2.28.2015
There are 30 million people living in modern-day slavery throughout the world. Surely, a 10-year-old girl couldn't help them all. But Vivienne wanted to do something, so she set a starting goal of helping to free 500 children, which, according to her father, would cost about $100,000.
http://www.upworthy.com/seeing-that-photo-transformed-how-she-saw-the-world-how-she-responded-pure-greatness?c=ufb1
Israel used “disappearance” of soldier as pretext for killing spree — rights group
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-nieuwhof/israel-used-disappearance-soldier-pretext-killing-spree-rights-group
Coming home from kindergarten to discover Israel demolished your home Authorities this week demolished homes in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Saawa – for the fourth time
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/twilight-zone/.premium-1.644372
Muslim girl sings ‘Star Spangled Banner’ as Oklahoma anti-Islamic protesters scream insults
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/muslim-girl-sings-star-spangled-banner-as-oklahoma-anti-islamic-protesters-scream-insults/
This SCOTUS destroyed America: How Citizens United is ruining more than our elections
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/28/this_scotus_destroyed_america_how_citizens_united_is_ruining_more_than_our_elections/
***** A (Muslim) Facebook Sister: "I wanted to learn from you, how do you manage sitting there day after day, (on Capitol Hill or the White House to Free Palestine) this is what I wanted to know." My reply: "Sister, (you know the following better than I, but still, it is my answer). Your question brings to mind, among other things, a brief passage from Dr. King's Autobiography.... (details)
A (Muslim) Facebook Sister: "I wanted to learn from you, how do you manage sitting there day after day, (on Capitol Hill or the White House to Free Palestine) this is what I wanted to know." My reply: "Sister, (you know the following better than I, but still, it is my answer). Your question brings to mind, among other things, a brief passage from Dr. King's Autobiography I was listening to yesterday as I returned from being on Capitol Hill all day. He was mentioning what is central to my life now, these last 13 years or so, and to my answer to your question. He said something like, 'I believe, and I believed, that what self-centered men can impose, other-centered men can throw off.' Now when I heard this I thought two things, 1. Dr. King, who I adore, and revere, no sir, you are wrong. It is too little, to late. The evil people, the self-centered people are going to 'win' by destroying everything and everyone that is decent, and then themselves. But 2. I thought, yes sir, you've just described the only two ways we humans can Be, self-centered or other-centered. Dr. King may be wrong, I may be wrong, but my answer to you sister is, I have chosen to pay any and every personal price to keep the world's most suffering people at the very 'center' of my being, every breath. I make it my top priority to notice when my attention is drifting elswhere and through meditation, prayer, focus... I re-direct my full attention to the world's neediest, the Palestinians. That's it. The rest is our Creator-given nervious system design doing what it does when it deeply 'sees' others suffering. When the center of our being is the suffering of others, it mobilizes us to respond. - empathy does that. And it harnesses the head to figure the best moment by moment response to best help, to best serve. For me, with my skills, abilities, talents, location, language and LIMITATIONS... it is, when my body allows, and weather allows, to do my online study, advocacy, writing... out in DC with posters people have helped me purchase that advocate for Palestine. I'm desperate to know how to do more, but so far, this is the best I can see. And also, I think by your question you are deliberately showing me kind encouragement, and I appreciate that. (hugs)"
From a “beautiful young man” to Jihadi John – What happened?...... After the identity of the infamous ISIS executioner, Mohammed Emwazi aka “Jihadi John” was revealed on Thursday, questions have been raised about the British security services’ role in radicalising him. Dilly Hussain explains why the MI5’s misdoings must be challenged.
Nd. All of those who support Bernie Sanders support the slaughter of Palestinian children.
All of those who support Bernie Sanders support the slaughter of Palestinian children.
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liberal Moscow has struggled to wrap its head around something that seemed like it simply couldn’t happen, until it did.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/magazine/after-boris-nemtsovs-assassination-there-are-no-longer-any-limits.html?_r=0&referrer=
Nd. Dear Rudy Giuliani, I do not love your America, I hate it. Your America is elitism, division, white supremacy, rape and plunder of the world's resources, rape and plunder of the world's poor, worship of stuff over worship of people's well-being, worship of power over worship of love, worship of leisure over worship of service, worship of lust over love, lies illusion and deception over truth. Satan over God. . Your america is the american dream. .your america is the american dream. . I hate it. With every fiber of my being, I hate your america. So does Jesus. So does God. .My America that I love is the America of the lies I was taught in Elementary School, the lies our politicians speak, the lies of the propaganda called news: liberty and justice for all, give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to be free, democracy, justice, civil rights, human rights, Christian. My America never existed except in the hearts and minds of a very very very few people. My america that I love is the lies we tell our children and ouselves. I'll give my life for that america. I'll continue to give my life to create that america. I will do so knowing that I will completely fail.
Dear Rudy Giuliani, I do not love your America, I hate it. Your America is elitism, division, white supremacy, rape and plunder of the world's resources, rape and plunder of the world's poor, worship of stuff over worship of people's well-being, worship of power over worship of love, worship of leisure over worship of service, worship of lust over love, lies illusion and deception over truth. Satan over God. . Your america is the american dream. .your america is the american dream. . I hate it. With every fiber of my being, I hate your america. So does Jesus. So does God.
