4.12.2015
Obama Takes Shot At Israel Over Iran Deal: "Consistency Is The Hobgoblin Of Narrow Minds"
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/04/11/obama_takes_shot_at_israel_over_iran_deal_consistency_is_the_hobgoblin_of_narrow_minds.html
***** SPDF Day 41: THIS COULD BE BIG. "Paul R. Pillar, formerly a senior member of the U.S. intelligence community, explained in a brilliant lecture the advantages of the nuclear agreement with Iran, and argued that Israel’s opposition to it stemmed from the fear that, in its wake, the occupation would become the main issue."
I've written over the last 6 months that I suspect Pr. Obama detests the Israel's savagery on Palestine as much as I, and that Iran could be part of his long game to put Israel in a box that no American president has even approached doing. http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.651326
Israeli activist against Israel's war on Palestine are beaten by Israeli government supported mobs, and victimized by the Israeli police
https://fbcdn-video-m-a.akamaihd.net/hvideo-ak-xfa1/v/t43.1792-2/10957823_511807395627439_54422686_n.mp4?efg=eyJxZSI6InZpZGVvX3ByZWZlcnJlZF90YWdzXzIwMTUwMTIxLDIwMTUwMTAxIiwidmVuY29kZV90YWciOiJsZWdhY3lfaGQifQ%3D%3D&oh=01a0145e60fad3e771bc244aec8e9d57&oe=552AAD3B&__gda__=1428863106_03176b8e4d7e0e63f759170c0ba9bd0f
SPDF Day 41: Israeli courts convict hundreds of Palestinian children
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/04/israeli-courts-convict-hundreds-palestinian-children-150405064416744.html
SPDF Day 41: Environmental Terrorism Cripples Palestinian Farmers
http://www.mintpressnews.com/environmental-terrorism-cripples-palestinian-farmers/203988/
5. Silicon Valley’s culture is hurting our economy. Politicians like to celebrate the tech industry as a boon to the economy, but for most Americans the opposite is true. As economist Joseph Stiglitz and others have documented, monopoly practices exert a significant drag on the economy. The economy becomes increasingly capital-driven, rather than labor-driven. Monopolies suppress wages, overcharge consumers, mistreat suppliers, and drive the economy increasingly off-course.
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/12/rise_of_the_techno_libertarians_the_5_most_socially_destructive_aspects_of_silicon_valley_partner/
***** SPDF Day 41: authoritative history of the atrocity. 'The Establishment of Israel’s very statehood was contingent upon upholding the UN UNIVERSAL DECLARATION of HUMAN RIGHTS and as a Member State, America is obligated to hold ALL other Member States to it....'
http://thearabdailynews.com/2015/04/12/senator-elizabeth-warrens-crash-course-in-apartheid-israeli-style/
Could Saudi Arabia Need Israel More than Vice Versa?
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193913
4.11.2015
Survival and struggle in 'the other Israel'
http://972mag.com/poverty-kills-survival-and-struggle-in-the-other-israel/105484/
Meet the Muslims who sacrificed themselves to save Jews and fight Nazis in World War II
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/08/meet-the-muslims-who-sacrificed-themselves-to-save-jews-and-fight-nazis-in-world-war-ii/
Take Action: Palestinian former prisoner Jaafar Awad, 22, dies as result of Israeli medical neglect
http://samidoun.net/2015/04/take-action-palestinian-former-prisoner-jaafar-awad-22-dies-as-result-of-israeli-medical-neglect/
SPDF Day 40: 'The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they’re treated like most dissident intellectuals—very badly.....' Noam Chomsky
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/chomsky-romero
SPDF Day 40: Massively ill today.....
Arrived at the White House at 830 this morning but was massively ill halfway on the 18 block walk to get here so it was another half hour in the bathroom trying to clean up my pants and legs enough that I could spend the day here at the White House demonstrating to free Palestine and not stink so bad that my rain pants couldn't protect the visitors. Thanks to the creator I think it will work. I have advised my friends in the Secret Service that I am extremely weak and ill today so that if there is a park closing and I am a little slow and moving my stuff out of the park they will understand. With few exceptions they are a stunningly decent group of human beings, way way way above the norm.
4.10.2015
SPDF Day 39: so tired it took me more than an hour just to get into bed tonight.....
Was at npr beginning 7 this morning until 130 p_m. Then library of congress, and picking up some depends that my doctor prescribed for me for when I am on capitol hill all day where sometimes they make using their restroom impossible.
***** SPDF Day 39: Is No One COMMITTED to Palestine? Outside of Palestine I see dozens or even thousands of involved citizens....
SPDF Day 39: outside of Palestine I see dozens or even thousands of involved citizens. I am not sure that I see any that are committed. There is no hope, there has never been any hope, except when citizens were committed. 'The chicken is involved, the pig is committed.'
Americans have yet to grasp the horrific magnitude of the ‘war on terror'
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/4/americans-have-yet-to-grasp-the-horrific-magnitude-of-the-war-on-terror.html?utm_content=opinion&utm_campaign=ajam&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow
appalling ways America leads the world Welcome to the new American exceptionalism: Number one in obesity, guns, prisoners, anxiety and more ...
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/29/8_appalling_ways_america_leads_the_world_partner/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
***** SPDF Day 39: why did we go war Iraq? "The Israel lobby and [former Deputy Secretary of Defense] Paul Wolfowitz wanted to get rid of Saddam....." "We wantto Iran because... We have come to the point where we blindly follow Israel. Congress gave multiple standing ovations to Benjamin Netanyahu. If Middle Eastern countries are in chaos, they can’t unify against Israel."
