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10.07.2011

The fight against climate change is down to us – the 99% www.guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/07/fight-climate-change-99?newsfeed=true
www.guardian.co.uk
Naomi Klein: Our movement differs from previous anti-globalisation protests. To change society's values we must stay together for years

Europeans fear climate change more than financial turmoil, poll shows www.guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/07/europeans-climate-change-poll
www.guardian.co.uk
Respondents said climate change was the second most serious issue facing the world, after poverty

Swedish academics call for boycott of Israeli institutions | JTA - Jewish & Israel News www.jta.org

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/10/06/3089743/swedish-academics-call-for-boycott-of-israel-institutions
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More than 200 professors and students from Sweden have signed on to a call for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions.

10.06.2011

D85 40H 'Fast Hunger Strike Update.' SL



Social Entrepreneur Shows Solar Power is Cheap | Social Enterprise www.justmeans.com

http://www.justmeans.com/Social-Entrepreneur-Shows-Solar-Power-is-Cheap/50124.html
www.justmeans.com
Indian social enterprise shows the way how cheap solar power can fulfil the electricity needs of poor.

Is Israel Again Weighing an Attack on Iran’s Nuclear Facilities? - Global Spin globalspin.blogs.time.com

globalspin.blogs.time.com
‎"I think the most effective way to deal with Iran is not on a unilateral basis," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters in Israel on Tuesday, stressing that the Israeli government needed to act in concert and consensus with the international community.

Supporting Netanyahu’s policies imperils Israel www.jpost.com

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Opinion/Article.aspx?id=240667
www.jpost.com
To be sure, Israel has legitimate security concerns, perhaps now more than ever.

NY Times: Netanyahu's policy on West Bank settlements is 'national suicide'

NY Times: Netanyahu's policy on West Bank settlements is 'national suicide'

Ha'aretz -
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's stance regarding continued construction in West Bank settlements is a "national suicide policy," a New York Times op-ed said on Wednesday, adding that Israel's leaders seem to be the country's worst enemy.

Mahmoud Abbas: Palestinians wish to live like other peoples en.trend.az

http://en.trend.az/regions/met/palestine/1941385.html
en.trend.az
Palestinians wish to live like other peoples, in freedom and dignity, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sated in his speech at the autumn session of the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

UN reports alarming increase in Israeli violence — RT www.rt.com

http://rt.com/news/palestine-israel-occupation-violence-001/
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The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip has become increasingly hazardous to Palestinians, with attacks by settlers and heavy-handed tactics on the part of Israeli security forces on the rise, according to the latest UN statistics.

Climate change eradicating Arctic's oldest ice www.vancouversun.com

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Climate+change+eradicating+Arctic+oldest/5507384/story.html
www.vancouversun.com
The Arctic's oldest, thickest sea ice — much of which used to survive the year's warmest months — had all but disappeared by the end of this summer's near-record meltdown, according to new U.S. analyses that vividly show how the circumpolar region is being transformed by warmer temperatures and othe...

First Lady Michelle Obama tours Secret Service to say "thank you" www.globalpost.com

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/111005/secret-service-president-michelle-sasha-malia-barack
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First family, including Barack, Malia and Sasha, fight over which Secret Service agent gets assigned to protect them, Obama jokes.

D40 'DGR - Definitive Global Revolution, Derrick Jensen.' SL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWcCVIWlnhc

10.04.2011

Can industrial civilization really become sustainable? Should it? www.grist.orgcli

http://www.grist.org/article/shaw1

Big catches mask dwindling numbers of sea bass www.latimes.com

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fish-collapse-20111003,0,7012333.story?track=lat-pick
www.latimes.com
As reliably as masses of sea bass gather off the Southern California coast each summer, boatloads of anglers arrive to reel them in.

The Wandering Who? - Book Review www.palestinechronicle.com

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=17115
www.palestinechronicle.com
Online news magazine and journal about Palestine, Israel, the Arab world, and the Middle East. Palestine, Israel, Iraq and International news coverage

Palestinians warn of "kristallnacht" following settler torching of mosque www.abna.ir

http://abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=269562
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Palestinians warn of "kristallnacht" following settler torching of mosque

CONGRESS KILLING OUR TROOPS FOR VOTES - US Defense Chief Criticizes Palestinian Aid Block www.voanews.com

CONGRESS KILLING OUR TROOPS FOR VOTES - http://www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/US-Defense-Chief-Criticizes-Palestinian-Aid-Block-131038238.html
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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has criticized U.S. lawmakers for suspending $200 million in aid slated to fund development projects in the Palestinian territories. Panetta said Monday at a news conference in Tel Aviv with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak that this is 'no time to withhold tho...

