White supremacist mass murderer
In the immediate aftermath of last week’s white nationalist terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand that took the lives of 49 people, U.S. president minimized the scale of the problem, proclaiming that there is no systematic issue: “I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems.”
This, however, is exactly the kind of denial and deflection that the West had criticized so forcefully when it came from Sunni Arab countries after 9/11.
Ever since the early [aughts] 2000s, the U.S. and Europe have rightly pressed a number of Sunni Arab countries to crack down on the internal sources of Islamist terrorism, arguing that their inaction on domestic extremism was putting both their own societies and people around the world at risk. We emphasized, again and again, that only a determined focus on the preachers and financiers of terrorism could staunch the threat.
After yet another massacre apparently inspired by white nationalism, it is long past time for Western […]
There is a non-local consciousness as well as a non-local unconsciousness. One cannot exist without the other. The Taoist Yin/Yang, the oldest religious/philosophical icon states this explicitly. It’s always ‘both/and’ not ‘either/or’. We are both human & being.
If the populations are constantly being told, that humans have entered the 6th mass extinction, that this future progressing event no longer contains only the large megafauna, this idea becomes impactful.
There are many geographic locales where abrupt climate change is wreaking havoc for the local population, i.e., the cyclones, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, permafrost melt and on and one ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
On top of this, we have right-wing populist governments who will literally do anything to maintain neo-liberal capitalism, even if it means torture, economic austerity for working folks, journalistic pressure to not report significance and yes, use murder as a means of oppression and control.
When it’s hot some folks go mad. Know your neighbours by speaking with them. Do more mano a mano and leave the typing to others. Yes, strong men like #45, are by implication, inciting others to riot through their unchecked language.
None of these is isolated one from t’other. Existence = entanglement. It is the quantum field’s method of energetic manifestation. Then there’s civilization, where apathy, stupit consumerism, going along to get along, avoidance and lethargy seem to be the order of the day; ‘cept for the young people protesting the abrupt climate change sure to visit in their future. Therein lies the real encouragement. I hesitate to use the word hope.
Kudos to Greta!