Sen. Cory Booker says people should be ‘very worried’ about Trump and Israel upending peace

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The New Jersey Democrat criticized the president and Netanyahu, calling them both “criminal” leaders.

The problem with Christianity when I was growing up in the 1950s was racism and discrimination against any race but the white race

 This changed a lot starting in the 1960s for some reason and now since Trump it is going more in a more NAZI direction away from a more universal acceptance of all races like we saw from 1960 until Trump got into office first in 2016.

So, this wide swing from everyone being accepted to only White Men being accepted by Trump and women relegated to being sex slaves basically is this wide swing between everyone having rights and then Trump's idea of ONLY White Men having rights and no one else.

So, under Trump's presidency (NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BE ALIVE EXCEPT WHITE MEN).

And this is the opposite extreme of everyone having rights from 1960 until 2016 when Trump became president. 

Will Things ever swing back to human rights again? Yes. I think so. The brakes on human rights caused by Trump likely will be done away with in the next 10 to 20 years or so somewhat. These kinds of swings from everyone having rights to ONLY white men having rights are a part of a cyclical swing of civilization not only here in the U.S. but also in Europe as well and Canada and other places like Australia and New Zealand as well. 

I don't understand fully the dynamics in other regions than the U.S., Canada and Europe and Australia and New Zealand as well so I don't try to write about this because I haven't lived in other types of cultures much except for the 5 months in Thailand, India and Nepal from December of 1985 to April of 1986.

When I did this I realized the U.S. was like living in Disneyland compared to many places on earth and most people in the U.S. don't realize just how good they have it here and always have compared to the rest of the earth. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Compassion and friendship is the basis of all civilization: Without it we return to being more like animals

 As I was growing up everything seemed to be about religion in people I met. Part of this was that my parents from 1954 until 1960 were in charge of a church in Los Angeles while we lived first in Tujunga and then Glendale from 1954 to 1969. So, I was 21 years old before I left the Glendale Area for other places except for going away to a church school my senior year in High School where I graduated in 1966 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The basis for civilization has always been compassion (kindness) and friendship. People live together to help each other survive whatever comes in life.

So, understanding that without compassion and friendship and co-operation civilization completely ends for all of us.

So, it is in our mutual self interests and the survival of our species to try to support civilization to continue so people don't have to revert to going back to be animals again killing each other without limit like some gangs on earth do and always have.

So, governments are more about organizing for group survival more than anything else (Of course this is an ideal idea because all sorts of things happen in reality). But in the ideal which we should all strive for civilization allows us to continue to exist and have pretty good lives in a lot of the world (even though it is really awful many places on earth and always has been. 

So, by learning compassion for yourself and all other beings you become an instrument of civilization itself and you work for the group good in this sense by being kind to yourself and everyone you meet to the best of your ability.

By God's Grace 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In Taylor Swift's beach town, every clue becomes a wedding rumor

Rumors that Taylor Swift was planning to marry at her Rhode Island home this weekend have drawn fans, photographers and curious visitors to the seaside village of Watch Hill after a large tent appeared near her estate

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WESTERLY, R.I. -- When a large tent appeared next door to Taylor Swift’s Watch Hill estate this week, it didn’t take long for speculation about the superstar's impending nuptials to ripple through the affluent New England seaside village — and the internet.

Soon, fans were swapping theories online, photographers were staking out vantage points and residents found themselves fielding questions about a wedding that never was. Or at least, a wedding that seems yet to happen.

The rumors, so far, have proved unfounded. But they offered a glimpse into life in Watch Hill, the Rhode Island beach community in the town of Westerly, close to the Connecticut border, where Swift has owned a home for more than a decade and where curiosity about the singer has become woven into everyday life.

From the nearby lighthouse, visitors craned for a better view of Swift’s mansion, a sprawling white home perched atop a rocky bluff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Security cameras dotted the property, and a guard called out to visitors who strayed too close.

Wedding planner Nicole Simeral, dressed in black, stood outside the small white chapel across from the massive yellow Ocean House hotel — Swift's neighbor on the beach — waving along cars and buses that slowed and directing traffic to keep moving.

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She watched visitors speculate about a wedding she said she knew wasn’t Swift's. She's working a different wedding every weekend in June in that spot. Still, the questions kept coming.

“Is Taylor Swift getting married here? Many, many, many have asked,” Simeral said.

She said there had been “a lot of chitter chatter” as people tried to connect sightings of people who know Swift in local shops to impending nuptials. But she doubted Watch Hill would be practical for a wedding of that scale because of its limited luxury lodging.

The Watch Hill rumors also dovetailed with separate online speculation that Swift and her fiance, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, were planning a celebration at Madison Square Garden, though no details about the pair’s wedding have been released, despite multiple requests for comment to Swift’s spokesperson.

The tent itself, Simeral said, was hardly unusual. “Next weekend, there’ll be another tent just like this.”

For two summers, Westerly Police Department community service officer Nick Quaratella has stood at the entrance to a public path leading to the beach beside Swift’s estate, answering questions from beachgoers and keeping traffic moving.

