Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Care workers caught by hidden camera abusing elderly woman with dementia
Is this what your senile mother or father has to look forward in our mostly FOR PROFIT health care system ? I worked at Bannister House Nursing Home in Providence ,Rhode Island ( circa 1978-1982 ) . Most of the staff had the gift of " caring " for the aged. But there must also be understanding for a stressed out , overworked , underpaid nursing staff. I learned from my four year experience as a CNA, then moved on.
All nursing homes with extremely vulnerable elderly patients must be expertly supervised. And attention must be paid to the morale of staff . Try a six hour day and four shifts ?
Henry Mancini Collection of Great Music
NOTE THE COMMENT : Music & Wine for a happy life. A commercial for Carlo Rossi Burgundy !
[ "Music and wine are but the same. They get you drunk and merry. They can both make you remember the greatest times and memories of your life. Both can bring you to tears like no other; both can also make you smile for a long long while till the music is played to the very end. Music and wine can make love so deeply beyond the limits of your being. These two, when mixed together, provide you unimaginable happiness and rhythm that is so divine. Thank you for this one....this music is so smoothly aged like my wine. Life ca be just so beautiful. " ]
I remember when our " Pop " ( WEAN radio name , Don Rogers ) was scolded by the station manger for playing too much Mantovani !
A still useful library reference book for classical music leads me to a masterpiece of " genius " now found on You Tube
About 10 years ago I bought for just one dollar a classic music reference book ON SALE at the Providence Public Library. A digital tag on the back cover of the big paperback back indicated that it was in their Reference Dept. That useful to ME Ref. Dept. was strangely closed . Mostly public computers in that spacious room now. The book title : " The Penguin Guide to Recorded CLASSICAL MUSIC 2009 - " the perfect guide to building your classical collection. " Although my radio announcer father ( " Don Rogers " WEAN , Providence , did have an impressive record collection in our basement studio ( it was acquired FOR FREE after the station was sold forcing Pop's retirement ) those records - which would be quite valuable today - are long gone . But You Tube made it possible for me to " recover " so much of the music. The WEAN station manager once told Pop that he was overdoing Mantovani . Browsing this classical music reference book today I wondered if I could get what I imagined was an obscure piece . My attention was caught by this review which read in part : " Rozhdestvensky here conducts a passionate account of what in many ways is the most powerful of all the composer's ( Howels, Herbert ) major works ( page 593 ). The title " Missa Sabrinesis " . Another review called it " a masterpiece. Its true genius revealed in this exceptionally sensitive performance ". Was this " genius " musical work on You Tube , I wondered. Sure enough it was ! What I heard of the music so far makes me think it SUBLIME indeed.
Some Enchanted Evening - Mantovani Orchestra
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@48firefox
1 year ago
so relaxing in this mad world we live in, timeless, I want it playing through the gates of heaven when I get there!
@nigelcash4065
10 months ago
Simply the most awesome music ever produced , there can be no question!!
@MrPAPAGAYO46
9 months ago (edited)
"Un atardecer encantador", así se llama esta deliciosa melodía escrita por Richard Rodgers y Óscar Hammerstein II, dos excelentes compositores de revistas musicales desde los años 30 hasta casi los 80; Mantovani y su Orquesta de cuerdas recogieron esta composición original de "South Pacific", y sobre ella produjeron y grabaron esta majestuosa versión, convertida en toda una joya digna de ser escuchada sin descanso por los amantes de la música brillante de todas las épocas.
@felixscamp
1 year ago
Takes me back to childhood when our local cinema was always playing this music as the lights went down, tears,now as I realised then that I loved proper music
Annunzio
@tomasmatos6916
3 years ago
I’m a Portuguese 22 year old. In this very harsh lockdown due to the pandemic, I was going through some stuff in the attic and found my late grandfather’s old record player, along with some vinyls. Found this song in a Mantovani record and somehow I feel connected with my grandfather, who past away in 2000, when I was 2.
Music and YouTube are incredible tools to keep our minds healthy! Hope you have an amazing day.
@captebbtide
1 year ago
Maestro Montovani had this amazing ability of taking Broadway musicals and other pop tunes and making classical music out of them. A master of arrangements!
@chrishall1948
3 years ago
There is really no age for this music. It’s timeless..
A Summer Place Theme 🐬 Percy Faith 🌹 Extended
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@luismoreno9819
6 months ago
Hay temas que transportan a una época muy feliz, o a momentos inolvidables. Hay temas que te ponen triste o melancólico. Hay los que hacen que caigan unas lágrimas. Pero este tema me provoca todo eso junto, y mas. Gracias Dios mío por darme la música. A veces me hace muy bien, y otras muy mal. De ambas formas me recuerda a mi familia, y no puedo evitar las lágrimas y un dolor en el pecho recordando a todos los que ya no están...
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EXTENDED MELODIES relaxing music
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@ronaldgajda1796
2 months ago
Simply the greatest instrumental of all time!
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@gunterkeramiktester6889
7 days ago
wenn ich einmal Sterbe, will ich das diese Musik an meinem Begräbnis gespielt wird.!!! Ich habe sie sicher 10000 mal schon gehört und noch immer kommen mir vor lauter Freude die Tränen.!!! Percy Faith war ein Gott !!!🫶
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@fernandodelapiedra856
2 months ago
El por esa música hace que mis ojos se llenen de lágrimas por un tiempo y un Amor que ya se fue para siempre
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@74bshs
Great movie. Even better theme song. I was driving my newly-purchased 1972 VW Super-Beetle from CA to home in PA, the summer of 1984, it was dawn somewhere in Colorado, KHOW was on the radio, I heard this, it was a magic moment. I still have the car, even now, in 2024! :)
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Washington bridge may need to be demolished
If the collective capitalist class in " OUR democracy " resists " investment " ( less short term profit ) in what is defined as INFRA-STRUCTURE , then their future and our future is best symbolized by the ruins of ancient Pompeii and the desolation that was once the Glory of Rome . To " Moloch Money God " of modern times : " We who about to die salute you ! "
Mark Zuckerberg, TikTok and X CEOs grilled at hearing: 'You have blood o...
It is rather ridiculous to think that some one individual - in this case Mark Zuckerberg - is THE OGRE of EVIL . These gargantuan social media operations seem to have a MIND and WILL of their own. The ideal for me, as a longtime independent democratic socialist, is maximum collective control over all modern technology , all Marxian defined " means of production " which , of course, includes these now vast means of communication. And ALL the natural resources of the planet. This is inconceivable without ending now sacrosanct PRIVATE PROPERTY rights.