.My America that I love is the America of the lies I was taught in Elementary School, the lies our politicians speak, the lies of the propaganda called news: liberty and justice for all, give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to be free, democracy, justice, civil rights, human rights, Christian. My America never existed except in the hearts and minds of a very very very few people. My america that I love is the lies we tell our children and ouselves. I'll give my life for that america. I'll continue to give my life to create that america. I will do so knowing that I will completely fail.
.My America that I love is the America of the lies I was taught in Elementary School, the lies our politicians speak, the lies of the propaganda called news: liberty and justice for all, give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to be free, democracy, justice, civil rights, human rights, Christian. My America never existed except in the hearts and minds of a very very very few people. My america that I love is the lies we tell our children and ouselves. I'll give my life for that america. I'll continue to give my life to create that america. I will do so knowing that I will completely fail.
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More than a third of the population in Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Latvia and Hungary are at risk of poverty and social exclusion, according to a new report. In half of the EU's 28 member states, at least one in three children live in poverty
http://www.euractiv.com/sections/social-europe-jobs/alarming-report-reveals-rampant-poverty-across-europe-312264
George Bush: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq...... The people you are allowing to control your world are living a fantasy
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/07/iraq.usa?CMP=share_btn_fb
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Magnificent mushrooms. Save the pictures because we are destroying roughly 100 species per day.
http://www.boredpanda.com/mushroom-photography/
***** READ THIS. The return of the 19th century.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/30/1242221/-The-Return-of-the-19th-Century?detail=facebook
In winter Israel cuts off electricity to thousands of West Bank Palestinians
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-electricity-west-bank-palestinians-20150223-story.html
800,000 truckloads are required to meet Gaza’s current housing needs created by destruction during repeated Israeli attacks and population growth during eight years of siege. Oxfam says that less than 0.25 percent of this figure entered Gaza between November 2014 and January 2015.
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/six-month-after-gaza-slaughter-aid-groups-still-afraid-criticize-israel
nd. I am feeling horrible about the massive hours I am spending every day trying to understand the world barely well enough to function responsibly within it. I do not think the problem is entirely or even mostly my own. Rather, what I think it is revealing to me is: 1. That what purports to be a news media today is nothing of the sort, quite he opposite, by consequence of operating in a delusional culture, a consumer culture, and increasingly a malevolent ruling class; 2. Lies and illusions gush at ever higher rates at us from industry and the government burying the truth under mountains of sludge; 3. Our culture, our white, Euro American culture is based on 600 years of barbarity and continuing, and up until 15 years ago my education was those centuries of lies; so necessarily it is taking massive time to even begin to climb out past those lies to see the truth - taking almost all of my time.
I am feeling horrible about the massive hours I am spending every day trying to understand the world barely well enough to function responsibly within it. I do not think the problem is entirely or even mostly my own. Rather, what I think it is revealing to me is: 1. That what purports to be a news media today is nothing of the sort, quite he opposite, by consequence of operating in a delusional culture, a consumer culture, and increasingly a malevolent ruling class; 2. Lies and illusions gush at ever higher rates at us from industry and the government burying the truth under mountains of sludge; 3. Our culture, our white, Euro American culture is based on 600 years of barbarity and continuing, and up until 15 years ago my education was those centuries of lies; so necessarily it is taking massive time to even begin to climb out past those lies to see the truth - taking almost all of my time.
nd. Friends, I am not interested in my own opinion, so, no offense, I am not interested in your, on the world's great issues, which is all my life is concerned with. I am interested in facts, or as close as we can get thereto.
Friends, I am not interested in my own opinion, so, no offense, I am not interested in your, on the world's great issues, which is all my life is concerned with. I am interested in facts, or as close as we can get thereto.
nd. :-( No White House Free Palestine Vigil today - the 2/3 of my large intestine still left did not feel right this morning... and given the extreme cold, and such, I felt it unwise to take the risk of an accident. So cold I think there would be little traffic in front of the White House, and of those few, fewer that would stop, look and think, let alone talk. Next Vigil projected for Monday on Capitol Hill the day prior to Satanyahu's seditious talk to congress.
nd. :-( No White House Free Palestine Vigil today - the 2/3 of my large intestine still left did not feel right this morning... and given the extreme cold, and such, I felt it unwise to take the risk of an accident. So cold I think there would be little traffic in front of the White House, and of those few, fewer that would stop, look and think, let alone talk. Next Vigil projected for Monday on Capitol Hill the day prior to Satanyahu's seditious talk to congress.
2.27.2015
nd. Free Palestine vigil resumed. No lack of health could keep me from capitol hill two out of three of the last days before Netanyahu comes to fan the flames of civil war here in America to enable him to continue his terror campaign on Palestine. In spite of the bitter cold going down another 10 degrees tomorrow I hope to be on the north side of the White House tomorrow and possibly Sunday, returning to capitol hill Monday for as many days during the week has my body will allow.
Free Palestine vigil resumed. No lack of health could keep me from capitol hill two out of three of the last days before Netanyahu comes to fan the flames of civil war here in America to enable him to continue his terror campaign on Palestine. In spite of the bitter cold going down another 10 degrees tomorrow I hope to be on the north side of the White House tomorrow and possibly Sunday, returning to capitol hill Monday for as many days during the week has my body will allow.