DON'T WORRY. NOT YOU. UN: By 2050, climate change could force 200 million to evacuate - Nation - GMA News Online - Lates www.gmanews.tv

;http://www.gmanews.tv/story/234239/nation/un-by-2050-climate-change-could-force-200-million-to-evacuate
www.gmanews.tv
Climate change could force up to 200 million people worldwide to flee their homes by 2050, United Nations officials warned Tuesday, a week after thousands of families in Luzon evacuated due to successive typhoons.

Who's Bankrolling the Climate Change Deniers? www.time.com

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2096055,00.html
www.time.com
‎'Just say no' is fine in some cases; it's a lousy way to approach hard science

10.03.2011

Tibetan Monk Self-Immolates in Anti-China Protest www.voanews.com

http://www.voanews.com/tibetan-english/news/Tibetan-Monk-Self-Immolates-in-Anti-China-Protest------130996163.html
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Another Tibetan Buddhist monk has set himself on fire in western China

Angela Merkel reads Benjamin Netanyahu the riot act over settlement plan www.independent.co.uk

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/angela-merkel-reads-benjamin-netanyahu-the-riot-act-over-settlement-plan-2364720.html
www.independent.co.uk
Israel has infuriated its most reliable West European ally, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, by announcing expansion of a Jewish settlement in Jerusalem in defiance of a US-backed warning to both parties in the Middle East conflict to avoid

Mosque fire in northern Israel www.euronews.net

http://www.euronews.net/2011/10/03/mosque-fire-in-northern-israel-blamed-on-extremists/
www.euronews.net
world news - A mosque in a Bedouin village in northern Israel has been set on fire in an attack which has been blamed on Jewish extremists. Graffiti sprayed on the walls spelt out the…

The Daily Tar Heel :: Walk for a Free Palestine promotes education, advocacy www.dailytarheel.com

http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2011/10/walk_for_a_free_palestine_promotes_education_advocacy
www.dailytarheel.com
For Barney Dale, education is the key to a more peaceful future. Dale, a resident of Durham, gathered Saturday with students and members of the community to educate residents about the issues facing Palestinians. About 55 people attended the Walk for a Free Palestine, which took place on Franklin St...

10.02.2011

[Uh, not to mention getting our soldiers killed and risking global war. But hey, whatever IraHell wants, right? Panetta warns IsraHell it is isolating itself.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/03/us-usa-israel-panetta-idUSTRE79203320111003
www.reuters.com
ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned on Sunday that Israel is becoming increasingly isolated in the Middle East and said U.S. security commitments should enable

Whose crazier, Hamm or YOU (for not stopping him)? Harold Hamm: How North Dakota Became Saudi Arabia online.wsj.com

Whose crazier, Hamm or YOU (for not stopping him)? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204226204576602524023932438.html
online.wsj.com
In The Wall Street Journal, Stephen Moore interviews Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm, the discoverer of the Bakken fields of the northern Great Plains, about America's oil future and why OPEC's days are numbered.

NASA: It Rained So Hard the Oceans Fell thinkprogress.org

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/10/02/332364/nasa-rained-so-hard-oceans-fell/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogress%2FlCrX+%28Climate+Progress%29
thinkprogress.org
by Barry Saxifrage, via the Vancouver Observer “The year 2010 was one the worst years in world history for high-impact floods. But just three weeks into the new year, 2011 has already had an entire year’s worth of mega-floods. “ – Meteorologist Jeff Masters I spend hours a day researching what New Y...

10.01.2011

SL B'Day Plea - 'START BEING GREEDY. DO UNTO THE LEAST ALL, ALL, ALL.' SL - txt, vid


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SL B'Day Plea - 'START BEING GREEDY. DO UNTO THE LEAST ALL, ALL, ALL.' SL

[Note - Graphics to be inserted]  This is much on my mind  today because if you watch me the last couple of weeks you've seen me constructively obsess over, do I stay in DC, do I stay on hunger strike, do I hunger strike walking around the country trying to find signs of life...?  I was right to do this but I was wrong to think that what I do ultimately matters. 

What matters is whether I drive myself to the top of this pyramid - High skill, high challenge, High Pursuit.  Gandhi never said it's what you do that matters, he said full effort is full success. King said it never, never said it matters who you are what you do.  He said 'everyone can be great because everyone can serve.' Jesus never said it it matters whether you're a pastor or carpenter a teacher.  He said,' do onto others, all you would have them do unto you. 

