Global
“We are Here to awaken from our Illusion of Separateness” Thich Nhat Hanh
[I have not posted much last week as I was traveling in protected areas in
Jordan to learn and collaborate on issues of conservation. Please excuse
the length of this but you can open links you like]
All Palestinian are saddened by the death of Pope Francis. He spoke
repeatedly against the ongoing genocide and destructionof our people and wa
attaked for this by te Zionist movement. He kept touch with the church
inGaza regularly even from his hospital bed. He cared for people regardless
of their religion and made peace a key feature of his tenure. He built
respectful and good relations between people of all faiths in a time when
right wing white fascists are taking control of governments around the
world (Orban, Netanyahu, Trump etc). We at Bethlehem University are also
especially sad because of the fact that this university was established by
the Vatican to serve the Palestinian people in 1973.
On Palm Sunday Israel bombed a church run hospital with U weapons amd US
taxpayer money. Western media was silent and money for the aparheid
Introduction
With Trump and his cronies in power, the climate crisis will worsen.
In a Nov. 14, 2024 post, after Trump was reelected to a second presidential term, there was good reason to worry about Trump’s plans for dealing with the climate crisis. He is a well-known climate-denier.
Here’s a few paragraphs from that post.
“Trump, a climate-crisis denier, will undoubtedly as president exacerbate the problem and give open-ended support to fossil fuel production and consumption and the industries that benefit from them. Rising emissions and the rising temperatures they produce represent an existential problem that will likely threaten to generate massive dislocations of people and threaten the survival of millions, if not billions, of people in America and around the globe.
Hour 2 starts 1:05:53
We start our GREEP Zoom #221 with DR. NANCY NIPARKO & her exhortation to keep the faith & not lose hope, however difficult the times may be.
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The FAR OUT documentary film is endorsed by DR. RUTH STRAUSS who also demands the return of Abrego Garcia after he’s been disappeared to El Salvadore.
The name of this terror victim is shouted out by MYLA RESON with the warning that this could happen to any and all of us at the whim of Donald Trump.
ON ENERGY: From DOROTHY REIK we hear about SB540 which would open the door to new nukes & to kill the ability of California to control its own energy supplies.
The legendary KEVIN KAMPS warns of the gargantuan subsidies proposed to insanely re-start Michigan’s Palisades despite the exponential cost overruns already with us, and despite disturbing reports of an epidemic of cancer in a nearby golf club, indicating major radiation releases from the nearby reactor; there are “start dates” for nuclear disasters, he said, but there are no end dates.
My rewrite of the famous quote by Lord Palmerston regarding “interests” to have it reflect the reality of Israel and its powerful friends would go something like this: “I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that Israel is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual friend of the United States and of enlightened western values. By design, Israel has no eternal allies. Its interests are indeed perpetual but center on its own success at aggressively portraying itself always as the victim while also advancing its own tribal interests.” I admittedly tend to think often about the enemy we of the western Christian tradition have been nurturing at our breast for decades in a spirit of tolerance, a viper that is only setting out to corrupt and then destroy us, manifest particularly at this time of year, when the life and death of Jesus Christ ought to be rightly celebrated. Alas, in today’s Israel what is truly remarkable is the government’s open suppression of Christian identity and worship without any complaint coming from Washington or from the other nominally Christian nations of Europe.
