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2.12.2013

Keystone XL pipeline protester arrested in Oklahoma. Tulsa World

Keystone XL pipeline protester arrested in Oklahoma
Tulsa World
Norman resident Elisabeth Leja chained herself to a piece of construction equipment Monday to protest the Keystone XL pipeline and the transportation of diluted bitumen from Canada's oil sands. By JAY F. MARKS NewsOK.com. Published: 2/5/2013 8:22 ...
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Joe Romm vid on autobiography: "Lacking Intelligence"

Video: My Interview On Climate, Obama, Keystone, and Language Intelligence

nd 'Loving, is Loving in DEED, or it is not Loving.' Loving

nd 'Loving, is Loving in DEED, or it is not Loving.' Loving

***** nd 'Jesus Entire Gospel: The Secret of Life (Escaped even Gandhi, Tolstoy, King, Sorokin...): Loving (in Deed, Our Neediest) is Living, the Only Means of Joy; Heaven; the Ultimate Gratification.' Loving

***** nd 'Jesus Entire Gospel: The Secret of Life (Escaped even Gandhi, Tolstoy, King, Sorokin...): Loving (in Deed, Our Neediest) is Living, the Only Means of Joy; Heaven; the Ultimate Gratification.' Loving

Jane Goodall on climate change: 'We've just been stealing, stealing, stealing ... Raw Story

Jane Goodall on climate change: 'We've just been stealing, stealing, stealing ...

Raw Story - ‎6 hours ago‎
Jane Goodall on climate change: 'We've just been stealing, stealing, stealing from our children, and it's shocking'.

2.11.2013

vlog 'I may be verging on Learning the Psychological jiu jitsu of causing Loving.' Loving

***** nd 'Loving - Its own Ultimate Reward. Loving, is the Optimal Human Experience, the Ultimate Gratification [sole means of Joy generation]: So Odd that Tolstoy, Sorokin, Gandhi... came so close to seeing this, but couldn't lock in on it. Jesus nailed it, Teresa of Calcutta got close.' Loving

nd 'Loving - Its own Ultimate Reward. Loving, is the Optimal Human Experience, the Ultimate Gratification [sole means of Joy generation]:  So Odd that Tolstoy, Sorokin, Gandhi... came so close to seeing this, but couldn't lock in on it. Jesus nailed it, Teresa of Calcutta got close.'  Loving

nd 'To avoid Personal Responsibility: Why Joe Romm, McKibben, environmental hactivists Blame, focus on, whine at... Pr. Obama. [Oh, it brings in good money, too.' Loving

nd 'To avoid Personal Responsibility: Why Joe Romm, McKibben, environmental hactivists Blame, focus on, whine at... Pr. Obama. [Oh, it brings in good money, too.'  Loving

Israel advances plan to steal new Palestinain land. MiamiHerald

Israel advances plan to build in Jewish settlement

MiamiHerald.com - ‎4 hours ago‎
JERUSALEM -- An Israeli official says the government has given final approval for construction of 90 new homes in a West Bank settlement, a move that could cause tensions with the U.S.

Medal of Honor to Afghan battle hero Clinton Romesha. NBCNews

Medal of Honor to Afghan battle hero Clinton Romesha
NBCNews.com (blog) - ‎6 minutes ago‎
Slideshow: Medal of Honor recipients. Mark Wilson / Getty Images. A look at heroes from a post-9/11 era of war. Launch slideshow. By Daniel Arkin, Staff Writer, NBC News. President Obama will award the Medal of Honor to a celebrated Army veteran on ...

***** Phil Oachs: Love me, I'm a [activist] Liberal




 
See lyrics below.

Phil Ochs -- Love me, I'm a liberal

Ä° cried when they shot Medgar Evers
Tears ran down my spine
I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy
As though I'd lost a father of mine
But Malcolm X got what was coming
He got what he asked for this time
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I go to civil rights rallies
And I put down the old D.A.R.
I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy
I hope every colored boy becomes a star
But don't talk about revolution
That's going a little bit too far
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I cheered when Humphrey was chosen
My faith in the system restored
I'm glad the commies were thrown out
of the A.F.L. C.I.O. board
I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
as long as they don't move next door
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

