HUNGARY HAS TAKEN MORE UKRAINIAN WAR REFUGEES THAN ANY OTHER NATION

 That is per-capita.

ACKNOWLEDGING THE PAIN AND SUFFERING CAUSED BY SENSELESS WAR - SHUT UP DONALD TRUMP

I've been listening to and watching news on UKRAINE and the invasion by Russia as well as, now, Belarus, feeling sick. I'm also totally disgusted with ex President Donald Trumps open mouthy admiration for Putin.  Even an ex-President can have personal opinions, but as I see it, this is treasonous behavior.  As a public figure who was our President, his inability to know what is appropriate is astounding. There is also a total lack of sensitivity to the fact that this is not a war in which an army faces and army but a brutal attack on innocent civilians. 

I'M LUCKY THAT I LIVE IIN A COUNTRY WHERE OPINIONS ARE DIVERSE AND I CAN EXPRESS MINE. I'm glad I can blog and say so.

WHAT CAN WE SAY ABOUT SPIRITS IN HUMAN  BODIES WHO ARE OPPORTUNISTS AND USERS, WHO WAIT FOR WEAKNESS TO PREY ON OTHERS?

We can recognize EVIL. 

It is very difficult to live in this world when we feel we cannot have impact to turn it right to good.

Life is complicated and difficult and we have to seek out beauty and goodness.

There is a song "Let there Be peace on earth and let it begin with me..."

JOURNALISTIC PRINCIPALS versus OPINION : I QUIT DAILY MAIL UK

Never have I lived in times in which there is so much divisiveness and controversy, so much conspiracy theory, such bending of JOURNALISTIC PRINICIPLES in favor of OPINION, and so many strangers who are angry and willing to tell you how it is.

I try to take my dog with me whenever possible and to include her especially in trips to parks and beaches. This is supposed to be relaxing time, however, I find there is nowhere I can go where even acknowledging another person's presence or chit chatting doesn't run the risk of being subject to a pontification, a diatribe, a lecture.  

That was the case when recently I started taking my dog to the marina late afternoon to watch the chartered fishing boats come in and watch the gulls, pelicans, and occasional sea lion waiting to take part of whatever guts where thrown overboard for them.  I saw a man and his wife with a picnic basket sitting near me.  They were having wine and sandwiches.  The man offered me some wine, which I declined.  Then he started bragging about what deals he had gotten knowing just how to shop.  The wine, he said, was worth four times what he paid for it.  A few minutes later, as his wife sat with a frozen smile on her face he began to tell me the latest conspiracy theories he was sure about regarding Covid. I guessed that she probably has held her tongue for so long she could bite it off.

My opinion on Covid is that if a person is under doctor's care for a ongoing medical condition, they must trust their doctor's advice on this.  If you are treating for cancer, for instance, you probably have an immune system working overtime. However,  people must also respect the society they live in and not be careless about possibly infecting others. Most of the big mouths I meet who are unvaccinated and spinning theories ARE NOT WEARING MASKS. The other issue is the carelessness about allowing other people to afford your medical care - if you have the money to afford excellent medical care and aren't afraid about going broke when you end up fighting for your life in intensive care, well, that's different than sending a $300.000 bill to the tax payers, isn't it?  Unfortunately many of the careless I have met, spinning every conspiracy theory about Covid are on governmental medical insurance such as Medi-Cal. Think about that.

The story that has wiped Covid off the front pages is the evacuation of Afghanistan since the Taliban so quickly took over.  Unfortunately one of the sites I've been reading several times a day regarding Covid, Daily Mail UK, has headlines that are SO CLEARLY BIASED AGAINST OUR PRESIDENT BIDEN such as claiming he was in a fetal position when he was not, that I am trying to avoid ever reading the publication's site again.  It is one of the most read publications on earth - perhaps the second most popular - and therefor powerful, and I find it DISGUSTING first of all that the editors and proofreaders there FAIL TO HONOR OUR PRESIDENT by putting the word PRESIDENT in front of his name. How dare they carry on the INSULTING TRUMPISM of calling him Sleepy Joe.