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/10/the_gop_has_scores_of_racists_a_former_bush_official_condemns_modern_republican_orthodoxy/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
SPDF Day 39: Gazan Fisherman Builds Reef So His People Won’t Starve, Israeli Navy Shoots Him Dead (VIDEO)
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/03/29/tawfiq-gazan-fishermen-killed-israel-reef-video/
4.09.2015
SPDF Day 38: A note from a fellow who was very kind to me several years ago, and my reply...
"My friend you have been in my thoughts lately. I want to bring you some lunch when your fast is complete, if it is ever complete?"
My Reply: "What a kind note, brother. Yes, this is Day 38. Creator only knows how it will end. I WANT it to end with the price of my life, because only when enough of us pay that will things change for Palestine. But, if I can see a better way before the end, or if it appears that going to death's door, but not thru, is the maximum constructive impact of this campaign, then so be it. I won't know for 2-6 more weeks, I expect.
I almost never post on FB anymore, but I post a lot at my blog: http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/ "
My Reply: "What a kind note, brother. Yes, this is Day 38. Creator only knows how it will end. I WANT it to end with the price of my life, because only when enough of us pay that will things change for Palestine. But, if I can see a better way before the end, or if it appears that going to death's door, but not thru, is the maximum constructive impact of this campaign, then so be it. I won't know for 2-6 more weeks, I expect.
I almost never post on FB anymore, but I post a lot at my blog: http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/ "
***** SPDF Day 38: My email to JewishVoiceForPeace.org
I'm on Day 38 of the Stop Palestines Death Fast here in
Washington DC.
Given that, maybe you can take the moment
or two it will take to read the following. I don't ask for a reply.
I ask that you think. Deeply deeply think.
"Never Again" suggests, implies, states, pretty explicitly, that
humanity should stop, and pay any personal price necessary,
to stop another Holocaust, and although the scale is different,
Palestine is another Holocaust.
You all do some good stuff. Do you care enough about the
Palestinians to ask the question - given what we and others
will do, what is the likely hood that we will EVER bring them
the mass Human Rights they deserve? Do you care enough
about them to ask that question? If you do, the answer you will
see is - NO. Given all current efforts not in 10, 20, or 50 years
is it LIKELY that full human rights will come to the Palestinians.
Is that acceptable to you?
If not, will you escalate? How? What price will you individually
be willing to pay?
I suggest that this is the Law of Social Change that must be satisfied to make
it LIKELY that Palestines will be saved:
I suggest that this is the only (nonviolent) weapon (I can think of after decades
of practice and study) that they can be saved, or something
equivalent:
***** SPDF Day 38: Einstein NYT Letter (images, Deir Yassin, and text) - "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our time is the emer¬gence in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvini«t or- ganization in Palestine. The current visit of Menachen Begin, leader of this .party, to the United States is obviously calculated to give the impression of American support ..."
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Visit of Menachen
Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed
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To the Editor or The New
York Times :
Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our time
is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party"
(Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods,
political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It
was formed out of the membership and following
of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvini«t or-
ganization in Palestine.
The current visit of Menachen Begin, leader of this
.party, to the United States is obviously calculated to give the impression
of American support for his party in the coming Israeli elections, and to cement
political ties with conservative Zionist elements in the United States.
Several Americans of national repute have lent their names to welcome his
visit It is inconceivable that those who oppose fascism throughout the
world, if correctly informed as to Mr. Begin's political record and
perspectives, could add their names and support to the move- ment he
represents.
Before irreparable damage is done by way of financial
contributions, pub- lic manifestations in Begin’s behalf, and the creation in
Palestine of the impression that a large ' segment 'of America supports
Fascist elements in Israel, the American public must be Informed as to the
record and objec- tives of Mr. Begin and his movement.
The public avowals of Begin’s party are no guide whatever
to its actual character. Today they speak of freedom, democracy and
anti-imperialism, whereas until recently they openly preached the doctrine of
the Fascist state. It is in its actions that the ter- rorist party betrays
its real character; from its past actions we can judge what it may be
expected to do in the future.
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Attack on Arab Village
A shocking- example was their be- havior in
the Arab village of Deir Yassin. This village, off the main roads and
surrounded by Jewish lands, had taken no part in the war, and had even fought
off Arab bands who wanted to use the village as their base. On April 9 (The New York Times), terrorist bands attacked
this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting,
Killed most of its inhabi- tants—240 men, women and children— and kept a few
of them alive to parade as captives through the streets of Jerusalem. Most of
the Jewish community was horrified at the deed, and the Jewish Agency sent a
telegram of apology to King Abdullah of Trans- Jordan. But the terrorists,
far from being ashamed of their act, were proud of this massacre, publicized
it widely, and invited all the foreign correspondents present in the country
to view the heaped corpses and the general havoc at Deir Yassin.
The Deir Yassin incident exemplifies the character and
actions of the Freedom Party.
Within the Jewish community they have preached an
admixture of ultra- nationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority.
Like other Fascist parties they have been used to break strikes, and have
themselves pressed for the destruction of free trade unions. In their stead
they have proposed corporate unions on the Italian Fascist model.
During the last years of sporadic anti-British violence,
the 1ZL and Stem groups inaugurated a reign of terror in the
Palestine Jewish community. Teachers were beaten up for speaking against
them, adults were shot for not letting their children join them. By gangster
methods, beatings, window- smashing, and wide-spread robberies, the
terrorists intimidated the popula- tion and exacted a heavy tribute.
