5.13.2015
"He Saved Us": Hero Passenger Stops Gunman on Megabus From Chicago
"He Saved Us": Hero Passenger Stops Gunman on Megabus From Chicago
nd. Such a SHOCK! LIBERALS SIT AND IMPOTENTLY WHINE WHILE RETHUGLICANS GUT PUBLIC TRANSIT... AND THERE IS AN ACCIDENT. AMAZING!!!!!!! WHO WUDDA THUNK???
***** SPDF (Stop Palestines Death Fast) Day 52-20: Medical update, status, outlook....
* For maybe 4 days now my body has felt very tired, as always happens after hospital visits for me, and anesthesia (colonoscopy), but other than that, I feel really normal... no obstructions, normal bowel movements for the first time in 3 years.....
* Note, when I broke the fast 20 days ago, that day I realized the farmers market was open, bought and consumed organic sauerkraut to restart the wee beasties in my gut... never paid attention to that... my bowel, when not obstructed, has bee NORMAL EVER SINCE! Greek yogurt, too.
* Sat and Sun I was at the White House to Free Palestine. Not since - too fatigued, weak, and too hot out, for me, yet. Today I have some tasks to execute. I expect to be on Capital $ Hill Thu and Fri; White House, Sat and Sun.
* Also, I'm spending time close to toilet while I learn the new rythms of my newly 'normal' bowel... when I can eat so I don't have to rush to toilet while I'm on post at White House... or Capital $ Hill.
* I am spending my time online in deep study of a range of issues - Israel's mutilation of Palestinians, TPP, chr'stian zionism, the Republican brain, Gross National Happiness (GNH) and related subjects, Happiness Psychology, Judaism (healthy and malignant cultism / zionism), etc....
* I expect this may be my last, or one of my last SPDF posts. I've always found that the end of the fast, trying to take food on a body that has forgotten, and in whom the wee beasties in the gut have died... is the most dangerous. This one was soooooooo dangerous that the docs kept me in hospital on watch for emergency surgery about 8 days due to 5 bowel obstruction events including a complete obstruction where the NG tube released a gargantuan 2 liters of stuff within 120 seconds. Hence the 52 days minus 20 days... a 72 day Offering, Ransom to Reedeem Palestine. Yes, to no avail.
* I now have the expectation of future bowel obstructions... due to the scar tissue from my cancer and other abdominal operations... and the damage done by each of the last 5 obstructions these last 20 days. The docs could operate but they are way loath to because, well, it would just create more scarring (the cause of the obstructions), and could damage the intestines... which is way dangerous. So, I just wait for the next one, and eat cautiously in the meantime.
* Within the next week I expect to finalize the Stop Palestines Death Fast Book.
* I have a thought I'm extremely passionate about for a way to amp up my four activist areas - Stop Palestines Death, Stop Ecocide, Creation Economy (near zero consumption, near total 'free' contribution living), and Humanity for we Homeless... all with one, relatively expensive (up front, zero over the years) tactic. It may push the boundaries of high-security DC tho my intent is nothing of the sort, and the limits of any financing I can secure... but I am exploring every option.... including something that would put my health insurance at risk, but for these causes, none of us can afford to be conservative... if there is anyone now, or in the future, on earth, that we Love. If I can work out the details I'll be providing the opportunity for folks to chip in to make it happen.
nd. Why didn't the NRA tell Americans to arm themselves after Travon Martin was shot?
***** Hate-filled Liberal Bigotry and Discrimination is the most destructive I see on earth. The condescension....
5.12.2015
5.11.2015
The right’s made-up God: How bigots invented a white supremacist Jesus As Indiana peddles its "religious freedom" garbage, it's time to call the religious right's trash what it really is
Israeli colonialism, plain and simple In two court decisions involving shoving Palestinians off their land, Supreme Court justices have confirmed what Israel’s critics are saying: that Israel has been a colonialist entity since 1948. A child in the Palestinian village of Sussia, southern West Bank.
