Johanna Faust, a mixed race Jew, prefers to publish pseudonymously. She is committed: first, to preventing war, ecological disaster, and nuclear apocalypse; last to not only fighting for personal privacy & the freedom of information, but, by representing herself as a soldier in that fight, to exhorting others to do the same. She is a poet, always. All these efforts find representation here: "ah, Mephistophelis" is so named after the last line of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, whose heretical success flouted the censor for a time.

M.W.K.P.A.: Entitlement | Music & Lyrics by Jack White


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Entitlement




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Every time I'm doin' what I want to
Somebody comes and tells me it's wrong
Whenever I'm doin' just as I please
Somebody cuts me down to my knees
Yeah, somebody cuts me down to my knees

In a time when everybody feels entitled
Why can't I feel entitled too?
Somebody took away my God given right
I guess God must have gave it to you
Yeah, I guess God must have slipped it to you

"Stop what you're doin' and get back in line"
I hear this from people all the time
"If we can't be happy then you can't be too"
I'm tired of bein' told what to do
Yeah, I'm sick of bein' told what to do

There are children today who are lied to
Told the world is rightfully theirs
They can have what they want, whenever they want
They take like Caesar and nobody cares
Live like Caesar and nobody cares


I can't bring myself to take without penance
Or atonement or sweat from my brow
Though the world may be spoiled and gettin' worse every day
Don't they feel like they cheated somehow?
I feel like I've been cheated somehow

"Stop what you're doin' and get back in line"
I hear this from people all the time
"If we can't be happy then you can't be too"
I'm tired of bein' told what to do
Yeah, I'm sick of bein' told what to do

I guess nobody on earth is entitled
Not mothers, not children, not kings
Not a one single person on God's golden shore
Is entitled to one single thing
We don't deserve a single damn thing




Music, lyrics by Jack White
Produced by Jack White
from the album "Lazaretto"
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#WhereAreTheChildren: The History Of Any Oppressive Regime Is Evidence That The US Treatment Of Detainees At The Mexican Border Has Well Established Precedent

Nothing new here.  Posted to demonstrate that if you but barely search, you will certainly see for yourself: ICE is not in good company on this issue, and would do well to alter its policies post haste.  

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Search string: "Mexican children seperated parents"
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Search string: "Black children seperated parents slavery"
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Search string: "American Indian children seperated parents"
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Search string: "History Irish children seperated parents England"
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Search string: "Armenian children seperated parents"
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Search string: "Black children seperated parents Apartheid"
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Search string: "Jewish children seperated parents Nazi Germany"
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Search string: "Palestinian children seperated parents"
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Nikki Haley, US Ambassador To UN, Says 'Jesus' Under Breath, Doesn't Grow Conscience, As U Houston Speech Interrupted By Lengthy Energetic Protest Of Israeli War Crimes | UPDATED FULL VIDEO

UPDATED*



What they chanted as security led them out:

"Nikki Haley, the blood is on your hands.”

"Nikki Haley, the blood is on your hands! You continue to sign off on the genocide of a native people! You are an accomplice to terrorists and colonisers!"

"Nikki Nikki can't you see? You are on a killing spree!"

"Nikki Haley you can't hide, you signed off on genocide!"

Full text of the statement of the Students for Justice in Palestine at UH (download link below):



Download links (zipped): HTML PDF



Posted in Solidarity.

*The original post had a partial video by accident.




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