Israel is galloping to the next war in Gaza - Opinion ..... ***** "Israel is galloping to the next war in Gaza Israel is heading to the next violent eruption with the Palestinians as though it is some sort of natural disaster that can't be avoided."
Israel is galloping to the next war in Gaza - Opinion
***** "Israel is galloping to the next war in Gaza
Israel is heading to the next violent eruption with the Palestinians as though it is some sort of natural disaster that can't be avoided."
***** "Israel is galloping to the next war in Gaza
Israel is heading to the next violent eruption with the Palestinians as though it is some sort of natural disaster that can't be avoided."
Scandinavian countries condemn Israel's disproportionate violence, sends millions to aid Palestinians......................."Denmark, Finland and Norway are backing the Palestinian people in Gaza with substantial medical aid. As the first two countries in the world to have an official diplomatic Palestinian representative, Denmark and Finland followed the EU position of condemning Israeli attacks on innocent Gazans."
Scandinavian countries condemn Israel's disproportionate violence, sends millions to aid Palestinians
"Denmark, Finland and Norway are backing the Palestinian people in Gaza with substantial medical aid. As the first two countries in the world to have an official diplomatic Palestinian representative, Denmark and Finland followed the EU position of condemning Israeli attacks on innocent Gazans."
"Denmark, Finland and Norway are backing the Palestinian people in Gaza with substantial medical aid. As the first two countries in the world to have an official diplomatic Palestinian representative, Denmark and Finland followed the EU position of condemning Israeli attacks on innocent Gazans."
Netanyahu, Hamas, the Murders in France, and the Stoking of Islamophobia
http://jewssayno.org/2015/02/22/netanyahu-hamas-the-murders-in-france-and-the-stoking-of-islamophobia-2/
A Texas sports broadcaster's confession makes a powerful statement about racism
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/27/8120497/dale-hansen-racism-speech
offensive when, after 9/11, some Americans would bemoan that terrorism had finally breached U.S. borders. "That is ignoring and trivializing -- if not just summarily dismissing -- all the people, especially the peoples of color in this country, who were lynched in this country; who had their homes bombed in this country; who were victims of race riots," he said
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/27/kkk-terrorist-organization_n_6764866.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013
KKK Was Terrorizing America Decades Before Islamic State Appeared
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/27/kkk-terrorist-organization_n_6764866.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013
Film by street artist Banksy highlights plight of Gaza
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/26/middleeast/gaza-banksy-film/
Finding Gaza Unbearable, Artist Creates Her Own World in One Room
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/world/middleeast/finding-gaza-unbearable-artist-creates-her-own-world-in-one-room.html?referrer=
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, asked the international community to put Israel and its leaders on the terror list. The request was voiced after state-backed Jewish settlers set fire to a mosque and a church in the West Bank over two consecutive days
http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=70365
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Iran Exaggerations Now Clear for All To See
http://m.forward.com/articles/215562/benjamin-netanyahu-s-iran-exaggerations-now-clea/
Records show a 19-year-old accused of killing a Las Vegas mother in a neighborhood gunbattle suffered a severe head injury at the hands of his father when he was a 7-week-old infant.
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Records-Suspect-in-Vegas-killing-was-abused-as-a-6105606.php
The Right’s Fear of Education: What I Learned As a (Former) Conservative Military Man
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/rights-fear-education-what-i-learned-former-conservative-military-man
Saudi-Funded French Weapons Sent To Lebanon To Destroy Hezbollah
http://www.mintpressnews.com/saudi-funded-french-weapons-sent-to-lebanon-to-destroy-hezbollah/202500/
“Castrate them!” “Burn them!” “Bullet in the head!”: Facebook Israelis react to photo of Palestinian kids
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/castrate-them-burn-them-bullet-head-facebook-israelis-react-photo-palestinian
Book review: how Israeli school textbooks teach kids to hate
http://electronicintifada.net/content/book-review-how-israeli-school-textbooks-teach-kids-hate/11571
Pope Francis arranges for homeless man to be buried in the Vatican
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/27/pope-francis-arranges-for-homeless-man-to-be-buried-in-the-vatican
US-Bangladesh blogger Avijit Roy hacked to death....... Aside from Israel's plan to take over the entire Middle East who is benefiting from this?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31656222
2.26.2015
“It’s ugly, it’s vicious, it’s brutal”: Cornel West on Israel in Palestine — and why Gaza is “the hood on steroids”............."One can no longer say one is a serious progressive, let alone committed to moral integrity, without lifting one’s voice to call for an end to the Occupation of the Palestinian people. We have got to make that more and more a central part of our action."
“It’s ugly, it’s vicious, it’s brutal”: Cornel West on Israel in Palestine — and why Gaza is “the hood on steroids”
"One can no longer say one is a serious progressive, let alone committed to moral integrity, without lifting one’s voice to call for an end to the Occupation of the Palestinian people. We have got to make that more and more a central part of our action."
"One can no longer say one is a serious progressive, let alone committed to moral integrity, without lifting one’s voice to call for an end to the Occupation of the Palestinian people. We have got to make that more and more a central part of our action."
