THOUGHTS, MUSES AND RANTS OF JAH

  Here’s a thought for today: How about finding a news source that is interested in “…reporting the truth to get money out of politics and calling out mainstream media “ by empowering “people to demand positive change for all, not just the wealthy few. • Accountable government working for the people • Equal opportunity and access to education • Equal and affordable access to healthcare • Equal justice • Healthier planet and people . Personal freedom of choice • Policy and people over profit” Are these things we can all agree on? Learn about the candidates before Election Day and vote for the ones who support these issues. Don’t let them fool you by telling you these are red or blue issues, that these are left or right issues. Instead, tell the politicians that these are human issues, the rights of a free people, and it is past time that you were treated as a human and not like sheep. However, we have a big problem. We are not one of the most literate countries in the world. About h...

  In 1959, Bertrand Russell, the Nobel Prize-winning philosopher, mathematician and peace activist was just short of his 87th     birthday, when he gave wide-ranging interviews to the BBC and the CBC. In one interview by John Freeman that was being filmed, Freeman, had one last question:     “Suppose, Lord Russell, this film were to be looked at by our descendants, like a Dead Sea scroll in a thousand years time, what would you think it's worth telling that generation about the life you've lived and the lessons you've learned from it?” Russell:    “I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral: The intellectual thing, I should want to say to them, is this: When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: "What are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out?" Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or by what you think could have beneficial social effects, if ...

      I am a survivor I am a husband. I am a father. I am a grandfather. I am a brother. I am a brother-in-law I am an uncle. I am a great uncle. I am a nephew. I am a cousin. I am a friend. I am Mi’kmaq. I am Canadian. I am American. I am French. I am not Christian. I was raised Jewish. I am not religious. I am spiritual. If you hurt, I hurt. I was stolen at birth. I am transcultural I am First Nation/French Canadian. I am me, no better nor worse than you.  I try to do good in this world not out of a fear of hell or promise of heaven, but because it feels better not to be an arsehole. There was a time when the KKK wore hoods to hide their identity out of embarrassment. Today, white supremacists, neo-Nazis, stand up on a soap box for all to see. Do you really think our Constitutional and human rights are not at risk of extinction? If so, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. If you are not Evangelical or far right, today’s Republican Party does not represent you a...

  “Ok so y’all remember the other day when I was at work and no one was there?     Well it turned out that for an hour, because I didn’t want to text anyone at 5 in the morning, I was pretty much in the dark as to why not a soul was there but me.   I had kinda figured out that since there was no internet service they might have postponed the start time and no one thought to let me know but I’m just guessing.   I went through all kind of scenarios in my head.    Like there was a big party and everyone was hung over. I kinda figured out that probably was not probable.   So I figured I’d wait till 6 and if no one showed up I’d text someone.    So I went outside and got my phone I leave in the car and noticed that not even outside were there any people or cars.    But it is just a bit after 5am on a Saturday so that’s not surprising.   I go back in and I’m still running scenarios in my head.    Li...

  We were warned but did not listen. Are we listening now? Does this sound like anyone you can think of? “When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents... despotic in his ordinary demeanor - known to have scoffed in private at the principles ofliberty - when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity - to join in the cry of danger to liberty - to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion - to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day - it may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.” Sound familiar yet? No, those are not my words. They are from 1792, written by Alexander Hamilton. Yes, that Hamilton. It is amazing and sad that so many throughout history have warned us what kind of government would take over if the people lost the inte...

The Case For Bernie Sanders https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-case-for-bernie-sanders-32470/ Inside The Horror Show That Is Congress https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/inside-the-horror-show-that-is-congress-177955/ Bernie could have bagged it, Rolling Stone political commentator Matt Taibbi says https://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/11/09/news/bernie-could-have-bagged-it-rolling-stone-political-commentator-matt-taibbi-says Meet The Liberty Alum Who’s Feeling The Bern https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/09/meet-the-liberty-alum-whos-feeling-the-bern.html Biblical Argument For Bernie  https://clyp.it/eusxalwe Partial transcript:  When I heard Bernie speaking in that way, when I saw that guy on stage at Liberty University, I saw John the Baptist...crying out to the religious leaders, the Pharisees of his day, calling them corrupt and complicit with those who have all the power and all the money and all the wealth, and abandoning the people that God loves...

  A Girl Like Her Feature -  47 min From 1945-73, 1.5 million unmarried young American women, facing enormous social pressures, surrendered babies to adoption. Lacking sex education and easy access to birth control, they were forced into hiding while pregnant and then into “abandoning” their infants. In her latest film, Ann Fessler, Professor of Photography at Rhode Island School of Design, reprises the subject of her award-winning The Girls Who Went Away (National Book Critics Circle; Ballard Book Prize), which Ms. readers named an all-time best feminist book.  In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. Like it or not, people, but this is where Trump’s Supreme Court, the current Republican Party, want to take us back to. The past is th...

OPINION Who is Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont? Since June of 2015 I have been attempting to tell you because the Main Street Corporate Media won’t out of fear. They push corporatocracy over democracy and have villainized the one person who has spent his whole life fighting for your rights and still is. Mark Twain put it this way: It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. Bernie has been castrated by the Clintons, James Clyburn, Kirsten Gillibrand, Barbara Boxer, Claire McCaskill, both Republicans and Democrats, because he cares, puts workers rights, the peoples rights, above the profit and greed of billionaires and corporations. What do these naysayers fear? They fear Independent Bernie beholden only to the people, you and me, would dry up their stream of graft, forcing them to live on their salaries. So they conjure up nonsensical labels to describe him that the media will jump on for just as nonsensical sound bites and headlines.  Here, pick...