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Showing posts with label Hopelessness. Show all posts
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10.07.2013
pic. Morpheus: "You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it."
You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be
unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on
the system, that they will fight to protect it.
8.22.2013
***** nd 'I'm at a particular loss right now, for how to be of help to Humanity. I see zero hope of stopping Ecocide, Objectively. I see zero hope of stopping the Fascist Global Police State - too few fellow humans not already in The Matrix. But I find Hope for myself, whatever time I'm given, in simply Living to be Sand in the Gears of the Killing Machines - Hopeless or not.' Loving
'I'm at a particular loss right now, for how to be of help to Humanity. I see zero hope of stopping Ecocide, Objectively. I see zero hope of stopping the Fascist Global Police State - too few fellow humans not already in The Matrix. But I find Hope for myself, whatever time I'm given, in simply Living to be Sand in the Gears of the Killing Machines - Hopeless or not.' Loving
8.19.2013
nd Cancer, chemo update: I see no future worth living for Humanity. So what service from me is worth this expensive treatment? I don't know.
Cancer, chemo update: I see no future worth living for Humanity. So what service from me is worth this expensive treatment? I don't know.
posted from Bloggeroid
7.11.2013
4.30.2013
***** Anyone understanding my fast termination must sense tremendous negativity
Negativity isn't the correct word but it will have to do. Hopeless? Desperately bleak? Destructive negativity!
The truth is the ruler. All hope is in respecting the ruler. Especially when horrible, all hope is in facing , embracing, aligning with the ruler.
I did not want to see what I saw - that there was no Soul left to Save.
I wanted, I want, to see that at whatever personal cost I can help to Save it. But I don't see that. From the top of this Death Fast, I did not see that.
The truth is the ruler. All hope is in respecting the ruler. Especially when horrible, all hope is in facing , embracing, aligning with the ruler.
I did not want to see what I saw - that there was no Soul left to Save.
I wanted, I want, to see that at whatever personal cost I can help to Save it. But I don't see that. From the top of this Death Fast, I did not see that.
1.12.2013
***** nd 'ALL MY HOPE IS IN THE INDIGENOUS NATIONS. Every day is an unwanted lesson for me of the RELIGIOUSLY PURSUED, hopeless moral degeneration, Heartlessness, of we white folks, excepting Diane Wilson, and a few others just like her. If there are not Indigenous Heroic Spirits left to save humanity, NOW, it is over.' Loving
nd 'ALL MY HOPE IS IN THE INDIGENOUS NATIONS. Every day is an unwanted lesson for me of the RELIGIOUSLY PURSUED, hopeless moral degeneration, Heartlessness, of we white folks, excepting Diane Wilson, and a few others exactly like her. If there are not Indigenous Heroic Spirits left to save humanity, NOW, it is over.' Loving
1.02.2013
***** 01.03.13 Ecocide's Death Fast Day 1: Solidarity with Theresa Spence, Diane Wilson
[ZERO endorsement, approval, agreement, fore-knowledge, or acceptance by Chief Theresa Spence or Diane Wilson (and here, and here )of me or my action is implied here, nor in any way has it been secured. Quite possibly, the opposite. They are not to blame, nor to be held responsible for my actions. I act entirely on my own, as best I can hear our Creator (same as them, I'll wager).]
' 'Till enough are seen UNVIOLENTLY dying for it, giving 100% of their very being, global warming, Ecocide by GHG, and trampling of such few, remaining, meaningful lives as Earth's Indigenous peoples, won't stop. [You saw Avatar, right?] HOWEVER, WHEN enough are seen dying for it, giving 100% of all that they have and all that they are, UNVIOLENTLY, global warming, Global Ecocide, and trampling of what few meaningful lives that exist... WILL STOP. IT WILL STOP, THEN. AND NOTHING LESS, NOTHING ELSE, CAN DO IT, before what tiny hope that exists now, is lost, forever.' Loving ("Global Warming's Death, Fast.")
Yes, this is my 3rd Death Fast, 39 days, then 5 days, in 2012 (here, and here). These came on the heals of two, 50 day water only hunger strikes in front of the White House, to avert Global Ecocide by GHG, in 2011. A Death Fast is not some macabre, perverted commitment to die, anymore than a weapon of mass destruction is a commitment to mass destroy. Both are weapons of ultimate power - one to destroy, the other to Create; one a weapon of ultimate Violence, the other a weapon of ultimate Loving. Sometimes, they go unused. Sometimes tests, even if unplanned, as were my 1st two, unexpectedly. Sometimes launched, but aborted. Sometimes launched, and allowed to reach their target. Sometimes irresponsibly used, or hollowly threatened - neither of which have I ever, nor will I ever do.
204 billion kids ARE my life, 200 billion to be born, 4 billion alive already. They're dead, tortured, eviscerated... already, unless we change things now. Now. NOW. TODAY. 2013. Yes, 40 years ago, when the US Government's Lincoln-created advisory panel, the National Institute of Science warned the President that global warming was the greatest threat ever to face humanity... was our last great, clear, near 100% chance to save our kids. But we've done nothing since then, we the keepers of our children - we've done nothing but make our own lives, like vultures...
So here we are (watch it. Click lwr right of vid field for full screen. Plse, watch it.):
... uh, did I mention - HERE WE ARE???
