4.07.2015
SPDF Day 36. vlog. Doctors visit, blood work, psych eval, etc.
This morning was a review with my Sainted Doctor, about the results of yesterday's bloodwork. She said everything looks fine. She has me on a regimen of two, horse pills, of potassium every day. She also has me on a multi vitamin. They are both seemingly doing their jobs.
My eyes have gone blurry as has happened on prior fasts. To read anything on computer or my tablet it must be held very close to my face, but thankfully that seems to work ok.
I had a candid conversation with my Doctor about my concern regarding her concern as to my mental health. I told her it was nothing I needed her to resolve, that I am capable of surviving the situation; but that I could not assume she understood how important she is in my life and work, so I told her briefly, that she is one of the only people I know whose life , and work path, I respect; this Georgetown grad that has devoted her life to we homeless. And that I wondered if she could imagine if one of the people in her life that she most respects raised the question about her mental health, particularly as it relate to using her greatest skills in the direction that they found questionable, such as ministering to the poor. I asked her if she could image how troubling she might find that, especially if this individual she highly respected was entirely wrong.
I expounded a little bit, but she understood my point and as I stressed what I wrote about last week after seeing her and a psychologist that she asked me to speak to, I made no assumption that she was questioning my sanity, this wonderful Doctor. I took her at her word that she was just trying to be extremely cautions, and today she only emphasized that and explained that she wanted to be extremely sure that the medical work that has gone on with me over the last two years, major operations, had not had some impact my psychology. She indicated that although she didn't see it, at all, she wanted to be extremely careful with another opinion. I made it clear that I was not second guessing her, but that it is an issue of importance to me, and I feel that it was entirely resolved this morning.
I told her prior to creating an opening for her to provide a response to me, that I just outlined, that my campaign is entirely about sanity. That no credit to me I have worked my way to a position of sanity and exactly I am trying to address the mass insanity in our culture which has lost any all notion of an adult sacrificing their own life constructively so that the young can have a future, whether it is a habitable planet to live on, one with some shreds of democracy left in America, or one without the methodology of police state being perfected on an indigenous population in Palestine, and that technology being exported and brought to oppressed peoples worldwide including in the United States.
My assessment is that it was a very comfortable, brief, conversation, and my sense is that this person in my life in whom I have a great respect, although I would not put her in the postition of stating so exactly, does not have a concern about my mental health and understands and respects the work I am doing. So that was quite nice.
Rain is expected on and off today, tomorrow and the next day. I expect to be here in front of Narcotic Paralyzing Rubbish Radio through lunch time and to leave and hopefully get back to the shelter prior to when at 3pm rain becomes more likely. And tomorrow and the next day I anticipate coming back here during those parts of the day where rain is less likely.
I am feeling particularly weak today, but it turns out I had enough strength to change the tire of a young lady whose car I passed, an African American woman, in front of the Union Station area, a fairly posh bakery and lunch spot. She was holding what I recognized to be a jack in her hand, and looking rather dazed, like she didn't know what to do with it. I don't think she did know what to do with it. She was surely intelligent, but it was folded in such a way that it took me several minutes how to take it apart. So I had the strength to do that.
To her credit afterwords she offered me $20 which of course I refused. I did tell her she could help me by watching my belongings for a few moments and by giving me a $1 to offer to the restaurant manager so he would allow me to wash of my hands, the grime off my hands, from changing her tire. Happily she agreed, the restaurant did not require the $1 which I happily returned to her; and I think she experienced this as an event that she will probably remember for some time; and when kindness is so remembered, sometimes they propagate themselves.
