Retired educator and founder of the Metamode Institute, advancing a forward thinking approach to governance since 1997/Following and reposts not endorsements.
Echoes from the past — 1978
“For me the world belongs to walkers. In the morning, I make for the nearby woods.... It is essential for the spirit to start the day in the open day. Trees or birds...they are simply the background to my thoughts, my form of poetry.”
#JeanMonnet
@AuschwitzMuseum
The words evoke the deepest possible feelings of collective
#shame
and
#guilt
, that human beings could subject their fellows with such contempt and bureaucratic barbarity.
@99blackbaloons
George, your graph and your opening statement describe an imminent catastrophic scenario for humanity. It reminded me of a key line from the film
#Oppenheimer
: "They won't fear it until they understand it, and they won't understand it until they use it." A similar remark could be
@tribelaw
On target.
I would not call it a forecast. Futurists of the period, including Alvin and Heidi Toffler, had expressed similar concerns. American society is in decline and in great need of a miracle to reverse the presently unfolding social dynamics.
@Liz_Cheney
@AdamKinzing
@VP
@ZelenskyyUa
@NATO
With
#Sweden
in and
#Turkey
’s support, a quick ratification of
#Ukraine
’s membership in
@NATO
could also be a significant game changer in the war. It might bring it to a quick end and with the total withdrawal by the RF from all occupied territories.
#NATO
will be speaking on
How media ‘fluff’ helped Hitler rise to power a review of University of Buffalo historian
@DespinaStratigakos
' book, Hitler at Home (2015).
Merits at the very least a cursory reading to remember that in order to meet consumer's interests in such stories
@olga_chyzh
1 Excellent thread, Prof Chyzh. There is an eerie but sad logic to the narrative that you present. Perhaps someday soon, and for many of us that day has already arrived, we will be able to encounter each other as human beings regardless of our ethnic origins.
#Ukraine
#Moldova
@GretaThunberg
Congratulations on graduating from school!
You have been an excellent role model to a generation of young people around the world who will inherit
#Earth
from several generations of much older men and women whose poor stewardship over the planet has left it in dire and urgent
@Gerashchenko_en
Dear Anton, coupled with your posting re Russia's Chairman of the Security Council of Russia calling for a civil war in the
#US
, this present quote by Alexander Litvinenko does not bode well for the world.
Stay safe.
Pace e bene
@wolfblitzer
@jimsciutto
@TheLeadCNN
@jaketapper
May Winston’s memory be a blessing to your entire family. G-d knows Winston in a special way as well.
Continue having a good holiday.
Pivo and Swaha also send their condolences.
@tribelaw
Timely words and prediction.
I hope and pray that my neighbours to the south of the 49th parallel will not have to go through another GOP Administration, which sadly, has earned the right to be called a Regime, practising a most irresponsible and uncaring form of
#conservatism
.
@ZelenskyyUa
What else can you expect from a generation of
#EU
and
#NATO
leaders who have NO personal experience and memory of the root causes for the creation of the very institutions of which their respective countries are members? So far the
#UkraineWar
has been good for their military
@KWasilewski
Holy God.
Holy and mighty,
Holy and immortal
Have mercy on us!
God be ever close to us
During these terrible times.
#PrayForUkraine
Pieta’, Signore
@tribelaw
Very sad and frightening situation! How is that even possible in the:
Home of the
#IvyLeagueSchools
?
Home of the most
#NobelLaureates
(411+)?
Home of the
#4thEstate
?
Home of numerous scientific achievements and feats in space exploration?
A House terribly divided being
@guyverhofstadt
Long, long overdue! Keep up the good fight for positive and innovative
#EU
reform, Guy.
Thresholds re for unacceptable behaviour with appropriate disciplinary action, including the triggering of Article 50, should also be instituted. Only fully committed members to the 'grand
@tribelaw
In the end all these binary choices you note, Professor Tribe, are reducible to one choice which transcends them all: an existential choice between
#good
and
#evil
, regardless of the countless spins 'the other side' and broadcast and social media might want to put on the matter.
@Yvan_Baker
Simply proof that there is a parallel universe. We are it. The other is south of the 49th parallel, the
#US
, where the same playbook is being used in the House of Representatives. The end-game is the same: win in the next federal election and take control of the government.
God
@PhysInHistory
This conversation would be pointless if it were not undergirded by key elements of actuality, of reality.
As quoted by Prof Roger
@penrose
in his book, Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe (2016),
#Einstein
wrote:
“In a complete theory there is an
@TimothyDSnyder
The Republic is ceasing to exist--I agree.
The acquisition of control over the richest public purse in history has become more important than defending and promoting the espoused principles and values which undergird the Republic's Constitution.
The very systems of education
@POLITICOEurope
At what human costs?
To state the obvious: the
#StateOfIsrael
has become unrecognizable, a complete opposite of
#TheodorHerzl
's dream of a homeland for the Jewish people worldwide, and a blatant contradiction of the core beliefs and values of the
#AbrahamicReligions
.
