The greatest horror story of all time - " Lazarus " by Leonid Andreyev ?

The much-anthologized tale “Lazarus”, by Russian writer Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919), explores the possible aftermath of this famous Biblical event - and is one of the most profoundly chilling works of fiction I’ve ever read. As a work of desolate existential horror it would seem to be without peer, a work that plays on man’s worst fears of his own mortality and what awaits on the other side, “the void”, “the horror of the infinite”, which this tale hints at with alarming power.

Lazarus ♦ By Leonid Andreyev ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook

To be sure , a WOKE Catholic Church is a joke Catholic Church !

Brought up Roman Catholic myself I remain respectful of the Catholic Tradition ( even in literature and moral philosophy ) . But I prefer the pre-Vatican II " conservative " Church with its ancient rituals and beautiful Latin mass to the manic and often goofy ( or blasphemous ) MODERNISM of the Catholic Church after 1965 . To be sure , a WOKE Catholic Church is a joke Catholic Church . I think my feelings here are shared by Peggy Noonan's biography of Pope John Paul II ( now a canonized saint ) . Peggy is a conservative Republican ! Could the terrible child abuse scandals of the 2000 year old Catholic Church be connected to insidious " modernism " ? Or was I just brainwashed as a kid when I perceived Catholic nuns and priests as having an aura of holiness and goodness ? The innocent child's intuition ?

Local Catholics urged to pray for 'very sick' Pope Benedict XVI

I have personally experienced PEDESTRIAN UNFRIENDLY Warwick, Rhode Island

I have personally experienced PEDESTRIAN UNFRIENDLY Warwick, Rhode Island. Living with my brother Ray ( then a radio officer with the Warwick Police Dept. ) on Church Ave. back in the late 1990s , I often observed drivers ignoring people at nearby crosswalks . Also these crosswalks were few and far between . And Warwick streets after dark were poorly lit. What is true of Warwick, Rhode Island is true of the other heavily populated cities of Rhode Island . Too many innocent pedestrians have been sacrificed to " Moloch Motor Vehicle " ! Woman hit by car while crossing street in Warwick [ WPRI.COM Woman hit by car while crossing street in Warwick Police are investigating after a woman was hit by a car in Warwick Wednesday evening.]

Fwd: We can hardly cope with monster snow storms So forget about nuclear World War III with Russia !

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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 at 10:26
Subject: We can hardly cope with monster snow storms So forget about nuclear World War III with Russia !
To: Letters, NYT <letters@nytimes.com>

The United Nations should be more involved in this " senseless " ( the Pope was right about that ) conflict. Were ordinary working class Ukrainians ( like the 5 million ( ? ) Ukrainian civilians now in Poland ) languishing with a longing for a dangerous and foolish alliance with effete and rotting NATO ? Was " evil " Russia destroying their seemingly prosperous way of life before the Ukraine invasion ? And humble NATO was not threatening the Russian bear at all ? No American imperialism , CIA , DEEP STATE intrigue ? In contrast to the pathetic humanity now amassed on our Mexican border the Ukrainian refugees looked like they could have been rescued from a luxury cruise on the proud Titanic. When will they wear out the welcome in not -so-prosperous Poland ? Do they still see the puffed up NATO puppet Zelensky as their now immortal national hero ? Can very troubled working class Americans now in HARD TIMES here in the USA -and so many ruined middle class Americans - be expected to brainlessly support nuclear World War III with POST COMMUNIST Russia ? With the Conqueror of Afghanistan , senile , corrupt Joe Biden , as our great war time leader? Soon INFLATION and a GREAT DEPRESSION will make us a more sober nation. We can hardly cope with monster snow storms . Forget about " The Day After " nuclear war !

Ron Ruggieri , 75 Mathewson St., Cranston, Rhode Island ( 401-580-7432 )

The once solid American middle class is disappearing from this LAND OF THE FREE

The once solid American middle class is disappearing from this LAND OF THE FREE. Soon the working population of capitalist USA will consist mostly of desperate , frightened debt slaves. Not complacent , happy , consumerism crazed home owners . During the 1950s McCarthy Era it was said that the real bastion against dreaded COMMUNISM was our solid , optimistic middle class. That world is Gone with the Wind ! And there are alarming reports of nasty socialists insidiously waiting in the FAR LEFT wing of the WOKE Democratic Party. But I don't know any . Wish I did .

Data: Average home in Providence costs nearly $500K

Not enough stupid young Americans to volunteer for nuclear World War III ? A serious military recruiting problem ?

How many LITERATE , intelligent , mentally and physically healthy young Americans-male and female or whatever - daydream about being cannon fodder for more stupid and endless American Imperialism wars ? Do they get all " patriotic " excited about saving war monger Zelensky's SOVEREIGN Ukraine for rotten ,effete NATO ? Cheer on nuclear World War III with POST-COMMUNIST Russia ? Salute our great war time leader , the Conqueror of Afghanistan , Joe Biden ? And be inspired by stale Wilsonian blather ( once again " make the world safe for democracy " ) ? By the way , have you had a whiff of " OUR democracy " in the COVID-19 era ? " What if they start a war and nobody shows up ? " ( A "Tumultuous 60s " thought crime ) .

21 Years After 9/11 – US Army Faces Big Recruiting Shortage

The BRAINS of the human race must be freed from PRIVATE PROPERTY slavery

THINK about it : at least some industries ( as democratic socialist I suspect MOST industries now capitalist organized ) are just too big to be efficiently privately owned FOR PROFIT ? The CEO of Southwest Airlines can soberly accept responsibility for this calamity ? Again and again COLLECTIVE intelligence and COLLECTIVE will shows its superiority to the inflated ego of narcissistic individuals. In this terrible year 2022 only some global " Manhattan Project " can save human civilization . Don't expect competitive CAPITALIST industries - and their competing nation-states -to co-operate to stop or check catastrophic climate change. The BRAINS of the human race must be freed from PRIVATE PROPERTY slavery !

