11.28.2014
nd. Friends fighting for Palestine: PLEASE, let's ALWAYS refer to Israel's attacks by WHAT THEY ARE: "TERRORISM." Yes????????? Please??????? They have SET the definition, and they, and they ALONE FULFILL the definition. We must do what we can to reframe the dialog, media... and replace ISRAEL'S LIES with Palestine's TRUTH.
Friends fighting for Palestine: PLEASE, let's ALWAYS refer to Israel's attacks by WHAT THEY ARE: "TERRORISM." Yes????????? Please??????? They have SET the definition, and they, and they ALONE FULFILL the definition. We must do what we can to reframe the dialog, media... and replace ISRAEL'S LIES with Palestine's TRUTH.
nd. I go in for a pre-op consultation on Tuesday regarding the growth in my lung, detected in last week's cancer scan.
I go in for a pre-op consultation on Tuesday regarding the growth in my lung, detected in last week's cancer scan.
11.27.2014
11.26.2014
article. Letter from a Palestinian Christian... In my peaceful town of Beit Sahour, mostly Christians, the first boy to get killed by Israelis was 16 years old. He was walking home from the store when Israeli soldiers dropped a huge rock on his head from the top of a building and watched him crawl home bleeding until he died at the front steps of his home. He was Christian, he did nothing to them. ....
vid George Galloway, a Soldier of the Creator. 'The Gangster Terrorist State of Israels' Days Are Numbered.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eYVhQxcxhw
vid George Galloway, a Soldier of the Creator. 'The Gangster Terrorist State of Israels' Days Are Numbered.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eYVhQxcxhw
11.25.2014
pic. “We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
vid. Utterly breathtaking, brilliant, courageous, passionate, heart-rending.... BRAVO JON STEWART. This Might Be Jon Stewart's Best Rant Ever. Because Ferguson. http://www.upworthy.com/this-might-be-jon-stewarts-best-rant-ever-because-ferguson?c=ufb3
vid. Utterly breathtaking, brilliant, courageous, passionate, heart-rending.... BRAVO JON STEWART. This Might Be Jon Stewart's Best Rant Ever. Because Ferguson. http://www.upworthy.com/this-might-be-jon-stewarts-best-rant-ever-because-ferguson?c=ufb3
nd. I need to wrap my mind around the fact, and learn to deal with the truth, that 'Fundamentalist' groups (Zionists, Israeli's, Chr'stians...) CONSIDER IT THEIR DUTY TO LIE, DECEIVE, LIE, DECEIVE... WHATEVER IS 'REQUIRED' TO ACHIEVE THEIR 'SACRED' ENDS. I've been clueless, blind... to this; a sitting duck... unable to see it... clueless as how to deal with it, combat it, defeat it. So much to learn... we're out of time.
I need to wrap my mind around the fact, and learn to deal with the truth, that 'Fundamentalist' groups (Zionists, Israeli's, Chr'stians...) CONSIDER IT THEIR DUTY TO LIE, DECEIVE, LIE, DECEIVE... WHATEVER IS 'REQUIRED' TO ACHIEVE THEIR 'SACRED' ENDS. I've been clueless, blind... to this; a sitting duck... unable to see it... clueless as how to deal with it, combat it, defeat it. So much to learn... we're out of time.
FB dialog: To someone I knew as a child, in my white NYC suburb, who wrote: "What has been accomplished by rioting, looting, arson, and shooting off guns? Destruction of property, causing people to loose their livelihoods when the stores close, and for what?..." It went on for three more paragraphs like this. My reply: " I think you are a nice person, not that you should care what I think, but I do. I think the whites in South Africa during Apartheid, were nice, I do. I think the white Germans, exterminating the Jews were nice, I do, and so did the armies of US psychologists going to catalog the hoards of psychological monsters, that said instead, these Germans are just like us. And you are one of them friend... a nice, white privileged oppressor... totally blind to your privilege, just as it always is. Willfully, to a degree, as always. I'll be unfriending you soon, or I'd have to leave comments like this to you all the time, and it is not my place to inflict myself or my views on folks. Be well. "Nothing in all the world is so dangerous as sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." MLK Jr. Your brother forever, no matter what."