Gifted human beings like Mark Zuckerberg can be employed MANAGING them in the general interests of society. There will be no concentration camps for NON-CONFORMITY in a democratic socialist society. Finally THE SANE SOCIETY ( read Erich Fromm ) will have arrived .
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Body function neurosis in USA ... We need more French style public PISSOIRS !
Aug 31
2023
On the RIPTA 21 bus this morning circa 9:30 AM the bus driver - quite naturally - had to stop the bus to attend to a body function at the nearby gas station. I was reminded of a post I made way back 2014 decrying the lack of public restrooms in " OUR democracy " . Is there anything more democratic than taking a piss or taking a s**t ?
[ Humble suggestion for a visitor-friendly Rhode Island
I can only agree with our state leaders- seeking tourist dollars- who want to make Little Rhody more visitor friendly. But they often forget the basics. A tradition of New England puritanism makes many business owners hostile to human physiology . I see many obnoxious NO PUBLIC RESTROOM signs in my frequent RIPTA bus travels. You would think that the Kennedy Plaza bus station rest- room could be open just as long as the buses are running-or even later. Around twilight I find myself walking in the alley between the Superman Building and the CVS store. And I am nearly sickened by the overpowering stench of many stale gallons of urine. The homeless or " just drunk " late at night ? Of course in the light of day we could just arrest and fine ( fine the penniless ! ) them all for " indecent exposure ". But we are all too human: is having a full bladder an " abominable and detestable crime against nature ?
To be sure, we need more USER FRIENDLY public restrooms in Rhode Island. The late 60s rascal Abbie Hoffman demanded that we " abolish pay-public toilets. But like pay-public phones they are no more to be found.
Life Expectancy In U.S. Decreases By One Year, Sharpest Decline In Almos...
An elderly woman wearing a blue face mask in the Knightsville , Cranston public library ( around 3:15 PM , Tuesday ) was at the main desk asking the librarian to get her the latest statistics for the average life span of a male in the United States : I overheard this : " Well he was born in 1947 ... that would make him age 77 now " . I soon learned listening- in that " I " could hardly expect to live to the end of the year . I will be 77 in July .
Oh well . Still another Springtime . After that , of course , the lyrics from " My Fair Lady " : " There will be Spring every year without you .. "
Was the male in question perhaps her husband ? Was he well insured in any case ?
Biden says US 'shall respond' after drone strike by Iran-backed group ki...
"What passes for " OUR democracy " has been insulted enough by the presidency of corrupt , senile , creepy Joe Biden. Does he have a senile fantasy about being the " Great War Time Leader " for four more years ? He the Conqueror of Afghanistan !
TRUTH : Joe Biden's administration is packed with belligerent ZIONIST Jews itching for war with Iran. And the mainstream news media in " OUR democracy " can be counted on to stir up war fever also with POST-COMMUNIST Russia over " sovereign " Ukraine still led by the warmonger , embezzler V. Zelensky . All the war propaganda is based on stale Wilsonian blather that was FALSE more than a century ago : " Make the world safe .. " for whom ? For the capitalist ruling class ?
No puzzle why BLACK LIVES MATTER rallies feature Palestinian flag waving . Ordinary working class people of all races and ethnic groups have no difficulty distinguishing the OPPRESSOR from the OPPRESSED .
APARTHEID Israel 's genocide in Gaza, Palestine is no way to win the hearts and minds of most CHRISTIANS in the United States. And certainly no way - making itself the most hated country on the planet - to assure " Never Again ! ".
You can also count on the mainstream news media in " OUR democracy " to routinely censor anti-war public opinion . And it will invariably smear ANTI-ZIONISM protest with malignant anti-Semitism. But no doubt the saviors of " OUR democracy " are all WOKE WARRIOR Democrats !
Ann Margret Finally Addresses the Affair That Destroyed Elvis’ Marriage
[ "I saw her perform once while serving in Vietnam in 1966. At a Bob Hope USO show. I was young and fell in love watching her. One and only bright moment for me that year. " ]
The 12 year old girl Emily in Thornton Wilder's famous play " Our Town " asks on her " return " : " Why must people grow old ? ' It is enough for a half sensitive human being to feel pity for EVERYBODY !
Actress Ann Margaret caught the eye of " The King " Elvis Presley . " Nothing golden remains " ( Robert Frost poem ) .
" Nothing can bring back the glory in the flower , the splendor in the grass ... " ( William Wordsworth ) .
The Italian Kitchen across from my bus stop- LOU UMBERTO'S
Lou Umberto's Italian Kitchen is right across from me on Cranston Street as I wait for the arrival of RIPTA bus 30 . It has a growing good reputation . I stop here now and then for a hot spinach pie and a slice of pizza. As good -if not better - than anywhere else I've been. GOOD LUCK to Lou Umberto's Italian Kitchen .
Scientists Put a Camera in a Coffin for Research Purposes. When They Tur...
This might be JUNK NEWS but it does remind me of one of my horror story shorts published on my blog , CIRCA 1997 ?
[ Radical Ron mini -horror story : " Police Close Macabre Science Fair "
Police close macabre science fair It went on for over a week at the Broad St. School in Providence, attracting hundreds of the curious, the ghoulish– until Mrs Agnes Grundy of 315 California Ave. a member of the Legion of Decency, a militant Catholic group opposed to all forms of obscenity, complained to the chief of police. "Shut down that blasphemous Science Fair ! " she demanded. Tara Chase, age 13, was for a few brief months an Internet celebrity in what amounted to a legalized child pornography " art exhibition ", complete with her mother's permission and the services of an ACLU lawyer, David Gold . The " exhibition " attracted a deranged sex maniac who murdered little Miss Chase in the vicinity of the Temple of Music in Roger Williams Park, on October 31,1996. Well for some time now Little Miss Chase has been again an Internet celebrity - not as a jail bait beauty but this is INCREDIBLE - but as a DECAYING CORPSE - in various, detailed stages of decay from early rigor mortis to the later more ghastly stages of liquefying putrescence. A science project again with her mother's permission and the legal talent of Mr. Howard Gold. " Shut down this blasphemous Science Fair exhibit ! " To get the gruesome photographs highly sophisticated infrared cameras were positioned inside her coffin. A precocious science student, Norman Gates, carried out the project, which lasted an entire year. The science fair project was titled : "A Time Lapse Study of Human Post Mortem Decomposition ". Lawyer Gold has a police record . He was arrested in 1980 for prostituting his wife out of their Garden City home. People were paying more than $100.00 per ticket to gain admission to the elementary school science fair. Mrs. Chase is not talking to the press.]