Southwest cancels thousands of flights nationwide

Fwd: Note from friend Bill Briden on Facebook post

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Subject: Note from friend Bill Briden on Facebook post
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Bill Briden

[  " Very well said!! You haven't lost a thing. "

    Love to all , Ron

RACIST Netanyahu not a factor in perceived rise in anti-Semitism ?

Are there any ACLU Jewish lawyers attached to the WOKE Democratic Party who apply " Critical Race Theory " to Apartheid Israel which has just reelected corrupt , RACIST Natanyahu its prime minister ? Reflect on what humanist Jew and popular science writer Isaac Asimov had to say about modern Israel : [“I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. " ] And yet the mainstream news media in the United States with its rather disingenuous TV ad campaign against anti-Semitism regularly connects anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. And at the same time it suppresses anti-war views of Christian Americans not slobbering over the puffed up NATO war monger Ukrainian president Zelensky - also a proud zealot of Israel ( eager for war with Iran too ? ) The likes of RACIST Netanyahu- triumphant in ZIONIST politics - is not a factor in a perceived increase in anti-Semitism ?

Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu announces new right-wing government coalition

Applying EUROPEAN UNION concepts to the whole of North America, Canada, Central and South America . A solution to epoch migration crisis ?

As a longtime independent democratic socialist I think the ultimate solution of the now epoch migration crisis on the US border is applying EUROPEAN UNION concepts to the whole of North America, Canada , Central and South America. We could have capital cities in Toronto and Buenos Aires. No one country will be overwhelmed with desperate " illegal immigrants ". The treasury of the GREAT UNION can be located at Fort Knox. Just re-design the currency . If we apply ZOOLOGICAL concepts to human migration all over the world , we see that no LIVING SPECIES ever hesitated to defy even NATURAL borders ? What can be said for artificial nation-state borders ? Just a cliche ? The HUMAN race is one ?

Migrants dropped off near Kamala Harris' home in Washington, D.C.

in the United States the pillars of WOKE ideology are secular , often anti-Christian , Zionist Jews

In the United States it is just an obvious fact that the pillars of WOKE ideology , of all forms of political correctness , of Critical Race Theory , are secular , often openly anti-Christian, Zionist Jews. Their bastion of support is Ivy League Academia . Oddly enough, they never apply Critical Race Theory to APARTHEID Israel. The recently re-elected , corrupt right wing prime minister of Israel , Benjamin Netanyahu , has been rightfully accused of racist terrorism against the dispossessed and oppressed Palestinians. And he used racism to get elected and re-elected . And years ago the United Nations - the conscience of the world - declared ZIONISM to be a form of racism. How many WOKE " progressive " Democrats took note of that ? They all, like our Rhode Island congressman David Cicilline, slobber over " our special relationship with Israel ". How long will that last ? Two years ago BLACK LIVES MATTER groups were waving Palestinians flags in street demonstrations .

Huge Crowds Celebrate LGBTQ Culture At Pride in Tel Aviv

Billionaire Zionist Jews can rescue elderly Holocaust survivors in the Ukraine

Cannot the puffed up NATO " hero " Zelensky ( with the keys to the US Treasury - with BILLIONS of dollars for WAR) keep these old Jewish women Holocaust survivors from starvation and living in squalor ? Strange TV ads plead with viewers ( appeal to sympathetic Christians ? ) to send some dubious charity $19 : 00 a month for this ongoing benevolent project ? Certainly a few ZIONIST billionaires in the United States and Israel can quickly relieve these old Jewish Holocaust survivors of their present misery in the Ukraine.

Ukrainian Holocaust Survivors Flee to Israel

How low can you go ?

Representative-elect George Santos admits to lying about his past

Mentally and physically healthy young Americans will not be recruited to save " sovereign " Ukraine

What the Pope said of the Ukraine war is quite true : It is SENSELESS ! I cannot imagine working class Americans and increasingly ruined middle class Americans - with all the social and economic MISERY in " OUR democracy " - gushing with " patriotic " excitement over a dubiously " sovereign " Ukraine . Coming from the permanently embedded mainstream news media in the United States , that stale Wilsonian blather ( " make the world safe for democracy " ) will not recruit mentally and physically healthy young Americans of military age for the thrill of combat duty in nuclear World War III with POST-COMMUNIST Russia. Oddly enough the WOKE Democratic Party - despite its sanctimonious campaign against odious HATE in all forms - has promoted the HATE RUSSIA, New McCarthyism for years now,. In the 2022 midterm election not one " progressive " voice in the WOKE Democratic Party was an ANTI-WAR voice, a sane voice for world peace. Joe Biden, the Conqueror of Afghanistan , is going to inspire and arm the Ukraine for " unconditional victory " over the Russian bear ? Even Napoleon and Hitler were finally broken by vast wintry Russia !

Russia, Ukraine hint at potential peace talks

In tenant eviction cases the bourgeois judges most often side with the bourgeois landlord

Greedy , negligent landlords are a major factor in the homeless people crisis. Was the landlord's NAME mentioned here ? Rhode Island landlords ( some truly " slum landlords" ) who rent apartments to working class poor people should be subject to RENT control and supervised by the courts. But our capitalist system makes landlord PRIVATE PROPERTY ( and private property in general ) sacrosanct. In eviction cases the bourgeois judges most often side with the bourgeois landlord . Don't expect the mainstream news media and their" embedded " news managers and reporters to give voice to the democratic socialist point of view. And don't expect much enlightenment from local talk radio. Tara G. of 630WPRO a refreshing exception ! A common complaint of tenants made homeless by fire : " He [ the landlord ] did not listen ".