7 months ago it was clear to me that if there was enough sanity left on earth to Wage All-out Unviolent War, Waging Love, with their own bodies, to stop Global Ecocide by GHG, it was among our Indigenous Nations - Canadian (Athabascan, esp), US, Island Nations, Alaskan, Amazonian, South American, Asian...; and they and their children are the earliest victims, as usual. This came clear to me during my 1st Death Fast in the spring of 2012. I ended the 2nd Death Fast last summer, because I saw that there was no Life, no Humanity left on 2012 earth, that it already was a Dead planet, even among our Indigenous... too completely Dead for my Death Fast to do any good, and NONE OF US are to throw our lives away. Including me. EVER. ("Resurrecting your Unviolent Warrior").
But now I see four things:
1. Life among the Indigenous, I think - Chief Theresa Spence, dle no more....
2. Life elsewhere, such as Diane Wilson.
3. Clearly now I see - 'Unless the seed dies, and falls to earth, it bears no fruit,' Jesus. The anti-apartheid movement was Dead in South Africa until Steve Biko (1977) and others Died, and fell to earth 16 YEARS before apartheid fell... and then there was Life. Blacks lynched, Died in the US 1930's, Seeds that bore fruit 20, 30 years later in the '50's and '60's. Tunisian alight before the Arab Spring. Buddhist Monks alight in the early-mid1960's to stop the Vietnam Genocide half a decade later.... I've seen this pattern for years. I've wondered if I was ever to be one of these Seeds. I've not been able to see myself as that till now. I think I do now. Pretty clearly. I Pray, that I may be Prayer, a Seed, in time.
4. There is no more time. Unless the Indigenous UNVIOLENT uprising, Waging Love with their OWN BODIES, is beginning, there's no more time. NONE. The physics is, about a 20% chance it is already too late to stop. Uh, did I mention, here we are? (watch all 30 min. Trust me.)
Will there be a Death Fast 4 form me? The one I began last night, is number 3 for me.
What is a Death Fast, anyway? Well, here's the book I wrote on it: here (see tabs above) . But it is a Hunger Strike where an end victory cannot be seen in time to save the Death Faster, and the Faster's Death is a perfectly acceptable, and the most likely outcome. It is a decision to be a Seed, if that is what in the end is the best way to serve. It is the ultimate statement of all perfect Unviolent warfare: 'I am here to collect what is rightfully mine ( in this case - legislation to charge NOW, the $250 / ton of GHG that currently is being 'billed' to our kids in the future - see vid), a future for my 204 billion kids. And if the price for that is my life, I'm perfectly happy to pay it! Right now.'
Death Fast NEVER is a decision to die! It is a decision to serve with one's last breath, in my case, the Mission of the virtually impossible averting of Global Ecocide by GHG, with ONE'S LAST BREATH, WITH 100% OF WHAT ONE IS, IN THE MOST PROMISING, POWERFUL (REGARDLESS OF HOW UNLIKELY) WAY POSSIBLE. ('If the idea is not absurd, it has no hope.' Einstein paraphrase). Death Fast is the ultimate weapon of the Unviolent Soldier, and it has the potential to Bear the Fruit of other Unviolent Warriors. In Steve Biko's case, 5, 10 years later. We don't have 5, 10 years. We don't have 5, 10 months:
But I can't change that. I can only change me. And so I shall continue to try, with every breath.
I wonder how this will turn out.
Until in 60 or so days from now when I expect that they cart me away, I expect to remain at the now 7 month old 22/7 vigil in front of the DC Canadian Embassy taking vitamin, Iron (for my cancer-driven anemia to reduce the torturous restless-leg syndrome that results otherwise), and zero calorie electrolytes when available. I may retreat physically for a few days or weeks, if friends in Philly will take me, cart me up and back) during the security of the Inauguration - I'm smack dab in the middle of Pr. Obama's route, LOL; but the Death Fast would continue uninterrupted.
The greatest, foundational Hope of MLK Jr, and Gandhi, our two greatest unvololent warriors of recent history, was in the Teachings of the man named Jesus, ( Tolstoy ). Mine too. I've been re-immersed in study of His teachings these recent months to be a Prayer of channeling His Teachings to my Life, and into this Lifeless, Hopeless age. I expect to continue doing so, and to attempt to study and channel as well the Lives and Teachings of Gandhi, MLK Jr, Teresa of Calcutta, the Freedom Riders, and some of the other Wise we've been given.
I see no other hope, and no other Path for me that is nearly as promising for my 204 billion kids.
God, PLEASE Save their Souls. By all indications, WE WILL NOT.
' 'Till enough are seen UNVIOLENTLY dying for it, giving 100% of their very being, global warming, Ecocide by GHG, and trampling of such few, remaining, meaningful lives as Earth's Indigenous peoples, won't stop. [You saw Avatar, right?] HOWEVER, WHEN enough are seen dying for it, giving 100% of all that they have and all that they are, UNVIOLENTLY, global warming, Global Ecocide, and trampling of what few meaningful lives that exist... WILL STOP. IT WILL STOP, THEN. AND NOTHING LESS, NOTHING ELSE, CAN DO IT, before what tiny hope that exists now, is lost, forever.' Loving ("Global Warming's Death, Fast.")