Robert Reich: The Nightmarish Future for American Jobs and Incomes Is Here Even knowledge-based jobs will disappear as wealth gets more concentrated at the top in the next 10 years.
5.10.2015
***** SPD. Israeli-trained police invade Baltimore in crackdown on Black Lives Matter
Bedouin village razed 83 times must pay $500,000 for demolitions, Israel says
NYT, NetayaYahu Times. Front-page attack in New York Times says BDS movement is driven by minorities’ ‘hostility toward Jews
Palestinian woman and her children attacked by settlers
5.09.2015
***** video. 10 minutes. Monumentally important. The science, very hard science behind Loving, behind serving the global neediest from the soul in solidarity. The gospel.
Without Edward Snowden, Our System Could Have Failed
Edward Snowden Calls Ruling On NSA Mass Surveillance "Extraordinarily Encouraging"
5.08.2015
**** WATCH: The Israelis who drive Palestinian kids to the hospital
SPDF: MED UPDT, 050815 9pm. For the moment, out of the hospital.......
They finally released me about 5 p_m. The doctors are not hopeful that we have seen the last of this. Although they now think that these situations were exacerbated by my 52 day hunger strike, they do not consider that a major factor. With the abdominal surgery I've had, the liver section, the colectomy, the appendectomy, the hernia operation.... There is a lot of scar tissue inside. And each episode, of obstruction, and I've had 6 or 7 in the last 4 months, increases the odds of the next 1 occurring. Could occur tonight, tomorrow, next week, next month.....
Feeling quite symptom free so far tonight. My spirits are very good. I think I am adjusting to a different, new normal for my health. Time to get back to work.
I hope and expect to hit the white house early early tomorrow morning and Sunday morning, staying until late evening. On capitol hill Monday through Thursday early until late I hope. Working to ease the life of it least 1 person in Palestine if I can.
SPDF: Next head of 'Civil Administration' said Palestinians are sub-human
ISIS-linked group claims responsibility for attack on Hamas base in Gaza
SPDF: Medical update, Fri a.m. 050815
***** SPDF Day 52-15: Israel, the psychopathic nation. Is Zionism a collective personality disorder?
5.07.2015
SPDF: Israeli-trained police invade Baltimore in crackdown on Black Lives Matter
***** Justice is love expressing itself. Dominic Crossan paraphrase. 15 years ago or so a....
Justice is love expressing itself. Dominic Crossan paraphrase. 15 years ago or so a Methodist pastor, an African American woman in an upper class white church that I attended, told me at a conference one time, James, you love justice more than anyone I've ever seen. I replied strongly, and respectfully, that I strongly disagreed. I said, it is not justice that I love, but people. 12 years later now I realize that we were both correct. I learned in a Dominic Crossan book on the man Jesus, the historical Jesus, that I read about a year ago. In the book, one of his later ones, possibly on the Lord's Prayer, he said something like justice is love expressing itself. I think that's exactly right. Brilliant. Monumentally important understanding.
***** From my most revered activist sister in Texas: Are you autistic by any chance?......
vid. 4 min. Gorillaz, released to the wild years earlier, reunite with their humans
SPDF: When the police start acting like a gang A journalist learns that if you photograph Border Policemen committing a felony, you’ll probably end up paying for it.
**** CRUCIAL.PLS READ. 'if Israel dropped its guns, not a single resident would be alive within days....... more
**** CRUCIAL.PLS READ. 'if Israel dropped its guns, not a single resident would be alive within days. If Syria, Hamas, the PLO, and Hezbollah droped their guns, there would be peace in the middle east.' ( this comment from a high school classmate from the white, criminally elitist, Wall Street banker suburb in northern New Jersey, Short Hills, in which I was raised and indoctrinated to my life of sociopathic white overprivilege, exploitation, subjugation... ).
MY REPLY. 'You are right. I stand corrected. You make a good point.
