"With clanging, creaking, and squeaking, an iron curtain is lowering over Russian History. "The performance is over." The audience got up. "Time to put on your fur coats and go home." We looked around, but the fur coats and homes were missing."
- Vasily Rozanov, The Apocalypse of our Time (1918)
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After Netanyahu’s call to implement a Knesset ban on the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Israeli forces have attacked several educational centres affiliated with it in the occupied West Bank.
In the Qalandiya refugee camp, Israeli forces forcefully entered the Qalandiya Training Centre and ordered its immediate evacuation while 350 students and 30 staff were present. Tear gas and sound bombs were used against the civilians.
2/2 In occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli soldiers and authorities stormed the UNRWA Jerusalem Elementary Boys School in the Wadi al-Joz neighbourhood this morning, expelled students from their desks, and forced the staff to close the school.
This step in the personal ethical revolution I'm following (A-Z, one step every two weeks) discusses the known psychological and physiological benefits of kindness, and specifically of practising gratitude, the prime example being keeping a gratitude journal. (G has already been used for Goodbye Google, so I guess gratitude had to fit in here) It seems there have been numerous studies on gratitude's personal benefits, such as reducing inflammation and boosting the immune system.I admit I'm a little skeptical, and note in the linked article there are also some studies that don't show these effects. Also, if you're genuinely kind or grateful you're not being it for personal benefit, are you? Nevertheless, since I already write a diary, I will make a practice of including some thoughts of gratitude. It is undeniably a positive thing.
A big part of Sam's advice here is not to get overwhelmed and anxious by the barrage of negative news. This advice wasn't timed for this particular point in time, but it couldn't be more apt. Indeed, I have been memorized by the train wreck of Trump's first weeks in office, and actually, I feel it's right not to look away. Nor to look away from the ongoing genocide in Gaza, or the war in Congo that is affecting families of people I know. On the other hand, it's true - I am suffering from information overload spending so much time on the computer reading stuff.
Sam's advice is get news from trusted sources - he suggests a few- and don't feel like you have to keep up with it everyday.
The primary source he suggests is The Conversation, in which journalists work with academic experts to produce a variety of articles on current events and developments
A big part of Sam's advice here is not to get overwhelmed and anxious by the barrage of negative news. This advice wasn't timed for this particular point in time, but it couldn't be more apt. Indeed, I have been memorized by the train wreck of Trump's first weeks in office, and actually, I feel it's right not to look away. Nor to look away from the ongoing genocide in Gaza, or the war in Congo that is affecting families of people I know. On the other hand, it's true - I am suffering from information overload spending so much time on the computer reading stuff.
Sam's advice is get news from trusted sources - he suggests a few- and don't feel like you have to keep up with it everyday.
The primary source he suggests is The Conversation, in which journalists work with academic experts to produce a variety of articles on current events and developments in many fields. It is good...but let's see, I'm already getting daily to weekly newsletters from several sources, adding another might be counterproductive to the intent of this step?
I do daily peruse the headlines from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:C… as a RSS feed; it's very succinct, but alerts me to events happening in parts of the world I might not otherwise hear about.
In addition, I get a daily newsletter of local news from 'Town and County', a feed of mainly environmental Canadian news from The Narwhal (several articles a week, but I usually only look at the first paragraph), a weekly newsletter from Global Voices, and Good Sunday Morning, a weekly letter from Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May which is always very interesting. Now I've added a twice weekly digest from the Conversation Global. Then there's a couple weekly and various other sporadic newsletters related to my profession. Too much?
I'm tempering this by reminding myself I don't need to keep up with all the internet news on a daily basis, or keep checking them every hour as I am wont to do. I have them going to a feed reader (Inoreader) rather than cluttering up my email.
And then there's my two print hardcopy newsmagazines (one leftleaning but mainstream, one more radical) that I subscribe to, and more to the point, actually read - I'm proud of that. And once in awhile I listen to the Canada Broadcasting Corp. news on the radio
I realized I've got my news sources corralled quite well; the real problem for me is social media, even though I have been very selective with my social media sources including this lovely Friendica instance, it is an endless source of stimulation that can easily become too much, and this is where I really need to be more selective with my time. At least leave it until the end of the day.
How do you get your news and how do you feel about it? #EthicalRevolution
Rwanda-DRC tension: The biggest gain by M23 so far, Congolese says, ”being born in Congo is the worst human catastrophe you couldn't wish your fellow human being."
Important reminder is that war is very expensive to maintain.
My friend who has relatives in a displaced persons camp tells me how they have been forced to flee again because the rebels were bombing the camp. I don't know why they do that.
Israeli army opened fire on a group of journalists gathered on the main road leading to the Jenin Government Hospital to report on the ongoing raids in Jenin’s refugee camp.
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Trump immediate effects for B1/B2 visa holders from Kenya...visa revocation, visa reapplication more money mining, because it's an expensive task to discourage the applicants..
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In occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli soldiers and authorities stormed the UNRWA Jerusalem Elementary Boys School in the Wadi al-Joz neighbourhood this morning, expelled students from their desks, and forced the staff to close the school.
#Jerusalem
#UNRWA
#schools