Inspired from youth by Albert Camus' sense of the Absurd, I try to be a voice for REASON in the growing darkness and moral insanity of global capitalism .
Saturday, March 8, 2025
A memorable quote from Tolstoy's " The Death of Ivan Ilyich "
“It is as if I had been going downhill while I imagined I was going up. And that is really what it was. I was going up in public opinion, but to the same extent life was ebbing away from me. And now it is all done and there is only death.”
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"This Side Of Paradise" (1920) Quotes
How many students of American literature ever associated the F. Scott Fitzgerald of " The Great Gatsby " with the young man who professes a belief in socialism in Fitzgerald's first popular novel " This Side of Paradise " ? Great American literature closely studied can be very ironic and indeed " subversive " . Of course , F. Scott Fitzgerald was never in Theodore Dreiser's league with " American Tragedy ". I just reviewed and enjoyed " The Great Gatsby " last night and like friend Nick in the novel felt deep sympathy for Gatsby ( born Gatz ) .
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This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald | Sevenov
[ " In This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's character Amory Blaine expresses support for socialism and critiques capitalism. Amory's views on socialism and capitalism are part of his broader disillusionment with the economic and political realities of his time.
Amory's views on socialism
Amory believes that society is unequal and that money is not the only motivator for people
He argues that progress should be accelerated
He criticizes the American class and education system for reproducing inequality
He rejects the values of his era
Amory's disillusionment
Amory's failed relationship with Rosalind sparks his realization that without money, he lacks agency and power
He descends into alcoholism
He voices his disillusionment with the economic and political realities of his situation
This Side of Paradise was Fitzgerald's first novel, published in 1920. The novel explores themes of class status, class mobility, and the idea that success is never guaranteed." ]
BREAKING NEWS: House Votes To Censure Al Green For Interrupting Presiden...
More phony theatrics from a WOKE WARRIOR Democrat ? Does Rep. Al Green support the agenda of the Democratic Party for the past few decades ? Presently it seeks political recovery in Election 2026 by doubling down on WOKE & WAR .
How ironic ! The Bernie Sanders " socialist " Democrat fan club for WAR & CAPITALISM and ISRAELI ZIONISM ( a disagreement over tactics not goals ) .
Russia says sending European peacekeepers to Ukraine would be “act of wa...
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Looks like the ZIONIST Jew censorships quickly scratched over real American public opinion !
The bourgeois governments of NATO EUROPE - with a long history of colonialism and imperialism - are as gallantly solicitous for " sovereign " Ukraine as top American plutocrat and MAGA Republican Donald Trump is desirous of " sovereign " Ukraine's minerals . But WE working class CHRISTIANS are cynical - if not opposed to nuclear World War III with POST-COMMUNIST Russia over this . What if THEY start a war and nobody shows up ?
Obedience or Indoctrination? Strongest Arguments Against Religion Ever
The followers of the New Atheism cult must be the most self-absorbed , neurotic petty bourgeois intellectuals on the planet earth . These vulgar attacks on God and Faith recall the tone of " officially atheist " 1930s-40s Russia under the dubious " communist " tyrant Joseph Stalin - a dreary , nightmare .The big mistake there was NOT socialism !
It would be a much better world if ordinary people -still oppressed and exploited by global capitalism, and massacred by American imperialism and Israeli Zionism - just started to hate God and renounce Faith ? As both a longtime democratic socialist and an " Old Catholic " type I would rather believe in the revelation of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917 Portugal and in the " Miracle of the Sun " than in the nonsense being preached in this era of " The End of Science " by the crackpot WOKE Church of the Big Bang and God Particle .
Today many professional scientists are disillusioned and burnt out by their corrupting work and research and feel so guilty-depressed in their souls . Not only a Catholic Mother Teresa can experience the " dark night of the soul ".