The people of old Mississippi
Should all hang their heads in shame
I can't understand how their minds work
What's the matter don't they watch Les Crain?
But if you ask me to bus my children
I hope the cops take down your name
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I read New republic and Nation
I've learned to take every view
You know, I've memorized Lerner and Golden
I feel like I'm almost a Jew
But when it comes to times like Korea
There's no one more red, white and blue
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I vote for the democratic party
They want the U.N. to be strong
I go to all the Pete Seeger concerts
He sure gets me singing those songs
I'll send all the money you ask for
But don't ask me to come on along
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

Once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to the socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
But I've grown older and wiser
And that's why I'm turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

2.10.2013

nd 'Honestly, I may be on different planet than Tolstoy, and Jesus, if Truly, shooting someone about to hammer an infant is 'Violence.' That is insanity to me. I don't think Jesus meant that, nor that, given time, Tolstoy would have, either. Gandhi's more with me.' Loving

nd 'Honestly, I may be on different planet than Tolstoy, and Jesus, if Truly, shooting someone about to hammer an infant is 'Violence.'  That is insanity to me.  I don't think Jesus meant that, nor that, given time, Tolstoy would have, either. Gandhi's more with me.' Loving

'Loving, is it tough living with a cancer diagnosis,' a friend asked? 'Nope....'

Hi.  The other day in an email, among the things a friend commented on,
very compassionately, was how difficult it must be with a cancer diagnosis.

I didn't mean to blow past that, it was  just that other things in that
email grabbed my attention.

In well over a decade I'm unaware of any second that my own mortality
has concerned me personally, as it might have in my earliest years.  HOWEVER, my mortality as it relates to the benefit or cost thereof to those to whom I
am trying to be a benefit concerns, and conerned me throughout adulthood,
greatly.  Even 20 years ago, or so, off and on, when business downturns
threatened my income, layoffs, whatever, and my life was of little emotional benefit to the woman I was married to, and the two bio-sons I had, otherwise, my only thought was how to commit suicide in such a way that they could collect on the insurance, that I would not lead the boys to ever do the same, and in a way that they all would not be too embarrassed, or traumatized (grossed-out) by how I off'd myself.  Obviously I squeakedby on this one, never figured out a way that satisfied all those requirements. Well, except I 'killed' myself to be sure the income kept coming, thru the downturns, fulfilling my Loving duty as husband and father, as best I knew to do.  LOL.

It will be interesting to see if things change, but regarding the cancer, so far
not a twinge of personal concern.  My guess is that if and when it takes me,
I'll probably be able to get into a hospice to manage the pain, tho even when
just weeks ago I was guessing till-death institutionalization due to the Death Fast, guessing the cancer would take me, painfully, in a psych ward, still, no twinge of concern for myself.  
It is pretty simple - Life is ONLY found in the face of the emergency of others - I greedily do whatever I have to to Live there - now, averting global Ecocide - I soooo completely identify with the billions we are torturing that there just isn't room to be concerned with myself, EXCEPT as it relates to removing a tool, an avatar, a Loving Spirit from a role that may be beneficial to them.  I am not reckless, casual or irresponsible with these tools I've been given to work for others. But these tools, me, are of interest as a means to an end not in themselves. It is Heaven. Sanity.  "If you seek to hold on to your life, you will lose it.  If you seek to lose (totally give) your Life for the sake of our global neediest Family, you will Gain your Life."  Amen. 

What may seem confusing, and contradictory to this is, well, my depression
of last week or so - completely gone now.  That was zero concern about
my own mortality or suffering -it was horror at how to keep serving in view of
nice, Nurse Ratched-responding folks around me that seemed all to happy
to have me 'Dead' for 6 months in a place like Christ House (no internet, no working, no laptop...) while 60% of that time I otherwise maybe could be fighting for our kids! That was a horror to me, "Cuckoo's Nest,"  the prospects of being useless to our billions for half a year!  The horror of the nice folks around me so zombie-like, dead, clueless, heart-dead.  Did you ever see "The English Patient?"  And of course, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?"

