Seen on Facebook: Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy requires getting down on your knees at eye level with the neediest and feeling their pain.

Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy requires getting down on your knees at eye level with the neediest and feeling their pain.

!!!!! URGENT CALL TO ACTION... How Interfaith Activists Will Counter This Week's Anti-Muslim Rallies

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5612dfcce4b0baa355ace8c8

On Sept. 23, 2015, at least 19 and possibly as many as 22 men in Administrative Detention at the Menard Correctional Center began a hunger strike ...

http://sfbayview.com/2015/10/menard-hunger-strike-sept-23-28-trying-to-make-it-better-for-the-next-person-who-rests-in-this-tomb/

Environmentalists: The Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement Is A Disaster For Climate Change

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/10/05/3709061/tpp-agreement-reached-environmental-concerns-remain/

South Carolina floods: climate change intensified conditions, scientists say

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/05/south-carolina-floods-climate-change

Sanders campaign apologizes for threatened arrest of pro-Palestine activists outside Boston rally

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/06/sanders-campaign-apologizes-for-threatened-arrest-of-pro-palestine-activists-outside-boston-rally/

Owning Up to Failed 'War on Drugs,' DOJ To Release Wave of Nonviolent Offenders New guidelines will bring clemency to thousands of low-level offenders, but many more still 'trapped' in broken criminal justice system

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/06/owning-failed-war-drugs-doj-release-wave-nonviolent-offenders

Video: Palestinian artists answer Israel’s Gaza war propaganda

https://electronicintifada.net/content/video-palestinian-artists-answer-israels-gaza-war-propaganda/14891

***** Israel: the arms supplier to the global elite's control of the rest of us. Be effing afraid.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/writingfromtheedge/2015/10/how-does-israel-get-away-with-it-a-leading-jewish-israeli-activist-speaks-out/

Edward Snowden, I am ready to go to prison. "I have paid a price but I feel comfortable with the decisions that I have made. If I'm gone tomorrow, I'm happy with what I had. I feel blessed.

http://cnnphilippines.com/world/2015/10/07/Edward-Snowdens-ready-to-go-to-prison-waiting-on-answer-from-US.html

***** Tea Party Republicans Fit The Mayo Clinic’s Description of Sociopaths

http://planetpov.com/2013/10/17/tea-party-republicans-fit-the-mayo-clinics-description-of-sociopaths/

I have a proposal... new law: For every 100 innocent civilians killed by our US taxpayer-funded American and Israeli military, one white American adult male, at random, gets executed immediately.

I have a proposal... new law: For every 100 innocent civilians killed by our US taxpayer-funded American  and Israeli military, one white American adult male, at random, gets executed immediately.

***** Must must must must read. The 2nd amendment is a gun control amendment. Read that again.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-second-amendment-is-a-gun-control-amendment?mbid=nl_151003_Daily&CNDID=27079343&spMailingID=8124846&spUserID=MTAyNDExMDU1MjA2S0&spJobID=780251179&spReportId=NzgwMjUxMTc5S0

Doomsday Clock Puts Us 3 Minutes Away from Apocalypse

http://time.com/3680932/doomsday-clock-three-minutes/

***** I caught a glimpse of something very significant this morning. It is an......

***** I caught a glimpse of something very significant this morning. It is an evolution of something I've written of in the last several weeks. In fact, I was in a building with many many other people that speak and live in a very rough manner. A microcosm, really, of our broader culture. A vision came to me, nothing mystical, a vision came to me where I could see alongside each and every individual, in my mind, a tiny shadow self, the spirit of the child they had been, the spirit of Loving, awe, wonder, Brotherhood, reverence for life. It was evident that that shadow person was displaced by the worldly person. That led me to see that the revolution, the only revolution that could save the future, the only revolution that has ever been available, is to lead successfully a rebellion, the overthrow of the worldly person by that displaced shadow which is the loving child. That is the army that needs to come into power. That is what I must try and learn to activate, empower, raise.

" you cannot call yourself an intellectual if all you use your intellectual gifts for is to find excuses not to do anything. Which, sadly, is what I think a lot of intellectuals do.”

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/sarah-irving/henning-mankell-wanted-destroy-monster-israeli-apartheid

Dissent on Israel Not Permitted at Bernie Sanders Event

https://theintercept.com/2015/10/05/dissent-on-israel-not-permitted-at-bernie-sanders-event/?comments=1#comments

Jeff helper Israel and the war against the world's people

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/writingfromtheedge/2015/10/how-does-israel-get-away-with-it-a-leading-jewish-israeli-activist-speaks-out/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=writingfromtheedge_100215UTC061011_daily&utm_content&spMailingID=49681754&spUserID=MTQxNzQ0NzE4NTIwS0&spJobID=780214149&spReportId=NzgwMjE0MTQ5S0

Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters

http://m.truthdig.com/report/item/local_resistance_can_overthrow_our_political_masters_20151004

'Let the people of Israel enter the gates and kill Arabs'

http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel/.premium-1.678800

H ow poverty affects children’s brains

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/no-poor-child-left-behind/2015/10/02/df86c56e-4048-11e5-9561-4b3dc93e3b9a_story.html

Must read: "I think he is speaking to all of our consciences, and we all have to then search ourselves to see if there are ways that we can do better."

http://www.people.com/article/president-obama-pope-francis-inspired-me-be-better

Israel 'playing with fire' on Temple Mount, Erdogan warns

http://m.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Israel-playing-with-fire-on-Temple-Mount-Erdogan-warns-419839#article=6017MTlBQjI0OTA5NTE1NjIzMkMyRDJCM0M0N0Q4MkIwRDI=

VIDEO: Is Palestine the Exception to Free Speech Rights in the U.S.?

http://m.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/video_is_palestine_the_exception_to_free_speech_in_the_us_20151003

Must read! Before Milton Friedman was earning plaudits as an economic genius, he was a shill for the real estate industry and an early pioneer for big business propaganda known as libertarianism

http://www.alternet.org/visions/true-history-libertarianism-america-phony-ideology-promote-corporate-agenda

Flash Floods, 'Once in 200 Years Rainfall Event' Loom in South Carolina

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/flash-floods-once-200-years-rainfall-event-loom-south-carolina-n438041

Oslo was from the very beginning a tool for Israeli expansionism — it's time to let go

http://972mag.com/oslo-has-become-a-tool-for-israeli-expansionism-its-time-to-let-go/112254/

Islamic Holocaust: Western wars have killed AT LEAST 4 million Muslims since 1990

http://www.sott.net/article/303020-Islamic-Holocaust-Western-wars-have-killed-AT-LEAST-4-million-Muslims-since-1990

***** I am a single issue voter on Palestine and you should be too. Holocaust anywhere is an invitation to Holocaust everywhere.

***** I am a single issue voter on Palestine and you should be too. Holocaust anywhere is an invitation to Holocaust everywhere.

War Against the People is a genuinely frightening book. At its heart, author Jeff Halper provides an exhaustive survey of Israel’s weapons technology.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-does-israel-get-away-it/14882