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2.07.2012

'I find virtually no fear of God (violating Good) in US except in DC Police, and Obamas.' SL (no detail)


'Standing for Justice is Universal, or it is Not Standing for Justice.' SL (no detail)


'Occupy DC: Blinding How Many Officers Warrants a Crackdown?' SL (text, vid)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2LsG6sSexM


So blinding how many police officers on Saturday would warrant a police crackdown? How many hours, days, weeks, months are the police obligated to break the law for folks in Occupy? It would seem from Occupy's standpoint that any enforcement of the law is an inhumane, attackable offense if done by the Park police.
This was an eventful night for me. At 5:30, back at McPherson Park for my evening ration of homeless food, there was a Park Police officer, early 30s, nice-looking fella, African-American man, who I'd never seen before. He seemed to know me or know of me. I approached him nonthreateningly, of course, said I was disturbed about Saturday, wanted to share some observations, was expecting nothing from him in return. Would that be okay? He said yes and in a way that suggested he meant it. I told him, as I've described in posts earlier today, that it appeared to me that what had been a stellar, stunning, display of respect, for free speech and the Constitution by the Park police for three or four months now, stunning, staggering, breathtaking to anyone with eyes, which is almost no one, was thrown out the window, trashed, as near as I can tell, by blatantly bad-faith negotiation by officer Beck, the commanding officer, that by all reasonable appearances, professed to have a good faith, binding discussion with Occupiers, including a young man who I have tremendous respect for, for clearing the statue, getting off of the statue, and the then police agreed to remove only the tents that had bedding, food or were a health hazard. And based on my observations of the end of this negotiation at which point I went to recharge my laptop and upload some video, and my return several hours later, it appeared the police flagrantly, totally lied in that negotiation, and were removing, indiscriminately, all but a few token tents.

And I still don't know that that isn't exactly the case. But I'm mightily impressed with the conversation with the officer and a subsequent conversation I had.

The officer told me, he was an extremely genuine individual, as so many of the officers are, I can hardly think of an exception in years, stunning people. He said, I don't know the exact timing of what you're describing. I wasn't there. I didn't see it, he wasn’t the slightest defensive, but he said - what I do know is that everyone on the force was called to duty in preparation for that morning and we were clearly told that the Park police intended to continue to work with the demonstrators, as they had, unless and until there was any violence, at which point the orders were clear, they would quickly and totally empty the Park of people and then all of the tents and another demonstration material would be taken away; as has been demanded by the law, and I'm adding this part, as is demanded by the law, clear as day, and has not been enforced by the Park police, bending over backward to support free speech, this is categorically clear, against the wishes of the mayor, against the wishes of the vile refuse, that today calls itself the Republican party on Capitol Hill, those inhumane, two-legged rodents, vile creatures. The Park police have been taking all of that pressure. And this fine young officer went on to say - I don't know the exact timing, but I do know that one officer is in the process of losing his eyesight due to a bottle filled with liquid or rocks thrown at his eye, and that another was clubbed with a pole, two acts of violence, either of which was sufficient to trigger my orders, he said.

That's not a definitive answer for me. I am now stepping out of our conversation. I thanked the officer and tried to impress upon him how useful I thought our dialogue was, and that I would, as strongly as I could, voice when he shared back to any sane ears I could find.

Moments later, two African-American men that I've become significantly fond of, that had been associated with Occupy, very clean cut, well spoken, obviously responsible in every respect, appearance, demeanor probably late 30s early 40s, one a vet. I saw them and out of a mutual affection said hi and chose to share the conversation I just had with the police.

They were instantly on the side of the police. I've not spoken with either of them enough to have anticipated that at all. They were incensed by how the police had been berated for hours and hours and hours by a relatively small cadre of the Occupy contingent, the ones that one of the two fellows I'm now mentioning was one of the eighth of us planning to stand with me as human shields protecting the police against the feces and mustard gas bombs from these anarchist trash. They were incensed by a the way the police were treated by this horrifically vocal cadre, some of which I captured on tape and is on my youtube channel, more than a 1000 views on one, 500 on the other.

