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2.17.2009

I Quake when I pray now. Involutary. Always. We don't have much time left.

This  is significant.

I have become the proverbial canary in the coal mine.

When I pray, my practice is to imagine that there is a perfectly Loving parent of us all;  where in the world, where  in the "family" is shehe looking?  That directs my attention.  To Gaza, to Darfur, to the Glaciers, to the dying seas, to the rain forests, to sub Sahara Africa, to the Himalayan Glaciers, to the millions of species going extinct...

to our DYING world,

to the END OF CIVILIZATION.

I physically start to twitch now, and it does not stop.

We don't have much time left to save our planet, our only home.

Don't ignore what I am telling you, any longer.

NEW SITE: Obama <<< King <<< FDR <<< Gandhi <<< Lincoln <<< Jesus !!!!!!

I am thinking of doing a new site, but for now I'll use this site to support God's last great gift to us, our last chance.

 The greatest Quarterback the world EVER has been given.


BUT WE ARE THE TEAM, AND SO FAR
WE worse-than-SUCK.



And Civilization IS OVER unless we
 get on the freekin field and play like
the whole world depneds on it,
because it totally does.

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HUGE VIDEOS 2/17/09. HUGE.

JUST FIND THE TIME. JUST MAKE THE TIME!!!! THESE ARE NECESSARY. NOW.
  1. DN!!!!! COAL ACTIVISTS ARRESTED
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mODSFRLY0kc
  2. DN!!!!! 1BILLION NEW POVERTY VICTIMS <<<<<<< DO NOT MISS THIS

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXbkOGWLRK0
  3. PROSECUTING YOO: Michael Isikoff on "The Rachel Maddow Show"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6JArB2p7lo

  4. DN!!!!! GREEN NEW DEAL NOW, OR BYE BYE NATIONAL SECURITY
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb-zxB5r7zo
  5. DN!!!!!! TODAY'S ISRAEL/US WAR CRIMES
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKVHkt3WmIA
  6. DN!!! MILITARY CRIME OUT-DOES MADOFF PONZI
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7pfIkq7-bE
  7. DN!!!! "WAR CRIMES" FROM ISRAEL
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fchk6yWnMuQ
  8. DN!!!! US DESTROYS HUMAN RIGHTS WORLDWIDE
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUj2KiJeRaA
  9. DN!!!!!!! COAL TO DESTROY 90 MTNS. IN ...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C36AIshlcnM
  10. DN! AFRICA 1of2
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjTn7rCllL4
  11. !!!!!GAZA ACTIVISTS FIRED UPON!!!!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCj_qEBk_Ko
  12. No militant activism? No "America." Naomi Wolf
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FzMNr7C-5w
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Start's Going's On This Week

This week I expect to be covering the signs, studying Civilization-Ending Climate Change, America$ Bleeding War$, updating these blogs with what I find, doing a shift each day at the 28 year Peace Vigil (http://prop1.org), and maintaining http://YouTube.com/StartLovingt1.

Next week?  I don't know.  What I NEED to do is begin another Hunger Strike to CUT WAR FUND PEACE $200B FAST, NOW, AND OCCUPATION.  I'll be praying on whether that is what God/Good needs, wants me to do now, so soon after the last one.
 
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"Piece" of mind DETERMINES "Peace" of mind

More than cute.

Which PIECE of your mind you use determines whether you have PEACE of mind.

PEACE of mind comes ONLY FROM using the PIECE of your mind that is UNIVERSAL LOVE.

Our lives are the ONLY resource that is OURS; THAT IS OUR RESPONSIILITY.

Everything else is God's, Fate's, Cosmic Rock's....

SL here. GOODBYE FRIENDS. I've harressed you long enough.

And now there is an alternative.

I've filled your EMail Boxes or Spam Buckets, as the case may be, with unsolicited email long enough!!!!

My volume of outgoing is likely to continue, BUT NOT TO YOU!!!!

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I think how it works, you will get one email each day with that day's posts, if any have been made.

IF you do this, it would be helpful to know from you after a time, if this works, or does not!!!!
 
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REAL "change" happens when COMMITMENT EXCEEDS 99.99999%. Now, everything LESS is KILLING HUMANITY'S TIME.

[NOTE: I share things like this with a select few of you NOT because I assume YOU don't know it, but rather because it strikes me as something I NEED to keep in the front of mind.]