China imposes retaliatory tariffs against US
War is a function of society's ruling class ( that class that owns and controls the nation's resources and means of production ) . Modern China -like modern USA - is based on science and technology and an immense amount of human mental and physical labor power . So it is hardly a moral abomination that THEY ( hardly real communists ! ) want what our American plutocracy wants. Top American plutocrat Donald Trump very bluntly told the warmonger , embezzler V. Zelensky in " sovereign " Ukraine that he wants their minerals , a big share of them. This is IMPERIALISM speaking not the " FREE WORLD " !
What has amazed we democratic socialists for more than a century is how the exploited and oppressed working class - the younger ones of the different countries -- can be so easily recruited to " make the world safe for democracy " , can be made cannon fodder for the sacrosanct nation-state.
For years now the WOKE WARRIOR Democratic Party has promoted the HATE RUSSIA , New McCarthyism . Perhaps the MAGA Republicans are more eager to start nuclear World War III with China ( a modern " Yellow Peril " ? ) than with POST-COMMUNIST Russia.
Still I am reasonably sure that the American working class -still mostly CHRISTIAN - will not be easily aroused to war fever in the 21st century by stale Wilsonian blather that was false more than a century ago . The mainstream news media in " OUR democracy " must have been very embarrassed by Election 2024 with its rebuke of WOKE if not WAR. So the propaganda apparatus of American imperialism does not yet rival Big Brother's regime in George Orwell's nightmare dystopian novel " 1984 ".
So there remains considerable HOPE FOR PEACE . Unless ALL the peaceniks and their propaganda are vaporized .
FULL: Bernie Sanders official response to Trump joint session speech
I like what I just read regarding " socialist " Democrat Bernie Sanders on the World Socialist Website :
[" But the most insidious aspect of Sanders’ speech was his attempt to tie opposition to Trump to support for imperialist war—specifically, the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine.
“For the first time in our 250-year history, we have a president who is turning his back on democracy and allying us with authoritarianism,” Sanders declared. “No. We must not abandon the people of Ukraine who were invaded by the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin. We must always stand for democracy, not dictatorship.”
What is Sanders talking about ? .... " ]
[One of life's little ironies : Way back in 1980 both Bernie Sanders in Vermont and I ( and a woman named A. Gagne ) here in Rhode Island were presidential electors for then Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party . The SWP soon degenerated into a Jack Barnes circus personality cult ( and he's still running the show ! ). And the SWP, like Bernie, adapting to the agenda of Zionist APARTHEID Israel. ]
I was back then in 1980 and remain in 2025 an INDEPENDENT democratic socialist free from ties to any dubious " vanguard " Marxist party. I see the promise of SANE " socialism " only in a mass American Labor Party - like the British Labor Party but less stuffy and uncompromised.
In 1976 one " notorious " ( according to then governor of California, Ronald Reagan ) American Trotskyist , Peter Camejo , was the SWP candidate for president of the United States. A group of friends and I helped get Peter on the ballot in Rhode Island. Peter Camejo later gravitated to Ralph Nader's Green Party ( serving as its candidate for vice-president, Nader for president ) . Still relevant is a speech a younger Peter Camejo made circa 1968 : " How to Make a Revolution in the United States " ( with no suggestion of guns, bombs, or violence ) .
Bryan Kohberger: Inside the Idaho Murders – Episode 2
Ethnic stereotype has some basis in reality. How many ordinary Americans - not goose stepping Neo-Nazis- will at least think that the serial killer, Kohberger, has a distinctly Jewish face ?
In his nightmare novel " 1984 " George Orwell vividly described the arch-villain of this dystopia , one Emmanuel Goldstein , as having " a lean Jewish face" . Perhaps the type of face that Gaza, Palestinians , victims of Israeli genocide today , see in their nightmares ?
Of course , the Goldstein of " 1984 " was not an Orwellian arch-villain ( Orwell himself was a democratic socialist ) . " Big Brother " was really Orwell's personified symbol of everything odious in modern totalitarianism on the Left or on the Right. Today ZIONIST Jews around the world are associated with abomination just as many Germans are still associated with the Nazi era. In the published writing of his later years famous scientist Albert Einstein said that he could never forgive the German people ! And will Gaza , Palestinians ever forgive " THE JEW " ?
