It's borderline. The pain is pretty much always there, but not always debilitating. Yesterday was one of the days I've lost hours of work, just trying to manage the pain. Today, so far, I can pretty well work. I can't tell if the meds I'm taking are helping or causing. Next day of incapacitation I expect to go back in for a consultation. If tests could reveal some low cost treatment (that it is free to me is immaterial), or if there are low cost pain meds I could take, I'd like to know.
Over half way through Jim Hansen's "Storms of my Grandchildren," culling for the key "in their own words" quotes for the next book. He's the only one of Romm, McKibben, Brown... in whom I find moral integrity - putting their bodies where their mouths are, to I think I'll still find useful words from the others, particularly before their mass surrender at Copenhagen. Except for Hansen, they don't STAND for anything. Auth-whores, nothing more? Just reporting a blow by blow of the rape from a comfortable distance? If there's more, I can't find it. Not anymore. Just pandering to the gawkers and bureaucrats.
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8.26.2012
Israeli rabbi calls for prayers for Iran's destruction Reuters
Reuters - 8 minutes ago |
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sermon by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef added to a flurry of recent rhetoric from
Israeli officials that has raised international concern that Israel,
widely believed to be the Middle East's only atomic power, might attack Iran's nuclear facilities. "(When ...
8.25.2012
Loving, here. Have you ever been taunted at one of your coffee shops? Sworn at? Viciously and cruelly discriminated against, repeatedly?
August 25, 2012
My dear friends at xxxx coffee shop, (their Identity protected, so far)
Have you ever been taunted at one of your stores? Sworn at? Viciously and cruelly discriminated
against, repeatedly? I have. Not by your
staff, who are genuinely nice and professional folks, but still, at your
store. Is that what you are about? It was clear discrimination. That’s illegal I suspect. It certainly is not what xxxx, or the
building owner wants to be associated with here in DC just blocks from
Judiciary Square. Is it?
The most recent cursing and discrimination against me at your store was
today. I arrived about 8:30, purchased a
large cup of decaf, and your store being quite empty that early, sat discretely
at a table back in a corner for an hour.
You see, I have facial tattoos, and as a courtesy to you, I sat in a
rear corner out of the way of folks.
Your staff is very nice. I try to
show my appreciation. Last evening for
example, at about 7:30pm, I spent at least 10 minutes, probably 15, cleaning up
and straightening up your patio. Your
staff would have done it but you must
have had a busy day, chairs were all over, and trash was all on the ground, all
around. By the time I was done, all the
chairs were in their place and the trash picked up.
Today, after drinking some of my coffee, not wanting to take
space in your store, customers were accumulating, I went to a remote part of
your patio to continue working for a while.
Within 10 minutes, as has happened to me at least twice before, the
power was cut to the outlet I was using for my laptop. Within 5 minutes after that, the man that did
it the first time, a dark skinned man, early 40’s I’ll guess, when I saw him I
said, ‘I purchased coffee here this morning.’
He said nothing. ‘I’m going to
speak to the manager about this,’ meaning your store manager, to which he
replied, “I’m the manager you son of a bitch.”
HUH? HUH??? Cursing at me?
The prior time I saw him directly was about 2 months
ago. Again, I had purchased a drink, and
was sitting in a remote part of your patio.
After about 10 minutes the power was cut. 5 minutes later, the man who today said he
was the manager, came out and taunted me.
WHAT? ‘Oh, did something happen
with the breaker? Oh, I don’t know
anything about it, but I guess it did.’ Lying
to me. What?!?!?!?
Is it because I have facial tattoos, that obviously don’t
have a lot of money, from my appearance, probably don’t have a home, or is it because
of those three things on top of which I am a highly educated, multiple degrees,
white guy? It is absolutely rank
discrimination, which as I’ve said, to
my knowledge, is against the law in America, in DC.
I expect that like every other of your customers, from here
on in the future, I will be treated exactly as are all of your other customers,
including, the power outside will be on, and left on when I use it. Period.
