...almost. I am so sorry.
Several times yesterday I came within seconds of terminating the Hunger Strike. I am so exhausted, depleted, hungry, isolated, in pain, cold....
But I can't. I can't face your child if I do. I can't face you, when you come to your senses if I do. I can't face your niece over the destruction of her planet, and her civilization; I can't face the 600 million we are about to drown with our murderous, totally unnecessary addiction to fossil fuel; I can't face the Palestinians being murdered and imprisoned by your addiction to Imperial Power ($1 trillion per year on military; China spends $60 billion.) I can't face the 40 million aids victims and their millions of orphans in Sub-Sahara Africa that our military addiction precludes us from helping; I can't face your grandchildren who scream at me, "Why didn't you put it all on the line to change the Spirit, the Nature, the very Core Values of America in January 2009 that you KNEW to be our last chance to do so; our only chance...."
I pray, I PRAY I find the strength to leave here the only way a Human Being, someone of Conscience, Courage and Humanity CAN leave this issue at this time - in victory ($200B shift from Death and Destruction to Life and Construction achieved), in an Ambulance or in a hearse.
I don't know if I have the Strength, Courage, Humanity, Sanity, Compassion or Wisdom. Sorry if I do not. I pray that I do.
1.03.2009
PRESS RELEASE
IF YOU KNOW OF A PUBLICATION THAT SHOULD CARY THIS - DO IT.
Hunger Strike Continues 7/24 on Capitol Hill Day #16 Demanding $200B Budget Shift from Pentagon to Plan B 3.0 Awaits Notification from Dennis Kucinich
NW corner of Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC, January 1, 2009. In order to understand this action, "Imagine that you've seen a meteor just days from striking earth and congress is doing nothing but talk. What do you do," asks Start Loving, when asked to explain this campaign.
"Plan B 3.0, by Earth Policy Institute's Lester Brown, authoritatively, unmistakably shows us the national and global security 'meteor.' -- the soon to be irreversible destruction of life support on planet earth -- 'civilization collapse,' as manifest in the sharp rise in failing states around the world," Loving continues. "Driven by global warming, population explosion, and millions moving toward western style consumption, and with tipping point just months away, the Marshall Plan funding Brown calls for occurs now, January 2009, or it is too late for U.S. National security."
Loving adds, "Despite this impending catastrophe, Barney Frank (Democrat MA) is the lone voice in Congress calling for action, in October demanding a 25% shift in budget from the Pentagon. I will not remain silent in the face of this obvious threat. I expect to remain on Capitol Hill, NW corner of the Cannon House Office building 24/7 consuming only water, vitamins, and electrolytes until Dennis Kucinich, the congressman I most trust, comes out to tell me that the funding shift is a certainty."
Most of his adult life a turn-around expert in the computer industry, Loving came to DC over 3 years ago to fight the genocide in Darfur (Wash. Post, A Hunger For Justice - washingtonpost.com), conducting a 46 day hunger strike, 7/24 occupation outside the Sudan Embassy. He moved to direct confrontation of U.S. self destructive acts of Empire last October with a 7/24 occupation on Capitol Hill against the bombing of Iran (<http://startlovingusforcesiraniraq.blogspot.com/>http://StartLovingUSForcesIranIraq.blogspot.com) .
Most recently Loving has been supporting the 27+ year Peace Vigil in Lafayette Park (<http://prop1.org/>http://prop1.org) in for the furtherance of Proposition One (HRxxxx) as proposed by Eleanor Holmes Norton each year since 1993. First passed in DC in DC election 1991 (prop1.org for details).
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Note: Plan B 3.0, Lester Brown is online, free at http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB3/index.htm
Additional Detail at Mr. Loving's YouTube site: <http://youtube.com/StartLoving1>http://youtube.com/StartLoving1 and <http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/>http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com .
Addional press contact: Ellen Thomas, 202-682-4282 Proposition One <http://prop1.org/>http://prop1.org
Start Loving email: Start_Loving@yahoo.com
Hunger Strike Continues 7/24 on Capitol Hill Day #16 Demanding $200B Budget Shift from Pentagon to Plan B 3.0 Awaits Notification from Dennis Kucinich
NW corner of Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC, January 1, 2009. In order to understand this action, "Imagine that you've seen a meteor just days from striking earth and congress is doing nothing but talk. What do you do," asks Start Loving, when asked to explain this campaign.
"Plan B 3.0, by Earth Policy Institute's Lester Brown, authoritatively, unmistakably shows us the national and global security 'meteor.' -- the soon to be irreversible destruction of life support on planet earth -- 'civilization collapse,' as manifest in the sharp rise in failing states around the world," Loving continues. "Driven by global warming, population explosion, and millions moving toward western style consumption, and with tipping point just months away, the Marshall Plan funding Brown calls for occurs now, January 2009, or it is too late for U.S. National security."
Loving adds, "Despite this impending catastrophe, Barney Frank (Democrat MA) is the lone voice in Congress calling for action, in October demanding a 25% shift in budget from the Pentagon. I will not remain silent in the face of this obvious threat. I expect to remain on Capitol Hill, NW corner of the Cannon House Office building 24/7 consuming only water, vitamins, and electrolytes until Dennis Kucinich, the congressman I most trust, comes out to tell me that the funding shift is a certainty."