Biden is aging and he long ago overcame stuttering.  Two of our greatest Presidents hid their disabilities.  President John F. Kennedy hid a serious chronic pain condition and other ailments he had to treat for.  President Franklin D. Roosevelt hid that he was a Polio victim who could not walk.  These two have been an inspiration to so many people who find they are are disabled.

Secondly, no President makes decisions without input from advisors, including military and intelligence, and when a situation rapidly devolves like this one has, that information can change moment by moment.  Also media such as Daily Mail UK is highly dependent on an audience that likes to see the "cheese cake", such as various Kardashians holding cell phone cameras down towards their private parts while they hold their pants out, for readership; it's close to pornography. A great number of articles must reference other publications that printed first. Most of all, it features opinionated personalities and their hyperbole, people whose careers depend on their egos and finding fault and tearing apart, but who rarely have the solution to any problem and have no way to carry out their ideas anyway.

The problem may simply be that the British and Great Britain is really not that interesting and must go outside itself and to America to find something to write about and publish.  The country may have once dominated the world, but it is a small country, that fits into our state of Georgia, and what if all the news was about what was happening in Georgia? Further, my experience is that is a snobby and self-satisfied nation too.  (Many of us have had the experience of British ex pats coming to America but never giving up their snobbery and self satisfaction enough to ever be Americans.)  Perhaps through it's Opinion Personalities the British wish to hold onto power?

Of course I believe in being able to express opinions.  What has changed is the respect for the other guy.  I recently was sitting outside a coffee house when three opinionated men all started SHOUTING at each other.  I asked them to lower their voices and calm down.  It was competitive.  WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE STATESMANSHIP of DEBATE in which people take turns so that they can HEAR EACH OTHER? 

When you publish your rants in what is an INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION such as Daily Mail Uk, that's just not honest debate. 

I lived through four years of TRUMP, and after his ongoing assault on media by declaring everything and anything that did not AGREE with him to be "Fake News" I can deal with the GENTLEMANSHIP of PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN.  DO NOT FORGET THAT the United States has been in Afghanistan through four presidencies. 

And while the United States is criticized for trying to keep to the deadline, despite terrorist attacks and threats and much uncertainty,  DO NOT FORGET THAT SO MANY OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE ALREADY LEFT.  Once more The United States of America and it's citizens will bear the cost, the brunt, the lives.

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HUNGARY AND REFUGEES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST

REUTERS - EUROPE MIGRANTS HUNGARIAN REFERENDUM full article

EXCERPT:

Prime Minister Viktor Orban has taken an increasingly anti-immigrant stance since the migration crisis escalated last year and opposes a plan, agreed by a majority of EU governments in September, to redistribute 160,000 migrants around the bloc.

Along with Slovakia, Hungary has launched a court challenge against that plan, which will set quotas for each EU country to host a share of the migrants over two years.

DAILY MAIL - HUNGARIAN OUTRAGE AT EUROPEAN UNION REFUGEE PROBLEM


EXCERPT: 

States could refuse to take people for a year - but only if they paid another country 250,000 euros per person to accommodate them.

 

But at a meeting in Prague, ministers from Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic all repeated their opposition to the idea of relocation. 

'It's blackmail, it's unacceptable and a non-European type of proposal from the (European) Commission,' Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said after a meeting with his counterparts from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland in Prague.

'The quota concept is a dead-end street and I would like to ask the Commission not to run into this dead-end street anymore.' 

 

Poland's Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski echoed Szijjarto, saying: 'I'm still wondering if it's a serious proposal, because it sounds like an idea announced on April Fool's Day.'

  

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 In earlier posts I used the example of being an individual who is giving to some friends who have less than me and feeling the difference between the ones who find a way to give back and those who may say Thank You but don't.

