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8.01.2011
Israel's Blockade of Gaza: A Twenty-year-old Injustice www.huffingtonpost.com
www.huffingtonpost.com
A tremendous majority of those talking about the Gaza Strip blockade use 2007 as the start-date, unintentionally lending legitimacy to Israel's cause and effect explanation, an argument that pegs the closure to political events.
MUST READ - A Father's Search for a Drug for Down Syndrome www.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com
A doctor’s quest to find a drug to change the way his Down-syndrome daughter lives.
Happy B'day Obama? Benjamin Netanhayu reportedly bows to Obama on borders - Elias Groll www.politico.com
www.politico.com
The Israeli prime minister has agreed to accept the 1967 borders as a starting point for peace talks.
Obama agrees to double fuel economy by 2025 autos.ctv.ca
autos.ctv.ca
U.S. President Barack Obama and automobile manufacturers announced a deal Friday that is designed to save American drivers money at the pump and dramatically cut heat-trapping gases coming from tailpipes.
The Associated Press: Defense facing cuts up to $850 billion over decade www.google.com
www.google.com
By DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press – 2 hours ago if (gbar.lPWF) { gbar.lPWF(function() { gapi.plusone.render('plusone-div', { "size" : "small", "count" : "true",
US debt crisis: Barack Obama looks like a winner www.telegraph.co.uk
www.telegraph.co.uk
The Republican Party seems guilty of delaying the debt deal, while the President has won the centre ground.
Barack Obama plays and wins presidential high-wire act, again www.theaustralian.com.au
www.theaustralian.com.au
BARACK Obama has proved yet again that he is a political high-wire artist who can pull off a deal at the last minute when his presidency is on the line.
TV report: Israel agrees to negotiate over pre-'67 lines www.msnbc.msn.com
www.msnbc.msn.com
In a dramatic policy shift, Israel's prime minister has agreed to negotiate the borders of a Palestinian state based on the cease-fire line that marks off the West Bank.
Joseph Romm - Denier, Tea Party Agent? Center for American Progress???
Here's the most recent evidence. From today's headline post on his blog ( Lame Deal Cements Cement Shoes on Energy and Climate Investment for Foreseeable Future ):
"If we judge by outcomes, then the Tea Party is now leading this country. The fact that it is leading us under-water is apparently of less interest to the president then his various governance “victories.”
"If we judge by outcomes, then the Tea Party is now leading this country. The fact that it is leading us under-water is apparently of less interest to the president then his various governance “victories.”
If you look up Pyrrhic Victory in the dictionary, there is a picture of Obama."
Mr. Romm is a bright guy, but he is counting on you being stupid, cuz anyone but a stupid person would see the grotesques asymmetry in his assertion:
* Tea Party (Army) vs Obama (ONE MAN STANDING ALONE, his 'Army,' the left AWOL)
See, if traitors like Romm, and the rest of the special interests, can keep the left OFF THE FIELD, AWOL, by diverting all their energy into totally impotent OBAMA BLAME, well the Oil Companies win, forever. Game is almost over. Just seconds left on the clock.
If Romm is indeed a knowing Denier / Tea Party agent - CALL HIM OUT!
If he's unwittingly doing it - CALL HIM UP - WAKE HIM UP.
Apple manufacturer to replace workforce with 1 million robots www.cnn.com
www.cnn.com
Foxconn, a company that manufacturers parts used in Apple's iPhone and iPad, said it aims to replace workers with 1 million robots in the next three years, Xinhuanet reports.
7.31.2011
DENY BABY, DENY - July heat in Washington was unprecedented www.washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com
July’s heat was unrivaled in 140 years of Washington, D.C., weather record-keeping.
ARE YOU GUNNA STOP THESE PSYCHOS? Debt ceiling talks have tea party ready for disappointment - and r www.politico.com
ARE YOU GUNNA STOP THESE PSYCHOS? Debt ceiling talks have tea party ready for disappointment - and r www.politico.comActivists are bracing for a letdown if the ultimate outcome of the debt ceiling battle is a deal.
ARE YOU GUNNA STOP THESE PSYCHOS? Debt ceiling talks have tea party ready for disappointment - and r
www.politico.comActivists are bracing for a letdown if the ultimate outcome of the debt ceiling battle is a deal.
