Start, Wage, Loving: For Joy Serve Soul In Solidarity: NYT

'NYT' reports 'surge of hostile sentiment against Jews' nationwide -- on what basis?

The New York Times joins in an effort to smear the BDS movement by
saying that there's a "surge of hostile sentiment against Jews" on
campuses nationwide, without offering any evidence of such
anti-Semitism.

3.02.2015

Paul Krugman: The point is that extreme inequality and the falling fortunes of America’s workers are a choice, not a destiny imposed by the gods of the market. And we can change that choice if we want to

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/opinion/paul-krugman-walmarts-visible-hand.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0&referrer=

She wrote the definitive book on genocide. Samantha powers is the most degenerate, disgusting, perverted, evil sell out in my lifetime. There is a special place in hell for this bag of crap.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/01/1367880/-Netanyahu-s-Minions-Place-Hideous-Ad-in-NYT?detail=facebook

She wrote the definitive book on genocide. Samantha powers is the most degenerate, disgusting, perverted, evil sell out in my lifetime. There is a special place in hell for this bag of crap.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/01/1367880/-Netanyahu-s-Minions-Place-Hideous-Ad-in-NYT?detail=facebook

3.01.2015

***** nd. In all my years I am just now for the first time seeing that the attack on the human rights of anyone is an attack on the human rights of everyone. I don't think there is anything clever in the seeing this. Little could be more objectively obvious. So why has it taken me so long? Because my culture, the western, U.S., White, male dominated culture, requires the embrace of hypocrisy, of delustion, on this point. In the way that Orwell spoke of down meaning up and up meaning down my culture depends upon the human rights of everyone meaning the human rights of the over privileged. And one growing up in an ocean of lies as I did finds it difficult to see the most obvious truth. Jesus, or some of the writers for him, saw this clearly. As you do unto the 'least of these' you do unto me - the foreigner, the enemy, the prisoner, the sick, the weak.... In mass we have not followed the likes of Jesus we have sprinted in the opposing direction and exactly as when cells in the body chronically that neglect their instructions the body begins to die of cancer rapidly. Whoever would trade safety for liberty will have neither is a paraphrase of one of the founding fathers . America, our chickens are coming home to roost.

In all my years I am just now for the first time seeing that the attack on the human rights of anyone is an attack on the human rights of everyone. I don't think there is anything clever in the seeing this. Little could be more objectively obvious. So why has it taken me so long? Because my culture, the western, U.S., White, male dominated culture, requires the embrace of hypocrisy, of delusion, on this point. In the way that Orwell spoke of down meaning up and up meaning down my culture depends upon the human rights of everyone meaning the human rights of the over privileged. And one growing up in an ocean of lies as I did finds it difficult to see the most obvious truth. Jesus, or some of the writers for him, saw this clearly. As you do unto the 'least of these' you do unto me - the foreigner, the enemy, the prisoner, the sick, the weak.... In mass we have not followed the likes of Jesus we have sprinted in the opposing direction and exactly as when cells in the body chronically that neglect their instructions the body begins to die of cancer rapidly. Whoever would trade safety for liberty will have neither is a paraphrase of one of the founding fathers . America, our chickens are coming home to roost.

2.28.2015

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=

2.27.2015

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=

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, 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?

Start, Wage, Loving: Christlikeness... Free Palestine: Religion Provides Emotional Boost to World’s Poor



				Start, Wage, Loving: Christlikeness... Free Palestine: R... · * White House Free Palestine Vigil ~~~ Home ~~~ The (Israeli) General's Son ~~~ If Americans Knew ~~~ Peace, Propaganda, Promised Land ~~~ Israe...

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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:

I Don't Believe in Atheists: Chris Hedges Speech (2008)



				I Don't Believe in Atheists: Chris Hedges Speech (2008)

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Hugs to you both

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.

2.21.2015

***** A note to my dearest.....

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 sounded reallllllllllly paranoid:

* Before the crash of 1929(?)

* Before the takeover by Hitler

* Before Nov 1947 when the faux-jews that had been taken

in lovingly by Palestinians showed themselves as the savage

unhuman Raptors they were....

I was pretty bed-ridden all day today with this cold in its

third week, but tonight and the two days prior I've been deeply

studying Chris Hedges, clearly the greatest, most prepared,

most grounded, most trained, most educated, most widely read,

most compassionate, most courageous, most experienced (war

correspondent for the NYT for 15 years during the revolutions in

south american, eastern europe, middle east.....