Most of his adult life a turn-around expert in the computer industry, Loving came to DC over 3 years ago to fight the genocide in Darfur (Wash. Post, A Hunger For Justice - washingtonpost.com), conducting a 46 day hunger strike, 7/24 occupation outside the Sudan Embassy. He moved to direct confrontation of U.S. self destructive acts of Empire last October with a 7/24 occupation on Capitol Hill against the bombing of Iran (<http://startlovingusforcesiraniraq.blogspot.com/>http://StartLovingUSForcesIranIraq.blogspot.com) .
Most recently Loving has been supporting the 27+ year Peace Vigil in Lafayette Park (<http://prop1.org/>http://prop1.org) in for the furtherance of Proposition One (HRxxxx) as proposed by Eleanor Holmes Norton each year since 1993. First passed in DC in DC election 1991 (prop1.org for details).
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Note: Plan B 3.0, Lester Brown is online, free at http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB3/index.htm
Additional Detail at Mr. Loving's YouTube site: <http://youtube.com/StartLoving1>http://youtube.com/StartLoving1 and <http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/>http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com .
Addional press contact: Ellen Thomas, 202-682-4282 Proposition One <http://prop1.org/>http://prop1.org
Start Loving email: Start_Loving@yahoo.com
Day 17: Ellen, the lone partner in this campaign to save humanity
Ellen,
Some thoughts are in my mind regarding your behavior and I think I should share them.
Many, many people know of the campaign I am surrendered to. Millions know of, and talk enlessly about the threat (Plan B 3.0, Prop1) know of the global threat I am committed to fight with all of my being.
I know of one person besides myself that will actively even approach committing to fight this threat - you. I am awed at your courage, and your humanity. You make me think of the parable of the two sons - one of whom says "no" dad, I will not do what you ask, but does; and the other son that says "SURE" dad, and does not. You being the former, not necessarily enthusiastic or pleased, but... then, you just do what our Father would want - bringing water, sending out a press release, physically dragging the vigiler to safety out of 60 mph winds, wifi, replenishment of electrical power.......
You also make me think of Jesus Mother, Mary. I never got the idea that Mary was very pleased with what Jesus was doing, she didn't understand fully, she didn't agree... But I DO have the sense that still, if not happily, she kept supporting Jesus work. She was always "there" for it.
With tears of amazement, Your brother,
Some thoughts are in my mind regarding your behavior and I think I should share them.
Many, many people know of the campaign I am surrendered to. Millions know of, and talk enlessly about the threat (Plan B 3.0, Prop1) know of the global threat I am committed to fight with all of my being.
I know of one person besides myself that will actively even approach committing to fight this threat - you. I am awed at your courage, and your humanity. You make me think of the parable of the two sons - one of whom says "no" dad, I will not do what you ask, but does; and the other son that says "SURE" dad, and does not. You being the former, not necessarily enthusiastic or pleased, but... then, you just do what our Father would want - bringing water, sending out a press release, physically dragging the vigiler to safety out of 60 mph winds, wifi, replenishment of electrical power.......
You also make me think of Jesus Mother, Mary. I never got the idea that Mary was very pleased with what Jesus was doing, she didn't understand fully, she didn't agree... But I DO have the sense that still, if not happily, she kept supporting Jesus work. She was always "there" for it.
1.02.2009
Day 16 Occupation / Hunger Strike continues
ZERO support from anyone, in any way EXCEPT Ellen, Steve and Troy. :-)
Jesus didn't have any support either while he was alive.
I do NOT take the lack of support / participation personally. Why? No one is acting with the heroism called for by these times in ANY campaign.
If he or she is moving you are observing a blood sucking zombie, in all likelihood. This is a graveyard.
Why do I continue?
Jesus didn't have any support either while he was alive.
I do NOT take the lack of support / participation personally. Why? No one is acting with the heroism called for by these times in ANY campaign.
If he or she is moving you are observing a blood sucking zombie, in all likelihood. This is a graveyard.
Why do I continue?
- God knows what will happen. I am not God.
- Doing what needs to be done feels superior to any alternative - awesome! Life itself.
- Future survivors need examples.
- Current survivors need examples.
CREATIVE TENSION = GOD = LIFE = LOVE = TRUTH
Dr. King's concept of creative tension - the source of all motive power for significant change - honest embrace of the Reality of how things are AND how they could / should be.
This is God - conscience - Life - Love - Truth. THIS is what characterizes Jesus, King, Gandhi...
This, creative tension is what animates my life.
Creative Tension BEGETS Creative Tension IF ANYTHING will. Without it only evil is possible.
This is God - conscience - Life - Love - Truth. THIS is what characterizes Jesus, King, Gandhi...
This, creative tension is what animates my life.
Creative Tension BEGETS Creative Tension IF ANYTHING will. Without it only evil is possible.
1.01.2009
Retaking the Hill. Hunger Strike Day #14
Bye. I'm off to the Hill.
ps: Have you gotten word to Kucinich yet that I'm out there in support of his PeaceForce efforts - and will remain on Hunger Strike, 7/24 Occupation of the Hill until he comes out to tell me the $200B shift from War-making to Peace-building is "in the bag?"
ps: Have you gotten word to Kucinich yet that I'm out there in support of his PeaceForce efforts - and will remain on Hunger Strike, 7/24 Occupation of the Hill until he comes out to tell me the $200B shift from War-making to Peace-building is "in the bag?"
12.31.2008
60MPH GUSTS BLOW ME OFF HILL FOR THE NIGHT
Having dragged my stuff the 50 blocks or so to retake the Hill early this morning, surviving the cold and the 60 mph wind gusts; at about 7pm I was setting up "camp" for the night, not quite sure what was going to survive that wind by morning, when beep beep beep... my guardian angel Elen was there in the car. "Hi," I said. "Get in," was the response. "Hmmmm...." I said. "GET IN!!!!!" was the command.