 

I will tell you the equivalent of what is happening here is the United States of America, especially in Southern California where we have 50,000 homeless (or more) and there is, first of all, no affordable housing.  Without a stable residence it is near impossible to hold a job. Yet we keep not addressing this problem of poverty among citizens and keep taking in new immigrants.  Granted some of these new immigrants have wealth they bring with them or can prove that their educations and employment history make them valuable to us, because there are not enough Americans available with equal offerings.  That means that there are many people from India coming in with advanced degrees in computer-related fields, scientists and doctors are always welcome.

Still, I would never think to show up in a foreign country and expect the people there to immediately accept me and support me.  THAT'S WHY LEGAL IMMIGRATION EXISTS, so that a country can access it's needs as well as how many people it can accommodate before people show up!

CRYING FOR INNOCENT VICTIMS of TERRORISM - EVIL and BRAINWASHING : OPINON by MAGYAR AMERICAN

Friday night, late, a friend of mine called me with a throb in his throat.  "Did you hear about the terrorism in Paris?  I've met some of the musicians that play in that band! " He explained that they are not a heavy metal or death metal band but took the name of their band as a kind of joke.  Whatever, they do play rock and roll, which is offensive to Moslems, and the terrorists targeted people out to have a good time, if not sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

I had not heard about this latest act of terrorism by Moslem EXTREMISTS, as I'd been feeling under the cold, windy, weather and was laying in bed under a crochet blanket with my dog and reading a book, so I told him I would call him back.  Within fifteen minutes, thanks to the internet on my low budget cell phone, I was able to tell him that the band members themselves were OK.  From that point on I read at least a hundred articles from news services all over the world, especially The Daily Mail - UK, but also the New York Times, Washington Post, and many others, searching for the latest tidbit of information that would bring the whole picture into focus.

Sadly, I will tell you what the whole picture is in one word:  EVIL

And that evil is prevailing makes me feel tearful and depressed.  This morning I wanted to stay in bed under the covers and not get on with my day but I snapped out of it while taking a hot shower and then dressing and putting on makeup and perfume and leaving the house.  I put on my best appearance anyway despite feeling so down.  I knew that I could not quit living my life out of fear...

The American Holiday of Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away and is the beginning of our holiday season with Christmas and the New Year coming up fast and this is the time of year when most people make an effort to share, give generously, and be more loving and tolerant, beginning with their own family and then to strangers. 

I've already bought slices of turkey breast, stuffing bread, pineapple, onions and garlic and ginger, an acorn squash, sweet potato, zucchini, and other ingredients to make a small American feast.  But I'm planning on attending a local community celebration that I went to once years ago that happens to be put on by a local Jewish congregation and is open to everyone of any faith.  It is held outdoors rain or shine and wind and cold might keep me away, but I was looking forward to it, and thinking of asking this particular friend along.  I can easily make my personal thanksgiving meal for the following Sunday's meal.

Now that Moslem EXTREMISTS are killing the innocent outside of SYRIA (where even children have been beheaded and women have been killed for refusing to be sex slaves) well, their TERRORISM has worked.  Paris is terrified.  Certainly London is.  But let's not fool ourselves into thinking that terrorism only takes place in big cities.

I'm afraid to go to this community gathering where hundreds of people will be on Thanksgiving, especially because it is being held at a Jewish temple.  I also hesitate to take the subway.  I fear that the subway would be a great target during rush hour.  Yet I know that our HOMELAND SECURITY and other governmental agencies are doing their best to find terrorists and other criminals who mean to hurt or kill others before they can do so.  Still, I think most people I've been talking to feel a bit paranoid.

There is only one way to understand people who blow themselves up, in an effort to kill others.

THEY HAVE BRAIN WASHED and are in a CULT.

So while I cry for the innocent victims, I decided today, knowing that people from all over the world can read this blog, to talk to you about BRAIN WASHING and CULTS.

What is the difference between a  regular religion and a cult?

