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Julian Assange on Facebook, Media, and Wars…

by Pier Marton | May 3, 2011 | Death, Doc, Future Tech, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Media, Now, Politics, Software, Spectacle, Wars

… and Wikileaks as just the tip of the icebergs: Excerpts: ”Every war in past 50 years a result of media lies” Our No. 1 enemy is ignorance. And I believe that is the No. 1 enemy for everyone – it’s not understanding what actually is going on in the...

The Thinking Person’s Guide to the Holocaust

by Pier Marton | May 2, 2011 | Antisemitism, Books, Death, Ego, Film, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, KeyFilm, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars

A Way To Begin Following that article, I have added a few of my recommendations. It is very good to have Améry, along with Shoah by Lanzmann, and Primo Levi. They know that one CANNOT understand anything about the Shoah, the prerequisite for any “inquiry.”...

Never Again – Not Only For Jews But For Everyone!

by Pier Marton | May 2, 2011 | Afri, Antisemitism, Asia, Care, Dance, Death, France, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Magyar, Media, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Roma, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women

Yom HaShoah Haaretz Editorial =================== Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Day, which is being marked today, is above all a day of remembrance. Today is the day on which the Holocaust is to be recalled, and on which the memory of those who perished and the...

A.B. Yehoshua on the Middle-East conflict: it’s complicated

by Pier Marton | Apr 26, 2011 | Antisemitism, Death, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics, Time, Wars

Why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict refuses to be resolved in Haaretz An excerpt:Because this conflict is cyclical rather than linear – in other words, time does not necessarily bring us closer to a solution, peace approaches and recedes at historical junctions...

Jews: Free to Question Passover, God & Progress (+ what it is to be “a Jew”)

by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2011 | Antisemitism, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, France, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, KeyText, Magyar, Middle-East, Mystery, Native, Now, Politics, Racism, Roma, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Spectacle, Time, Travel, Wars, Women

¿Passover???oss?d? How can one pass over the fact that the 20th Century was the most murderous so far? The University of Hawai has compiled the disasters, whether through war or political regimes, to a grand total of 262 million killed. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...

Online Mindfulness Bell

by Pier Marton | Apr 16, 2011 | Asia, Care, Eco, Ego, Health, Ideas, Music, Poet, Site, Sound, Sounds, Spectacle, Theater, Time, Wars, Women

Inspired by the teaching of Thich Nhat Hanh. The option to stop whatever one does to check how anchored one is. Stop to consciously breathe in and out three times with the sound of the bell. With time interval, exact time, or random interval options....

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus