for achieving Palestinian statehood within the parameters of a two-state solution.
Secondly, they demonstrate how uneven the conflict has become. The body-count statistics speak volumes. According to B’Tselem, a Jerusalem-based Israeli NGO, between December, 1987, and April, 2021, 13,969 lives were lost from politically motivated violence between Israelis and Palestinians. 87 per cent of the dead were Palestinian.
Thirdly, Cypel and Roy also argue that Jewish settlements are a barrier to peace. In 2017, the Israeli Jewish settlement population stood at 427,000 in the West Bank, and 220,000 in East Jerusalem. The paradigm for negotiations between Jews and Arabs since 1967 has mainly centred around the phrase “land for peace.” But what happens when there is no land?
And finally, both writers claim no lasting peace settlement can occur unless the United States, the EU and other major international actors force Israel to give up its domination over the Palestinians. That view is also shared by many progressive Jews across the global Jewish diaspora. But can this influence Israel’s cozy relationship with Washington and other key political players in the coming years? Perhaps. But maybe not.*
2021-11-09T12:25−08* / at the about* post – at bit.ly/dateposted – anyone can link to this post from its date: November 9 2021
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presidents and billionaires, powerful enablers of power, are not power itself but an effect of power
power cares about power and nothing else: not people, not the planet
power, like gravity, pervades our world, and as with gravity, although we can’t see it, we notice its effects
power is the force that – thanks to the powerful and other enablers – shapes almost everything we care about
power manifests as – and cannot exist without – hierarchy: hierarchies of enablers
power gives more power to those in its hierarchies who play their part well: it promotes them
power takes away power from those who fail to play their part: it demotes them or sidelines them
power grows stronger when we believe stories about ourselves and, spellbound, each play our part like robots
power helps a few people amass or inherit great wealth, and this makes them powerful enablers
power makes the powerful crave even more power: the love of power is an insatiable desire
power concentrates on and is concentrated by hiding from most of us what is really happening
power does untold harm to people and the planet, and gets away with it by manufacturing consent
power decides what happens and decides what people think about what happens: “the narrative”
power won’t quit until we begin to understand it and share that understanding
power is in the mind: once enough of us make a point of understanding power, it can no longer hurt us
power continues to plague us with “war, greed, exploitation [and] systematic indifference to others’ suffering”
power, as a social disease left unchecked, is terminal
power has many symptoms: selfishness, individualism, poverty, racism, militarism, vanity, overconsumption …
power at present looks set to destroy us and almost everything we care about unless we begin to understand it
power cares about power and nothing else: not people, not the planet
power, like gravity, pervades our world, and as with gravity, although we can’t see it, we notice its effects
power is the force that – thanks to the powerful and other enablers – shapes almost everything we care about
power manifests as – and cannot exist without – hierarchy: hierarchies of enablers
power gives more power to those in its hierarchies who play their part well: it promotes them
power takes away power from those who fail to play their part: it demotes them or sidelines them
power grows stronger when we believe stories about ourselves and, spellbound, each play our part like robots
power helps a few people amass or inherit great wealth, and this makes them powerful enablers
power makes the powerful crave even more power: the love of power is an insatiable desire
power concentrates on and is concentrated by hiding from most of us what is really happening
power does untold harm to people and the planet, and gets away with it by manufacturing consent
power decides what happens and decides what people think about what happens: “the narrative”
power won’t quit until we begin to understand it and share that understanding
power is in the mind: once enough of us make a point of understanding power, it can no longer hurt us
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Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.
—Aldous Huxley, 1958
power continues to plague us with “war, greed, exploitation [and] systematic indifference to others’ suffering”
power, as a social disease left unchecked, is terminal
power has many symptoms: selfishness, individualism, poverty, racism, militarism, vanity, overconsumption …
power at present looks set to destroy us and almost everything we care about unless we begin to understand it
2021-11-08T17:17−08* / at the about* post – at bit.ly/dateposted – anyone can link to this post from its date: November 8, 2021
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2025-05-28 update of featured image: February 2025 NYT photo copied from a Fintan O’Toole piece you can read by following the link embedded in the asterisk in the line below …
power at its most effective: unnamed, undefined, and therefore of course unlimited …* (!?)
