WHEN WILL WE BEGAIN TO THINK NEW THOUGHTS AND IDEAS?
It's funny when you find a book that contains all your ideas (and it was published back in 1973). As I mentioned in a previous E-Note, I've been reading UP-WINGERS by F.M. Esfandiary. Here is an excerpt:
Socialism and capitalism are still fixated on eliminating unemployment. No economic measures no crash programs can any longer reverse the global trend toward unemployment. Nothing can any longer be done to replace the jobs which automation and cybernation are steadily taking over. It has become an economic imperative to decrease work. This is not only sound economics it is also a humanizing move.
This is a time to free people of work. Rather than rack their brains to create employment economists should now work out plans to create leisure.
E-NOTES: WHEN THE NEWS IS NOT ENOUGH. THE BLOG OF E. ETHELBERT MILLER
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I just received my copy of THE ILANOT REVIEW. This literary journal is affiliated with the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. My poem "Rosa Parks dreams" is included in it.
www.biu.ac.il/HU/en/cw/ilanot
www.biu.ac.il/HU/en/cw/ilanot
Instead, you must love the world as it is, because the world, for all its murder and madness, is worth loving. Nothing you write will matter unless it moves the human heart, said the poet A.D. Hope. And the heart that you must move is corrupt, depraved, and desperate for your love.
- Roger Rosenblatt from Unless It Moves the Human Heart
- Roger Rosenblatt from Unless It Moves the Human Heart
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Local Politics News Alert: Ehrlich aide, consultant indicted in Election Night robocalling case
June 16, 2011 2:39:26 PM
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A senior aide and a consultant hired by former Maryland governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) were indicted Thursday in a case stemming from tens of thousands of anonymous robocalls placed on Election Night last year that suggested voters could stay home even though the polls were still open. Watch PostLocal.com for more details.
June 16, 2011 2:39:26 PM
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A senior aide and a consultant hired by former Maryland governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) were indicted Thursday in a case stemming from tens of thousands of anonymous robocalls placed on Election Night last year that suggested voters could stay home even though the polls were still open. Watch PostLocal.com for more details.
Unrest Pushes Yemen to Brink of Humanitarian Disaster
Adam Baron, McClatchy Newspapers: "Even before demonstrators began demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh five months ago, Yemen's future looked bleak. A third of its people couldn't be certain when they'd next eat. The oilfields that provide 70 percent of government revenues and more than 30 percent of the country's economic activity were expected to go dry in 10 years. Experts even were betting that Sanaa would be the first world capital to run out of water. But now, with Saleh lying wounded in a hospital in Saudi Arabia after an assassination attempt, the political system paralyzed by armed conflict and disagreements about what should happen to his government, and economic activity grinding to a halt, the future may be now."
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Adam Baron, McClatchy Newspapers: "Even before demonstrators began demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh five months ago, Yemen's future looked bleak. A third of its people couldn't be certain when they'd next eat. The oilfields that provide 70 percent of government revenues and more than 30 percent of the country's economic activity were expected to go dry in 10 years. Experts even were betting that Sanaa would be the first world capital to run out of water. But now, with Saleh lying wounded in a hospital in Saudi Arabia after an assassination attempt, the political system paralyzed by armed conflict and disagreements about what should happen to his government, and economic activity grinding to a halt, the future may be now."
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Tricycle Daily Dharma
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Treat Anger with Tenderness
Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself. Do not suppress it—simply be aware of it. Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed. When you are aware that you are angry, your anger is transformed. If you destroy anger, you destroy the Buddha, for Buddha and Mara are of the same essence. Mindfully dealing with anger is like taking the hand of a little brother.-Thich Nhat Hanh
A convicted murderer, long suspected of involvement in the 1994 Quad Studios shooting of Tupac Shakur, has finally admitted to committing the crime, and has accused Game's manager, Jimmy "Henchmen" Rosemond -- founder of Czar Entertainment -- of masterminding the botched robbery, which left the legendary rapper shot five times.
"I want to apologize to his [Tupac's] family and for the mistake I did for that sucker [Rosemond]," Dexter Isaac told AllHipHop.com yesterday (June 15), on the eve of Tupac's 40th birthday.
In an explosive confession dedicated to his former friend, whom he helped to launch entertainment company Henchmen Entertainment in 1989, Isaac explained that he has "stayed silent in prison for the past 13 years, doing a life sentence like a real soldier should," but that he is "tired of listening to your [Rosemond's] lies."
"I want to apologize to his [Tupac's] family and for the mistake I did for that sucker [Rosemond]," Dexter Isaac told AllHipHop.com yesterday (June 15), on the eve of Tupac's 40th birthday.
In an explosive confession dedicated to his former friend, whom he helped to launch entertainment company Henchmen Entertainment in 1989, Isaac explained that he has "stayed silent in prison for the past 13 years, doing a life sentence like a real soldier should," but that he is "tired of listening to your [Rosemond's] lies."
