Middletown Media

11/03/2023

I look at you all,
see the love there that's sleeping
while my guitar gently weeps.
I look at the floor,
and I see it needs sweeping.
Still my guitar gently weeps.

I don't know why nobody told you
how to unfold your love.
I don't know how someone controlled you.
They bought and sold you.

I look at the world,
and I notice it's turning
while my guitar gently weeps.
With every mistake,
we must surely be learning.
Still my guitar gently weeps..

I look from the wings
at the play you are staging
while my guitar gently weeps.
As I'm sitting here doing nothing but aging.
Still my guitar gently weeps.

~George Harrison

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - original 1968 acoustic demo by George Harrison (with strings, added by George Martin in 2006)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJDJs9dumZI

28/01/2023

The Healthy Lifestyle Center at Ball State University is introducing a new podcast series, Habits, set to debut on January 31st. Habits is a health-focused podcast that will feature interviews with research and community experts, community organizers, and community members to provide insight into various health topics that influence the lives of East Central Indiana citizens. Funding and support for the podcast have been provided by a grant from the Indiana State Department of Health, with the aim of reinforcing the workforce of community health professionals across this region of the state.

Dr. Christina Doll, Associate Professor of Health Education and Promotion, will serve as the director of the podcast series, aided by undergraduate and graduate students across the university.

Ball State University

The Healthy Lifestyle Center at Ball State University is introducing a new podcast series, Habits, set to debut on January 31

26/11/2021

As with the Middle East, Central America, and South America, here we go again. When bribing corrupt right-wing fascist leaders don't work, we use a U.S.-backed militia to overthrow a government in power that isn't selling out its people in favor of US Oligarchy. This is how wars start with nuclear armed powers.

"The anti-Chinese forces arrived in the capital on Wednesday waving Malaitan flags as well as one prominent national flag of Israel. The odd sight of the Zionist state’s banner being waved within an anti-government riot in an impoverished South Pacific state is explicable only within the context of the US-Australian drive to destabilise the Sogavare government as a means of countering Beijing’s influence in the South Pacific.

Ever since the Solomons’ diplomatic turn away from Taiwan, Washington has promoted fundamentalist evangelical and pro-Zionist Christian and anti-communist layers in the country.

In September 2019, Republican senator Marco Rubio threatened to crash the Solomons’ economy by cutting off access to global financial markets. This came just after a team of American foreign policy, trade, and military officials had visited Malaita and the province’s premier, Daniel Suidani. The provincial leader subsequently declared that he did not accept the country’s recognition of Beijing and would instead maintain an independent foreign policy with Taiwan. He added that he had asked both the US and Australia to contribute to “Malaita security.”

In October 2020, Washington pledged $US25 million in so-called aid to Malaita. This donation—500 times more aid than the province receives from all other countries put together—amounted to a cash reward for the provincial administration’s attempted sabotage of the national government’s foreign policy."

The Australian government has immediately seized on the unrest, dispatching 23 members of the heavily armed and riot-trained “Specialist Response Group” of the Australian Federal Police, as well as 93 members of the military.

25/11/2021

You will discover that much of the stress we feel during the holidays directly results from our expectations. In our efforts to please others and craft the ultimate celebration, we overextend ourselves and miss out on the spirit of the season.

So why do we suffer from higher than usual expectations during the holidays?

Don't let holiday stress ruin your gatherings this year. Using the observer, keep a watchful eye on your expectations. Adjust if necessary.

25/11/2021

Good journalism should make people in power uncomfortable. It should also make viewers and readers uncomfortable since they are telling us lies and propaganda.

We’ve formed beliefs and views of the world which are incorrect. The news, like science should challenge our worldview when we discover new truths. Our worldview should always be expanding if we are watching “truth-a-vision.”

We must all reach the point that our news media is propaganda used by the oligarchy to sell us products and distort reality in their favor.

24/11/2021

Why shouldn't global citizens embrace a global governance that embraced sharing as its core principle?

As it stands now, the Global North is oppressing the world and abusing its resources for their own benefit. Where are the religions of the world? Why aren't they stressing our interconnectedness?

If you look the history of religions, Christianity being the largest, it's primarily a tool of empire. It teaches morality and fear to the masses (God's Law) so they won't revolt against their oppressors; followed by a hierarchy of Man's laws. However, who do these laws serve?

The 21st century should be defined by the coming together of world leaders to form a better society for all of Humankind with sustainable use of the planet's resources.

Despite all the nationalist hoopla in mainstream politics in the U.S., it’s easy to miss the fact that most citizens favor global governance.

13/08/2021

When you see packages of money like this, your immediate response is yes, please. But, you better be reading the fine print because many of these packages are for surveillance.

As noted:

“This is a form of surveillance, often involving police, that invades privacy, deters protest in public places, and all-too-often disparately burdens people of color,” said Adam Schwartz, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights organization. “It is unfortunate that the bipartisan infrastructure bill would invest a half-billion federal dollars in these troubling surveillance technologies, without adequate privacy safeguards.”

Who will be reading the finer print and holding all parties accountable?

Privacy advocates caution against giving the government another tool to monitor its citizens.

05/08/2021

These sycophants for the Robber Barons in Fossil Fuels just can't help themselves. Both political parties are so deep in these Barons' pockets that they can't pass anything that doesn't enrich their donors who are burning up the planet.

From The Intercept's article:

"THE SENATE’S NEW bipartisan infrastructure bill is being sold as a down payment on addressing the climate crisis. But environmental advocates and academics are warning the proposed spending bill is full of new fossil fuel industry subsidies masked as climate solutions. The latest draft bill would make fossil fuel companies eligible for at least $25 billion in new subsidies, according to an analysis by the Center for International Environmental Law."

Instead of reducing the role of fossil fuels in the economy, critics say, the bill subsidizes industry “greenwashing.”