Start, Wage, Loving: For Joy Serve Soul In Solidarity

5.07.2015

Video. 3 minutes. Stop. Parkour. Just watch.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BgsrxU2lV0c&feature=youtu.be

SPDF Day 52-14: Thu 050715 Medical update. Surgery?

My awe only increases by the hour with the competence kindness and compassion of this extraordinary hospital.

The surgical team concurs that this is my 7th episode.

I emphasized with them this morning two factors that I was not sure I had clearly enough registered before: 1. The first blockage event was about 4 months ago, an 18 hour event that finally resolved itself, but the exact same pattern of all these more current events. 2. I made sure that they were understanding that 2 weeks ago today I ended a 52 day water only hunger strike(SPDF Stop Palestines Death Fast ).

It is clear to me that they have all of this in mind now.

It remains their near certainty, and mine, that these problems are a result of the unavoidable scarring that has occurred with my cancer surgeries.

I have just returned from another series of x-rays that they ordered.

I'm sure that I will hear from the team later on today.

I do not think any of us have yet decided what is in store now by way of treatment, how long I am in the hospital, the likelihood or timing of any surgery, etc. What the doctor did decide was to take me off of solids and put me back on a diet of nothing by mouth. The ivy has just been restarted with saline and glucose

This is just conjecture on my part, but now that I think of it, nothing by mouth suggest to me that they may be thinking that surgery is something they have moved to a higher likelihood.

We had been expecting that I would be released from the hospital this morning. Clearly that is no longer the plan.

12 p.m. update: The surgical team just came in and evaluated me. The head surgeon wants me to go back on regular diet immediately. IV removed. It is not that they are doubting any of my symptoms. it is simply their judgment that we should give it more time and see if my system can learn to cope with the incoming food. I should receive lunch momentarily. I'll have dinner. a meal tomorrow morning. If all of that goes well then they will discharge me tomorrow and we will see what happens. If and when there is the onset of another event then they have decided to administer a test that in time lapse watches the food go through my intestines so that they can better spot what is going on, where, more exactly.

SPDF: Israeli defense minister promises to kill more civilians and threatens to nuke Iran

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israeli-defense-minister-promises-kill-more-civilians-and-threatens-nuke-iran

***** SPDF: Why right-wing Christians are actively promoting genocide A leading Evangelical magazine is calling for the destruction of Islam. It's not the outlier we might like to think

http://www.salon.com/2014/10/07/why_right_wing_christians_are_actively_promoting_genocide_partner/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Reports: Israeli Air Force attacked in Sudan

http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/politics-and-military/military/reports-israeli-air-force-attacked-in-sudan-13288

5.06.2015

***** SPDF. Med Update. Houston, we have a problem.

At about 10:30 today they started me on normal solid foods. A normal, tasty breakfast. A normal, tasty lunch. A normal, tasty dinner. Since ending the hunger strike 2 weeks ago tomorrow I was extremely careful to be wise and informed regarding the process of gently enabling my body to switch from consuming itself to being able to consume food. In addition to the years of experience that I have with this, I did additional reading, and was sure that I was heading the advice quite well. And yet, as some of you know, whether related to the hunger strike or not, my body has been quite a disaster as it relates to my stomach and gastrointestinal tract since Saturday morning about 10 days ago. Friday night when the medical team inserted an NG tube in my nose was 8 days of four bouts of ever-increasing intense abdominal pain clearly a consequence of partial and then finally total bowel obstruction. Since Friday night, 6 days ago now the medical team has had me on IV fluids until about 2 days ago, then 2 days of clear liquids, and beginning this morning solid food. Their intention was to give my bowel the opportunity to totally totally totally decompress and our hope, our expectation, was that upon eating food as I begin this morning the problem would not reappear.

Well, it has totally reappeared. Despite being three times more careful than ever, eating extremely slowly, one meal over 2 hours, chewing extremely carefully and slowly, consuming plenty of liquids, avoiding high roughage food, taking great care to never reach the point of feeling full ... I have the same distension, the same early low level of pain, as has been characteristic of the prior four bouts beginning about 10 days ago.

My wonderful young nurse that has been with me most of the days called the medical team to inform them about 45 minutes ago and they are due to come examine me soon.

This is distressing, I admit it. And it is totally nothing in the scheme of things, Palestine, environmental Armageddon, the end of democracy.....

Yes, it is a great blessing that it is happening here at the hospital, and the medical team, surely they are due credit for keeping me this additional night in the event that there was something to see. Well, show number 5 has begun.

