{"id":1399,"date":"2012-09-02T13:13:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T12:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2012-09-08T14:38:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T13:38:41","slug":"whats-wrong-with-this-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2012\/09\/02\/whats-wrong-with-this-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Whats wrong with this picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>OK kiddies, please watch this video and feel free to draw your own conclusions.<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.bambuser.com\/broadcast\/2946786\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"460\" height=\"327\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Clearly the system is broken, the point is who broke it?<\/h3>\n<p>If you find this video disturbing and I find this profoundly disturbing myself , then ask yourself the question how have we sunk so low.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#333333\">\n<td><center><\/p>\n<table style=\"background-color: #57a89d;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica;\"><strong>FEAR NOT your enemies<\/strong>,<br \/>\n<strong>FEAR NOT your friends<\/strong>,<br \/>\n<strong>FEAR ONLY the indifferent<\/strong>,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica;\">for they can only kill you.<br \/>\nfor they can only betray you.<br \/>\nwho permit the killers and betrayers to walk safely on earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><center><span style=\"color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;\">~ Edward Yashinski, Yiddish poet who survived the Shoah only to die in a Communist prison in Poland.<\/span><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"3\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" width=\"10\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><center><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"blog_title\">The turn of the season, but not the turning of the tide<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"blog_message\">Its been a some what checkered couple of weeks, several gigs, being the usual mix of good bad and indifferent. A little manifestation of mental health problems has also shaken the tree a bit, but I am still rolling abet slightly unsteadily. I am still feeling very tired but getting a bit more physical exercise which is helping a little with the aches and pains. Stretching of various forms seems to really help, perhaps I should get a rack&#8230;Some people pay money for that sort of thing don&#8217;t they.I am currently much disturbed by the situation with regard to the disability benefits row (ATOS assessments and similar). I have no particular personal axe to grind, but having dug deeper in the news behind the news as it were, I do not see much in the way of good happening. I see a primarily ideologically driven scourge and the demoniseation of many of the weaker<br \/>\nin society with very little justification given.Frequently there is the case that those that are trying to help themselves get out of a hole are having the ladder kicked out from under them. We seem to have been seduced by the devil take the hindmost attitude&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Monaco;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Our Response to Alleged Govt' Plans to Sanction Disabled Benefit Claimants (final) on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/105126719\/Our-Response-to-Alleged-Govt-Plans-to-Sanction-Disabled-Benefit-Claimants-final\">\u00c2\u00a0Response to Alleged Govt&#8217; Plans to Sanction Disabled Benefit Claimants (final)<\/a><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_94496\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/105126719\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-ngl4eswmqrmv992u6lo\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.706697459584296\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK kiddies, please watch this video and feel free to draw your own conclusions. Clearly the system is broken, the point is who broke it? If you find this video disturbing and I find this profoundly disturbing myself , then ask yourself the question how have we sunk so low. &nbsp; FEAR NOT your enemies, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2012\/09\/02\/whats-wrong-with-this-picture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Whats wrong with this picture<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disabilty-and-health-news","category-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-mz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":176888,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/03\/16\/artistic-burnout-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":1399,"position":0},"title":"Artistic Burnout Time","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 16, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometime I wonder what I should be doing, but I just keep on keeping on as best I can. 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