That's why the white plantation owners in the south needed to oppress, enslave, subjugate the n******. That's why the white European colonists needed to exterminate upwards to 100 million native Americans. That's why the white Europeans in South Africa needed to so savagely oppressed the blacks, stealing their resources, stealing their land, from those non white savages. That's why the white Australians have needed to exterminate and opress the Aborigines. That is why you white supremacists needed to exterminate upwards of 100 million blacks in the Congo. It is why you needed Jim Crow in the south, and your oppressive, white racist police forces across the United States today.
And yes, as you correctly assert, that is exactly why Israel today needs to imprison the rightful owners of the land between the river and the sea, those by nature, genetically, inferior, savage, godless Arab Muslims who demonstrated their subhuman, savage, evil, warlike, terrorist... nature by having the audacity to live peacefully with the 3% minority Jews for thousands of years in the land of Palestine, in their 500 villages, and their relatively advanced, civililized, peaceful, Godly, culture. It is why Israel needed to preemptively mount a massive terror campaign, Plan Dalet, in November of 1947, mount 30 to 50 atrocities including the rape of women, the summary execution of old men, pregnant women, children, such as in Deir Yassin, in November of 1947, expelling through terror and force 250 thousand of the native inhabitants against all international law, against the UN Charter that allowed for the creation of Israel, and against their explicit promises to the United Nations . It is why, among the population that unlike Europe had welcomed them as protection from the Nazis, it is why they needed to carefully and aggressively build military units in anticipation of the ethnic cleansing, incremental genocide, campaign that Ben Gurion engineered and preemptively launched in November 1947, and it is why every day since with ever increasing savagery, the white Israelis have needed to persecute, torment, terrorize, and terminate the Palestinians.
Unless you sociopathic white state terrorists oppress, exploit, rape, colonize, ethnically cleanse, mass murder , exterminate... the non-whites, they will kill you, you a assert, over, and over, and over, and over.... .
The only slight problem with what you say is that your argument is based on three things that are just ever so slightly questionable:
1. Ignoring that you white supremacists are the ones that actually do the mass murder, state terrorism, consummate deceit, consummate lives, unending exploitation, unending terrorism ,
2. It is not their behavior, the non-whites, but you're pathological rhetoric, insane, savage lies and propaganda about what the non-whites will do, that suggests that they would kill someone. Not their behavior. But hey, who's going to value their behavior over your lies, deceit, and propaganda. Of course what you whites say matters, and what they don't do, as inconvenient for us that may be, doesn't matter.
3. The non-whites ( any and every oppressed, occupied, population ) by international law have the right to resist by any and every means available the war criminality of you white, racist, bigoted, sociopathic, state terrorist colonizers, oppressors, exploiters,, robbers, subhumans... .
Have a nice day
SPDF Day 52-14: Israel Will Now Be Ruled by the Most Extreme Right-Wing Government in Its History
SPDF Day 52-14: Supreme Court allows state to replace Bedouin village with Jewish one
Video. 3 minutes. Stop. Parkour. Just watch.
SPDF Day 52-14: Thu 050715 Medical update. Surgery?
12 p.m. update: The surgical team just came in and evaluated me. The head surgeon wants me to go back on regular diet immediately. IV removed. It is not that they are doubting any of my symptoms. it is simply their judgment that we should give it more time and see if my system can learn to cope with the incoming food. I should receive lunch momentarily. I'll have dinner. a meal tomorrow morning. If all of that goes well then they will discharge me tomorrow and we will see what happens. If and when there is the onset of another event then they have decided to administer a test that in time lapse watches the food go through my intestines so that they can better spot what is going on, where, more exactly.
SPDF: Israeli defense minister promises to kill more civilians and threatens to nuke Iran
***** SPDF: Why right-wing Christians are actively promoting genocide A leading Evangelical magazine is calling for the destruction of Islam. It's not the outlier we might like to think
Reports: Israeli Air Force attacked in Sudan
5.06.2015
***** SPDF. Med Update. Houston, we have a problem.
Israel's just elected justice minister, 1 year ago called for the extermination of Palestinians. democracy my effing ass. White supremacy, if not received, fundamentalist extremism, Naziesque....