Yes, this is my 3rd Death Fast, 39 days, then 5 days, in 2012 (here, and here). These came on the heals of two, 50 day water only hunger strikes in front of the White House, to avert Global Ecocide by GHG, in 2011. A Death Fast is not some macabre, perverted commitment to die, anymore than a weapon of mass destruction is a commitment to mass destroy. Both are weapons of ultimate power - one to destroy, the other to Create; one a weapon of ultimate Violence, the other a weapon of ultimate Loving. Sometimes, they go unused. Sometimes tests, even if unplanned, as were my 1st two, unexpectedly. Sometimes launched, but aborted. Sometimes launched, and allowed to reach their target. Sometimes irresponsibly used, or hollowly threatened - neither of which have I ever, nor will I ever do.
204 billion kids ARE my life, 200 billion to be born, 4 billion alive already. They're dead, tortured, eviscerated... already, unless we change things now. Now. NOW. TODAY. 2013. Yes, 40 years ago, when the US Government's Lincoln-created advisory panel, the National Institute of Science warned the President that global warming was the greatest threat ever to face humanity... was our last great, clear, near 100% chance to save our kids. But we've done nothing since then, we the keepers of our children - we've done nothing but make our own lives, like vultures...
- auth-whoring,
- blogging (rhymes with flogging),
- studying (rhymes with bloodying),
- meeting (rhymes with bleating),
- reporting (rhymes with devouring),
- talking (rhymes with balking),
- activisting (rhymes with sado-masochisting),
- DENYING - our OWN PERSONAL responsibility AS PARENTS, AUNTS, GRANDPARENTS, BROTHERS... to STAND ('Denying' rhymes with forever-dying)...
So here we are (watch it. Click lwr right of vid field for full screen. Plse, watch it.):
... uh, did I mention - HERE WE ARE???
7 months ago it was clear to me that if there was enough sanity left on earth to Wage All-out Unviolent War, Waging Love, with their own bodies, to stop Global Ecocide by GHG, it was among our Indigenous Nations - Canadian (Athabascan, esp), US, Island Nations, Alaskan, Amazonian, South American, Asian...; and they and their children are the earliest victims, as usual. This came clear to me during my 1st Death Fast in the spring of 2012. I ended the 2nd Death Fast last summer, because I saw that there was no Life, no Humanity left on 2012 earth, that it already was a Dead planet, even among our Indigenous... too completely Dead for my Death Fast to do any good, and NONE OF US are to throw our lives away. Including me. EVER. ("Resurrecting your Unviolent Warrior").
But now I see four things:
1. Life among the Indigenous, I think - Chief Theresa Spence, dle no more....
2. Life elsewhere, such as Diane Wilson.
3. Clearly now I see - 'Unless the seed dies, and falls to earth, it bears no fruit,' Jesus. The anti-apartheid movement was Dead in South Africa until Steve Biko (1977) and others Died, and fell to earth 16 YEARS before apartheid fell... and then there was Life. Blacks lynched, Died in the US 1930's, Seeds that bore fruit 20, 30 years later in the '50's and '60's. Tunisian alight before the Arab Spring. Buddhist Monks alight in the early-mid1960's to stop the Vietnam Genocide half a decade later.... I've seen this pattern for years. I've wondered if I was ever to be one of these Seeds. I've not been able to see myself as that till now. I think I do now. Pretty clearly. I Pray, that I may be Prayer, a Seed, in time.
4. There is no more time. Unless the Indigenous UNVIOLENT uprising, Waging Love with their OWN BODIES, is beginning, there's no more time. NONE. The physics is, about a 20% chance it is already too late to stop. Uh, did I mention, here we are? (watch all 30 min. Trust me.)
Will there be a Death Fast 4 form me? The one I began last night, is number 3 for me.
What is a Death Fast, anyway? Well, here's the book I wrote on it: here (see tabs above) . But it is a Hunger Strike where an end victory cannot be seen in time to save the Death Faster, and the Faster's Death is a perfectly acceptable, and the most likely outcome. It is a decision to be a Seed, if that is what in the end is the best way to serve. It is the ultimate statement of all perfect Unviolent warfare: 'I am here to collect what is rightfully mine ( in this case - legislation to charge NOW, the $250 / ton of GHG that currently is being 'billed' to our kids in the future - see vid), a future for my 204 billion kids. And if the price for that is my life, I'm perfectly happy to pay it! Right now.'
Death Fast NEVER is a decision to die! It is a decision to serve with one's last breath, in my case, the Mission of the virtually impossible averting of Global Ecocide by GHG, with ONE'S LAST BREATH, WITH 100% OF WHAT ONE IS, IN THE MOST PROMISING, POWERFUL (REGARDLESS OF HOW UNLIKELY) WAY POSSIBLE. ('If the idea is not absurd, it has no hope.' Einstein paraphrase). Death Fast is the ultimate weapon of the Unviolent Soldier, and it has the potential to Bear the Fruit of other Unviolent Warriors. In Steve Biko's case, 5, 10 years later. We don't have 5, 10 years. We don't have 5, 10 months:
But I can't change that. I can only change me. And so I shall continue to try, with every breath.
I wonder how this will turn out.
