TOADSTOOLS IN RHUBARB
Dee Finney's blog
September 3, 2014
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TOPIC: SYMBOLIC EVENT: TOADSTOOLS IN RHUBARB
THIS WAS NOT A DREAM. I WENT OUTSIDE TO WATER MY GARDEN AS USUAL, WHICH I HAVE DONE FOR AT LEAST 17 YEARS AT THIS SAME PLACE. AT NO TIME, EVER, HAD THIS EVER HAPPENED BEFORE.
OVERNIGHT A WHOLE GROUP OF VERY LARGE TOADSOOLS APPEARED AT THE BASE OF A RHUBARB PLANT THAT WAS AT LEAST 5 YEARS OLD AND THIS WAS THE SECOND GROWTH OF THE YEAR - THE 1ST GROWTH HAVING DRIED UP BECAUSE OF THE DROUGHT IN OUR AREA.
JOE MASON SUGGESTED THE EVENT WAS SYMBOLIC AND IMMEDIATELY STARTED LOOKING UP THE SYMBOLISM. I WENT OUTSIDE TO TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS FOR A WEB PAGE, WHILE JOE RESEARCHED.
THAT WOULD LEAVE ME TO FIND NEWS ARTICLES THAT FIT INTO THE SYMBOLISM.
RHUBARB: Rhubarb is a fruit with many contradictions: for starters, it’s actually a vegetable. It’s typically seen in sweet dishes; eaten by itself, it would make you pucker. It’s a feisty, hardy plant, but softens up pretty quickly in a pan with the aid of a little heat. It grows fairly well without a lot of sunlight, which many edible plants do not. And, oddly enough, the leaves attached to the edible stalks of the rhubarb plant are lethal. I don’t know why, but having toxic parts makes me quite fond of rhubarb as a vegetable. Probably for the same reason why I like the planet Venus: it has an inhospitable climate and rains sulfuric acid, and can still pull off being a sultry symbol of beauty. Anyway, rhubarb is a lovely rose-colored hue and also holds court as the James Bond of produce, being cool, complex: and badass. The balance between allure and imminent death gets me every time.
My mother was a baseball fan so I knew the term rhubarb in the sense of a an argument between a player and the umpire before I ever tasted the vegetable. The figurative use of rhubarb also occurs in contexts outside baseball. Here are three definitions from the OED.
rhubarb: n. A murmurous background noise, an indistinct conversation, esp. the repetition of the word ‘rhubarb’ by actors to represent such a conversation or the noise of a crowd. Usu. reduplicated.
rhubarb: n. slang. Nonsense; worthless stuff.
rhubarb: n. U.S. slang (orig. Baseball). A heated dispute, a row.
Here are some examples from the web:
Wedge, umpire Davidson laugh off Friday’s rhubarb
It’s Rhubarb Time at the Ballpark
Camera and Science Settle the Old Rhubarb (headline for an article about the disputed trajectory of a curve ball.)
[a baseball player] and his 22-year-old brother … were allegedly involved in a rhubarb in the lounge area of U.S. Airways Center …
GEORGE BRETT AND THE PINE TAR INCIDENT - THIS IS A REAL RHUBARB EXAMPLE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbEHAsZxRYo
The Dickson Baseball Dictionary offers several possible etymologies for the term, some more fanciful than others. Sports announcer Garry Schumacher is credited with its first use in a baseball context, but Red Barber (1908-1992) is the one who popularized it, both on the radio and in the title of the bookRhubarb in the Catbird Seat.
In the context of background noise to suggest the presence of a crowd, rhubarb has a rival: walla,
According the the Wikipedia article on the word, “In American radio, film, television, and video games,walla is a sound effect imitating the murmur of a crowd in the background. A group of actors brought together in the post-production stage of film production to create this murmur is known as a walla group.”
TOADSTOOLS VS MUSHROOMS
These dangerous ‘look alikes’ in A dream are a sign that you will have to combat some active hostility to get what you want; however, persevere if you know you are right.
These fungi represent what they are: fungi present in our own world. They are signs of decay and death. Their shape is also reminiscent of an umbiligal cord with a fetus. The fungi leeches nutrition out of which they are attached.