Why the rise of fascism is again the issue........ "On July 3, 1979, the White House secretly authorised $500 million in arms and logistics to support tribal "fundamentalist" groups known as the mujaheddin. The aim was the overthrow of Afghanistan's first secular, reformist government. In August 1979, the US embassy in Kabul reported that "the United States' larger interests... would be served by the demise of [the PDPA government], despite whatever setbacks this might mean for future social and economic reforms in Afghanistan." The italics are mine."
Why the rise of fascism is again the issue
"On July 3, 1979, the White House secretly authorised $500 million in arms and logistics to support tribal "fundamentalist
groups known as the mujaheddin. The aim was the overthrow of
Afghanistan's first secular, reformist government. In August 1979, the
US embassy in Kabul reported that "the United States' larger
interests... would be served by the demise of [the PDPA government],
despite whatever setbacks this might mean for future social and economic
reforms in Afghanistan." The italics are mine."
"On July 3, 1979, the White House secretly authorised $500 million in arms and logistics to support tribal "fundamentalist
groups known as the mujaheddin. The aim was the overthrow of
Afghanistan's first secular, reformist government. In August 1979, the
US embassy in Kabul reported that "the United States' larger
interests... would be served by the demise of [the PDPA government],
despite whatever setbacks this might mean for future social and economic
reforms in Afghanistan." The italics are mine."
nd. nd. If you were not born yet, would you want to be born into the 2015 world, with its dystopian future? Not me. No way in Hell. 1. Get out of Amerikka... go to Scandinavia if you are young. 2. DON'T HAVE CHILDREN. 3. DO WHAT YOU CAN RESPONSIBLY TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS THE MERCY OF ABSTAINING FROM HAVING CHILDREN, AS WELL.
nd. nd. If you were not born yet, would you want to be born into the 2015 world, with its dystopian future? Not me. No way in Hell. 1. Get out of Amerikka... go to Scandinavia if you are young. 2. DON'T HAVE CHILDREN. 3. DO WHAT YOU CAN RESPONSIBLY TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS THE MERCY OF ABSTAINING FROM HAVING CHILDREN, AS WELL.
Why the rise of fascism is again the issue.......... On July 3, 1979, the White House secretly authorised $500 million in arms and logistics to support tribal "fundamentalist" groups known as the mujaheddin. The aim was the overthrow of Afghanistan's first secular, reformist government. In August 1979, the US embassy in Kabul reported that "the United States' larger interests... would be served by the demise of [the PDPA government], despite whatever setbacks this might mean for future social and economic reforms in Afghanistan." The italics are mine.
Poll: Majority Of Americans Opposed To 'Net Neutrality' Rules......... I've never been more serious: IF YOU ARE YOUNG, AND IF YOU HAVE A YOUNG FAMILY, GET THE HELL OUT OF AMERIKKKA. IT IS SINKING, FAST. NOT TO CANADA (AMERIKKKA LITE), GO TO SCANDINAVIA, FRANCE, GERMANY. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/02/26/poll-majority-of-americans-opposed-to-net-neutrality-rules/
Poll: Majority Of Americans Opposed To 'Net Neutrality' Rules
I've never been more serious: IF YOU ARE YOUNG, AND IF YOU HAVE A YOUNG
FAMILY, GET THE HELL OUT OF AMERIKKKA. IT IS SINKING, FAST. NOT TO
CANADA (AMERIKKKA LITE), GO TO SCANDINAVIA, FRANCE, GERMANY. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/02/26/poll-majority-of-americans-opposed-to-net-neutrality-rules/
I've never been more serious: IF YOU ARE YOUNG, AND IF YOU HAVE A YOUNG
FAMILY, GET THE HELL OUT OF AMERIKKKA. IT IS SINKING, FAST. NOT TO
CANADA (AMERIKKKA LITE), GO TO SCANDINAVIA, FRANCE, GERMANY. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/02/26/poll-majority-of-americans-opposed-to-net-neutrality-rules/
Escape from Hasidism Deborah Feldman talks to Salon about her journey from hyper-repressed Jewish enclave to feminist single motherhood
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/03/escape_from_hasidism/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
Benjamin Netanyahu Has Been Lying to Americans For 20 Years
http://www.alternet.org/world/benjamin-netanyahu-has-been-lying-americans-20-years
The Brief Life and Private Death of Alexandria Hill
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/privatized-foster-care-mentor
Forensic expert says Israeli forces killing of 19-year-old Palestinian ‘similar to an execution
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/02/forensic-palestinian-execution
Why Does the FBI Have to Manufacture its Own Plots if Terrorism and ISIS Are Such Grave Threats?