A haunted memory visit to local cemetery , St Ann's in Cranston , Rhode ...
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A rather bleak scene of St. Ann's Cemetery in Cranston , Rhode Island last Sunday . I went looking for the long lost gravesite of my grandmother Andreana Ruggieri 's brother , Carmine Napoletano . Way back in September 1963 the news reported that the Italian immigrant Carmine drowned himself off Narragansett Pier , despondent over a failed pizzeria there and failing health at the age of 63. Recall that MEDICARE did not pass until 1965 , a year of LBJ'S " Great Society ". I found Carmine 's grave site at Section 30 , number 366 . Buried with him is his wife " Lena " .
A downtown bar sale on Bud Light?
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Walking on my way to the Providence Public Library this morning ( Saturday, Jan.27 ) I was puzzled by so many people lined up to enter this downtown " Blake's Tavern ". A sale on Budweiser Light ?
Drone attack claims 3 U.S. service members in Jordan; Biden contemplates...
I would bet that any GOD in HEAVEN has not least concern for the problems of American imperialism together forever with APARTHEID Israel Zionism. But the CASUS BELLI here is that other world leaders in Iran , China, Russia, North Korea do not rise to the moral excellence of Joe Biden & Son and Donald Trump and all his working class " deplorables " inclined to vote for him.
Whatever God's plan , it does seem that the sun is setting on American imperialism and Israeli Zionism .
I suspect the CHRISTIAN God is on the side of common sense and common decency . Our military -industrial complex is , of course, on the side of VIRTUE here. So is " Deep State ", the CIA , and the Pentagon War Crimes Machine. DOMINUS VOBISCUM !
Monday, January 29, 2024
3 Georgia soldiers killed in Middle East attack
Could senile , corrupt , creepy Joe Biden start another war with absolutely no support from the American people ?
3 US Service Members Killed in Drone Strike in Jordan
HISTORY LESSON : An advanced capitalist country in decay, in the throes of economic, social , cultural crisis , invariably finds a foreign enemy to blame for the country's woes. And tries to convince ordinary working class people- called upon to sacrifice in war - that these foreign leaders do not live up to the high moral standards of Joe Biden & Son, for example. Or Donald Trump , for example. Also hint that " OUR oil " supply is threatened . Think about that when your elderly mother's heat is shut off for non-payment of bill .
Fwd: Kunstler: "The Next Big Thing"
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From: Steve Ruggieri <s.ruggieri54@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 29, 2024, 1:07 PM
Subject: Kunstler: "The Next Big Thing"
To: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
From: Steve Ruggieri <s.ruggieri54@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 29, 2024, 1:07 PM
Subject: Kunstler: "The Next Big Thing"
To: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Hi Ron- Hope you are well. Still working on your laptop; fingers crossed!
I thought you'd enjoy today's Kunstler post.:
Extract:
The Next Big Thing
I'm sure you can see exactly where all this is going. By all this, I refer to the cortège of disasters orchestrated by "Joe Biden" and associates — with help from a power-crazed globalist cabal — hauling our country at a gallop now to the graveyard of empires. Is there any question that they are out to wreck Western Civ? And speeding up the action because too many actual citizens are rising to oppose their degenerate wickedness?
Most particularly, the people who have not surrendered their reason to the Woke-Marxist mind-fuck that calls itself "progressivism" have had enough of the purposeful inflow of something like ten-thousand fake asylum-seekers a day across the border, mostly men, a lot of them from China, and many more of them mutts from faraway lands where Jihad is the order of the day — meaning the crusade to exterminate the people of Western Civ. We're supposed to be okay with that.
This deliberate, treasonous policy was rightfully declared an "invasion" last week by the Governor of Texas, requiring the human wave to be met with real force, not the welcome wagon that the federal border patrol has been turned into. The result so far is a real-live Mexican stand-off between the regime in Washington and the state of Texas, joined by twenty-five other sympathetic US states willing to send men and matériel to seal the border.
None of this is reported in Monday morning's New York Times, by the way, though you can read Is Dying Your Hair Bad for Your Health there. Nor will you read about the caravan of American truckers striking out from all points around the country to "peacefully protest and pray" at the border while Texas attempts to settle its hash with "Joe Biden." Nor will you read about the uprising of European farmers blocking highways to protest ruinous EU rules on food imports, diesel fuel prices, carbon emissions inanity, and, of course, the officially-enabled tide of Africans and jihadists flooding into EU member states.
"Joe Biden's" response so far is to say he'll attend to the border situation only if Congress green-lights another massive aid package for Ukraine, a dishonest proffer from any angle. Ukraine is a lost cause that should never have been a cause of ours in the first place. Yet securing the US border is a principal duty of the executive branch, not some optional fringe benefit to be used as leverage for other projects. Congress has already got impeachment articles ready for Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas, who has lied repeatedly under oath about the border being "secure." But it's obviously not enough. The failure is entirely "Joe Biden's" and warrants his impeachment on its face, aside from all the evidence of bribery and racketeering among him and his family.
The best move would be to impeach both the president and his proclaimed "border czar" Veep Kamala Harris — which would put Speaker Mike Johnson in the oval office. But the impeachment process is too slow and awkward for that. So, now I will tell you where all this is actually going: "Joe Biden" will seize an excuse to declare a national emergency and subject the US to some manner of martial law.
The excuse could be an outbreak of violence in the quarrel between the states and the feds over the border. Or it could be a widening of the war in the Middle East, a direct confrontation with Iran that would draw in Russia and Turkey and kickoff World War Three, a war we would have an excellent shot at losing, considering our DEI-ravaged, over-vaxxed army, our obsolete naval carrier groups that can be sunk by hypersonic missiles, and our depleted reserves of armaments already fobbed off by Ukraine and, lately, given to Israel in the Gaza campaign to destroy Hamas. If such a war didn't set off a world-ending exchange of nukes, it would at least collapse the economies of Europe and America and, with that, many governments, including possibly ours. And what role might all those recently-arrived illegal aliens play in such a fiasco? Any way you cut it, we'd be in for chaos and hardship.
Or, if we somehow avert major war, "Joe Biden" can try the national emergency ploy when the much-heralded (by the WHO) "Disease X" trots onstage. (And we must ask whether that will just be a delayed side-effect of the mRNA vaccine deaths?) Ultimately, the purpose of any national emergency at this moment in history, whatever prompts it, will be to suspend the 2024 elections. The Democratic Party has gone so completely off-the-rails psychologically that it will do anything to avert losing control of the government.