16 displaced after Central Falls apartment fire

Fwd: What is a mere 1.7 trillion dollars ( federal government spending ) as a quantity compared to Avogadro's famous number in high school chemistry ?

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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 at 15:01
Subject: Fwd: What is a mere 1.7 trillion dollars ( federal government spending ) as a quantity compared to Avogadro's famous number in high school chemistry ?
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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 at 15:00
Subject: What is a mere 1.7 trillion dollars ( federal government spending ) as a quantity compared to Avogadro's famous number in high school chemistry ?
To: Letters, NYT <letters@nytimes.com>

Do not these government spending numbers boggle the mind ? Actually the NUMBER 1.7 trillion in scientific notation looks like this :

1.7 e + 12 - Which is almost nothing as a quantity compared to a number also expressed in scientific notation familiar to bright high school chemistry students :

Avogadro's Number : 6.02 e + 23 a measure of MOLES in chemical reactions.

There are far more molecules in a gram of gold than there are abstract dollars in the budget of the federal government .

So even understanding economic statistics of the federal government is not hopeless -with or without a scientific calculator .

Ron Ruggieri , 75 Mathewson St., Cranston , Rhode Island (401-580-7432 )

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U.S. Senate passes $1.66 trillion spending bill, sends to House

The U.S. Senate passed a $1.66 trillion government spending bill, sending it to the House of Repre

Cellar Stories Bookstore Closing I will miss this place for sure !

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To: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>

This is an interesting read bout the store's history:

"To all Friends of Cellar Stories:

It is no small feat for a bookstore to stick around as long as we have, and it wouldn't have been possible without the support of our loyal customers near and far, and our amazing community here in Providence. Sadly, we've been informed that our landlord is planning to sell the building, so after 40 years in business Cellar Stories will be closing its doors at the end of January. 

Michael Chandley opened the store in 1982 with his friend Ray, a big dream, and very little money. The starting inventory came from their personal collections, and they worked opposite hours at the store so each could hold down a second job elsewhere- Mike at his family's restaurant, Ray at B. Dalton. They managed a deal on rent for their first shop at 184 Mathewson doing odd jobs for the owner of the building, where they found an old 1917 National cash register in the basement (which we still use today). After a few years, Ray left to pursue other ventures, but Mike never tired of buying and selling books. The business changed and the inventory grew, prompting a move out of the cellar and into a first floor space at 190 Mathewson, and eventually down the street to our current location on the second floor of 111 Mathewson Street. Friends and family came out to help build shelves, move boxes, and organize the store. 

Mike found help from a cohort of willing apprentices over the years, many of whom went on to pursue careers in the trade as booksellers, librarians, and writers. I've heard some of them refer to the store as "Mike Chandley's Home for Wayward Girls," as an overwhelming number of us started our employment as troubled young women, and upon leaving found ourselves educated, empowered, and slightly 'reformed.' I recently found a letter in Mike's office from a former employee who summed up the experience pretty well: "I always felt that you were concerned about my well-being and prepared to intercede on my behalf but also trusted my ability to manage on my own…a steadily caring, un-hovering presence."

I started working at Cellar Stories in 2014, and I quickly became aware that I had stumbled upon something truly special. It cannot quite be described- it's that feeling of searching for something you didn't know you needed and suddenly finding it, like a treasure buried under years of dust. As Mike said in an interview with C-SPAN, "this is the greatest job in the world….never knowing what you're going to see."

Mike was my best friend for the four years we spent together. I learned so much from him, and I laughed so much because of him. He changed the whole course of my life for the better, and I can't imagine what kind of person I'd be today if I hadn't had the opportunity to work for him. I lost a big piece of my heart when he died and Providence lost an important part of its community. He was really something special. He could be stern and grumpy, but he was sweet and soft and kind, and he always had a little twinkle in his eye. He would give anyone a free book or a dollar for the bus if they needed it, but without hesitancy would tell you exactly what you could do with yourself if you pissed him off. I miss him a lot. 

At his funeral, I got to meet some of the former staff, and we've stayed in touch. They've given me advice and guidance and helped me to navigate through these last few years- one of them even came back to work with me. Justine is now like a sister to me, the customers and friends we've made here are like our family, and Cellar Stories is our home. We've spent so many hours and days among the stacks (between the 2 of us almost 20 years). I could walk through the aisles with my eyes closed- I know every knot in the wood of the shelves, and every sub-section of every sub-section of every genre. Mike taught us well, and we are planning to start our own little book business after we leave. 

Although it is very sad to say goodbye to Cellar Stories, I know Mike would be happy to see us keeping his legacy alive and proud to see all that we've accomplished. I don't think anyone thought the store would make it 40 years, or that it would become such an important place to so many people. It will always be a special place to me, and I know I will never take for granted everything I've learned here. 

We hope you will keep this place in your hearts too. Come say your farewells, share with us your stories and your memories, hug your favorite shelf, use up your store credit and redeem your gift certificates before it's too late. Always support your local bookstores, be nice to your booksellers, and most importantly BUY BOOKS.   

Thank you for everything."