Until in 60 or so days from now when I expect that they cart me away, I expect to remain at the now 7 month old 22/7 vigil in front of the DC Canadian Embassy taking vitamin, Iron (for my cancer-driven anemia to reduce the torturous restless-leg syndrome that results otherwise), and zero calorie electrolytes when available. I may retreat physically for a few days or weeks, if friends in Philly will take me, cart me up and back) during the security of the Inauguration - I'm smack dab in the middle of Pr. Obama's route, LOL; but the Death Fast would continue uninterrupted.
The greatest, foundational Hope of MLK Jr, and Gandhi, our two greatest unvololent warriors of recent history, was in the Teachings of the man named Jesus, ( Tolstoy ). Mine too. I've been re-immersed in study of His teachings these recent months to be a Prayer of channeling His Teachings to my Life, and into this Lifeless, Hopeless age. I expect to continue doing so, and to attempt to study and channel as well the Lives and Teachings of Gandhi, MLK Jr, Teresa of Calcutta, the Freedom Riders, and some of the other Wise we've been given.
I see no other hope, and no other Path for me that is nearly as promising for my 204 billion kids.
God, PLEASE Save their Souls. By all indications, WE WILL NOT.
9.16.2012
9/16 Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM
Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 02:23 PM PDT
Torque News
Electric Cars Will Reach Destination With Alternative Energy Source
Torque News - 2 hours ago
Not too many people would argue against the fact that the successful
mass adoption of electric vehicles, EV hinges on the feasibility of
producing clean and renewable energy.
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 02:19 PM PDT
World's First Integrated CCS of Coal-fired Power Plant Emissions - US ...
Equities.com - 6
minutes ago
... demonstration project jointly under way by Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Southern Company, a major U.S. electric
utility, has begun underground injection of carbon dioxide (CO2)
recovered from emissions from a coal-fired power ...
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 02:04 PM PDT
Soaring food prices leave middle-class hopeless
Hindustan Times - 1 hour ago
Steady increases in prices of cereals, vegetables and other basic food
items might compel the aam aadmi to cut back on protein, meats and other
nutritious diets.
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 11:57 AM PDT
AWEA Wants New 2030 Renewable Energy Target
Domestic Fuel - 5 hours ago
Several Ministers met earlier this week at an informal Energy Council
meeting in Nicosia. In response, the European Wind Energy Association
(EWEA) warned that their credibility was at risk if they debated future
renewable energy policy without ...
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 11:56 AM PDT
No Breakthroughs Necessary: 95 Percent Renewable Energy Possible By 2050De Smog Blog (blog)
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 11:39 AM PDT
Idyllic Oregon thrust into energy export debate
Reuters - 1 hour ago
COOS BAY, Oregon (Reuters) - When federal officials arrived in this
scenic but economically struggling port a few weeks ago for hearings on a
proposed liquefied natural gas plant, some residents had a sense of
déjà vu: it was only six years earlier, in ...
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 11:35 AM PDT
A Fracking Good Story
Carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. are at their lowest level in 20
years. It’s not because of wind or solar power.
By Bjørn Lomborg|Posted Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, at 6:30 AM ET
Loving's Comments:
Friend, you are playing loose with the lives of the next 200 billion
kids. Have you no soul? It is impossible that you don't know that
depending on the amount of
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 10:29 AM PDT
The Future of Renewable Power
The Atlantic-Sep 10, 2012
You make a persuasive case that under Steven Chu the Department of
Energy shifted from a typical government agency to something like a ...
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 09:03 AM PDT
How Social Media Is Helping Plant 1 Million Trees In Patagonia
EarthTechling - 17 hours ago
Then I discovered Reforest Patagonia. Last December, a devastating
man-made fire burned over 43,000 acres in the iconic Torres del Paine
National Park.
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 09:01 AM PDT
Republican Energy Policy Puts National Parks at Risk
SustainableBusiness.com - 21 hours ago
The amount of land protected by governments to slow down species loss
and conserve eco-systems critical for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions and replenishing the world's fresh water supply grew by an
area the size of Russia over the past 20 ...
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 08:28 AM PDT
Hydrogen Fuel News
Atmospheric wind energy systems could power the world
Hydrogen Fuel News - 15 minutes ago
Wind energy
could be enough to satisfy the entirety of the world's energy demand,
according to a new study from the Carnegie Institution for Science.
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 02:52 PM PDT
Power East Coast via wind? Doable with 144000 offshore turbines, study
says
NBCNews.com (blog) - 50 minutes ago
It would require 144,000 offshore turbines standing 270 feet tall - not
one of which exists since proposals have stalled due to controversy and
costs.
Stanford Report
Offshore wind energy could power entire US East Coast, Stanford
scientists say
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9.06.2012
GWDF D14a Wiki- Self-Immolations since 1960 - US, WW
Email note sent to several friends, followed by Post, below -
Only we can.
----- Post, below --------------
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_self-immolations
I don't think that self-immolation is the right weapon for use in the US, or by me. But we don't know what the right weapon is to defeat the WWIII, Terror War, Holocaust... being visited on the next 200 billion kids, either. And, if there is anyone sane, or honest, we know that no one, maybe literally no one, is stepping up in any way that honestly, rationally, historically, psychologically... has a prayer of stopping our mass insanity of side-line sitting, blogging, talking, watching, talking, planning, talking, writing, planning, discussing... before all opportunity to save a future is gone, if indeed time still remains - Dr. Hansen (Book 3: NASAs Dr. Hansen - for...everyday citizens) - Someone(s) have got to give us a chance of beginning - SSSSSTTTTTTOOOOOPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!