To someone I knew as a child, in my white NYC suburb, who wrote: "What has been accomplished by rioting, looting, arson, and shooting off guns? Destruction of property, causing people to loose their livelihoods when the stores close, and for what?..." It went on for three more paragraphs like this. My reply: " I think you are a nice person, not that you should care what I think, but I do. I think the whites in South Africa during Apartheid, were nice, I do. I think the white Germans, exterminating the Jews were nice, I do, and so did the armies of US psychologists going to catalog the hoards of psychological monsters, that said instead, these Germans are just like us. And you are one of them friend... a nice, white privileged oppressor... totally blind to your privilege, just as it always is. Willfully, to a degree, as always. I'll be unfriending you soon, or I'd have to leave comments like this to you all the time, and it is not my place to inflict myself or my views on folks. Be well. "Nothing in all the world is so dangerous as sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." MLK Jr. Your brother forever, no matter what."
pic. I can’t undo the Genocide of the American Natives this Thanksgiving... ... but I can honor their memory by spending Thanksgiving here... in front of the White House, fighting the US/Israeli Colonial Settler Extermination of their Palestinian Native, Indigenous sisters and brothers. And I shall... here... Creator willing.
pic. I hate everything about Thanksgiving * The Slaughter of Native Americans * The Slaughter of our Fellow Creatures * The Gluttony * The Orgy of our US Over- privilege... in the face of such horrible global need * The Nationalism, Propaganda, Lies * The ‘Nuclear Family’ instead of Universal Family * The once-a-year Charity... to avoid the EVERY DAY SOLIDARITY WITH OUR NEEDIEST
***** article. Why we need professional revolutionists. "The rebel, possessed by inner demons and angels, is driven by visions familiar to religious mystics. And it is the rebel alone who can save us from corporate tyranny. I do not know if these rebels will succeed. But I do know that a world without them is hopeless."
article. Netanyahu to strip more rights from non-Jews. In contemporary international law, it customary to talk about "external" self-determination, meaning the right of nations living under foreign rule to independence, and "internal" self-determination, or the notion that states represent multiple populations. The declaration in the proposed law that "the right to exercise national self-determination in Israel is exclusive to the Jewish people" undermines the notion that a large national minority in Israel is also entitled to representation and not just "individual" rights. In that respect, the proposal is a step toward greater discrimination against the country's Arab population, or perhaps toward Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's plan – to remove that population from within the country's borders.
11.24.2014
nd. My cancer visit to Georgetown Hospital today: This is my 1st full body ct scan in about 10 months - was to happen in Feb, but the city gov had screwed up my insurance... and then I got caught up in lobbying congress for Palestine... so today, 9 months late, is when the scan occurred. From the results... My doc doesn't seem worried, but she, just this time, said they are following a growth in my lung, for several years now. LOL. 1st I've heard of it. It is growing, that is not a good sign. It is small, and has not doubled in size in 18 months, that's a good sign. She is concerned enough that she is referring it to a chest doctor to see what she thinks. My bloodwork was not back yet so I don't know if my blood is still negative for the cancer marker. I'm not concerned, at all, except my body is functioning extremely well, and my mind is functioning extremely well, and although I was not 'alive' and 'awake' for the great moral struggles of anti-Vietnam War, Civil Rights, anti-Apartheid SA, I AM AWAKE AND ALIVE for what is the most difinitive such battle for all of human future - anti-Zionist (US Christian, and Israeli) Extermination of Palestines. And it would be such a waste, so sad, if I am taken out of that battle now, especially all the hundreds of thousands in medical bills to get me this far. Personally, I'm ready to go home, but my strong preference is to be left here to fight for as long as I am fully functioning, and can help, as I am now.