“They come to the beach, but then they also ask if she’s here or not,” Quaratella said.

He said he can't help but joke around with some fans.

“I’ll say, ‘Oh, did you hear that she moved?’” he said. “And they’ll say, ‘No.’ And I say, ‘Yeah, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson moved in.’ And they’ll go, ‘Oh, really?’ and then they’ll walk away.”

“That's pretty funny,” he concluded.

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Over the years, he’s seen plenty of unusual reactions. His coworker once spotted a fan on their knees, bowing toward the entrance gate near the property. Visitors have shouted “I love you, Taylor!” from the roadside. One woman convinced her granddaughter he was Swift’s security guard and posed for a photo with him.

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Quaratella has fielded a few questions about the supposed wedding, but not as many as he expected.

“At this point, it’s part of my job,” he said. “It makes me smile. It makes me laugh. I have no problem with it. It makes the day go by.”

Down near a strip of beach boutiques, lifelong resident Lauren Nigrelli said the frenzy surrounding the star has eased since Swift first moved into the neighborhood in 2013. Back then, Nigrelli recalled, fans would drive around in circles by her shop playing Swift’s songs.

“Things have definitely calmed down since then,” she said.

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Today, Swift’s presence remains a fixture among local businesses in what she described as a “quaint New England coastal community.” Nigrelli, a Realtor who owns the boutiques Tide and Tide Kids, said she began selling apparel emblazoned with “Holiday House,” the nickname associated with Swift’s mansion, after children began coming into the store asking for it. On Saturday, she was also selling a Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce wedding sticker book.

“I think every shop has something related to her,” Nigrelli said.

On the beach below the mansion, Audrey and John Curtis, a married couple from Connecticut who have been vacationing in Westerly for years, settled into beach chairs and debated the wedding rumors.

“We were just looking up at her house,” Audrey Curtis said, pointing toward the mansion. “She’s not getting married here now, though.”

Curtis said she had heard various theories, including speculation that a wedding might be held at Ocean House. But as she thought through the logistics, she became skeptical.

“Then I was thinking about, ‘How would everybody get here?’” she said. “In New York, you’ve got JFK, you’ve got LaGuardia, and she’s got two penthouses in New York that she combined, so I figured they could obviously have more people there.”

Her husband wasn’t so sure.

“They could lie and say it’s happening there, but it’s happening here,” John Curtis said. “When important people do things, they don’t want people to know.”

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Kurt Russell Receives Crystal Nymph Award at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival From Princess Charlene of Monaco

'The Uniform' won the Golden Nymph Award for best series at the festival

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Princess Charlene of Monaco presented the Crystal Nymph Award of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival to Kurt Russell on Tuesday in recognition of his “exceptional contribution to the entertainment industry and his remarkable career spanning more than six decades.”

Prince Albert II joined Russell on stage in the Salle des Princes at the Grimaldi Forum, while Russell was accompanied at the ceremony by his partner Goldie Hawn.

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Princess Charlene also presented British actor Matthew Broome with the International Golden Nymph for Most Promising Talent. Having gained international recognition through his leading role in “My Fault: London” for Prime Video, Broome went on to appear in “The Buccaneers” for Apple TV+.

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Among the guests at the festival were Kristin Scott Thomas, Ester Expósito, Lesley Manville, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lauren Cohan, John Hannah, David Boreanaz, Aldis Hodge and Kevin McKidd.

Danish crime drama “The Uniform” won the Golden Nymph Award for best series at the festival. The show, produced by Miso Film, exposes the deadly cost of loyalty and corruption within a fractured and fiercely competitive police academy in contemporary Denmark.

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The best film prize and the jury special prize went to “Fadia,” produced by Israel-Palestine’s Cinema Virgin. The film addresses the topic of femicide in the name of a misguided sense of family honor.

The award for best creation went to Italian series “Gomorrah – The Origins,” produced by Sky Studios and Cattleya. The show, which starts in 1977 in Naples, follows Pietro Savastano – a tough city kid from a poor neighborhood – who is set to enter the criminal underworld as a means of survival.

The best actress award went to Yara Jarrar for “Fadia,” and the best actor award went to Johannes Hegemann for “Olivia” from Germany.

The Public Prize was picked up by “Ponies,” produced by Universal Television.

The award in the Feature Reports and News competition category for best social or cultural feature report went to “Mission Investigate: The Hunt” from Sveriges Television in Sweden.

The prize for best geopolitical or conflict feature report went to “La Guerre, Donald Trump et nous” from Elephant et Mile Production and France Télévisions in France.

The jury special prize went to “Into the Void: Putin’s Foreign Fighters” from the BBC in the U.K.

The award for best original digital creation went to “Next-Door Families – What Makes a Family?” from KBS and Yoo Kyung-Hyun in South Korea.

Best documentary digital format was taken by “La face cachée de l’aéroport CDG la nuit” from OK Charlotte in France.

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