nd 'I KNOW I'm 'different,' 'difficult,' 'irritating,' maddening....' Imagine what it's like for me! Living with this 24/7!?!?!?! [It's Heaven, by the way, and Hell, inseparably, all the time.]' Loving

nd 'I KNOW I'm 'different,' 'difficult,' 'irritating,' maddening....'  Imagine what it's like for me! Living with this 24/7!?!?!?!  [It's Heaven, by the way, and Hell, inseparably, all the time.]' Loving

nd 'Huh. If your policy is Always, Unconditionally, Loving [as mine has been], you automatically return Good for Evil - Jesus teaching. I hadn't noticed, till now.' Loving

nd 'Huh.  If your policy is Always, Unconditionally, Loving [as mine has been], you automatically return Good for Evil - Jesus teaching.  I hadn't noticed, till now.' Loving

'Know when it was decided Jesus was God? 300-500 years after he died. Amazon.com: "When Jesus Became God." ' Hmmmm.' Loving

Amazon.com: When Jesus Became God

***** nd 'Ushering more Loving into the world: The Sole Healthy, Divine, Joyful purpose of Every Breath.' Loving

nd 'Ushering more Loving into the world: The Sole Healthy, Divine, Joyful purpose of Every Breath.' Loving

Ways and Power of Love [EPUB, PDF] P. Sorokin - Harvard

"GOSPEL IN BRIEF," Tolstoy, Leo

vlog 02.10.13 Cancer Update. 'Time may be short, when maybe I need it LONG! Argh! ROFL!' Loving

2.09.2013

vid Pr. Obama - West Wing Week: 02/08/13

***** MALALA vid. Hosp. Release: "I WANT TO SERVE."

And U? Public Pressure, Background Checks Central To Obama Gun Control Strategy. NPR

Public Pressure, Background Checks Central To Obama Gun Control Strategy

NPR (blog) - ‎3 hours ago‎
Gun control historically has been one of the most divisive issues in Congress, between the parties and even inside the Democratic coalition.

02.09.13 AVERTING ECOCIDE - WAR ROOM - Tracking Plan B blog

  • Higher Oil Taxes Would Lift the Economy. Council on Foreign Relations
  •     Fossil fuel subsidies and tax breaks are still rising The Guardian
  •     Will Solar Eclipse Wind Power In 2013? KCET
  •     Despite uncertainties in solar sector, 31 GW solar installations made in 2012 Times of India
  •     Solar set for a comeback? MSN Money
  •     4.4 GW Of New Solar Power Infrastructure Expected To Be Announced In India ... CleanTechnica
  •     The Scary Truth About How Much Climate Change is Costing You, Your Kids... National Journal
  •     ***** nd 'To Save Earth, Pr. Obama should APPROVE Keystone - Massive Political Capital gained - Mid term un-Economics will Kill Keystone. OBVIOUSLY. And the Furry of the Lip-service Libs will Unify the Does-Stuff Committed Ctr w/ Pr. Obama, and disarm the Raving Right.' Loving
  •     ***** Climate change is National Security 'threat multiplier' Politico
Posted: 08 Feb 2013 09:44 AM PST
Higher Oil Taxes Would Lift the Economy Council on Foreign Relations - ‎1 hour ago‎ Higher Oil Taxes Would Lift the Economy. Authors: Michael A. Levi, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, and Daniel P. Ahn, Adjunct Fellow for Energy ...
Posted: 08 Feb 2013 06:32 AM PST
Fossil fuel subsidies and tax breaks are still rising The Guardian (blog) - ‎1 hour ago‎ Last week the OECD published two new reports which shine a light on our complex and confused relationship with fossil fuels. The first looks at how we subsidise them, the second at how we tax them. The picture they paint can be summed up in two words: ...
Posted: 08 Feb 2013 06:29 AM PST
EcoChunk Will Solar Eclipse Wind Power In 2013? KCET - ‎18 hours ago‎ According to one energy executive, solar power will likely outstrip wind in the pace of new installations in 2013. This is as a result both of uncertainty late last year over the fate of the Wind Production Tax Credit (PTC) and the ever-decreasing ... Solar Energy MapsCrowdsourcing.org In
Posted: 08 Feb 2013 06:27 AM PST
Despite uncertainties in solar sector, 31 GW solar installations made in 2012 Times of India - ‎1 hour ago‎ The fall in prices has continued to be a boon for installers and downstream companies, particularly third-party finance providers, who have profited from the falling module prices, with many of them deploying solar leasing finance models, according to ...
Posted: 08 Feb 2013 06:27 AM PST
International Business Times Solar set for a comeback? MSN Money - ‎19 hours ago‎ This Arizona-based maker of solar modules and photovoltaic solar power systems has a market cap near $2.5 billion. Its forward earnings multiple is less than the industry average price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio, but the long-term earnings per share (EPS) ... Solar: Citi Sets Buys On
Posted: 08 Feb 2013 06:26 AM PST
Financial Times (blog) 4.4 GW Of New Solar Power Infrastructure Expected To Be Announced In India ... CleanTechnica - ‎10 hours ago‎ 20130207-010126.jpg. The group is anticipating the “announcement of 1.6 GW of new solar capacity under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (NSM) along with an additional 2.8 GW of projects under five state solar programs,”
Posted: 08 Feb 2013 05:29 AM PST
The Scary Truth About How Much Climate Change is Costing You National Journal - ‎8 hours ago‎ The reason: rapidly rising sea levels due to climate change. Among the chief causes for that rise, according to the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, are carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels, which trap heat in the ...
Posted: 08 Feb 2013 05:03 AM PST
*****  nd 'To Save Earth, Pr. Obama should APPROVE Keystone -  Massive Political Capital gained - Mid term un-Economics will Kill Keystone.   OBVIOUSLY.  And the Furry of the Lip-service Libs will Unify the  Does-Stuff Committed Ctr w/ Pr. Obama, and disarm the Raving Right.'  Loving
Posted: 08 Feb 2013 05:01 AM PST
Climate change is 'threat multiplier' Politico-9 hours ago The CNA Military Advisory Board — a panel of our nation's highest-ranking retired military leaders — has identified climate change as a “threat ...