-Vic

It was one of many comments posted on the Rhode Island Reddit Community. Link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RhodeIsland/comments/zbuhvi/cellar_stories_bookstore_closing_in_january/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Life expectancy declines alarmingly in the United States

[ "The average life expectancy for Americans shortened by over seven months last year, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That decrease follows an already big decline of 1.8 years in 2020. As a result, the expected life span of someone born in the U.S. is now 76.4 years — the shortest it has been in nearly two decades. The two reports, released by the CDC on Thursday, show deaths from COVID-19 and drug overdoses, most notably synthetic opioids like fentanyl, were the primary drivers of the drop in life expectancy. 'It's not a good year for the data, let's put it that way," says CDC statistician Kenneth Kochanek. ' " ] NOTE : I will turn 76 on July 26, 2023 . A GOOD life is preferable to a LONG life. What is behind this depressing statistic ? Simple : we live in the long death agony of global capitalism. There is hardly a social injustice unconnected to CLASS inequality. American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades NPR.ORG American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades A new report shows the pandemic and the overdose crisis helped push down the average life exp

They name a Housing CZAR who is truly clueless !

Homeless advocates who are politically literate might explain to a sympathetic public of working class people that CAPITALISM, sacrosanct landlord PRIVATE PROPERTY rights , keeps so many human beings homeless. The mainstream news media - owned by and loyal only to Corporate America - makes it taboo for any investigative reporter to blame capitalism for so much social injustice. They name a Housing CZAR who is truly clueless !

Homeless advocates say there's not enough room at warming station

A war monger American Congress hails the war monger Ukrainian president Zelensky

A war monger American Congress hails the war monger Ukrainian president Zelensky. Risk nuclear World War III with POST-COMMUNIST Russia over a very dubiously " sovereign " Ukraine ? For more than a century American imperialism was all about defending " sovereign " countries and " freedom " everywhere ? It does not send billions of dollars for proxy wars to protect a country's " sovereign " state. How is our American plutocracy on a higher moral level than Putin's Russian oligarchy ? Presently in " OUR democracy " anti-war public opinion is censored in the main stream news media and in much social media. In the recent midterm elections not one " progressive " Democrat was a voice for world peace. I am sure Zelensky has great faith in the Conqueror of Afghanistan, Joe Biden.

Watch Zelensky address joint meeting of Congress

To think that animals in general have no real FEELINGS is just plain unscientific

To think that mammals in general have no FEELINGS ( they are just biological automatons ? ) is actually as unscientific as it is cruel . Charles Darwin showed in scrupulous detail in his " Origin of the Species " that the human brain has so many connections ( definite emotional centers , for example ) to any mammalian brain. We have both AFFECTION & SUFFERING in common .

CATS Actually Love Their Humans, Here are the Proofs

I am getting addicted to the TRUE CRIME NETWORK ( local channel 12-3 ) scary in its revelation of inhuman EVIL

I get this fascinating TRUE CRIME NETWORK here in Cranston, Rhode Island on local Channel 12-3 . It is so instructive in crime detection methods ( especially DNA identification ) and so scary in its revelation of inhuman EVIL . I recommend the TRUE CRIME NETWORK .

True Crime Network

Risks of gall bladder surgery ?

After recovery from emergency surgery at Rhode Island Hospital , my visit to the surgeon's office informed me of the need ( ? ) for my gall bladder removal in the near future. But I do worry : " While laparoscopy is generally less traumatic than the old approach, it’s still major surgery with major potential risks. In fact, accidental severing of the bile duct, which can cause permanent liver damage, occurs in 1 to 2 percent of laparoscopies—three times more often than in open surgery. " : [ "Some 10 percent of Americans have gallstones, and most of those people never develop significant symptoms. While laparoscopy is generally less traumatic than the old approach, it’s still major surgery with major potential risks. In fact, accidental severing of the bile duct, which can cause permanent liver damage, occurs in 1 to 2 percent of laparoscopies—three times more often than in open surgery. Avoid gallbladder surgery unless you’ve had at least one severe attack or several less painful attacks in the upper right part of the abdomen, or if you develop jaundice or pancreatic inflammation—and tests confirm that stones are the real culprit. Surgery should not be done to treat vague symptoms such as flatulence or bloating, which many people—and some doctors—mistakenly attribute to gallstones. If you do need surgery, look for an experienced surgeon who has done at least 30 of the operations." ] “GALLSTONES” might be more severe if it is left untreated! | Bangkok Hospital BANGKOKHOSPITAL.COM “GALLSTONES” might be more severe if it is left untreated! | Bangkok Hospital Gallstones are one of the most common digestive diseases which small stones are formed in the gallbladder. If gallstones lodge in a bile duct and cause a blockage, it eventually results in severe life-threatening complications such as bile duct inflammation and infection, pancreatitis or cholecystit...

Time Enough at Last: Comment on " Netanyahu and Nuclear War ", WATCHING...

Time Enough at Last: Comment on " Netanyahu and Nuclear War ", WATCHING...: As a citizen of the United States, after watching this meddling psychopath Netanyahu's speech before a groveling U.S. Congress, I no...

The fact that so many people LOVE animals speaks well for the human race .

The fact that so many people LOVE animals speaks well for the human race . Are not your beloved and devoted pet dogs the closest creatures to guardian angels on God's Good Earth ? And yes, now and then this long time , independent socialist puts in a kind world for homeless human beings.

RI Foundation gives $550K to animal shelters, programs

Puffed up war monger Zelensky COMING TO AMERICA !

