Move along now. And please write to Big Brother (through your local Community Organizer) and praise Aishi Zidan as a doubleplusgood information broker.

There’s lots of Middle Eastern Moslem “refugees” in all of the Scandinavian countries (yes, I know Finland is not considered “Scandinavian” by all). FWIW, our wonderfully helpful IRS Commissioner has a nice Finnish-sounding name: John Koskinen.

Maybe then she will get it.

In that context the young woman’s lament is wholly consistent with her philosophy.

We are using her words as propaganda in the rubric of that philosophy where the obligatory narrative is the god.

It is fundamental to know that this is a war between incompatible philosophies.

American undergrads board simulators piloted by their professors. Here, even though the flight may take four years, there is no need for connecting syndromes.

They weren’t reported well, or even competently, but they were at least reported.

Journalists these days are cowards. It’s merely a job that feeds their egos and pays the bills, truth be damned.

Let’s get real here. I have reported that for 2 years speaking and communicating with people on the House Financial Services Committee (banking), they were telling me that the NSA was sweeping up even their emails and phone calls way before Snowden. I was told that point-blank and not in confidence. Therefore, EVERY journalist had that SAME info and refused to report it. Snowden had to go to the Guardian in Britain to get the story out because WE HAVE NO PRESS WITH INTEGRITY that is still standing in the United States.

Greed – our craving for material things and pleasant experiences, and much more – comes from our preoccupation with self. What begins as self-preservation, our need to meet basic requirements of shelter, food, and clothing, quickly expands to our desiring that which we do not need and more of what we already have. We equate the accumulation of things with happiness and success, and so fall into a cycle of wanting, obtaining, and more wanting.

Anger, like all negative emotions, seems to happen so naturally and spontaneously. Initially, we do not even notice it. It feels so normal to us – the emotions of being angry, being irritated, and being displeased. It happens so quickly that we hardly notice the rising rage. But before every action we commit and prior to every word we speak, there is a preceding thought. In our lack of mindfulness, we do not notice the thought of what we are about to say or do. if we can catch the thought as it arises, we will be able to refrain from acting out of anger. Ideally, by having a heart of loving-kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity, we will stop anger from arising.

Why is it so important to eliminate our anger? Might not the expression of our anger get it out of our system, so to speak? No, because voicing or acting on our anger does not eradicate it. On the contrary, it leads to even more anger.

Our anger with a particular person goes back a long, long time, we believe it goes back over uncountable lifetimes. Most of the time when we are speaking with another, we fail to be mindful of what we are saying. We may carelessly say something and hurt the others’ feelings without realizing it. In so doing, we have just contributed to planting another seed of anger in the consciousness of the other person.

The recipient of the angry outburst may not think anything of it, at least not until we meet again, and the seed matures. This next time the other person will say something to us with just a slight trace of animosity. Again, this incident is registered in both our consciousness. This enmity is passed back and forth each time our paths cross, and each time it increases and grows more serious. At some point it will turn into hatred. Eventually that hatred will explode and one of us will lash out at the other physically.

This is why voicing our anger to eliminate it does not work. It only allows the anger to grow. Anger is not to be acted upon, but faced, acknowledged, understood, and then released. When our anger and our self-centeredness are gradually reduced, we will get along better with others and we will begin to find out hearts of loving-kindness, compassion, and joy.

If you want to see the proof of this, look carefully into the face of someone who is always angry. Then gaze upon a person who is serene. Decide which one you would like to look like, which one you would like to be.

As we improve in our practice of discipline, we will gradually lessen what Greed, Anger, and Ignorance mean and which we all have to some degree. if left unchecked, this greed and anger of ours will grow and spread, eventually consuming us. Not understanding what is happening, we allow this to happen because we are ignorant. This ignorance is not the lack of intelligence or a derogatory comment about someone’s abilities. Ignorance is a lack of understanding of the underlying truths of what is happening to us and around us.

It is not knowing, or perhaps, not believing in causality or in the impermanent nature of everything that is created. It is believing that we exist independently of everything around us, rather than realizing that everything is interdependent. It is thinking that happiness comes from outside of us: that it lies in other people, possessions, or ideas. It is the belief that it is okay to differentiate between those we like and dislike, that it is correct to look out for ourselves at the expense of others, and that it is reasonable to judge others based on personal opinion and not on facts.

When we think and act from ignorance, it becomes inevitable that we will make mistakes and not know how to fix our problems. As we begin to replace our ignorance with understanding, we will find that our greed and anger slowly dissolve. This is how we can get along better with others, becomes less self-absorbed, and develop the mind of joy.

Once upon a time journalists took pride in putting the truth first.

Have mercy on her, and use the rest of what she said to publicize the threats against her family. It is the only way to give them a shred of protection.