My cancer visit to Georgetown Hospital today: This is my 1st full body ct scan in about 10 months - was to happen in Feb, but the city gov had screwed up my insurance... and then I got caught up in lobbying congress for Palestine... so today, 9 months late, is when the scan occurred. From the results... My doc doesn't seem worried, but she, just this time, said they are following a growth in my lung, for several years now. LOL. 1st I've heard of it. It is growing, that is not a good sign. It is small, and has not doubled in size in 18 months, that's a good sign. She is concerned enough that she is referring it to a chest doctor to see what she thinks. My bloodwork was not back yet so I don't know if my blood is still negative for the cancer marker. I'm not concerned, at all, except my body is functioning extremely well, and my mind is functioning extremely well, and although I was not 'alive' and 'awake' for the great moral struggles of anti-Vietnam War, Civil Rights, anti-Apartheid SA, I AM AWAKE AND ALIVE for what is the most difinitive such battle for all of human future - anti-Zionist (US Christian, and Israeli) Extermination of Palestines. And it would be such a waste, so sad, if I am taken out of that battle now, especially all the hundreds of thousands in medical bills to get me this far. Personally, I'm ready to go home, but my strong preference is to be left here to fight for as long as I am fully functioning, and can help, as I am now.
11.23.2014
nd. To a very kind, very able young lady that is part of a church group kind to we homeless: Sister, I share this with you because I think you are Good enough to want to hear it. I was thinking today, as I see all the nice church folk, like you, coming by and feeding us at the shelter this time of year... I thought, I wonder what these nice folks will think in just about 18 months time, when they see the following, all at once: * The shelter is closed; * laws make we poor illegal in gentrifying Washington DC... so near all of the folks you are nice to are forced way away from Washington DC, Jesus would be among them, * or those like me that on principle refuse to leave, are put in prison... because that is exactly where this is headed. I wonder what nice folks like you will think, when it is in your face, and you realize that you did little if anything to head this off when you had time... except to help enable 'us' to sit around waiting cluelessly for the slaughter. (((Hugs)))
To a very kind, very able young lady that is part of a church group kind to we homeless: Sister, I share this with you because I think you are Good enough to want to hear it. I was thinking today, as I see all the nice church folk, like you, coming by and feeding us at the shelter this time of year... I thought, I wonder what these nice folks will think in just about 18 months time, when they see the following, all at once: * The shelter is closed; * laws make we poor illegal in gentrifying Washington DC... so near all of the folks you are nice to are forced way away from Washington DC, Jesus would be among them, * or those like me that on principle refuse to leave, are put in prison... because that is exactly where this is headed. I wonder what nice folks like you will think, when it is in your face, and you realize that you did little if anything to head this off when you had time... except to help enable 'us' to sit around waiting cluelessly for the slaughter. (((Hugs)))
nd. The Charge of 'anti-Semitism' is ACTUALLY the charge of: NOT HATING PALESTINIANS; NOT ESPOUSING THE ZIONIST LIES; NOT PARTICIPATING ENTHUSIASTICALLY IN THE DESECRATION OF THE HOLOCAUST, AND JUDAISM; NOT PASSIONATELY WORKING TO KILL OR CLEANSE PALESTINIANS FROM PALESTINE.
The Charge of 'anti-Semitism' is ACTUALLY the charge of: NOT HATING PALESTINIANS; NOT ESPOUSING THE ZIONIST LIES; NOT PARTICIPATING ENTHUSIASTICALLY IN THE DESECRATION OF THE HOLOCAUST, AND JUDAISM; NOT PASSIONATELY WORKING TO KILL OR CLEANSE PALESTINIANS FROM PALESTINE.
nd. Nothing in all the world is so dangerous as conscientious stupidity and sincere ignorance. Martin Luther King jr..
nd. Nothing in all the world is so dangerous as conscientious stupidity and sincere ignorance. Martin Luther King jr..
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***** article. Orthodox Jews who stand against Israel. [ friends, please take careful note of the following: If you are anti Jew, or anti any individual based on their group affiliation, then I stand against what you stand for with every fiber of my being. ] Rabbi E. Beck, a member of the Neturei Karta in New York, told MintPress that Zionists are “no more than radical extremists working to defile true Judaism.” He categorically rejected the notion that only Jews hold a legitimate claim to the “Promised Land,” stressing that “any ideology which bases itself on the rejection of others is inherently nefarious.
* [ friends, please take careful note of the following: If you are anti Jew, or anti any individual based on their group affiliation, then I stand against what you stand for with every fiber of my being. ] Rabbi E. Beck, a member of the Neturei Karta in New York, told MintPress that Zionists are “no more than radical extremists working to defile true Judaism.” He categorically rejected the notion that only Jews hold a legitimate claim to the “Promised Land,” stressing that “any ideology which bases itself on the rejection of others is inherently nefarious.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/neturei-karta-the-jews-who-stand-against-israel/198813/
http://www.mintpressnews.com/neturei-karta-the-jews-who-stand-against-israel/198813/
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***** pic. Jesus: If you are not devoting every breath, every resource, your entire life, in loving solidarity to our global neediest, then you are the problem. This is the gospel... Full stop.
