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Weather: There is a 40% chance of thunderstorms and showers, mostly after 2:00 pm. Sunny with a high of over 94 degrees.There is a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms on Sunday night. overcast in part, with a low of about 77.
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Palm Coast Farmers Market at European Village: Located at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast, the city’s sole farmers market is open every Sunday from noon to four o’clock. accompanied by live music, fruit, vegetables, and other treats. Regarding Vendor Details email [email protected]
Gamble Jam: From 2 to 4 p.m., musicians of all ages are welcome to participate in the jam session by bringing seats and instruments. Please take note that through August 17, Gamble Jam will temporarily be held on the second and fourth Sunday of the month instead of the usual schedule. With park entry, the program is free! Flagler Beach, Florida’s Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area is located at 3100 S. Oceanshore Blvd. For additional information, contact the Ranger Station at (386) 517-2086. In remembrance of James Gamble Rogers IV, a Florida folk musician who died in 1991 while attempting to save a swimmer in the choppy waves, the park holds an acoustic jam session in one of the pavilions along the river.
Family groups run by Al-Anon offer hope and support to friends and family of alcoholics. Every Sunday, meetings are held via Zoom and at the Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell. There are more online and local gatherings available. To view the list of meetings in Flagler, Volusia, Putnam, and St. Johns County, call 904-315-0233.
The Grace Community Food Pantry is operating today from noon to three o’clock via drive-thru at 245 Education Way, Bunnell. Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Flagler County disaster relief organization, are in charge of organizing the food pantry. Feeding Northeast Florida assists local families, children, and active and retired military personnel who are struggling to put food on the table, as well as elders. Collaborating with nearby supermarkets, producers, and farms, we salvage premium food that would otherwise go to waste and turn it into meals for the underprivileged. A large portion of the food pantry’s operations and storage space are provided by the Flagler County School District. Give 386-586-2653 a call to volunteer, give, or offer assistance.
Intermediate and advanced ESL Bible studies are held at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast, from 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. While studying the Bible, work on your English. English language learners at the intermediate and advanced levels are the target audience for this study.
Notably, an 8,000-word review essay on Richard Beck’s Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life was published by the London Review of Books. It tells the story of a war that we have not so much forgotten as we have absorbed and enshrined, and that we still revere in many ways despite the hyper-militarization of the homeland and the disregard for its unlit transformation into a police state. The author of The Shape of Joy: The Transformative Power of Moving Beyond Yourself and Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering an Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age is not to be mistaken with this Richard R. Beck. This book is a little different. Here are a few quotes from Lears’ review, which seems to be completely accessible outside of the paywall: Now, over 25 years later, the wet dream of an aging militarist is a major factor influencing U.S. foreign policy. Given Cheney’s pivotal role in establishing a permanent wartime state, this should not be shocking. A convenient justification for unprecedented abuses of fundamental constitutional principles, such as the unbridled growth of executive power, the complete disregard for habeas corpus and defendants’ rights generally, the warrantless mass surveillance of millions of citizens, and the legalization of torture as a military tactic, was provided by the media’s cliche that 9/11 changed everything. Bush’s attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, claimed that the Geneva Conventions had made the Bill of Rights obsolete in the eyes of the fight against terrorism. The war on terror left American foreign policymakers on both sides of the aisle with this sensibility, which combines righteous rage, sentimental moralism, and visceral disgust. It has shaped their views of every enemy created by the national security state since the fall of the Soviet Union. By personalizing perceived threats and transforming foreign enemies into comic-strip villains, the media has worked together on this mission. The magic words “Russia” or “Hamas” can summon the subhuman hordes that lurk behind these hideous figures. The attempt by the United States and Israel to defend Israel’s homicidal war on Gaza is the most egregious example of how this cartoonish worldview has flourished in the decades since 9/11. The war on terror has resulted in the creation of a new Holocaust by Israelis descended from survivors of the first, which is the biggest unpunished war crime of our time.
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However, the main tenets of Orientalism are still present in their most unadulterated form in research on Islam and the Arabs. Let’s review them here: the first is the clear and consistent distinction between the Orient, which is aberrant, underdeveloped, and inferior, and the West, which is logical, advanced, compassionate, and superior. Another tenet is that abstract ideas about the Orient—especially those derived from literature that depicts a classical Oriental civilization—are always better than empirical data derived from contemporary Oriental reality. It is assumed that a very generic and structured language for describing the Orient from a Western position is necessary and even scientifically objective because of a third dogma that holds that the Orient is eternal, uniform, and incapable of defining itself. The fourth credo holds that the Orient is fundamentally something that should either be controlled (via pacification, research and development, or outright occupation if feasible) or dreaded (the Mongol hordes, the Yellow Peril, the Brown Dominions).
From Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward Said (1978).
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