Just as they did for the corrupt , racist-and just re-elected prime-minister of APARTHEID Israel , Benjamin Netanyahu, a few years back , the United States Congress can be expected to slobber with standing ovations for the war mongering , puffed up , NATO " hero " Ukrainian president Zelensky - now given the keys to the US Treasury. Note that in the recent midterm elections not one " progressive " Democrat was an audible ANTI-WAR voice. And in general the WOKE Democratic Party has been promoting the HATE RUSSIA, New McCarthyism for years . Are working class Americans giddy with " patriotic " enthusiasm for nuclear World War III with POST-COMMUNIST Russia ? Is the American plutocracy - so well served by their TWO PARTY SYSTEM - really on a higher moral level than Putin's Russian oligarchy ?

Report: Ukrainian president to address US Congress during Washington visit

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke TRUTH about COVID-19 and is himself a JFK " Profile in Courage "

More and more critical thinking Americans think RFK Jr. was mostly right in his public lectures. As a democratic socialist I might trust individual doctors and scientists but never the FOR PROFIT health care system in the United States. On TV and radio the screened VOICE OF SCIENCE has as much credibility as a 1990s late night Kevin Trudeau charlatan infomercial. It is really BIG PHARMA speaking !

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leads rally opposing DC's proof-of-vaccination req...

" A Slander on Our Movement " From SOCIALIST WORKER

 ["Of course, there are Israeli Jews who will become disgusted with Zionism and turn against it (Orr and Machover are clearly testament to this). But we can't ignore the fact that an overwhelming majority of Israelis support their government's violent and racist policies against Palestinians--because those policies allow Israel to continue existing on stolen land.

Marxists shouldn't ignore reality. The fact is that the Israeli working class materially benefits from the financial support the state receives from its patron, the U.S. government. (The ISO, by the way, has never argued that the "Israel lobby" controls the U.S. government, as Pederson's article disingenuously suggests--we have written many articles in our publications arguing the opposite)."]

Public school failures all boil down to CLASS inequality !

More than 20 years ago I recall spotting shelves full of books in local public libraries on the topic of the failure of American public schools . Often written by devoted but burnt out teachers with long frustrating experience teaching elementary school and high school in our big cities like Detroit , Boston, Chicago, New York. A book on the disaster nightmare of Providence , Rhode Island public schools will probably soon be published. It is just plain absurd to blame teacher unions for the deteriorating public school system. Why are kids in Barrington , Rhode Island, for example , guaranteed a better education than kids in Central Fall or Pawtucket ? Really it all boils down to CLASS inequality. For me a long time independent democratic socialist capitalism is failing on all fronts in " OUR democracy ". None of the " progressive " Democrats talk about public school failure, or even homelessness for that matter , with reference to the sociological BIG PICTURE. An Ivy League education cannot do this for the teaching profession ?

12 NEWS NOW: Providence School Board president leaving office in January

UPDATE on David North - permanent GREAT LEADER of the Socialist Equality Party

From Amazon Union Drive to Hunts Point Teamster Strike How the “World Scab Web Site” Aids the Bosses [There it is, in your face, so stark that you can’t miss it: as we have repeatedly warned, the grotesquely misnamed World Socialist Web Site serves union-busting bosses against the unions. The (latest) proof: on January 15, an article posted on the “World Scab Web Site” calls to “Vote ‘No’ to the UFCW-backed union at Alabama Amazon facility!” So, acting in tandem with Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, the political bandits of David North’s WSWS are actively trying to prevent the organization of a union at the viciously anti-union e-commerce monopoly’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse. It’s far from the first time: the WSWS has likewise opposed unionization of auto parts plants in the past.1 Revolutionary socialists have a diametrically counterposed position: we say emphatically “yes” to unions, while fighting to forge a class-struggle leadership. North is listed as chairman of the International Editorial Board of the WSWS, as well as national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and leader of an “International Committee of the Fourth International” (ICFI, one of three different groups that go by that name). In the late 1970s, his outfit, then called the Workers League, sponsored a lawsuit trying to get the bourgeois courts to oust the leadership of the Socialist Workers Party – just one of the grotesque and sinister operations for which “the Northites” became notorious. In recent decades, they have been obsessed with a number of bugbears. One is any recognition that systemic racism exists in the U.S. – that is, the fact that racist American capitalism structurally oppresses black people in particular, as it has since the days of slavery. The WSWS/SEP routinely labels any struggle against this special oppression “racialist,” a nefarious plot to divide the working class. Another special object of their ire is labor unions. This is no accident. In addition to his aforementioned titles, North was for years the Chief Executive Officer of Grand River Printing and Imaging, a multimillion-dollar non-union printing company in the Detroit, Michigan area. For the last three decades, North’s political mouthpieces have vituperated against unions, declaring them to be bourgeois (capitalist) institutions. Typically, the WSWS postures as a left-wing critic of the sellouts by the pro-capitalist union bureaucracy. That can fool some people until they look more closely. Behind that façade, these scab “socialists” actually side with the bosses in trying to destroy unions, the mass defensive organizations of the working class under capitalism. That was its role during the 2019 California teachers strikes in Los Angeles and Oakland, that’s what it did in the recent Hunts Point Market strike in New York and what it is doing now in opposing the union organizing drive in Bessemer.]

FOR PROFIT capitalism is the root of much -completely preventable - human misery

There will never be any solution to the homeless problem in Rhode Island or anywhere else in the USA until landlord-capitalist PRIVATE PROPERTY ceases to be seen by " OUR democracy " as sacrosanct. FOR PROFIT capitalism is the root of much - completely preventable - human misery.