This is not how I WISH it were. THIS IS HOW IT IS. In an excellent, brief video...

No militant activism? No "America." Naomi Wolf


... Naomi makes a key point: AN EFFECTIVE "ACTION" CHANGES PEOPLE - CHANGES THEIR SPIRIT.

Not their minds, although effective "action" WILL do that, but their SPIRIT.
REAL "change" happens when THE ACTIVIST'S COMMITMENT EXCEEDS 99.99999%.
In the face of today's global genocidal prospects
(http://homeearthsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/02/discoverer-of-cfcs-on-warming-number-of.html) Everything less is KILLING HUMANITY'S TIME LEFT.

* MLK's words were brilliant, BUT WE LISTENED BECAUSE OF HIS ABSOLUTE COMMITMENT.
* Civil Rights marchers were effective, BECAUSE OF THEIR COURAGEOUS COMMITMENT.
* Sowetto child marchers were successful, BECAUSE OF THEIR TOTAL COMMITMENT.
* Oscar Romero...
* Teresa of Calcutta...
* Diane Wilson...
* St. Thomas of Peace Park...
* Conception of Peace Park...
* Lincoln, FDR, Obama...
* Col. Ann Wright...
* Nancy...
* Nicholas...
* Rick...
* SC
* Liz Horican (the Hurricane!!!!)...
* And so few others....

"Anyone can be great, ,because anyone can serve."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


IF I know anything, personally, it has to do with this because my entire adult life has been based on the need to achieve exactly this, dramatically change people's spirits, because nothing less could achieve the dramatic situation turn-arounds that I needed to cause. It is what I've studied. It is what I've practiced, if with only periodic success.

Spirit is everything. Changing spirit is everything. Changing spirit COSTS EVERYTHING - TOTAL PERSONAL COMMITMENT.

2.15.2009

DEADLY ASSUMPTION - THAT WHICH IS NOT "SELFISH" IS "SACRIFICE"

Neurophysiologically, the opposite is true.  We have it exactly backwards in our culture.  "SELFISH" is ALWAYS the "sacrifice" of the experience of God - Universal Love - which CAN be our "actual experience" all waking hours.  ALWAYS AND ENTIRELY.  I swear.

Reexamine your assumption:  That which is "selfish" is "sacrifice." 

I am not sharing theory here.  I find, having followed a "Call" for more than 10 years now that we in the West have been "moved" to an "alternate reality," the WRONG alternate reality.

Community, Universal Love, Universal Family is what we are BORN INTO.

A sick and dying (clinically cancerous) Western Culture forcibly abducts us from the Real Reality - UNIVERSAL "FAMILY."

Yes, yes, yes I've said this a million times now, but this Revelation has just hit me now:


OUR DEADLY WESTERN ASSUMPTION -
THAT WHICH IS NOT "SELFISH" IS "SACRIFICE."
Neurophysiologically, the opposite is true.
THAT WHICH IS SELFISH IS SACRIFICE.
I swear.
Start Loving

My proof?  The ONLY proof Jesus EVER provided.  "The Kingdom of God (Reality) is inside you, be like a child and enter in."  The Proof is in yourself.  Ask, and you shall receive.
 
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BELIEFS: What you DO.

2.13.2009

STRIKE TO CUT WAR FUND PEACE $200B FAST ENDED IN PREPARATION FOR NEXT CAMPAIGN

February 13, 2009 Washington DC. Start Loving announced the conclusion of a fast begun December 19th to redirect tax payer funds from war making to peace building (NewsBlaze Jan. 3, 2009). Start Loving, a long time peace and social justice activist, stated, "I'm asked all the time if hunger strikes make a difference? I believe every action makes a difference. Only the direction and degree are in question. Now would Barney Frank be taking as courageous a stand on cutting the military budget had his office not witnessed the Hunger Strike and my Occupation on Capitol Hill these last two months, ("Cut the Military Budget,," Barney Frank, The Nation 2/13/09)? That I'll never know."