At this point a third gentleman who I had not observed before, early to mid 30s, extremely fine looking African-American man, extremely professional looking, not a business suit but very well groomed. He was utterly outraged about how one of the individuals was treating the officers. He made it clear that he had been taunting officers, but within boundaries he thought were appropriate to the situation, and how he became aware of a fellow he was next to, who was using language and sexual innuendo, and this guy made a point, for six hours this guy was firing it at police, the most vulgar, the most personal the most sexual, about their mothers, about their wives, and it just spilled out of him, so apparently this offending fellow is the fellow whose elbow was broken, or he has cuts on his head now his lawyer says, and I won't use the exact language, but this extremely well spoken, extremely well-kept man said, the police wound up tearing this guy apart, and one of the other gentleman was expressing concern, and this guy said, they had to do that! Did you hear how he was speaking to them?! He was outraged.

And my point, my major point to them, my major point to the few sane heads I've seen at Occupy over months is, 'you guys don't stand for anything if you don't stand against all abuse, including abusive of the police, and tragically, I saw no one except for me stand against the abuse of the police on Saturday.

My point isn't to condemn anyone, but I was correct then and I'm correct now, his movement is nothing, it's no different, it's no different than the 1%, just has different targets. Brotherhood is universal or it's not brotherhood, standing for justice is universal or it's not standing for justice, standing for what's right is universal or it's not standing for what's right. And then and now my hope is that some people will find the better part of themselves and begin to stand up for what's right.

My guess remains that officer Beck is a throwback, or the equivalent thereof, to the thugs Park police used to be. I don't know that, he may be a very fine man. But if the more police favorable view of this is true, he needs to come forth with that explanation and he needs to come forth with it to the people in Occupy, whether or not they're man or woman enough to hear it and respect it is not his responsibility. But it's his responsibility to justice, it's his responsibility to taxpayers to make a clear rendering of extremely reasonable perceptions of betrayal, and lies, that Occupy has.

And more importantly to the nation, and to the world, is that the better souls in Occupy look at themselves in the mirror and ask what level of standards they're really holding themselves to, because they're holding these officers to infinitely higher standard than they're holding themselves, and that's morally bankrupt, and it's totally hopeless.

'1ST LAW OF JUSTICE: NEVER HOLD ANOTHER TO A HIGHER STANDARD THAN YOU HOLD YOURSELF.' SL (no detail)


'And what if everyone devoted themselves to Humanity? All else is doom now.' SL (no detail)


Catholics want birth control coverage: New surveys USA TODAY

'Words are Deadly that come from those not Embodying them.' SL (no detail)


The global wind power market rose 6 percent to 41 gigawatts last year, led by China

The global wind power market rose 6 percent to 41 gigawatts last year, led by China, which captured more than two-fifths of the total, the Global Wind Energy Council said today in a report. [Businessweek]

GRANT ISRAEL'S WISH TO GO IT ALONE: Israel Can't Go It Alone on Iran Nuke Threat: SF Chronicle

Israel Can't Go It Alone on Iran Nuke Threat: Jeffrey Goldberg

San Francisco Chronicle -
It will fall to him to plan and execute the attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, should Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu order him to do so. Senior US officials think that Netanyahu is preparing to launch such an attack in the coming months.

'Park Police owes itself, and the public, an accounting of its actions Saturday.' SL (txt)


