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Please report Clarence Wilhelm Spangle, who posts on your page; he's an actual Nazi.

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Andrea Wulf’s Magnificent Rebels all about the sex & philosophy & romantics at Jena. It’s very funny

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Thanks Patti for making feel at peace in today’s troubles. Take care of yourself ❤️

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We Can't Afford Healthcare for American Children Because We Keep Bombing Everyone Else's for the Love of Jesus and Israel . . .

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/we-cant-afford-healthcare-for-american

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Judeo-messianism has been spreading its poisonous message among us for nearly two thousand years. Democratic and communist universalisms are more recent, but they have only come to reinforce the old Jewish narrative. They are the same ideals.

The transnational, transracial, transsexual, transcultural ideals that these ideologies preach to us (beyond peoples, races, cultures) and which are the daily sustenance of our schools, in our media, in our popular culture, at our universities, and on our streets, have ended up reducing our biosymbolic identity and ethnic pride to their minimal expression.

Jewish bankers flooded Europe with Muslims and America with third-world garbage . . . Exile as punishment for those who preach sedition should be reinstated within the legal framework of the West . . . Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are death cults originating in the Middle East and totally alien to Europe and its peoples . . . We National Socialists came to liberate Paris, we did not destroy it.

One sometimes wonders why the European left gets along so well with Muslims. Why does an often overtly anti-religious movement take the side of a fierce religiosity that seems to oppose almost everything the left has always claimed to stand for? Part of the explanation lies in the fact that Islam and Marxism have a common ideological root: Judaism.

Don Rumsfeld was right when he said, "Europe has shifted on its axis," it was the wrong side that won World War II, and it is becoming clearer every day. What has NATO done to defend Europe? Absolutely nothing . . . My enemies are not in Moscow, Damascus, Tehran, Riyadh or some ethereal Teutonic boogeyman, my enemies are in Washington, Brussels and Tel Aviv.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/pardonne-mon-francais-va-te-faire

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A real inspiration upon reading and seeing these pics this morning " and Schiller 's advice to us to stay true to the dreams of our youth

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Peace and love to everyone, everywhere.

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I am falling in love with you as do many I am sure, sorry I cannot stretch to a regular subscription right now, although if you had a donation box, I'd highly likely tip it when I visit you and get that warm fuzzy feeling on a lonely night, just an idea. I hope you keep sharing some tidbits with us hangers on. Take care gorgeous one xx

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Than you for asking for clarification. The images l employed were disturbing, spurred by horrific events being referenced. Perhaps a sense of widespread suffering might have been more appropriate than a singling out of one exclusive age group, children.

Acts of violence against concert-goers, for example whose sole misfortune as victims, was being in harms way. They are certainly worthy of our tears and compassion.

In fact the willful taking of innocent life is an inexcusable violation that stalks our society and cannot be undone by tender words. The phrase “When will we ever learn…” comes to mind.

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In my first and only sub-stack post called "Make a Blind Goose God", in the second half, I have a poem a la Patti. I wrote the poem after watching this video, as your approach and being allowed my base feelings to register within, and finally locate words. If you end up seeing this and read it, I would be honored beyond comprehension and hope you can sense my thanks in those words and these alike.

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How can we help our troubled world ?!! 💔

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Hello from Belgium.

I am new here.

Yes, Children and the Planet (with all its creatures) should be the core references of everything we do.

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love love love.... - Thank you Patti

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Oct 13, 2023·edited Oct 13, 2023

Thank you Patti, for sharing your belief that we need to step back and put our world in perspective. Thank you also for so often talking about the great writers whose work you love. Love the pictures you included, including the one of the table. It so happens that my dear friend Helmut Haberkamm, a dialect poet and playwright from my ancestral Franconia, is visiting us here in Indy for two weeks. We have been good friends for a long time and he'll come to my first reading in Indianapolis next week from my Homecomings: A Writer's Memoir. He was here in 2016 on the day when it was announced that Bob Dylan had won the Nobel Prize in Literature. That afternoon we were part of a reading in the series "The German Voice in Indiana" as part of the Indiana Bicentennial. That evening we walked to the Slippery Noodle Blues Club and listened to a favorite band of mine called Soul Bus play many Dylan songs. It was a great celebration! Yes, there are great problems in our world today, but it's wonderful to have and be with such great friends who make the world a better place. Amen!

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Thank you Patti for your wise and sensible words...I just woke up feeling sorrow in my heart for all what is happening, and I knew I would find some comfort listening to you and reading some of the comments...and having the feeling of a community...like the powerful table stone...sharing, sensing, caring, being part of these amazing world, keeping the hopes and dreams high and present .

From México city, peace and love to all 🕊️🌿🩵🤍💚🌍

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Thank you, Patti. I am trembling with the horror of it as well. Thank you for the reminder to keep doing our work. I am bringing the Uvalde Texas High School Mariachi Band to Bolder to perform with my chorus. These traumatized children need community, respect, music, love... All we can do is our work and try to practice activism and compassion. Thank you for modeling these ways of being for so many decades.

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