The Lawfare cases aimed at knocking Donald Trump off the game-board were assigned to corrupt and stupid prosecutors who are botching their jobs in perfect sequence. They are already baking the cake for Fani Willis's farewell office party in Georgia, and Jack Smith is being undermined daily by the emergent truth about government's role in fomenting the J6 riot. The ridiculous judgment rendered last week in the E. Jean Carroll defamation charade, is certain to be reversed on appeal. Note the assembled tweets below attributed to Ms. Carroll's "X" account and draw your own conclusions about her character, especially her sexual proclivities. (By the way, Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled them inadmissible as evidence for Mr. Trump's defense.)
Now, where the next national emergency or some kind of martial law is concerned, the catch is that at least half of America will refuse to comply with diktats coming out of Blob Central. They've had enough trips laid on them. The government has been flirting dangerously with the loss of legitimacy as the disastrous "Joe Biden" term grinds on, but this would really ice it. Whatever other tragic consequences follow, it would be the end of our constitutional republic, and history will install "Joe Biden" in the Hall of Infamy as the man who killed it.
Jury deliberations begin in former President Donald Trump's defamation case
A sane democratic socialist government in the United States would not make an instant multi-millionaire of anybody with a real or dubious claim of " defamation " in the law courts . . And millionaires and billionaires , who today too often get away with crude sexist behavior , would not have that much wealth to lose.
But it does seem that former president Donald Trump is more persecuted than prosecuted by the bourgeois legal system. A long time ago Karl Marx explained that in no capitalist society was THE LAW above politics. What we see today is a political BRAWL within the American ruling class. That is what January 6, 2021 was all about .
Trump, Haley condemn deadly drone attack on U.S. base
Excerpt from a sane , coherent , CIVILIZED speech by Russian president Vladimir Putin :
[ " But there were also specific actions: the expansion of NATO to our borders, the creation of new positional areas for missile defense in Europe and Asia - they decided to hide behind us with an “umbrella”, this is the deployment of military contingents, and not only near the borders of Russia. I want to emphasize, yes, in fact, it is well known to everyone: not a single country in the world has such a number of military bases abroad as the United States of America. There are hundreds of them, I want to emphasize this, hundreds of bases around the world, the whole planet is littered, you just need to look at the map." ]
American imperialism and Israeli Zionism together forever .But WE THE PEOPLE only want peace and justice .
Taylor Swift KISSES Travis Kelce On Field After Chiefs Advance To Super ...
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Vladimir Putin delivers speech at annual Valdai meeting in Sochi
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Full Text of Putin State of Nation Speech 21 Feb 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday delivered a nearly two-hour long State of the Nation address, - among many other wide-ranging topics, assessing the invasion of Ukraine he ordered a year ago .
Below is the full text transcript in English of his speech independently translated from the original speech in Russian (Russia refers to the Russia-Ukraine War as a special military operation):
Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon!
Dear deputies (members) of the Federal Assembly - senators, deputies of the State Duma!
Dear citizens of Russia!
With today's Address, I am speaking at a difficult time - we all know this very well - a milestone time for our country, at a time of cardinal, irreversible changes throughout the world, the most important historical events that determine the future of our country and our people, when each of we have a huge responsibility.
A year ago, in order to protect people on our historical lands, to ensure the security of our country, to eliminate the threat posed by the neo-Nazi regime that emerged in Ukraine after the 2014 coup, a decision was made to conduct a special military operation. And step by step, carefully and consistently, we will solve the tasks before us.
Starting from 2014, Donbass fought, defended the right to live on its own land, speak its native language, fought and did not give up in the conditions of blockade and constant shelling, undisguised hatred from the Kiev regime, believed and waited for Russia to come to the rescue.
Meanwhile - and you know this well - we did everything possible, really everything possible to solve this problem by peaceful means, patiently negotiated a peaceful way out of this grave conflict.
But a completely different scenario was being prepared behind our backs. The promises of the Western rulers, their assurances about the desire for peace in the Donbass turned out to be, as we now see, a forgery, a cruel lie. They simply played for time, engaged in chicanery, turned a blind eye to political assassinations, to the repressions of the Kiev regime against objectionable people, to mockery of believers, and more and more encouraged Ukrainian neo-Nazis to carry out terrorist actions in the Donbass. In Western academies and schools, officers of nationalist battalions were trained and weapons were supplied.
And I want to emphasize that even before the start of the special military operation, Kyiv was negotiating with the West on the supply of air defense systems, combat aircraft, and other heavy equipment to Ukraine. We also remember the attempts of the Kyiv regime to acquire nuclear weapons, because we talked about it publicly.
The United States and NATO rapidly deployed their army bases and secret biological laboratories near the borders of our country, mastered the theater of future military operations in the course of maneuvers, prepared the Kiev regime subject to them, the Ukraine they had enslaved, for a big war.
And today they admit it - they admit it publicly, openly, without hesitation. They seem to be proud, reveling in their treachery, calling both the Minsk agreements and the Normandy format a diplomatic performance, a bluff. It turns out that all the time when the Donbass was on fire, when blood was shed, when Russia was sincerely - I want to emphasize this - it was sincerely striving for a peaceful solution, they were playing on people's lives, they were playing, in fact, as they say in well-known circles, with marked cards.
This disgusting method of deception has been tried many times before. They behaved just as shamelessly, duplicitously, destroying Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria. From this shame they will never be washed off. The concepts of honor, trust, decency are not for them.
Over the long centuries of colonialism, diktat, hegemony, they got used to being allowed everything, got used to spitting on the whole world. It turned out that they treat the peoples of their own countries just as disdainfully, like a master – after all, they cynically deceived them too or deceived them with fables about the search for peace, about adherence to the UN Security Council resolutions on Donbass. Indeed, the Western elites have become a symbol of total unprincipled lies.
We firmly defend not only our interests, but also our position that in the modern world there should be no division into the so-called civilized countries and all the rest, that an honest partnership is needed, which in principle denies any exclusivity, especially aggressive.
We were open, sincerely ready for a constructive dialogue with the West, we said and insisted that both Europe and the whole world needed an indivisible security system equal for all states, and for many years we suggested that our partners discuss this idea together and work on it. implementation. But in response, they received an indistinct or hypocritical reaction. This is about words. But there were also specific actions: the expansion of NATO to our borders, the creation of new positional areas for missile defense in Europe and Asia - they decided to hide behind us with an “umbrella”, this is the deployment of military contingents, and not only near the borders of Russia.
I want to emphasize, yes, in fact, it is well known to everyone: not a single country in the world has such a number of military bases abroad as the United States of America. There are hundreds of them, I want to emphasize this, hundreds of bases around the world, the whole planet is littered, you just need to look at the map.