A fairy ring is simply the term for a circle or ring of mushrooms. These rings occur naturally, usually popping up in fields, lawns, or forests year after year as the fungus continues to grow underground. Depending on where they occur, you may either view them as an inspirational delight to the imagination or an annoying nuisance on your lawn.
Fairy rings have a long history in European folklore, with different cultures believing they represent different things. Usually they symbolize a place where elves, pixies, or fairies appear to dance and play. As fun as that sounds, most cultures viewed them as dangerous places for mere humans. Better to avoid them than be caught up in magic you don't understand!
What causes fairy rings?
These imaginative circles are the result of a particular pattern of mycelium growth. Mycelium is the underground organism that produces the reproductive fruit bodies that we know as mushrooms. This relationship is sometimes explained by comparison to an apple tree. If we think of mushrooms as apples, then the mycelium is the tree from which they fruit.
In this analogy the tree is underground, but you get the idea. ;)
In the case of a ring, the mycelium starts as a single point and grows in a circular shape. It continues to push outwards in an attempt to consume more nutrients. As it exhausts the nutrients on the inside of the circle, it will widen further and further as it looks for a new food source.
This process results in an ever-growing circle, that doesn't start to grow back inwards or cross over on itself because there's no new food on the inside of the circle. The mycelium may have started at one point, but soon it has nowhere to go but in an outwardly, circular direction.
Cool. So why don't I see more of them?
Although
not uncommon, fairy rings don't just happen anywhere. Multiple factors influence
this circular growth pattern, including soil type and condition, amount of
nutrients in the soil, obstructions underground, and dirt composition. The
ground needs to be even and well composed, a reason why you'll often see them
pop up on lawns.
The chance exists that you've seen more fairy rings than you realize. Although we only notice them when they produce mushrooms, the circular mycelium underground is always there and growing.
How do I recognize them?
The most obvious clue is a circle of mushrooms, however you can sometimes spot clues from the condition of the grass. Sometimes you'll see either a ring of dark green grass or a ring of dry, dead grass. Whether this ring looks lush or dead depends on the type of fungus growing and how it affects the soil.
The dark circles occur when the mycelium breaks down organic material and releases nitrogen. As grass needs nitrogen to grow, the added nutrients in the soil causes it to sprout up taller and darker than the grass around it.
A dead area is called a necrotic zone. This sounds like the name of an awesome zombie movie, yet the necrotic zone is really just a region of withered or discolored plant life caused by the fungi depleting the soil of nutrients (usually nitrogen).
So if you see an odd circle of either dead grass or dark green grass in your lawn, there's a chance that someday a circular ring of mushrooms will fruit.
Are there different types of these rings?
Fairy rings appear in two different classifications: free and tethered. These terms result from how the mushroom feeds itself and where the ring appears.
Free rings are usually found in meadows, fields, or lawns. They're called "free" because they aren't connected with any other organisms. The mushrooms that pop up in these rings will be saprotrophs, meaning they feed on dead or dying organic material.
Tethered
rings show up in the forest, usually with one or more trees in the center. These
rings are considered "tethered" to the tree because the fungus is mycorrhizal. A
mycorrhizal fungus is one that has a symbiotic relationship with the roots of
the tree, expanding the tree's access to nutrients and water and giving the
fungus access to the sugars that the tree produces.
There's some debate over which type is truly more common, but people seem to report seeing the free rings more often. No doubt because they tend to pop up in more populated areas due to their affinity for lawns.
THE NEWS OF THE DAY
President Obama: US will not be intimidated by Isis 'barbarism'"We will not be intimidated," the president said. "Their horrific acts only unite us and stiffen our resolve to take the fight against these terrorists. And those who make the mistake of harming Americans will learn that we will not forget and that our reach is long and that justice will be served."
The president was speaking in Estonia on the way to a Nato summit in Wales, where the latest bloody twist of the Iraq-Syria crisis is likely to compete with the Ukraine conflict for the attention of leaders.
Obama spoke after the US national security council announced its assessment that the video showing Sotloff's killing was authentic. Many of its features were similar to those of the murder of the journalist James Foley on 19 August.