SPPDF Day 36: Business of backlash: GOP cashes in on Koch/Adelson anti-BDS donations
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/07/business_of_backlash_gop_cashes_in_on_kochadelson_anti_bds_donations/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
SPDF Day 36: Robert Reich: Colleges, Churches and Non-Profits Doing the Wealthy's Dirty Work It's bad enough that they've bought our politicians. Now the wealthy have bought off the only institutions that can counter their influence.
http://www.alternet.org/robert-reich-colleges-churches-and-non-profits-doing-wealthys-dirty-work
SPDF Day 36: Israel firing experimental weapons at Gaza’s civilians, say doctors
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/israel-firing-experimental-weapons-gazas-civilians-say-doctors
'Israeli Mossad agents posed as CIA spies to recruit terrorists to fight against Iran'
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israeli-mossad-agents-posed-as-cia-spies-to-recruit-terrorists-to-fight-against-iran-1.407224
This time the Nazis control the US gov. .... Israel pushing Congress for legislation to block peace with Iran
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.650813
4.06.2015
nd. Reform Islam? REFORM CHRISTIANITY! For every person killed, terrorized or oppressed by Islam there are objectively 10,000 by christianity. Fact. Don't leave this Islamophobia by the christian state terrorists crap go un-opposed.
Reform Islam? REFORM CHRISTIANITY! For every person killed, terrorized or oppressed by Islam there are objectively 10,000 by christianity. Fact. Don't leave this Islamophobia by the christian state terrorists crap go un-opposed.
SPDF Day 35: LIVE: Six Greenpeace climbers scale Shell’s Arctic-bound oil rig
http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2015/04/06/live-six-greenpeace-climbers-scale-shells-arctic-bound-oil-rig/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=150406&utm_campaign=crossing
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed himself to be something most politicians are not: a terrible bullshitter.
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/06/bibis_iran_shocker_how_he_accidentally_revealed_his_desire_for_more_war/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
Slomo sand from his book why I am no longer a Jew: “I have the increasing impression that, in certain respects, Hitler was the victor the Second World War…his perverted ideology infiltrated itself and resurfaced."
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/06/the-question-of-jewish-identity/
Shlomo Sand and his book, why I am so long for a jew : “If the United States of America decided tomorrow that it was not the state of all American citizens but rather the state of those persons around the whole world who identify as Anglo-Saxon Protestants, it would bear a striking resemblance to the Jewish State of Israel.”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/06/the-question-of-jewish-identity/
WATCH: The feminist struggle for peace in Israel-Palestine
http://972mag.com/watch-the-feminist-struggle-for-peace-in-israel-palestine/105340/
***** SPDF Day 35: "The reason behind US support for Israel becomes clear...." MUST READ.
The reason behind US support for Israel becomes clear if you consider
what would likely happen if Palestinians became autonomous or if they
became the majority in a democratic, multi-ethnic state. Either
development would upend American-enforced “stability.”
Palestinians in Jordan and elsewhere would attempt to exercise their right of return. Repressed peoples across the Middle East would rise up to demand the kind of freedom from dictators that the Palestinians secured from Israel. Palestinian liberation would trigger a chain of events that could entirely free the region from the American grip as people demand that they — not monarchs and not Western corporations — benefit from their oil.
That’s why the US government’s proclaimed support for Palestinian liberation is as unbelievable as Netanyahu’s. Anything more than a severely attenuated Palestinian state would jeopardize America’s seventy-year old — never-altered — priority. And that prospect, not The Lobby, is the primary reason that the United States stands virtually alone against the rest of the world in unconditionally supporting Israel’s violence against Palestinians.
Palestinians in Jordan and elsewhere would attempt to exercise their right of return. Repressed peoples across the Middle East would rise up to demand the kind of freedom from dictators that the Palestinians secured from Israel. Palestinian liberation would trigger a chain of events that could entirely free the region from the American grip as people demand that they — not monarchs and not Western corporations — benefit from their oil.
That’s why the US government’s proclaimed support for Palestinian liberation is as unbelievable as Netanyahu’s. Anything more than a severely attenuated Palestinian state would jeopardize America’s seventy-year old — never-altered — priority. And that prospect, not The Lobby, is the primary reason that the United States stands virtually alone against the rest of the world in unconditionally supporting Israel’s violence against Palestinians.