Profoundly believing in 'innocent until proven guilty,' as I do, I will not let admiration born of 8 years extensive interaction be erased by my concerns of the last weekend.  But I find behaviors of the Park Police this last weekend devastatingly troubling. 
  1.    All available evidence suggests that Commanding Officer Beck totally, massively, gratuitously lied to Occupiers early Saturday morning.  It is virtually certain he committed, without reservation, that only tents with bedding, food, or health threats would be removed.  It is impossible that this was 90% of the tents, but 90% of the tents are gone, removed by the Feds.
  2. Park Police arrest a journalist because he was known to be supportive of the occupiers?  Jerry Nelson, a Photojournalist for the Huffington Post, was arrested as shown on video tape linked from the Washington Post.  Just standing there, no melee in progress, Jerry is approached and hand-cuffed by the police.  ‘Someone identified you as assaulting them,’ the police said when Jerry asked why.  Jerry has been a fixture, an embed, if you will, in the park for 2-4 months under constant view of the police.  His behavior is totally and completely inconsistent with assaulting anyone.   Most recently a week ago when that retired cop started cutting down the Tent of Dreams, under police eyes, Jerry placed his body between the young demonstrators and the scissors of the retired cop, demonstrating extreme unviolence, never in any way threatening the perpetrator.
  3. Why the gratuitous, ‘police state’ surges on at least two occasions?  One is captured on widely circulated youtube footage – the massive surge, shove, escalation at the library.  The other, in which I just barely escaped being trampled by a massive police horse, was the arrest of an individual buried 8 deep in a crowd north of the park, at about 5:30am.  20-30 officers, 6 on horseback, dozens with helmets and shields, 6 with swat team gear, night vision helmets, etc. explode into a 100% passive crowd paying no heed to the park at that moment what so-ever, treating them as though they were an armed, dangerous, violent mob, that never they had been. 
My admiration for the Park Police has developed during  what seems to have been a radical shift way from thuggery, brutality, about 2 years ago.  Is Beck a holdover from that era?  What happened?  

If the Park Police is the stellar institution I’ve thought these last 2 years, it owes itself a full public accounting of this.

2.06.2012

'Park Police Massively, Officer Beck Blatently, Massively Lied Saturday to Occupy, is my best understanding.' SL (txt)

There are as many as 8 and as few as 2 or 3 folks at Occupy DC McPherson I have solid regard for.  Young Brian is one fo the two or 3.  He is young, and I don't find his judgement impecible (tho far better than mine at his age) but I find his core character, his core Goodness rare, 1 in 100,000.

I saw him toninght as I was getting my supper from the food wagon.  Brian was returning from jail after 3 days.

I had not seen Brian arrested, it happened mid morning Saturday I believe between my early am and noon visits.  But another of the 3, Jerry Nelson, a HuffPo blogger/photog told me that Brian, who had been accepted as a crisis negotiator by the Occupy crowd, and the police, when he found he was totally and blatantly lied to by the police, demanded to be arrested, jumping a police barrier and announcing his intent to be arrested.  Entirely non-violent.

Even when Jerry told me this, among all the confusion, it did not take prominence in my thinking.  Now that I've heard from Brian, I'm horrified and deeply sadened.  My best guess is that Officer Beck, in total bad faith, said and promised whatever he saw would gain the immediate compliance of the demonstrators, with zero intention of carrying through.  I deeply and passionately believe in the dictum - innocent until proven guilty, but not as something to hide behind.  A man is responsible for his moment by moment behavior, decisions, views, actions, so I don't have the luxury of suspending all judgment until I have the entirely unlikely opportunity to hear Officer Beck's side. 

I now recall hearing, and catching obliquely on tape, the clear expectation Officer Beck, Park Police, set in the early morning, that - only those tents with bedding would be removed, or with food, or dangerous uncleanliness.  I'm 99% sure this was not made up, and is what Park Police said would happen.  80-90% of the tents are gone.  It is impossible that that many failed the police criterion. 

I'm open to hearing my assessment is incorrect.  I HOPE I find it to be incorrect, because that would be such a massive moral, professional, constitutional lapse on the part of our Federal Government as to constitute massive destruction of what has been my view of and hope for that institution - the Park Police.

With no expectation of impact, I'll none the less advise Brian to take all promising steps in the media and legal channels to bring this to a head.  If there are overriding circumstances that could not be foreseen - they should be brought to light.  If it was simply the Federal Government urinating on citizens because the citizens were unarmed - that too should be brought to light.

