Category Archives: Heroes

Small people who faced down impossible Odds to serve Others with Eternal Results

Spike Lee Lights Up Dark Irony

Spike Lee restores Meaning to Media! His new movie, BlacKkKlansman, respins a true story from an autobiography of Colorado Springs’ first African American police officer, Ron Stallworth, and a Jewish detective, Flip Zimmerman, who worked undercover to infiltrate the local … Continue reading

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Lincoln’s Thanks and Today’s Blame

What a happy surprise to find President Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving  Proclamation 106 of 1863 has NOT been expunged from the University of Santa Barbara . Question 1:  Is his couplet below about SIN and MERCY ever heard, or allowed from the … Continue reading

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Kim’s Heartfelt Probe of North Korea

I finished Suki Kim’s book after swearing off television for two days.

Pop American educators may be stirred by more than the Harry Potter ‘crisis’ near the climax …

…very well written – Ms. Kim seems a “natural” at conveying very unnatural situations and psyches. Not a fan of the dictatorship nor her “employer’s” mission but she brings out the human qualities hiding in each. She opens the Westerners’ eyes and hearts to the shared anguish of both halves of Korea – the unbelievable attempts to anesthetize it.

Quite an eye opener how one demi-god* can create his own Dark Age and affect an entire a nuclear weaponized nation. (*I chose not to use demagogue)

It wasn’t her express purpose but as a side affect she seems demolish the rationale of the optimistic expectation that the world’s innocents will never again be plagued by a megalomaniac.

She’s quite an “emotional writer” who conveys emotion accurately without emotional distortion.

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Teenage Girl Kills Anthrax

Teenage girl Sarit Sternberg’s little friends are tiny yet powerful viral killers of anthrax… Sarit Sternberg “It was wonderful, I was really, really happy. I was literally jumping up and down, it was amazing,” she said. Ronen Hazan lab | … Continue reading

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Teen-ventor Solves Worldwide Household Problem 

Young Benjamin Stern of Florida has something YOU want, need and will save you money! And will change how millions around the planet will wash their hair and bathe! “Nohbo” bottleless shampoo invention I saw my mom using laundry detergent … Continue reading

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Japan may push citizens into Radioactive zone

Sources: Greenpeace,  RT.com, UK Mirror High radiation risks in Fukushima village as government prepares to lift evacuation order – Greenpeace | Greenpeace International re-reported by RT.com as Japanese govt pushing Fukushima evacuees back to high radiation areas – Greenpeace Published … Continue reading

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Fred Korematsu v. United States

Fred Korematsu – a single voice against a Fearful Government Never again? Google’s celebration of Korematsu is a timely reminder to the US grass roots and their new President Trump … Mr. Korematsu used the Separation of Powers, the Supreme Court … Continue reading

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艾偉德 Gladys Aylward 147cm

See Bibliography below: The movie, released in 1958, was taken in large part from the book The Small Woman by Alan Burgess. One reviewer of the book said that the written material was more action-packed than the movie. The reviewer … Continue reading

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Teen Inventor Feted by Forbes 2017

Ann Makosinski re-discovered by Forbes in time for their 2017 award. Previously featured by Google for her 2015 invention of a human powered flashlight. Makosinski invented the Hollow Flashlight, which runs off the heat of the human hand. She also … Continue reading

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Brainscan Bolsters Belief!

ABC’s 20/20 http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/sixth-sense-proof-heaven-17577194 Again? How much skepticism really an avoidance tactic to protect from a close forensic first look?  But  this time the surprised beneficiary was an unwilling skeptic, an active Harvard trained brain surgeon with a successful career, who thought such reports were … Continue reading

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