Crews removing homeless tents from RI State House

Ivy League educated Rhode Island politicians make no reference to the irrational side of the CAPITALIST SYSTEM

As a longtime independent democratic socialist I continue to be amazed how Ivy League educated Rhode Island politicians talk about our BIG PROBLEMS - from homelessness to decaying public schools to crime in the city- with no reference to the irrational side of the CAPITALIST SYSTEM. 100 years ago - in the era of Eugene V. Debs - there was a vibrant socialist movement in the USA. Hard to believe that the TWO PARTY SYSTEM shows the real face of America in 2022. And why should anybody be a SOCIALIST when we have our oh-so-progressive- now very WOKE -Democratic Party. Is not President Joe Biden, after all, the ideal SOCIALIST leader ? Ask " socialist " Bernie Sanders !

Providence school system is 'unfinished business' for outgoing Mayor Elorza

The roots of growing anti-Semitism today

Honest members of the Jewish community should reflect on how much Zionist Apartheid Israel contributes to perceived growth of Anti-Semitism in " OUR democracy " and in whatever is left of the FREE WORLD . Also very obviously secular ZIONIST Jews in the USA have ironically made themselves the pillars of DNC based WOKE identity politics and Critical Race Theory but never apply it to APARTHEID Israel. Contrary to " World of Our Fathers " by socialist writer Irving Howe today there are very few public intellectual Jews openly opposed to the capitalist way of life . Most of them invariably show uncritical support for the endless and stupid wars of American imperialism ( just how " sovereign " can Zelensky's Ukraine be while getting billions of dollars from the United States to wage this reckless proxy war - which could entangle all of Europe- in nuclear World WAR III against POST-COMMUNIST Russia ?) The mainstream news media in the United States - in which ZIONIST zealots do have the loudest voice - has virtually silenced anti-war public opinion.

A Look At The Recent Rise Of Antisemitism In The United States

August Bebel : " Christianity is the enemy of civilization " ?

This hostile attitude toward Christianity - in one form or another a the faith of millions of working class people all over the world - voiced below by the great German Socialist leader August Bebel years before the Soviet Union declared itself " officially atheist " - is a big factor in the failure- and corruption- of whatever is left of a mass socialist movement in the past 100 years. Honest atheists and agnostics in these self-appointed Marxist " vanguard " parties should have tried to build a bridge to the world's Christians. Is there a better spiritual foundation for DEMOCRATIC socialism than Christ's Sermon on the Mount ? And for centuries Catholic social philosophy certainly approaches the living ideas of democratic socialism. In a very interesting work titled " Materialism and Empirio Criticism Vladimir Lenin brilliantly and ferociously ridiculed " God seeking " in his own revolutionary party. But " God seeking " turns out to be not nearly as pernicious as God hating. It helps to really LOVE ( in the CHRISTIAN sense ) ALL human beings . Image: August Bebel Quotes - BrainyQuote GOOGLE.COM Image: August Bebel Quotes - BrainyQuote Found on Google from www.brainyquote.com

Congressman Langevin certainly has his virtues . But ...

Congressman Langevin certainly has his virtues . So does his talented colleague David Cicilline. Cicilline's orations ( never quite honest ) against the imagined arch-enemy of " OUR democracy "- Donald Trump - reminded me of old Cicero in ancient Rome ranting against the notorious Catiline and his " conspiracy " ( NOTE : at the time Cicero was making these famous eloquent speeches his dear REPUBLIC was already turning rotten. Hence Julius Caesar. ) But our very WOKE Democratic leaders in the Congress and in the Senate are a long way from the party of FDR and JFK . In just two decades they have succeeded in alienating many working class Americans , especially those from a traditional Catholic background . Indeed the WOKE Democratic Party is close to making traditional Christianity anathema. One characteristic of the FASCIST - which Democratic Party zealots brand Donald Trump and his MAGA followers - is contempt for the FREE SPEECH tradition of " OUR democracy ". But just who does all this censoring in the mainstream news media and in social media today ? Conservatives ? What I see as a long time independent democratic socialist is rampant-quite irrational - ILLIBERAL LIBERALISM. How many decent citizens live in FEAR of " saying the wrong thing " in " OUR democracy ". Another observation : not one Democratic politician in the recent midterm 2022 elections was a sane ANTI-WAR voice, a voice for world peace. Name one ?

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People before Property ?

Sooner or later real concern among compassionate middle class citizens for the long suffering homeless population will collide with cold hearted capitalist-landlord PRIVATE PROPERTY rights. The National Guard and the federal government can ameliorate the problem but not solve it. Do " progressive " Democrats take the slogan PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS seriously ? PEOPLE BEFORE PROPERTY ? Ask Josh Saal .

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The global capitalist system is in itself a colossal swindle on the masses

The global capitalist system is in itself a colossal swindle on the masses. But show me any " progressive " Democratic who voices systemic criticism of capitalism . What Karl Marx described as EXPLOITATION of the working class back in 1848 is just as true today in 2022.

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Uncle Sam does not send Ukraine billions of dollars in foreign aid so it can remain proudly SOVEREIGN

Today the WOKE Democratic Party is promoting the HATE RUSSIA , New McCarthyism . And showing contempt for the FREE SPEECH, FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization. And in the recent midterm 2022 elections not one Democratic Party politician put in a sane word for world peace. They are all cheer leading for the Ukrainian war monger president Zelensky . How many working class Americans are just giddy over a " sovereign " Ukraine ? Giddy over nuclear World War III with POST-COMMUNIST Russia ? ( Uncle Sam does not give you billions of dollars in " foreign aid " so you can remain proudly SOVEREIGN ! ) .

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Fwd: FALSE ADVERTISING daily on radio and TV for NAVAGE nose cleaner and PREVAGEN memory pill

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Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 at 13:59
Subject: FALSE ADVERTISING daily on radio and TV for NAVAGE nose cleaner and PREVAGEN memory pill
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Real medical science warning on the much advertised NAVAGE nose cleaner and PREVAGEN memory pill . IGNORED by TV and radio stations !