Biden says US 'shall respond' after 3 troops killed in drone attack
Picture corrupt, senile , creepy Joe Biden as " Our Great War Time Leader " !
Pangea for Kids | Learn all about the supercontinent of long ago!
I must have viewed a dozen or more of these short " FOR KIDS " science topic videos. They are useful and instructive even for still curious adults. But I wonder if these You Tube, invariably WOKE , " teachers " keep in mind the BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE needed to understand the topic of even bright kids . Also, very annoying : there is too much GLIB, FAST TALKING in the video. Is that meant to counter yawning and boredom ? Basic concepts of modern science like GRAVITY. ENERGY, FORCE , EVOLUTION are really quite subtle . And GLIB , FAST TALK introducing them to elementary school kids is very DUMB pedantry . Are COMMENTS CUT OFF to avoid intelligent and constructive criticism ?
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Palestinian Christian Pastor Slams Western Silence on Genocide in Gaza
There is a simple explanation for this " silence " on genocide in Gaza, Palestine. Presently the mainstream news media in " OUR democracy " is waxing hysterical over a mostly imagined wave of anti-Semitism in -of all all places ! - Ivy League Universities. The corrupt , senile, creepy Joe Biden administration is packed with militant ZIONIST Jews eager to get " OUR democracy " involved in a war with THEIR perceived arch-enemy Islamic Iran. What the ordinary working class CHRISTIAN majority in " OUR democracy " thinks is not considered by DEEP STATE higher-ups . And often CENSORED . Our bought and sold American Congress remains unshaken even by World Court Rulings critical -if not damning -of Zionist APARTHEID Israel.
McKee: Feds are investigating I-195 Washington Bridge closure
Why are Rhode Island " progressive " Democrat politicians- like Governor McKee -so coy about answering embarrassing questions on almost any issue of public concern ? Because they, just as much as right wing " conservative " Republicans , are owned by Corporate America, by the American ruling class. But the Rhode Island " liberal " Democrats can -ironically - be compared to old fashioned STALINIST bureaucrats in the vanished ONE PARTY STATE that was once the Soviet Union. Even ordinary COMMON SENSE and COMMON DECENCY shames the Rhode Island Democratic Party. To be out of touch even with mostly philistine 630WPRO Talk Radio is quite a feat .
But alas they are not out of touch with the greater American plutocracy -which sent former Democrat governor " Wall Street Gina " Raimondo to Washington D.C - with still great expectations .. I know nobody cares , but some years ago darling Gina cancelled my senior citizen ( ride free ) RIPTA BUS PASS ( recently restored ).
Rabbi Dovid Weiss: Zionism has created 'rivers of blood' | Talk to Al Ja...
Consider what famous popular science writer said about Israel years ago :
[ “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. " ]
Netanyahu defiant after UN court ruling, Biden in South Carolina | Top S...
Note that the mainstream news media in the United States has a tin ear for real PUBLIC OPINION inflamed over perceived Israeli GENOCIDE in Gaza , Palestine. They want the American public to focus attention on perceived anti-Semitism at elite Ivy League schools like Harvard. Are privileged , politically connected , nervous Jewish students as " unsafe " now as young Palestinians in Gaza , Palestine ?
No mystery why BLACK LIVES MATTER rallies in " OUR democracy " feature Palestinian flag waving . Ordinary working class people of all races and ethnic groups have no difficulty distinguishing the OPPRESSOR from the OPPRESSED. NO SUPPORT FOR WAR !
Pentagon: US Will Respond to Deadly Attacks in Jordan
ZIONIST APARTHEID Israel sees genocide as the way to progress for Greater Israel -- Genocide in Gaza and World War III with POST COMMUNIST Russia over " sovereign "Ukraine. But , of course, together forever with American imperialism. The Joe Biden administration is packed with ZIONIST Jews who will support Israel's war agenda. Working class Christians in the United States have a different agenda.
Saturday, January 27, 2024
UK ship struck by Iran-backed militants
Of course ,working class Americans must be alarmed by " OUR oil " supply being threatened by Iran-backed militants. But if your old mother does not pay that monthly heating bill, she too might soon enough be camping out in the freezing cold, next to all those nasty migrants from other countries oppressed by American imperialism and Israeli Zionism.
In no country on earth do ordinary working class people plan or start wars ( not even in oh-so- democratic Israel ! ) . But HISTORY teaches that they can and do end them.
Stale Wilsonian blather - FALSE more than a century ago- will not arouse toxic " patriotic " war fever in " OUR democracy ". The American military must hope to recruit only young , ignorant dimwits, eager once again " to make the world safe for democracy " ( and " OUR oil " supply ) .
'House of cards crashing down': Katie Phang on Trump’s trial verdict to ...
One plutocrat Donald Trump and followers, and supporters vs. the rest of the American ruling class : call it a BRAWL within our ruling class . And a profound crisis of the TWO PARTY SYSTEM in " OUR democracy " . The political soap-opera only confirms the traditional MARXIST view of THE LAW as never being above politics, never above the CLASS STRUGGLE in capitalist society, never in our country about the interests of Corporate America or American imperialism.
A rational democratic socialist society ( years ago socialist psychiatrist Erich Fromm called it " THE SANE SOCIETY ) would never have a bourgeois judge make an instant millionaire of anybody with a real or dubious claim of defamation. Nor would there be millionaires and billionaires like Donald Trump who would have that much wealth to lose in any legal case.
Re: Steve , here are my ALL TIME blog statistics . Lately Singapore is more active -but only lately
That's very impressive Ron! Keep fighting that good fight!
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Time Enough at Last: Father John Corapi left stench in the Church
Time Enough at Last: Father John Corapi left stench in the Church: Photo: www.fightingirishthomas.com http://www.fightingirishthomas.com In the early 2000s a gifted preacher, Father John Corapi, wa...
Can Biden abolish the death penalty? | The Stream
Joe Biden's silence on a recent execution( January ,2024 ) by nitrogen gas in the United States , support of genocide in Gaza, Palestine, his pro- greedy capitalism, pro-APARTHEID Israel Zionism, pro-American imperialism positions , does not block the WOKE New Age Catholic Pope Francis from blessing him as a " good Catholic " ! " Who am I to judge ? ) A man still believed by millions of Catholics to have absolute moral authority on this side of Paradise ?
Corrupt , senile, creepy Joe Biden the leader of all these " progressive " Democrats !
Witness describes final moments of Alabama prisoner Kenneth Smith killed...