Precious equipment, signs, etc was getting destroyed / blown away. Can't really afford that.
This is pretty extreme weather for DC.
I expect to be back to Retake the Hill 7/24 tomorrow morning.
Precious equipment, signs, etc was getting destroyed / blown away. Can't really afford that.
This is pretty extreme weather for DC.
I expect to be back to Retake the Hill 7/24 tomorrow morning.
WEDNESDAY 12/31 RETAKING THE HILL 7/24
Hunger Strike Day 13.
Independence Avenue, north west corner are of the Cannon House Office Building.
For those of you who join some thoughts:
Independence Avenue, north west corner are of the Cannon House Office Building.
For those of you who join some thoughts:
- FAR AND AWAY the most difficult part is NEVER being able lay prone 7 /24. Call Bev at Relax The Back Store in Wilmington DE and she will cut you the best price she can, and express out to you (your cost) most of the following: 2 Cascade Camp seat cushions, 1 Roho seat cushion, 1 Obus High Back. Get the $20 Mtn Chair from Eastern Mtn Sports. I don't see how you can make it with less than these.
- COLD. You DO seem to be able to have sleeping bag. Have as warm a one as you can for day and night use.
- WET. This is a huge potential enemy. Rain pants, umbarella, 6 INDUSTRIAL SIZE - STRENGTH GARBAGE BAGS. EMS / REI have "emergency blankets / space blankets" of the medium strength variety, like a tarp. I duct-tape on into a mummy bag for my sleeping bag lower to go into for dryness, and the other I arrange over my upper for overnight vigil in rain.
- In many months there I've not been arrested and only rarely hassled. Maintining the Vigil in all regards including apperance is key. Most of the officers are extremely respectful of genuine courage.
- Even with hundreds of us, this is not a social event, it is war, waging love to save civilization - 7/24.
- Reading / listening to appropriate material is necessary for sanity and "the work." "Learn as though you were going to live forever." I have an extensive mp3 audio book library to share.
- NATURE CALLS: By the time you join Congress is likely to be in session which means 7-7 restroom is available. Otherwise, NOT. NOT weekends. Think bottles.
- Remember, we are an army and need to maintain decorum.
- No public wifi. No public AC.
- Little or no support.
- ... you know, like every revolutinary force in history - fighting from the trenches. WHEN HISTORY IS CHANGED, IT IS FROM THE TRENCHES. "If you love the poor, you will share their fate." Oscar Romero.
12.30.2008
I AM DYING FOR YOU TO SEE THESE. What else can I say? What else can I do?
Hunger Strike Day 13.
Hmmm. I am dying for you to study the following, and its companion - IMMEDIATELY. What else can I say?
Do I need to know? I need to SHARE. These:
There IS no February 2, 2009. Returning to 24/7 Occupation of Capitol Hill 12/31/08 A.M.
Hmmm. I am dying for you to study the following, and its companion - IMMEDIATELY. What else can I say?
Do I need to know? I need to SHARE. These:
- PLAN B: 30 DAYS LEFT TO DEFLECT THE "METEOR." BET YOUR LIFE. 8
- PLAN B: "WARTIME" MOBILIZATION TO SAVE CIVILIZATION
- IGNORING DR. MLKs PRESCRIPTION U.S. DOA 1-20-09. 30 DAYS...
There IS no February 2, 2009. Returning to 24/7 Occupation of Capitol Hill 12/31/08 A.M.
TUESDAY MORNING UPDATE
Computer work likely to keep me off-site until Wednesday A.M. at which point, FINALLY I expect to return to 7/24 occupation on the Hill, preparing for return of Congress next week.
Working through the night project completion is finally within sight, it would seem, on 3 of 4 projects.
Three video projects, two major seem to be completed and uploading!
The final project, yet to begun should be quite manageable.
This is the final great battle for Humanity. With or without comrades I'll fight it to the finish.
Working through the night project completion is finally within sight, it would seem, on 3 of 4 projects.
Three video projects, two major seem to be completed and uploading!
The final project, yet to begun should be quite manageable.
This is the final great battle for Humanity. With or without comrades I'll fight it to the finish.
Dr. King was mistaken.
THE NEXT 30 DAYS ARE THE MOST
CONSEQUENTIAL IN HUMAN HISTORY.
TODAY is the time to be alive.
Thank you God.
THE NEXT 30 DAYS ARE THE MOST
CONSEQUENTIAL IN HUMAN HISTORY.
TODAY is the time to be alive.
Thank you God.
GOD = REALITY. PERIOD. (The Reality of what best advances, perfects the epigenetically determined wellbeing of the species.)
King, Gandhi, Jesus... were the great Visionaries, the great seer's, the great DEVOTES of Reality, which typically is called Truth as associated with them.
The Church, Science, Capitalism, Corporatism - any and all INSTITUTIONS, being INhuman seek to indoctrinate, to addict us to "their" tRUTH, that is to draw us AWAY from God, AWAY from Reality.
This was an invaluable leap forward in clarity for me last week.
The Church, Science, Capitalism, Corporatism - any and all INSTITUTIONS, being INhuman seek to indoctrinate, to addict us to "their" tRUTH, that is to draw us AWAY from God, AWAY from Reality.
This was an invaluable leap forward in clarity for me last week.