I know you will do with this letter what best serves this
end, so that I need not do so. It can be
used by you with your corporate management, DC Homeless Advocacy Law Center,
the building manager, other DC Legal advocacy… or whomever you need to
terminate this discriminatory, illegal, unprofessional behavior. I wish this nasty man nothing ill. I wish the discrimination to stop, by your
action, not mine.
NOW. I’ll know your response by how I’m treated in the
future. I know your staff will all vouch
for my civility as will dozens of Secret Service, and Park Police officers in
town who have watched my respectful advocacy for human rights these last 9
years or so.
Your brother, no matter what,
James E. McGinley
GWDF2 D10A Debilitated with Pain again today. Bk 3 -
Sleep, thank goodness, so far is relatively painless.
When I awake I have 2-300 of my daily 800 calories, partly, so I can take the Prilosec and Iron without too much pain. Uh, not today. For the last 3 hours it is all I can do to try and doze and deal with the stomach pain. :-( So much work time being lost.
If this continues, Monday I'll seek an appointment with the doctor for pain management.
Those hours that I can work I'm compiling, "Your next 200 billion kids are on planet Hell unless now.... The Words of James Hansen, Lester Brown, Joe Romm, Michael Mann, IEA, IPCC...."
When I awake I have 2-300 of my daily 800 calories, partly, so I can take the Prilosec and Iron without too much pain. Uh, not today. For the last 3 hours it is all I can do to try and doze and deal with the stomach pain. :-( So much work time being lost.
If this continues, Monday I'll seek an appointment with the doctor for pain management.
Those hours that I can work I'm compiling, "Your next 200 billion kids are on planet Hell unless now.... The Words of James Hansen, Lester Brown, Joe Romm, Michael Mann, IEA, IPCC...."
8.24.2012
nd GWDF2 D9B Pr. #1: Compiling the Essential Hansen, Brown, Romm, McKibben. Daily Headline Posting on HOLD.
nd GWDF D9B Pr. #1: Compiling the Essential Hansen, Brown, Romm, McKibben. Daily Headline Posting on HOLD.
Mass. Commuters Save Woman, Son From Train... ABC News
ABC News - 54 minutes ago |
Quick-thinking
Boston-area commuters are being praised for rescuing a woman who
tumbled off a subway platform and onto the tracks with her 4-year-old
son in her arms.
8.23.2012
nd 'If you know, but you do not do, you do not know.' Anonymous
'If you know, but you do not do, you do not know.' Anonymous
nd GWDF2 D9A Stomach Pain Much Less today. Work proceeding
nd GWDF D9A Stomach Pain Much Less today. Work proceeding
8.22.2012
nd GWDF2 D8B Stomach Pain Largely gone last 4 hours
nd GWDF D8B Stomach Pain Largely gone last 4 hours
nd 'I'd just let it go if today's adults were the one's to be crushed, C, L, R. But the kids?' Loving
nd 'I'd just let it go if today's adults were the one's to be crushed, C, L, R. But the kids?' Loving
GWDF2 D8B Severe stomach pain 2nd day
My concern is the distraction from work. Today, I'm managing to keep working, pretty well.
My dear doc Cardile had proscribed prilosec several weeks ago. I took it for about 4 days and stopped because it seemed to bring on the ache. It is supposed to de-inflame the stomach lining. Starting this morning I'm trying it again. It can take up to 4 days if it is going to work.
Late this week or early next I expect to see the doc again if this continues.
My dear doc Cardile had proscribed prilosec several weeks ago. I took it for about 4 days and stopped because it seemed to bring on the ache. It is supposed to de-inflame the stomach lining. Starting this morning I'm trying it again. It can take up to 4 days if it is going to work.
Late this week or early next I expect to see the doc again if this continues.
8.21.2012
nd 'Jesus, King, Gandhi... made the word, Flesh. We're to do the same.' Loving
nd 'Jesus, King, Gandhi... made the word, Flesh. We're to do the same.' Loving
GWDF2 D8A Back on post. Debilitated by stomach pain. :-(
GWDF D8A Back on post. Debilitated by stomach pain. :-(
Uneventful return trip, except my stomach hurt so bad I couldn't work, only try to rest, and that has continued the several hours I've been back. Was it the rocking of the bus? Progression of whatever I've got? Too much exertion? I'll watch it tonight, tomorrow... if this continues I may reconsider the tests, cuz I can't work, I can't concentrate with this pain. Wimp!