We are ALL sentenced to DEATH the day we are born . Innocent human beings suffer long and agonizing deaths in hospitals and nursing home. I witnessed a woman crying in pain last Saturday in the Rhode island Hospital Emergency Room.( I was there only for high blood pressure and might have been better off at Newport Creamery ) Others dying might have better luck at reputable Hospice centers. But what French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus had to say about the death penalty still rings true :
[ “But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on ]
― Albert Camus
Former President Donald Trump says he plans to appeal $83.3 million defa...
A SANE SOCIETY would not allow a partisan " JUST JUDGE " to award any dubious victim of " defamation " millions of dollars. Nor would it allow millionaires and billionaires like Donald Trump to have that much wealth to lose. I call that SANE SOCIETY " democratic socialist " .
What Did Ancient Rome Look Like? (Cinematic Animation)
An excellent reconstruction of buildings , people, and LIFE in Ancient Rome. If school kids today have a spark of " holy curiosity ", these digital computer resources can arouse interest in Ancient History or in any subject inherently interesting to the intellectually alive. EXCELLENT WORK ON YOUR VIDEO HERE !
Church collapses in downtown New London
Can you get a more perfect metaphor/symbol of the moral collapse of our " Culture of Narcissism & Nihilism " ?
A downtown bar sale on Bud Light?
Walking on my way to the Providence Public Library this morning ( Saturday, Jan.27 ) I was puzzled by so many people lined up to enter this downtown " Blake's Tavern ". A sale on Budweiser Light ?
Trump ordered to pay $83 million in E. Jean Carroll verdict | The Excerpt
A SANE American democratic socialist government would not have bourgeois " JUST JUDGES " awarding dubious victims of defamation millions of dollars for their " pain " . Nor would it have millionaires and billionaires-like Trump- with that much wealth to lose.
Friday, January 26, 2024
LIVE: World Court verdict on Israel / Gaza genocide case
Zionist APARTHEID Israel -together forever with American imperialism - is making itself the most hated country on the planet . Is that any way to assure " Never Again " ?
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LIVE: World Court verdict on Israel / Gaza genocide case
Zionist APARTHEID Israel is making itself the most hated country on the planet - together forever with American imperialism. Is that any way to assure " Never Again " ?
NBC 10 presses Gov. Dan McKee on Washington Bridge
Why are American politicians like our Rhode Island Governor McKee so coy about answering any question honestly? Because they are all owned by the ruling capitalist class not by WE THE PEOPLE.
With few exceptions empathy is something more easily learned in " The Other America ". Which America is home to our " progressive " Democrats ?
Witness describes final moments of Alabama prisoner Kenneth Smith killed...
We are ALL sentenced to DEATH the day we are born . Innocent human beings suffer long and agonizing deaths in hospitals and nursing homes. I witnessed a woman crying in pain last Saturday in the Rhode island Hospital Emergency Room.( I was there only for high blood pressure and might have been better off at Newport Creamery ) Others dying might have better luck at reputable Hospice centers. But what French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus had to say about the death penalty still rings true :
[ “But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on ]
― Albert Camus
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Thursday, January 25, 2024
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[ "The reason why this scene still strikes me as one of the most thrilling and moving scenes I have ever seen in a film (even after 30 years) is not at all the politics of the October Revolution, but the fact that one has the sense of the excitement of actually being a participant in a major historical event, even as one's own life path and one's own close relationships are being transformed. This is brilliant film making." ]
"MY FAIR LADY"/"Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" - AUDREY HEPBURN
There is growing homeless crisis in my state of Rhode Island . Recently it is the talk of TALK RADIO . To be sure , none of the 630WPRO ( Rhode Island ) talk radio celebs - all of whom fit in now with our " Culture of Narcissism " - connect the THE PROBLEM with landlord-capitalist PRIVATE PROPERTY rights. " Gene " the boss over there thinks that the pathetic homeless people ,not content with shelters like the notorious one at Harrington Hall , Cranston, or the Cranston Armory , want to be put up in luxury hotels. The nerve of them ! When I hear this day after day I hear in my own head this song , Audrey Hepburn in " My Fair Lady " singing : " All I want is a room somewhere , far away from the cold night air ". And lots of something good to eat -if not chocolate..
The nerve of THEM ! And only if their English would improve. Hey , amigo ?
Mother Teresa – Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
I wonder what Mother Teresa would say about GENOCIDE of children and women and innocent people in Gaza , Palestine today ?
All eyes on New Hampshire as GOP race comes down to 2
Former president Donald Trump clearly still has an immense following in " OUR democracy ". What happened on January 6. 2021 in Washington , D.C. is best described ( from my independent democratic socialist point of view ) as a political BRAWL within the American ruling class. To cancel Trump now would be to make a mockery even of America's bourgeois democracy. In fact , the Joe Biden's WOKE WARRIOR Democratic Party presents the greater threat of " It Can't Happen Here " FASCISM in the United States.
Fwd: Time Enough at Last: James P. Cannon Speaks! "The Two Americas"
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James P. Cannon Speaks! "The Two Americas"
Sad to know that the SWP of James P. Cannon degenerated way back in the early 1980s into anti-Trotskyist , pro -ZIONIST Jack Barnes grotesque personality cult weirdly still " on the Left " . But very weirdly !
Sound advice in my email
- [ " The less people you talk to, the less bullshit you have to deal with.
- If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you will stop living to impress people.
- Don't get too happy and too comfortable. One day they love you, tomorrow they hate you.
- You can only win when your mind is stronger than your emotions. " ]
United Auto Workers endorse Biden for president
[ " The United Auto Workers, as expected, has endorsed the reelection campaign of Democratic President Joe Biden. With its endorsement, the UAW bureaucracy is backing a war criminal who is overseeing Israel’s genocide in Gaza and a rapid expansion of American imperialism’s wars of global conquest. " ]
Glenn Greenwald BRAWLS with LIBERAL COMMENTATORS Over January 6; Was it ...
As a longtime independent democratic socialist I see that what is really going on in " OUR democracy " is a profound crisis of the TWO PARTY STSTEM. What happened on January 6 , 2021 was a political BRAWL within the American capitalist ruling class. It is ridiculous to accuse former president Donald Trump and his immense following ( Trump already victorious in in Idaho caucus and New Hampshire primary ) of subverting the Constitution of the United States. There is not a " JUST JUDGE " in the United States who is above party politics. As Karl Marx said years ago THE LAW is the law of the ruling class; the ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class.
So to vote for corrupt , senile , creepy Joe Biden to save " OUR democracy " is to enter the political Theater of the Absurd.
But to CANCEL Donald Trump is to cancel whatever is left of bourgeois democracy in the United States.