12.29.2008
MON. EVE: MAJOR TECH PROBLEMS.
Return to the Hill delayed another day.
Plan B 3.0 now available, free not only PDF but NOW online in AUDIO (CORRECTED / CHANGED from earlier today):
Although I expect to work through the night, Wednesday morning looks like the time of return to the Hill for the 24/7 occupation.
Plan B 3.0 now available, free not only PDF but NOW online in AUDIO (CORRECTED / CHANGED from earlier today):
Although I expect to work through the night, Wednesday morning looks like the time of return to the Hill for the 24/7 occupation.
CAMPAIGN 1 MORE DAY OFF THE HILL - COMPUTER WORK
Work is keeping me off the Hill one more day, but still on the Hunger Strike.
Tremendous technical problems, but worth fighting through.
God (Reality!) willing, by the time I return to the Hill:
Tremendous technical problems, but worth fighting through.
God (Reality!) willing, by the time I return to the Hill:
- Plan B 3.0 chapters 1 and 13 will be on YouTube.
- Complete audio-book version of Plan B 3.0 will be available online to listen via mp3/Ipod
- MLK's final warning to us, "A time to break the silence" speech from Riverside Church for which our handlers shot him one year later will be edited and ready for us to blast on the Hill for when Congress returns next week. " A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
12.28.2008
Hunger Strike / Hill Occupation Day 11: Off the Hill 2 days to Communicate this to you
"GIVE ME MILITARY MEN TO WORK WITH ANY DAY.DO NOT GIVE ME COWARDS."
Gandhi (paraphrase)
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Would you risk your life to prevent this (photo at left)? Would you sacrifice your life to prevent this? Of course you would. I AM. THAT IS WHAT THIS HUNGER STRIKE IS ABOUT. YOU JUST DON'T SEE THE IMMINENT END OF CIVILIZATION, AND I DO. (If you "see," and you do not "do," you do not "see.")Don't feel bad about not seeing it. My entire adult career / training / passion / expertise / commitment was seeing large scale calamity months, years or decades before others - in time to starve it off - saving organizations in the computer industry which I did with some regular success. My whole life, on important matters, I simply "see" many, many times further than others. Simply a gift I've received, I use, and I die to share.
We've got about 30 days; NO MORE. By February 1st it will be too late for you, or me, or anyone to prevent it. No, not a civilization extinction from space. The planetary holocaust weeks away from irreversible certainty is man made - you and I made it.
And if it is going to be prevented, you and I have to do it, TODAY - BEFORE THE MILITARY - CORPORATE - INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS FORCE OBAMA INTO A "THEIR" AGENDA, "THEIR" BUDGET, "THEIR" PLAN. IT WILL THEN BE YEARS BEFORE A MAJOR COURSE CHANGE COULD HAPPEN, IF EVER - AND THAT IS YEARS TOO LATE. TODAY Obama is at the height of his political capital. TODAY the US Citizens are at the height of their readiness to participate. These stars, aligned today will be out of alignment by Feb 1.
On the Hill (so I was already totally committed, day 6 of the Huger Strike) on Christmas, I began a book I suspected was essential for me to read. Although obvously I could see why it was time to lay our lives on the line, I had no hope of effectively communicating to you "why," that we were facing calamity worth sacrificing our lives for, let alone communicating to you why it had to be TODAY, NOT TOMORROW. My only opportunity was to do my part in showing you "that" we were facing calamity worth sacrificing our lives for by doing so myself. "Example is NOT the major thing in influencing people. Example is the ONLY thing." Albert Schweiter.Whereas this is the most important quote for this time, this place, and this crisis; explanation, clarity, vision, information does have a place as well. By December 26th as I completed my first reading of the book, on the Hill, I realized that the book I was reading was that vision, information Divinely articulated, impeccably researched and miraculously substantiated....
In finishing my 2nd reading today I realized the imperative of getting to a computer and:
- getting this initial alert to you, and
- creating a more extensive tool to get this information available to people, which I'll hope to complete by tomorrow or Tuesday so I can return to the Hill. The Hunger Strike continues, although to clear my head for this computer work I am taking juice tonight and probably tomorrow for which I expect to subtract one or two days from the Hunger Strike count.
unimportant. We are facing the imminent extinction of Human Civilization, and if by the time you finish this email and the first two (1 and 2 below) "need to do's" below, you still don't "get" that, go find your child, niece, nephew or grandchild and kiss their ass goodbye.What you need to do:
- Read chapter 13 of Plan B 3.0 NOW - free, online here at the Earth Policy Institute:
The Great Mobilization (pdf)
Introduction
Shifting Taxes and Subsidies
Summing Up Climate Stabilization Measures
A Reponse to Failing States
A Wartime Mobilization
Mobilizing to Save Civilization
!!!! Ignore the last section, "What you can do" unless you like masturbating - it is too late for his recommendations written months ago. Feb 1 or die. - Digest, consume the entire book cover to cover. Do it now. Better do it on an empty stomach - it is utterly horrifying - and it can save the life of all your progeny AS NOTHING ELSE CAN.
Table of Contents - NOTE: IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN MP3 PLAYER - GO GET ONE. BY MONDAY OR TUESDAY DOWNLOAD AN AUDIO-BOOK VERSION OF PLAN B 3.0 HERE OR HERE (CHANGED MON. NITE!!!). "READ" IT DURING YOUR COMMUTE TIME, LAUNDRY TIME....
- Join this Hunger Strike / Hill occupation - details here (scan around the last few week's posts (mostly one-liners)). Do it NOW. Check this site in another day or so regarding details - what you'll need, what to expect....