Steve Milloy, Anti-Science Tobacco Apologist, Now Denies Coal Plant Pollution Kills People thinkprogress.org
thinkprogress.org
By Sam Parry, Director, Online Membership and Activism, EDF In a falsehood-filled Washington Times op-ed, Steve Milloy attacks the EPA and EDF for supporting tough new clean air standards for coal-fired power plants. Asking EPA to “show us the bodies,” Milloy questions public health estimates that t
WOW WOW WOW New moves to curb criticism of Israel in US and Canada www.globalresearch.ca
www.globalresearch.ca
A number of new initiatives to curtail freedom of speech by conflating opposition to Israeli crimes with anti-Semitism are underway in the United States and Canada.
Are We Prepared as World Population is Set to Breach 7 Billion Soon? www.ibtimes.com
www.ibtimes.com
The world population is expected to breach seven billion this year, which is more than twice the number of people lived on the earth just 50 years ago, according to recent projections by the United Nations. Is the world prepared for it?
Honduras Breaks Tradition, Will Recognize Palestine hondurasweekly.com
hondurasweekly.com
Honduras Weekly is a privately owned, independent Honduran newspaper without government connections (national or foreign) and soley responsible to its readers.
Education takes a beating nationwide www.latimes.com
www.latimes.com
After a particularly brutal budgeting season this summer, states and school districts across the country have fired thousands of teachers, raised college tuition, relaxed standards, slashed days off the academic calendar and gutted pre-kindergarten and summer school programs.
7.30.2011
URGENT - The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling www.theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com
You can be against deficits. You can be for preserving tax cuts. You cannot be for both -- logically, that is.
John McCain - 'Conservatives Lying to Americans, Bizarro.' Debt Crisis Ceiling www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com
Senator John McCain warned his Senate colleagues on Wednesday, "To hold out and say we won't agree to raising the debt limit to pass a Balanced Budget Amendm...
AP: Republicans are a noisy and effective protest movement, they are unfit for governing," said Rep. www.google.com
AP: Republicans are a noisy and effective protest movement, they are unfit for governing," said Rep.
www.google.comWASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans rode the tea party tiger to power last fall. Now it's turning on them, forcing party leaders to endure embarrassing delays and unwanted revisions to crucial debt-ceiling legislation.
GOP HOSTAGE TAKERS - Leader (sic) McConnel thehill.com thehill.com
thehill.com
After publicly praising Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Democratic leaders are now ripping him. Four days after publicly praising Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.
[SOCIAL DARWINISM, JESUS' IDEA, RIGHT?]Libertarian fanaticism and the debt limit - Other Views - Mia www.miamiherald.com
[SOCIAL DARWINISM, JESUS' IDEA, RIGHT?]Libertarian fanaticism and the debt limit - Other Views - Mia
www.miamiherald.comTo their credit, the Republican leadership in Congress wants fiscal discipline. Good point. The national deficit should be financed in sustainable ways. Main Street may be tired of legislative logjams, but it behooves the public to understand the issue.
On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth’s Radiant Energy Balan thinkprogress.org
On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth’s Radiant Energy Balan
thinkprogress.orgLong wrong climate science disinformer Roy Spencer has published another deeply flawed article. That ain’t news. What is news is that the deniers have a couple of new tricks up their sleeves. First, the disinformers have figured out they should focus on journals that don’t seem to have a very deep
D-15 'If you're not massively sacrificing you're not Loving' SL www.youtube.com
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http://www.youtube.com/user/StartLoving4#g/c/B539F17E459802AC
D-15 'If you're not massively sacrificing you're not Loving' SL - YouTube
It's a mystery to me how I can arrive at several months shy of 60 years old and only be just 'getting' something like this, understanding something like this. On the other hand it's what's driven me all my life. I believes there were things to understand that I was not learning elsewhere. and I had some sense I had to find out, for my own joy, and to execute my own responsibility as a human being. If you're not breathing, you're not living. If your heart's not beating, you're not living. If you're not drinking liquids you're not living. If a plant is not inhaling CO2 it's not photosynthesizing. It's not living.
If you're not massively sacrificing, you're not massively loving. Teresa of Calcutta has given the best definition of love that I've ever encountered. And I've studied it academically, love that is, more than anyone you'll ever meet. She said, and this is a slight paraphrase, 'love is that which cannot remain passive in the face of suffering. Love is that which does not remain passive in the face of suffering.' Trillions of dollars, quite possibly, a year are spent that totally obscure and pervert the word love, so it's understandable that neither I nor you still grasp what the word love means. And yes, what I'm saying is entirely disputable; have at it friend if that's what you wish to do. But if you wish to grasp the neurological, psychological truth; if you wish to understand, by infinite measure, the most sacred and promising and awarding of human capacities, that capacity which is distinct from all others, which for me, deserves the word Love, as opposed to all else which is in the category of lust, self-service.