The people of the Freedom Party have had no part in the
constructive achievements in Palestine. They have reclaimed no land, built no
settlements, and only detracted from the Jewish defense activity. Their
much-publicized immigration endeavors were minute, and devoted mainly to
bringing in Fascist compatriots.
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Discrepancies
Seen
The discrepancies between the bold claims now being made
by Begin and his party, and their record of past per- formance in Palestine
bear the imprint of no ordinary political party. This is the unmistakable
stamp of a Fascist party for whom terrorism (against Jews, Arabs, and British
alike), and misrepresentation are means, and a “Leader
State" is the goal.
In the light of the foregoing considerations, it is
imperative that the truth about Mr. Begin and his movement be made known in this country. It is all the more tragic that the top leadership of American
Zionism has refused to campaign against Begin's efforts, o» even to expose to
its own constituents the dangers to Israel from support to Begin.
The undersigned therefore take this means of publicly,
presenting a few salient facts concerning Begin and his party; and of urging
all concerned not to support this latest manifestation of fascism.
Isidore abramowitz, Hannah arendt, abraham Brick,
Rabbi jessurun CARDOZO, (’albert ElNSTEINTI HERMAN Eisen, M. d., Hayim Fine- MAN, M. GALLEN, M. D., H.
H. HAB*.
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harry m. Orunsky, Samuel Pitlick, frit* Rohruch, Louis P. Rocker, ruth Sager,
Itzhak Sankowsky, I. J.
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SAMUEL. SHU MAN, M. Znger, Irma Wolpb, stkfajt WOLfB. “ 'vjL: ^
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SPDF Day 38: My email to Ali Abunimah, the Great writer at ElectronicIntifiada.net
Ali,
This is day 38 of my Stop Palestines Death Fast. http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2015/03/spdf-day-20-vlog-death-fast-is-only.html
If 1000 ever undertook paying, or atleast offering to pay, this price, Palestine might have a prayer.
Ali, your work has been instrumental to getting us this far. But if you lack the courage and the humanity to see no one else will see... that some of us have to pay, or at least offer, the price of our own lives, so that not ALL the Palestinians have to... well, then it is OVER. This is the immutable Law of Social Change, the Law of Personal Sacrifice, the Law of Paying the Price. http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2015/03/spdf-day-20-vlog-death-fast-is-only.html
BDS is like wings on a rocket ship. But without sufficient Rocket FUEL the rocket never reaches orbit, and all the passengers, Palestinians, DIE. For God's sake man, can't even you face this?
IF NOT YOU, WHO. IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
This is day 38 of my Stop Palestines Death Fast. http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2015/03/spdf-day-20-vlog-death-fast-is-only.html
If 1000 ever undertook paying, or atleast offering to pay, this price, Palestine might have a prayer.
Ali, your work has been instrumental to getting us this far. But if you lack the courage and the humanity to see no one else will see... that some of us have to pay, or at least offer, the price of our own lives, so that not ALL the Palestinians have to... well, then it is OVER. This is the immutable Law of Social Change, the Law of Personal Sacrifice, the Law of Paying the Price. http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2015/03/spdf-day-20-vlog-death-fast-is-only.html
BDS is like wings on a rocket ship. But without sufficient Rocket FUEL the rocket never reaches orbit, and all the passengers, Palestinians, DIE. For God's sake man, can't even you face this?
IF NOT YOU, WHO. IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
SPDF Day 38: When conservatives want something badly they pay the price or make others pay the price for it. When liberals want something...
When conservatives want something badly they pay the price or make others pay the price for it. When liberals want something they find excuses for themselves, don't pay, and don't make anyone else really pay either.
***** SPDF Day 38: A liberal on FB complaining about, Schumer, the Israeli, fighting to bomb Iran: "When will they ever learn?" My reply: ""THEY" HAVE learned.....
A liberal on FB complaining about, Schumer, the Israeli, fighting to bomb Iran: "When will they ever learn?" My reply: ""THEY" HAVE learned. Each day of the last 50 years they've learned that the liberals are all talk, whiners, blamers, complainers, FaceBookers... and will NEVER pay the price for what they want, even if it means the end of creation. Learning is not the problem of the hawks. It is the problem of the lip-service liberals... cept they want NOT to learn, cuz then they'd have to pay. Yes, creation will not end from denial on the right of the science, but from denial of the left of what price they have to pay now, to save Creation. This is so obvious to all but the pathologically in denial."
4.08.2015
SPDF Day 37: Pope Francis: "EEach child who begs for money on the street and who is denied medical care and education is “a painful cry that goes directly to the heart of the Father, and accuses the system that we adults have built.... Children are the responsibility not just of their parents, but of everyone....”
Each child who begs for money on the street and who is denied medical
care and education is “a painful cry that goes directly to the heart of
the Father, and accuses the system that we adults have built.... Children are the responsibility not just of their parents, but of everyone....”