2.08.2013

***** "Ahimsa [nonviolence] - Infinite Loving" Gandhi

"Ahimsa [nonviolence] - Infinite Loving"  Gandhi

Ahimsa [infinite love] is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the summum bonum of life. It is an attitude of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the reach of a coward. It is no wooden or lifeless dogma but a living and lifegiving force. It is the special attribute of the soul. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

nd 'By 'Truth' Gandhi meant: What needs to be done for our global neediest by me, right now. The one thing worth instantly dying for, he said; correctly.' Loving

nd' By 'Truth' Gandhi meant:  What needs to be done for our global neediest by me, right now.  The one thing worth instantly dying for, he said; correctly.' Loving

JOIN TarSandsBlockade National Action March 16-23

Last week I was arrested for telling the truth. I became one with the sound system at a pipeline industry convention...
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Howdy,

Last week I was arrested for telling the truth. I became one with the sound system at a pipeline industry convention where TransCanada was lecturing on pipeline safety compliance. I chained myself to the loud speaker because I had a message to deliver! [1]
 
The tar sands industry and its investors are spending billions on dangerous pipelines to open the Canadian tar sands to unbridled exploitation: the Keystone XL, the Northern Gateway, and the Trailbreaker, to name a few….but there’s one thing standing in their way: you. Yes, you! 
 
Grassroots resistance begins with you, and together, we can send a message to TransCanada and their profiteers: Stop scheming to expand Alberta tar sands exploitation and bankrolling Keystone XL.
 
Investors are becoming uncertain about the future of Keystone XL and that’s why Tar Sands Blockade and our allies are calling for a Week of Action to Stop Tar Sands Profiteers, March 16 – 23. 
 
 
From my indigenous brothers and sisters in Alberta most impacted by tar sands extraction to the environmental racism of refining in Houston’s toxic East End, TransCanada’s business as usual means death and destruction for the biosphere and our communities. Together we can confront these toxic profiteers by showing up at their offices, public events, and extraction sites to demonstrate that we won’t stop until they do. You don't need to come to Texas or Oklahoma or go to DC to rise up and defend your home!
 
 
Extreme energy extraction like mountain top removal, fracking, and tar sands exploitation are fueling climate chaos and disproportionally poisoning low income and communities of color at an alarming rate. Institutional avenues of change –corrupt politicians and regulators – have failed to protect our most impacted, vulnerable communities.

Tar Sands Blockade has done many things to stop KXL, from tree sits to locking ourselves to heavy machinery, and we've asked for help before. But to help us stop KXL now means we must go straight to the folks investing in the projects that are poisoning our friends and families and tell them enough is enough! Investing in Keystone XL is as toxic as the contents of their pipe!

