Posted on 18 September 2011. Tags: black hole, family grief, grandkids, happy pill, Human, human input, i don t know, input, job, laziness, lifestyle differences, recertified, unemployment, upset stomach, Work
I’ve been out of work for two years. Living on savings and unemployment, so I’m getting by for now. The past two years have been hellish. Lots of isolation and stress. Moved to NY to be closer to family, but that didn’t help completely b/c some of my close family does not see me (lifestyle differences or laziness on their part). Ex: haven’t seen my four grandkids in four months, despite being a short subway ride away and asking my son repeatedly to let me visit.
Last month I got a callback from a job inquiry (in itself a big deal, cause my field is pretty niche). The director of the agency/think tank said they had possible positions I”d be interested in. I followed up, the hiring people said they just needed the director’s official okay, and that was a month ago. My stuff has gone into a black hole and my emails to the director unanswered. I don’t know what happened, but the job is going off into the sunset without me astride.
After these last two years, this was the closest I”ve come to a job (and in my field no less!). I was okay before this all came up (had learned how to cope over the last two years), but my hopes getting up and then going nowhere has really thrown me for a loop. I have an upset stomach alot and have a hard time getting out. The situation with my family is also weighing heavily.
I know that some will suggest looking outside my field (I’m preparing to do so by getting recertified in what I got my MA in instead of my PhD field), so that’s already in motion.
Others may suggest getting together with those in my situation – honestly, just thinking about doing that depresses me more, and I know that I’m not alone in feeling that way.
This isn’t really about practical suggestions – it’s about dealing with the grief that my concurrent almost-job hopes dashing and my absent family and grandkids are bringing up in me. There’s no happy pill that works for me and sometimes the sadness is just crushing. I do take care of myself (excercise and eating right), but sometimes (like this past week as the days ticked by again with no response from the job people) it is just sooo hard.
Thanks for reading and listening.
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Posted on 12 May 2011. Tags: american administration, authoritarian regime, freedom, Human, human rights abuses, human rights activist, human rights activists, hunger strike, khawaja, opposition figure, press, Rights, rodney shakespeare, support, western governments
As it is proved before in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US government knows nothing of Human Rights…; and now you can see it in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain.
Bahraini forces have cracked down on the anti-regime protesters with the help of Saudi, the UAE and Kuwaiti troops. Many people have gone missing since the beginning of the revolution.
“the American administration always tries to show the world they represent democracy, but on the other hand they’re giving the green light to the Bahraini dictatorship to do whatever they want to the Bahraini people and that is very, very, shameful,” human rights activist Zainab al-Khawaja told Press TV from Manama on Monday.
“It’s not just words, freedom and human rights and justice are not just words. You cannot claim to be behind change and freedom and then in Bahrain support dictators with all you have and stay silent over all of human rights abuses,” she added.
On Sunday, al-Khawaja was taken to hospital after seven days of hunger strike following the arrest of her father, uncle, husband and brothers-in-law.
The 27-year-old had her father, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja — a prominent Bahraini opposition figure — and her husband Mohammad al-Masqati violently being taken away by the forces.
The family members and human rights activists said that masked officers burst into al-Khawaja’s home on April 9 and assaulted her father and husband.
Reports from the Center’s colleagues in the United States say “In the US some news agencies and TV stations were asked not to report on Bahrain….” Rajab told Press TV.
He went on to say that the US and the Western governments have chosen to keep silent over ongoing atrocities in Bahrain due to their support for the country’s authoritarian regime
PressTV has interview Rodney Shakespeare, Chairman of the Committee against Torture in Bahrain, from London to discuss the issue further more.
PressTV: I’m looking at the website for Bahrain Center for Human Rights. It says more than three hundred and seventy people have been detained or are missing within days of the imposition of the national safety including twelve women. When you compare it to Libya, the Americans have been saying that Muammar Gaddafi has lost his legitimacy, [and] that he has to go because of using force against his people. But no such calls on the part of the Americans on the Bahraini ruler to step down for pretty much the same reason.
