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12.18.2015

Just came from the surgeon examining her handiwork of yesterday. She

Just came from the surgeon examining her handiwork of yesterday. She is just as nice as anyone could possibly be. She is very pleased with her work. The way these things go my eyesight should continue to improve over the next month. My next visit is next Thursday. I need to self-administer three different drops 4 times a day. Yuck. I've been ready to go home for years. It is no fun for me being on this hellish eaeth that we have created. But if I'm going to be here my joy, what keeps me alive, is serving, and having this left eye back is an immense gift. I told the surgeon and I think she was very much touched by my appreciation. How rarely we express our appreciation, no?       The hospital and others really jumped through hoops so that I could get the surgery this month, because my insurance goes away on January 1st. Argh! I'm so appreciative of everyone's efforts.



don't tell. I'm supposed to be resting, but this is the last day before everyone leaves Washington DC on their holidays. So here I am at Farragut square on lobbyist K Street.

***** USD Professor Leads Silent Protest Against Anti-Muslim Rhetoric

http://timesofsandiego.com/education/2015/12/17/usd-professor-leads-silent-protest-against-anti-muslim-rhetoric/

This last Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a draft resolution entitled “The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination”, and the result of the voting was 177 countries in favor of the Resolution.

http://english.pnn.ps/2015/12/18/un-177-countries-vote-in-support-of-the-right-of-palestinians-to-self-determination/

12.17.2015

Editorial: Some Jews leading the charge against Islamophobia

http://www.middletownpress.com/opinion/20151216/editorial-some-jews-leading-the-charge-against-islamophobia

12.16.2015

Israel claims evidence lacking in burning alive of Palestinian baby

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israel-claims-evidence-lacking-burning-alive-palestinian-baby

Maybe there's just no room for human rights in Israel Those trying to delegitimize rights groups because their funds come from overseas are sending a very clear message: human and civil rights are not values that exist naturally in Israel.

http://972mag.com/maybe-theres-no-room-for-human-rights-in-israel/114828/

More than 200 South African scholars pledge support for Israel boycott

http://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/More-than-200-South-African-scholars-pledge-support-for-Israel-boycott-437524#article=6017NzQ0MjMwQTZFN0YwOERERDJFNEVBMjdBQTU0NjkzRkU=

Three farmers shot, injured south of Gaza

http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=75610

Jerusalem approves plan to build 891 housing units in neighborhood beyond

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.692161

A Gallup poll in February 2015 found that the percentage of Democrats sympathizing with Israel more than Palestinians had fallen 10 points, to 48%, over the previous year.......

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1216-vilkomerson-israel-losing-democratic-support-20151216-story.html

Palestinian-Canadian artist shot by occupation forces while photographing on the West Bank

http://samidoun.net/2015/12/palestinian-canadian-artist-shot-by-occupation-forces-while-photographing-on-the-west-bank/

Lillian Rosengarten’s wrenching memoir, Survival and Conscience: From the Shadows of Nazi Germany to the Jewish Boat to Gaza.

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/12/mainstream-zionism-rosengarten

Palestinian teen succumbs to her serious wounds

http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=75607

***** "Algerian women will stand with Palestinian women till removing the occupation on our beloved Palestine," she wrote. "Your magnificent glory shines far above the skies," she......

http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=75593

2 Palestinians killed, 4 injured as Israeli troops roll into Qalandiya camp

http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=75601

Israeli bulldozers reduce Palestinian home to rubble in Galilee

http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=75598

White guys are killing us: Toxic, cowardly masculinity, our unhealable national illness

http://www.salon.com/2015/12/16/white_guys_are_killing_us_toxic_cowardly_masculinity_our_unhealable_national_illness/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Danish pensions giant dumps German firm over ties with Israel

http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=75599

***** This is Normandy Beach for the Dark Side... moral and spiritual  Global Armageddon:.......

This is Normandy Beach for the Dark Side... moral and spiritual  Global Armageddon:

http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2015/12/police-officers-are-being-tutored-by.html

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/us-cops-trained-use-lethal-israeli-tactics

***** must read. If we are going to survive as a human race, we’re going to do it through civil society actively working for human rights, not promoting closed policies that mimic Nazi Germany or Communist Russia.........

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10206978207632118&id=1186876165

12.15.2015

Israel to start arming Haredi Jews

http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=75591

Hooray! Cataract surgery has been reestablished for this Thursday, December 17th.....

Hooray! Cataract surgery has been reestablished for this Thursday, December 17th.....
It is outpatient surgery. The hospital for reasons I don't know had bumped me into January and December 31st as things currently stand my health insurance is no more. I think that at some future point in some number of months I will have insurance reestablished but how long that will take is unknown and I am a bit of a danger driving my vehicle without a working left eye. The social worker who has been very kind to me over the years, she works at the hospital, took on this challenge, got a ombudsman department involved and I'm back on schedule for Thursday! Woohoo!
It is scheduled to be a 30 minute procedure, I'll take the bus to the hospital, they will only release me if someone drives me away so the social worker has a driver who will do so. I expect to be back at the shelter late afternoon. It is expected to be painless. I'll have a patch on until the next day when I return to the hospital and they remove the patch and inspect things I'm sure. And from then on they expect that I have a working left eye again. Woohoo! I am supposed to take it easy then for a couple of weeks as I recall but I don't think that means that I really need to curtail my normal activities very a much. And, things will slow down the last half of this month anyway because everyone will be out of town.