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/26/fbi-manufacture-plots-terrorism-isis-grave-threats/
2.25.2015
Palestinian 10-year-old girl injured in Israeli settler hit-and-run
http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=70339#.VO1zGwoLSFw.facebook
Almost 50% of British Muslims believe they face discrimination because of their faith and that Britain is becoming less tolerant, while the same percentage feel prejudice against Islam makes it difficult being a Muslim in the UK, according to a BBC poll
http://5pillarsuk.com/2015/02/25/bbc-poll-highlights-islamophobia-fears/
One in three Germans say capitalism to blame for poverty, hunger
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0LS1AI20150224?irpc=932
Suspected Israeli extremists have torched a Palestinian mosque in the West Bank and left Hebrew graffiti at the site.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/02/25/west-bank-mosque-torched/23982593/
2.24.2015
Hawking chose aggression and warned that a nuclear war could end civilization and possibly the human race. We need to replace aggression with empathy, which "brings us together in a peaceful loving state,” he said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/23/stephen-hawking-aggression_n_6733584.html
What Would Malcolm X Think?...... "Malcolm would bemoan the lack of sustained, targeted activism. Yes, there are many people continuing the hard work that began after Ferguson. But far too many have moved on. Today when people speak about how we must fight racism, the “threat” feels empty. We have softened to the point of apathy, and everyone is so easily distracted from activism by pop culture and high-tech consumerism. How can we expect change when no one feels accountable to provide justice — including grand juries and district attorneys?"
What Would Malcolm X Think?
Malcolm would bemoan the lack of sustained, targeted activism. Yes, there are
many people continuing the hard work that began after Ferguson. But far
too many have moved on. Today when people speak about how we must fight
racism, the “threat” feels empty. We have softened to the point of
apathy, and everyone is so easily distracted from activism by pop
culture and high-tech consumerism. How can we expect change when no one
feels accountable to provide justice — including grand juries and
district attorneys?
Malcolm would bemoan the lack of sustained, targeted activism. Yes, there are
many people continuing the hard work that began after Ferguson. But far
too many have moved on. Today when people speak about how we must fight
racism, the “threat” feels empty. We have softened to the point of
apathy, and everyone is so easily distracted from activism by pop
culture and high-tech consumerism. How can we expect change when no one
feels accountable to provide justice — including grand juries and
district attorneys?
"Tomasi argued that there are many obstacles that keep poor people from purchasing drugs, but called out one issue as particularly devastating: the abuse of intellectual property laws by pharmaceutical companies."
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/02/24/3626091/you-received-without-payment-give-without-payment/
Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad, leaked spy cables show
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/feb/23/israeli-intelligence-documents-iran-nuclear-bomb-video
Al Jazeera publishes leaked intelligence files showing Netanyahu lied about Iranian nuclear threat
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/02/publishes-intelligence-netanyahu
Minnesota activists demand state pull funds from Israel’s occupation
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/minnesota-activists-demand-state-pull-funds-israels-occupation
Private donors from Gulf Oil States Helping to Bankroll Salaries of Up to 100,000 ISIS Fighters
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/23/private-donors-from-gulf-oil-states-helping-to-bankroll-salaries-of-up-to-100000-isis-fighters/#.VOyL9anRhwE.facebook
Private donors from Gulf Oil States Helping to Bankroll Salaries of Up to 100,000 ISIS Fighters
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/23/private-donors-from-gulf-oil-states-helping-to-bankroll-salaries-of-up-to-100000-isis-fighters/#.VOyL9anRhwE.facebook
Oslo 'Ring of Peace' organizers slammed for Palestine solidarity
http://972mag.com/oslo-ring-of-peace-organizers-slammed-for-palestine-solidarity/103167/
2.23.2015
***** Another note to my dearest: (detail) "I think I can stand, I think I have no choice but to stand, for Universal Family, or kill me, or torture me. I think I can do that. I think maybe I can hold on to that, and let that hold on to, and to lead, me."
This
felt like a real step forward for me personally, a real liberation. I
am totally overwhelmed by the horrors... every day new ones emerge that I
didn't see, and I thought I'd seen it all. Look to my blog for the
Chris Hedges article today on 'We Kill our Revolutionaries' about the
magnificent young man framed by the US Gov for a murder he didn't
commit... because he was leading fellow prisoners to stand up for their
rights. I can't breathe.
Every minute is a new horror, a new holocaust, in just Palestine. Like yesterday when Israel opened flood gates and flooded already homeless thousands in Palestine from their hovels.
How do I breathe? What do I do? How do I get out of bed? What do I tell others? How do I defend what I do?
I don't know. Tho I'll study every minute I am able, I don't know. I'll never know.
But
when this hit me, an evolution of a similar revelation about 7 years
ago, all of a sudden I felt something I may be able to hold on to, a
lifeboat, right up to the gallows:
"I
think I can stand, I think I have no choice but to stand, for Universal
Family, or kill me, or torture me. I think I can do that. I think
maybe I can hold on to that, and let that hold on to, and to lead, me."
nd. Please be advised, I am getting less tolerant by the minute of people that spew their condemnation of the right, of anyone, no matter how righteous, that are not putting their very lives, resources, time, livelihoods... where there mouths are.
Please be advised, I am getting less tolerant by the minute of people that spew their condemnation of the right, of anyone, no matter how righteous, that are not putting their very lives, resources, time, livelihoods... where there mouths are.
The man who rescued 500 Nigerian schoolgirls from Boko Haram..... "I had a sense of accomplishment on completing this task," he said. "After the whole thing, what is important is that whenever you feel that you just have to do something, you just have to do it, regardless of risk."
The man who rescued 500 Nigerian schoolgirls from Boko Haram
"I had a sense of accomplishment on completing this task," he said.
"After the whole thing, what is important is that whenever you feel that
you just have to do something, you just have to do it, regardless of
risk."