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-francis-brings-down-hammer-says-dont-mess-with-children-80226/
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-francis-brings-down-hammer-says-dont-mess-with-children-80226/
vid. "Don't console yourself that you are the 99 percent," he says. "If you live near a Whole Foods; if no one in your family serves in the military; if you are paid by the year, not the hour; if most people you know finished college; if no one you know uses meth; if you married once and remain married; if you're not one of 65 million Americans with a criminal record — if any or all of these things describe you, then accept the possibility that actually, you may not know what's going on, and you may be part of the problem."
http://www.vox.com/2015/4/8/8325613/privilege-anand-giridharadas-ted
SPDF Day 37: War Crime Happening NOW: Israeli Occupation Illegally Seizes Over 1,000 Dunums Of Palestinian Land for Settlement
https://occpalgaza.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/war-crime-happening-now-israeli-occupation-illegally-seizes-over-1000-dunums-of-palestinian-land-for-settlement/
SPDF Day 37: A new set of racist anti-Arab laws is before the Knesset
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/middle-east/17926-a-new-set-of-racist-anti-arab-laws-is-before-the-knesset
***** SPDF Day 37: Chris Matthews: the neocons continue to fight to destroy the Middle East and remake it as pro Israel
http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/04/chris-matthews-quit-running-these-goddamn-right-wing-ads-on-msnbc/
vid 4min. Activists on the high seas climbing the Shell Oil Rig headed to the Arctic. This is what paying a price, this is what activism, looks like.
https://scontent-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xfp1/v/t43.1792-2/11048526_890447437664829_2049780471_n.mp4?efg=eyJxZSI6InZpZGVvX3ByZWZlcnJlZF90YWdzXzIwMTUwMTIxLDIwMTUwMTAxIiwidmVuY29kZV90YWciOiJsZWdhY3lfaGQifQ%3D%3D&oh=c5eeedc10629abafebed0d489bd20f3b&oe=5525769D
SPDF Day 37: vid 2 min. Israeli sadism in Jerusalem. Statistics. Facts. Slaughter.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?spfreload=10&v=A8wb0uqDvRs
SPDF Day 37: NBC, you murdering, savage, Israeli bastards. 1 Palestinian is murdered by Israel every 4 days and you report this? Palestinian Stabs Two Israeli Soldiers in West Bank Attack
http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nbc-news/palestinian-stabs-two-israeli-soldiers-in-west-bank-attack-424709699890
SPDF Day 37: The Rising Tide of Suicide in Gaza : The Suffering of a People Manifest
http://www.middleeastrising.com/the-rising-tide-of-suicide-in-gaza/
‘Passover siege’ in Hebron: Palestinians endure military lockdown so Israelis can enjoy holiday in occupied West Bank
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/04/passover-palestinians-israelis
Some called it resumption of violence by Palestine, some called it mass murder by Israel. George Galloway
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwxyEN20yB4
Hamas, Arab-Israeli MPs: attack on Yarmouk only serves Israel
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/17922-hamas-arab-israeli-mps-attack-on-yarmouk-only-serves-israel
SPDF Day 37: Christians and Muslims grow closer in defiance of Israeli attacks
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gazas-christians-and-muslims-grow-closer-defiance-israeli-attacks-372261379
4.07.2015
SPDF Day 36. vlog. Doctors visit, blood work, psych eval, etc.
This morning was a review with my Sainted Doctor, about the results of yesterday's bloodwork. She said everything looks fine. She has me on a regimen of two, horse pills, of potassium every day. She also has me on a multi vitamin. They are both seemingly doing their jobs.
My eyes have gone blurry as has happened on prior fasts. To read anything on computer or my tablet it must be held very close to my face, but thankfully that seems to work ok.
I had a candid conversation with my Doctor about my concern regarding her concern as to my mental health. I told her it was nothing I needed her to resolve, that I am capable of surviving the situation; but that I could not assume she understood how important she is in my life and work, so I told her briefly, that she is one of the only people I know whose life , and work path, I respect; this Georgetown grad that has devoted her life to we homeless. And that I wondered if she could imagine if one of the people in her life that she most respects raised the question about her mental health, particularly as it relate to using her greatest skills in the direction that they found questionable, such as ministering to the poor. I asked her if she could image how troubling she might find that, especially if this individual she highly respected was entirely wrong.
I expounded a little bit, but she understood my point and as I stressed what I wrote about last week after seeing her and a psychologist that she asked me to speak to, I made no assumption that she was questioning my sanity, this wonderful Doctor. I took her at her word that she was just trying to be extremely cautions, and today she only emphasized that and explained that she wanted to be extremely sure that the medical work that has gone on with me over the last two years, major operations, had not had some impact my psychology. She indicated that although she didn't see it, at all, she wanted to be extremely careful with another opinion. I made it clear that I was not second guessing her, but that it is an issue of importance to me, and I feel that it was entirely resolved this morning.
I told her prior to creating an opening for her to provide a response to me, that I just outlined, that my campaign is entirely about sanity. That no credit to me I have worked my way to a position of sanity and exactly I am trying to address the mass insanity in our culture which has lost any all notion of an adult sacrificing their own life constructively so that the young can have a future, whether it is a habitable planet to live on, one with some shreds of democracy left in America, or one without the methodology of police state being perfected on an indigenous population in Palestine, and that technology being exported and brought to oppressed peoples worldwide including in the United States.
My assessment is that it was a very comfortable, brief, conversation, and my sense is that this person in my life in whom I have a great respect, although I would not put her in the postition of stating so exactly, does not have a concern about my mental health and understands and respects the work I am doing. So that was quite nice.
Rain is expected on and off today, tomorrow and the next day. I expect to be here in front of Narcotic Paralyzing Rubbish Radio through lunch time and to leave and hopefully get back to the shelter prior to when at 3pm rain becomes more likely. And tomorrow and the next day I anticipate coming back here during those parts of the day where rain is less likely.
I am feeling particularly weak today, but it turns out I had enough strength to change the tire of a young lady whose car I passed, an African American woman, in front of the Union Station area, a fairly posh bakery and lunch spot. She was holding what I recognized to be a jack in her hand, and looking rather dazed, like she didn't know what to do with it. I don't think she did know what to do with it. She was surely intelligent, but it was folded in such a way that it took me several minutes how to take it apart. So I had the strength to do that.
