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Contemplating "in the news" and world situations this morning as we wait for the Weather to arrive.
People suffer through life the world over, but, like ants in our own anthill warring with anthills in the same sandlot, we couldn't care less except for others except for those in our own anthill who share our nonsensical certainties. Mark 9:1 again for its choice word, ἴδωσιν from ὁράω, we fail, and fail is the word, to discern, perceive, realize, comprehend, understand, that Earth is One, and fragile, vulnerable, singular, and at risk in a seemingly boundless, expanding Universe that,
in its rush toward infinity, could not possibly care less whether we destroyed ourselves and our planet. If we are truly created in the image of a Creator God (and not God imagined by us in our image), whose methodology is demonstrably Darwin's Evolution, we are yet eons from evolving into the God of Love that/whom we preach.
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Top image: the Spanish coastguard has rescued three men who stowed away on a tanker that arrived in the Canary Islands from Nigeria by balancing on its rudder just above the waterline.
In a photograph distributed on Twitter by the coastguard on Monday, the three stowaways are shown perched on the rudder of the oil and chemical tanker Alithini II.
Thanksgiving: as we give thanks from our land of plenty, we do not care about these other humans who are trying to escape unspeakable poverty in a land of no possibilities. Indeed, selfishly, greedily, with only our Rights in mind, and protecting ourselves and those we love, we don't even care about those in our own land who live with no possibilities.
"We have not loved thee with our whole heart; we have not love our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry, and we humbly repent." Of all the smug, escapist, arrogant nonsense. We are NOT sorry, nor do we humbly repent - - repentance meaning turn around and go in the opposite direction.
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Tornado in Choctawhatchee Bay as my fingers tippy-tap. Our morning of Weather is approaching. Tornado Warning just south of Freeport.
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In the News. "Three death row prisoners in Japan are taking the government to court as they fight to end the practice of execution by hanging.
The inmates argue hanging - currently the only means of execution in the country - is inhumane.
They are also seeking 33 million yen ($238,000; £198,000) in compensation for psychological distress.
They say that living in fear of death for many years has led to "mental agony", according to Kyodo News.
The Justice Ministry has said it cannot comment on the complaint as it had not received it.
A lawyer for the prisoners, Kyoji Mizutani, says it's hoped the lawsuit will start a conversation about the future of capital punishment in Japan.
The lawsuit comes after two other inmates in Osaka took legal action against same-day executions late last year..
Prisoners are currently notified only hours before they are to be executed, something the government has said is meant to keep them from suffering.
"Death row prisoners live in fear every morning that that day will be their last," said their lawyer, Yutaka Ueda, at the time.
Shortly after this legal action was taken, three people were hanged - the first executions in Japan after a hiatus of nearly two years. In July, a man convicted of killing seven people in 2008 was also executed. There are more than 100 people currently on death row in Japan.
Rights groups have long criticised the practice of hanging, saying it affects the mental health of prisoners, but the government has pointed to high levels of public support for capital punishment. An opinion poll of more than 1,500 people carried out by the Cabinet Office in late 2019 found that 80% of respondents supported the practice."
For myself, constantly battling myself because of my own very strong, certain, lifelong,absolute position on capital punishment, I wonder what percentage of Americans support the practice?
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Residents in Iran took to the streets cheering and honking car horns on Tuesday night, celebrating the national team's exit from the World Cup following defeat by the USA in Qatar.
Videos acquired by The Associated Press showed cars out on the streets of Saqqez in the Kurdistan province, and some people chanting "death to the dictator" in reference to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader. In Mahabad, people could be seen dancing on the streets. Iran's western, Kurdish-majority areas have seen waves of unrest in recent months amid nationwide protests against the government. The team's loss is viewed by some as a victory against what they see as oppression by the government.
So how was this supposed to work? Were American fans supposed to identify Iran’s national soccer team with the hope and fear and heroism of the protests? Or were Americans supposed to be thinking about their historical antagonism toward the Iranian government—a government that reportedly threatened its soccer players’ families with “torture and imprisonment,” according to CNN, if they refused to sing the anthem before Tuesday’s match? The rulers of a country and the people of a country are often very different entities, but the distinction is hard to maintain amid the bright, simple, primary-colors nationalism of a sporting event like the World Cup.
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Iran: a classic example of what happens when religious certainty comes to power. It could happen here too. We are our own gravest threat to our American way of life, as November 2022 ends having only temporarily avoided the worst and most hateful evil of us, but our future is ominous.
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Tornado and Life Warnings. Now is a good Time to locate, relocate, to a safe spot.
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