Mika: Nikki Haley represents the last best hope for the Republican Party
Thinking as a longtime independent democratic socialist, I see neither Nikki Haley , nor Donald Trump , nor Joe Biden , nor any WOKE WARRIOR Democrat , nor any pro-capitalist , pro American imperialist , pro Israeli Zionist American political leader represents ANY HOPE for WE THE PEOPLE , ordinary working class Americans of whatever race , ethnic group, or religion . There is now a profound crisis of the TWO PARTY SYSTEM in " OUR democracy ".
I give critical support to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - himself a true " Profile in Courage " . But beyond any promising individual WE THE PEOPLE need an American Labor Party - much like the British Labor Party ( less stiff and compromised ) . A peaceful transition to the SANE SOCIETY is possible .
But forget about present power structure of the world , does the HUMAN RACE have a promising future ? Individuals are always and everywhere mortal , but they usually pass out of THIS world hoping that LIFE will be kind to their loved ones, neighbors, community , town , city , country. In vain in the now not so new 21st century ?
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
It is plain to see that our bodily nature needs very few things to banish pain, and to furnish us with many pleasures that are enjoyable from time to time. Nature herself does not complain if the halls are not full of golden statues of youths holding flaming torches to light up the banquets that go on all night, or if the house is not sparkling with silver and gleaming with gold, while the music echoes round the gilded rafters. For by the riverside, stretched out on the soft grass under the shade of a tall tree, people can relax and enjoy themselves far better without all that expense, especially when the weather smiles on them and the spring scatters the green meadow with flowers.
Eight Wonders Of Our Solar System | The Planets | BBC Earth Science
What struck me about this science video is that other planets in our solar - obviously not teeming with the miracle of LIFE - are nevertheless not DEAD , There is wondrous ACTIVITY on all of them ( I must check again on the planet Mercury ) .
If Science is highly skeptical about a personal God , I still think the equivalent of the MIND OF GOD is programmed into the universe , in the very essence of that Quantum Foam Mess. CHANCE is a reality in every day life. But BLIND CHANCE in the BEGINNING - is hard to accept. We may never know. And there is no sense or hope in returning to Dark Age superstition. Catholic theology minds like Augustine and Aquinas cannot be easily dismissed ( except by the obnoxious , arrogant New Atheists , of course ).
RFK JR SURGES to 21% in National Poll; Trump Expected to TROUNCE Nikki H...
As a longtime independent democratic socialist I see that very few really old fashioned " liberal " people still think Democratic Party candidates for whatever are invariably " lesser evil " politicians . I give critical support to INDEPENDENT Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Whatever his opinion about capitalism in general or our eternal alliance with APARTHEID evil , Kennedy is still himself a " Profile in Courage " . If his really " liberal " father , the assassinated RFK ( 1968 ) rubbed off on him , he might save the country from catastrophe.
Kari Lake: The American people are fed up
True " The American People Are Fed Up " and even " mad as hell and can't take it anymore ". But hardly anybody who gets any airtime on radio or TV , hardly any hack journalists and editorial writers of the mainstream news media, connect any source of public angst with THE SYSTEM . Nope , nothing wrong here ! Nothing wrong with belligerent American imperialism in eternal alliance with belligerent Israeli Zionism. Nothing wrong with the daily exploitation and oppression of working class people in the capitalist SYSTEM.
Must we all just get used to the daily LIES & BRUTALITY of irrational , decaying capitalism ?
By the way , perhaps the annoying " Cancel Culture " might do something right - like cancel phony TALK RADIO in " OUR democracy ". What you get , in the final analysis , from the air head celebs is mostly variations on New York Times editorials. As Karl Marx said many years ago : " The ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class . "
As a longtime independent democratic socialist I must still assert that Donald Trump and his voting working class " deplorables " are not the root of all evil in " OUR democracy ". For me the specter of FACISM lurks in our WOKE WARRIOR Democratic Party .
Nikki Haley hoping for upset in New Hampshire with record-turnout projected
What is really going in " OUR democracy " is a profound crisis of the capitalist oriented TWO PARTY SYSTEM. As a longtime independent democratic socialist I will give critical support to INDEPENDENT presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A true " Profile in Courage " .
Israeli military confirms loss of 14 more troops as war intensifies
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Zionist APARTHEID Israel is making itself the most hated country on the planet. Working class people in all countries -not brainwashed - will not support the military operations of APARTHEID Israel together forever with American imperialism. The American ruling class daily censors anti-war , anti-Zionism public opinion in " OUR democracy ".
Killer Cases: The Husband Who Thought He’d Get Away with Murdering His Wife
The root of Evil in OUR lives is beyond a doubt the anarchic circumscribed " I". What I want , what I crave, what I must have vetoes basic human decency, the connection to COMMUNITY. CAPITALIST society in general dulls this human communal instinct.
Monday, January 22, 2024
VIDEO NOW: Washington Bridge Repair Update
There are still vast sections of Rome today where the ancient Glory of Empire is seen in the poetry of ruins . Very possibly our civilization - among other internal contradictions - has just grown too big for its bridges ( not enough readily available resources to sustain the infrastructure ). Will the Empire State Building , for example , be the equivalent in its future condition of the Roman Colosseum ? VISITORS AND TOURISTS STILL WELCOME ?
Conscientious Objector/Israeli Agents - Ralph Nader Radio Hour Episode 515
Ralph Nader is still a fighter for TRUTH, JUSTICE , and what might have been THE AMERICAN Way .
November 17 , 2015 post in " Watching America " : What would a real socialist revolution in the United States do ?
I have been a critical supporter of ” socialist ” Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. He has un-demonized the WORD socialism. But I must say that any hard core SOCIALIST has no business showing any respect for capitalist values, including sacrosanct property rights or intellectual property rights. Most socialists- not recognized celebrities- want to abolish FOR PROFIT medicine,FOR PROFIT nursing homes and hospitals, FOR PROFIT pharmacies; they want to nationalize the banks,the energy companies, all the natural resources of the nation, want to abolish the whole capitalist class – with the exception of well scrutinized small business owners.
Militant socialists have always questioned the legitimacy of legitimate wealth. This follows from Marx’s labor theory of value.
A real socialist revolution in America would -almost overnight- abolish the whole legal system ( yes, even the Supreme Court ) and every individual connected with it. There will be a lot of judges, lawyers, cops, prison wardens and guards collecting unemployment benefits for more than 6 months.
Everybody connected with advertising will simply be obsolete. There will be no legalized gambling or state lotteries.
Even the present day funeral industry will quickly disappear. Being buried soon after death will simply be a human right.