Robert Reich: " Republicans and neocons have no foreign policy, and never have had one. They have only intransigence and belligerence....
The alliance of right-wing Republicans, neoconservatives, Jewish
billionaires like Sheldon Adelson and Paul Singer, and Benjamin
Netanyahu and right-wing Israelis, is an axis of no compromise that
feeds and feeds off of hardliners in Iran.
Have we forgotten that the Republican right and its neocon brain-trust were behind the invasion of Iraq -- the single stupidest foreign policy decision since the Vietnam War? They have never been held accountable. Yet many of the same Republicans and neocons who smugly asserted then that we had no choice but to take out Saddam Hussein, including William Kristol and John Bolton, are now refusing the deal with Iran.
Republicans and neocons have no foreign policy, and never have had one. They have only intransigence and belligerence
Have we forgotten that the Republican right and its neocon brain-trust were behind the invasion of Iraq -- the single stupidest foreign policy decision since the Vietnam War? They have never been held accountable. Yet many of the same Republicans and neocons who smugly asserted then that we had no choice but to take out Saddam Hussein, including William Kristol and John Bolton, are now refusing the deal with Iran.
Republicans and neocons have no foreign policy, and never have had one. They have only intransigence and belligerence
Corporations currently exploiting prison labor include Abbott Laboratories, AT&T, AutoZone, Bank of America, Bayer, Berkshire Hathaway, Cargill, Caterpillar, Chevron, the former Chrysler Group, Costco Wholesale, John Deere, Eddie Bauer, Eli Lilly, ExxonMobil, Fruit of the Loom, GEICO, GlaxoSmithKline, Glaxo Wellcome, Hoffmann-La Roche, International Paper, JanSport, Johnson & Johnson, Kmart, Koch Industries, Mary Kay, McDonald’s, Merck, Microsoft, Motorola, Nintendo, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Quaker Oats, Sarah Lee, Sears, Shell, Sprint, Starbucks, State Farm Insurance, United Airlines, UPS, Verizon, Victoria’s Secret, Wal-Mart and Wendy’s.. Chris Hedges
nd. SPDF Day 35: Congress out one more week. Rain expected, but today, NPR - Numbing Paralyzing Rubbish. But first, blood work prior to another doc visit tomorrow.
nd. SPDF Day 35: Congress out one more week. Rain expected, but today, NPR - Numbing Paralyzing Rubbish. But first, blood work prior to another doc visit tomorrow.
4.05.2015
SPDF Day 34: vlog. My unrecognized assumptions at the beginning of this death fast are not working out terribly well
1. That the, immediacy, the horror, the barbarity of the west's terrororization of Palestine yielded a situation that was concrete enough that we walking dead Americans would show a heightened response, any increased propensity to tap into our humanity and respond.
2. The other unrecognized assumption is that the Palestinians, both the Palestinians in Palestine that maybe somehow become aware of this death fast campaign, and the Palestinians in the United States Diaspora, would have a readiness greater than any other population I've seen thus far, to be drawn to an understanding of the necessity and unique power of the death fast.
All evidence that I have so far suggest that these were entirely false assumptions.
Today for example several different small groups of Palestinians stopped by an identified themselves during my 12 hour campaign at the White House. I found no more sense of urgency, no more sense of immediate family kinship between themselves and the Palestinians being tormented in Palestine, then I've experienced in other populations concerned with global warming, for example. This is very disturbing and somewhat shocking to me. It certainly was unanticipated by me, and as I reflect more broadly on observations I can make I do not find these reactions today to be abnormal or an exception. I've had significant contact with people concerned with Palestine through my face book interchange up until about a week ago, and it became ever more apparent that they were involved, as is the chicken, but not committed as is the pig.
This will factor into my thinking as to how far to take this death fast. If a tree felled in the wilderness does not make a sound does it make sense to finely chopped it down?
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