Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world.
Rules to Live in Harmony
El Cedro Group and Alcoholics Anonymous
On my way to the gym in the mornings, I read the daily Thought, Meditation, and Prayer shared by my local Alcoholics Anonymous group. The image above appeared among the messages, and I found it so poignant despite its relative simplicity. It’s titled “Rules to Live in Harmony,” and I thought I’d share it here along with the translation below:
Arrive → Say hello
Leave → Say goodbye
They talk to you → Respond
Promise → Keep
Shop → Pay
Open → Close
Break → Repair
Make a mess → Clean
You don’t know → Don’t touch it
You don’t improve → Don’t criticize
It’s not yours → Don’t take it
You love → Show it
You offended → Apologize
You receive → Be grateful
“The Palestinians Blew It” | Sir Niall Ferguson
Video interview at John Anderson Media
This interview may as well accompany the two videos I forwarded on the invasion by Hamas of Israel on October 7th, 2023, namely Prof Conf on Sexual Violence Aspects of October 7th, 2023 in Israel and The Abduction of 5 Female Israelis on Oct 7, 2023. These videos, as alarming and distressing as they are, should be viewed by responsible adults to grasp the true horror of what was inflicted upon the Israeli people. For information about the history of the conflict, I couldn’t recommend more highly the video – Origins of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Part I: to 1949.
‘Not every people gets a state. I’m a Scotsman. I can speak with some authority on this‘.
– Sir Niall Ferguson
‘In this historical clip, Niall Ferguson unpacks the collapse of the two-state solution, arguing that Palestinian leadership squandered opportunities like Oslo, and reveals why European and Australian endorsements of statehood are futile post-October 7th.’
Tig Notaro’s Impression Of A Person Doing Impressions | CONAN on TBS
Standup clip from Team Coco
‘Ha…them little t%tties…I thought you were a man‘.
‘Comedian Tig Notaro performs some stand-up and a few of her mind-boggling impressions.’
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“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”- Michel Legrand
Observation Blogger 
It is crazy how it has already been two years since this atrocity. It still makes me nauseous thinking about what happened and the fact there are still hostages is beyond me.
I still can’t shake the images of the abducted girls or the record of incidents by the professors.The level of depravity these savages descended to is beyond anything I’ve ever heard. And to think the invasion was celebrated on some university campuses in the West is utterly appalling. Despicable, the lot of them.
Wow, it’s 2 years ago to this very day. How sad!
It still feels like it was just yesterday.
The tributes and press were pouring out yesterday, but ABC News Australia failed to mention it based on my scan of their site. Not surprising, considering how slanted their reporting on the Middle East often is. Deplorable lot; just like the BBC news team tasked with reporting on such issues.
Oh, and I’m really pleased that Bari Weiss has been made editor-in-chief of CBS News, and that her Free Press venture is starting to branch into the mainstream. Wonderful news about the news. Haha.
Ugh I cannot stand the BBC. Such pretentions brain rot. I do occasionally watch Sky News Australia as they can get pretty sassy but true lol, I mainly stick to independent and local people on YouTube for my news and those that see the news through a Christian lens as well. Even those, I am picky about though. The discernment you need to just get an honest and clear report on the news is insane. I feel like I am in a dystopian novel.
I have not heard about the CBS change in editor-in-chief. I am glad of her view on free speech and hope and pray that continues and spreads.
I’m glad you’re familiar with the Western Maoists at the BBC. The main reason I still read both them and the ABC Australia is so I can familiarise myself with how the radicals propagandise — a kind of “keep your enemies close” philosophy. Despite all that crap, I still love their sports pages — I’m a sports nut, even though that’s become pretty ideological too.
These days, I mainly stick to independent intellectuals on YouTube (like you) for my news — people like Ben Shapiro, UnHerd, Sky News Australia (of course – like you!), the DarkHorse Podcast with Bret Weinstein (they honestly kept me sane during the COVID madness), and Jordan Peterson (back when he was healthy — apparently he’s quite ill at the moment, according to his daughter). Douglas Murray has been brilliant and really taken up where Christopher Hitchens left off. And then there’s Bari Weiss and her Free Press — another breath of fresh air as we spoke about.
That is my mind set as well. I like to see how the left and right leaning media take the same situation and spin it according to their agendas. I lend more mid now I would say since I have not been a huge fan of the MAGA groupies who see no bad in Trump at all. I think that is just as scary as demonizing everything he does. We should not live in a world where someone’s political affiliation is the only characteristic that matters. It should be character and morality. Unfortunately, most people in government are neither or those things, which leads to the whole “lesser of two evils” argument. It makes my head hurt lol
Same! I took a break from the Daily Wire people but still occasionally catch shorts of them. I used to watch Steven Crowder before he got into some domestic drama himself. I watched quite a bit of Charlie Kirk, Jordan Peterson and the like. We mainly watch this one gentlemen called Watchman River on YouTube. He lays out the news in a biblical perspective, keeping a watchful eye on what is happening over in Israel. He calls out the lies and overuse of AI in the media when it comes to the Gaza war and stuff like that. I hope Peterson gets better though, that is unfortunate. Luckily, there are still quite a bit of choices when it comes to independent and honest journalism and broadcasting…for now at least.
Same here, Ashley — I’d consider myself more of a centrist, leaning towards a classical liberal outlook. I couldn’t agree more about being wary of ardent supporters from both sides. No one’s perfect, and as Dylan said, “Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.”
Yes, I’m grateful there are still independent and honest journalism and broadcasting sources — and it even seems they’re expanding to counter the diatribe and partisanship that dominate much of the Western press. Many outlets today seem to echo Herbert Marcuse’s Repressive Tolerance (1965) — the idea that tolerance is withdrawn from those on the right while being extended, even aggressively, to those on the left.
Oh, and I forgot to mention — I’m subscribed to Quillette, an Australian independent media outlet that prides itself on neutrality and non-partisanship.
I agree! I am really tired of people in glass houses throwing stones particularly in politics. I will have to check out the Quillette then!