STUDY US Economic Growth funded by Spending Down Our Natural Wealth

SLO-MO US FUNDED GENOCIDE: Israel condemns Palestinian reconciliation deal USA TODAY

Israel condemns Palestinian reconciliation deal

USA TODAY -
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday took a decisive step toward reconciliation with the Islamic militant Hamas, agreeing to head an interim unity government that would prepare for elections in the West Bank and Gaza ...
Palestinian rivals choose Abbas to head unity government
Fatah, Hamas choose Abbas to head new joint government

US Senator: China Cannot Avoid 'Arab Spring' Voice of America

US Senator: China Cannot Avoid 'Arab Spring'

Voice of America -
Monday, 06 February 2012 US Senator: China Cannot Avoid 'Arab Spring' VOA Tibetan A leading US senator and one-time presidential candidate is warning China, “the Arab Spring is coming.
China warns officials in Tibet to keep region stable, or risk criminal charges
Tibetan officials warned to maintain stability

Black Bloc: The Cancer in Occupy truthout

Black Bloc: The Cancer in Occupy

truthout -
... demonstrate against the World Bank in Washington DC on April 17, 2011. (Photo: Collin David Anderson) The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement.

Thirty Kentucky Congregations Will Participate in Global Warming “Preach-In” WFPL

Thirty Kentucky Congregations Will Participate in Global Warming “Preach-In”

WFPL -
by Erica Peterson on February 6, 2012 Next weekend, thirty church congregations across Kentucky will participate in a nationwide effort to raise awareness about global warming: the third annual National Preach-In on Global Warming.

Hubris. Insanity: Bill Gates backs climate scientists lobbying for large-scale geoengineering The Guardian

2.05.2012

Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth Julie Cart la times

Bill Maher to leftover Occupy movement ‘douchebags’: ‘Get a job’

Obama: US prefers to use diplomacy with IranUSA TODAY

Obama says US will work in 'lockstep' with Israel against Iran nuclear program

Washington Post (blog) -
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said Sunday he does not think Israel has decided whether to attack Iran over its disputed nuclear program, a standoff that has the Middle East on edge. The president sought to assure allies and foes alike that the ...
Obama: US prefers to use diplomacy with Iran
Obama: Israel has not decided on attacking Iran

Subs, silos, UAVs: Rumors cloud Israel's Iran clout Reuters

Subs, silos, UAVs: Rumors cloud Israel's Iran clout

Reuters -
Israel, which sees Iran's nuclear drive as a mortal threat, sent F-16 jets to destroy Iraq's atomic reactor in 1981 and launched a similar sneak sortie against Syria in 2007.

'Divine Truth is Demonstrated, Shown, Told of not Argued, Convinced., Proven.' SL (txt)

Jesus, the man, never argued, convinced.... He Demonstrated, Showed, Told of... the Truth of how things are.  If someone shows me that a tree is green, and I argue that it is some opposite color, if one argues with me, or tries to convince me, they are at best wasting their time, probably, right?  And so it is, that the Divine Truth of Life is Love - relentless waging of activity to advance the well-being of the individual and the species.

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Principles of Nonviolence Martin-Luther-King (txt)

http://paceebene.org/power-nonviolent-change/martin-luther-king-jr-s-principles-nonviolence

1) Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.
  • It is active nonviolent resistance to evil.
  • It is assertive spiritually, mentally, and emotionally.
  • It is always persuading the opponent of the justice of your cause.
2) Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding.
  • The end result of nonviolence is redemption and reconciliation.
  • The purpose of nonviolence is the creation of the Beloved Community.
3) Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice, not people.
  • Nonviolence holds that evildoers are also victims.
4) Nonviolence holds that voluntary suffering can educate and transform.
  • Nonviolence willingly accepts the consequences of its acts.
  • Nonviolence accepts suffering without retaliation.
  • Nonviolence accepts violence if necessary, but will never inflict it.
  • Unearned suffering is redemptive and has tremendous educational and transforming possibilities.
  • Suffering can have the power to convert the enemy when reason fails.
5) Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate.
  • Nonviolence resists violence of the spirit as well as of the body.
  • Nonviolent love gives willingly, knowing that the return might be hostility.
  • Nonviolent love is active, not passive.
  • Nonviolent love does not sink to the level of the hater.
  • Love for the enemy is how we demonstrate love for ourselves.
  • Love restores community and resists injustice.
  • Nonviolence recognizes the fact that all life is interrelated.
6) Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice.
  • The nonviolent resister has deep faith that justice will eventually win.