"I had a sense of accomplishment on completing this task," he said.
"After the whole thing, what is important is that whenever you feel that
you just have to do something, you just have to do it, regardless of
risk."
vid. Head of Muslim Public Affairs Counsel............. James, here. I DO NOT KNOW THAT ISRAEL WAS NOT BEHIND THIS!!!! THEY WERE FOUNDED ON TERRORISM. THEY ASSASSINATE AROUND THE WORLD WHENEVER THEY CAN. THEY SLAUGHTERED AND MAIMED HUNDREDS ON THE USS LIBERTY. WITHOUT PAUSE THEY SLAUGHTER 67-YEAR-VICTIMIZED PALESTINIAN INFANTS, CHILDREN, WOMEN, MEN, FREEDOM-FIGHTERS WITH GLEE - TERRORIZING THEM WITH PASSION. HOW COULD ANYONE KNOW THEY WERE NOT BEHIND 911!?!?!?!!??!?!?!.....Salam Al-Marayati Addresses 9/11 Remarks on MSNBC
Salam Al-Marayati Addresses 9/11 Remarks on MSNBC
vid. Head of Muslim Public Affairs Counsel............. James, here. I DO NOT KNOW THAT ISRAEL WAS NOT BEHIND THIS!!!! THEY WERE FOUNDED ON TERRORISM. THEY ASSASSINATE AROUND THE WORLD WHENEVER THEY CAN. THEY SLAUGHTERED AND MAIMED HUNDREDS ON THE USS LIBERTY. WITHOUT PAUSE THEY SLAUGHTER 67-YEAR-VICTIMIZED PALESTINIAN INFANTS, CHILDREN, WOMEN, MEN, FREEDOM-FIGHTERS WITH GLEE - TERRORIZING THEM WITH PASSION. HOW COULD ANYONE KNOW THEY WERE NOT BEHIND 911!?!?!?!!??!?!?!
vid. Head of Muslim Public Affairs Counsel............. James, here. I DO NOT KNOW THAT ISRAEL WAS NOT BEHIND THIS!!!! THEY WERE FOUNDED ON TERRORISM. THEY ASSASSINATE AROUND THE WORLD WHENEVER THEY CAN. THEY SLAUGHTERED AND MAIMED HUNDREDS ON THE USS LIBERTY. WITHOUT PAUSE THEY SLAUGHTER 67-YEAR-VICTIMIZED PALESTINIAN INFANTS, CHILDREN, WOMEN, MEN, FREEDOM-FIGHTERS WITH GLEE - TERRORIZING THEM WITH PASSION. HOW COULD ANYONE KNOW THEY WERE NOT BEHIND 911!?!?!?!!??!?!?!
What is needed, and it won't happen, but what is needed is millions, billions, of people standing for a different way - Universal Family... or kill me... nothing more, less or else. Nothing less will save us now.
What is needed, and it won't happen, but what is needed is millions, billions, of people standing for a different way - Universal Family... or kill me... nothing more, less or else. Nothing less will save us now.
The importance of Palestinian recognition..... In 2010 David Petraeus famously warned the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Congress that America’s support for Israel undermines America accomplishing its goals in the Middle East.
The importance of Palestinian recognition
In 2010 David Petraeus famously warned the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
Congress that America’s support for Israel undermines America
accomplishing its goals in the Middle East.
In 2010 David Petraeus famously warned the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
Congress that America’s support for Israel undermines America
accomplishing its goals in the Middle East.
2.22.2015
A letter to a JW brother I've corresponded with periodically, and very productively, for 6 years or so now. He and his wife are serving the boat people, refugees in Italy.
I just saw an article briefly about an upcoming conference to reduce the threat
of a nuclear holocaust. I can think of nothing more merciful for humanity now than
a global, thorough, total, nuclear holocaust, extinguishing everyone, everywhere,
instantly. I can't. The near universal, inescapable suffering currently assured for
us is beyond unbearable. (The only 'escape' will be the 'transport,' 'Salvation,' to the
Creator's Kingdom, for those 1 in a million in every faith and no faith at all that
respond to the horror by moving into that part of ourselves which is Universal
Loving - Serving the neediest, from the Soul, in Solidarity. Their material world
will be Hell but their experiential, psychological, Spiritual world will be Heaven,
Joy, Loving, total Peace of Heart.)
I wrote this yesterday, a bit different than what I've written before:
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2015/02/note-to-my-dearest.html
Start, Wage, Loving: Christlikeness... Free Palestine: ***** A note to my dearest.....
Start, Wage, Loving: Christlikeness... Free Palestine: ***** A note to my dearest.....
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A
note to my dearest, shared with the few others who are, or were, close
to me as well. This will sound sooooooooooooooo paranoid. People like me
sounde...
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Oddly (don't get your hopes up), I spend more time, much more time
defending organized religion than denouncing it these days. Those
against 'religion' are exactly as 'religious' and hateful and dogmatic
and blind... as I find the religionists to be. AND, I am persuaded, if nothing
else, that what is represented in this poll below is essentially and profoundly
correct, that the quality of life among the world's destitute is dramatically
improved by deep participation in organized religion, and why would I
want their lives to be even more miserable?