To her credit afterwords she offered me $20 which of course I refused. I did tell her she could help me by watching my belongings for a few moments and by giving me a $1 to offer to the restaurant manager so he would allow me to wash of my hands, the grime off my hands, from changing her tire. Happily she agreed, the restaurant did not require the $1 which I happily returned to her; and I think she experienced this as an event that she will probably remember for some time; and when kindness is so remembered, sometimes they propagate themselves.
SPPDF Day 36: Business of backlash: GOP cashes in on Koch/Adelson anti-BDS donations
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/07/business_of_backlash_gop_cashes_in_on_kochadelson_anti_bds_donations/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
SPDF Day 36: Robert Reich: Colleges, Churches and Non-Profits Doing the Wealthy's Dirty Work It's bad enough that they've bought our politicians. Now the wealthy have bought off the only institutions that can counter their influence.
http://www.alternet.org/robert-reich-colleges-churches-and-non-profits-doing-wealthys-dirty-work
SPDF Day 36: Israel firing experimental weapons at Gaza’s civilians, say doctors
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/israel-firing-experimental-weapons-gazas-civilians-say-doctors
'Israeli Mossad agents posed as CIA spies to recruit terrorists to fight against Iran'
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israeli-mossad-agents-posed-as-cia-spies-to-recruit-terrorists-to-fight-against-iran-1.407224
This time the Nazis control the US gov. .... Israel pushing Congress for legislation to block peace with Iran
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.650813
4.06.2015
nd. Reform Islam? REFORM CHRISTIANITY! For every person killed, terrorized or oppressed by Islam there are objectively 10,000 by christianity. Fact. Don't leave this Islamophobia by the christian state terrorists crap go un-opposed.
Reform Islam? REFORM CHRISTIANITY! For every person killed, terrorized or oppressed by Islam there are objectively 10,000 by christianity. Fact. Don't leave this Islamophobia by the christian state terrorists crap go un-opposed.
SPDF Day 35: LIVE: Six Greenpeace climbers scale Shell’s Arctic-bound oil rig
http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2015/04/06/live-six-greenpeace-climbers-scale-shells-arctic-bound-oil-rig/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=150406&utm_campaign=crossing
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed himself to be something most politicians are not: a terrible bullshitter.
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/06/bibis_iran_shocker_how_he_accidentally_revealed_his_desire_for_more_war/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
Slomo sand from his book why I am no longer a Jew: “I have the increasing impression that, in certain respects, Hitler was the victor the Second World War…his perverted ideology infiltrated itself and resurfaced."
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/06/the-question-of-jewish-identity/
Shlomo Sand and his book, why I am so long for a jew : “If the United States of America decided tomorrow that it was not the state of all American citizens but rather the state of those persons around the whole world who identify as Anglo-Saxon Protestants, it would bear a striking resemblance to the Jewish State of Israel.”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/06/the-question-of-jewish-identity/
WATCH: The feminist struggle for peace in Israel-Palestine
http://972mag.com/watch-the-feminist-struggle-for-peace-in-israel-palestine/105340/
***** SPDF Day 35: "The reason behind US support for Israel becomes clear...." MUST READ.
The reason behind US support for Israel becomes clear if you consider
what would likely happen if Palestinians became autonomous or if they
became the majority in a democratic, multi-ethnic state. Either
development would upend American-enforced “stability.”
Palestinians in Jordan and elsewhere would attempt to exercise their right of return. Repressed peoples across the Middle East would rise up to demand the kind of freedom from dictators that the Palestinians secured from Israel. Palestinian liberation would trigger a chain of events that could entirely free the region from the American grip as people demand that they — not monarchs and not Western corporations — benefit from their oil.
That’s why the US government’s proclaimed support for Palestinian liberation is as unbelievable as Netanyahu’s. Anything more than a severely attenuated Palestinian state would jeopardize America’s seventy-year old — never-altered — priority. And that prospect, not The Lobby, is the primary reason that the United States stands virtually alone against the rest of the world in unconditionally supporting Israel’s violence against Palestinians.
Palestinians in Jordan and elsewhere would attempt to exercise their right of return. Repressed peoples across the Middle East would rise up to demand the kind of freedom from dictators that the Palestinians secured from Israel. Palestinian liberation would trigger a chain of events that could entirely free the region from the American grip as people demand that they — not monarchs and not Western corporations — benefit from their oil.
That’s why the US government’s proclaimed support for Palestinian liberation is as unbelievable as Netanyahu’s. Anything more than a severely attenuated Palestinian state would jeopardize America’s seventy-year old — never-altered — priority. And that prospect, not The Lobby, is the primary reason that the United States stands virtually alone against the rest of the world in unconditionally supporting Israel’s violence against Palestinians.
Robert Reich: " Republicans and neocons have no foreign policy, and never have had one. They have only intransigence and belligerence....
The alliance of right-wing Republicans, neoconservatives, Jewish
billionaires like Sheldon Adelson and Paul Singer, and Benjamin
Netanyahu and right-wing Israelis, is an axis of no compromise that
feeds and feeds off of hardliners in Iran.
Have we forgotten that the Republican right and its neocon brain-trust were behind the invasion of Iraq -- the single stupidest foreign policy decision since the Vietnam War? They have never been held accountable. Yet many of the same Republicans and neocons who smugly asserted then that we had no choice but to take out Saddam Hussein, including William Kristol and John Bolton, are now refusing the deal with Iran.