'DC Occupy - Police happy to club, trample, shoot citizens.' SL (vid, txt)

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

 


'DC Occupy - Police happy to club, trample, shoot citizens.' SL

Today I have uploaded two videos with extremely inflammatory titles talking about police brutality, when in fact the brutality that the early morning and midday videos revealed was the verbal brutality, abuse, violence of the occupiers.  Just, just a nasty young mob, vicious, irresponsible, just a nasty young mob.  The title of this video is not facetious.  Tonight I witnessed something that in eight years in DC  I've not witnessed,  that I can recall.

So disgusted was I with what I saw this morning at Occupy DC that it was clear to me I'd have nothing more to do with it.  I've never enough respected what I saw to identify myself with it, but I'd seen sufficient glimmerings of hope to try and help it become what it should be.  And, as of today I see no hope there.  McPherson’s on my return trip from the coffee shop I use, to where I am now, where I sleep, and it also is in park where I get food in the evening.  My guess was that the police action would have been done by 5:15 when I was going for supper.  On my 10 min. walk halfway I encountered one of the few people that I've had a significant regard for, who was running the opposite direction to catch transportation I think, who  said, 'Start, don't go that way, there's police violence.'  I believed him because I've learned to trust his word pretty much, his judgment, but I go toward trouble, not away from it.  When I arrived at the camp, as he had told me I would find, all of the protesters had been driven out of the park, which didn't alarm me, still doesn't alarm me; the police have been breaking the law for three months, the law that says no camping.  And it remains my belief that within the Park police is a sense of duty to democracy, to protect the expression of Democratic action, that was self sacrificial on the part of the police, in allowing this three months suspension of the law, on their own volition. So, that the police are now beginning to enforce the law,  I can, no responsible citizen can, have an objection.   I saw no responsible citizens in Occupy this morning. 

I took 15 or 20 minutes to walk around the park to try and see what I could see.  Roughly half of the tents are gone.  To what degree the police honored their commitment to only remove tents that had bedding in them, and food, I don't know.  It surprises me that that many tents would have violated their dictate.  But probably half to two thirds of the tents were gone.  On my way back around the north side of the park, because the south streets were closed off for the police action, that's where the crowd was, and I went to a far end and was slowly exiting, I'd pretty much come past the crowd, when a phalanx of, oh, 6 to 8 massive police horses, that had been stationary, hence  not catch my attention, and yet only 12 feet from me, instantly lurched into motion and almost trapped me, almost trampled me.  I wasn't their target, but there's no indication they would've hesitated to trample me.  I was able to get out-of-the-way, I was willing to be trampled, but I could conveniently, with a little rushing, get out.  These on-horse officers were part of about 30 officers, maybe only 20; some with night vision scopes on their helmets, SWAT team folks mixed in with the Park police, maybe city police as well, but probably mostly Park, and then SWAT team folks. There was someone about eight feet into the crowd that had been really not paying attention to the police  as I recall, not threatening in any way, but someone that they wanted to arrest, so quickly, 12 to 15 heavily armed police, including these SWAT team type folks, extremely military, special forces looking, and the horses, drove into the crowd.  The fellow they wanted to apprehend, there was no indication of who or why, it was just a guy in the crowd,  was instantly on the ground, was apprehended and carried out. 

I didn't sense any viciousness in this, and I didn't sense an ounce of compunction as to whether anyone got trampled; those of us in the crowd were bodies; we could've been Taliban, we could've been rat's, four-legged rats, it didn't matter;  these officers were given orders and there was no order they weren't going to carry out.  I'm not saying I should be shocked, or even find it worthy of comment, but I do, it's quite horrifying.  One could say, well gee, how well trained  they are.  Okay, well trained  droids, well-trained robots, Star Wars clones? 

The implications of this in my view, I don't know.  It's, it's simply a factor,  it's certainly a factor I've not witnessed before, I've heard of, but not paid attention to, and it's now squarely on my radar screen. 