A cult often expects you to cut yourself off from your family and friends, which is to say, your support group, and gradually you are surrounded only by people who are indoctrinating you. They isolate you as part of their ownership of you. In a cult, your mail may be censored or kept from you.  You may be denied use of communications such as the phone or e-mail.  You may not be allowed to leave the cult, not even to go out to the doctors or shopping, alone or without permission. You may be expected to give them your money, maybe even sell your house and give them all the money from the sell, and move to live with or near others in the cult.  Without the finances to leave them, they now have more control over you.  They will put you to work, often extensive volunteer work, in exchange for bare necessities or access to the leader or permission to marry.

Women are often sexually exploited in a cult.  They have no right to own their own bodies, to decide when or with whom they will have sex with, or are brainwashed to think that having sex with other cult members or the leader doesn't count when it comes to promiscuity.  They may be forced to marry someone not of their own choosing. Their husband may rule their lives like never before, or the couple will be ordered to not have sex or not have children.

What they tell you BEFORE you give up your family, friends, job, possessions, and MOVE to be with them, and the reality may not match.  But you may, having given up so much, and being idealistic, still decide to give it a try, not knowing you can never own your life again.  (I have to wonder if some of the suicide bombers kill themselves because they see it as a way out!)

Some cults use constant teaching called programming to challenge your normal thought processes.  Some use actual hypnosis, sleep deprivation (keeping you working for days on end without proper sleep), nutritional deprivation (keeping you on a starvation diet, or making you work longer and harder for the reward of a full meal), all of these things making you more and more likely to do things their way and to submit and become part of a hierarchy that is dictated. 

When it comes to acts of violence, which you may or may not have been prone to before you joined or were recruited by the cult, your training includes desensitizing you.  (As I understand it the terrorists in Syria even train children to behead beginning with the use of dolls, which of course cannot feel pain or shed blood.)  Because you have learned to think of other people as the Other, not like you, not part of the cult group, even as the enemy, their humanity is in question.  (The Nazi's did this by comparing the Jews to vermin.)

If you try to leave the cult because you realize it is one and that you do not want to be controlled, you may not have any old friends or family left to take you in.  You may be threatened with violence yourself, or be shunned, attacked verbally, or find yourself the target of slander that makes it impossible for you to regain employment.  (This is the testimony of many an ex Scientologist.) Some cult members have found themselves in desperation and decide to make the best of their situation, and years go by before they can leave, often when the leader dies or the group breaks up.

It's best, whenever you encounter a new religion, or version of your religion, in which your personal freedoms and right to determine your own life or fit into a multicultural society, TO NEVER GET INVOLVED IN A CULT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

However, it is a known fact that some people have, though intensive deceptions, including group hypnosis, joined a cult, totally changing over their life, in as little as one long day, or weekend.  Some cults have recruiters looking for their type of person - someone a bit disgruntled with their own life or the state of the world who is idealistic and believes they can make change - but often also someone who is intelligent, educated, or who has special skills and talents - such as an ability with languages, computer programing, or in the case of terrorists, some history of military use of weaponry.

Here is Southern California, there have been and are many cults.  Some of them are storefront preacher-lead cults.  Rarely are they violent.

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COLUMBUS DAY AFTERTHOUGHTS and THE REFUGEES INCOMING TO HUNGARY and ALL OF EUROPE

Yesterday was a holiday called COLUMBUS Day here in the United States.  It meant that most government offices and schools were closed in honor of the DISCOVERER OF AMERICA.  (I should say THE Americas as he didn't actually land on North America or what would become the United States.)  COLUMBUS DAY IS A TRADITION.

To be honest, a lot of people are just grateful to have a day off, maybe just to go shopping for all the sales that feature early winter clothing.  No one wants that holiday removed from the calendar if it could mean loosing that day off.  (We really do not have much off time here in the States.)  I went out shopping for several hours, something I loath to do, but my neighbor enticed me with a big coupon she had for more savings from the local Macy's.  I barely thought about the discoverer of America or any of the issues now connected to him as I walked the mall and tried on lots of shirts.

