.- constantly (?) updaded, PM, a web log of mine.

- a recent conference in NYC (Sept. 11/09) honoring Alfred Korzybski whose Whatever you say something is--it is not has all of my respect, 
I addressed The Holocaust in 1,000 Years at Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus 
Their theme: Across the Generations:  Legacies of Hope and Meaning.
Their program.
An International Conference sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics, co-sponsored by the New York Society for General Semantics, Media Ecology Association, Buckminster Fuller Institute, Viewpoints Research Institute, Taos Institute, Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Lifwynn Foundation for Social Reserach and Fordham University

- another NYC conference on War and the Arts, at the School of Visual Arts, led to this ensuing interview in Bomb Magazine's Blog.

- my recent "15 minutes" in St. Louis
- really not far

- the Haaretz, Common Dreams websites.
- can we think "outside the box", if all the information is centralized through these ten media conglomerates?

- being paranoid is unfortunately not a mistake in this endangered world. Just check out your own (dirty) backyard with this Scorecard page. The state of siege has been in gear for quite some time with PVC plastics, but does not stop there.
If you happen to be in St. Louis, this is another place to check out.
Maybe you will tread lightly on this earth?

- noise seems to be an integral part of our environment, but some people think it is possible to clean that up too.

- political hysteria/agendas often bypass simpler ways of dealing with conflicts, hence pages dedicated to nonviolence become more relevant, especially in light of the "shock doctrine" described by Naomi Klein.
- in the same spirit of toning down, here the internet frenzy, this letter, aspiring to be a voice of moderation.

- to get to the bottom of things, when we might not know what kindness is (and a bit of Nye's writing)...

If Fascism comes to America, it will come in the name of American Democracy and its advent will be hastened by a refusal to apply to our own problems the insight gained from an objective study of German Fascism.Clifford Kirkpatrick, Nazi Germany: Its Women and Family Life, 1938
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The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life. Adolph Hitler, My New World Order, Proclamation to the German Nation at Berlin, February 1, 1933
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The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them is that they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg trials

my own "interactions"

- an evolving article/webpage very much in progress...

- on-going struggle to move forward with Time To Be (Jews in Paradise) with a first 4 minute installment called Never the less

- some short blurbs on the latest film productions & my so-called ten favorites - my recent "15 minutes"is listed above.
- an arrested web project, Life Sentences to counteract the blind spots that create war.
- a few words responding to someone else‘s commentary on “You shall not oppress a stranger, v' atem yedahtem et nefesh hagehr – for you know the soul of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt“ (Exodus 23:9), published within Shma, a journal of Jewish responsibility.
- some recent writing: Disaster Art: a plea against the fluff and a recent interview in NY Arts Magazine.
- an installation, The Sign of the Witness, in Vienna, Austria.