Let it be me, but not by self-immolation, I expect. Death Fast, or Death By Force Feeding in a mental ward for decades, not self-immolation, is the correct weapon for today, to begin a real, hopeful, meaningful, commensurate, historically rational... process of 'SSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!! In time.
"Whoever
makes extreme unviolent action impossible, makes violence, misery, mass
torture..., and now, extinction of all life on earth, inevitable (Book 3: NASAs Dr. Hansen - for...everyday citizens)."
Loving, informed by John Adams, and JFK (JFK, or was it Bobby, like MLK
Jr, was deeply changed, and motivated by the the Buddhist
self-immolations in Vietnam).
That we may no longer have humans like MLK Jr., with enough
humanity/sanity to be inspired, does not change the relative strength of
such weapons, but Death Fast is the right weapon for today; and/or wave
upon wave of ceaseless, until victory is won, hunger strikes, to
death's door but not through, regroup, recover, restart... till we win. By way of analogy, everything else is the
equivalent of spit-balls against Iran's deep nuclear labs. The
Pentagon would break the rank of, and discharge any such mental and
intellectual lunatics that suggested such spit-balls.
But
against environmental armageddon? Against the most highly financed
mercenary army in world history, the $20 to 70 trillion fossil fuel
industry? Spitballs have been the order of the day (blogging, writing
(to inflame,
not to empower, or to generate commensurate action); hopeless, token,
time-killing legislative bull shit like the Cap and Trade treason of 2
years ago; 4 hour jailings (what a desecration of history's real
unviolent actions and actors) for what, 15 or 30 years now?
And
such deluded, left-wing-nut Deniers of history of change, and personal
duty, show every sign of continuing doing the same thing another 15 - 30 years (Einstein's
definition of insanity; Loving's definition of Denial and Delusion,
well, yes, insanity); even though it may be just
15 or 30 weeks, or months at the most, that the next 200 billion kids
have left. My
God.
No
God could have mercy on our Souls for such cowardice, failure of
imagination, failure of humanity, failure of Heart, failure of Loving.
And NO God can undo what we are in the last stages of finalizing - Hell on earth.
----- Post, below --------------
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_self-immolations
I don't think that self-immolation is the right weapon for use in the US, or by me. But we don't know what the right weapon is to defeat the WWIII, Terror War, Holocaust... being visited on the next 200 billion kids, either. And, if there is anyone sane, or honest, we know that no one, maybe literally no one, is stepping up in any way that honestly, rationally, historically, psychologically... has a prayer of stopping our mass insanity of side-line sitting, blogging, talking, watching, talking, planning, talking, writing, planning, discussing... before all opportunity to save a future is gone, if indeed time still remains - Dr. Hansen (Book 3: NASAs Dr. Hansen - for...everyday citizens) - Someone(s) have got to give us a chance of beginning - SSSSSTTTTTTOOOOOPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!
Let it be me, but not by self-immolation, I expect. Death Fast, or Death By Force Feeding in a mental ward for decades, not self-immolation, is the correct weapon for today, to begin a real, hopeful, meaningful, commensurate, historically rational... process of 'SSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!! In time.
1960s
Date | Name | Age | Country | Protesting | Notes and references |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
June 11, 1963 | Thich Quang Duc | 66 | South Vietnam | Persecution of Buddhists by Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam | Led to several other monks and nuns committing the same act before Diem was toppled |
January 25, 1964 | Chinnasami | India | For preservation of the Tamil language | Inspired 5 other self-immolations.[3] | |
March 16, 1965 | Alice Herz | 82 | USA | Vietnam War | |
November 2, 1965 | Norman Morrison | 31 | USA | Vietnam War | [4] |
November 9, 1965 | Roger Allen LaPorte | 22 | USA | Vietnam War | [5] |
May 16, 1967 | Nhất Chi Mai | 34 | South Vietnam | Vietnam War | [6] |
October 15, 1967 | Florence Beaumont | 55 | USA | Vietnam War | [7] |
September 8, 1968 | Ryszard Siwiec | 59 | Poland | Poland's participation in Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968) | Died in hospital four days later. |
November 5, 1968 | Vasyl Makukh | 40 | Ukraine | Soviet rule in Ukraine | [8] |
January 16, 1969 | Jan Palach | 20 | Czechoslovakia | Communist rule in Czechoslovakia | Student. Inspired a number of self-immolations in protest of Soviet satellite states. |
January 20, 1969 | Sándor Bauer | 17 | Hungary | Communist rule in Hungary | [9] |
February 25, 1969 | Jan Zajíc | 19 | Czechoslovakia | Communist rule in Czechoslovakia | Student. |
April 2, 1969 | Evžen Plocek | 39 | Czechoslovakia | Communist rule in Czechoslovakia | Businessman. |
April 9, 1969 | Eliyahu Rips | 20 | Latvia | Communist rule in Czechoslovakia | Survived, became professor of mathematics. |
1970s
Date | Name | Age | Country | Protesting | Notes and references |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
February 13, 1970 | Marton Moyses | 28 | Romania | Communist rule in Romania | |