This is the one answer to every important question in life - how do I feel good, how do I help my family, how do I save humanity, how do I give humanity a future? How do I escape my depression,how do I escape, escape my sadness.  How do I have a positive life, what do I guide my child to....  Every important question has the same answer -  Do unto the least of these our global neediest all you would have them do unto you. 

Friends, uh,  some of you sense that I know some very important things; that's my sense of it.  And, how pitiful if I didn't, I thought the essential truths could be found and deeply known and lived, so for more than a dozen years I've made that the entire focus of my life and unless I'm a dishonest man or insane, and I'm neither, then without question,  I was correct. There are essential truths to know, they are not the essential small 't' "truths" lived by our society.   I know them, I get them, I live them, and they're as old as our DNA. They're as old as the universe but we don't live them.  We don't recognize them.  We trivialize them, and  thereby we are defying the truth of how things work, which Gandhi understood to be God, quite correctly. 

God, whatever God is, is what rules, correct?   It is The rules, it is that which rules, it is the ruler whatever it is, sentient, nonsentient, That's God, and we have cleverly done what cancer does, which is, we've defied that which is good, that which advances life, for all the massive benefits that are fleeting (sarcasm),  with total destruction, on the other side of our folly.   So you either stop kidding yourselves that Start Loving knows some things, or you listen up to this video.

The Matrix is a movie I speak of often, I think of often, and the truth in a way is the flipside of what the movie shows, and Jean Baudrillard, the now deceased philosopher whose conception spawned the movie, his philosophical views spawned the movie, and the movie itself really in a serious way shows the inverse of the truth. The Matrix, false 'reality,'  is what we understand to be the material reality outside of us.  True reality that all you and I can ever know is the inside of our nervous system. It's an infinite universe.  The inside of our nervous system for all intents and purposes is an infinite universe and you and I will never be able to escape that universe, not even for a second, ever.  So it is kind of important to understand the features of that universe, right? 

If we think about the physical universe I suppose it might  be nice to know everything.  We don't live that way, it would be insane. So we gravitate toward, sometimes very aggressively, and correctly, toward what's really import.  Here what's really important - within our nervous system inescapably you and I are are creatures that pursue positive experience.  It's inescapable, you and I can't change that. I don't ask you to accept any of this nor to waste your time arguing.  If you, if you see the basic wisdom to what I'm saying then ponder deeply and embrace it more in your life. And if is seems like nonsense, stop wasting your time with me. 

There are two types of positive experiences we human beings can and can't have and they are as yet,  I think, unproven, but scientifically provable in terms of two different types of chemical cocktails in our brain.  One associated with joy.  The other is associated with intoxicating pleasures, that wonderful meal, that handsome guy that beautiful girl, that exciting, the intoxication, extrinsic rewards, that is things that we perceive to be outside of our nervous system that 'make us feel good. Joy is the wrong word, the reward for doing unto the least of these,  these neediest parts of the our global family, all we, all we would have them do unto us.  This is the only universal moral precept.  This is the universal moral precept for virtually all cultures, all times in history, said different ways, the same thing, no double standards; what you would want desperaly to be done to you and yours, do to others.  No double standards. 

This is something that people 'made up' no more than people made up the most popular color globally would be violet.  Both are what we're wired for.  However, our wiring is so comprehensive, so complex, that we can invent ways that are not what we are wired to do.  Our western culture is in the final stages of destroying human future, and future for every other species.

So the important features of our nervous system ultimately and absolutely are its ability to give us the experience of finding joy within or to find the experience of intoxication/pleasures from things 'outside of' or personal efforts and attempts to do 'Good.' 

Not many people numerically have worked on this issue of, okay, what is it that produces joy, what is it that produces the experience of pleasure, intoxication;  but our greatest minds have, and whereas we look at them only for entertainment, typically, they weren't interested in entertaining us; they were interested in saving us from wasting our lives on inferior intoxications  and pleasures; so whether it's our artists, our philosophers, our great religious leaders, our  great humanitarians, our movie and heroes of literature, they all point in different words and ways to what one of the few great constructive, non-toxic, non-psychotic, non-psychotic psychologists, Miholi Csikszentmihaly from University of Chicago most of his career, in his indispensable book 'Flow,' and more indispensable book, 'The Evolving Self, done from his global, sophisticated studies of people's reported, optimal or suboptimal experience; that uninterrupted continuing experience of joy which he called 'optimal experience' is found by anyone and everything  when they were in a high challenge situation for which they have high skill, and which is of high meaning to the immediate collective -  the town, the city, the country, or the world.  This is true for our movie, virtually all of our movie heroes and literature, and our real life heroes like Gandhi, King, Jesus. 