Video. Israel is terrorizing their own liberals

http://972mag.com/watch-incitement-against-israeli-left-just-got-a-whole-lot-scarier/114787/

Idle No More tiny house builds awareness of big problem. Small home to be shipped to Big River First Nation

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/saskatoon/idle-no-more-tiny-house-builds-awareness-of-big-problem-1.3364243

Former Cuba Leader Fidel Castro Says 'Israel and US Fathered Isis'

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/former-cuba-leader-fidel-castro-says-israel-us-fathered-isis-1463843

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon declares war on ex-soldiers’ protest group Mr Yaalon said the army had previously attempted to investigate incidents recounted in the group's testimony 'but they turned out to be groundless'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israeli-defence-minister-moshe-yaalon-declares-war-on-ex-soldiers-protest-group-a6773401.html

‘Martyrs’ Christmas tree at Al-Quds University angers Israelis

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/22839-martyrs-christmas-tree-at-al-quds-university-angers-israelis

California Assemblyman Will Introduce Legislation to Combat BDS

http://jpupdates.com/2015/12/15/california-assemblyman-will-introduce-legislation-to-combat-bds/

Palestine flag removed from New York flag display

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/US-Palestine-Booted-from-NY-Flag-Display-20151214-0030.html

***** Zionists PROUDLY invented Modern Terrorism

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gah_cu3czvc

12.14.2015

Video. Israeli invaders blaring Islamic hate messages at Palestinian residents

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=534591683388404&id=146535155527394

ISM calls for internationals to volunteer in Palestine

http://palsolidarity.org/2015/12/ism-calls-for-internationals-to-volunteer-in-palestine/

Longtime Conservative Actor Robert Duvall Is Abandoning The GOP ‘Mess’

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/03/16/longtime-conservative-actor-robert-duvall-abandoning-gop-mess/

***** Fascism: It's what all the cool kids are doing these days

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/13/1458845/-Fascism-It-s-what-all-the-cool-kids-are-doing-these-days?detail=facebook?detail=facebook

It appears that I will not be regaining the sight in my left eye, after all. Although I began .......

It appears that I will not be regaining the sight in my left eye, after all. Although I began work, and put in hours, beginning in June when it became apparent that my current insurance policy would have to be replaced by a managed care policy, the city  bureaucracy totally screwed up and I am informed more recently of two things: one, the hospital is bumping me from my December surgery date, presumably because I'm poor and they figure they won't get any repercussions by doing so, and 2. The city screwed up and is dropping my insurance the end of this month, without the transitionn I've been working on to Medicare for which I am fully eligible. My major concern is driving, which I must do for Palestine, but this vehicle, although wonderful, has inherent blind spots that make it difficult to see pedestrians at intersections, and with my left eye pretty useless, that compounds the problem.

My biggest concern is those that don't have the skills to advocate for themselves. The city is filled with well-meaning social workers, but beyond helping one make phone calls, due to the person not having a phone, or having no idea who to call, there is a profound lack of ability to get any results, and even worse, to recognize that lack of ability to get results, is quite staggering.  There is a profound sense in this social work community that trying to help is enough. It is a horrible thing for all concerned.

Not that it matters, but I think that this profound failing of the Social Work community is at least largely a systemic problem. Underpaid. Under supported. Poorly led. Inadequately incentivized. Infinitely too few tools provided by we uninterested, unconcerned taxpayers. Radical Republican insurgency working to further destroy what safety net exists. And a social work profession that has a horrible temptation endemic. How does one hold oneself to a high level of performance outcomes when your supervisor is not going to do so, and when your clients with few if any exceptions are in a position to even know what competent performance is, let alone to demand it?  And if they did demanded, who would listen? Consequently, with few if any exceptions the social worker is exactly going to hold themselves to the profoundly low standard of being pleasant, being courteous, making phone calls, and then accepting, oh well, at least we tried....... Christian nation? My ass.

Palestinian prisoners on fourth day of hunger strike

http://www.albawaba.com/news/palestinian-prisoners-fourth-day-hunger-strike-780832

***** Why do so many Israelis hate Breaking the Silence? The organization of former Israeli soldiers is coming under attack from every direction these days — from the Israel’s president to the defense minister to the police. So what’s the deal?

http://972mag.com/why-do-so-many-israelis-hate-breaking-the-silence/114763/

The Palestinian village that refuses to give up on popular struggle Even after 11 years of struggle, the residents of Bil’in refuse to forget about the land that was taken from them

http://972mag.com/the-palestinian-village-that-refuses-to-give-up-on-popular-struggle/114703/

***** Obama’s ISIS czar says we can’t defeat extremism without resolving Palestinian issue

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/12/without-resolving-palestinian

Hillary Clinton Is Whitewashing the Financial Catastrophe

http://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-is-whitewashing-the-financial-catastrophe/