Friday, March 7, 2025
15 Famous Explorers Who Changed the World | History Hit
https://www.historyhit.com/most-important-explorers-of-the-world/#:~:text=John%20Cabot%20(c.%201450%2D1498)%20Born%20Giovanni%20Caboto%2C,Asia%20%E2%80%93%20Cabot%20claimed%20land%20for%20England. Interesting short articles on the great explorers of the Age of Exploration.
Price Rankings by Country of Milk (regular), (1 liter) (Markets)
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_price_rankings?itemId=8 The price of any commodity on the global market seems to follow what mathematician's call a normal distribution curve.Here you have the price of a liter of milk country by country.
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Today anti- death penalty voices are as rare in the WOKE WARRIOR Democratic Party as anti-war voices.
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I see evidence of increasing alcoholism every day at RIPTA bus stops. Those little nip bottles scattered on the grounds and sidewalk in front of me. The next morning more nip bottles.How much social misery and ruined lives and ruined innocent families caused by drinking alcohol?
WPRI 12 Weather 3/7/25 | WPRI.com: Forecast for Rhode Island and Southeast Massachusetts
https://www.wpri.com/weather-now/weather-now-for-friday-3-7-25/ Right now outside my window sounds like a blizzard on a clear sunny Friday afternoon.
Watch "Gene Hackman Death Investigation: Mystery Continues as No Gas Leaks Found" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/pmqKOIZGBIA?si=B7XP3DkrLPe9AtQ9 A considered guess: A murder suicide with the dog a Mercy killing?
Thursday, March 6, 2025
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There is nothing inherently vicious in asking if killer Kohnerger is Jewish. The name sounds Jewish.And any Hollywood Jewish movie producer-like Harvey Weinstein - might offer him a respectable role as a Jewish law school student. To be sure, " Stop that shit" is a suspicious over reaction. We must not too quickly suspect any Jew of atrocity? Not even genocide in Gaza Palestine?
Canadian leader threatens to cut off energy to some U.S. states over Tru...
This economic trade war within the effete NATO alliance is good news for us socialist-pacifist- communists. They will never be able to unite even a stupefied, by stale Wilsonian blather ( that was false more than a century ago ) , global working class. To be sure , tariffs are no hill to die on.
The idea until just recently was to unite all the bourgeois governments of NATO for nuclear World War III against POST-COMMUNIST Russia. And the two dearest allies of " OUR democracy " : the warmonger, embezzler V. Zelensky in Ukraine . And the world proclaimed war criminal , leader of APARTHEID Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu .
Wisdom from the " Tumultuous Sixties " : " What if THEY start a war and nobody shows up ? "
How Religion Poisons Children Richard Dawkins
As a longtime independent democratic socialist may I suggest that religion does NOT poison children nearly as permanently and fatally as the wars of American imperialism ( napalm, and illegal defoliants, Vietnam ) and Israeli Zionism ( Gaza, Palestine genocide ).
The New Atheist Cult celebs are studiously mum on the evil of global capitalism, American imperialism, and Israeli Zionism.
For them the key to a better world ? Just HATE GOD and HATE RELIGION and spit on FAITH ?
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[ " The government of Vietnam says that up to four million people in Vietnam were exposed to the defoliant, and as many as three million people have suffered illness because of Agent Orange,[4] while the Vietnamese Red Cross estimates that up to one million people were disabled or have health problems as a result of exposure to Agent Orange. " ]
VA expected to cut 80,000 employees
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This is how capitalism and American imperialism - now preparing for nuclear World War III with POST-COMMUNIST Russia - says to the struggling, wounded , traumatized veterans : " THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE ! " .
It would not be much better for veterans ( or for the American working class in general ) under the Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders WOKE WARRIOR Democrats . Presently they see a midterm election comeback by doubling down on their WOKE & WAR agenda.