***** SPDF: WOW WOW WOW. SO THAT'S IT ABOUT CREATURES LIKE ME! HUH.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2015/05/04/shades-of-sensitivity/

Israel's just elected justice minister, 1 year ago called for the extermination of Palestinians. democracy my effing ass. White supremacy, if not received, fundamentalist extremism, Naziesque....

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-lawmakers-call-genocide-palestinians-gets-thousands-facebook-likes

DN! vid. "Kill Anything": Israeli Soldiers Say Gaza Atrocities Came from Orders for Indiscriminate Fire

http://m.democracynow.org/stories/15193

The Israel Project for Disinformation, Subjugation, and Occupation, So-Called TIP, Targets Amnesty International

http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20Editorials/2015/May/5%20o/The%20Israel%20Project%20for%20Disinformation,%20Subjugation,%20and%20Occupation,%20So-Called%20TIP,%20Targets%20Amnesty%20International%20By%20Stuart%20Littlewood.htm

SPDF: Malevolence can be the only possible motive for creating sonic booms over Gaza at the very time aid agencies, medics and other humanitarian aid workers are engaged in the monumental attempt to alleviate suffering in the blockaded territory.

http://chat2gaza.com/2015/05/01/gaza-a-living-nightmare-for-its-children/

By punching downward, by attacking a powerless, disenfranchised minority with crude, vulgar drawings closer to graffiti than cartoons,” Trudeau contended, “Charlie wandered into the realm of hate speech, which in France is only illegal if it directly incites violence. Well, voila—the 7 million copies that were published following the killings did exactly that.”

http://www.alternet.org/culture/hebdos-dubious-pen-pals-privileged-conservative-pundits

SPDF: Israel's explanation for killing two journalists in Gaza? Palestinians aren't journalists, they're 'targets'

http://mondoweiss.net/2012/11/israels-explanation-for-killing-two-journalists-in-gaza-palestinians-arent-journalists-theyre-targets

Wikileaks Sony Hack Reveals Hollywood’s Hand In Repairing Israel’s Broken Image

http://www.mintpressnews.com/wikileaks-sony-hack-reveals-hollywoods-hand-in-repairing-israels-broken-image/205176/

SPDF Day 52-12: 'Indiscriminate' Killing in Gaza Was Top-Down War Plan, say Israeli Veterans | Common Dreams

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/04/indiscriminate-killing-gaza-was-top-down-war-plan-say-israeli-veterans

5.05.2015

***** Paul Krugman: Tens of millions of lives poisoned by grotesque inequalities

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/paul-krugman-tens-of-millions-of-lives-poisoned-by-grotesque-inequalities-1.2199625

China orders Muslim shopkeepers to sell alcohol, cigarettes, to ‘weaken’ Islam

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/05/05/china-orders-muslim-shopkeepers-to-sell-alcohol-cigarettes-to-weaken-islam/?tid=sm_fb

SPDF: Robert Reich: The Trans Pacific Partnership is a corporate hijacking

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/05/robert_reich_the_trans_pacific_partnership_is_trickle_down_economics_by_another_name_partner/

***** SPDF: Godly Jewish High schoolers riding Jerusalem's light rail speak only Arabic to focus attention on incidents in which people were attacked because of the language they spoke.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4653796,00.html?preview=true

French companies have withdrawn from the Jerusalem cable-car Judaization project, which is largely located over Jerusalem’s Old City

http://falastinews.com/2015/04/29/boycott-french-companies-quit-jerusalem-cable-car-project/

South African universities join academic boycott of Israel

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/africa/18429-south-african-universities-join-academic-boycott-of-israel

***** SPDF: Max Blumenthal. As the Palestinians do today, Spanish Jews resisted oppression in tunnels and, exiled, clutched their keys

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/05/resisted-oppression-clutched

***** Report about Israeli soldiers in 2014 war: 'If you shoot someone in Gaza, it's cool' CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/04/middleeast/israeli-soldiers-gaza-war-breaking-the-silence/

***** SPDF Download and open a report called "This is How We Fought in Gaza: Soldiers' testimonies and photographs from Operation 'Protective Edge' (2014)."

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/a-special-place-in-hell/.premium-1.655059

***** SPDF: HA'ARETZ Whatever your politics, you should know this: These soldiers and the people of Breaking the Silence are Israeli patriots. They are advocating for Israel.