Diane Wilson, another activist who joined the hunger strike weeks later from her home in Texas after Start loving began the strike and round the clock occupation of Capital Hill on December 19, said, "Our action is informed by what Gandhi called for, 'Be the change you wish to see.' We cannot expect courageous action from others unless we citizens live it ourselves. This especially applies to Congress"

On day 35 of the Hunger Strike and after many positive moves by the Obama administration came into view, Wilson and Loving went into "hold" mode - half rations. Today, Start said he was concluding the campaign because Congress, the target audience, was going home for a week and also positive moves continue come from the Obama administration, and from many Democrats on the Hill.

Loving stated, "With the Congress away we will use the time to regain strength for the next leg of the battle. I expect, however, to spend many more months on the Hill lobbying for sanity. With the economy in shambles, it is insane for the US to spend $1 trillion on war-making. Just yesterday, Russia announced they are cutting their $45 billion budget by 15% due to their financial crisis. We should be doing the same. Now."

2.04.2009

THOMAS GOES OVER THEIR HEADS: DN! 80% NUC REDUCTION OBAMA TO PROPOSE?

Watch the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t_EFyS2p78

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4R2tRPggRA

Russia welcomes US nuclear pledge
ABC Online, Australia - 6 hours ago
Russia says they are all for a new treaty with the US on a limitation of offensive strategic weapons. (Reuters: Sergei Karpukhin ) Russia has welcomed a new ...Times: Obama Wants New Russia Nuke Pact
CBS News, NY - 7 hours ago
The Times of London reports today that President Barack Obama is working toward a new nuclear non-proliferation agreement with Russia that could see both ...Russia welcomes Barack Obama call to cut nuclear weapons
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 7 hours ago
Russia has welcomed US President Barack Obama's call for a new round of international talks to cut stockpiles of nuclear weapons. ... THE MI COMPLEX WILL FIGHT THIS TO DO THE DEATH. And you? Me? We?

2.02.2009

Day #35 & Holding: Off the Hill until...

Diane Wilson and Start Loving are Holding on our Hunger Strike (Half Rations) in an effort to maintain pressure, position for escalation if called for, and to draw out the amount of time they can keep pressure on. Start's estimate is that they will call an end to this particular campaign the end of next week when Congress goes home for a week. They'll see.

Diane Wilson (U.S. Gandhi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4jomRkyhkw ) remains in Texas so she can take care of those who need her personal attention there, including her mom and son; and her myriad of other causes including her Justice for Woman in Prison; Bophol chemical injustice; Texas pollution.... "Her courage, clarity, otherishness and dedication makes me ashamed of my inadequacies," admits Start. "More importantly, she is my greatest living inspiration, and friend, for which I am eternally grateful."

Start is off the Hill since the middle of last week for a variety of reasons: fatigue he has been unable to fully shake; pacing - being on the Hill takes too much out of him now for extended foray's to be possible; need for him to support other ministries - 28 Year Peace Vigil, Thomas' proper representation and memorial on the Internet (http://prop1.org) / YouTube ( http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=StartLoving1&view=videos&query=thomas+prop1 ), and the food distribution ministry of the Peace House where he is provided refuge - Start is one of the only drivers; study of the Climate Change issue so Start can better understand the opportunities and needs. Start estimates he will return to the Hill next week for the 4 days Congress is in session, if not before.

The mission of CUT WAR FUND PEACE $200B FAST remains unchanged, entirely essential to the future of Civilization, and fraught with hope and despair ( http://newsblaze.com/story/20090124140013zzzz.nb/topstory.html ). The conditions that require it to continue are in constant flux, and unclear - particularly on the issue of sufficient action vs too little - too late. Start is focusing on this in particular with an emphasis on Carbon Tax vs Cap and Trade. The visionaries Lester Brown and Al Gore have championed Carbon Tax as ESSENTIAL for real action. But Gore softened or backed off this when last week he addressed Congress. Was this prudence, correct adjustment or cowardly acquiescence? Start is attempting to understand.

What is NOT in question is that NEVER in the history of human kind has substantive change come about without heroic action on the part of ordinary people, and this, with the exception of Diane, a few in GreenPeace (http://YouTube.com/GreenPeace mostly in Europe), and a few others is genocidally absent. What is NOT in question is that NEVER in the history of human kind has substantive change come about without heroic action on the part of ordinary people, and this, with the exception of Diane (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4jomRkyhkw), a few in GreenPeace (http://YouTube.com/GreenPeace) mostly in Europe, and a few others (video below) is genocidally absent. “Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.” D.D. Eisenhower.