Mercifully, all of the stuff I left under a bench was there undisturbed, except for some work by rats, the four legged kind.
That's all for now. Got to go back to resting and trying to deal with this stomach pain.
Uneventful return trip, except my stomach hurt so bad I couldn't work, only try to rest, and that has continued the several hours I've been back. Was it the rocking of the bus? Progression of whatever I've got? Too much exertion? I'll watch it tonight, tomorrow... if this continues I may reconsider the tests, cuz I can't work, I can't concentrate with this pain. Wimp!
Mercifully, all of the stuff I left under a bench was there undisturbed, except for some work by rats, the four legged kind.
That's all for now. Got to go back to resting and trying to deal with this stomach pain.
8.20.2012
GWDF2 D7B Slept 17 hours today. Silence? Privacy? I'd forgotton. Seems my Body hadn't forgotten.
I had no idea my body was so exhausted - between living in a fishbowl on the streets for 1/3 of a year now, the internal bleeding, anemia, years for to-death's door hunger strikes, half rations now, not an hour's break in so many years I can't remember (how I Love it)...
Slept 12 hours yesterday, and 17 hours deep rest last night. Little other work completed these two days besides telling some folks that have been rocks, angels in my life that I Love them, and repacking, shedding a bunch of stuff for beloved friends to store and eventually disperse.
My bus back to the Canadian Embassy leaves at 9:50am. I can hardly wait to get back in the fight.
800 calorie per day slow-death-fast continued. Losing about 1/4 to 1/2 pound per day from 164 lbs on 8/8, the day before Nagasaki.
It remains to be seen how many of my belongings are left. Megabus has a 50lb weight limit that I exceeded mightily but had to leave 2/3 of my belonging's under a bench. If I were black, and a con, they'd be fine. But I'm not. We'll see. May have to re-create the signs, do without sleeping bags, etc.
Slept 12 hours yesterday, and 17 hours deep rest last night. Little other work completed these two days besides telling some folks that have been rocks, angels in my life that I Love them, and repacking, shedding a bunch of stuff for beloved friends to store and eventually disperse.
My bus back to the Canadian Embassy leaves at 9:50am. I can hardly wait to get back in the fight.
800 calorie per day slow-death-fast continued. Losing about 1/4 to 1/2 pound per day from 164 lbs on 8/8, the day before Nagasaki.
It remains to be seen how many of my belongings are left. Megabus has a 50lb weight limit that I exceeded mightily but had to leave 2/3 of my belonging's under a bench. If I were black, and a con, they'd be fine. But I'm not. We'll see. May have to re-create the signs, do without sleeping bags, etc.
8.18.2012
nd 'The Entire Gospel - Give everything you are to our Global Neediest. It's Heaven. There's none other..' Loving
nd 'The Entire Gospel - Give everything you are to our Global Neediest. It's Heaven. There's none other..' Loving
GWDF D7A - FACT: Joe Romm surrendered to defeat years ago in his "Hell..." book: I didn't realize. Unlike Brown,
Unless he did a total about face in the final chapter? Oh, and yes, per the subject line, Brown hasn't yet conceded, in words, but in deeds he's always conceded. Fact.
Traveling to Phila for 2-4 days to
say goodbye to dearest friends. While waiting in the cattle chute for
Megabus I began re-listening to an audio version of Hell and High Water
in the Library.
The following isn't personal. My
next 200 billion children are currently doomed by Plan Armageddon. Only
THAT is personal to me. The rest is figuring out how to save them and
who might help, and who is hindering.
I'm going to have to listen again.
But it is 92% clear. He is 99.9% clear. 'Politically, things just
aren't going to change. The best we can hope for is for 40' sea level
rise next century.' WTF!?!!?!? Maybe he saves his courage for the last chapter?
Four major features to his background:
1. Fact - MIT science;
2. Fact - Gov and non-profits - never had responsibility or experience leading people to high stakes change, nor doing it himself.