The UK government held a meeting of its emergency Cobra committee after threats to kill a British hostage who was also shown in the latest video.
The White House, meanwhile, said the president had ordered 350 more troops into Iraq just hours after the release of the video. The new deployment was intended not for "a combat role" but to augment security at the Baghdad embassy and associated "support facilities," it said.
under fire for his response to the crisis, Obama said the objective of the US was to "ensure that Isil [Islamic State] is not an ongoing threat to the region". The president was criticised last week for saying that the US did not have a "strategy" to deal with the Islamist militant group, which now controls large areas of Syria and Iraq.
But he made clear that the effort needed wide support. "We know that if we are joined by the international community, we can continue to shrink Isil's sphere of influence, its effectiveness, its financing, its military capabilities to the point where it is a manageable problem," Obama said.
"The question is going to be making sure we have the right strategy but also making sure that we have got the international will to do it. What we have got to make sure is that we are organising the Arab world, the Middle East, the Muslim world, along with the international community, to isolate this cancer."
According to the latest Pentagon figures, the US has launched 124 air strikes, including attacks near the Mosul dam on Monday. The strikes were cited by Sotloff's masked and black-clad killer as the reason for the murder.
Obama's appeal for international unity followed widespread condemnation of Sotloff's killing. The British prime minister, David Cameron, condemned the "despicable and barbaric murder" while Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said: "I strongly condemn all such despicable crimes and I refuse to accept that whole communities can be threatened by atrocities because of who they are or what they believe."
The French president, François Hollande, said: "This barbaric act, following the assassination of another journalist James Foley, reveals the despicable nature of [Isis]."
But the key question is whether the latest killing will galvanise the US, UK and others into deeper involvement, given that it is now hard to separate the crises in Iraq and Syria.
Washington, London and other capitals have to grapple with the reality that Isis cannot be defeated in Iraq without also tackling its strongholds in Syria, where close to 200,000 people have been killed in the uprising against Bashar al-Assad. Arab countries fear Isis but have so far been reluctant to get involved militarily.
Israeli media, meanwhile, reported that Sotloff, 31, was Jewish and an Israeli citizen who had studied for a degree there. Media had been asked to refrain from reporting this for fear of further increasing the danger to him from his captors.
“It’s clear we have a long road to travel to change hearts and minds and laws all over the world,” he said during the Human Rights Campaign Gala in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES — Vice President Joe Biden called employers’ ability in some states to fire employees because of their sexuality “barbaric” and “bizarre” during a keynote address at the Human Rights Campaign Gala dinner Saturday.
“Hate can never be defended because it’s a so-called cultural norm,” he said. “I’ve had it up to here with cultural norms.”
He called on Congress to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, which would outlaw discrimination by most private employers against people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
His comments come four days after more than 200 members of Congress called on the Obama administration to take action to protect LGBT employees in the workplace.
Biden also spoke about improvements that must be made in the treatment of the LGBT community overseas and compared Russia’s treatment of the LGBT community to its actions in Ukraine
“The great anti-Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov said, ‘A country that does not respect the rights of its citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbor,’” he said. “And we’re seeing that today in Ukraine.”
Biden referenced his 2012 Meet the Press interview when he came out in favor of marriage for same-sex couples ahead of President Obama, and said he’s “constantly thanked and given a lot more credit than I’m deserved.”
Congressional lawmakers urged the Obama administration to crank up the offensive against the Islamic State after another video surfaced purporting to show the graphic execution of an American journalist.
Two weeks after American James Foley was beheaded by his Islamic State captors, a video emerged Tuesday afternoon claiming to show freelance journalist Steven Sotloff being executed in the same way.
The White House and State Department said intelligence officials are working quickly to determine the video’s authenticity. If it is genuine, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, “We are sickened by this brutal act.”
But U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle urged tough and swift action in response.
“Let there be no doubt, we must go after ISIS right away because the U.S. is the only one that can put together a coalition to stop this group that’s intent on barbaric cruelty,” Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said in a statement.
Nelson added that he plans on filing legislation next week that would give President Obama authority to order airstrikes against ISIS in Syria.