1.31.2009

1.30.2009

1.25.2009

"My yoke is light," Jesus

A week or so ago, weeks into the Hunger Strike, I had an experience I've never had before.

I was lugging my 50 lbs of stuff the 3o blocks to the White House, and my body was pretty unhappy.

The poster that was facing out was of Jesus carrying the cross and wearing the crown of thorns. What came into my mind, my imagination was Jesus, I saw Him covered in blood, carrying the Cross, smiling encouragement at me: "Our yoke is light, Start." His smile, with all He was carrying did it. My pain and fatigue was cut by 2/3rds. Now, I'm not Jesus, yet, but I'm trying, so in another 8 minutes that yoke was HHHHEEEAAAVVVYYYY again. But then Jesus came back to help, again. And He has come back since, too, with a bit of summoning from me.



"Do "this" in memory of me." I always, until recently thought that "this" was the bread and wine ceremony. NO! Giving our body and blood for all men, is what we are to do in memory of Jesus. The bread and wine stuff is just Jesus' reminder to us.

Our sister Nancy shared this photo that kinda captures what I felt.

Makes me cry to recall it all.

Thanks Nancy.

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief: Thomas Fuller

PEACE IS THE PRESENCE OF UNIVERSAL LOVE. THERE IS NO OTHER.

Peace is not the absence of Tension,
but the Presence of Universal Love.

Universal Love
is
Waged Love.
Think
Stem Cell.

Hostility is the Presence of Conditional Love.


That's it.
There ain't any more to the story than that.
Get on with it.


StartL
Wage Love

1.24.2009

Strike to Cut War $200B Day #35/2: St. Thomas with God Now

http://resistanceisfertile.ca/pics/diane.jpg
Saint Diane Wilson continues her Hunger Strike to CUT WAR FUND PEACE FAST $200B , God bless her, in Texas as she cares for biological family in need; as she cares for her Human Family in need.



To me she is and has been probably the greatest activist alive today. We must be eternally grateful to her. Somehow she has found the mercy to work with me, despite how many decades "thick (behind)" her I've been regarding the environment. Her kindness and humanity knows no bounds. She is my greatest living inspiration. Her partnership in this campaign is an honor, privilege and gift I'll never understand, and it will ever be one of my greatest treasures; one of God's great kindnesses, and mysteries to me.

Our brother Saint Thomas (http://prop1.org/thomas.htm) was released from Service yesterday, a mercy by God, having paid an awesome price this last year or so in suffering. I can see him up arguing with God now, protesting something, and occasionally scooting down to do some mischief to interfere with Empire here on earth.

Once Connie finalizes the design, something along the following lines will permanently honor Thomas' service at the White House:
.

.
The photos are from covering Thomas' 28 year vigil at the White House yesterday so his beloved vigil Partner Connie could collect herself; photos thanks to a kind passer-by named Messay (http://flickr.com/photos/34532875@N06/ ).


This 2nd day of the Adjusted Campaign (NewsBlaze: Hunger Strike to Cut War $200B Adjusts Campaign Day #35) for me started out pretty rough. My kidneys (?) ached pretty bad all night trying to deal with significant calories for the first time in a long time; and there is some swelling in my legs; and of course fatigue. But I think there is little permanent damage going on.

God willing I'll be back on Hunger Strike / Occupation Monday through Thursday on the Hill to do my part to cut the Heart out of American IMPERIAL WARMAKING - THE $1 TRILLION WAR BUDGET - before Empire bleeds the little remaining life out of America and global Civilization.

1.22.2009

Hunger Strike Day #35: NEWS - Too good to continue; Too bad to stop

CUT WAR FUND PEACE $200B FAST - Campaign significantly altered tonight. I returned tonight to refuge, lugging the 50 lbs of my stuff the 30 blocks to refuge where I expect to be until Congress returns early next week.

I expect to hold at Day #35: I'll accept food and shelter the 3-4 days Congress is off the Hill; and will Fast and Occupy the Hill 24 hr/day the 3-4 days Congress is ON the Hill. I expect. My energy level is extremely low and my mind is not clear, but I suspect that this is how I will proceed.

Why altering the campaign now?