- GET OTHERS to join the Hunger Strike / Hill occupation. Do it now. Why Hunger Strike, and nothing else, nothing less? BUNKER BUSTER NON-VIOLENT ACTION: THE DIFINITIVE ESSAY, by Thick Nhat Hanh
- MAKE SURE THAT KUCINICH KNOWS (and unless YOU'VE gotten word to him - HE DOES NOT) THAT THE HUNGER STRIKE / OCCUPATION BEGAN 12/19 AND WILL NOT END UNTIL:
A. THE HUNGER STRIKER(S) EXPIRE, OR
B. HE COMES OUT TO TELL US THAT THE $200B SHIFT FROM WAR-MAKING TO PEACE-BUILDING IS "IN THE BAG."
Kucinich is NOT the TARGET of this campaign. Kucinich can be the/a HERO, THE CHAMPION in this campaign! HE is the one that has been calling for a Department of Peace. HE is the unimpeachable, COURAGEOUS patriot on the Hill. THIS CAMPAIGN, IF SOMEONE GETS IT TO HIS ATTENTION IN TIME, can give him the empowerment he, AND OBAMA DESPERATELY NEED AND WANT!!!!! Remember how FDR said to Sidney Hillman the Labor Leader? "Sidney I agree with everything in your proposal, it is all exactly right, now you just go back home and make me do it." If Obama tries to shift $200B from WarMaking to PeaceBuilding, WITHOUT IT COMING FROM PUBLIC PRESSURE, his administration is DEAD ON ARRIVAL. Obama knows this. BUT IF THE $200B SHIFT DOES NOT HAPPEN THEN ALL WE HAVE IS ANOTHER "ENRON," ANOTHER "MORTGAGE CRISIS," A CERTAIN IMPLOSION OF "ILLUSORY," "FAUX" GOOD WORKS BUILT ON SAND, FUNNY-MONEY, A HOUSE OF CARDS. "FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU, FOOL ME FOR A 9TH YEAR!?!?!?!?!?" - Check this site over the next few days for information about how to join the hunger strike, etc., clarification and elaboration of the themes of this email....
There is no Feb. 2nd.
"Some people make things happen, some people watch things happen, some people say what the f*ck happened."
If you value your child's, niece's or grandchild's ass.....
12.22.2008
Start's Prop 1 Park Vigil ends, Prop 1 FAST TO THE "END" ON CAPITOL HILL COMMENCES.
For more, SCAN what now are my main and only sites:
Or, go right to these posts:
12.21.2008
PROPOSITION ONE (PROP 1), OUR LAST BATTLE AGAINST SPECIES aRMAGEDDON - PROP1 IS WHAT I DEMAND. THAT IS WHAT I AM WAGING MY LIFE FOR.
The name does not matter. It must not be said that the campaign I am joining (scroll down main page for details) is for Prop 1. Why? Because I don't care what it is called, and neither should anyone else. Substance is what we must demand.
HOWEVER, the essence of what I am committing everything to now is wonderfully represented in Proposition One, a Bill taken in the House of Representatives EVERY YEAR by Eleanor Homes Norton for the last decade!!!!
HOWEVER, the essence of what I am committing everything to now is wonderfully represented in Proposition One, a Bill taken in the House of Representatives EVERY YEAR by Eleanor Homes Norton for the last decade!!!!
Click here for details:
Hunger Strike begun at 12:01 AM Dec. 18th
Hello.
The Hunger Strike (scroll down for details; water if provided and vitamins) to bring about the immediate shift of $200 BILLION FROM WARMAKING TO PEACEBUILDING began at 12:01 AM December 18th, one week before the birthday of my #1 hero and Gandhi's and ML King Jr's - Jesus. Racing to get on the Hill by MONDAY morning. We are out of time. Forgive my silence up until now. Causing this immediate $200 Billion SHIFT, NOW, demands all my attention; ALL OUR ATTENTION. Any questions you have will have to be addressed at this site or youtube: StartLoving1. The time for "talking" is passed. LONG passed. We KNOW what to do, and we're going to die avoiding it. If The Great Turning is going to happen for all but the survivors, WE ARE GOING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN NOW BY BRINGING ABOUT THE "SHIFT." There is no February 09.
This is already my most difficult hunger strike as the previous ones have sapped much of my physical and emotional strength, and every day of my journey these last 3 years it has become more clear, and more disheartening, how beyond redemption we 2009 humans have become. "Oh you twisted and faithless [Humanity-less] generation. How long must I bear with you?" Matt 17:17. This country is a graveyard, filled with walking dead; vampire zombies. But those few that survive in future generations must have their legends - that a few DID try to Live for them. peaceandnonviolence.blogspot.com/2007/03/is-there-anything-individual-can-still.html I expect to be in an emotional and physical "cave" until either Dennis Kucinich informs me that the "Shift" is "going to happen," or my body gives out. No, he knows nothing of this, unless you have gotten word to him. I expect from time to time I will record insights and thoughts at http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com if the charging of my batteries is accomplished by someone, and I am supplied with water, and waste water removal. Physically I am in final preparations away from the Hill until Christmas Eve morning (now Monday morning, tomorrow. No time to wait) at which point I expect to remain on the Hill 24/7 until either of the two eventualities mentioned above.
