Eric Arnow

Zen practice in zen Buddhism teaches how to work out your own salvation

Zen Buddhism for the New and Curious

Zen Buddhism for the New and Curious   While I spend a lot of time on geopolitics, I see the world through the lens of my experience as a Zen Buddhist practitioner, going back 50 years. I am of the opinion, that both our own personal and interpersonal problems can improve with meditation practice, I think it can also help in the world situation. Can you imagine what would happen (yeah, not likely but still) if world leaders sat down and meditated on what they’re doing, calming down and letting go of their inflated egos? Every time we calm our …

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A scene from one of many damned wars

From 1968 to 2024, It’s NOT the “Politics of Joy, It’s the Damned Wars!”

It’s the Damned Wars, that the Politicians Keep Paying for. Senator Lindsay Graham says the US should attack Iran’s energy resources. He forgets that Iran could block the flow of oil out of the Persia Gulf, sending the world economy into collapse. We no longer have adults with any kind of wisdom sitting in positions of power in Washington, DC. We’ve got emotional children and that’s exactly what Lindsey Graham is he’s he’s a child he’s old enough to know better but certainly …. I guess wants to embrace ignorance as his mantle —-Larry Johnson, former CIA officer and intelligence …

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War Is On Our Side

We’re Headed Like Lemmings Towards War The past couple of days, I’ve been in contact with two dear friends of mine, one going back 20 years, another goinng back over 50 years. The topic is about the upcoming election, and since all three of us come from an anti Vietnam war background, we share a lot in common. So with the apparent ascendancy of Kamala Harris, a mistress of San Francisco ‘queen maker’, Willie Brown paving the way to her career to State office and and now Vice President and heir apparent, the question comes up whether to vote for …

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The Roman version of the Neocon Admissions: The assassination of Julius Caesar.

5 Highly Ominous Neocon Admissions

Husband and Wife Neocon Admissions: Did They Confess in Advance?   Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland are husband and wife, and both associated with NeoCons. Who Is Robert Kagan?   Robert Kagan (/ˈkeɪɡən/; born September 26, 1958) is an American columnist and political scientist. He is a neoconservative[1] scholar. He is a critic of U.S. foreign policy and a leading advocate of liberal interventionism.[2][3] A co-founder of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century,[4][5][6] In 2008, Kagan wrote an article titled “Neocon Nation: Neoconservatism, c. 1776” for World Affairs, describing the main components of American neoconservatism as a belief in the rectitude of applying US moralism to …

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favorite soviet and russian songs

My 18 Favorite Soviet and Russian Songs

Soviet and Russian Songs One of the best ways to keep up your spirit, is by songs. These are some of my favorite Soviet and Russian songs from mostly the Soviet Union, USSR,  as well as from the Russian Federation.  Many are so inspiring, encouraging us and exhorting us to “Look forward”, honoring the incredible heroism of those past, and present.   The Soviet Anthem “United forever in friendship and labor”. You can’t get much better than that. Imagine a country united in a common vision!         Glory to the Ones Who Look Forward   This song …

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The Monument to Sunken Ships in Sevastopol Harbor, located in Crimea and Sevastopol

Crimea and Sevastopol: 1 Week of “Living Dangerously”?

Crimea and Sevastopol: My 2015 Trip [updated July, 2024] Between May 13-20, 2015 I took a trip to Crimea and Sevastopol, on the Black Sea. It is at the center of the controversy and sanctions against Russia these days. Sevastopol is a major seaport on the Crimean Peninsula, and I was interested to see for myself what is going on there, especially in light of the historical connection between that city, and Sebastopol, Sonoma County, which is named after it.  I used to live near Sebastopol, California, so I had a personal interest in seeing this historic city. And Sonoma …

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The Decline of the West Revisited

Following the catastrophic folly and hubris of European elites known as the Great War, or later as World War I, Oswald Spengler, a German author and analyst, created a study of how Empires rise and fall, and used those lessons to predict the “winter” of the Western Empire project. Here I offer my thoughts on some of the lessons to be learned from this book, The Decline of the West, or in German, Der Untergang des Abendlandes My role here is to spread awareness. So, please consider visiting my Shops and buy a T-Shirt with a message. They are conversation starters …

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collective unconsciousness: buried memories of US presidents

Collective Unconsciousness: The Buried Memories about US Presidential Histories

There is Collective Unconscousness about How These Three American Presidents Died Collective Unconsciousness: Recovering Historical Memory about US Presidents’ Assassinations and Rigged Elections US Electoral Politics Explained in Two Minutes Introduction The purpose of this article is to wake people out of their collective unconsciousness, and to awaken historical memory of our dysfunctional system of Presidential elections, and in extreme cases, of violent termination of Presidents who ‘don’t follow orders’. Selective Prosecution Has anyone ever noticed how Presidents or candidates that the other side doesn’t like get prosecuted on irrelevant stuff, while NOT prosecuting them on serious actual crimes? Nixon …

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Too Often, Google Fails Badly as a Search Engine: It Omits Inconvenient Information

All Too Often, Google Fails Badly. Why? All too often, a search in Google fails badly because it omits inconvenient information, that’s why. And it’s why you must question everything. Let me explain. Since the coming of the ‘information messiah’, Google, the very notion of seeking information, or even ‘the Truth’, has become immortalized as the new verbal imperative, “Google it”. You’re told that if you want to know about something, just go to Google or Google Chrome, or even some of the other search engines built on Google, such as Duck Duck Go, or even Brave. And you’re ‘sure’ …

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rockin in the free world. A homelss person sleepng on a bench with a US flag as a blanket.

Tony Blinken Rockin in the Free World: American Schizoid

Tony Blinken: Rockin in the Free World or American Schizoid Man? In Kiev, Ukraine, Tony Blinken sang the chorus to the iconic song by Neil Young from 1989. Only, he didn’t bother to sing the actual lyrics—a total indictment of everything Blinken stands for. There’s colors on the street Red, white, and blue People shuffling their feet People sleeping in their shoes There’s a warning sign on the road ahead There’s a lot of people saying we’d be better off dead Don’t feel like Satan, but I am to them So I try to forget it any way I can[Chorus] …

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