Perfect Days -- Cleaning Toilets, Silence, Watching Leaves, Embracing Shadows
... in a world with Nazi Love, these 58 (who the fuck cares if it was only 1!) standing ovations for a Jewish Himmler-Hitler, we need Wim Wenders
“But if you want to know my true beliefs — I think the only solution is to have the United States and Russia negotiate a settlement in the Middle East, make Jerusalem an international city, and have Israel give back all the territory it has occupied,” the Inquirer quoted Biden as saying, based on Livingston’s recollection. Biden also allegedly said: “I don’t think the United States would be one bit weaker if Israel went under — we shouldn’t get tied down to countries like this.”
— In an August 9 meeting, according to reports by the Wilmington News Journal and Philadelphia Inquirer, Biden told Victor Livingston, the volunteer, that he needed a firm position on the Israel-Palestine issue because his campaign was pursuing contributions from Jewish donors — and he couldn’t have his personal views included because “it would be political suicide to state my true beliefs.”
And we live in times of thespians (AKA liars) in positions of terrorism, brain washing, Edward Bernays on crack-steroids-growth hormones. Agntology, war is peace, kill the messenger, false flags-black flags, the whole nine yards of those 9 Techniques of Propaganda that German Nazi Goebbels and the Jew Bernays perfected.
[John Pilger – The Judicial Kidnapping of Julian Assange]
Just two minutes and 41 seconds. Richard Medhurst, below. You don’t need bliovating bitches, cunts, and overripe and over-paid pundits and former political whores to set you straight on the Nazi in the Halls of AmeriKKKa Legislation:
But first, more German Nazism:
“My 20-minute talk covers Germany’s role in the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, and Germany’s historical complicity with Zionism, a racist, fascistic and colonial ideology.
I talk about how Chancellor Olaf Scholz and foreign minister Annalena Baerbock have spread fabricated Israeli atrocity propaganda that justifies and incites genocide, and I called for both German leaders to be brought to justice.
I try to answer the question of why Germany, which purports to be a modern democracy, would arm and support Israel as it exterminates Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
I explain that, in fact, the German alliance with Zionism predates World War II and has its roots in the anti-Semitic ideas of Protestants in the 19th century. It continued through the Nazi Holocaust and remains intact into the present day.
Indeed, far from being the modern democracy it proclaims itself to be, many of the institutions of West Germany – later reunified Germany – were founded by former members of the Hitler regime.
Former Nazis occupied many senior positions in the government of West Germany.
Kurt Kiesinger, who was West German chancellor in the 1960s, had joined the Nazi party in 1933, the year Hitler came to power. He had, as journalist Beate Klarsfeld explained, been a “high officer of Nazi propaganda” during the war.
Modern Germany’s intelligence service, known by its initials BND, was founded by Reinhard Gehlen, a senior Nazi spy chief under Hitler, and later a close collaborator of the CIA.
And well into the 1970s, the top ranks of West Germany’s justice ministry teemed with former members of Hitler’s Nazi party.”
Okay, here: Two minutes-plus to explain a Nazi. Netanyahu’s Speech Deconstructed
So, coming home yesterday, from various aspects of my job as a social services guy, well, it was nice to watch perfection in film:
I was with people who are on the public welfare system, which isn’t welfare really, since we all think, “well, I am for sure concerned about the welfare of my children and grandchildren and grandparents and would never want them to go without or be subjected to harm, whether physical, psychic, emotional, economic, spiritual.”
Death to this fellow, BILL Mother Fucking Clinton, but death to all of them: And so I can’t get old sick and deaf couple a few hundred bucks a month in food assistance; no reduction of $1300 for one script every three months; no way to get the old fellow hearing aids that work — $9000? $12000?
Then another one, 64-year-old, paranoid, estranged from daughter, sick with Crohns, with so many other ailments, in subsidized housing, and now, with SSA, can’t cut back to stay out of the red. No utilities assistance. Just another victim of the fucking tribe, the Wailing Wall White House,
More Revenue Is Required to Meet the Nation’s Commitments, Needs, and Challenges
Today, across the country, welfare is—at best—a shadow of its former self. In much of the Deep South and parts of the West, it has all but disappeared. In the aftermath of welfare reform, there has been a sharp rise in the number of households with children reporting incomes of less than $2 per person per day, a fact we documented in our book, $2 a Day. As of 2012, according to the most reliable government data available on the subject, roughly 3 million American children spend at least three months in a calendar year living on virtually no money. Numerous other sources of data confirm these findings. According to the most recent data available (2014), TANF rolls are now down to about 850,000 adults with their 2.5 million children—a whopping decline of 75 percent from 1996. TANF was meant to “replace” AFDC. What it did in reality was essentially kill the U.S. cash welfare system. (We use the term “cash welfare” to distinguish it from other forms of assistance, such as housing vouchers and food stamps, which have pre-designated uses.)