EXTREMELY ENCOURAGING NEWS / CONDITIONS TOWARD THE GOAL OF THIS CAMPAIGN - CUT WAR FUND PEACE:
  • The impact on the Congress folks that pass me on the Hill has been far more rapid than I would have expected. Yes, this is just my subjective view but with the News featuring $ Trillion bleeding as far as the eye can see, HIGHLIGHTING the need for FUNDS - the combination of MLK blaring - "A nation that spends more on military than social uplift is facing spiritual death;" the signage highlighting that fact (below), and my intoning it into their ears as they pass - I judge that the issue "framing" - cut MILITARY Entitlements $200B - is penetrating much faster than I'd anticipated. Hence, I see diminishing returns from continuing the 7 day per week Occupation / Hunger Strike. Overkill right now.
  • Last two days emphasis on State Department signals a dramatic shift from War to PeaceMaking. Hillary Clinton: "Robust diplomacy and effective development are the best long term tools for securing America's future."
  • Immediate calls to all relevant Israel/Gaza parties in the Mideast placed by Barack further signals shift from War to PeaceBuilding.
  • Obama's Speech comment that extreme might does not permit ABUSE was targeted at Israel!!!! and the US.
  • Immediate designation of George Mitchell, hero of No. Ireland PeaceMaking fame to solve Israel / Palestine FURTHER signals shift from WarMaking to PeaceBuilding.
  • Barack declaration in Inaugural Address committing to clean water, food, education for the poor in poor countries. (central to Plan B 3.0).
  • Ditto order to shut Guantanamo.
  • Ditto order to end Torture.
  • Substantial emphasis on Greening America / Slowing Global warming in the Stimulus Plan. Although details not yet sufficient.
  • No mention of Nuclear power yet in Barack's plans.
  • Al Gore addresses Senate next Wednesday on urgency of addressing Climate Change!!!
  • And other good news I'm too depleted to recall.

BAD NEWS:

  • No sign of a wartime speed campaign to halt Global Warming - Plan B 3.0
  • WhiteHouse.gov says cap and trade for carbon. NOOOOO!!!!! TAX SHIFT from Income Tax to Carbon Tax is what is needed!!!!
  • "Clean" coal figures prominently in Barack's energy plan. NO!!!! There is no such thing, and never will be. VERY BAD NEWS.
  • Plan on the new WhiteHouse.gov site calls for 80% reduction in greenhouse gasses by 2050. 30 YEARS TOO LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Far to frequent allusions to "Entitlements" (Soc Security and Medicare) as the place to cut; NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MILITARY ENTITLEMENTS are the place to cut!!!!!!!!!! WE MUST MAKE THIS PART OF THE DEBATE - IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too good to continue the full Strike / Occupation. I need to get my head clear and digest current and upcoming developments to recalibrate my actions.

Too BAD to stop. Nothing has changed in the need for $200B DOD Budget shift to Plan B 3.0 at WARTIME SPEED, and this is FAR from certain at this moment.

By adjusting the campaign as outlined above I can do my part to keep pressure on Congress, to do my part to ENCOURAGE congress to do the right thing - but for much longer than the 15 days or so I'd otherwise have left. And by holding at Day 35, if I need to ESCALATE the pressure from there I can revert to the full Hunger Strike and Occupation!

(Sorry for all the typos but I'm pretty tired.)

1.20.2009

Grandchildren Of Holocaust Survivors Do To Palestinians What Was Done By Nazi Germany.


1930 GERMANY ALL OVER AGAIN TODAY; ONLY WORSE.

Has a civilization ever saved itself? Not the Sumerians. Not the Jews of Jesus time. Not the Romans. Not the Greeks. Not the Mayans. Not the 1930 Germans, not the pre-Nazi Jews (a pretty freeking smart group, at that).... Apparently the Icelanders (their cows) were grazing themselves out of existence, and reversed course hundreds of years ago, and did save themselves; but that is about it.

If, as I do, you believe in Science, the science is clear - we have weeks or months to mount a wartime speed Marshall Plan to stave off Global Warming sufficiently to save the Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheets, which if they go will drown/displace 600 million people, setting in motion unstoppable dominoes of global civilization collapse.

The 1930 Germans were nice people. The had "activists." But they didn't stop Hitter - the bottom line. They didn't get the job done.