Sotloff had been held since last year by Islamic State militants. As before, the executioner in the video claimed the act was a message to the United States in response to airstrikes.
“I am back Obama, and I am back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State,” the person in the video said.
The administration, while launching another humanitarian mission in northern Iraq in recent days and sustaining a campaign of airstrikes around the Mosul Dam and elsewhere, continues to deliberate over the next steps – and whether to expand airstrikes across the border into Syria, where the Islamic State has a stronghold.
The president, drawing criticism from some GOP lawmakers, acknowledged last week that his team does not have a strategy yet for confronting ISIS in Syria.
With the president en route to Europe for meetings with allies and a NATO summit, it’s unclear whether the latest video might change, or accelerate, the administration’s planning.
Without commenting specifically on whether the U.S. military should go into Syria, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., said Tuesday that the U.S. needs to be “acting urgently” to arm the Kurds in northern Iraq and target the Islamic State with drone strikes.
“Sadly, ISIS is bringing this barbarity across the region – beheading and crucifying those who don’t share their dark ideology,” he said. “The threat from this group seems to grow by the day.”
Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., a member of the House intelligence committee, also said in a statement that “we cannot afford to allow these terrorists to continue their march.”
Asked Tuesday about the terror group, Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said the U.S. “absolutely” has a strategy for the Middle East and a “clear” mission in Iraq.
“We are there to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces as they take the fight to ISIL. We are there to provide humanitarian assistance where and when we can,” he said.
Psaki said the U.S. wants to see the group “destroyed” but it won’t be “an overnight effort.”
Analysts and others, though, said some elements of the approach will have to change.
Former U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson, speaking with Fox News, called for a “kitchen sink approach” and – like in Iraq years ago – a “coalition of the willing” to increase training, military aid and airstrikes.
Michael O’Hanlon, with the Brookings Institution, said the Obama administration made the right decision to launch airstrikes in northern Iraq, but said more might be needed.
He urged the government to consider sending up to several thousand special forces and “mentor teams” into Iraq to help the Iraqi army in its fight against the Islamic State.
And he suggested the latest brutal act might spur more countries in the region to align with Baghdad and Washington.
“I think this will shake some sense into countries that wanted to have it both ways up until now,” he told Fox News.
Congressional lawmakers urged the Obama administration to crank up the offensive against the Islamic State after another video surfaced purporting to show the graphic execution of an American journalist.
Two weeks after American James Foley was beheaded by his Islamic State captors, a video emerged Tuesday afternoon claiming to show freelance journalist Steven Sotloff being executed in the same way.
The White House and State Department said intelligence officials are working quickly to determine the video’s authenticity. If it is genuine, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, “We are sickened by this brutal act.”
But U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle urged tough and swift action in response.
“Let there be no doubt, we must go after ISIS right away because the U.S. is the only one that can put together a coalition to stop this group that’s intent on barbaric cruelty,” Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said in a statement.
Nelson added that he plans on filing legislation next week that would give President Obama authority to order airstrikes against ISIS in Syria.
Sotloff had been held since last year by Islamic State militants. As before, the executioner in the video claimed the act was a message to the United States in response to airstrikes.
“I am back Obama, and I am back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State,” the person in the video said.
The administration, while launching another humanitarian mission in northern Iraq in recent days and sustaining a campaign of airstrikes around the Mosul Dam and elsewhere, continues to deliberate over the next steps – and whether to expand airstrikes across the border into Syria, where the Islamic State has a stronghold.
The president, drawing criticism from some GOP lawmakers, acknowledged last week that his team does not have a strategy yet for confronting ISIS in Syria.
With the president en route to Europe for meetings with allies and a NATO summit, it’s unclear whether the latest video might change, or accelerate, the administration’s planning.
Without commenting specifically on whether the U.S. military should go into Syria, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., said Tuesday that the U.S. needs to be “acting urgently” to arm the Kurds in northern Iraq and target the Islamic State with drone strikes.
“Sadly, ISIS is bringing this barbarity across the region – beheading and crucifying those who don’t share their dark ideology,” he said. “The threat from this group seems to grow by the day.”
Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., a member of the House intelligence committee, also said in a statement that “we cannot afford to allow these terrorists to continue their march.”