The Hunger Strike (scroll down for details; water if provided and vitamins) to bring about the immediate shift of $200 BILLION FROM WARMAKING TO PEACEBUILDING began at 12:01 AM December 18th, one week before the birthday of my #1 hero and Gandhi's and ML King Jr's - Jesus. Racing to get on the Hill by MONDAY morning. We are out of time. Forgive my silence up until now. Causing this immediate $200 Billion SHIFT, NOW, demands all my attention; ALL OUR ATTENTION. Any questions you have will have to be addressed at this site or youtube: StartLoving1. The time for "talking" is passed. LONG passed. We KNOW what to do, and we're going to die avoiding it. If The Great Turning is going to happen for all but the survivors, WE ARE GOING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN NOW BY BRINGING ABOUT THE "SHIFT." There is no February 09.
This is already my most difficult hunger strike as the previous ones have sapped much of my physical and emotional strength, and every day of my journey these last 3 years it has become more clear, and more disheartening, how beyond redemption we 2009 humans have become. "Oh you twisted and faithless [Humanity-less] generation. How long must I bear with you?" Matt 17:17. This country is a graveyard, filled with walking dead; vampire zombies. But those few that survive in future generations must have their legends - that a few DID try to Live for them. peaceandnonviolence.blogspot.com/2007/03/is-there-anything-individual-can-still.html I expect to be in an emotional and physical "cave" until either Dennis Kucinich informs me that the "Shift" is "going to happen," or my body gives out. No, he knows nothing of this, unless you have gotten word to him. I expect from time to time I will record insights and thoughts at http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com if the charging of my batteries is accomplished by someone, and I am supplied with water, and waste water removal. Physically I am in final preparations away from the Hill until Christmas Eve morning (now Monday morning, tomorrow. No time to wait) at which point I expect to remain on the Hill 24/7 until either of the two eventualities mentioned above.
ChristianiZm, ActiviZm, VoyeuriSm
Like Christianizm, in my years of searching I've not found a ChurZh OR an Activizm Group THAT IS OTHER THAN A SOCIAL CLUB WITH A THIN VENEER OF TRUTH, COMMITMENT, WISDOM, HONESTY, UNIVERSAL LOVE. THEY ARE JUST ANOTHER BRAND OF THE EMPIRE, GREED, SELFISHNESS CULTURE.
Now, I hold out some hope for those working intimately with Vandana Shiva, that THEY may be True Activists, the True opposition to the armies of destruction, but I have insufficient information so far to know. Maybe Teresa of Caltutta's group, some of them is the real deal, the real opposition. A small subsegment of IVAW seems "real," and a small subsegment of CODE PINK IS REAL - (LIZ, DIANE, ANN YOU ARE OUR SHEROES!!!)
It hit me within recent days that the groups here in DC associated with Activizm are either significantly infiltrated by anti-Democracy government agents, or this infiltration has NOT happened because the bumbs, neredowells, delusionals, incompetents, slackers, slugs and hasbins (all my brothers and sisters whose Life I am giving mine for) ... that fill the ranks of these groups are already serving the purpose that the FBI, CIA, NSA... would otherwise have had to infiltrate!!! I have never been more serious, better informed, or objective. My God, how did it take me 4 years to see this clearly.
There are no more than 5 that would have made it among the 1000's of high performing, high output, HUMANE, COMPASSIONATE, "GOOD" employees and associates I've had over the years in industry. Appalling lack of discipline, courage, focus, honesty, compassion, pride, humanity, sense of urgency, stamina, truthfulness, trustworthiness, follow through, RESPONSIBILITY, INITIATIVE, GENEROSITY, ALIVENESS.....
Activizm is where you go when you want to be a bumb, and feel good about yourself. OR to sanitize your wretched, middleclass overprivelege, and for some reason Church will not do for you.
THERE IS NO PEACE MOVEMENT, just like THERE IS NO CHURCH.
THERE IS NO ARMY WAGING LIFE.
There IS an army of darkness - the Corporate - Military - Industrial Complex of which virtually all my fellow Americans WAGE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION FOR, one way or another.
"There is nothing so dangerous as
evil in the guise of virtue."
ML King, Jr.
evil in the guise of virtue."
ML King, Jr.
Now, I hold out some hope for those working intimately with Vandana Shiva, that THEY may be True Activists, the True opposition to the armies of destruction, but I have insufficient information so far to know. Maybe Teresa of Caltutta's group, some of them is the real deal, the real opposition. A small subsegment of IVAW seems "real," and a small subsegment of CODE PINK IS REAL - (LIZ, DIANE, ANN YOU ARE OUR SHEROES!!!)
It hit me within recent days that the groups here in DC associated with Activizm are either significantly infiltrated by anti-Democracy government agents, or this infiltration has NOT happened because the bumbs, neredowells, delusionals, incompetents, slackers, slugs and hasbins (all my brothers and sisters whose Life I am giving mine for) ... that fill the ranks of these groups are already serving the purpose that the FBI, CIA, NSA... would otherwise have had to infiltrate!!! I have never been more serious, better informed, or objective. My God, how did it take me 4 years to see this clearly.
There are no more than 5 that would have made it among the 1000's of high performing, high output, HUMANE, COMPASSIONATE, "GOOD" employees and associates I've had over the years in industry. Appalling lack of discipline, courage, focus, honesty, compassion, pride, humanity, sense of urgency, stamina, truthfulness, trustworthiness, follow through, RESPONSIBILITY, INITIATIVE, GENEROSITY, ALIVENESS.....
Activizm is where you go when you want to be a bumb, and feel good about yourself. OR to sanitize your wretched, middleclass overprivelege, and for some reason Church will not do for you.