All the false advertising for this NAVAGE nose cleaner ! [Can Sinus Rinses Be Dangerous? - Healthlinehttps://www.healthline.com › health › sinus-rinse-dangers Sep 30, 2021 — Serious side effects can occur when nasal rinsing is done too often or if unsafe water is used. Nasal rinsing can be done with water, that is:. ‎About sinus rinses · ‎Possible side effects · ‎Bottom line · ‎Purpose] 0 comments Ron Ruggieri 7m · Shared with Public Prevagen Lawsuit Alleges False Advertising Prevagen Lawsuit Audet & Partners, LLP is currently investigating claims as part of a Prevagen lawsuit that Quincy Bioscience, LLC falsely advertised Prevagen, a dietary supplement made with the protein apoaequorin, as having the capability to improve human memory. As demonstrated in the product packaging on this page, as well as extensive print, television, and online marketing, Prevagen has been extended to consumers with the representation that Prevagen will "improve memory within 90 days," will promote a "sharper mind," "clearer thinking," and "healthy brain function."

Real medical science warning on the much advertised NAVAGE nose cleaner and PREVAGEN memory pill . IGNORED by TV and radio stations !

All the false advertising for this NAVAGE nose cleaner ! [Can Sinus Rinses Be Dangerous? - Healthlinehttps://www.healthline.com › health › sinus-rinse-dangers Sep 30, 2021 — Serious side effects can occur when nasal rinsing is done too often or if unsafe water is used. Nasal rinsing can be done with water, that is:. ‎About sinus rinses · ‎Possible side effects · ‎Bottom line · ‎Purpose] 0 comments Ron Ruggieri 7m · Shared with Public Prevagen Lawsuit Alleges False Advertising Prevagen Lawsuit Audet & Partners, LLP is currently investigating claims as part of a Prevagen lawsuit that Quincy Bioscience, LLC falsely advertised Prevagen, a dietary supplement made with the protein apoaequorin, as having the capability to improve human memory. As demonstrated in the product packaging on this page, as well as extensive print, television, and online marketing, Prevagen has been extended to consumers with the representation that Prevagen will “improve memory within 90 days,” will promote a “sharper mind,” “clearer thinking,” and “healthy brain function.”

As a social EVIL homelessness is now DARKNESS VISIBLE in Rhode Island

I can see the point of the homeless people stubbornly ( ? ) living ( or barely surviving ) in tents on the grounds of the Rhode State House. Years ago socialist writer Michael Harrington's book ( which helped inspire LBJ ill fated WAR ON POVERTY ) " The Other America " described the then INVISIBLE poor of many categories ( from Skid Row to the chronic unemployed ) - a shame on " OUR democracy ". Since the desperate homeless persons living in scattered tent communities across the state are not seen most of the time , or seldom catch the attention of the mainstream news media , these few homeless people at the State House -now with legal advocates - are indeed heroes of the Rhode Island homeless population. As a social EVIL homelessness is now DARKNESS VISIBLE in Rhode Island . How obtuse can our " progressive " Democrats be ?

State homelessness hearing pushed to Friday

As Rhode Island's Housing CZAR this Josh Saal is a joke !

The oh so progressive and WOKE Rhode Island Democratic Party could find no better person for the role of Housing CZAR than this Josh Saal- in the past week daily bashed and ridiculed on 630 WPRO talk ( especially by passionate Tara ) ? A Housing CZAR should not be obtuse on the immediate need to shelter homeless people now freezing in tents at the Rhode Island State House or homeless people barely " surviving " in tents or in cars anywhere in the state. We do need more PRO-ACTIVE empathetic social workers to help the homeless people here without humiliating them. FOR PROFIT capitalism will just let them all die homeless !

Community Focus: Josh Saal

"Progress " for phony LEFT-WING groups is cancelling Joe Biden as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in 2024 !

A a longtime independent socialist I only have scorn for LEFT-WING " progressive " groups who never felt the original inspiration of the international socialist movement that was enthralled by the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia which exposed the BIG LIE of the GREAT WAR ( and created the first workers state - later warped by Stalinism ) . --"the war to make the world safe for democracy " . These LEFT-WING groups are hopelessly attached to the corrupt Democratic Party and have no vision of SOCIALISM at all . They rarely even voice acerbic criticism of capitalism - as if they cannot now even imagine a world not deranged by FOR PROFIT enterprise. So " progress " for these LEFT WING groups is removing Joe Biden from the 2024 presidential election ! How bold ! How revolutionary ! Find one Democratic politician in the recent 2022 midterm elections who was a voice for world peace ?

DSA confront Left-wing opposition to Biden by shifting further to the RIGHT

We need the equivalent of a Marshall Plan to end homelessness

As a longtime independent democratic socialist I welcome any immediate relief for these now thousands of homeless people in the big American cities. But at some point the concern for long suffering homeless people will collide with capitalist society's sacrosanct landlord PRIVATE PROPERTY rights. For now why cannot the federal government declare homelessness in the USA a national emergency ? There must be numerous vacant military barracks unused all over the country ? We need the equivalent of a Marshall Plan for homeless Americans. In 1965 LBJ was bold enough to declare WAR ON POVERTY. With the Vietnam War , of course, poverty won !