Asked Tuesday about the terror group, Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said the U.S. “absolutely” has a strategy for the Middle East and a “clear” mission in Iraq.
“We are there to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces as they take the fight to ISIL. We are there to provide humanitarian assistance where and when we can,” he said.
Psaki said the U.S. wants to see the group “destroyed” but it won’t be “an overnight effort.”
Analysts and others, though, said some elements of the approach will have to change.
Former U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson, speaking with Fox News, called for a “kitchen sink approach” and – like in Iraq years ago – a “coalition of the willing” to increase training, military aid and airstrikes.
Michael O’Hanlon, with the Brookings Institution, said the Obama administration made the right decision to launch airstrikes in northern Iraq, but said more might be needed.
He urged the government to consider sending up to several thousand special forces and “mentor teams” into Iraq to help the Iraqi army in its fight against the Islamic State.
And he suggested the latest brutal act might spur more countries in the region to align with Baghdad and Washington.
“I think this will shake some sense into countries that wanted to have it both ways up until now,” he told Fox News.
Congressional lawmakers urged the Obama administration to crank up the offensive against the Islamic State after another video surfaced purporting to show the graphic execution of an American journalist.
Two weeks after American James Foley was beheaded by his Islamic State captors, a video emerged Tuesday afternoon claiming to show freelance journalist Steven Sotloff being executed in the same way.
The White House and State Department said intelligence officials are working quickly to determine the video’s authenticity. If it is genuine, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, “We are sickened by this brutal act.”
But U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle urged tough and swift action in response.
“Let there be no doubt, we must go after ISIS right away because the U.S. is the only one that can put together a coalition to stop this group that’s intent on barbaric cruelty,” Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said in a statement.
Nelson added that he plans on filing legislation next week that would give President Obama authority to order airstrikes against ISIS in Syria.
Sotloff had been held since last year by Islamic State militants. As before, the executioner in the video claimed the act was a message to the United States in response to airstrikes.
“I am back Obama, and I am back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State,” the person in the video said.
The administration, while launching another humanitarian mission in northern Iraq in recent days and sustaining a campaign of airstrikes around the Mosul Dam and elsewhere, continues to deliberate over the next steps – and whether to expand airstrikes across the border into Syria, where the Islamic State has a stronghold.
The president, drawing criticism from some GOP lawmakers, acknowledged last week that his team does not have a strategy yet for confronting ISIS in Syria.
With the president en route to Europe for meetings with allies and a NATO summit, it’s unclear whether the latest video might change, or accelerate, the administration’s planning.
Without commenting specifically on whether the U.S. military should go into Syria, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., said Tuesday that the U.S. needs to be “acting urgently” to arm the Kurds in northern Iraq and target the Islamic State with drone strikes.
“Sadly, ISIS is bringing this barbarity across the region – beheading and crucifying those who don’t share their dark ideology,” he said. “The threat from this group seems to grow by the day.”
Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., a member of the House intelligence committee, also said in a statement that “we cannot afford to allow these terrorists to continue their march.”
Asked Tuesday about the terror group, Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said the U.S. “absolutely” has a strategy for the Middle East and a “clear” mission in Iraq.
“We are there to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces as they take the fight to ISIL. We are there to provide humanitarian assistance where and when we can,” he said.
Psaki said the U.S. wants to see the group “destroyed” but it won’t be “an overnight effort.”
Analysts and others, though, said some elements of the approach will have to change.
Former U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson, speaking with Fox News, called for a “kitchen sink approach” and – like in Iraq years ago – a “coalition of the willing” to increase training, military aid and airstrikes.
Michael O’Hanlon, with the Brookings Institution, said the Obama administration made the right decision to launch airstrikes in northern Iraq, but said more might be needed.
He urged the government to consider sending up to several thousand special forces and “mentor teams” into Iraq to help the Iraqi army in its fight against the Islamic State.
And he suggested the latest brutal act might spur more countries in the region to align with Baghdad and Washington.
“I think this will shake some sense into countries that wanted to have it both ways up until now,” he told Fox News.