THERE IS NO PEACE MOVEMENT, just like THERE IS NO CHURCH.
THERE IS NO ARMY WAGING LIFE.
There IS an army of darkness - the Corporate - Military - Industrial Complex of which virtually all my fellow Americans WAGE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION FOR, one way or another.
MY POINT IS NOT TO CONDEMN.
MY POINT IS TO WARN US ALL.
IT IS NOT TOO LATE.
THERE ARE STILL SECONDS ON THE CLOCK.
MY POINT IS TO WARN US ALL.
IT IS NOT TOO LATE.
THERE ARE STILL SECONDS ON THE CLOCK.
12.20.2008
"BUNKER BUSTER" NONVIOLENT ACTION: THE DEFINITIVE ESSAY
THE DEFINITIVE ARTICLE ON "BUNKER BUSTER" NONVIOLENT ACTION:
LOVE IN ACTION - THE ULTIMATE WEAPON
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Gandhi (paraphrase):
"What do I mean by "nonviolence?"
I mean by nonviolence the Love of a Mother for her Child.
I would have called it that but the word Love
has been corrupted beyond redemption."
"Love cannot remain passive
in the face of suffering."
Teresa of Calcutta
"If you love the poor
you WILL share their fate."
Oscar Romero
"Love is Universal
or it is not Love."
Start Loving
Is there anything an
individual can still do?
Franz Jagerstatter
"What do I mean by "nonviolence?"
I mean by nonviolence the Love of a Mother for her Child.
I would have called it that but the word Love
has been corrupted beyond redemption."
"Love cannot remain passive
in the face of suffering."
Teresa of Calcutta
"If you love the poor
you WILL share their fate."
Oscar Romero
"Love is Universal
or it is not Love."
Start Loving
Is there anything an
individual can still do?
Franz Jagerstatter
12.19.2008
SPIRITUAL DEATH: "A COUNTRY THAT SPENDS MORE ON THE MILITARY...
"A COUNTRY THAT SPENDS
MORE ON THE MILITARY
THAN IT SPENDS ON SOCIAL UPLIFT,
IS APPROACHING SPIRITUAL DEATH."
The U.S. Budget is the only
place, the only "real" place that
"Obama's" change, the only place
that the U.S. people's change,
and the only place the world's change
can take place.
Anything and everything else
is simply a mirage,
and our loved ones are almost dead
of thirst.
MORE ON THE MILITARY
THAN IT SPENDS ON SOCIAL UPLIFT,
IS APPROACHING SPIRITUAL DEATH."
The U.S. Budget is the only
place, the only "real" place that
"Obama's" change, the only place
that the U.S. people's change,
and the only place the world's change
can take place.
Anything and everything else
is simply a mirage,
and our loved ones are almost dead
of thirst.
12.18.2008
12.17.2008
ALL CURRENT AND ONGOING "PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISM" IS NO MORE THAN STRAIGHTENING THE DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC
[...with a few notable exceptions including Diane Wilson, Liz Hourican, Col. Ann Wright, Vandana Shiva, Amy Goodman (before being "Institutionalized"), Rick Hohensee...]
PROGRESSIVES / CITIZENS / PATRIOTS
NEED TO OCCUPY THE WHEELHOUSE (DC),
FORCE INDUSTRY (SPEC INTERESTS)
OUT OF THE WAY TO
PROTECT THE CAPTAIN
(PRES. OBAMA) FROM
THE CORPORATIONS,
DRAMATICALLY
!!!!SHIFTING FUNDING!!!!
AWAY FROM WAR-MAKING
TO PEACE-BUILDING.
FOREVER.
NOW.
OR NEVER.
PROGRESSIVES / CITIZENS / PATRIOTS
NEED TO OCCUPY THE WHEELHOUSE (DC),
FORCE INDUSTRY (SPEC INTERESTS)
OUT OF THE WAY TO
PROTECT THE CAPTAIN
(PRES. OBAMA) FROM
THE CORPORATIONS,
DRAMATICALLY
!!!!SHIFTING FUNDING!!!!
AWAY FROM WAR-MAKING
TO PEACE-BUILDING.
FOREVER.
NOW.
OR NEVER.
CHRISTMAS EVE TO-DEATH-OR-TO-KUCINICH HUNGER STRIKE. CUT WARMAKING, FUND PEACEMAKING $200 BILN. TO END WHEN KUCINICH SAYS "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED."
I expect to stop when Dennis Kucinich (I trust him) comes out to tell me it has been arranged, or when it is time to meet our Maker. This, the battle of the purse, the battle for ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY is the unfinished business of the American Revolution. It is now, or it is NEVER. This is the final great battle for Humane Existence. How could I have been so slow in seeing it. This is the battle worth living for, and if necessary, dying for. We owe it to those alive today, and even if we fail, we owe it to the few survivors generations hence. Let it not be said that no one put it ALL on the line in this ultimate Planetary Emergency.
THERE IS NO FEBRUARY 09. IT IS NOW OR NEVER. THE SHIP IS STEAMING OUT OF THE HARBOR AND WITHIN DAYS WILL HAVE LOCKED IN COURSE AND SPEED. UNLESS WE ACT TODAY IT IS "TITANIC" ALL OVER AGAIN; FOR THE LAST TIME.