What would a Bernie Sanders presidency be like ? It would be a lot like liberal Hubert Humphrey in the White House .
No surprises from a ” socialist ” Democrat !
Republican nominee showdown: Trump vs. Haley
As a long time independent democratic socialist I think what is going on in Politics USA is a deep crisis of the TWO PARTY SYSTEM . Both the Democrats and the Republicans invariably serve Corporate America but with slightly different agendas. Biden's WOKE WARRIOR Democratic Party , I think , is a greater threat of " fascism " than Trump's conservative populism.
The WOKE WARRIOR Democratic Party is desperate for 99 % of the Black vote to win the 2024 presidential election. But most Black Americans are just ordinary working class people routinely betrayed by both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party .
I am somewhat optimistic about the INDEPENDENT candidate for U.S. president Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A true " Profile in Courage " himself.
I agree that what biased " liberal " journalists say is " THE LAW" is now a weapon for the persecution - not prosecution- of former president Donald Trump.
Also, age is not just a number and statistics not a joke. We are wise to look for LEADERS in all fields at the height of their ability. The still competent seniors can be wise advisors in the background.
According to famous physicist Richard Feynman even top scientists in this country play " follow the leader " . Perhaps our " democratic " instincts are relatively weak on all fronts.
Sunday, January 21, 2024
Friday, January 19, 2024
Talk Radio Buffoons
Talk show hosts always SLOBBERING over their sponsors turn their PERSONA into two bit celebrity buffoon.NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Old Italian Barber Shops Reverie
Reverie on Old Italian Barber Shops
My Italian barber is past age 80 and named " Sal ". Sal now works part time at " Jim' Hair Salon "on Reservoir Ave. in Cranston- not far from the Burger King on Park Ave. I think my younger brother John was a regular customer of retiring Tony. These old Italian immigrant family barbers hear a lot of tales and often tell them. That Knightsville neighborhood near St. Mary's Church is the quintessential Italian-American neighborhood. Even the road is divided by those red, white, and green Italian flag colors.
My Italian immigrant grandmother, living on Federal Hill for 50 years, would -affectionately I am sure - put down my " shoe maker " grandfather: " Hey, Shoemaker, I should've married The Barber ! ".
When my grandfather, Ludovico, lost his own shoe repair shop he found work at UNCAS Jewelry - but was scolded for being " too slow ".
Those old City of Providence Directories( 1922- 1965 ) still found in the reference area of the Providence Public Library can refresh memories about the Old Neighborhood. My grandparents lived at 62 Gesler St.
At Pops's funeral ( from Nardollilo to nearby St. Ann's Cemetery ) my brother Mike and I suddenly had a moment of hilarious, comic relief , doubt : Was Pop ( Domenico ) -just possibly- il barbiere 's ragazzo ?
Another Italian barber memory : a guy known as " Sanitary Joe " misunderstood my kid brother Mike's hair cutting instructions and Mike showed up at an Italian wedding with an awful looking crew cut- just a Marine Corps boot camp style shaved head.
I can still smell Sanitary Joe's Bay Rum- a bit of olfactory pleasantness in his dingy joint
A quartet of Italian barbers had a shop in Washington Park Square in Providence back in the 1950s One had a reputation as " a bookie ". Another said that my uncle Nicholas -fluent in the Italian language - was a " fascist ". The boss of the place was Al . Sitting in the barber chair I could see my Broad Street School and Collier's bakery .
I visit my elderly -but still good- barber Sal only four times a year: in summer, fall, winter, spring. But no social security increases next year ( and soon no more Senior Bus Pass ) . So just one hair cut for me next year- just before Easter. Sorry about that, Sal !
BREAKING NEWS: Biden Reacts To Pakistan's Airstrikes On Iran
The mainstream news media in " OUR democracy " will never be able to sell World War III - conventional or nuclear - to the great majority of working class Americans. Not with this stale Wilsonian blather that was FALSE more than a century ago : " Make the World Safe for Democracy " ? Try making the world safe for American imperialism and APARTHEID Israel Zionism ?
Young people will be eager to join another " Great Crusade " and vote en masse for corrupt , senile , creepy Joe Biden ? Or for " lesser evil " right wing blowhard Donald Trump ?
Let us at least listen to INDEPENDENT Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ?
Healey makes lowering housing costs a goal for new year
Why the nasty scratch over ? Something taboo about " Democratic Party Approved " . Does it violate " community standards " as determined by New York Times trained censors of American public opinion ?
There is hardly one public official in " OUR democracy " Democratic Party Approved " who connects any serious social evils with the capitalist SYSTEM. Just how well educated are these mostly college graduates in the SCHOOL of REALITY ?
For example , how can you NOT connect the homeless crisis ( migrants and citizens ) with sacrosanct landlord-capitalist PRIVATE PROPERTY rights ? What does the military budget have to do with the " security " of US -ordinary working class people ?
If there is HOPE ,it lies in Power Ball ?
My post on May 16, 1999 titled " A Long Way from the Slide Rule "
SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1999
A Long Way from the Slide Rule !
While fossilized high school math teachers debate the wisdom
of hand calculators in the classroom, their smart-ass pupils have no
doubt all ready discovered a blissful shortcut for that tedious
homework : on line calculators -hundreds of them !
What would have taken the sputnik generation hours to do, can
now be done in minutes . For example, you can locate an " applet " that
will instantly solve a quadratic equation for you,or given 3 sides of
a triangle, compute the area according to the elegant Heron's Formula.
Those on line graphers are just amazing for those of us who can
still remember the slide rule. Remember how tedious it was to graph
second and third degree equations ? Now just type in the equation and
click ! A neat and beautiful graph appears before your eyes.
There are amazing resources on the WWW even for the advanced
calculus: instant " integration " and " differentiation ".
" Now the kids don't even have to THINK ! " you might conclude.
I think that it is a good thing that teachers will be denied the
pleasure of instilling a permanent inferiority complex in MOST of their
pupils. But -seriously - these homework aids actually FREE the mind for
the more important matter of UNDERSTANDING concepts.
I still recall that " the null set is a subset of all sets ". I
owe my splendid success in life to that !
Rome, Italy Walking Tour - 4K60fps with Captions - Prowalk Tours
I was introduced to the great ancient city Rome when I learned that My Uncle Nick Ruggieri was assigned a diplomatic post there in 1950s :
" He [ Nicholas Ruggieri of Providence , Rhode Island ]joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1955, specializing in public affairs, and served as a public affairs officer for U.S. Embassies in Rome, Buenos Aires and Saigon. He retired in 1977 and became a freelance editor and writer in the Washington area."