Don't we at some level know that they have the most desirable experiences that human beings can have?  But we have built a culture on the cancerous notion that selfishness is the ultimate reward.  This is just, well, if you don't know it's wrong, I love you just as much, but you're wasting your time, in any seconds you consider what I have to say.   But if at some level you know that I'm dying to help you escape the insanity of the misdirection of our of our society, our insane western notion, that, oh no, the optimal human experience is found in leasure, selfish pleasures, for me and mine, our vacations, our over-privileged home, our  overprivileged car, overprivileged food, and we embrace it, believe it. 

If you think that's not the Truth, then save yourself from wasting your life.  The moral greats, friends, are not about afterlife.  Our greats were dying to get us a great live joyfully in this one, independant of any life after this one. 

I totally believed in this heaven, all my years, and now I've lived it; for the last 12 years that I've lived this understanding.

Let's look at what some of the other options -  what about high skill, high challange, but low meaning, as depicted here.  Well, the intelligentsia in our society, the quasi-moral and good people in the society who are anything but, but they honestly, like I did most of my life, think that they are, this is where they focus.  The rigourous understanding of the world's issues, the high accademic training, the meaningful conversations, the meeting, after meeting, after meeting over the world's issues; the serious discussions, the seroius political discussions, the working hard at a job that I hate, so that I can comply with socieity.  Ok, if you're happy with it, fine.  It's somewhat, actually, it can be highly pleasurable, but pleasure is always in cycles,  unlike joy which is continuous and uninterrupted as long as we stay in the high challenge, high skill,  high meaning pursuit that is doing for the least of these all we would have them do unto you; which makes whatever personal price it looks like we're paying, absolutely outside of consciousness, not of concern. 

Or, we can spend our time in high challenge, low meaning, low skill.  This is the place of burnout; this is the place of excuses, Well I tried.  This is the place of depression.  I tried, I keep on trying, but I'm not holding myself the standard of trying things that are are really worthwhile and I'm not holding myself  to the standard of getting the skill, or living within the skills that I have.  

And then there's the high skill, low meaning, low challenge.  So inane video games, watching TV, watching movies, watching sex, sitting at the beach.  Hour after hour watching; oh gosh, we're so emotionally illiterate.  Try to see the difference within you of what your experiences of joy felt like, and what your experiences of pleasure felt like, and you may save yourselves from the mistaken notion that our mindless entertainment is worth a second more of your life. 

Now, maybe you've seen that this is not a four-sidded cube, and I see now, a six-sided cube issue six sided cube.  This is a six sided prism issue, but I didn't have that gadget, it is not part of PowerPoint.  So you'll have to do the transition yourself. 

So where is the best possible mother or father when their child needs their greatest help, they're at the top of this pyramid. They drive themselves to the highest level of challenge.  They muster their highest skill, and of course pursuing their greatest meaning.  So on the issue that I'm devoting my time to, which is doing my part to try and give humanity a future, whereas currently it looks like it's finally going to have a future, which is just Hell, this is where I'm getting my life be, and giving my life to try and get you to be.  It's a win win win. 

It's the only place where we'll find the intelligence, motivation, unceasing desire and drive and selflessness, joyful selflessness, to save ourselves, to save humanity, to save the future for eternity's yonng. 

And finally friends, this is much on my mind today because, if you've watched me the last couple of weeks you've seen me constructively and obsess over do I stay in DC, do I stay on hunger strike,  do I stay on hunger strike but start walking around the country trying to find signs of life.  I was right to do this, but I was wrong to think that what I do ultimately matters.  What matters is whether I drive myself to the top of this pyramid -   High skill, high challenge, high meaning pursuit.  Gandhi never said it's what you do that matters, he said, 'Full effort is full success.'   King said it , never, never said it matters who you are what you do; he said 'everyone can be great because everyone can serve.'  Jesus never said that it matters whether you're a pastor or carpenter a teacher.  He said 'do onto others, all you would have them do unto you.'  This is the one answer to every important question in life -  how do I feel good,  how do I help my family, how do I save humanity,  how do I give humanity a future,  how do I escape my depression,  how do I escape my sadness, how do I have a positive life,   what do I guide my child to - every important question has the same answer - Do unto the least of these are global neediest, all you would have them do unto you. 

With Deaths of Forests, a Loss of Crucial Climate Protectors www.nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com
Trees, natural carbon sponges, help keep heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. But insect and human threats are taking a heavy toll on them.