3. Fact - He has been at this for decades
with total failure, objectively, in bringing change. It is the rare
person that can take the blame for that on themselves;
4. Fact - His audience goes to zero, like
mine, if he steps up to the impossible, because more than maybe
anything we've made the bargain in this society to avoid facing the
needs of society so we can devote all to ourselves;
5. Fact - His funding goes away, from is
books, his job blogging, the American Progress Think Tank - an arm of
the Democratic Machine - they'd not have Joe playing with the platforms
of the party.
Hmmmm.
No wonder he and I are on different planets. My bad. So much to learn, so little time.
Conceding defeat is almost impossible for me, and for Joe, it is all he's ever known. Fact.
ps: McKibben has so embraced defeat he isn't even worth mentioning, my brother tho he is.
pps: Hansen is the one that hasn't caved yet, and probably won't, but he hasn't the background or character to be able to stand and even begin to fill the leadership background.
ps: McKibben has so embraced defeat he isn't even worth mentioning, my brother tho he is.
pps: Hansen is the one that hasn't caved yet, and probably won't, but he hasn't the background or character to be able to stand and even begin to fill the leadership background.
8.17.2012
nd GWDF2 D6B Going to Phila to Say Goodby to Dearest Friends - 4 days - back Tuesday.
nd GWDF D6A Going to Phila to Say Goodby to Dearest Friends - 4 days - back Tuesday.
nd "Over my dead body does Earth's temperature rises over 1.5 degrees C." Loving
nd "Over my dead body does Earth's temperature rises over 1.5 degrees C." Loving
8.16.2012
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Path-blazes for us: "Who Stands his Ground?"
"The responsible man seeks to make his whole
life a response to the question and call of God."
The great masquerade of evil has wrought havoc with all our ethical preconceptions. This appearance of evil in the guise of light, beneficence and historical necessity is utterly bewildering to anyone nurtured in our traditional ethical systems. But for the Christian who frames his life on the Bible it simply confirms the radical evilness of evil.
The failure of rationalism is evident. With the best of intentions, but with a naïve lack of realism, the rationalist imagines that a small dose of reason will be enough to put the world right. In his short-sightedness he wants to do justice to all sides, but in the mêlée of conflicting forces he gets trampled upon without having achieved the slightest effect. Disappointed by the irrationality of the world, he realizes at last his futility, retires from the fray, and weakly surrenders to the winning side.
Worse still is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. The fanatic imagines that his moral purity will prove a match for the power of evil, but like a bull he goes for the red rag instead of the man who carries it, grows weary and succumbs. He becomes entangled with non-essentials and falls into the trap set by the superior ingenuity of his adversary.
Then there is the man with a conscience. He fights singlehanded against overwhelming odds in situations which demand a decision. But there are so many conflicts going on, all of which demand some vital choice--with no advice or support save that of his own conscience--that he is torn to pieces.
Evil approaches him in so many specious and deceptive guises that his conscience becomes nervous and vacillating. In the end he contents himself with a salved instead of a clear conscience, and starts lying to his conscience as a means of avoiding despair. If a man relies exclusively on his conscience he fails to see how a bad conscience is sometimes more wholesome and strong than a deluded one.
When men are confronted by a bewildering variety of alternatives, the path of duty seems to offer a sure way out. They grasp at the imperative as the one certainty. The responsibility for the imperative rests upon its author, not upon its executor. But when men are confined to the limits of duty, they never risk a daring deed on their own responsibility, which is the only way to score a bull's eye against evil and defeat it. The man of duty will in the end be forced to give the devil his due.
What then of the man of freedom? He is the man who aspires to stand his ground in the world, who values the necessary deed more highly than a clear conscience or the duties of his calling, who is ready to sacrifice a barren principle for a fruitful compromise or a barren mediocrity for a fruitful radicalism. What then of him? He must beware lest his freedom should become his own undoing. For in choosing the lesser of two evils he may fail to see that the greater evil he seeks to avoid may prove the lesser. Here we have the raw material of tragedy.