There was no humanity in evidence.  There was no humanity in evidence on the occupiers, among the occupiers, in the morning and the afternoon, and I'd like to think I saw some evidence of humanity among the police.  I believe I've seen evidence of humanity among the police for three months now.  But not tonight among the police, nor the occupiers.  No humanity on either side.  I believe in nothing mystical, believe in no higher sentient power, thinking God, Angels, whatever, of the mystical sort; but I think there's wisdom in some of the old tales, and I frequently now think of Pharaoh in Egypt, warning after warning after warning after warning, to which he could not or would not or both, wake up to, or wake up from.  That's you, that's me, that's us as a society, police and demonstrators, and the 99.999% who sit on their asses at home.  In their addictive stupors; warning after warning after warning - storms, scientific pronouncements, attacks on the Constitution by Bush and Cheney, wars that slaughter Arabs and our own children, and we do nothing.  We even don't even contemplate doing anything.  Yes I think of I think of Pharaoh, I think of that story more and more.  It's virtually certain we're beyond redemption.  This is the end. 

I don't feel sorry for we western adults, we deserve, we deserve what our children and all of creation are going to get from our behavior, and they don't deserve it.  But 7 billion people on a planet going to nine or 10 billion, and all this technology?  It's like a child born into a drug-den.  We're not designed to be born in drug dens, were not designed to be born into the dens of this massively dense population, technology, this idol worship.  Oh what a tragedy that that sounds so arcane, so moralistic; no, we worship idols, we don't worship humanity, we don't worship human beings, we don't worship Love.  We worship everything but, all false idols.  Humanity is what we should worship; we are built to be kind to one another; we should worship our ability to care for one another which is life itself. 

I seem to be at a place of acceptance that I've been moving toward for quite some time, that whereas my secondary job will be to continue to do what I can to stand in the way of this impending, irreversible doom, that's not my primary job.  My primary job is to keep Love alive within me, and to be a possible life raft should anyone come along that either wants the Love in them protected, or want's it kindled.   Absurd.   Absurd.  But that's the truth of it.

'DC Occupiers - spoiled, bratty, hateful mob.' SL (vid, txt)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MW7sO5No74

 

 
'DC Occupiers - spoiled, bratty, hateful mob.' SL

My brothers and sisters all, but I suspect that today's impression that I hold will not change - those willing to stand among the occupiers, no that's not true -  the largest group of those willing to stand among the occupiers are the class brats, whiners, irresponsible me me me me me.  Everything that doesn't comply with their wishes is evil and wrong.   Absolutely worthless trash. 

But eight of us, including two that were young,  the rest Vets, except for me and one other, were willing to, were, were determined to risk life and limb to protect the police from an Occupy faction that had amassed mustard gas and feces bombs.  And those eight remained through today among the occupiers.  But with the exception of myself, this group did not stand up against the hate speech of the brats, which is tragic, but nothing can take away the they were passionately eager to protect anyone and everyone, including the police against abuse, against violence.

But as a movement, it's clear to me that what we've seen so far is at best an indication of what is not a hope.  I experience no hope within me that it will be learned from its behavior thus far, in a constructive way, but it could be. 

The most hopeless thing is for people to try nothing - entropy wins by default.  At least these folks tried something, and they didn't come here out of malice; they didn't come here to hate the police; they didn't come here to rag on the police - there may be a few exceptions.  They came here because they feel things are wrong and to that extent they're healthy, they're healthier than 99.9999% of the population, including most of you. 

It's rightly said that we can only see ourselves and others clearly in times of crisis, when our very core is called forth by the emergency of the situation.   And what showed in the crisis today among DC occupiers is what I would've expected to see, what I think we would've seen in the other occupies - spoiled brats, whining about anything and everything when they don't get their own way, for which they have no right, they haven't worked for a different America;  they're not working for a different America now. 

My brothers and sisters all, but with very few exceptions, no hope.

'DC Occupy - Fatal Flaw - No Standards' SL (vid, text)




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmARabcS3qQ

'DC Occupy - Fatal Flaw - No Standards' SL

Shame on me, I never saw this and never voiced it to the few Souls of any promise that I saw in recent weeks and months, at Occupy.  Part of it  I have voiced strongly and frequently - that a notion they had of inclusiveness was certain doom to any meaningful outcome for their efforts.  By way of analogy, I'd say - so you want to put together a surgical, a doctor, to care for your loved one, wants to put together a surgical team, you're going to hope that their criteria is going to feature inclusiveness?  There were many occasions on which I put forth such an idea.

