JAPAN, 2011 - CALL ME JEREMIAH !

 

My heart goes out to you who are surviving in Japan.

 

We who live in the West may think that your troubles are sad but distant - not connected with us, really. But we all live on one Earth and we are all connected. We are all flesh and blood, and yes, souls. Even the poor animals who are dying now feel fear and pain and loss. 

 

World War II saw some of the greatest horrors that human beings could visit on each other. One monster more than any other, Adolph Hitler, brought us hell on earth, but the idol worship of an emperor led the people of Japan to become puppets, participating in the savage horror. It finally brought the fires of hell down on your ancestors and made us, the ordinary citizens of the West, a guilty but helpless party to the cruel revenge. If only it were just the perpetrators of evil who suffered, but it is always the innocent who suffer. There is no justice on this earth.

 

Now, we are seeing a holocaust wrought by nature - and by man, through the nuclear plants. Those who survive will be left with the incredible pain, and scars that will not heal. The earth itself is injured. We are all living on shaky ground. Yet most people continue to ignore reality, even as our very earth crumbles. Bible prophecies are coming true even as I write.

 

All humanity will suffer hopelessly unless we find leaders who will guide us out of this nightmare. But, call me Jeremiah. Even in the midst of this darkness, people are contemplating their own interests. There are people on the Internet and on television still talking about trivia - sports, cosmetics, money - telling dirty jokes and participating in dirty behaviour, while you, our fellow human beings in Japan, are suffering and dying. But we are not separate. We cannot be separate. There is only one earth and we are all one flesh, one heart, one soul. Your pain is not distant to me. I am weeping for you - and for all of us.

 

Phyllis Carter

CHERNOBYL AND SENDAI - WHEN WILL WE LEARN ?

 

FACEBOOK

March 12, 2011

 

I survived the 11th March 2011 Japan(Sendai) Earthquake and Tsunami

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/I-survived-the-11th-March-2011-JapanSendai-Earthquake-and-Tsunami/108042399271436

 

 

 

Anna Brait

Hello, people. I am not Japanese, but Ukrainian. And I am from the generation that saw Chernobyl in childhood and all the consequences of the radiation: diseases of my friends and family, deaths of radiation explosion, polluted land and gigantic mushrooms, double headed cows... I can write about more...
I pray for those who saw this explosion and never wish anyone to see it again.

 

Phyllis Carter 

 

Anna, The world is so sick. We have no control over volcanoes and earthquakes, but nuclear power plants are man's folly. The tragedy of Chernobyl was not enough to stop those who hold power from building more nuclear plants. I am so worried about the people of Japan - and for all helpless victims - the innocent who have suffered because of Chernobyl and those who are going to suffer now and in the future as human beings continue to put greed before sanity. We must not be silent. There is only one Earth and politics, race, religion - none of these things matter when we are faced with such catastrophe. We are one human race living on the only Earth we have.

 

See PHYLLIS CARTER'S JOURNAL - DESPERATELY SEEKING FRIENDS IN SENDAI, JAPAN, NOZOMI CHIBA AND SHINYA -

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2011/03/despertely-seeking-friends-in-sendai.html

SEEKING FRIENDS IN SENDAI, JAPAN - NOZOMI CHIBA AND SHINYA

Nozomi Chiba and Shinya,
Rune and Moyu

The disaster in Japan has hit very close to my heart. I have dear friends who live in Sendai, Nozomi Chiba and her husband, Shinya, and their two little girls, Rune and Moyu.

Nozomi was one of my students here in Montreal and a fellow member of St. Thomas' Church - circa 2003 - before returning to Sendai to be married.

The last phone number I have for her is dated January, 2007. When I dial that number, I get an operator's recorded message saying the number is not valid.

I have sent messages to the Embassy of Japan in Ottawa and to the Red Cross.
I called Foreign Affairs - 1-800-387-3124. I was advised to write to sos@international.gc.ca. I did that.

I am still waiting to hear from anyone who can let me know they are safe.

I believe Nozomi's mother was a co-founder of a hospital in Sendai circa 2003.