Sign up to plan an action to Stop Tar Sands Profiteers, March 16-23!
 
To stop the most destructive project on Earth and preserve any hope of a liveable planet, we must put a end to “business as usual.” It’s time to act now and stop those working to poison our world and strip-mine our future. It's time to take direct action to build the world we know is possible.  
 
In Solidarity,
 
Ramsey Sprague 
Tar Sands Blockade

PS. A new direct action group just sprung up in Oklahoma! Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance is brand new and already taking action to stop KXL. They’ve announced a Training Camp March 18-22nd. Sign up today on their website.

1. Video: Ramsey disrupts TransCanada Exec at Oil and Gas Conference in Houston: http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/17th-action/

Malala Yousafzai discharged from hospital. The Guardian

Malala, Pakistani teen shot by Taliban, leaves hospital after stunning recovery

CNN - ‎3 hours ago‎
Malala Yousufzai left Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, on Friday. In the past two weeks, the girl famous for advocating that girls in Pakistan be educated -- which stoked the ire of her attackers -- proved her incredible strength by ...

Malala Yousafzai discharged from hospital

The Guardian - ‎3 hours ago‎
The hospital said Malala would continue her rehabilitation at her family's temporary home in Birmingham and visit occasionally for outpatient appointments.

'DC City Threatening to Throw Out All my Belongings' Loving

While I was at the library making final preparations for 6 months in chemo prison the DC City guys came by to throw out my belongings.  I'll guess the Canadian Embassy made a complaint.  I bear no grudges.  The City is within their Rights.  I Pray it doesn't come down to my stuff being thrown out with just several weeks before I enter prison, and have the stuff stored.  Hmmmm.

I'll stay on a much shorter leash than I have in recent weeks, as I've been preparing for prison, and fortunately that prep work is all but done.

We'll see.  If someone is out to get me, they will. I'll still leave for 20 min if I need the rest-room and late afternoon for 50 min for the homeless dinner truck.

If they are not out to 'get' me, it will be ok.  We'll see.

I have a 3 hour med cancer screening next week, and a three hour cancer consult the following week.  It will be interesting.  There probably isn't anyone to watch it for me.  :-(

NOTE: The reason I know of the city's visit?  A homeless guy, black, late 60ish, very staunch, very solitary, not 'friendly,' saw the city messing with the stuff and spoke up for me.  I've been here 8 months, and he maybe 15 years, I've heard.  In all but the last 3 weeks he has treated me like pariah.  But while respecting his space, I'm his brother, and when I know of a bad-weather report, I'll quickly pass word to him.  When I receive extra food, I'll offer it to him.  I literally don't look at him for a reply, because that is what I think he expects, someone offering something expecting something in return, even 'thanks.'  I NEVER look for anything in return.  My every breath is given as a brother.  The 'giving' is the Joy - it is the Gift, to Self.  But obviously it has engendered in him a higher level of humanity.  That is the entire reason we are here - to bring Loving into the world.  That is the work of Saving.

Hmmmm. Survival rate Colon, Liver cancer -

Colon Cancer
Colon cancer diagnosis is often delayed due to absence of definite symptoms. The treatment option at this stage include surgical removal of the tumor along with affected surrounding organs. However, this treatment option is not viable in case the cancer has spread to other organs like liver, lungs etc. Five year survival rate for this cancer is about 8 to 15%.

Liver Cancer
It is pretty rare in western countries but quite common in developing countries. If stage 4 liver cancer goes untreated, about 90% of patients will succumb to disease within a year. If a successful liver transplant with no complications has been performed, the patient may leave for another 5 years. About 36% people may live beyond that.
Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/stage4-cancer-survival-rate.html

Gunmen in Nigeria kill nine polio health workers. The Guardian

Gunmen in Nigeria kill nine polio health workers

The Guardian - ‎2 hours ago‎
Gunmen on motorbikes have shot dead nine health workers who were administering polio vaccinations in two separate attacks in the northern city of Kano.

China jails 1, detains 70 to quell Tibet protests USA TODAY

China jails 1, detains 70 to quell Tibet protests

USA TODAY - ‎52 minutes ago‎
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese court sentenced a Tibetan man to 13 years in prison Friday for goading a monk to self-immolate, as Beijing steps up a crackdown on self-immolations aimed at protesting communist rule.