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***** White House Free Palestine Vigil ~~~ Home ~~~ The (Israeli)
General's Son ~~~ If Americans Knew ~~~ Peace, Propaganda, Promised Land
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AND... I can't explain the relatively immense peacefulness, goodness, humanity,
Godliness of the middle east Arabs despite the 70 year reign of US, British, Israeli
terror... except that Islam is a profoundly Humanizing force for them.
I find Islam a major improvement over christianity in that it un-diefies Jesus, returns
him to his Divinity - that he is JUST a man, like you and me, but by embracing and
being embraced by one, simple, total religion, Unconditional Loving, he offered us
Salvation. He offered us the only Revolution that was ever there, and we've used all
of our abilities to do everything and anything but. Instead, as virtually all religions do,
instead of offering us an escape from reality, he offered us the way to embrace and
to be embraced by Ultimate Reality, God, the Creator... Unconditional Loving.
Maybe the greatest 'discovery' of my life was just weeks ago when I saw that Evil,
Satan, the Devil... is CONDITIONAL Loving in whatever form, and that God, the Creator,
Good, the Divine... is UNCONDITIONAL Loving in whatever form. It is that simple.
Full Stop.
Oh, and yes, Recently 'discovering' Chris Hedges is a great gift to me. Yes, I've
known of him for years, but his categorical dismissal of Pr. Obama from
the beginning put me off and I've not been following his work. Chris is
maybe even more scathing than I of the worthless liberals in this
country, and yet he lays every possible shortfall in the Obama admin at
Pr. Obama's feet seemingly oblivious to the fact that with a criminally
do-nothing liberal constituency Pr. Obama is virtually powerless to do
much. Deep sigh. But I still am now finding the deep and broad study
of Chris a Godsend for me right now in my attempts to become less
pitifully unable to help. It is as though my beloved (all of humanity)
was desperately ill (as we are) and I thought I had to do all of the
research to understand the disease. I knew the nature and direction but I
had to devote the impossibly long time to understand the genesis,
development, manifestations, characteristics... and by then, well, it
would be so much later than it is already to try to be a better 'cure'
than I've yet become. He is an impossible, a Divine gift to us, a True
Prophet, if ever there has been one - in breadth,depth, courage,
humanity, courage, Truth, Unconditional Loving.....
I
don't know that I've told you this story before - about 6 weeks ago I
could no longer stand sitting idly by and watching my neighbor, next cot
over in the homeless shelter from me, 53 year old Paul, then in month
10 of looking for work, day in, day out. With a rap sheet as long as
one's arm, minor drug offenses, of which he has been clean since 2001,
and off probation since 2012, and in an economy with less and less jobs,
he gets rejection after rejection after rejection. I have next to no
contacts to help, but there are two christian churches that come in
force every weekend to conduct a service for those who wish to attend,
and feed a nice meal afterward. By the way, JW's never set foot here.
No interest. The devote their time as Jesus NEVER DID to trying to snag
the wealthy, in front of the White House all day, in front of the
Shopping Malls on weekends. (Yes, I'm not happy about this.) I
approached both of these churches, the pastor of one, a deacon of the
other and told them briefly about Paul, how long and hard he has looked
for whatever sh*t demeaning job society would give him, that he gets
nothing but rejection, often because of his 'record,' and that I'm
worried that I'll lose him back into a destructive life-style if
something does not come thru, sooooooon. One of these two men instantly
said, 'Here is my phone number, have him call me. I'll reach out to my
contacts, and try to help.' He has been better than his word, in weekly
contact. BTW, Paul shows zero inclination of attending this man's
church service. The other man, the deacon, said with great enthusiasm
(and all the selfrighteousness of Satan), 'Well, just tell him about
Jesus.' Which man is Christlike?
One
of dozens of reasons I adore Chris Hedges. I've not watched it by the
way, but I expect to, and I've heard him touch on the subject elsewhere:
Hugs to you both
nd. Oddly, I spend more time, much more time defending organized religion than denouncing it these days. Those against 'religion' are exactly as 'religious' and hateful and dogmatic and blind... as I find the religionists to be. AND... (click link)
Oddly, I spend more time, much more time defending organized religion than denouncing it these days. Those against 'religion' are exactly as 'religious' and hateful and dogmatic and blind... as I find the religionists to be. AND, I am persuaded, if nothing else, that what is represented in this poll below is essentially and profoundly correct, that the quality of life among the world's destitute is dramatically
improved by deep participation in organized religion, and why would I want their lives to be even more miserable? Poll:
AND... I can't explain the relatively immense peacefulness, goodness, humanity, Godliness of the middle east Arabs despite the 70 year reign of US, British, Israeli terror... except that Islam is a profoundly Humanizing force for them.
nd. Recently 'discovering' Chris Hedges is a great gift to me. Yes, I've known of him for years, but his categorical dismissal of Pr. Obama from the beginning put me off and I've not been following his work. Chris is maybe even more scathing than I of the worthless liberals in this country, and yet he lays every possible shortfall in the Obama admin at Pr. Obama's feet seemingly oblivious to the fact that with a criminally do-nothing liberal constituency Pr. Obama is virtually powerless to do much. Deep sigh. But I still am now finding the deep and broad study of Chris a Godsend for me right now in my attempts to become less pitifully unable to help. It is as though my beloved (all of humanity) was desperately ill (as we are) and I thought I had to do all of the research to understand the disease. I knew the nature and direction but I had to devote the impossibly long time to understand the genesis, development, manifestations, characteristics... and by then, well, it would be so much later than it is already to try to be a better 'cure' than I've yet become. He is an impossible, a Divine gift to us, a True Prophet, if ever there has been one - in breadth,depth, courage, humanity, courage, Truth, Unconditional Loving.....