@TheeDavidDee
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The VA is already understaffed as it is. Another dumb cut
@dorettasdozen8537
15 hours ago
BOB DOLE WOULD NEVER HAVE Allowed THIS!
@jodijones33
15 hours ago
Oh my God
@oscarpompa4634
15 hours ago
I worked at the VA hospital here in Long Beach. Forget about the waste and all the obsolete positions and paid employees who literally did nothing all day everyday. I couldn't believe the abuse and neglect the patients were suffering. I brought it to the attention of my supervisor and I was the bad guy.
@ronruggieri9817
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I am reminded of scenes from the movie " Born on the Fourth of July " , the story of the wounded Vietnam War veteran young Ron Kovic . " Never Again ! " ?
@luisak1309
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america "Thank you for your service": trump "now live on the streets"
@TheWallforUsefulidiots
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FULL: Bernie Sanders official response to Trump joint session speech
I like what I just read regarding " socialist " Democrat Bernie Sanders on the World Socialist Website :
[" But the most insidious aspect of Sanders’ speech was his attempt to tie opposition to Trump to support for imperialist war—specifically, the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine.
“For the first time in our 250-year history, we have a president who is turning his back on democracy and allying us with authoritarianism,” Sanders declared. “No. We must not abandon the people of Ukraine who were invaded by the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin. We must always stand for democracy, not dictatorship.”
What is Sanders talking about ? .... " ]
[One of life's little ironies : Way back in 1980 both Bernie Sanders in Vermont and I ( and a woman named A. Gagne ) here in Rhode Island were presidential electors for then Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party . The SWP soon degenerated into a Jack Barnes circus personality cult ( and he's still running the show ! ). And the SWP, like Bernie, adapting to the agenda of Zionist APARTHEID Israel. ]
I was back then in 1980 and remain in 2025 an INDEPENDENT democratic socialist free from ties to any dubious " vanguard " Marxist party. I see a the promise of SANE " socialism " only in a mass American Labor Party - like the British Labor Party but less stuffy and uncompromised.
In 1976 one " notorious " ( according to then governor of California, Ronald Reagan ) American Trotskyist , Peter Camejo , was the SWP candidate for president of the United States. A group of friends and I helped get Peter on the ballot in Rhode Island. Peter Camejo later gravitated to Ralph Nader's Green Party ( serving as its candidate for vice-president, Nader for president ) . Still relevant is a speech a younger Peter Camejo made circa 1968 : " How to Make a Revolution in the United States " ( with no suggestion of guns, bombs, or violence ) .
The Best of Paganini. Why Paganini Is Considered The Devil's Violinist
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Viewing this video " The Best of Paganini " I recalled an old Thomas Hardy short story about a mysterious and seductive musician , " The Fiddler on the Reels " . And came across this review by Carol Senf ( published 2016 ) : " The Fiddler on the Reels " : Hardy's Reflection on the Past :
[ "Similarly, Hardy suggests that Mop’s strangely powerful music “could make any child in the parish, who was at all sensitive to music, burst into tears in a few minutes” (192). Describing him as repulsive to men and seductive to women, the narrator suggests something sinister or otherworldly about Mop. Not only does he compare him to Niccoló Paganini, whose power was sometimes said to be diabolic, but he also notes that he is associated with demonic powers:
Mop had . . . never bowed a note of church-music from his birth; he never once sat in . . . Mellstock church where the others had tuned their venerable psalmody . . . had never, in all likelihood, entered a church at all. All were devil’s tunes in his repertory. (193) " ]
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025
That legendary " I Want You " poem , a favorite of WEAN radio fans of " Dream Time " Don Rogers ( our Pop )
54 Pequot Trail, E Greenwich ,R.I. Oct. 16 , 1960
Dear Mr. Rogers
In your program for Saturday Oct. 15 ,you read a poem at about 2a.m This poem was entitled " I Want You " .