The words
@CarterCenter
May
#RosalynnCarter
's memory be truly a blessing to all women in positions of power and public service.
May God grant eternal memory and blessed repose to Rosalynn and bring comfort to her grieving family and friends.
#FirstLadyRosalynnCarter
@TimothyDSnyder
Good thread, Timothy.
Food for thought. It would seem, however, that the principals concerned have abandoned thought, and the reasonableness standard of the law. One would think that by doing so they would have thereby forfeited their legitimacy as justices for after all they are
@Gerashchenko_en
May Sophia’s memory be a blessing to all the children of
#Ukraine
. May G-d grant eternal memory and blessed repose to her and bring comfort to her family and friends.
What impact would it have on your position re
@NATO
’s and
#EU
’s direct intervention in
#UkraineRussianWar
if your
@SpokespersonCHN
Hope that is the case and that the telephone call becomes a turning point in the war, a war which was unprovoked and which has resulted in the violation of the territorial integrity of
#Ukraine
and the killing of thousands of soldiers (on both sides) and civilians.
@ZelenskyyUa
@cafreeland
@JustinTrudeau
@cafreeland
, congratulations! Your hard work, determination, perseverance, endurance & strong negotiation efforts have yielded positive results for Canadians. Congratulations to your Team! You should be very proud!
Much success in your speech to the
#UNGA
today!
@AuschwitzMuseum
The
#Holocaust
forever underscores the evil potential human beings possess, regardless of race, ethnic affiliation, colour or creed and epoch, to inflict the most horrific acts and suffering on their fellows.
May G-d grant eternal memory and blessed repose on all the victims of
@TimothyDSnyder
I cannot believe that we find ourselves at this critical juncture in American history: that
#WeThePeople
might turn their back on the great human experiment "...to form a more perfect
#Union
, establish
#Justice
, insure domestic
#Tranquility
, provide for the common defense,
@BarackObama
May G-d grant eternal memory and blessed repose to
#NewtMinow
, and bring comfort to his grieving family.
My condolences and prayers go out to you, Nell (
@nminow
), your sisters Mary and Martha and to all the grandchildren.
May Newt’s memory be blessing to his family and friends,
Viewed first episode, season 7, of
#CallTheMidwife
. My wife and I enjoyed it immensely.
@Leonie_Elliott
and her interpretation of the new character Lucille adds a new & valuable dimension to the series. The scripts continue to capture and ennoble the human experience. Thank you!
In this in-depth interview, our new recruit
@Leonie_Elliott
tells BUILD all about her experience of joining
#callthemidwife
: the audition process, playing Lucille in series 7... and working with those legendary actresses :-)
@vonderleyen
1 We should all be very happy for the people of
#China
that their hard work has resulted in the emergence of their nation as an “economic powerhouse and a key global player”. Whatever adjustments the
#EU
makes re this newly acquired status it should be met with…
Che bellissima veduta di
#Roma
. Grazie,
@TrastevereRM
!
Vorrei augurare una calma serata pensierosa e serena a tutti voi ed ai vostri cari! Che i vostri pensieri siano tutti felici e gioiosi!
@NobelPrize
@kkariko
Incredible interview with
#KatalinKariko
!
Congratulations, Katalin, on being awarded the
#NobelPrize
!
Everyone should listen to the pearls of wisdom you share, especially those on
#parenting
, the importance of
#family
, and on you personal determination to never give up in life
@prem_thakker
A tale of two states. Which one will the children remember the most in their adult years?
#Affluence
for all is within our grasp. We just need enough affluent hearts and spirits to make it happen.
@Liz_Cheney
The sad part is that the past POTUS was right in this one fact: 'the system is rigged', now rigged in his favour. Barring any nefarious activities, even if Pres
@JoeBiden
overwhelmingly wins the popular vote, the past POTUS might still be able to win the electoral college vote.
@AuschwitzMuseum
May Eva’s and Liane’s memory be a blessing to a world experiencing as ever a great deficit of conscience, innocence, humility and goodness.
@merry123459
Thank you for reposting this April 26, 2024 posting by
@MarkJCarney
. An excellent narrative for Canada's future or for that matter the world's future, including the
#US
.
A demonstration of the kind of leadership we most urgently need here in Canada and the world.
If only we could
@SpokespersonCHN
1 Well done, Ms Chunying!
All states do live in glass houses.
However, this sad, existential fact does NOT excuse or justify the senseless carnage and destruction being waged by Mr Putin in
#Ukraine
. Nor did it justify Joseph Stalin’s policies and equally senseless treatment…
@WomenWagePeace
Excellent set of statements re
#IsraelArabConflict
and war. A must read by all responsible leaders on both sides of the Conflict. After all it is women's children who are recruited and sent to fight for the political and economic interests of the few.
May the memory of all women
@TSchwarzbard
May Abe's and Ed's memory and the memory of all those individuals who lost their life on that day and thereafter as a result of the 911 terrorist attacks be a blessing to their loved ones they left behind and to the American people.
#911NeverForget
#911Remembrance