What will History write of 2009 Americans? What will history write of 2009 "activists?" What will your offspring say of you?
  • We need to cut DOD back $200B, NOW. Who says? Lester Brown, Medea Benjamin, Howard Zinn, Barney Frank.
  • We need to shift tax from Income to Carbon by $20/ton / year until 202o, and increase Gas Tax $.40 / yr until 2020. Who says? 1000's of the world's best scientists as summarized in Brown's "Plan B 3.0."
Obama's energy plan is profoundly disappointing in these regards. (see http://whitehouse.gov).

Will we escape the failure of 1930 Germans?

I HAVE A DREAM. AND I, START, HAVE NEVER HAD A DREAM.

It has been amazing to me that never in my life, never in my adult life have I had a dream. Now, I'm not talking about the nighttime type. Sure I have those. I mean the MLK type.

I feel like I've been in the grip of huge dreams my entire adult life, but I've never posessed them- THEY have POSSESSED ME.

Well, on Day #32 or so of the Hunger Strike, as I was lugging my 5o lbs of stuff the 50 or so blocks to the Capitol - bing, there it was - I HAVE A DREAM.

I HAVE A DREAM

I have a dream that -
  • Congress will cut $200B from defense and re-allocate it to PeaceBuilding internationally;
  • We will rise up to cut carbon emissions 80% by 2020 thereby saving the Glaciers and staving off the 39' sea level rise and displacement / drowning of 600 million people;
  • We will replace our value of things, and replace it with a valuing of people;
  • We will embrace the poor of the world and eliminate poverty by 2020;
  • We will heal the earth planing many millions of new trees and fully protecting existing forests - rain and otherwise;
  • We will stabilize world population at 8 billion or less through humane pre-emptive measures;
  • We will restore the world's fisheries;
  • We will aggressively de-charter or re-charter corporations so as to eliminate their murderious sociopathic destruction;
  • And so on.

LETTER TO 3 OF OUR GREATEST SHEROES

My beloved sheroes,

I never have expectations of others, for decades now; only of myself. So feel no obligation here. But have I ever sent a more consequential correspondence than this that I send to you three? I don't think so. And I don't know how much longer I'll have the lucidity to correspond on such a grave matter to you three. I pray that you DO find the time to ponder this email deeply. DEEPLY. DEEPLY. Whether you choose to respond is secondary, very secondary.

Yes, I've been drinking water ever since the pot luck evening last wednesday. Why? Because a third sat down and deeply "heard" what I had to say. That, not "agreement," was my condition for ending the Water Strike, from the beginning, to be heard enough by at least three of my Sr. sisters - one had, another did, and then a third. But yes too, this Hunger Strike out in the elements is taking its toll on me pretty rapidly now.

You three have been for over a year now, and remain the only folks I know that could lead the beginning of the end of the cancer that is in final stage of ending Civilization (all of the science as summarized in Plan B 3.0). Do you believe in science? I do.

YOU THREE are the only hope I see for the the beginning of the MIRACLE IT WILL TAKE. Miracle? Has a civilization ever saved itself? Not the Sumerians. Not the Jews of Jesus time. Not the Romans. Not the Greeks. Not the Mayans. Not the pre-Nazi Germans, not the pre-Nazi Jews (a pretty freeking smart group, at that).... Apparently the Icelanders (their cows) were grazing themselves out of existence, and reversed course hundreds of years ago, and did save themselves; but that is about it.

MIRACLE is what it will take to save civilization, including the U.S. - your nieces, nephews, kids world; their kid's world - from the environmental "life support collapse" we are in the final stages of unleashing.... BUT PEOPLE MAKE MIRACLES HAPPEN, OR AT LEAST, THEY MAKE MIRACLES INFINITELY MORE LIKELY. BUT IT COSTS EVERYTHING. HARRIETT TUBMAN, MANDELA, KING, GANDHI, OSCAR ROMERO, JOAN OF ARC, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, STEVE BIKO, RACHEL CORRIE.... Always has, always will. King, Gandhi, Jesus... didn't kill themselves for us so we wouldn't have to. They died to show us how we too had to live. We are dying from ignoring them.

HERE IS MY REAL POINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of you asked, 'Start, will you end your Strike with us tomorrow?" If your dearest were in a burning building, and objectively it would take a Miracle to save them, you are working on the miracle with all of your life, right? What could get you to stop? ONLY A BETTER PLAN, right?