Republicans and neocons have no foreign policy, and never have had one. They have only intransigence and belligerence
Have we forgotten that the Republican right and its neocon brain-trust were behind the invasion of Iraq -- the single stupidest foreign policy decision since the Vietnam War? They have never been held accountable. Yet many of the same Republicans and neocons who smugly asserted then that we had no choice but to take out Saddam Hussein, including William Kristol and John Bolton, are now refusing the deal with Iran.
Republicans and neocons have no foreign policy, and never have had one. They have only intransigence and belligerence
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nd. SPDF Day 35: Congress out one more week. Rain expected, but today, NPR - Numbing Paralyzing Rubbish. But first, blood work prior to another doc visit tomorrow.
nd. SPDF Day 35: Congress out one more week. Rain expected, but today, NPR - Numbing Paralyzing Rubbish. But first, blood work prior to another doc visit tomorrow.
4.05.2015
SPDF Day 34: vlog. My unrecognized assumptions at the beginning of this death fast are not working out terribly well
1. That the, immediacy, the horror, the barbarity of the west's terrororization of Palestine yielded a situation that was concrete enough that we walking dead Americans would show a heightened response, any increased propensity to tap into our humanity and respond.
2. The other unrecognized assumption is that the Palestinians, both the Palestinians in Palestine that maybe somehow become aware of this death fast campaign, and the Palestinians in the United States Diaspora, would have a readiness greater than any other population I've seen thus far, to be drawn to an understanding of the necessity and unique power of the death fast.
All evidence that I have so far suggest that these were entirely false assumptions.
Today for example several different small groups of Palestinians stopped by an identified themselves during my 12 hour campaign at the White House. I found no more sense of urgency, no more sense of immediate family kinship between themselves and the Palestinians being tormented in Palestine, then I've experienced in other populations concerned with global warming, for example. This is very disturbing and somewhat shocking to me. It certainly was unanticipated by me, and as I reflect more broadly on observations I can make I do not find these reactions today to be abnormal or an exception. I've had significant contact with people concerned with Palestine through my face book interchange up until about a week ago, and it became ever more apparent that they were involved, as is the chicken, but not committed as is the pig.
This will factor into my thinking as to how far to take this death fast. If a tree felled in the wilderness does not make a sound does it make sense to finely chopped it down?
4.04.2015
Charlie Chaplin: "You need Power, only when you want to do something Harmful, Otherwise, Love is Enough to get everything done."
Charlie Chaplin: "You need Power, only when you want to do something Harmful, Otherwise, Love is Enough to get everything done."
nd. SPDF Day 33: Creator Willing, tomorrow I'll spend the day with Jesus, fighting for the Least of These our Family, in front of the White House.
nd. SPDF Day 33: Creator Willing, tomorrow I'll spend the day with Jesus, fighting for the Least of These our Family, in front of the White House.
***** Pr. Carter Severs ties to Baptist sect over subjugation of women. "The carefully selected verses found in the Holy Scriptures to justify the superiority of men owe more to time and place - and the determination of male leaders to hold onto their influence - than eternal truths. Similar biblical excerpts could be found to support the approval of slavery and the timid acquiescence to oppressive rulers."
vid. 1 min. US rejects Netanyahu’s demand for Iranian recognition of Israel State Department says agreement with Tehran is ‘only about nuclear issue’. White House bids to prevent congressional interference Read more: US rejects Netanyahu's demand for Iranian recognition of Israel
US rejects Netanyahu’s demand for Iranian recognition of Israel
State Department says agreement with Tehran is ‘only about nuclear issue’. White House bids to prevent congressional interference
***** SPDF Day 33 vlog: Why play chicken with death , or worse?
Gandhi was adamant and explicit that he was just scratching the surface of the practice, perfection, expression of nonviolent action.
So I'll not apologize for my own self recognized inadequacy in expressing, let alone fully grasping, my own attempts at radically powerful, utterly transformative, world direction changing.... If only in the attempt, efforts.
And let me be explicit on this last point. No part of me is interested in being a band aid, a slight dragon on, the extermination of the Palestinians, the elimination of the final shreds of democracy in the United States, or the end of all livable life on earth. I'm not interested in 'doing something about' these issues. I'm interested in stopping these atrocities, or failing spectacularly in the attempt as is of course profoundly likely.
I have no respect for the efforts of me or anyone to confront these issues. I disrespect that. I profoundly disrespect that. I see it as profound cowardice. If your child is dying and only an impossible miracle can save your child, I have nothing but the profoundest disrespect for the efforts of the parent that 'tries to do something' rather than devotes their very being to trying to be the miracle. And so I feel about my efforts, and those everyone else above the age of 12, in the face of these three unfolding Armageddon's that I frequently mention.
As I've spoken before, and as I will continue to speak, each time trying to better understand, and better articulate, what has me in its grasp... Why this playing chicken with death that I am now in the midst of being past 30 days of no food, and thereby passing the time threshhold when physical death, permanent mental impairment, blindness and such things become a physical potentiality?
Why playing chicken with death as I am? Well, I am not 'playing' anything.
I am waging every breath, every be of my heart, to beat all three of these impending Armageddon's. And that's impossible, and that has never been done, and no one has tried, and no one is trying, so I'm on my own to plan, strategize, analyze, attempt, invent, articulate....
Early in this death fast I wrote a centrally important post, must read, on the law of social change, which is the law of suffering, which is the law of paying a high enough price. If I had $1,000,000,000,000 it would not be enough to stop all three, or even one, of these impending Armageddons.