May 10, 1970 | George Winne, Jr. | 23 | USA | Vietnam War | Student at the University of California, San Diego. Died the next day.[10] |
September 19, 1970 | Kostas Georgakis | 22 | Greece | Greek military junta of 1967–1974 | Student at the University of Genoa |
September 19, 1970 | Joseba Elosegi | 54 | Spain | Bombing of Guernica in 1937 | Survived |
November 21, 1970 | Jeon Tae-il | 22 | South Korea | For more robust labour laws and the government's opposition to reform | |
May 14, 1972 | Romas Kalanta | 19 | USSR | Communist rule in Lithuania | Inspired largest post-war riots in occupied Lithuania and USSR, and 13 other self-immolations |
June 6, 1972 | Huguette Gaulin | 28 | Canada | [11] | |
August 10, 1976 | Antanas Kalinauskas | 19 | USSR | Communist rule in Lithuania | In Soviet Army barracks in Gulbene, Latvia. Died next day. |
August 22, 1976 | Oskar Brüsewitz | 46 | East Germany | Communist rule in East Germany | Lutheran pastor |
February 10, 1977 | Alain Escoffier | 27 | France | Communism | |
November 16, 1977 | Hartmut Gründler | 37 | West Germany | Atomic policy | |
January 21, 1978 | Oleksa Hirnyk | 65 | USSR | Communist rule in Ukraine | |
June 23, 1978 | Musa Mamut | 46 | USSR | Persecution of Crimean Tatars | Died after five days[12] |
1980s
Date | Name | Age | Country | Protesting | Notes and references | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
March 21, 1981 | Per-Axel Arosenius | 60 | Sweden | Taxes | ||
August 10, 1982 | Artin Penik | 61 | Turkey | ASALA attack at Esenboğa International Airport | ||
November 2, 1983 | Sebastián Acevedo | Chile | Kidnapping of his children by the Chilean police during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet | [13] | ||
April 7, 1989 | Cheng Nan-jung | 41 | Taiwan | For Taiwan independence | [14] | |
May 19, 1989 | Chan I-hua | Taiwan | Blocking of funeral procession of Cheng Nan-jung | [15] | ||
March 2, 1989 | Liviu Cornel Babeş | 47 | Romania | Communist rule in Romania | [16] Set himself on fire on ski slope, died at hospital after 2 hours | |
March 2, 1989 | Vytautas Vičiulis | 37 | USSR | Communist rule in Lithuania | ||
March 24, 1989 | Kailash Pawar | India | To draw attention to plight of Bhopal gas victims and protest public indifference | [17] Original story published in the Hindu, March 26, 1990 |
1990s
Date | Name | Age | Country | Protesting | Notes and references |
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April 26, 1990 | Stanislovas Žemaitis | 52 | USSR | Communist rule in Lithuania | Protesting Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania. Died next day in Moscow hospital. |
May 9, 1990 | Rimantas Daugintis | 55 | USSR | Communist rule in Lithuania | Lithuanian sculptor self-immolated on Hungarian-Soviet border. Died after a few days. |
September 19, 1990 | Rajiv Goswami | 19 | India | Reservation in India | Survived, but inspired some 150 other self-immolations[18] |
February 18, 1991 | Gregory Levey | 30 | USA | First Gulf War | Amherst Common, MA. Particularly unremarked upon in press, as with other Gulf War protest self-immolations in US, even though Levey's father was married to nationally syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman[19][20] |
September 21, 1991 | Giorgi Abesadze | 35 | Republic of Georgia | Looming civil war in Georgia | Physician[21] |
February 21, 1994 | Homa Darabi | 54 | Iran | Women's rights after the Iranian Revolution | Biography Rage Against the Veil written by sister Parvin Darabi |
April 25, 1995 | Reinhold Elstner | 75 | Germany | Demonization of German soldiers after World War II | |
September 3, 1995 | Sabine Kratze | 25 | Vietnam | Trial of six Buddhist monks | |
October 22, 1996 | Kathy Change | 46 | USA | For directly democratic community-based self-government | |
January 13, 1998 | Alfredo Ormando | 29 | Italy | Roman Catholic Church's condemnation of homosexuality | |
April 27, 1998 | Thupten Ngodup | 60 | India | Political situation in Tibet | Ex-monk. In protest of police interference with unto-death hunger-strike in Delhi. Died two days later in hospital after visit by the Dalai Lama.[22][23][24] |
February 16, 1999 | Necla Coşkun | 14 | UK | Arrest of Abdullah Öcalan | Survived.[25] |
2000s
Date | Name | Age | Country | Protesting | Notes and references |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
January 21, 2001 | various | – | China | See Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident | [26] |
April 2, 2001 | Shahraz Kayani | 48 | Australia | Government refusal to grant entry to his wife and daughters | Pakistani refugee[27] |
July 21, 2004 | Mordehai (Hamimo) Cohen | 30 | Israel | Rejection of work license | Set himself on fire during a cityhall assembly[28] |
August 17, 2005 | Yelena Businov | 54 | Israel | Protest against Israel's unilateral disengagement plan | [29] |
August 31, 2005 | Baruch Ben Menahem | 21 | Israel | Protest against Israel's unilateral disengagement plan | [30] |
March 28, 2006 | Eleftheriya Fortulaki | Greece | Treatment of Kurds in Turkey | [31] | |
November 3, 2006 | Malachi Ritscher | 52 | USA | War in Iraq | Died at the spot.[32] |
June 11, 2006 | Pravin Joshi | 30 | India | Screening of Fanaa | Died 9 days later.[33] |
March 7, 2007 | Uddhav Bhandari | 40 | UK | Asylum policy | Nepali asylum seeker[34] |
April 1, 2007 | Heo Se-uk | 54 | South Korea | South Korea – United States Free Trade Agreement | [35] |