Teresa is correct, love is that which cannot and does not remain passive in the face of suffering, real or potential. This is what explains Gandhi. This is what explains King. This is what explains, Eleanor Roosevelt, Diane Wilson, Col. Ann Wright, Oscar Romero, Phil Berrigan, Liz Hourican; all of those who have retained their full humanity and exercise it. If you are not consuming massive amounts of suffering, and sacrificing your selfish alternatives for the Joy of serving our neediest brothers and sisters, you are not loving. You are lusting. I did not just say one is superior to the other. That's for you to decide. But they are clinically, objectively opposite ways being.
This is a significant clarification for me. Suffering and sacrifice are words that have been troubling to me, and I didn't quite understand why; I'm understanding more now why. Mothers that we would consider healthy, when they talk about their child, do not center on the pain of childbirth. They center on the Joy, although they might not use that word, of sacrificing their lives and they wouldn't use that word, or say it. They do it for the advancement of their child, for the joy of that. That's what we are designed do. So I've been very troubled by the word sacrifice and suffering. When Jesus life is explained, for example, because what has been so clear to me, is what characterized the life of Jesus was not suffering but loving. What I was blind to was the suffering was inseparable in the same way that consumption of CO2 is inseparable from the life-giving of photosynthesis, generating oxygen. They're inseparable. They're inseparable. They are totally inseparable. Now Lust, flees from suffering. Lust calls Love that which is devoid of suffering, and full of pleasure, intoxication. That's Death, literally, Living Death - Death of the Soul - emptiness of the Soul l- which almost 300,000,000 of us in this country are devoted to we, that we in the US see as a virtue, as desirable, that walking Death, that Living Death. In the movie, the brilliant movie, The Matrix, do we really think that ever Neo and the others were able to inspire the, what, hundreds of millions or billions to leave the Matrix? I don't know. They, actually, probably many of them, if not the vast majority, were perfectly happy with their living Death, the same way hardly any alcoholics ever recover; any alcoholics ever recover, because they're unable to see the hellishness of their existence.
If you or I are not massively sacrificing, in those seconds where we are not, we are not Loving, neither are we exercising our capacity for Love; neither are we Loving beings; we are Lusting beings. I didn't just say which one was superior, that's for you to decide. But it's for me to point out the distinction. And for me, I'm too greedy to want to be Lusting. I have too much enlightened greed. Thank God to my biological father, and the man, Jesus, who I experienced truly as a young person. I was gifted with close contact with both my dad, and Jesus as a result, and was gifted with greed for a life that is Loving, the only source of Joy. And that by definition is not a life 'of' suffering, not a life 'of' sacrifice, but a life that sacrifice's'; a life that metabolizes suffering. Yes, we know people to wallow in suffering. No that's just another form of lust, clearly. But Love metabolizes suffering; that is it's food, that is what it ingests, for the Joy of it.
Love metabolizes suffering the joy of it. No, not in some sadistic or masochistic sense. Clearly there are people that are able to metabolize suffering exactly for sadism, or masochism. But the people we admire as the most healthy metabolize suffering, too make it go away, as the is the engine, as the reason for exercising their own Love. Oh, it's so easy to deny what I'm saying. It's so easy to ignore what I'm saying. And I will never try and force it on you. To some of you I will continue to offer it. To most of you, you will continue to demonstrate to me that you want not to understand. Until you through some wonder change, unless and until through some wonder change, and want to know, I'll always be your brother, but I'll not enable your capacity for denial by trying to step into the breach, if you continue to willfully and aggressively indicate you wish not understand. I'll not harm you in that way, out of Love.
D-15 'If you're not massively sacrificing you're not Loving' SL - YouTube
It's a mystery to me how I can arrive at several months shy of 60 years old and only be just 'getting' something like this, understanding something like this. On the other hand it's what's driven me all my life. I believes there were things to understand that I was not learning elsewhere. and I had some sense I had to find out, for my own joy, and to execute my own responsibility as a human being. If you're not breathing, you're not living. If your heart's not beating, you're not living. If you're not drinking liquids you're not living. If a plant is not inhaling CO2 it's not photosynthesizing. It's not living.