If it is possible I would like to obtain a copy of the poem. If I can't get it through you, perhaps you could tell me where I can. My husband is with the 1961 " Operation Deepfreeze " to Antartica. I'm sure this poem could express the feelings of the wives of the men down there.
Thanking you in advance. I beg to remain Sincerely , Margaret E. Forman .
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[ " 'Operation Deep Freeze' in 1961 refers to a U.S. Navy mission in Antarctica focused on providing logistical support for scientific research, including resupplying research stations like McMurdo Sound, South Pole Station, and Byrd Station, as part of the ongoing U.S. Antarctic Research Program; this specific year is often called "Deep Freeze 61" and involved activities like installing new communication systems, laying groundwork for a nuclear power plant, and conducting oceanographic studies in the Bellingshausen Sea using icebreakers like the USS Glacier and USS Burton Island. " ]
I think this is the poem Margaret in Pop's fan mail was looking for . [ Pop's radio name at WEAN in Providence RI was " Don Rogers " . His night shift program was titled " Dream Time ".
Pop had many dreamy insomniac fans who sent letters of appreciation .
[" I Want You, I Need You,
I Love You
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
forever and ever in my life
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
until I can't take it no more
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
until I'm on my knees begging you to stay
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
until not many books on the shelf are gone
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
and that's how i feel about you " ]
© Dec '20, nicholas talerico rhyme • love
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Some of Pop's " Don Rogers" WEAN radio station fan mail.Note the " I Want You" words of a poem read on air.
The Fine-Tuning Argument Debunked in 12 Minutes
For me the most irresistible " proof " for God the Artist , God the Designer, even God the Mathematician is the face of a beautiful young woman I remember from my " Golden Age " of impious lust. Now just " Winter Dreams " ( F. Scott Fitzgerald ). ADD the face of adorable EXUBERANT 7 year Isabella. You really have to experience THE DIVINE to believe in it !
I do believe ! I do believe ! Now even in ghosts !
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Rep. Al Green removed from House floor after interrupting Trump's speech
The Democratic Party of Rep. Al Green has had no problem with genocide in Gaza, Palestine , nor for years now, with Zionist APARTHEID Israel led by the world proclaimed war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. , nor with the warmonger embezzler V. Zelensky , president for life ( ? ) of Ukraine . To what type of LEFT does Rep. Al Green belong ? To the Bernie Sanders WOKE WARRIOR Democratic Party LEFT ?
The Democratic Party's hard core is doubling down on its permanent WOKE & WAR agenda ! As a longtime independent democratic socialist I can assert : Nope, no radical LEFT here !
‘Tears in my eyes’: Ukraine Parliamentarian on supportive American messa...
Why oh why could the working class CHRISTIANS in Ukraine ever have been longing for a dangerous alliance with effete NATO ? The conflict is all about the support of " OUR democracy " for " sovereign ", " free " countries on all continents ? The history of American imperialism testifies to this ?
Stale Wilsonian blather that was false more than a century ago will not revive the " Winston Churchill " hero image of warmonger, embezzler V. Zelensky , president for life ( ? ) of " Greater Israel " Ukraine ? I suspect the " Free World " has gotten rather sick of him.