DN! vid. "Kill Anything": Israeli Soldiers Say Gaza Atrocities Came from Orders for Indiscriminate Fire
The Israel Project for Disinformation, Subjugation, and Occupation, So-Called TIP, Targets Amnesty International
SPDF: Malevolence can be the only possible motive for creating sonic booms over Gaza at the very time aid agencies, medics and other humanitarian aid workers are engaged in the monumental attempt to alleviate suffering in the blockaded territory.
By punching downward, by attacking a powerless, disenfranchised minority with crude, vulgar drawings closer to graffiti than cartoons,” Trudeau contended, “Charlie wandered into the realm of hate speech, which in France is only illegal if it directly incites violence. Well, voila—the 7 million copies that were published following the killings did exactly that.”
SPDF: Israel's explanation for killing two journalists in Gaza? Palestinians aren't journalists, they're 'targets'
Wikileaks Sony Hack Reveals Hollywood’s Hand In Repairing Israel’s Broken Image
SPDF Day 52-12: 'Indiscriminate' Killing in Gaza Was Top-Down War Plan, say Israeli Veterans | Common Dreams
5.05.2015
***** Paul Krugman: Tens of millions of lives poisoned by grotesque inequalities
China orders Muslim shopkeepers to sell alcohol, cigarettes, to ‘weaken’ Islam
SPDF: Robert Reich: The Trans Pacific Partnership is a corporate hijacking
***** SPDF: Godly Jewish High schoolers riding Jerusalem's light rail speak only Arabic to focus attention on incidents in which people were attacked because of the language they spoke.
French companies have withdrawn from the Jerusalem cable-car Judaization project, which is largely located over Jerusalem’s Old City
South African universities join academic boycott of Israel
***** SPDF: Max Blumenthal. As the Palestinians do today, Spanish Jews resisted oppression in tunnels and, exiled, clutched their keys
***** Report about Israeli soldiers in 2014 war: 'If you shoot someone in Gaza, it's cool' CNN
***** SPDF Download and open a report called "This is How We Fought in Gaza: Soldiers' testimonies and photographs from Operation 'Protective Edge' (2014)."
***** SPDF: HA'ARETZ Whatever your politics, you should know this: These soldiers and the people of Breaking the Silence are Israeli patriots. They are advocating for Israel.
***** SPDF Washington Post: New report details how Israeli soldiers killed civilians in Gaza: “There were no rules”
5.04.2015
SPDF: chris Hedges, the liberal elite, Clinton led, betrayal of the American workers. video. 4 minutes.
Tufts students to begin hunger strike over job cuts
Report: Netanyahu rejected Kerry visit after election win
SPDF: Israeli Soldiers: “Army Deliberately Targeted Civilians In Gaza” “I think, deep inside, it bothered me a little. But after three weeks in Gaza, when you’re firing at everything that moves, and even things that don’t move, at a psychotic pace, you don’t really … good and bad get a little mixed up and your morality starts to get lost and you lose your compass. And it becomes like a computer game. Really, really cool and real.”
SPDF: Israeli Soldiers Admit to Shooting Palestinians for ‘Fun’ in Gaza War
SPDF: 'Indiscriminate' Killing in Gaza Was Top-Down War Plan, say Israeli Veterans
Paul Krugman: “The poor don’t need lectures on morality, they need more resources…and better economic opportunities.”
vid. Will Smith. Greatness is simple, I Know Who I am, I know what I believe in, and I am willing to die for it.
SPDF Day 52-11: Israeli soldiers describe 'losing their sense of morality' during the Gaza conflict Soldiers who took part in last year's Gaza conflict tell Breaking the Silence, an NGO run by former Israeli soldiers, that they were told "If you shoot someone in Gaza, it's cool, no big deal"
WATCH: Africans in Israel experience different forms of oppression depending on their religion. Journalist David Sheen provides essential background for understanding the #BlackLivesMatter protests unfolding in Israel.
The high Israeli court on Monday approved a request of the Israeli civil administration to demolish the tents and homes of Khirbet Susiya village near Hebron, leaving 450 people homeless.
vid 2 min. Tami Forbes is a hardworking manager at Key West Key Lime Pie Company in Florida but is only paid $300 a week.