October 1, 2008 | Ramiro Guillén Tapia | 65 | Mexico | Local government in the city of Xalapa | [36] |
November 10, 2008 | Rosen Markov | - | Bulgaria | Broadcasting of Turkish news on Bulgarian National Television | [37] |
January 29, 2009 | Kumar Muthukumar | 26 | India | Killing of Sri Lankan Tamils | Inspired several other self-immolations[38] |
February 12, 2009 | Murugathasan Varnakulasingham | 26 | Switzerland | Sri Lankan Government Killing of the Sri Lankan Tamils | Inspired several other self-immolations[39] |
February 21, 2010 | Subram Yadaiah | 19 | India | For re-creating the state of Telengana in present-day Andhra Pradesh | Died in hospital.[40] |
February 27, 2009 | Tapey | mid-20s | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Monk, Kirti Monastery, Ngaba. Shot[41] by Chinese police while on fire, and then taken away by them. Status unknown.[41] |
2010s
Date | Name | Age | Country | Protesting | Notes and references |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
February 20, 2010 | Siripur Yadaiah | 19 | India | Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana | Student. Later died in hospital.[42] |
July 31, 2010 | Eshan Reddy | 20's | India | Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana | student sets himself alight as an offering for a deity pleading Statehood.[43] |
December 17, 2010 | Mohamed Bouazizi | 26 | Tunisia | Corruption in government | Inspired the 2010–2011 Tunisian protests leading to oust of President Ben Ali and "copycat" incidents in the Arab world.[44] |
January 16, 2011 | Venugopala Reddy | 20's | India | Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana | MCA student immolated himself near his university auditorium,died on the spot.[45] |
January 16, 2011 | Mohsen Bouterfif | – | Algeria | Unemployment and housing | Inspired by Bouazizi's self-immolation in Tunisia.[46] |
January 17, 2011 | Yacoub Ould Dahoud | 43 | Mauritania | Political situation in Mauritania | Same as above[47] |
March 16, 2011 | Rigzin Phuntsog | 21 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Beaten by police before they extinguished the flames. Died in hospital.[48][49][50][51] |
August 15, 2011 | Tsewang Norbu | 29 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Monk of Nyitso monastery in Kham Tawu. In Tawu. Died soon afterwards.[48][51][52][53] |
September 26, 2011 | Lobsang Kunchok | 18 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Set fire to self together with Lobsang Kelsang.[51][54][55] |
September 26, 2011 | Lobsang Kelsang | 18 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Set fire to self together with Lobsang Kunchok.[51][56] |
January 16, 2011 | Bhavani | 18 | India | Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana | [57] |
February 21, 2011 | Mohd Mustafa | 40 | India | Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana | [58] |
October 3, 2011 | Kelsang Wangchuk | 17 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Beaten and taken away by security personnel. [59] |
October 7, 2011 | Kayang | 17 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Former monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Clasped hands with Choepel; died.[51][60] |
October 7, 2011 | Choepel | 19 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Former monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Clasped hands with Kayang; died.[51][61] China Daily reported they were "slightly injured".[62] |
October 15, 2011 | Norbu Damdrul | 19 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Former monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Kicked and removed from scene by authorities. Current status unknown.[51][63] |
October 17, 2011 | Tenzin Wangmo | 20 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Nun of Mame Dechen Chokorling. In Ngaba, Amdo. Died.[51][64] |
October 21, 2011 | Wang | 42 | China | Legal inequalities in China | At Tiananmen Square, Beijing. Taken to hospital by police; evidence at scene erased immediately.[51][65] |
October 25, 2011 | Dawa Tsering | 38 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Monk of Kardze Monastery. In Kardze, Amdo. Current status unknown.[51][66] |
November 3, 2011 | Palden Choetso | 35 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Nun in Tawu, Kardze. Reported died by Xinhua.[51][67][68] |
November 4, 2011 | Sherab Tsedor | 25 | India | Political situation in Tibet | Layperson. Outside Chinese embassy in New Delhi. Overpowered by police and hospitalized with minor burns.[69][70][71] |
November 11, 2011 | Yenesew Gebre | 29 | Ethiopia | Corruption of dictatorship government | Inspired by Bouazizi's self-immolation in Tunisia.[72] |
December 1, 2011 | Tenzin Phuntsok | 46[73] | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Ex-monk, Karma Monastery, Chamdo.[74][75] Died on December 6 in Chamdo Hospital in Tibet[73] Reported in China Daily, as a "farmer" who "is considered eccentric".[76] |
December 7, 2011 | Sondang Hutagalung | 22 | Indonesia | Disputed | [77] |
January 6, 2012 | Tennyi | Around 20 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | [78] |
January 6, 2012 | Tsultrim | Around 20 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | [79] |
January 8, 2012 | Sopa Tulku / Sonam Wangyal | 42 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | [80][81] |