Nozomi and her family live in Aoba - Ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.

The whole world is watching and waiting and praying.

The Japan Times reported today, "THE EARTH SHIFTED ON ITS AXIS"

There are no words.

DO NOT TRUST STUDENTS - BE CAUTIOUS WITH JOURNALISTS

 

TRUTH IS A VERY RARE BIRD.

 

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CTV MONTREAL

March 11, 2011

 

CTV Montreal

Concordia Journalism students with Todd and Caroline - February 17, 2011

 

• Phyllis Carter

  I had an experience with one journalism student from Concordia that brings me to warn the public. I will not name her here. This young lady asked to interview me. She said she wanted to write about me because she was impressed by who I am. I sat with her for about three hours at Tim Horton's answering all her questions and discussing my experiences. I had told her when she first called me that the interview was conditional on my right to see what she had written. She said, "Of course. No problem." Some time later, when I asked to see her paper, she refused. I contacted the head of the journalism department at Concordia and I was told that the student was not obliged to show me what she had written about me. I then went to the highest official at Concordia and I was told the same thing. What the girl had written about my life was not my business. Beware of Concordia's journalism students.
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  Elias Makos

  The public does not need to be "warned." You sat down with a journalism student for three hours, and expected some sort of special privilege that no journalist should ever give, if they want to be taken seriously. I suspect you either misunderstood, are naive, or both.
  
  The student, the chair, and this "highest official" at Concordia are right. You are not. If you have a problem with people writing about you, don't do interviews with journalists.
  
  (Full disclosure: I work full-time in the Journalism department at Concordia University, and I appear regularly on CTV's noon news as tech/trends columnist.)
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  Phyllis Carter  I have learned from this bad experience. I would never give an interview to a student again. When I speak to a professional journalist, I know what to expect. I did not expect a student to lie to me and I did not expect officials at Concordia to condone the deception. As a professional journalist myself, my level of ethics requires me to be truthful at all times no matter what anyone else does.
  PHYLLIS CARTER'S JOURNAL - Building Camelot One Essay At A Time - http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/
  http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2011/02/what-happened-to-pinocchio.html
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ARCHIVE INDEX PART FOUR

• Archive Index Part IV

• ▼  2011 
  • ▼  March
    • BUILDING CAMELOT ONE ESSAY AT A TIME
    • METROPOLITAN NEWS AGENCY - AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE NATION - GEORGE RUBIN...

▼  February

• CATASTROPHE ! BUT YOU CAN'T PROVE IT
• RISE UP IN ANGER ... SILENCE IMPLIES CONSENT
• MONTREAL POLICE HAVE LARGE POWERS, VAST AUTHORITY ...
• THE ULTIMATE QUESTION
• THE TEST OF TRUE LOVE
• I BELIEVE IN LOVE, I BELIEVE IN MUSIC
• A SEPARATE QUEBEC ?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO PINOCCHIO ?
• WISDOM SEEKER - IT IS THE QUEST

▼  January (30)

• BARON BYNG HIGH SCHOOL - LEST WE FORGET
• THE WICKED FLEE
• CORRUPT JUDGES ? THIS JUDGE DID NOTHING WRONG - CONSEIL DE LA MAGISTRATURE ...
• CJAD RADIO, MONTREAL - THEN AND NOW
• ARCHIVE INDEX PART THREE
• THE POWER OF THE MEDIA OVER THE PUBLIC - CJAD TALK...
• THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER
• SACRIFICING JUSTICE FOR PEACE - JUST THIS ONCE
• MY FOCUS IS JUSTICE - GLOBAL TV'S FOCUS ?
• VITAL POLICE REPORTS - LANDLORDS AND TENANTS,  LIFE AND DEATH ...
• MONTREAL POLICE TELL VICTIM TO HUNT THIEF
• ABOVE ALL, DO JUSTICE
• ARCHIVE - PART TWO
• ABANDONED BY PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE
• NOT SILENCED BY GLOBAL TELEVISION
• IT PAYS TO BE IGNORANT
• HOW TO RAISE A CRIMINAL - THE TRAGEDY OF DAWN MCSWEENEY ...
• I REMEMBER MAGIC TOM AUBURN
• THE TRUTH ABOUT CANCER
• EPIPHANY
• JOHNNY JELLYBEAN AND THE SEPARATISTS
• BUILDING CAMELOT - 2011
• TO THE READER
• ARCHIVE - 2008-2011
• SILVER MEDALS AND SPIRIT THIEVES
• REWARD FOR STOLEN PROPERTY
• DANCING NAKED
• MURDER BY VIRUS
• THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUTH - IT ISN'T EASY
• ABUSE AT THE JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL

METROPOLITAN NEWS AGENCY - AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE NATION

 

My Father, George Rubin, President,

Metropolitan News Agency,
1248 Peel Street,

Montreal, Canada

AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE NATION
by
Phyllis Mass Carter

 

Known around the world as "The Newsstand in Montreal", Metropolitan News Agency - "At the Crossroads of the Nation and the World" - was established early in the 20th Century at 1248 Peel Street at the corner of St. Catherine . It was our family's enterprise from the mid-1940's until it closed at that location in the mid-1980's. I started working there as a child in 1947 and I was there the day it closed. The Store was then moved to nearby Cypress Street across from The Windsor Hotel and continued to be operated by my uncle, Sam Feldman, until he reached his 90's, circa 2006 -2008.

 

This was my true alma mater. Working in The Store by my father's side from the time I was eleven years old, I was taught every aspect of the business and I met people from around the world, people of every race, language, religion and profession - politicians, journalists, actors, authors, circus animal trainers, singers, musicians, movie stars, teachers, artists, athletes - everyone of every description. There were the Runyonesque personalities - Jockey Fleming, Kid Obley, Dutchy, Louis Apple and the mute gent, Patrick Farney, who sold the latest newspapers out at the street corner for us in all kinds of weather for decades.

 

With access to newspapers from every corner of the world, and magazines and pocket books, I enjoyed a liberal education. My father read Pinocchio to me from a 25 cent Dell Pocket Book. I learned languages and explored every field of interest - from my earliest comic books - The Green Lantern, Plastic Man, Wonder Woman - and the wonderful Classic Comics - to the Pulps, the Digests, Theatre Arts, Writer's Digest, Arizona Highways, Flair, Life, Look, Coronet, Pageant, Alfred Hitchcock Mysteries, Who's Who in Hollywood, True Detective, Modern Photography, Photoplay and Silver Screen, Holiday, Ebony, Gourmet, Popular Science, Time, Newsweek, Liberty, Colliers and Saturday Evening Post, Crossword Puzzles, the classic Penguin Books, and everything in between. I learned to sing with Hit Parade. I learned to ride with Western Horseman. Venturing into The Racing Form, I placed a bet on a horse named "Legal Holiday" and lost my $3.00. I discovered the universe in National Geographic and delighted in the beautiful Christmas issues of London Illustrated News.

 

Almost every member of my family, including my parents, grandparents, uncles and cousins worked at Metropolitan News at some time - over three generations. My grandmother and my mother and I also sold Fine English Bone China and Irish Linens in one part of the store, and my grandfather, Israel Feldman, served newspapers from the window open onto Peel Street winter and summer. My uncle Harry and aunt Zelda Fields took care of the bookkeeping.

 

My father, George Rubin, was the brains and the backbone and the diplomat and the chief labourer at Metro News. He would work from sunrise to sunrise if needed, sometimes sleeping on a work table in the stockroom overnight to ensure that he would be there to open The Store early the next morning in case of a snowstorm.

 

My uncle Sam was the co-founder with Charlie Manella. He was athletic and dynamic and always on the go. Sam started out selling newspapers at the corner of Peel and St. Catherine for Charlie when he was eight years old. He brought the family into the business in the mid-1940's when he bought out Charlie's interest, and he worked until his 90's.

 

My father worked at The Store for 37 years. He loved books and he loved people - and I loved him. He was my true teacher all along. But that is a long, long story.

 

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