As a child the adventures of Columbus, his sailors, and the ships the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, certainly captured our imaginations in school.  How could they have sailed all the way across the ocean in those small rickety ships thinking there were sea monsters at the edge of the world?

I recall that classrooms were decorated on the theme, and that we did art drawings and projects that focused on this adventurer and discoverer.  We tried to imagine what the Native Americans that he and his sailors encounters thought when they saw those ships and saw people who were very light in complexion.  (Our teachers figured we were too young to understand venereal disease.)

These days some of the Native American tribes are particularly upset about the dedication of a day to the man. These days there is speculation that Christopher Columbus was NOT the first European to sail and land on a beach in the New World - America - a CONTINENT  that was either totally unknown or long forgotten.  For a very long time there was no opposition, speculation, or CONSPIRACY THEORIES attached to Columbus and his discovery of America, a voyage that was financed by Queen Isabella of Spain, and about the time that Jews were being converted or expelled from that country.  It was simply a day to be enjoyed.

So maybe it's true that Queen Isabella financed the trip, not for the greed of gold, but actually thought that Columbus could find some place for the Jews to go live?

The expulsion of Jews from various European countries over time is history.  It was thought that all the citizens of a country should be unified in the same religion, the same values and way of life and that it would bring unity.

And I've been reading around Hungary's position as a Christian  (Roman Catholic mostly) country that does not want to take in thousands of fleeing refugees from war torn Syria or anywhere else particularity Moslem.  I was thinking about how countries often have an OFFICIAL RELIGION but here in the United States at the founding of our country it was decided that religious freedom was key.  So recently there have been some statues of Satan popping up in this nation.

Although I understand that people who flee their countries are desperate, leaving everything behind, and risking their lives, and that many of these people end up dead because the boats they paid to get on sink or there is a stampede or illness, I frankly also understand that sometimes a country has to look at it's budget and it's own citizens who are living in poverty, and for Hungary that often means the Rom (gypsies), and admit to itself that it cannot afford to help. 

I'm not picking on Hungary here.  Hungary can fit in our state called "Indiana," but I actually think that until the United States houses all it's own homeless it should stop being parental to the world.

I look at it from a one person standpoint.  I have friends who I like and care about who are in need and maybe I can invite one of them over for dinner once in a while, and I can afford to share food, but I'm not able to pay their rent.

Hungary is also concerned about Moslems because of a history of being occupied by the Moslem Turks for a substantial amount of time, that Christianity and Christian values will be threatened by too many of these refugees.  It may be unpopular to say, but I can understand these fears, especially when it comes to the value, attitudes towards, and treatment of women.

The United States is thought of as a Satan country by Moslem terrorists.  That's why we had 9/11 et el.  A family of Moslems lives down the street peacefully and no one seems to think badly of them just on that basis, but as they are surrounded by people with Western Ways, they must tolerate knowing that their neighbors include people who have sex without being married, women with educations who work at jobs full time and don't have families, and so on.

Germany has taken thousands of refugees willingly.  Germany's economy can afford more.  But as I read around the subject, hours of reading, I found ONE EXCELLENT QUESTION that we should all be asking which is  WHY ARE THE WEALTHY MOSLEM DOMINATED COUNTRIES NOT TAKING THESE REFUGEES? 

Why are they running all the way to Europe?  Is it the reputation of these countries?  Is it that they perceive that the Western World is overall wealthy?  How many of them wish to make major changes in their point of view and lifestyle to fit in, contribute, and cooperate?

Let me make this personal once more.  One of my friends in need has eaten a dozen times at my table this year, and if I could not afford it I wouldn't invite him so no I don't feel used, and on occasion he brings a loaf of bread or a bottle of wine or some other contribution, but has never offered to wash a dish.  Compare him to the friend who is also in need, also eats, sometimes contributes,  but who always offers.

All for Now!


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