I do not have $1,000,000,000,000. I do not have $1000. I have no care about either because they are irrelevant to what is needed.
What I do have is that which is of ultimate value among the few human beings that are alive, the ultimate value, a human life, my own human life. This is what Gandhi recognized in himself and others as the ultimate value to be wielded for goal. This is what Martin Luther King Jr. recognized as the ultimate value that if wielded intelligently, boldly, aggressively, with consummate generosity, with total courage... could buy a substantial if not huge change in world, or at least national, direction.
What I'm doing is nothing more or less than what these greatest among us have attempted before. I have studied, and I study, with every fiber of my being, their examples, their lessons, their spirits, their essence, to attempt to incorporate in myself and in my efforts every drop of wisdom, of value, that is to be derived from their prior efforts, and dozens of those like them throughout history.
I am profoundly accountable for the constructive use of the life I have been given for the service of humanity. It would be practically impossible for me to take that responsibility more seriously than I do. I experience my life as a sacred trust I have been given to be used purely in the service of humanity. And I feel the profoundest joy and realizing that's the only reason I have that life.
I could not take that responsibility more seriously. I totally understand that that means that in the face of three of the greatest calamities ever faced by the human species, that means that if I am being conservative, if I'm being cautious, if I'm being careful, if I'm being timid, if I'm being self protective... I have already desecrated that sacred life that I have been given, and all of humanity that I was placed here to serve, just as you were placed here to serve all of humanity.
If I were interested in cars as I was as a sick individual in this culture through my forties; if I saw an automobile that set me afire with lust; lusting to possess that car, and I had access to the tens and tens of thousands of dollars that it would require to purchase that car, and maybe it was the only car of its type that would be available for many many months, I might figuratively yearn with all of my being that I could get immediate access those funds of mine, fast enough, and deliver them quickly enough, and favorably enough, then I could secure that car. On smaller or larger scales this would be deemed profoundly normal and appropriate and even admirable behavior in our sickest of all cultures.
Well, that is the desperation that I feel in my attempts to parlay my life, in whatever most intelligent form of delivery I can conceive from instant to instant, based on changing circumstances that I monitor instant by instant every waking breath. That is the same desperation I feel in delivering my life in the way that will best confront and thwart the three looming Armageddon's.
What I am attempting to do should be so easy to understand. It is so easy to understand for me that it is hard for me to imagine any other way. But I wasn't always of this mind. I was raised to survive and thrive in the Matrix, not outside of it, as I've been these last 10 years or so; well, really, for all of my life, but explicitly these last 10-15 years.
It is obvious based on my total isolation and solitude in my activist work, and never as much as in this final campaign, that no one understands what I'm doing. Yes, no one understands what I'm doing, because were there wiser than I, who understood what I was doing, and perceived that it was a suboptimal way of pursuing the goals I am pursuing, they would have the kindness and compassion and humanity to speak to me from that obvious depth of understanding that they had and to attempt to show me the error of my ways.
And it no time in the last 10 years of my devoted activism has anyone, ever, at anytime, even approached doing that.
SPDF vlog Day 33: My dearest loved ones, you were right. We never belonged together.
We are not emotionally together now, we're emotionally separated now, and we were never spiritually joined. True spiritual joining is so rare in this sick culture of ours, practically never happens, one in a million.
As I think of those of you who have been in proximity to my life no discredit to me, no discredit to you, we were never spiritually together except for maybe a moment here or a moment there in just one maybe three of the cases I can think of (with the exception of my Dad with whom I was intimately, and only, Spiritually United)..
It's not your fault. It's not my fault.
I worship, I revere, I adore the truth no matter how painful it might be in the same way any drowning person reveres firm land coming under their feet. That firm land makes Life possible, without it, only drowning is possible. We are taught to tolerate and even find pleasure in drowning. I never learned that lesson. When I'm not standing on, when I don't understand, when I'm not grasped by the truth, I experience myself as drowning and in entire misery.
This Stop Palestines Death Fast campaign I am on has produced a final separation with maybe all of you. One in particular, the person who I have loved above all, has finally manifest her separation from me totally, frigidly, sharply, finally, absolutely, Truly. I view this with a sense of relief, gratitude, Joy... all of these separations, simply because the manifest the underlying truth that I think we all must have realized was there. All of you to whom I am referring, to some degree we wanted to be spiritually together, to some degree we wanted to be in relationship, and to some degree you and certainly I realized that spiritual unity was not the Truth for us.
Several days ago I vlogged, wrote that for the first time I am recalling that I had extremely sharp eyes for spotting people that belonged on extreme performance teams that I needed to establish, and to spot those who did not belong on those teams. And that as expert I was at that I admitted that I have been that much of a failure at spotting other relationships that should be or not the in my life, that could or, in the vast or total majority, could not work.
That same insight of just several days ago applies to what I am sharing here. All of you who have been in some proximity to me, I can see now, using the eyes that I now know to select, I concede now that we had a mutual desire and affection, but that it never could have been; I see that totally, so clearly, now. We are not destined to be on the same teams, on the same missions, devoted to the same goals. I am a profoundly different species of human, sort of. You are the profoundly different species from me. You are the near total majority. I the near entire outsider, foreigner, alien. You are of society. I am devoted to heal it.
No discredit to me. No discredit to you. No credit to me. No credit to you.
I find this comforting, comforting with respect to my future, comforting with respect to feeling less clueless, less of a failure but that's not a problem with me. But less of a failure in that I see that what I wanted so much, spiritual unity, was not a failure of my efforts, but a failure of my initial and ongoing perception, vision of what was possible, which is now being radically corrected. And surely I don't see it as a failure on your part anymore than on mine. Round pegs don't fit square holes, and versa visa.