Some seek refuge from the rough-and-tumble of public life in the sanctuary of their own private virtue. Such men however are compelled to seal their lips and shut their eyes to the injustice around them. Only at the cost of self-deception can they keep themselves pure from the defilements incurred by responsible action. For all that they achieve, that which they leave undone will still torment their peace of mind. They will either go to pieces in face of this disquiet, or develop into the most hypocritical of all Pharisees.
Who stands his ground? Only the man whose ultimate criterion is not in his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these things when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and exclusive allegiance to God. The responsible man seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.
The great masquerade of evil has wrought havoc with all our ethical preconceptions. This appearance of evil in the guise of light, beneficence and historical necessity is utterly bewildering to anyone nurtured in our traditional ethical systems. But for the Christian who frames his life on the Bible it simply confirms the radical evilness of evil.
The failure of rationalism is evident. With the best of intentions, but with a naïve lack of realism, the rationalist imagines that a small dose of reason will be enough to put the world right. In his short-sightedness he wants to do justice to all sides, but in the mêlée of conflicting forces he gets trampled upon without having achieved the slightest effect. Disappointed by the irrationality of the world, he realizes at last his futility, retires from the fray, and weakly surrenders to the winning side.
Worse still is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. The fanatic imagines that his moral purity will prove a match for the power of evil, but like a bull he goes for the red rag instead of the man who carries it, grows weary and succumbs. He becomes entangled with non-essentials and falls into the trap set by the superior ingenuity of his adversary.
Then there is the man with a conscience. He fights singlehanded against overwhelming odds in situations which demand a decision. But there are so many conflicts going on, all of which demand some vital choice--with no advice or support save that of his own conscience--that he is torn to pieces.
Evil approaches him in so many specious and deceptive guises that his conscience becomes nervous and vacillating. In the end he contents himself with a salved instead of a clear conscience, and starts lying to his conscience as a means of avoiding despair. If a man relies exclusively on his conscience he fails to see how a bad conscience is sometimes more wholesome and strong than a deluded one.
When men are confronted by a bewildering variety of alternatives, the path of duty seems to offer a sure way out. They grasp at the imperative as the one certainty. The responsibility for the imperative rests upon its author, not upon its executor. But when men are confined to the limits of duty, they never risk a daring deed on their own responsibility, which is the only way to score a bull's eye against evil and defeat it. The man of duty will in the end be forced to give the devil his due.
What then of the man of freedom? He is the man who aspires to stand his ground in the world, who values the necessary deed more highly than a clear conscience or the duties of his calling, who is ready to sacrifice a barren principle for a fruitful compromise or a barren mediocrity for a fruitful radicalism. What then of him? He must beware lest his freedom should become his own undoing. For in choosing the lesser of two evils he may fail to see that the greater evil he seeks to avoid may prove the lesser. Here we have the raw material of tragedy.
Some seek refuge from the rough-and-tumble of public life in the sanctuary of their own private virtue. Such men however are compelled to seal their lips and shut their eyes to the injustice around them. Only at the cost of self-deception can they keep themselves pure from the defilements incurred by responsible action. For all that they achieve, that which they leave undone will still torment their peace of mind. They will either go to pieces in face of this disquiet, or develop into the most hypocritical of all Pharisees.
Who stands his ground? Only the man whose ultimate criterion is not in his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these things when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and exclusive allegiance to God. The responsible man seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.
nd 'Objectively Jagerstadder, Corrie, Bonhoeffer... FAILURES.' Loving
nd 'Objectively Jagerstadder, Corrie, Bonhoeffer... FAILURES.' Loving
GWDF2 D6A Characteristic 108. Channeling Creative Tension Every Breath
http://youtu.be/sZRivAuR08U
GWDF D6A
Characteristic 108 Channeling Creative Tension Every Breath
As I've before
written and said, there are two ways to bring radical change - show up with enough
guns and kill or threaten to kill until you get what you want, or show up with
enough loving bodies and die until you so evoke the humanity of onlookers that
pressure comes to bear from them and you get what is rightfully yours. Violence and unviolent action; 1. Destructive
Tension, and 2. Creative Tension.
