Smokers in Italy Hit With New Fines to Protect the Young

http://mobile.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/02/02/world/europe/ap-eu-italy-smoking.html?referer=https://news.google.com

***** 14 year old Palestinian girl who confronts the Israeli army. Video. My dream is to become a lawyer to protect my family, or a football player if Palestine is liberated.

https://youtu.be/srmuxDYCig0

***** The humanity, decency, compassion, understanding, intelligence... with which the Muslim community is responding to western white supremacist hatred, violence, murder, colonialism, exploitation, genocide... is the most Christlike.......

***** The humanity, decency, compassion, understanding, intelligence... with which the Muslim community is responding to western white supremacist hatred, violence, murder, colonialism, exploitation, genocide... is the most Christlike thing I can recall seeing in my life from a group. The only thing second to this that I can think of is the response of the true Jews ( adherence to the justice and righteousness of the Prophets) to the Zionist imperialism, genocide of the Palestinians, that they are facing with incredible courage, decency, discipline, paying the price, academic rigor....

***** extremely excellent on multiple levels. Must watch. 2 billion sentence loving animals we kill every week, we murder every week. The matrix

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=956279701086873&id=180830878631763

***** Dozens protest in support of Israeli conscientious objector Tair Kaminer is expected to be sentenced to a month in military jail for refusing to enlist in the IDF. Kaminer: ‘Military jail frightens me less than the our society losing its humanity.’

http://972mag.com/dozens-protest-outside-idf-base-in-support-of-conscientious-objector/115807/

***** pic. Your help is welcome. Suggestions, recommendations? The final version of this will be my new every waking second uniform on shirt, jacket, etc. Please share with me any strong comments you have. Thank you. I am NOT meaning for this.......

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**** Your help is welcome. Suggestions, recommendations? The final version of this will be my new every waking second uniform on shirt, jacket, etc. Please share with me any strong comments you have. Thank you. I am NOT meaning for this to be cute, pretty, catchy.... I am meaning for it to be the best expression of the essential truths of human sanity, humanity, Joy and Salvation from this deadly 2016 world as lived and taught by Jesus and the other great laborers of love throughout history, that I have yet learned to see and express, & I think it's getting pretty close. This has come to me in pieces, in the middle of the night, over the last few days. I am deeply moved and grateful.

***** vid. Israeli Jews and Arabs kissing. ***** profoundly wonderful on multiple levels. Please watch. Please share.

***** profoundly wonderful on multiple levels. Please watch. Please share. 
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10207134541714828&id=1620551416

***** Louis Tse didn’t always live out of his car. Nine months ago, he forfeited his Westwood apartment to fund a shelter for those who are not homeless by choice. Tse said he is using his rent money to help create a student-run shelter for people aged 18 to 24. The shelter will be located in a local church a few blocks from campus.

http://dailybruin.com/2016/01/07/students-start-bruin-shelter-for-westwood-homeless-population/

Look around you, at the 2016 world ... and where it is headed. Unless and until things are profoundly turned around, no one with a shred of humanity, compassion, empathy... should bring new children into the world.

Look around you, at the 2016 world ... and where it is headed. Unless and until things are profoundly turned around, no one with a shred of humanity, compassion, empathy... should bring new children into the world.

Last night was horrible, terrible. An avalanche of nightmares, dreams, images.. anxiety, inferiority , failure, accurate memories... how......

Last night was horrible, terrible.  An avalanche of nightmares, dreams, images.. anxiety, inferiority , failure, accurate memories...  how alien I have always been, what a fool I have always been seen as, so inadequate, so profoundly socially inept, in this Western culture. Agonizing. Debilitating. Only through force of will did I climb out of bed quite sure I would have to return shortly curled up in a fetal position, to try and work my way out of it. After I was up, after an hour or two, I received the gift of a different perspective. My perspective shifted from the scorn, ridicule, contempt... that the world has for me. It shifted to what I imagined the Creator thinks of me and what I do. It shifted to what I imagine Jesus thinks of me and what I do. And then I felt sane again.

***** 10 Quotes From a Sioux Indian Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About “Modern” Culture

http://expandedconsciousness.com/2015/01/26/10-quotes-sioux-indian-chief-will-make-question-everything-modern-culture/

Muslim and Jewish Feminists Gather to Seek Common Ground

http://forward.com/sisterhood/327510/muslim-and-jewish-feminists-gather-to-seek-common-ground/

***** video. Canadian children welcoming Muslim children and refugees to Canada. The song and the story. Beautiful

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10207006860322873&id=1620551416

***** How Volunteers From All Over the World Have Transformed the Refugee Crisis on Lesbos

https://news.vice.com/article/how-volunteers-from-all-over-the-world-have-transformed-the-refugee-crisis-on-lesbos

***** 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

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/

***** 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/

***** Dying for a story: Brazil’s journalists are being killed at record rates

http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/2015/12/brazil-killings-of-journalists-reach-record-rates.html

American Muslims trump hate with love, raising $173k for San Bernardino victims in 6 days.

http://www.upworthy.com/american-muslims-trump-hate-with-love-raising-173k-for-san-bernardino-victims-in-6-days?c=ufb1

Little Girl's Only Wish For Christmas Is To Save A Turkey's Life

https://www.thedodo.com/girl-saves-turkey-1492388560.html