The best way of organizing a society was always among the most important questions of philosophical thought. Through the centuries many prominent thinkers analyzed this issue, from Socrates and Plato, to Friedrich Nietzsche and Albert Camus.
Immanuel Kant gives the easy answer, who named four kinds of government. The one that describes Ukraine’s reality best is called barbarism, or force without freedom and law. Interestedly the most preferable way of organization according to common sense and Kantian definition would be anarchy, which is law and freedom without force. Yet he believed that the law is only an "empty recommendation" without force.
But still it differs much from the opinion that gained general acceptance according to which anarchy is a form of chaos.
In reality anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be immoral and propagates stateless societies based on non-hierarchical organizations and voluntary associations.
Ukraine has a long history of building stateless societies: centuries of Zaporizhian Sich , a Cossack military pseudo-state, which lead to the constitution of Pylyp Orlyk, a document that pre-dated the American constitution and established the separation of powers in government between the legislative, executive, and judiciary branches.
But to understand what is happening in Ukraine today it is important to recall the recent Occupy Wall Street movement in the U.S. and its slogan of “We are the 99 percent”. The movement picked up steam rather quickly, made a lot of noise and garnered attention all over the world, and then it was gone. It was gone from the front pages of newspapers as fast as it had occupied them.
The main issues raised were social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the excessive influence of corporations on the government. The main driving force was dissatisfaction with income inequality and the distribution of wealth between the richest 1 percent and the rest of the population. That was in 2011, but unfortunately all these problems are still relevant as they were 100 and 1,000 years ago.
Now, more than two years later, Euromaidan in Kyiv picks up the baton. But with
the social phenomenon come the multipliers of national spirit, taste for human
dignity and thirst for true freedom.
More than 4,600 miles apart, the Maidan and Zuccotti Park in New York City have
much in common. In Zuccotti park, several thousand participants set up an
encampment and called it Liberty Plaza – Kyiv’s Maidan is known as Independence
Square.
The importance of the internet and social networks is hard to overestimate for each of these movements. Production of posters, music, organization, food, marches, work, sleep, and confrontations with police is all had in Kyiv. Even journalist Tim Pool, who is known for his 21-hour marathon coverage of Occupy Wall Street protests, is currently working at Maidan.
But this is where history seems to take a different turn. After New York City
Mayor Michael Bloomberg decided to "clean up" the area, police drove protesters
out of their camp and they were forced to leave Zuccotti Park, dispersed into
the city and pushed out of news headlines.
Former Mayor Oleksandr Popov also allegedly declared that the area needs to be
cleaned up for the holidays. The coincidences are not accidental in any way, as
people learn from each other to fight for their rights, so do the governments
learn to protect themselves.
But on the night of Dec. 11, when police like thugs in the middle of the night
tried to end a Ukrainian peaceful protest by force, something went wrong for the
government.
Thousands of people came to support the protest and defend their freedom. And
when the police were outnumbered, the assault drowned in the ocean of the
adamant die-hard protestors. On that night one of the protest movement’s main
slogans was spawned: “I am a drop in the ocean.”
Even though the majority may still believe that the failure of the Occupy
movement was due to the lack of commitment, proper organization or clear goals,
it is becoming evident that it didn’t just run out of gas, or became confused,
it was cynically destroyed by a concerted effort of the government machine. It
is the same type of machine, but ours has just gone rabid.
The truth is, Ukraine is still at the crossroads, but this choice it is not
about Russia or Europe. It has nothing to do with that. It is about dignity and
freedom.
Unfortunately Europe failed to realize what was going on in Ukraine or was just
too reluctant to go the extra mile. And the U.S., while it keeps losing its
geopolitical weight, was either completely not ready for the course of events or
crossed out Ukraine from its geopolitical agenda a long time ago.
While America makes vague statements about possible financial sanctions, people
continue to get beaten and even killed, their cars catch on fire, their
relatives receive threat and their human rights are getting stepped on every
day. It is now obvious, that only a radical restructuring of the government
system will help reduce the tension.
People are waiting for a new social contract consisting of strong social
solidarity, common sense fiscal policy, enough room for individuality, freedom
of speech and expression, and clear and flexible mechanisms for government
control between the elections. Only then can overdue changes be implemented.