Deceased prominent lawyer Mario De Orchis was an authentic voice early in life of the " Greatest Generation " . His departing words to graduating class of Central High School , Providence, RI June 1941
I want to add to this obituary of Mario De Orchis his last words to the graduating class of Central High School , Providence, Rhode Island ( June 1941 ) as editor-in-chief - of the school newspaper " The Centralite " . I think it marks Mario DeOrchis as an authentic voice very early in his life ( an Italian immigrant on Federal Hill , Providence ) of the " Greatest Generation ". [ " The School of Life is a hard and a stern school . The answers to the problems you encounter will not be found in textbooks , the tests you must pass will not be written on paper.Many of you will find difficulty in getting jobs. Some of you will go to college because you can't find work . [ SOME OF YOU MAY EVEN BE BLOWN TO BITS IN THAT " WAR OF THE CONTINENTS " - my emphasis ] There are no easy courses in this school.The only answer lies in following a philosophy of self-reliance . Every person has a place, every person has something in which he excels. His greatest difficulty is to find that one thing to which he surpasses and supersedes others.Once this is found , the formula to success is simple : Be determined, be confident, be faithful . An Interpretation : The term " success " should not be interpreted as getting ahead of everybody else. The aim should be bettering the heap , not in getting on top of it. Education was never meant as an instrument to gain money and social prominence.The yardstick of success is happiness and satisfaction , not dollars and cents. It is not found in the pocketbook , but in the government, in the factory , and in the home. Life is a dangerous business, but a good risk . It contains greater rewards and more possibilities for success and happiness than you ever dreamed of. So to you , members of the Class of June 1941, we say - Good-bye, good luck, and God bless you . [First paragraph : " After three years of study and hard work, after three years of achievement and self-gratification, you leave the halls of Central High School as men and women ready to take your place in that great and complex community known as our American democracy . It is impossible to say with complete earnestness that your high school education has guaranteed your future or that it has increased your chances of getting into " Who's Who " , but it has - and we say it with full throated conviction -helped to prepare you for the difficult courses you will encounter in the school you are about to enter, the School of Life . As you are about to open this door to a new world of opportunity , your steps, contrary to former expectations become hesitant .... " ]
Democrats respond to President Trump's speech
No surprise to this longtime independent democratic socialist that WOKE WARRIOR Democrats respond to MAGA-Republican Donald ( who won even the popular vote in Election 2024 ) by doubling down on WOKE nonsense and blatant warmongering for nuclear World War III with POST -COMMUNIST Russia . As a viable political party they are going the way of the 19th century American WHIGS !
NOTE ON THE WHIG PARTY :
[ " Whig Party, in U.S. history, major political party active in the period 1834–54 that espoused a program of national development but foundered on the rising tide of sectional antagonism. The Whig Party was formally organized in 1834, bringing together a loose coalition of groups united in their opposition to what party members viewed as the executive tyranny of “King Andrew” Jackson. They borrowed the name Whig from the British party opposed to royal prerogatives. " ]
Father Barry Speaks Up Against the Mob | On The Waterfront (1954) | Now ...
Today The Crucification is taking place in Gaza, Palestine. Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein advised, a few years back , an adoring audience of belligerent ZIONIST Jews that they must " learn from the Mafia". On which side does " OUR democracy " stand ? Ask " socialist " WOKE WARRIOR Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders .
Harvey Weinstein Urges Jews to Take on Anti-Semites
The Hollywood Reporter
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com › general-news › ha...
[ " Harvey Weinstein applauded at the Simon Wiesenthal Center from www.hollywoodreporter.com
Mar 24, 2015 — "We're gonna have to get as organized as the mafia," the mogul told the audience at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's national tribute dinner ". ...]
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
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There were a number of Catholic faith inspired scenes in the 1954 Academy Award winning movie " On The Waterfront".
Watch "Silenced Voices: The Hollywood 10, and the Battle of Free Expression | Full Documentary | Subtitles" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/7jbYed_DkD4?si=i4xnJGKsreXuU_uG For years now the WOKE WARRIOR Democratic Party has promoted the HATE RUSSIA New McCarthyism.And the mainstream news media continues to suppress real American public opinion. Which is more and more anti- war and anti- ZIONIST.
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As a teenager those musty old Algebra books found in second hand book stores were an exotic mystery to me until I had Algebra I - first floundering then excelling.I read that even Einstein had this misty childhood memory: a kind uncle explaining : " Let X equal the UNKNOWN".
Richard D. Ruggieri, Sr Obituary March 13, 2014 - Nardolillo Funeral Home
https://www.nardolillofh.com/obituaries/richard-ruggierisr My forever big brother Rick passed away in March of 2014 of a mysterious blood disease.He and wife Evelyn are together at nearby St.Ann's Catholic Cemetery in Cranston. Come the better weather I take walks there a few times a month.And pay my respects to " crossed over" family members and dear friends. With my phone camera I note the more colorful grave epitaphs like: " As I am you will be". A translation, I recall, from an ancient Roman epitaph.
