Sherri Papini’s alleged kidnapping hoax stoked racial division, fear – Los Angeles Times

…As Papini told it, two Latina women held her at gunpoint and kept her in a small closet during three weeks of captivity. Investigators say she was actually spending time with an ex-boyfriend in Orange County, whom she had asked to come pick her up in Northern California.

Papini claimed her kidnappers drove a dark SUV and made her lie down in the back, saying her hips became sore after lying prone for over 40 minutes. In a 55-page affidavit filed Thursday in federal court, prosecutors said her ex-boyfriend picked her up in a rented sports car. She slipped into the back seat and at one point took a nap as he drove her to Southern California.

She told investigators that her kidnappers played “really annoying Mexican music” and that she heard slivers of a plan to sell her to someone in law enforcement as part of a human-trafficking deal. During the time she was missing, prosecutors said, she never left her ex-boyfriend’s home in Orange County…

Source: Sherri Papini’s alleged kidnapping hoax stoked racial division, fear – Los Angeles Times

Bay Area cop sentenced for killing unarmed mentally ill man – Los Angeles Times

Atienza said it pained the family that it took nearly three years to bring charges against Hall, during which time he fatally shot another man, Tyrell Wilson, who was homeless and mentally ill.

“The preferential treatment shown to Hall as an officer throughout this trial has only added to our trauma,” she said.

The case marked the first time a police officer was charged in an on-duty shooting in Contra Costa County, east of San Francisco, and is part of a push by more prosecutors to punish police misconduct after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis set off nationwide calls for social justice.

Source: Bay Area cop sentenced for killing unarmed mentally ill man – Los Angeles Times

Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2 -“V” – Words from Walden

If you can visualise your future and hold that intention in your mind every day, there will come a time when you will meet that future vision in the present moment. You will know because it will feel familiar, it will feel like you’ve been there before, and it will feel right. As if you were expecting it…

Source: Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2 -“V” – Words from Walden

Putler Kaput

Grounds For Hope

A shortsighted bastard possessed by ego
Possessed by fury and hate
‘War makes right” is the tyrant’s credo
Putler- will be engraved on your slate.
Your life is dark same as your actions,
You have no courage to look into our eyes,
Sending war monsters at night for distraction
You are the devil in human disguise.
Your sick ambition about the power
War arsenal and nuclear blast
Your own bombs and missiles will devour
you and all the Kremlin’s rats.

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Stop the War in Ukraine. Russian Troops Out & No to NATO expansion! Join Us Sunday, March 6th, 2022

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Waging Peace on the Global Day of Action: Sunday, March 6th, 2022

https://www.peaceinukraine.org/

We recognize that the expansion of NATO and the aggressive approach of Western states have helped cause the crisis and we demand an end to NATO expansion. We also oppose sanctions that will harm ordinary Russians and call on all countries to welcome refugees fleeing the war.” CodePink

On February 26th, I attended an international Zoom call meeting that has THOUSANDS of attendees from ALL over the world, all of us wanting the same thing- to stop a war that could easily escalate into a Nuclear disaster. Don’t be fooled into thinking that this is only about Russia and Ukraine. ‘There are many hands in the pot’ is the old adage that comes to mind, because is about the control of resources, mainly FOSSIL FUELS and both NATO and Russia want a piece.

Ukraine has vast…

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Parashat P’kudei, and Dwelling on Roots (of words…)

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      Parashat  Pekudei is the 23rd in the annual cycle, and the 11th and final parashah in the book of Sh’mot/Exodus.  Normally, this parashah is doubled up  with Parashat VaYak’hel.  This year is a Leap Year on the Hebrew calendar, so these two parshiot are read separately.

      This week, we are often told, the Sh’chinah, usually translated as Divine presence, goes to live in the Mish’kan, aka the Tabernacle, or the Dwelling Place of  the Divine.

But I noticed something:  The parashah starts off at 38:21

  (after the initial v21:

אֵ֣לֶּה פְקוּדֵ֤י הַמִּשְׁכָּן֙ מִשְׁכַּ֣ן הָעֵדֻ֔ת אֲשֶׁ֥ר פֻּקַּ֖ד עַל־פִּ֣י מֹשֶׁ֑ה עֲבֹדַת֙ הַלְוִיִּ֔ם בְּיַד֙ אִֽיתָמָ֔ר בֶּֽן־אַהֲרֹ֖ן הַכֹּהֵֽן׃  -“These are the records of the Mishkan, The Mish’kan of Witness which were recorded from the mouth of Moshe, the work of the Leviim, at the hand of Itamar ben Aaron the Priest.” 

(my translation, using “p-k-d” as “records” via JPS translation…

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