Of course, one cannot defeat the government by playing by its rules. But let’s
not forget that the game is played on our territory where only we have right to
set the rules. And what’s more important – without us there is no game at all.
We will not lose until we refuse to submit and we will not submit until we
refuse to lose. We are all fighting with old forces and evil, and now finally we
can win.
Will Ukrainian opposition leaders overcome their lack of commitment and unity
and formulate a plan of action? The question remains open. But the truth is,
maybe we don’t need them anymore. The time has come not only to say that “We are
the 99 percent,” but to realize it too. We have been ignored, laughed at, fought
against, according to Gandhi now we are supposed to win.
Will this protest be the turning point of the new era for Ukraine and its
people? Will Ukraine which for many centuries had no own state be able to
produce its unique answer to the question of self-organization? Soon we will
know the answer. If nothing else, this protest will pave the way for many more
to come inside as much as outside Ukraine.
Vitalij Dubenskyj is a Ukrainian journalist, analyst, ex-trader and interpreter.
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Aug 8, 2014 ... ... the events in the face of the tragic and barbaric attack by the Zionist regime against the oppressed and defenseless Palestinians in Gaza.”.
www.greatdreams.com/blog-2012/dee-blog138.html - Similarto Dee Finney's blog February 19, 2012 page 138 Whitney ...
Feb 19, 2012 ... ... common throughout the Old World, and came to be widely looked down upon as barbaric already in pre-modern times (Classical Antiquity).
www.greatdreams.com/political/fear/fear_factor.htm
Feb 7, 2005 ... That in itself reveals the barbaric state of the American justice system. Whether the little boy is prosecuted or not, it is safe to assume that the ...
www.greatdreams.com/political/kennedy/twilights-last-gleaming.htm
May 19, 2007 ... ... website to a Christian hate site that calls Islam "a false religion. . .nothing more than a barbaric occult (sic) invented by savages for savages.
www.greatdreams.com/death/Jabberwocky.htm
Feb 14, 2003 ... ... Lord of the Flies, which details the adventures of British schoolboys stranded on an island in the Pacific who descend into barbaric behavior.
www.greatdreams.com/blog/dee-blog44.html
Sep 19, 2011 ... By this barbaric violence against the G–d and people of Israel they try to prevent this even through such a terrible revolt and violence against ...
www.greatdreams.com/trade_day2.htm - Similarto TERRORISM - WORLD TRADE CENTER - DAY 2 - 9-12-2001
Sep 12, 2001 ... ``It doesn't matter who did it or what they were upset about, but taking that many innocent lives is a price that's barbaric,'' said Chen Xiao, who ...
www.greatdreams.com/holograms.htm - Similarto THE SAFE HOUSE - HOLOGRAMS
Mar 24, 2002 ... He's a patriotic yogi and keeper of ancient faith, whose mission for ages has been to stem the tide of barbaric conquerors overrunning India.
www.greatdreams.com/terror/texas_city.htm - Similarto The Explosion: 50 Years Later, Texas City Still Remembers
Jan 31, 2006 ... Dealing with domestic enemies must be dealt with in a less barbaric and constitutional manner. It would be nice if we could organize a 100 ...
www.greatdreams.com/blog-2012-3/dee-blog328.html
Oct 8, 2012 ... They are not even allowed to rebuild their homes which were destroyed during the 22-day barbaric attacks by the Zionist regime while the ...
www.greatdreams.com/political/six_needles.htm - Similarto SIX NEEDLES - Dreams of the Great Earth Changes
The effects were instantaneous as they discovered but it was a practice the Chinese considered barbaric and subversive. 1527 During the height of the ...
www.greatdreams.com/war/israel_divided.htm
Aug 2, 2008 ... It was a barbaric gambit to bring the West to its knees by bringing death to its door. By 2004, Israel had decided to block its doorway. Today ...
www.greatdreams.com/religin3.htm - Similarto WORLD RELIGIONS - Dreams of the Great Earth Changes
One philosopher and religious teacher named Sankara traveled all over India urging the people to cease the barbaric practices of widow-burning and sacrifice.
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