[superseded]image credit: Caitlin Johnstone, in a satirical piece, archived*[/superseded]
power … is the force that shapes almost everything (!*) / (Jonathan Cook)
hierarchy: hierarchies of enablers / hierarchies of wealth, status, and power* / (David Graeber, David Wengrow)
spellbound*
a few people amass or inherit great wealth*
the love of power is an insatiable desire / Bertrand Russell (!?, !*)
what people think about what happens* / (Caitlin Johnstone)
understanding power (!*)
“Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy … run the show as they see fit.” —Aldous Huxley, 1958 (!*)
“war, greed, exploitation [and] systematic indifference to others’ suffering”* / (David Graeber, David Wengrow)
/ the hallmark of hierarchy: indifference to the fate of those at lower levels – unless that threatens the status quo
“The well off and the secure have too often become indifferent and oblivious to the poverty and deprivation in their midst.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.* *
symptoms: selfishness, individualism, poverty, racism, militarism, …
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MLK’s three evils – poverty, racism, and militarism (!?) – are symptoms;
power is the disease, and the cause of the disease is ignorance,
where the ignorance meant is of things as they really are (!*) (Jacob Needleman)
/ Chomsky – October 2021 – on manufactured ignorance, among other things:
/)
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it’s up to us, who think we can’t, to confront powers and structures of evil (!?) by getting together and getting it together
“to make the power structure … say yes when they may be desirous to say no”:
video clip from 1968*
see also: Martin Luther King, Jr. / site:nobelprize.org ! (!?) :: The quest for peace and justice* / Nobel Lecture, December 1964
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2025-05-28 update of featured image: February 2025 NYT photo copied from a Fintan O’Toole piece you can read by following the link embedded in the asterisk in the line below …
power at its most effective: unnamed, undefined, and therefore of course unlimited …* (!?)
[superseded]image credit: Caitlin Johnstone, in a satirical piece, archived*[/superseded]
power … is the force that shapes almost everything (!*) / (Jonathan Cook)
hierarchy: hierarchies of enablers / hierarchies of wealth, status, and power* / (David Graeber, David Wengrow)
spellbound*
a few people amass or inherit great wealth*
the love of power is an insatiable desire / Bertrand Russell (!?, !*)
what people think about what happens* / (Caitlin Johnstone)
understanding power (!*)
“Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy … run the show as they see fit.” —Aldous Huxley, 1958 (!*)
“war, greed, exploitation [and] systematic indifference to others’ suffering”* / (David Graeber, David Wengrow)
/ the hallmark of hierarchy: indifference to the fate of those at lower levels – unless that threatens the status quo
“The well off and the secure have too often become indifferent and oblivious to the poverty and deprivation in their midst.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.* *
symptoms: selfishness, individualism, poverty, racism, militarism, …
(/
MLK’s three evils – poverty, racism, and militarism (!?) – are symptoms;
power is the disease, and the cause of the disease is ignorance,
where the ignorance meant is of things as they really are (!*) (Jacob Needleman)
/ Chomsky – October 2021 – on manufactured ignorance, among other things:
/)
###
it’s up to us, who think we can’t, to confront powers and structures of evil (!?) by getting together and getting it together
“to make the power structure … say yes when they may be desirous to say no”:
video clip from 1968*
see also: Martin Luther King, Jr. / site:nobelprize.org ! (!?) :: The quest for peace and justice* / Nobel Lecture, December 1964
as an addition to their principles:
or as an addition to their mission:
or as an addition to their mission:
2021-11-07T20:34−08* / at the about* post – at bit.ly/dateposted – anyone can link to this post from its date: November 7, 2021
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principles and sources / site:cuc.ca ! (!?)
wording of the proposed 8th principle as amended by the CUC, 2021-10-28:
CUC Special Meeting – 8th Principle / site:cuc.ca ! (!?)
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principles and sources / site:cuc.ca ! (!?)
wording of the proposed 8th principle as amended by the CUC, 2021-10-28:
Individual and communal action that accountably dismantles racism and systemic barriers to full inclusion in ourselves and our institutions*
CUC Special Meeting – 8th Principle / site:cuc.ca ! (!?)