That’s eight mother fucking years ago, in the fucking CIA-juiced Atlantic Magazine (paywalled, of course).
Yeah, wars, proxies, VA, PTSD, all the trillions sucked from USA coffers to the sicarios, the cartel, the fucking Everything in the dual and triple use that is Offensive Military Madness, never mentioned as the true costs of impoverishment.
The thinking behind their 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act – so-called “welfare reform” – was essentially this: “the free ride is over.”
In the minds of these policymakers (and many voters as well), decades of government “handouts” weren’t helping the poor but encouraging a life of lazy comfort on the taxpayers’ dime. This idea was false then; people in poverty largely had no interest in staying on welfare. Claims of welfare reform’s success are equally false today.
False because they derive from a fundamental opposition to government aid for the poor. In that view, federal government should be as small as possible (at least in terms of non-military spending), privatized where possible, and certainly not in the business of bailing out those at the bottom.
And who are always at the bottom? The commonly held belief for at least the past several decades is that most poor people are black and that most black people are poor. While the poverty rate among black people (27% as of 2014 Census estimates) is typically second only to Native Americans, black poverty in 2015 was less than one-fourth of U.S. poverty.
Generally speaking, those who are most vulnerable to poverty in this nation are women, people of color, and their children. Seniors and people with disabilities are entitled to public assistance programs like Social Security, SSDI or SSI. But working-age able-bodied individuals and families are not.
These are the people hit hardest when legislators decide to make government’s primary aim the creation of wealth and the protection of the wealthy. They are first to suffer when government prioritizes corporate over human interests, and when it frees businesses’ reign over our workforce, health, environment, and even government services.
One comprehensive plan for remaking the economy to better serve all Americans is the moral budget of the Poor People’s Campaign, a national movement of low-income people inspired by the 1968 initiative of the same name spearheaded by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., before his assassination that April 4th. Its central issues are promoting racial justice, ending poverty, opposing militarism, and supporting environmental restoration. Its moral budget proposes investing more than $1.2 trillion in domestic needs, drawn from both cuts to Pentagon spending and increases in tax revenues from wealthy individuals and corporations. Achieving such a shift in American priorities is, at best, undoubtedly a long-term undertaking, but it does offer a better path forward than continuing to neglect basic needs to feed the war machine.
Just two of the millions of cunts:
Hillbilly Bill and Hilary:
Lest we forget about one of the most pernicious, viral diseases on earth, may he never rest in peace, Satanic Jew Hitler:
Tough to stash away the daily Hitler Breeding hours I absorb, from this beautiful planet earth: What explains Biden’s persistent, near-unconditional support for Netanyahu and the Israeli war machine?
There appears to be some consensus that Biden is driven by a belief in Zionism and a deep emotional attachment to Israel. He has “a deep-seated, personal commitment to Israel that goes back to his first years as a U.S. senator,” according to the Washington Post. Biden is a “true believer” who “alone among modern American presidents has an emotional relationship with the idea of Israel, the people of Israel, the security of Israel,” according to the author of a Biden book, speaking on MSNBC. And Biden has told audiences for decades that his commitment to Israel is “personal” and “began at my father’s dinner table.”
In searching for the origins surrounding the president’s views on the U.S.-Israel relationship, In These Times and Jacobin found what appears to be a similar story. Drawing on a combination of contemporary newspaper reports, largely from the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Wilmington News Journal, and records held at archives in Delaware and New York, including copies of the Jewish Voice and correspondence to and from Biden with, among others, advocacy groups and community leaders, at least some portion of the historical record suggests Biden’s position developed alongside his political interests over time — but also took a sharp turn early on.
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Enough, already.
“Komorebi”, which was the original title of the film.
“sunlight leaking through trees…”
Komorebi is a deep connection with nature, and the necessity to pause, to take the time to absorb and appreciate the perfection of tiny, seemingly insignificant details. In the film, the main character, Hirayama has not only grasped all of this, he has made it the keystone of his essence. He sees all things, all people, as equally important, with an equal capacity for transcendence. While other pedestrians ignore the housless person who camps in a park, Hirayama watches in wonder as the man moves in his own dance of self-expression. And the toilets themselves, although humble in purpose, are architectural gems.
The film ends with Hirayama driving off to his toilet cleaning, the sun rising, his life tied to books, little words, observing, thinking, caring, nature empathy. Nina Simon’s “Feeling Good” plays on his casette tape.
House of the Rising Sun:
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Now,
I fondly recall my friend, Hasegawa.
He was an instructor of Japanese culture and language at the university I attended-prepping the “preppies” for semesters abroad at the satellite campus in Tokyo.
He fed me my first ever taste of squid, and taught me, Ohayo gozaimasu genki desu ka.
Those were better, days.