Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
The intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow has precedent
— Hanna Notte (@HannaNotte) February 29, 2024
Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019
Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
Here's what I told them: https://halginsberg.com/vote-for-jill-stein-again/
Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force https://t.co/pCoDg05irX
— Gareth Harris (@garethharr) December 28, 2023
Location: U.S. Embassy and residential compounds
Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.
Actions to take:
- Avoid the area;
- Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;
- Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and
- If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.
By The Editorial Board @ Bloomberg.com, December 8, 2023
A mass expulsion of Afghan migrants could destabilize the region and fuel radicalization. The West should pressure Islamabad to change course.
All eyes on #Chad right now
Chad has two internet trunks coming into the country: One from the Red Sea via Sudan; the other from Cameroon. Not possible for the totality of the country's internet network to be shut unless done centrally. A lot of rumors swirling; few facts. https://t.co/N6bDJZ2ixO
BREAKING: Three loss prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed, one of them has died from stab wounds, @PhillyPolice sources tell me. Police converged on the store as the three workers were rushed to Jefferson Hospital. pic.twitter.com/4U1eKycL4W
Former US Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba https://t.co/LDwo4ZJI1K
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023
[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]
You don’t get it.
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.
Imperialism for me but not for thee?
It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.
Could we have a war in South America?!?
"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy
The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.
McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”
Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf
By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down
"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023
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Comments
How can Ray be dead?
In my mind we are still young,
With lifetimes ahead.
My friend Tommy posted here a few times. Our moms were childhood friends. Tommy and Ray and their family were like cousins to my family growing up on the island. Even after we moved to the country, they'd come for summer visits. But a lifetime of smoking led to stage four lung cancer. Tommy tried to wade through the paperwork and get chemo or radiation for his younger brother, but it was too late. Ray died this week.
by Donal on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 4:12pm
Beautiful, Donal.
by Oxy Mora on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 7:17pm
Beautiful haiku, Donal.
My condolences on the loss of your friend.
by MrSmith1 on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 9:15pm
My condolences also Donal.
by Richard Day on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 12:12am
Rain falls into streams,
Tracing the lowest places
Where memory lives.
Kept awake by fire,
We noticed an odd rhythm:
Flame clinging to wood.
The Earth is patient,
In no rush for our return.
But not slow either.
Air reflects you best;
Rushing forward so quickly,
I am left behind.
by moat on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 11:44pm
Water, Fire, Earth and wind. Very elementary. Nicely done, moat!
by MrSmith1 on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 4:26am
World class, Moat. Imagery in first two stanzas is astounding.
As a born meddler, I keep wanting to rearrange the last two stanzas. I so love the second line in the third stanza, I would like to make it the end:
! ! ! ! ! , in no
rush for our return.
Also if you want the classic 4, substitute "wind" for "air".
Apologies in advance for screwing with such a work of art.
by Oxy Mora on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 9:50am
No apologies needed. The third stanza is clunky. I am disinclined to use your alternative, however, because I try to avoid splitting phrases for the sake of making the syllables fit a line. I will mull it over a bit and maybe come up with a better stanza.
The last stanza is not balanced either but I don't agree that using air is less "classical" than wind. The Greek word is ἀήρ (aer) and if the line "air reflects you best" was translated into Greek, all one would need is the proper declension of ἀερίζω. But your observation does point out to me that the verbs used in the last stanza are not closely knit.
Thank you for the encouraging words.
by moat on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 11:12am
The line, "Rain falls into streams", combined with my back and forth with Mr. Day about 'Now', reminded me of this poem I wrote about ten years ago. The back story is ...
I was lying in a hospital bed and the television had not been hooked up yet, so I was listening to The Raymond Scott Quintet on my iPod ... one of the songs was titled, "Yesterday's Ice-cubes are water today." So I start making up this poem, using the title of the song as the first line of the poem, but not having pen and paper handy, I had to keep repeating it over and over in my head until the next morning when I was able to write it down ...
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Yesterday's ice-cubes are water today,
What once was cool has melted away,
Evaporation must come to us all,
Back up to the clouds so the rain can then fall,
Fall to the stream, flow to the river,
from faucet to freezer we soon start to shiver,
We're back being ice-cubes,
don't know where or when,
we just know the process starts over again,
Our minds try to tell us there is only the Now,
As if Life after Now is a fiction somehow,
But the soul goes on being,
though each time here is fleeting,
To glimpse the eternal,
well ... that would be cheating,
For we are just ice-cubes,
at being cool, we're the best,
We can understand melting,
but have to trust all the rest.
by MrSmith1 on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 11:34am
I like it. The thought approaches the Tao. In that tradition, there is the phrase, sung shin, which is often translated as: "dissolve into your being."
by moat on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 2:19pm
Dissolve into your being... I like that.
How's this:
He meditates, then
dissolves into his being.
(Don't wake him from naps.)
by MrSmith1 on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 3:54pm
Great poem and I just focused on your lead-in to the poem. I simply cannot imagine composing something this good in my head and memorizing it. That is amazing.
by Oxy Mora on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 11:31pm
Very nice work.
by Donal on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 3:15pm
Thank you. It is a response to your haiku mixed together with an appreciation for Mr Smith keeping an eye on snow.
by moat on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 9:06pm
Well done.
I am caught between 'Old Friends' and 'Thick as a Brick'!
by Richard Day on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 12:10am
From your comment last week, DD, I wrote a multi-haiku piece, but didn't feel it was good enough to post. I'm going to keep working on it though and see if I can make it work. Here's what I've got so far:
how can there be 'hereafter?'
Only 'heaven knows.'
Could the 'Now' of which you speak
be conditional?
Perhaps 'Now' exists
like us, in space and time, just
parallels our lives.
So past and future
don't exist until we die,
then 'Eternal' starts.
Experiential
universe; where context rules
(It's all about YOU.) ;-)
by MrSmith1 on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 4:42am
I wasted time today looking at time as a universal. Mostly because I am a cultural diffusionist--without any alien input and with no single cultural mother.
There are too many 'coincidences' across six of the seven continents.
Did you know the Chinese as well as the Egyptians had 24 hour days? And 60 minute hours?
How the hell did that happen? Would not we be happy with 12 long hours a day? I have ten fingers and ten toes; where the hell did 12 come from and why is it universal--I am still seeking an answer for this in the ancient Americas.
Of course everyone figured out a year somewhere around 360 days five thousand years ago. Which tells me we were working with that idea at least 40,000 years.
Anyway, at some link it appears that some Greek Philosophers 2500 years ago figured that time was a myth; ethereal in nature and did not exist because now cannot be defined.
Great take cause your haiku was exactly what I am feeling about all this.
by Richard Day on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 5:17am
All of our lives are spent on a spaceship traveling through time and Now rides with us on that spaceship. We look out the window to see the past and present as we travel through them, but when we finally get to our destination, (i.e., we die), we leave the spaceship and it continues on without us, leaving us for the first time in a fixed point in time, thus allowing for the past and future to become 'real' ... oh Christ, I haven't even had my morning coffee yet.
Thanks for the comment, DD. Now I'm going to be thinking all day. HA!
by MrSmith1 on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 9:19am
Nicely done, and thanks as always for your inspiration and leadership in poetry. I wish I could be in NYC to attend your event. Best of luck on it.
by Oxy Mora on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 2:53pm
This is quite a shock
Breathing seemed so simple once
Then came these Haikus.
Peace to all.
by erica20 on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 12:22am
Well done, Erica!
by MrSmith1 on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 4:28am
I second that!
by Oxy Mora on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 9:41am