Shakespeare: This is sinister fascism. The Bahraini rulers are maniac killers and they brought in another lot of killers, the Saudis. Behind this fascism is the USA and you quoted what US Secretary State Hilary Clinton said and people do not quite see the meaning. She said that any government may bring in foreign troops to kill their own citizens and that means that the American government may bring in foreign troops or use its own troops to kill American citizens. That fascism is now a lot in the Middle East.
If I may say so, America does not have long term interests in the Persian Gulf. It should get its oil on the market like anybody else. The problem is that an out-of-date American policy is linked with the Israeli regime giving either secret or open support to a Zionist Israel and that is the crux of the matter. And that explains why the Americans feel they can intervene in Libya because Libya is not crucial to the maintenance of the totalitarian, authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and their support for the Zionist Israel which is [a] paranoid attack dog and it’s totally out of control and it has no intention ever allowing an independent Palestine.
So yes there was a deal between the Saudis who basically steamroller the other members of the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Group to agree to giving support in Libya and, in exchange, the fascist have been let loose in Bahrain and the Americans ordered it. There are 4,500 troops in Bahrain and they said “do it.” Because if Bahrain or Saudi Arabia did not want to do it, the Americans could have stopped them immediately. I say it was an American order. It is fascism in Bahrain, fascism in the Middle East and it’s a fascism which is coming to the United States and Hillary Clinton does said so.
PressTV: Why is Iran being blamed for what is happening in Bahrain and how likely is a military confrontation or any confrontation between the Saudi Arabia and Iran as a result?
Shakespeare: There are two countries which are deliberately trying to involve the Americans in a war with Iran. The first is Saudi Arabia. It is a country which is profoundly unstable. If they dare to ever have an election, 98 percent of the population will vote out the existing corrupt … regime and so they are playing their foreign card that is blaming everything that they can on Iran. The other one also playing the same foreign card is Israel and Israel’s policy is to create chaos in the Middle East in which it can expand. Those are two countrie
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Posted on 25 March 2011. Tags: baby girls, birth, cells, date of birth, gas cylinders, Human, human rights organization, international human rights, organization work, police officers, poor women, Reason, Rights, ruppes, Work
I mean it’s not a secret that police officers torture people in cells, hospital workers hit pregnant (poor) women when they don’t know their date of birth (coz they are illiterate and don’t know how to read), also small children are routinely hit at primary schools for no reason whatsoever, gas cylinders being sold for 750 ruppes for someone who earns 3000 a month and for 350 for someone who earns 60,000 per month (black market)…What about 3 baby girls who died within their first week of birth when babies usually don’t die in my country…….? I’m just sick of it.
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Posted on 22 January 2011. Tags: atheism, bigotry, Blame, christianity islam, countless numbers, home countries, Human, Islam, Look, pol pot, Religion, religion christianity, religious activists, s hospital, st jude
Religion does not control people, people control people. People have done horrible things, not religion.
If you really want an example of oppression look to one name:
Pol Pot.
Who killed more in his own small country in the name of preserving atheism than died in either of those 2 secularly driven conflicts.
But let’s just look at the easy stuff: Human rights are more widely practiced in every country where religion (Christianity, Islam, etc) has spread. Almost every instance of slavery being brought to an end was done by religious activists.
Also, religion has given us culture, tradition, forms of art and music. Also, countless numbers of charities give money to less fortunate and organize institutions (St. Jude’s Hospital for example). People who affiliate themselves with some religions volunteer their time, some even leaving their home countries to help others. Is it 100% a good thing? No. has it caused issues like war or bigotry? Yes, but so have politics and government.
Many people will use whatever vehicle they can to serve their purpose. Religion is often used as this vehicle.
Guns don’t kill people, people kill people, remember this folks.
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Posted on 06 December 2010. Tags: Agree, anyone, Human, Quote, Racism
“Anyone who affiliates themselves with any race other than the Human race deserves the racism that they suffer.”
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Posted on 05 October 2010. Tags: Help, Human, Interfere, niche, Owl
What human activities interfere with an owl’s niche? In other words, how are humans encroaching on owl’s territories?
*Please be as detailed as possible* Thanks so much for your help!
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