If you are not devoting every breath,
every resource, your entire life, in
loving solidarity to our global
neediest, then you are the problem.
This is the gospel... Full stop.
every resource, your entire life, in
loving solidarity to our global
neediest, then you are the problem.
This is the gospel... Full stop.
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pic. Dr. King said, sooner or later we will all have to learn how to live in peace. My reply: No, my beloved dr. King, this is untrue. Infinitely more likely is that we will descend back into horrible barbarism. As Einstein said, I do not know with what weapons we will fight World War 3, but I do know what weapons with which we will fight World War 4, sticks and stones. That is absolutely where we are headed.
No, my beloved dr. King, this is untrue. Infinitely more likely is that we will descend back into horrible barbarism. As Einstein said, I do not know with what weapons we will fight World War 3, but I do know what weapons with which we will fight World War 4, sticks and stones. That is absolutely where we are headed.
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11.22.2014
Article. Palestinian Christians attacked for questioning christian Zionism. For Sizer, Christian Zionism isn’t the first historical example of Christians confusing theology with politics in order to oppress others. “The Bible has been misused by every colonial system,” he said. “The Spanish used the church to suppress the Incas and the other people in Latin America, the British used the Bible to justify the colonisation of East Africa and Asia. In South Africa the Dutch Reform Church used the Bible to justify why the blacks were inferior to the whites.” “We’ve used the paradigms of the Bible to justify mistreating other peoples that we could denigrate or dehumanize them … My message to the Christian community is to say Jesus has called us to treat everyone with dignity and respect.”
article. Israel considers military attack on Iran. Truman unleashed the Doomsday Device, a global Frankenstein - Israel - and every succeeding Washington regime (excepting Pr. Obama) has lavishly provided for it's feeding and growth. And we sh*tizens haven't stopped them. These sociopaths could well end the world. America will deserve that...the rest of the world, not so much. http://www.jpost.com/International/Exclusive-Cornered-but-unbound-by-nuclear-pact-Israel-reconsiders-military-action-against-Iran-382541
Truman unleashed the Doomsday Device, a global Frankenstein - Israel - and every succeeding Washington regime (excepting Pr. Obama) has lavishly provided for it's feeding and growth. And we sh*tizens haven't stopped them. These sociopaths could well end the world. America will deserve that...the rest of the world, not so much. http://www.jpost.com/International/Exclusive-Cornered-but-unbound-by-nuclear-pact-Israel-reconsiders-military-action-against-Iran-382541
Article. Israel is horrified that Palestinians allegedly test for rockets sending them harmlessly into the sea. Israel doesn't mention Israel tested their weapons killing 500 children around 1500 Palestinian adults this summer, destroying around 18,000 homes, making two hundred thousand homeless , creating as much damage as 8 hiroshema nuclear bombs on a civilian population in the most densely populated area on earth, wounding tens of thousands physically have hundreds of psychologically .
nd. I was brought up in the catholic faith and I've been a recovering catholic for the last 45 years. I had long thought that the catholic faith produced the most godly people and the most satanic people. I now am convinced that that is the jewish background that does that. They have the most satanic and the most godly.
I was brought up in the catholic faith and I've been a recovering catholic for the last 45 years. I had long thought that the catholic faith produced the most godly people and the most satanic people. I now am convinced that that is the jewish background that does that. They have the most satanic and the most godly.
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***** For the religious fanatics, the Jewish religious fanatics, who have moved into control Israeli policy, it is a religious duty to despise non-jews, and if they have sufficient power, if the Jews have sufficient power, to exterminate all non Jews from the land. This is their religious duty these lunatics. This is scholarly fact. This is not changed by the fact that fanatic Jews are commanded by the Talmud to lie about this fact. Do your research. We are not going to free Palestine by living within the myriad lies from the fanatic Israeli establishment. They consider it as their duty to lie to non Jews to further their ends this is required by the Talmud.