January 14, 2012 | Jamyang Losang | 20s | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Former monk of Andu monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Deceased.[82] |
February 3, 2012 | Tsaptai Tsering, Kyarel, and unknown name | 60, 30, unknown | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Three laypersons. In Serthar. Incident published in several places, but unconfirmed.[83][84] |
February 8, 2012 | Rigzin Dorje (Rinzin) | Around 18 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Former monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Died Feb 21 in hospital.[85] |
February 9, 2012 | Sonam Rabyang | 30s | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Monk of Lab Monastery. In Tridu town, Yushu County, Kham. Taken to hospital; condition unclear.[86] |
February 11, 2012 | Tenzin Choedron | 18 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Nun of Mame Dechen Chokorling. In Ngaba, Amdo. Taken away by soldiers and police, and died soon afterwards.[87][88] |
February 13, 2012 | Lobsang Gyatso | 19 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Current status unknown.[89][90] |
February 17, 2012 | Damchoe Sangpo | 40 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Monastic official of Bongthak monastery. In Themchen, Tsonub, Amdo. Died on the spot.[91] |
February 19, 2012 | Nangdrol | 18 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Layperson. In Dzamthang, Amdo. Died on the spot.[92] |
March 3, 2012 | Tsering Kyi | 19 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Girl from Tibetan middle school. In the vegetable market at Maqu County, Kanlho, Gansu. Died on the spot.[93][94] |
March 4, 2012 | Rinchen | 32 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Occupation unknown. In Ngaba, Amdo. Died on the spot.[93] |
March 5, 2012 | Dorje (Dorjee) | 18 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Occupation unknown. In Ngaba, Amdo. Deceased.[95] |
March 10, 2012 | Gapey (Gepey) | 18 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Died on the spot.[96] |
March 13, 2012 | Jamyang Palden | 30s | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Monk of Rongpo monastery. In Rebkong, Amdo. Current status unknown.[97] |
March 16, 2012 | Lobsang Tsultrim | 20 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Died in custody.[98] |
March 17, 2012 | Sonam Thargyal (Dargye, Dhargay) | 44 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Farmer in Rebkong, Amdo. Died on the spot.[99][100] |
March 24, 2012 | L Bhoja Naik | 21 | India | For the creation of the state of Telangana | MBA student set himself on fire in front of his college. Died on the spot.[101] |
March 26, 2012 | Jamphel Yeshi | 20 | India | Political situation in Tibet | Layperson in Delhi. Died 2 days later in hospital.[102][103] |
March 26, 2012 | Rajmouli | 40 | India | Telangana | For separate statehood to Telangana[104][105] |
March 26, 2012 | BR Goud | n/a | India | Telangana | For separate statehood to Telangana[106] |
March 27, 2012 | Pallavi | 17 | India | For creation of state of Telangana | Later died in hospital.[107] |
March 28, 2012 | K Uppalaiah | 30 | India | For creation of state of Telangana | [108] |
March 28, 2012 | Lobsang Sherab | 20 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Monk of Kirti Monastery.[109] In Ngaba, Amdo. Died on the spot.[110][111] |
March 24, 2012 | S Srikanth | 23 | India | For creation of state of Telangana | Died in the hospital.[112] |
March 27, 2012 | Kalakanchi Ilaiah | 30 | India | Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana | Scrap dealer.[113] |
March 30, 2012 | Tenpa Dhargyal (Darjey) | 22 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Monk of Tsodun monastery. In Barkham, Amdo. Forcibly removed to hospital by Chinese security forces. Current status unknown.[114][115] |
March 30, 2012 | Chimey Palden (Chime) | 21 | Tibet | Political situation in Tibet | Monk of Tsodun monastery. In Barkham, Amdo. Forcibly removed to hospital by Chinese security forces.[115][116] Died later that day around midnight.[117] |
March 30, 2012 | Shyamapuri Shankar | 24 | India | Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana | [118] |
March 30, 2012 | Bandavath Suresh | 25 | India | Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana | suffered 50% burns.[119] |
July 14, 2012 | Moshe Silman | 57 | Israel | Social justice march in Tel Aviv | Social justice activist, suffered 90% burns.[120] Died of his wounds on July 20 in a hospital.[121] |
July 15, 2012 | Classified | 30 | Israel | social injustice protest | Protested his debts.[122] |
July 16, 2012 | Zion Vaknin[123] | 46 | Israel | social injustice protest | In the Beersheba city hall, in protest of debts.[124] |
July 20, 2012 | Akiva Mafi | 45 | Israel | social injustice protest | Akiva Mafi[125] (45) Disabled IDF veteran sets himself on fire in Yehud, on behalf of wounded veterans.[126][127] Died on Aug 1, 2012.[128] New agency established to prevent more cases. |
July 18, 2012 | Valentina Gerasimovna | 57 | Russia | A woman attempted self-immolation at the public reception center of the ruling United Russia party in Novosibirsk. She earlier addressed the party's public reception center for legal advice as an apartment buyer.[129][130] Died in the hospital.[131] | |
July 31, 2012 | Ta Phong Tan's mother | Vietnam | Protest against 2011 crackdown on Vietnamese youth activists[132] Died in the hospital. |
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