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This 1923 Readers Digest article on the persecution of religion and religious people ( if not exaggerated) in post 1917 Russia confirms my belief that the biggest mistake of the old Soviet Union was not SOCIALISM.It was making itself a dreary officially atheist murderous tyranny.
Mario Enzo De Orchis' departing words to Central High School, Providence , Rhode Island graduating class June 1941
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This is a copy scan of a Central High School , Providence , Rhode Island student newspaper of year 1941 ( June 12 ) " The Centralite " . Both my father Domenic Ruggieri and my mother( then Janet Engley ) were in this ominous year 1941 graduating class. Headline : " 357 Graduates Will Receive Diplomas Friday Morning at Metropolitan Theater Ceremonies " .
MESSAGE : " IF failure has been our lot ,we must nor allows ourselves to be discouraged, to give up. That is not the American way. On the contrary next year we must avoid the mistakes that we through this year.We must force ourselves to renewed , sustained effort. Success can still be ours,but it is definitely our job to win it . It means work.
To our graduates go our earnest hopesfor their every success and happiness.[ MAY THEY NOT FIND THE DAYS AHEAD TOO DARK OR GLOOMY] my emphasis - and they ever prove themselves to be true , loyal Americans proud of their country,their home, their school.
Onle last thought . Centralites, your Principal nowextends to all of you his cordial wishes for a safe, happy, healthful vacation . T . FRANKLIN WALSH ( Central High principal ).
Note on page 4 of " The Centralite " is a picture of " Senior Class Officers " : Domenic Ruggieri is " Treasurer " . Funny ! His future wife , our dear mother, then Janet Engley , after nine kids and Pop's long career as a Rhode Island " pioneer " radio announcer, would judge him just a cut above " bread winner " even with all his passionate fan mail . Well with both Mom and Pop's cooking, in our California Ave. days, we did eat quite well. The editor in chief of " The Centralite " , Mario De Orchis, a future prominent lawyer, was Pop's close school buddy and a rival for Janet Engley's heart. Mario's section on page 2 is titled : " To the Class of June , 1941 :
I will print Mario Enzo De Orchis words to his graduating class in a separate post.
Terrible transportation service for frail elderly in Rhode Island
I observed this feeble , certainly over 80 woman , eyes half shut , nearly crawling with a cane to the bus stop around 9:10 AM this morning . I thought the feeble ,slowly walking , very old lady would surely miss the coming RIPTA 30 bus. She just made it.. Boarding the bus she struggled to find her purse or her bus pass. I was hoping that the RIPTA bus driver -some of them are pretty rude and stupid - would not accelerate the bus while she made her way to the nearest seat. An accident waiting to happen on RIPTA buses - this brainless acceleration of the vehicle. . But the old woman remained up front holding on to the rail. I was certain she could only be going to the medical office building a little further up Cranston Street. But the bus driver would not stop at that building . He let this pathetic old lady off at the next bus stop at the corner of Park Ave. She got off. Looking out the bus window , I could see she was indeed heading for that medical building .
Here in WOKE WARRIOR Democrat Rhode Island transportation for the elderly and disabled is a disgrace.
US pauses military aid to Ukraine as EU chief says Europe is 'ready to s...
From the point of view of most democratic socialists in " OUR democracy " the United States should suspend ALL aid to the ZIONIST Jew warmonger embezzle V. Zelensky in Ukraine and ALL aid to the world proclaimed war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu in APARTHEID Israel.
But since when do WE THE PEOPLE have any say in the foreign policy of " OUR democracy " ?