***** and if this had been American Muslims organizing an art event to offend Jews? The inaugural “Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest” was organized by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and billed as a celebration of free speech, at a time when images of Muhammad have sparked outrage among Muslims, who consider representations of the Prophet blasphemous.
Lauryn Hill cancels Israel show after Palestinian boycott call
SPDF Day 52-11: Gunning for destruction in Gaza: ‘You want to see people in pieces’ 36,000 artillery shells, tank shells, mortars, anti-tank missiles and munitions, alongside an ubiquitous use of armored bulldozers, razed streets and districts to the ground during last summer’s Gaza war. According to a newly published Breaking the Silence report, this is exactly what the Israeli army wanted.
***** SDF Day 52-11: 'COMMITMENT IS NOT THE MAJOR THING IN CREATING JUSTICE. IT'S THE ONLY THING.'
The following was inspired by an email exchange with the Godsend activist from Texas, Diane Wilson. First the non bracketed sections Day -10 May 2, , and then the [[ ]] bracket sections Day -11 May 3, in most cases were further inspired by my dialogue with her.... and now a few key updates Day -12 May 4 [[[ ]]].
[[ I have never known anything more important than what I am sharing in this post with you. Therefore I have never shared with you anything more important than this post. Of course, you are not therefore obligated to me to read this at all. But humbly, I think you are obligated to anyone you know and care about to read it, as long, and rambling, and arduous as it is.]]
5.03.2015
15 neighborhoods in Baltimore have a lower life expectancy than North Korea
Student Hillel chief at Pennsylvania college resigns over censorship of civil rights veterans
***** Ethiopian-Israelis' protest against police violence is met with police violence Police use stun grenades, violence against protest in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, sparked by video of two officers beating a black Israeli soldier.
Israeli forces wound 4 Palestinian journalists
Palestinian resistance faction #Hamas on Sunday said it is ready to compete in the parliamentary and presidential elections and accused President Mahmoud #Abbas of hampering its conduct
Israel and the coalition of oppressors
Eyewitness debunks claim of “attack” on Paris Jews by BDS activists
SPDF Day 52-10: Full effort is full success, said Gandhi. The difference between the current outlook, future as hell, & a future worth living, is whether or not .......
***** SPDF. Day 52-10: Jimmy Carter calls situation in Gaza 'intolerable' eight months after warFormer US president, in Jerusalem with former Norwegian prime minister, says residents ‘cannot live with the respect and dignity they deserve’jimmy carter
SPDF Day 52 minus 10: Hunger strike is most dangerous once food intake is attempted.As I have experienced and......
***** SPPDF Day. 52-10: Carter says Hamas leader committed to peace, Netanyahu notEx-president doesn’t meet PM, says it would be a ‘waste of time'; claims Mashaal is ‘not a terrorist’ and ‘strongly in favor of peace process’
5.02.2015
The Silencing of Dorothy Thompson by the Zionist Crime Mob
Seven-year-old boy is arrested in East Jerusalem, interrogated for hours, released at 3 AM
***** "Journalists have more freedom to report, but in general, the readership and audiences do not want to know what their governments are doing and what their peers are causing," she said.
SPDF Day 52-9: chris hedges: is reals assault on casa is about ethniccleansing, and nothing else
***** Finkelstein, Gandhi: Violence Against Disproportionate Aggression Is Not Violence
5.01.2015
SPDIF day 52 - 8: awaiting words from the surgeons .....
10 p.m. update: will be transferred tonight to Georgetown University Hospital, the site of most of my cancer surgery. No final word on whether a will watch me or perform surgery.
Back in the emergency room. Extreme pain since 7 this morning. 12 hours now. My hunch.....
Back in the emergency room. Extreme pain since 7 this morning. 12 hours now. My hunch is that 52 days without food allowed the scar tissue from my cancer operations to lay traps around my intestines causing obstruction. Awaiting results from the CT scan an hour ago.