Sisters, DO YOU BELIEVE WE CAN WIN, WHICH MEANS,
DO YOU THINK WE CAN WORK THE MIRACLE OF $200B OUT OF THE BUDGET THIS YEAR,
WHICH MEANS WINNING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL/CONSCIENCE/EMOTIONAL BATTLE ON THE HILL NOW, DURING THIS TIME OF JAN/FEB/STIMULUS BILL CRISIS?

"A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." Obama. Why does he get it, and we refuse to?

I, START, TOTALLY BELIEVE WE CAN WIN. I REFUSE TO APPROACH THE IMPENDING GLOBAL HOLOCAUST ANY OTHER WAY.

I am not interested in activity, an "action." What Army unit goes to battle just to fight - do to an activity? What successful business spends resource just cuz it seems like a good idea - activity? NONE THAT SURVIVE, OR THAT AMOUNT TO ANYTHING OF HOPE. THEY WORK WITH COURAGE TO CRAFT A VISION FOR SUCCESS, AND THEN THEY FIGHT FOR AND TO THAT VISION WITH THEIR VERY LIVES. I am not interested in straightening the deck chairs on the Titanic - Guantanimo, Gaza cease - fire, arrest Bush.... I WANT TO FIX THEM ALL!!!!

Getting the DOD budget is the beginning of the end. And without the DOD budget WE WILL NOT STOP GAZA, WILL NOT STOP GUANTANIMOS.... With a $1 TRILLION BUDGET DOD WILL CONTINUALLY CREATE $1 TRILLION HELL!!! Everything else is straightening the deck chairs on the Titanic. LET'S GO FOR THE WHOLE THING! WE NEED TO GO FOR THE WHEELHOUSE, NOW, BEFORE THE "ICEBERG" KILLS US.

Will I end the Hunger Strike? Can you show me a better plan for having a prayer of sparking the Miracle of getting $200B now?

I pray that the answer is "yes!!!!"

!!!!! BUT DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME, START. I'M DEAD IF YOU DO. MY ONLY HOPE IS FOR FOLKS TO REALLY, REALLY, REALLY FOCUS ON THEIR DEAREST LOVED ONES - NIECES, NEPHEWS, GRAND NIECES.... ONLY THEN MIGHT THEY FIND THE COURAGE TO FACE THE REAL QUESTIONS:
* CAN WE WIN? "Yes" is the INDISPUTABLE answer.
* HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE? Glacial melting, alone, says - WEEKS, to start leading the wartime speed, global "Marshall Plan."
* WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FROM "ME," FROM "ME," FROM "ME," TO MAYBE, MAYBE, MAYBE, MAYBE SPARK THE MIRACLE?

The best current answer to these questions I, Start, have found so far is Hunger Strike to the Death, or to the Life - demanding Cut War Fund Peace $200B Fast with the posters and audio tracks from King and Lester Brown in Hill Occupation as my weapons to penetrate the latent Humanity and Sanity of my brothers and sisters in Congress, and within the hearts and mind of the few, the very few folks with enough humanity left to respond.

Every second that I take a breath I am open to, and searching myself for a better plan.

Got one? I'm all ears.

1.19.2009

"ENTITLEMENTS:" HOW THE FINAL BATTLE IS SHAPING UP

However, will the opposition, we, show up? In time? Willing to do whatever it takes?



"A country that year after year
spends more money on military programs
than on programs of social uplift
is facing ... death"
Martin Luther King, Jr.

VERSUS

OUR OPINION: Kudos for pledge to reform entitlements Grand Forks Herald, ND - Jan 16, 2009

Don’t Forget About Entitlements Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun, NY

Obama Pledges Entitlement Reform CBS News, NY - Jan 16, 2009

Day #32: Too depleted to handle the crowds. Off the HIll until Wednesday A.M.

I've lost too much strength to be able to physically or mentally manage the enormous crowds that were in the Hill by mid day today.

Plus, they are all there just to celebrate MLK and Obama killing themselves for we-the-people, so WE don't have to do shit. Got some good impacts by late morning but then it was SRO and party atmosphere - everyone decked out in clothes that equal roughly one years income for 1/3 of our planetary brothers and sisters.

I expect to be back on the Hill with MLK and Lester Brown Wednesday, sleeping, resting and writing in the meantime.