It is essential to
understand these the two ways of creating tension, and it was with Dr. King
that I first saw that the concept of creative tension (actually I first saw the
concept from MIT's Peter Senge in his book “The Fifth Discipline,” but the
earliest reference I've seen is Dr. King), that all advance for humanity comes
from, not the absence of tension, but the near unbearable creative tension:
seeing on the one hand an impending horror and seeing on the other hand the
slimmest chance of averting that horror, particularly for dearest loved ones;
tho for the INSHE warriors, ALL are their dearest loved ones. This is really at the bottom of what Gandhi
spoke of - truth force – the emotive truth of how things should/could be and
the truth of the horror of how they are now or are about to become; unless
prevented, stopped, averted, replaced….
We are not bricks, we’re
not trees, we’re not cats, we’re not birds.
Our DNA would have us be human beings and as humans we are motivated by,
moved by, tension. We’re driven away
from something by the tension of fear, by threat of force, by actual force. We’re drawn to something by the tension of
passion, sense of solidarity, desire to alleviate someone else's pain, or
threatened pain, and thereby alleviate our own which we feel vicariously,
empathically.
Gandhi on hunger
strike was a tsunami of creative tension for ultimately millions, maybe
billions around the world. It was excruciating,
it was e-motive, that is, moving, was e-motional, motional. Wave after wave of people in India marching
simply to get salt that had been taken from their oceans that was rightfully
theirs, clubbed unrelentingly, kicked in the groin over and over, but did not
raise a hand to protect themselves, channeling creative tension to millions
around the world via vicarious learning, empathy, the royal road to hacking our
defenses and awakening the heart.
Alice Paul and her
sisters in prison 30 miles South of here on hunger strike, being force-fed
simply for demanding what was rightfully theirs, the right to vote as full
human beings. This channeled immense
creative tension.
And that's what I
seek to do, every breath, to bear near unbearable creative tension and thereby
channel it into the world to be available for others to take it on, and if
others do take it on, and too begin channeling it thought every moment of
action, and thereby spread the fire, then, and only then will there be
hope. Unless others succeed where I’ve
failed, which I pray, but don’t see happening, or even tried.
There are only two
ways to bring radical change and only one brings radical change to the world
permanently, that is life. They both can
lead to permanent radical change. Much
more of the violent kind, destructive tension, the violent tension, will
conclude Armageddon, environmental Armageddon and in the Middle East it may
spark global Armageddon, nuclear war.
Creative tension is
the one that adds to the complexity of life, which is to say it expands, it
enriches human life, possibly forever. That's
the direction of evolution. That is loving.
That is the force of loving. That
is the truth force Gandhi spoke of, the soul force. And that is what I seek to be in every cell,
every atom, every molecule of my body, with every breath, because therein lies
all hope.
And you?
8.15.2012
nd 'Maintaining Peak 'Creative Tension' - Strategic Essence of Unviolent Warfare.' Loving
nd 'Maintaining Peak 'Creative Tension' - Strategic Essence of Unviolent Warfare.' Loving
nd 'No Status Quo Stands Without 3 Legs - Right, Center, Left.' Gandhi
nd 'No Status Quo Stands Without All 3 Legs - Right, Center, Left.' Gandhi
nd 'It is only those who envy me that I've benefited.' Loving
nd 'It is only those who envy me that I've benefited.' Loving
8.14.2012
GW's Death. Fast2. D5A - Near debilitated all morning, the internal bleeding...
GW's Death. Fast. D5A - Near debilitated all morning, the internal bleeding, or whatever this anemia thing turns out to be (sure feels like that), near crippling fatigue. Mornings are the worst. I remember that the 1st Death Fast, that turned out to be a weapon's test, was the same - morning's the worst.
Thank Goodness, thank Creator, my head is clearing and I can work now.
Thank Goodness, thank Creator, my head is clearing and I can work now.
GW's Death. Fast2. D5A - Book 1 Addition
The following has just been inserted in the front of the book "Global Warming's Death. Fast. Till enough are seen dying for it, CO2 won't stop." See tab, above, or click here. Uploading to scribd, now.