He made a comment, just a comment, in these hours I've been watching

online, but it hit me like a lightening bolt, the truth, and profound

impact. 'We are headed toward a massive devaluing of the currency,

near certainly, like has happened in the world at other times in

history... where it will take wheelbarrows of money to buy a loaf

of bread.

My point? Keep this possibility in mind. Just keep it in mind. Yes,

if you do, it will worry you and that is a minus, but when it comes, you

will be better psychologically prepared for it.

I suspect what it will mean for you is that you and your extended family

will come physically together and live together and by pooling your

resources, 'survive,' better than most.

You cheat yourself if you do not at least watch the video I sent the other

day, from min 15.30 all to the end, several times if needed, and even

then research further.

http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2015/02/vid-chris-hedges-myth-of-progress-and.html

I am not chastising you, telling you what to do,

trying to shame you into it.... The chances that within the next 10 years

the middle class ship, ocean liner, you live on does not change hugely

for the negative are very low. I think you are better off facing it now,

than having the entire shock of it come on you all at once.

((((HUGS))))

2.17.2015

Jordanians See U.S. Reporting Bias in Coverage of Student Killings

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/14/world/middleeast/online-commenters-see-reporting-bias-in-killing-of-3-muslims.html?referrer=

2.16.2015

Cancer Update. I asked my oncologist today when we met to describe my situation. She said, 'Unfortunately, you are a stage four cancer patient... but fortunate.' She further explained, your cancer learned how to send out seeds and so far we've seen seeds growing into tumors in your liver and more recently your lung. But your scan of two weeks ago is clean, and it has been a year since your chemo and liver section. So, for now, we need to watch you carefully and frequently to see if any other seeds decide to grow, pretty intensively for the next 3 years or so. We'll do CT scans every 4 months for now, to see if anything grows. We'll do another colonoscopy asap, she does not want to wait. Within the next several weeks I expect. She emailed the specialist and we need to schedule something. But she said, 'this is really your first 'well baby' visit, we call it. We need to look at diet and exercise now. You walk quite a bit so I think you are ok with exercise. I want to you to take three things daily, pills: children's aspirin, fish oil, and calcium with vitamin D. My next consult, ct scan with blood work is end of May. Must make every day count... for my most desperate family... in Palestine.

Cancer Update. I asked my oncologist today when we met to describe my situation. She said, 'Unfortunately, you are a stage four cancer patient... but fortunate.' She further explained, your cancer learned how to send out seeds and so far we've seen seeds growing into tumors in your liver and more recently your lung. But your scan of two weeks ago is clean, and it has been a year since your chemo and liver section. So, for now, we need to watch you carefully and frequently to see if any other seeds decide to grow, pretty intensively for the next 3 years or so. We'll do CT scans every 4 months for now, to see if anything grows. We'll do another colonoscopy asap, she does not want to wait. Within the next several weeks I expect. She emailed the specialist and we need to schedule something. But she said, 'this is really your first 'well baby' visit, we call it. We need to look at diet and exercise now. You walk quite a bit so I think you are ok with exercise. I want you to take three things daily, pills: children's aspirin, fish oil, and calcium with vitamin D. My next consult, ct scan with blood work is end of May. Must make every breath count... for my most desperate family... in Palestine, and beyond.

2.15.2015

nd. Republican genius: They recognize that the US whites who see their futures diminishing want more than anything else someone to blame and hate for it, besides themselves, that are easy, safe targets they can get way with vitimizing. And the right gleefully serves up their targets - gays, MUSLIMS, poor minorities, women. (Oh, and they know that the left won't do squat to stop them or protect these weakest among us.) hehehehe

Republican genius: They recognize that the US whites who see their futures diminishing want more than anything else someone to blame and hate for it, besides themselves, that are easy, safe targets they can get way with vitimizing. And the right gleefully serves up their targets - gays, MUSLIMS, poor minorities, women. (Oh, and they know that the left won't do squat to stop them or protect these weakest among us.) hehehehe

2.10.2015

The NYT wrote about lynching by white people without using the word "white"

2.06.2015

Obama to DREAMers: I Will Veto Anything That Takes Your Dream Away

2.03.2015

‘NYT’ publishes straightforward report on Israeli human rights violations in Gaza

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/01/publishes-straightforward-violations

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