But what I'm seeing tonight and what I wish I had thought to say, to point out, to share, was that their approach was an indictment of, or a rejection of explicitly what King and Gandhi insisted upon.  King and Gandhi would have no one in actions with them that weren't trained, that from their very soul didn't convincingly swear to uphold extremely high moral standards, extremely high behavioral codes, that flowed from those extremely high moral standards.   Now these poor young folks, largely, have had nothing but the most deadly example from my generation that has  taken selfishness, brutal, mindless selfishness to the level of religion, as this planet has never seen before.  It would be amazing if these young folks figured things out, but they haven't. 

And I wish I had the wisdom to share with them then, but I'm sharing it now, that thus far they have explicitly rejected what was a central tenet of the efforts King and Gandhi.  No one participated in their efforts with them, except those who swore to uphold moral and behavioral standards that were explicitly laid out, and who had trained sufficiently that there was reason to believe that under pressure those behaviors would be manifest. 

I have no illusion that anyone would've paid attention to me had I shared this.  But that's not my responsibility, and by way of logical consideration, if they had heard and paid attention, I have no illusion they would have accepted or rejected - probably rejected.  I don't know.

Three Tibetans 'in anti-China fire protest' in Seda BBC News

Three Tibetans 'in anti-China fire protest' in Seda

BBC News -
Three Tibetans have set fire to themselves in south-west China, reports say, in the latest apparent protest against rule from Beijing.
Three Tibetans 'set themselves on fire' in China
More Tibetans Self-Immolate Amid China's Crackdown

2.03.2012

'HOPES BORN WHEN DEATH'S PREFERABLE TO STATUS QUO.' SL (VID!!!)

'Folks ALWAYS KILL to defend the status quo. Hence, finding death preferable's a prerequisite for Progress.' SL (VID!!!)

'HOPES BORN WHEN DEATH'S PREFERABLE TO STATUS QUO.' SL

'I will be of zero use unless and until a Neo is dying to escape the Matrix, and dying to learn to free others.' SL


'The Matrix, Dead Poet's Society, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest... are, ARE the Truth of our Society... (more)

'The Matrix, Dead Poet's Society, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest... are, ARE
the Truth of our Society, and 99.99999999% of us will kill, if need be, to avoid
being disturbed in any way, from our secure place in The Matrix.' SL

Strong jobs report pushes Nasdaq to 11-year high Reuters

Strong jobs report pushes Nasdaq to 11-year high

Reuters -
By Rodrigo Campos | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Friday, propelling the Nasdaq index to an 11-year high, after January's US employment report sailed past expectations, boosting hopes the world's largest economy has turned a corner.

Nuclear experts barred from Iran site: diplomats Reuters

'Just 2 types of folks: Dying to Improve the Status Quo; Accepting it.' SL


''Failure's-Not-An-Option:' The Litmus Test between Unconditional and Conditional Brotherhood.' SL (no detail)

''Failure's-Not-An-Option:' The Litmus Test between Unconditional and Conditional Brotherhood.' SL

Israel spoiled latest round of talks on ... Washington Post

Israel spoiled latest round of talks on ...

Washington Post -
RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Sunday blamed each other for the impasse in newly launched peace efforts, raising doubts about whether the dialogue would continue just weeks after it began.