August 14, 2012 note
How I wish I could tell you to delay digging into this book
now. How I wish I could point you to
others that do it’s job, better, as well, at all. But I can’t.
Dig in, but for another couple of weeks, Creator Willing,
you’ll have the additional task of keeping the following in mind, changes that
are in the works for the book in 2 or three waves:
1. The
entire notion of “death,” “dying for a cause,” for the joy, life, hope, sanity,
humanity, future giving of it… is and remains central to the book. However, as I’ve known and lived for years,
but briefly lost confidence in recently, is that there is a place, narrow and
near impossible to find, there is a place for “dying for a cause” that is not a
“Death Fast,” or “Self Immolation,” or the like. Teresa of Calcutta died for her Family in
Calcutta for decades, with immense joy, but unmistakably dying that her charges
might have the experience of being loved and valued before they passed on. Pathologically we the most powerful people on
earth, we Americans, have perverted the notion of “non-violence” to mean,
non-violence to ME, and MINE. Gandhi did
the reverse, as did MLK Jr, Rachel Corrie, Bonhoeffer, Oscar Romero, who spoke
of the ‘Violence of Love’ that we unviolent warriors do to ourselves. No, non-violence, unviolent action is the
exact opposite of what we’ve distorted it to mean. By the INSHE Warriors worthy of the name,
throughout history, unviolent action has been exactly racing toward the
emergency, the danger of others, and exactly putting and keeping ourselves, and
our dearest ones, our bodies in harm’s way, to shield the otherwise victims,
until they were saved. So, near
everywhere in the book that you find Death Fast as the only way, you will soon
see that slightly broadened to include especially, what I conducted two, 50
day, water only hunger strikes last year to seed – waves of to death’s door but
not though hunger strikes until carbon warming gas dumpers are paying their
future wrecking costs, and not sending those costs on to our children.
2. The
need for substantial focus on subsidies and not just on the legislation to
insure full payment of $240/ton of coal and oil, and $6000 per ton of natural
gas seepage, after a straight ramp to those figures beginning 2012. In recent weeks Republicans Inglis and George
Schultz, Reagan’s Sec. of State, and others on the right, have been calling for
the carbon gas dumpers to pay their costs for that, but that all subsidies,
fossil fuel and renewable energy alike, should go away. The market forces being held in abeyance by
the future killing free dumping of warming gasses, those pent up forces are so
enormous, that I need to, and expect to re-examine both the historical size of fossil
fuel US subsidies (I may have overstated them in the book by as much as a factor
of 5-10), and whether subsidies need to be an aim of ours at all right now. Getting enough of the dumping and wreckage costs
on the bill of the dumpers now, may well be more than sufficient.
3. 1.5
degrees C, NOT 2.0 degrees C!!!!!!!!!! What does this mean to the numbers, the tons
of carbon we yet can burn, the rate of decrease in emissions required by when…?
4. Pricing
Methane Seepage correctly, fully, now. My
quick search suggests vs the $240/ton on CO2 it is $6000 per ton on natural gas
seepage, but this needs more checking and thought.
5. Rechecking,
re-calibrating, and where necessary, updating in this book the crucial figures that
we moms and dads of the next 200 billion children, grandchildren… need to know to
properly stand for our kid’s future. What
is a reasonable estimate of the damage done by burning each ton of coal and oil
– is it the $240? $11,000? What is a reasonable estimate.
I anticipate these updates happening in waves: A. rough cut;
B. far more detailed analysis. There is a
date of revision shown above that will be updated as changes occur kept current
on scrbd.com.
GWDF2 Day 5A: Raining, off-post working most of the day; or not
Though my body and mind are severely experiencing the calorie starvation, I must break the back of tasks I outlined yesterday in a post. Awakened by the rain throughout the night, I finally concluded that discretion is the better part of valor, and will spend most of today, I expect, husbanding what physical energy and mental acuity I have for the crucial work at hand, using coffee shops and libraries as a less taxing base of operations today.
Hmmm. Now the internet forecast is suddenly for much less rain, and the sun just came out.
We'll see.
Hmmm. Now the internet forecast is suddenly for much less rain, and the sun just came out.
We'll see.
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