thanks and links for 2024-W08

Feb 26, 2024

Meister Eckhart – d. 1328* – known for saying, inter alia, that a thank-you is enough*

thank you so much, all who share
an interest in one or more
items noted – with links – below

2024-02-25 / notes

*a link; see also the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

☛ see bit.ly/georgeatherton for some lightly edited notes from every post in this series

2024-02-25 is 2024-W08-7* / other notes for all posts in this series are under “▼” here

please copy and share whatever you like … and thanks for sharing with me new links to note*

… those behind cried “Forward!” and those before cried “Back!”*

Altria’s $12.8 billion investment in e-vapor products maker JUUL “a big flop” / Fool (!?)

a conversation with Google Gemini on current tensions in Unitarian Universalism*

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor: Statistics on Gaza, 23 February 2024 (!?)

“No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” / Madison, h/t*

“it’s frankly absurd”: the leaker has been released and the publisher faces 175 years (!?)*

dysfunctional relationship or active genocide: “it’s complicated” means it’s off-limits*

“to protect starving, displaced, and defenseless Palestinians” a non-starter for the US*

BBC spin: Hamas, not the slaughter in Gaza, fomenting “delegitimisation of Israel”*

Riyad al-Maliki addresses UN world court hearing (!?) – see video clip of five maps:

power (!*) concedes nothing without a demand (!?) / backed by understanding power*

none are more hopelessly enslaved than those … (!?) / it’s past time for us to get this*

when we no longer buy into power-serving narratives, we can do what works for us all*

further notes are often appended to copies on fw

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