Total Fast is expected to begin on Christmas Eve by noon Capitol Hill at the northwest corner of the Cannon House Office Building, round the clock, 7 days per week. It is imperative that millions of us take up this Vigil / Occupation / Fast immediately, or the equivalent. The Species, and the Ship we inhabit is exactly at the edge of the cliff, on its way over. We have this one, perfect chance for Salvation. Miss it, as we are likely to do, and all is lost.
The stars are miraculously aligned. The country's most promising president in history, but the President CANNOT LEAD US OUT OF THIS. To make the attempt WILL be immediate political castration.
ONLY WE THE PEOPLE CAN LEAD ON THIS DRAMATIC SHIFT OF FUNDS FROM DEFENSE TO OFFENSE, and Obama will brilliantly guide, facilitate and enable our leadership. This is political reality. You know it.
MONEY TALKS; ONLY MONEY, ULTIMATELY TALKS. Only a fundamental $200 BILLION shift in the budget will cause the rhetoric of this historic Obama campaign to become reality, and only a dramatic shift in budget from War to PeaceBuilding NOW will constitute such a commensurate, meaningful budget shift. NOTHING ELSE, NOTHING LESS WILL DO IT. EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON THIS. THIS IS A DEATH AND LIFE STRUGGLE. THE MI COMPLEX WILL FIGHT THIS TO THE DEATH. SO MUST WE-THE-PEOPLE. AND WE WOULD WIN.
These two, brief, under 2 min videos are essential for understanding this action:
Under ideal conditions a hunger strike is dangerous. 7/24 in the elements in DC adds considerable risk, but with the entire fate of Humanity hinging on the next 30 days nothing less is acceptable from me.
If you are ready to join, great! Let's talk.
If you wish to help that could mean the difference between me being carted away with brain damage, terminating the campaign prematurely. The most crucial support needed is bringing water in bottles periodically, and at the same time taking away bottles I've filled. Yup. Also, I expect to have a large battery so I can have some time online, and that will need to be taken and charged, and returned. Troy at the Washington Peace House, 202 682 4282 can fill you in and put you on a schedule (that currently is, well, blank). If Troy is not there, ask for Steve, Ellen, or leave a message.
Now, today, is the time to turn America from WarMaker to PeaceBuilder. Tomorrow is too late, and ALL will be lost.
THERE IS NO FEBRUARY 09. IT IS NOW OR NEVER. THE SHIP IS STEAMING OUT OF THE HARBOR AND WITHIN DAYS WILL HAVE LOCKED IN COURSE AND SPEED. UNLESS WE ACT TODAY IT IS "TITANIC" ALL OVER AGAIN; FOR THE LAST TIME.
Total Fast is expected to begin on Christmas Eve by noon Capitol Hill at the northwest corner of the Cannon House Office Building, round the clock, 7 days per week. It is imperative that millions of us take up this Vigil / Occupation / Fast immediately, or the equivalent. The Species, and the Ship we inhabit is exactly at the edge of the cliff, on its way over. We have this one, perfect chance for Salvation. Miss it, as we are likely to do, and all is lost.
The stars are miraculously aligned. The country's most promising president in history, but the President CANNOT LEAD US OUT OF THIS. To make the attempt WILL be immediate political castration.
ONLY WE THE PEOPLE CAN LEAD ON THIS DRAMATIC SHIFT OF FUNDS FROM DEFENSE TO OFFENSE, and Obama will brilliantly guide, facilitate and enable our leadership. This is political reality. You know it.
MONEY TALKS; ONLY MONEY, ULTIMATELY TALKS. Only a fundamental $200 BILLION shift in the budget will cause the rhetoric of this historic Obama campaign to become reality, and only a dramatic shift in budget from War to PeaceBuilding NOW will constitute such a commensurate, meaningful budget shift. NOTHING ELSE, NOTHING LESS WILL DO IT. EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON THIS. THIS IS A DEATH AND LIFE STRUGGLE. THE MI COMPLEX WILL FIGHT THIS TO THE DEATH. SO MUST WE-THE-PEOPLE. AND WE WOULD WIN.
These two, brief, under 2 min videos are essential for understanding this action:
Under ideal conditions a hunger strike is dangerous. 7/24 in the elements in DC adds considerable risk, but with the entire fate of Humanity hinging on the next 30 days nothing less is acceptable from me.
If you are ready to join, great! Let's talk.
If you wish to help that could mean the difference between me being carted away with brain damage, terminating the campaign prematurely. The most crucial support needed is bringing water in bottles periodically, and at the same time taking away bottles I've filled. Yup. Also, I expect to have a large battery so I can have some time online, and that will need to be taken and charged, and returned. Troy at the Washington Peace House, 202 682 4282 can fill you in and put you on a schedule (that currently is, well, blank). If Troy is not there, ask for Steve, Ellen, or leave a message.
Now, today, is the time to turn America from WarMaker to PeaceBuilder. Tomorrow is too late, and ALL will be lost.
INDISPENSIBLE. URGENT.
For 1/09, this most consequential of all months for humanity, the end, or the beginning (no 3rd option) there are two books that are indispensable:
- "People's History of the United States," Howard Zinn, for seeing the true face and substance of America.
- "The Great Turning," David Korten. This guy is blind emotionally, but intellectually he is brilliant and this book is an indispensable analysis of where we are and where we need to go. I IMPLORE YOU TO GET IT, READ IT, MASTER IT, AND TAKE US BEYOND. I am in the process myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKtdNjC0j5g
GOD IS TRUTH. GOD IS NOT THE BIBLE. DUH.
"The Kingdom of God is within you.
Be like a child and enter in."
Be like a child and enter in."
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