I am also sure that most working class Catholics and Protestants and Muslims in this country would agree with me on this
How Religious Brainwashing Works
How many of the New Atheist cult fans ever focus on how toxic " patriotic " brainwashing of self-centered nation-states works ? In " OUR democracy " , for example, the mainstream news media also clobbers Americans with pro-APARTHEID Israel, pro-ZIONIST slant on foreign policy . I doubt if religious " propaganda " - like daffy TV Evangelism ( which invariably turns off Old Catholic types )- is nearly as pernicious as belligerent nation-state war propaganda. Most educated ZIONIST Jews in the United States and in Israel are self-described atheists like the right wing atheist ZIONIST Jew Ayn Rand ( author of the cult classic " The Virtue of Selfishness ". But the godless or hypocritically pious leaders of any nation state on the brink of war will always suggest that " God is on our side " .
Also , in " OUR democracy " there is no lack of WOKE WARRIOR Democrat inspired censorship of American public opinion.
" Fascist ( ? ) President Donald Trump and his Vice-President Vance promised to free FREE SPEECH in " OUR democracy ". But as a long time independent democratic socialist ( who calls for nothing more revolutionary presently than a mass American Labor Party ) I am somewhat cynical about this. Did not MAGA-REPUBLICAN Trump suggest years ago that he would act to ban SOCIALISM ( and, I guess , socialists ) from his " America Made Great Again " ?
A Strained Relationship - The Complex History Between Black and Jewish A...
Within the WOKE WARRIOR Democratic Party there is a distinct alliance ( or intrigue ) between prominent ZIONIST Jews and less prominent but ambitious , Black colleagues ( to be patronized , groomed , and mentored ) . What American Black Muslim leader Malcolm X had to say about the real relationship between Blacks and Jews way back in 1965 is still disturbingly relevant today. Malcolm X saw these Jews as basically exploiters of Black people. Also, note how cleverly secular ( often anti-Christian ) ZIONIST Jew activists have brainwashed traditional CHRISTIANS to accept the bellicose tenets of Zionist APARTHEID Israel . A PROMISED LAND but for Jews only - even affluent ZIONIST Jews fleeing persecution in New York City.
[To be sure , Black Muslim Malcolm X spoke harshly about Black-Jewish relations in the United States . Read " Malcolm's ambivalence toward, 196-197 , " Malcolm The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America " by Bruce Perry, 1991 : " He [ Malcolm ] suggested that Jews were the chief exploiters of America's blacks.... " He was unimpressed with the fact that many Jews were members of the NAACP ; he said it was comparable to Jesse James joining the trustees of a bank he intended to rob. The main reason Jews were in the forefront of the civil rights movement , he said, was that the more attention they focused upon ' the Negro question " the more hostility they could deflect from themselves .... On the other hand , there was justification for his criticism of Jews who fled to suburbia solely because blacks moved into their neighborhoods . "
' When there's something worth owning, the Jew's got it ', he asserted. At times he was defensive about accusations that he was anti-Jewish. ' I know I'll hear ANTI-SEMITIC from every direction, he lamented after one Jewish diatribe. ' Oh, yes. But truth is truth " . ]
@Malikav0311 And what is YOUR position on these issues that concern anti-ZIONIST Christians ? Was Malcolm X right about the real relationship between Blacks and Jews in the United States ? The WOKE WARRIOR Democrats have adopted the old STALINST trick of associating DISSENT with MENTAL ILLNESS . But who are more paranoid and neurotic than the friends of APARTHEID Israel ? Idolatry of Israel has made most Jews in the United States the most annoying ethno-centric people on the planet.
Do Jews In the News- like Harvey Weinstein and Jerry Epstein - and arrogant ZIONIST Jews in the Democratic Party- promote warm feelings toward the " Chosen People " ? Does contempt for the CHRISTIAN parents of America worried sick over crackpot transgender controversies ?
Harvey Weinstein ,while being honored, advised an audience of fellow ZIONIST Jews to "learn from the Mafia " . how to deal with their enemies.
Do I still make " zero contextual sense " here ,Malikov 109 ?
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@AmunRa14
11 hours ago
That was an excellent analysis... 👍👊✊
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