* For the religious fanatics, the Jewish religious fanatics, who have moved into control Israeli policy, it is a religious duty to despise non-jews, and if they have sufficient power, if the Jews have sufficient power, to exterminate all non Jews from the land. This is their religious duty these lunatics. This is scholarly fact. This is not changed by the fact that fanatic Jews are commanded by the Talmud to lie about this fact. Do your research. We are not going to free Palestine by living within the myriad lies from the fanatic Israeli establishment. They consider it as their duty to lie to non Jews to further their ends this is required by the Talmud.
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11.21.2014
nd. America is done, finished, game over... if Shillary, any of the GOP, Bernie, Lizzie, or Joe are elected. We need another miracle... as Pr. Obama has been. If he or she is White... we may even get some things done.
America is done, finished, game over... if Shillary, any of the GOP, Bernie, Lizzie, or Joe are elected. We need another miracle... as Pr. Obama has been. If he or she is White... we may even get some things done.
***** pic. The Purpose of my Life is the total, complete, absolute devotion of every breath, every resource... to the neediest you can possibly reach... for the unmatched, sublime, total, complete... inner peace and joy of that way of being. Serving, from the Soul, in absolute, Lived... Solidarity with the global neediest. Full stop.
resource... to the neediest you can possibly reach... for the unmatched, sublime, total, complete... inner peace and joy of that way of being. Serving, from the Soul, in absolute, Lived... Solidarity with the global neediest. Full stop.
article. Amazon is crushing main street. Loving's reply: I am totally and profoundly guilty of this, and I don't know what to do about it. I exist, for all my work, on less than $1000 per year, total outlay, 100%, everything. When I make a purchase I need what I need, to my specifications, at minimal cost, with minimal waste of time. I am not trying to convince you or me that shopping Amazon, for me, is the right, moral, good thing to do. In my defense, I buy zero luxuries, entertainment, amusements... per year. Zero. Hmmmm. I buy my fruits at a local farmers market, with great joy. A have never shopped in the Walmart, the closest store to where I live, because of their disgustingly low wages.
nd. The Bible is a story book. The Qaran is a story book. As with the Torah, Talmud, etc etc etc. These are not books of history. They are imperfect works by imperfect men - they contain wisdom and goodness, and hatred, error and inhumanity. If you want to live 'as if' they are true, in your own lives, and not hurt anyone by doing so... I'm sad for you... but that is your business. When you start hurting members of my human family with your fantasy games... then it becomes my business.
The Bible is a story book. The Qaran is a story book. As with the Torah, Talmud, etc etc etc. These are not books of history. They are imperfect works by imperfect men - they contain wisdom and goodness, and hatred, error and inhumanity. If you want to live 'as if' they are true, in your own lives, and not hurt anyone by doing so... I'm sad for you... but that is your business. When you start hurting members of my human family with your fantasy games... then it becomes my business.
nd. I think it is morally of profound danger, if not worse, to say of ANY group, as in this case, [all] Jews do or don't believe.... This is bigotry. What do all 'christains' believe, or not believe? I can't think of anything. Bigotry is to be hated, and avoided, at the cost of careful qualifications over and over and over as required.
I think it is morally of profound danger, if not worse, to say of ANY group, as in this case, [all] Jews do or don't believe.... This is bigotry. What do all 'christains' believe, or not believe? I can't think of anything. Bigotry is to be hated, and avoided, at the cost of careful qualifications over and over and over as required.
Ha'aretz: In Israel, only Jewish blood shocks anyone Killings of Palestinians by soldiers and policemen will never shock Israel. The propaganda machine will whitewash everything, and the media will be its mouthpiece.
In Israel, only Jewish blood shocks anyone
Killings of Palestinians by soldiers and policemen will never shock Israel. The propaganda machine will whitewash everything, and the media will be its mouthpiece.
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.627369
Article. Iran Threatens to Flood Gaza With 'Millions' of Iranian Fighters. Hey!?!?!!? What's going on???? UNFAIR!!!! The world's superpower gets to 100% fund, arm, support... the 67 ILLEGAL REIGN OF TERROR BY ISRAEL. NOW, IRAN WANTS TO HELP THEIR VICTIM????? UNFAIR!!!!!!!!! UNAMERICAN!!!!!! We get to RAPE!!!! Iran is forbidden to help stop US! TERRORISTS!!!!!