My loving of you all is unconditional. It is neither increased nor diminished by these insights of recent days. My Loving of you is infinite.
What separates us exactly is the capacity for a life of unconditional loving.
Whatever life I have left will be devoted to being unconditional loving for the possibility of thereby, and only in the way, spreading unconditional loving by example to you and others.
Yes. Of course. The odds are that I will continue to totally, profoundly, absolutely, pitifully fail. But I'll not fail to try, with my every breath.
***** SPDF vlog Day 33: I SEE NO LIFE, NO 'NEVER AGAIN,' NO HUMANITY, NO SANITY... JUST WALKING DEAD LIBERALS. NO?
In the movie the Matrix we're led to believe there are millions or billions of humanoid creatures. What we see in the movie, do we consider them people who are alive? Except for those fighting with their lives for the well being of humanity, that one in a million, no! Central to the notion of the movie, we do not view them as humans, live humans!
We don't look down on them! We're not lead to be derogatory to them! We're not lead to feel superior to them! But absolutely we are led to understand them as not-alive, walking dead people.
And the one in a million that are alive don't go away on vacation someplace, they fight with their vary beings to try and give life to the millions or billions that have been deprived of it!
Tomorrow is Easter, a pagan holiday, candy, an orgy of food, surely one of the most segregated, least Christ-ian, least Universal-Family days on the planet. Totally un Christ like. But somewhere tucked in there is the memory of a man named Jesus who in the best way he knew how, gave his life exactly and precisely to wake up his fellow human beings who he's saw to a person to be walking dead people.
Were Jesus is to be alive today, were Neo and Morpheus to be alive today, would they see things any differently than they did in the time that they existed? They would not!
And in the case of The Matrix, Jean Baudriallard, the French philosopher, conceived of that story exactly to show us what he thought we were in his lifetime, which I understand was written in the late nineties or thereabouts.
Was Jean slandering, belittling, looking down on... us?
Was Jesus slandering us? Jesus was horrified for us. He did do anything and everything with his life for the sole purpose of trying to give life to us.
Morpheus and Neo did the same!
I see it the same way as they did that and do. EXACTLY.
I want more than anything for life to come to my current brothers and sisters for themselves and so that there is life for all of creation in the future. And like them, no credit to me, so far I am aware of no price I wouldn't pay to give a prayer of that happening.
NOTICE: The exceptions prove the rule. ISM, Indigenous peoples standing against the machine, some of the Christian Peacemaker Teams.... But that's about it. The chicken is involved the pig is committed. Jesus was committed. Morpheus, Neo, Gandhi, Selma marchers, Tahrir Square... were committed. 2015 US 'activists' are involved... walking Dead in the face of ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE FINAL SECONDS OF BEING DESTROYED. WALKING DEAD... BY DEFINITION... NO VITAL SIGNS.
We don't look down on them! We're not lead to be derogatory to them! We're not lead to feel superior to them! But absolutely we are led to understand them as not-alive, walking dead people.
And the one in a million that are alive don't go away on vacation someplace, they fight with their vary beings to try and give life to the millions or billions that have been deprived of it!
Tomorrow is Easter, a pagan holiday, candy, an orgy of food, surely one of the most segregated, least Christ-ian, least Universal-Family days on the planet. Totally un Christ like. But somewhere tucked in there is the memory of a man named Jesus who in the best way he knew how, gave his life exactly and precisely to wake up his fellow human beings who he's saw to a person to be walking dead people.
Were Jesus is to be alive today, were Neo and Morpheus to be alive today, would they see things any differently than they did in the time that they existed? They would not!
And in the case of The Matrix, Jean Baudriallard, the French philosopher, conceived of that story exactly to show us what he thought we were in his lifetime, which I understand was written in the late nineties or thereabouts.
Was Jean slandering, belittling, looking down on... us?
Was Jesus slandering us? Jesus was horrified for us. He did do anything and everything with his life for the sole purpose of trying to give life to us.
Morpheus and Neo did the same!
I see it the same way as they did that and do. EXACTLY.
I want more than anything for life to come to my current brothers and sisters for themselves and so that there is life for all of creation in the future. And like them, no credit to me, so far I am aware of no price I wouldn't pay to give a prayer of that happening.
NOTICE: The exceptions prove the rule. ISM, Indigenous peoples standing against the machine, some of the Christian Peacemaker Teams.... But that's about it. The chicken is involved the pig is committed. Jesus was committed. Morpheus, Neo, Gandhi, Selma marchers, Tahrir Square... were committed. 2015 US 'activists' are involved... walking Dead in the face of ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE FINAL SECONDS OF BEING DESTROYED. WALKING DEAD... BY DEFINITION... NO VITAL SIGNS.
SPDF Day 33: Son of Ben-Gurion designated Irish Moses: "It’s high time that we, as Americans, face up to the fact that supporting Israel is supporting apartheid, and that our military, economic, and diplomatic support of that country has fostered and abetted nearly half a century of continuing oppression of 4.5 million Palestinians
It’s high time that we, as Americans, face up to the fact that supporting Israel is supporting apartheid, and that our military, economic, and diplomatic support of that country has fostered and abetted nearly half a century of continuing oppression of 4.5 million Palestinians. - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/04/occupation-becomes-apartheid#sthash.kegEquF2.dpufhttp://mondoweiss.net/2015/04/occupation-becomes-apartheid#sthash.kegEquF2.dpuf
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