2.02.2012

Obama Wall Street Fundraising Evaporates As Donors Flee To Romney Huffington Post

Obama Wall Street Fundraising Evaporates As Donors Flee To Romney

Huffington Post -
The Huffington Post examined campaign contributions from four highly influential finance sectors to both Obama and Romney. Using categories compiled by CRP, the 20 most politically active commercial banks, hedge funds, securities firms and "private ...
In Mass. Senate race, GOP's Brown embraces Obama as he tries to blunt surge by ...
As Republicans battle, Obama keeps eye on independents

0:44 Romney Sings America un Beautiful HD youtube

Defiant Chinese village takes steps toward democracy msnbc.com Staff

House GOP Tells White House To Let Polluters Spew Greenhouse Gases Without Limit

Feds: Mid-Atlantic wind farms take step forward San Francisco Chronicle

Feds: Mid-Atlantic wind farms take step forward

San Francisco Chronicle -
By ALEX DOMINGUEZ, AP Offshore wind farms from New Jersey to Virginia took a big step closer to reality with the completion of a review that showed the renewable energy source would leave no major environmental damage, officials said Thursday.
Salazar says assessment is major step toward developing wind energy in Md ...
Salazar: Mid-Atlantic Wind Farms Take Step Forward

While the Lip-Service-Left Fiddles: Lack of collective will on climate change: Manmohan Singh Economic Times

Lack of collective will on climate change: Manmohan Singh

Economic Times -
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday that "a lack of collective will" was hampering efforts to forge a common global front against the threat of climate change. Addressing the opening of a Sustainable Development Summit in New ...
Collective global will lacking to fight climate change, says PM
`Climate change: Those creating problems least willing to take action`

States Mandate Insurers to Disclose Climate Change Risks SustainableBusiness

States Mandate Insurers to Disclose Climate Change Risks

SustainableBusiness.com -
Insurance commissioners in California, New York and Washington State are the first to mandate that insurance companies report on the risks from climate change to their business and customers. How do insurers plan to deal with the rapidly rising risks ...
NY, other states tell insurers to disclose climate change responses
How Will Climate Change Affect Insurance? Three States Require Answers

'My Religion: Christlikeness. Embodying Love. Jesus' Religion.' SL (no detail)

'My Religion: Christlikeness.  Embodying Love. Jesus' Religion.' SL

'Unconditional Love is Brutally Conditional on Focusing Time, Attention.' SL (no detail)

'Unconditional Love is Brutally Conditional on Focusing Time, Attention.'  SL

'Rape Baby Rape: Death toll from Europe's deep freeze rises to 112' yahoo

Limbaugh Operatives Encourage Abusive Hate Mail At Female, Evangelical Climate Scientist

Independent Journalist - Josh Fox’s Statement On His Fracking Hearing Arrest

US set to be hit hardest by tropical cyclones TG Daily

US set to be hit hardest by tropical cyclones

TG Daily -
Tropical cyclones will cause $109 billion in damages by the end of the century, according to Yale and MIT researchers, because of economic growth as well as climate change. Global tropical damage is expected to double to $56 billion per year, ...
Tropical Storm Damages May Quadruple by 2100
Tropical cyclones to cause $109B in damages by 2100

Leslie H. Gelb: Obama's Faster, Smarter Afghan Exit Daily Beast

Leslie H. Gelb: Obama's Faster, Smarter Afghan Exit

Daily Beast -
Kudos for Obama and his team! They've announced a quick end to US combat in Afghanistan—a surprise decision of strategic skill and political courage, writes Leslie H. Gelb.
Intelligence Doesn't Support Obama's Upbeat View of Afghanistan
U.S. combat in Afghanistan ends in 2013, Leon Panetta says
The Empire's graveyard

'Just folks Dying for it brings progress.' SL (detail)


2.01.2012

Obama's money advantage is minimal Washington Post

Obama's money advantage is minimal

Washington Post (blog) -
He documents that between hard money and PACs, Mitt Romney has essentially leveled the financial playing field with President Obama. After taking us through the math, he explains: That brings the combined Obama and Democratic outside group totals to ...
Soros Sits Out Obama Super-PAC Money Race

UN chief urges Israel to halt settlement construction in bid to salvage ... Washington Post

UN chief urges Israel to halt settlement construction in bid to salvage ...

Washington Post -
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Israel must halt settlement building and present detailed proposals for a border with a future Palestinian state, visiting UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday, as he tried to persuade the Palestinians to continue low-level ...
Yalla Peace: Hallucination of peace
UN chief to Netanyahu: Israel must refrain from settlement construction
UN chief urges Israel to halt settlements