Mayor-elect Karen Bass explains how she plans to fight LA's homeless crisis

Fwd: WOKE Democratic Party only deepens divisions within the American working class

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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 at 16:25
Subject: WOKE Democratic Party only deepens divisions within the American working class
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As a longtime independent democratic socialist I see ALL forms of oppression and inequality as being corrected by ending the CLASS divisions of capitalist society. The WOKE Democratic Party only deepens division within the working class and the lower middle class by daily pandering to any " community " -like LGBTQ - led by obvious attention seeking narcissists, always supporting " liberal " Democrats.

What on earth do vain and foolish Hollywood celebrities really contribute to social justice ?

Wanting to be endlessly adored , wanting to be special and PRIVILEGED, is contrary to normal democratic feelings.

Traditional Christianity always preached ( if not practiced ) kindness to " the stranger " , to the social " outcast " , to the foreigner.

Yet WOKE ideology smears traditional Christians as promoters of HATE .

How can HATE in general be eradicated in a society based on the exploitation and oppression of the working class majority ?

Millionaires and billionaires can live side by side impoverished people - ruined middle class people - homeless people , hungry people - without HATE breaking out anywhere ?

A picture of USA TODAY ?

Ron Ruggieri , 75 Mathewson St. , Cranston , Rhode Island ( 401-580-7432 )

A much needed American Labor Party would be similar to the British Labor Party but with more guts

As a long time independent democratic socialist long ago I believed that young " progressive " ON THE LEFT persons were deluding themselves in thinking that the now very WOKE Democratic Party more and more scorning the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization - and daily making a mockery of " OUR democracy " is THE political organization for social justice. And I did note that not one " progressive " Democratic politician made himself or herself a voice for WORLD PEACE in the recent midterm elections. As if this party has been completely taken over by WOKE war mongers ! Long ago the American working class needed its own independent of Corporate America Labor Party -similar to the British Labor Party but with more guts. Also ,I note that the WOKE Democratic Party has practically made traditional Christianity - certainly not incompatible with democratic socialism - anathema.

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As a democratic socialist and a socialist internationalist I see Volodymyr Zelensky as a puffed up NATO puppet war monger eager to involve all of Europe into nuclear World War III with POST-COMMUNIST Russia. With stale Wilsonian blather the mainstream news media in the USA make a dubiously " sovereign " Ukraine a 21st century GREAT CRUSADE . But the agenda of Europe's bourgeois governments and dear old American imperialism will not inspire working class people in any country. Find any working class American citizen all giddy and excited over a " sovereign " Ukraine and a nuclear winter ?

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History professor Howard Zinn on Israel as a " mistake "

Do you think that Zionism was a mistake? I think the Jewish State was a mistake, yes. Obviously, it’s too late to go back. It was a mistake to drive the Indians off the American continent, but it’s too late to give it back. At the time, I thought creating Israel was a good thing, but in retrospect, it was probably the worst thing that the Jews could have done. What they did was join the nationalistic frenzy, they became privy to all of the evils that nationalism creates and became very much like the United States—very aggressive, violent and bigoted. When Jews were without a state they were internationalists and they contributed to whatever culture they were part of and produced great things. Jews were known as kindly, talented people. Now, I think, Israel is contributing to anti-Semitism. So I think it was a big mistake.

Anti-Semitism today equals the anti-Semitism of the Christian Dark Ages ?

One American from a Jewish background , Harvard professor Howard Zinn , author of " People's History of the United States , connected late 20th century anti-Semitism with the rise of Zionist APARTHEID Israel. And popular science writer Isaac Asimov -also from a Jewish background - said this about modern Israel : “I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. " If you take the long view of history Anti-Semitism today is not the same Anti-Semitism as in the Christian Dark Ages. In general the common sense law of logic A=A is more and more misleading in HISTORY , in TIME and SPACE.

The Dangerous Rising Tide Of Anti-Semitism

Homelessness USA - a profound crisis of capitalism and sacrosanct landlord PRIVATE PROPERTY rights

As a longtime independent socialist I see the tragedy of homeless people -not just here in Rhode Island but in the United States - as a profound crisis of FOR PROFIT capitalism and sacrosanct landlord PRIVATE PROPERTY rights. Recall the popular chant : " PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS " ? None of the " progressive " Democrats make a SYSTEMIC analysis of the homeless problem. As if critical thinking about the capitalist system were taboo in ruling class circles. What kind of phony socialists can function in the WOKE Democratic Party ? Ask Mr. Saul .

Homeless individuals evicted from RI State House grounds

A Marshall Plan to rescue the homeless in the USA

Nice to hear CHRISTMAS tree . But the WOKE Democrats have failed to rescue the homeless people camping on State House grounds . As a long time independent democratic socialist I have always believed that sacrosanct capitalist PRIVATE PROPERTY rights will continue to frustrate the right of homeless people not to be homeless. For a start, homelessness in the USA should be declared a NATIONAL EMERGENCY ! There should be the equivalent of a Marshall Plan to shelter , rehabilitate , RECALL TO LIFE , job train , tens of thousands of homeless people. The big mistake of the DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION of the mentally ill - going back decades as " progressive " reform -should be reconsidered. No " progressive " Democrat in Rhode Island connects this nightmare of homeless people with the irrational and very flawed capitalist economic system. They just cannot think outside the box of bourgeois politics no matter how compassionate and well intentioned. In general , there is a crisis of the TWO PARTY SYSTEM in the USA . The parameters of Corporate America politics just does not serve " OUR democracy ". We need an American Labor Party like the British Labor Party but more ON OUR SIDE . [ What Causes Homelessness? Start With Capitalism.https://www.bloomberg.com › news › articles › what-ca... May 13, 2020 — This means that public space itself has become a primary commodity. This, coupled with the fact that capitalism requires a reserve army of labor ...]

Christmas tree lighting to be held tonight at RI State House