What a world. As our head here in America we have a man who has now defined himself by two countries who know no freedom, no democracy, only violence - Syria and Nicaragua. One is a pile of bombed out rubble and dead bodies and the other is a monument to bad and violence in government. And here we are, opting out of the Paris Accord as the third nation to do so. Shame on us and shame on Trump - again.
So Elon Musk has resigned from a White House committee as have others in various industries because Trump is being a shortsighted man of no vision at all in this deed. Perhaps when he sees Mar a Lago go down for the third time he will realize that he did wrong and then he will say oops! Too late. But at least we have industries here who realize that our economy would benefit from technology that will help clean the air, provide clean water, stop the meltdown at the Poles and give us and the world a chance. There are cities and states that are doing the same and even wish to join the Accord on their own.
Yesterday, as I read his decision, I said to myself that maybe a move to Canada or even France would do the trick of bettering the situation. At least Macron has the toughness to know what to do and as he said, " To make the world great again!" In the meanwhile, Trump is actually sandblasting the American economy and jobs will be lost.
This is not the end of his stupidity as he pens in another message that would allow companies to not provide contraception coverage. I remember paying for the pills every month and thought it wonderful when my kids did not have to or for anyone to pay for the choice of contraception,.Now we will have no coverage - but Viagra et al are covered for you guys and so once more women have no control over their own bodies or at least having it very difficult to do so. An inevitable result - more back alley abortions, more death, more maiming, more unwanted babies, more domestic abuse and more people dying for lack of medical coverage and health care, but it must be the 'mindset' as Carson maintains!!!
There is a lack of caring today in the world and that is represented quite strongly within the Trump administration and actually right here in the Village. Ethics seem to be a rare and hard to find principle. David Israel hates me with a passion and why? Because I tell it like it is and show no fear of him and in fact, ridicule him and call him out on his dictatorship tactics and his falsehoods and lies. Today there was a close call on the Atlantic contract and he won after calling out after anyone who opposed it and we, the Village, will suffer for it just as we did with the roads, infrastructure and financial issues in the Village. I will not relent and will watch and write of what I see. And if he hates, well, he can join the crowd typical of Trump who seem to hate all who are different, the "other".
The world is a hateful place of late. Nooses are drawn and left on buildings, a vicious symbol of hate. Old and nasty prejudices are being raised and shouted and bruited about with the alt right reveling in it. If one does not follow the mainstream then one is wrong, worthy of hate, of diminishment. The latest piece of scary news - the governor of Kentucky is establishing prayer patrols!!!. So what is next? Whips and beatings if one is not modest enough or if one does not join the prayer as it comes by? What is the difference between this and the "modesty" patrols of the Moslem countries and the whips of the Sharia patrols? Actually - nothing!!
So as the world itself is deteriorating, as the world groans under the burden of environmental disasters that we have placed on it, as the situation gets worse and as people turn a blind eye to it for selfish reasons, we, the people of the planet turn worse as well and it will get far worse than that as the situation grows dimmer and hope fades. Take a look at a map of the earth and place a pin where there is a flare up, a war, a dictatorship, a crackdown on liberty, mass imprisonment and growths of hate and you will soon have more pins than one could believe.
So just came back from seeing Wonder Woman, a superb movie. Of course, I loved hearing the Israeli accent of Gal Gadot, Wonder Woman herself, but the movie has a message as well as a story and good acting. Basically it states that we, the humans on earth, mankind in particular and emphasis on MAN, have a choice. We have within us good and bad, light and dark. It is up to us what we choose. WE choose either evil or good and one cannot be abstaining from that choice because to stand aside is to allow evil to flourish and we have heard that from many philosophers over the years. Whatever power it was that you believe in, that gave us the choice, that power has given us the individual power to choose and thus what is in the world is in us!
And it is indeed a shame, a criminal act, an act of base immorality, when we have a government of the United States of America that now is appealing to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, to make it official that bias and hatred will be the law of the land. One can only hope that these judges will be touched by the power within them, the responsibility within them, to do the right thing and not allow hatred to cover the land, to turn the land dark with prejudice and violence. This is not a question of conservative versus liberal, but a question of good vs evil. We are all the children of immigrants or immigrants ourselves. We must remember that and hope that the spirit of those that founded America remains with us, within us.
Go see the movie. Go read some history. Go read the Bible. Check your inner soul and realize what we have all come to, when we demonize all those that differ from us be it in opinion, or skin color, or ethnic background or cultural ethos or religion or tribal affiliation or sect in the same religion. How petty and how dangerous and mean have we become. And I admit, it is sometimes very hard to hold back when one is the target of vitriol and lies, but why must there be that at all. Why can we not rely on truth and goodness, love, or at least not hate, perhaps call it cooperation if you must?
We have not done too well of late in this area. One can smell the sulphur of the demon, the darkness of Heart of Darkness. We feel the eerie current of hatred and prejudice and the smoke from the ovens of Auschwitz can be seen again. We destroy each other's cultural symbols, do idiotic things such as banning the movie from Lebanon and other areas because Gal Gadot is Israeli. Pettiness that leads to larger areas and depths of hate and that hatred leads to death.
Enough of this already. Enough. We can feel that we want to get off this world, but we cannot so let us try to cooperate to save it and mankind.
Let us all become Wonder People. The clock is ticking and I would bet that it is now about one minute to midnight.
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