A friend in Crimea asked me to read a troubling article about the situation in Crimea. So last night I read Paul Roderick Gregory's article in a forest as the sun set over Belmont, North Carolina.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2014/03/26/mr-putin-tear-down-that-potemkin-village/
Then today I was posting a drawing of Netanyahu in my ebook Scared of Scorpions: My Year of Hell in the Holy Land, which goes public April 6th (Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/413399),
and it occurred to me that if Netanyahu is ever without a job maybe he can get one with Putin!
A sad point raised in Gregory's article is that a large percentage of Russian citizens themselves do not experience the liberties they see in the West. Could this be yet another to reason to want Crimea for Russia? "I suffer but at least I can go to Crimea..."
It is for this reason I feel Americans should be speaking directly with Russian people, because Americans are suffering also. Large companies hire part-time workers so as to avoid paying benefits, and it's impossible to see how average people survive. (My sister went to a hospital to speak with a psychiatrist about a very serious operation. Her bill was over $500 for the doc to relay the same info which he probably shares with patients a few times a week.)
Know this: Although I go to the forest occasionally virtually none of the neighbors have ever been there. It is considered too dangerous in small-town America to go to a forest and be among the trees and birds. At least this is true for this town in North Carolina.
Did you know that Einstein supported a supranational government? It's time for people of the world to sidestep their leadership in a common dialogue without influence of the military industrial establishment, lobbies and prejudices. That means in the US instead of referring to Israel as "our friend in the Middle East"--an implication that others are not our friends--Americans and their news services and talking heads would regard Syria as also our friend, and approaching the PEOPLE of Iran in ways around the government sanctions which hurt Iranians.
I wanted to post Impotent Again, a music video, on YouTube, for my birthday yesterday, April 1st, but held back. I just couldn't do it! I decided it would be nicer to go to the forest.
Today I did post on YouTube my music video There's a Child (a tribute to Iraq War refugees). It's here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rTpGv50cPw
Would you rather learn about Iraq War refugees or Impotent Again?
