Month: November 2016

Montazeri jailed for 6 years for airing father’s audio-tape of 1988 massacre

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The Iranian judiciary has added insult to injury yet again – this time, by jailing Ahmad Montazeri.

On Agust 9th, Ahmad Montazeri published an audio-tape of his late father Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri from 1988 in which Montazeri senior, who was slotted to become the Supreme Leader after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, is heard attempting to dissuade the regime from carrying out Khomeini’s horrific orders to execute all political prisoners who supported the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). In the tape, Montazeri senior calls the planned executions “the greatest crime committed during the reign of the Islamic Republic, for which history will condemn us, has been committed by you (the officials in the meeting). Your (names) will in the future be etched in the annals of history as criminals…Beware of fifty years from now, when people will pass judgment on the leader (Khomeini) and will say he was a bloodthirsty…

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Healing America’s Political Divide

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“There’ll just be four of us for Thanksgiving dinner this year. We’re a politically divided family.” ~Overheard at Whole Foods Market the week before Thanksgiving.

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Healing America’s Political Divide

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Carl Jung: Jung maintained that no child is born a tabula rasa.

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Jung maintained that no child is born a tabula rasa. It is curious that, although this fact is well known and is now generally recognized in the innate “patterns of behavior” in animals, it still a…

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Carl Jung: Jung maintained that no child is born a tabula rasa.

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Carl Jung: Your dream is really the stuff artists work with.

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To Dr. S.Dear Colleague, 27 March 1937As I was reading your dream the thought suddenly struck me that it had almost a literary ring. Have you never thought of using this material for a two-tiered n…

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Carl Jung: Your dream is really the stuff artists work with.

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“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”: A Short Review

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In the Harry Potter universe, house Hufflepuff seems the least exciting. Hufflepuffs are slow, methodical, dedicated, patient and loyal. Astrologically, they are connected with Taurus, which gives …

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Two Ways To ‘Tell It Like It Is’

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Two Ways To ‘Tell It Like It Is’

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Since the presidential election I’ve had a few dreams, experiences, and conversations that heightened my awareness of an issue I’d like to address for the same reasons. I’m talkin…

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