If you're not massively sacrificing, you're not massively loving. Teresa of Calcutta has given the best definition of love that I've ever encountered. And I've studied it academically, love that is, more than anyone you'll ever meet. She said, and this is a slight paraphrase, 'love is that which cannot remain passive in the face of suffering. Love is that which does not remain passive in the face of suffering.' Trillions of dollars, quite possibly, a year are spent that totally obscure and pervert the word love, so it's understandable that neither I nor you still grasp what the word love means. And yes, what I'm saying is entirely disputable; have at it friend if that's what you wish to do. But if you wish to grasp the neurological, psychological truth; if you wish to understand, by infinite measure, the most sacred and promising and awarding of human capacities, that capacity which is distinct from all others, which for me, deserves the word Love, as opposed to all else which is in the category of lust, self-service.
Teresa is correct, love is that which cannot and does not remain passive in the face of suffering, real or potential. This is what explains Gandhi. This is what explains King. This is what explains, Eleanor Roosevelt, Diane Wilson, Col. Ann Wright, Oscar Romero, Phil Berrigan, Liz Hourican; all of those who have retained their full humanity and exercise it. If you are not consuming massive amounts of suffering, and sacrificing your selfish alternatives for the Joy of serving our neediest brothers and sisters, you are not loving. You are lusting. I did not just say one is superior to the other. That's for you to decide. But they are clinically, objectively opposite ways being.
This is a significant clarification for me. Suffering and sacrifice are words that have been troubling to me, and I didn't quite understand why; I'm understanding more now why. Mothers that we would consider healthy, when they talk about their child, do not center on the pain of childbirth. They center on the Joy, although they might not use that word, of sacrificing their lives and they wouldn't use that word, or say it. They do it for the advancement of their child, for the joy of that. That's what we are designed do. So I've been very troubled by the word sacrifice and suffering. When Jesus life is explained, for example, because what has been so clear to me, is what characterized the life of Jesus was not suffering but loving. What I was blind to was the suffering was inseparable in the same way that consumption of CO2 is inseparable from the life-giving of photosynthesis, generating oxygen. They're inseparable. They're inseparable. They are totally inseparable. Now Lust, flees from suffering. Lust calls Love that which is devoid of suffering, and full of pleasure, intoxication. That's Death, literally, Living Death - Death of the Soul - emptiness of the Soul l- which almost 300,000,000 of us in this country are devoted to we, that we in the US see as a virtue, as desirable, that walking Death, that Living Death. In the movie, the brilliant movie, The Matrix, do we really think that ever Neo and the others were able to inspire the, what, hundreds of millions or billions to leave the Matrix? I don't know. They, actually, probably many of them, if not the vast majority, were perfectly happy with their living Death, the same way hardly any alcoholics ever recover; any alcoholics ever recover, because they're unable to see the hellishness of their existence.
If you or I are not massively sacrificing, in those seconds where we are not, we are not Loving, neither are we exercising our capacity for Love; neither are we Loving beings; we are Lusting beings. I didn't just say which one was superior, that's for you to decide. But it's for me to point out the distinction. And for me, I'm too greedy to want to be Lusting. I have too much enlightened greed. Thank God to my biological father, and the man, Jesus, who I experienced truly as a young person. I was gifted with close contact with both my dad, and Jesus as a result, and was gifted with greed for a life that is Loving, the only source of Joy. And that by definition is not a life 'of' suffering, not a life 'of' sacrifice, but a life that sacrifice's'; a life that metabolizes suffering. Yes, we know people to wallow in suffering. No that's just another form of lust, clearly. But Love metabolizes suffering; that is it's food, that is what it ingests, for the Joy of it.
Love metabolizes suffering the joy of it. No, not in some sadistic or masochistic sense. Clearly there are people that are able to metabolize suffering exactly for sadism, or masochism. But the people we admire as the most healthy metabolize suffering, too make it go away, as the is the engine, as the reason for exercising their own Love. Oh, it's so easy to deny what I'm saying. It's so easy to ignore what I'm saying. And I will never try and force it on you. To some of you I will continue to offer it. To most of you, you will continue to demonstrate to me that you want not to understand. Until you through some wonder change, unless and until through some wonder change, and want to know, I'll always be your brother, but I'll not enable your capacity for denial by trying to step into the breach, if you continue to willfully and aggressively indicate you wish not understand. I'll not harm you in that way, out of Love.
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