Recently 'discovering' Chris Hedges is a great gift to me. Yes, I've known of him for years, but his categorical dismissal of Pr. Obama from the beginning put me off and I've not been following his work. Chris is maybe even more scathing than I of the worthless liberals in this country, and yet he lays every possible shortfall in the Obama admin at Pr. Obama's feet seemingly oblivious to the fact that with a criminally do-nothing liberal constituency Pr. Obama is virtually powerless to do much. Deep sigh. But I still am now finding the deep and broad study of Chris a Godsend for me right now in my attempts to become less pitifully unable to help. It is as though my beloved (all of humanity) was desperately ill (as we are) and I thought I had to do all of the research to understand the disease. I knew the nature and direction but I had to devote the impossibly long time to understand the genesis, development, manifestations, characteristics... and by then, well, it would be so much later than it is already to try to be a better 'cure' than I've yet become. He is an impossible, a Divine gift to us, a True Prophet, if ever there has been one - in breadth,depth, courage, humanity, courage, Truth, Unconditional Loving.....
nd. I find Islam a major improvement over christianity in that it un-diefies Jesus, returns him to his Divinity, yet still keeps Him central as He should be - that he is JUST a man, like you and me, but by embracing and being embraced by one, simple, total religion, Unconditional Loving, he offered us Salvation. He offered us the only Revolution that was ever there, and we've used all of our abilities to do everything and anything but. Instead, as virtually all religions do, instead of offering us an escape from reality, he offered us the way to embrace and to be embraced by Ultimate Reality, God, the Creator... Unconditional Loving.
I find Islam a major improvement over christianity in that it un-diefies Jesus, returns him to his Divinity, yet still keeps Him central as He should be - that he is JUST a man, like you and me, but by embracing and being embraced by one, simple, total religion, Unconditional Loving, he offered us Salvation. He offered us the only Revolution that was ever there, and we've used all of our abilities to do everything and anything but. Instead, as virtually all religions do, instead of offering us an escape from reality, he offered us the way to embrace and to be embraced by Ultimate Reality, God, the Creator... Unconditional Loving.
***** nd. Maybe the greatest 'discovery' of my life was just weeks ago when I saw that Evil, Satan, the Devil... is CONDITIONAL Loving in whatever form, and that God, the Creator, Good, the Divine... is UNCONDITIONAL Loving in whatever form. It is that simple.
Maybe the greatest 'discovery' of my life was just weeks ago when I saw that Evil, Satan, the Devil... is CONDITIONAL Loving in whatever form, and that God, the Creator, Good, the Divine... is UNCONDITIONAL Loving in whatever form. It is that simple.
nd. I just saw an article briefly about an upcoming conference to reduce the threat of a nuclear holocaust. I can think of nothing more merciful for humanity now than a global, thorough, total, nuclear holocaust, extinguishing everyone, everywhere, instantly. I can't. The near universal, inescapable suffering currently assured for us is beyond unbearable. (The only 'escape' will the 'transport,' 'Salvation,' to the Creator's Kingdom, for those 1 in a million in every faith and no faith at all that respond to the horror by moving into that part of ourselves which is Universal Loving - Serving the neediest, from the Soul, in Solidarity. Their material world will be Hell but their experiential, psychological, Spiritual world will be Heaven, Joy, Loving, total Peace of Heart.)
I just saw an article briefly about an upcoming conference to reduce the threat of a nuclear holocaust. I can think of nothing more merciful for humanity now than a global, thorough, total, nuclear holocaust, extinguishing everyone, everywhere, instantly. I can't. The near universal, inescapable suffering currently assured for us is beyond unbearable. (The only 'escape' will the 'transport,' 'Salvation,' to the
Creator's Kingdom, for those 1 in a million in every faith and no faith at all that respond to the horror by moving into that part of ourselves which is Universal Loving - Serving the neediest, from the Soul, in Solidarity. Their material world will be Hell but their experiential, psychological, Spiritual world will be Heaven, Joy, Loving, total Peace of Heart.)
***** YOU BETTER WATCH THIS: Chomsky: 'The right today is a "radical insurgency" dedicated to the destruction of the US Government in the hopes it can then create and edifice completely dedicated to the financial elites."... Noam Chomsky: Republicans & Democrats Have Shifted to the Right, and the GOP Is ‘Off the Spectrum’'
Hundreds of Palestinians flee as Israel opens dams into Gaza Valley
http://www.maannews.com/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=759549
‘She just wants chocolate! What is she, an Arab?’ Israeli social media
http://972mag.com/she-just-wants-chocolate-what-is-she-an-arab/103037/
The world has broken its promises about rebuilding Gaza – and the children will suffer
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/21/chris-gunness-gaza-aid-broken-promises-children-suffer
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