Hey!?!?!!? What's going on???? UNFAIR!!!! The world's superpower gets to 100% fund, arm, support... the 67 ILLEGAL REIGN OF TERROR BY ISRAEL. NOW, IRAN WANTS TO HELP THEIR VICTIM????? UNFAIR!!!!!!!!! UNAMERICAN!!!!!! We get to RAPE!!!! Iran is forbidden to help stop US! TERRORISTS!!!!! http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/187646#.VG9gtckbjfc
11.20.2014
Article. President obama, the 1 good man in washington, on immigration reform. "The administration is operating within its authority to advance the moral and economic interests of our country, and while we stand ready to defend this program, we must also be clear that it is only a first step. Unfortunately, more than half of those who currently lack legal protections will remain vulnerable to wage theft, retaliation and other forms of exploitation. In addition, we are concerned by the president's concession to corporate demands for even greater access to temporary visas that will allow the continued suppression of wages in the tech sector." — Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO president
***** vid. The nazis kills my family long ago and now their deaths are being just to justify the extermination of Palestinians.
Having much trouble uploading this video. It is an important one so I will persist. Will be sure it is up by this weekend. Check back.
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pic. To all the United States liberals morning the fact that Palestinians can't get along with Israelis: You are right, it is so sad. Just like it was so sad that the American Indians couldn't get along with the white European colonialists of their time as they were being exterminated from a population of 50 million down to several hundred thousand, as they and their children were being humiliated every single second everyday, as 99 percent of their land was being stolen and they were being herded onto barely livable areas.... I don't understand why the Palestinians can't just get along. You are so correct.
nd. Sister, I do not know what connections you may have, I have virtually none. Please consider what you might do to help instigate a campaign with the organization Media Matters to get them involved in highlighting the grotesque imbalance in coverage of Palestine Israel. It might be that PolitiFact should also be targeted. I am sowing the idea in the few places I can. Please do the same.
Sister, I do not know what connections you may have, I have virtually none. Please consider what you might do to help instigate a campaign with the organization Media Matters to get them involved in highlighting the grotesque imbalance in coverage of Palestine Israel. It might be that PolitiFact should also be targeted. I am sowing the idea in the few places I can. Please do the same.
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11.19.2014
nd. I was so cold today I hurt. I'm sure I was clinically hypothermic. I've been inside for several hours now with all my outside clothes on and am just now getting to feel warm. Physically, it was horrible being out there today. It is really painful and upsetting to be that cold. Yet I find that all I can think about is getting out there again tomorrow morning for the last day in 2 weeks congress will be in session.
I was so cold today I hurt. I'm sure I was clinically hypothermic. I've been inside for several hours now with all my outside clothes on and am just now getting to feel warm. Physically, it was horrible being out there today. It is really painful and upsetting to be that cold. Yet I find that all I can think about is getting out there again tomorrow morning for the last day in 2 weeks congress will be in session.
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Detail. Regarding Mr Williams: I am crying as I type this. I think some of that is the cold. I've probably then out in this a bit longer than I should. But Congress does not slither by for another hour so I will be here... Click link for detail
Regarding Mr Williams: I am crying as I type this. I think some of that is the cold. I've probably then out in this a bit longer than I should. I am hypothermic now. But Congress does not slither by for another hour so I will be here.
In the homeless shelter where I sleep, so that I can do this work with my every breath for Palestine, there are two hundred and fifty men on this 50 and older floor. It is all open except for three quarter length walls that divide us into cubes they are called. Each cube is further divided about 10 men on one side and 6 men on the other. I sleep by the dividing wall that separates the two portions of our cube. I am on a lower bunk.
There is a fair degree of turnover in the shelter. About a month ago the bunk kitty corner from mine in the adjacent part of the cube became empty. And several days later the new occupant arrived, Mr Williams. Every 10 days the occupants of each cube in rotation are assigned a detail it is called, a chore that takes 10 minutes or so to keep the shelter in order. That day after we do our detail is also when we can have our laundry washed and dried and stuffed immediately back into a laundry bag so that it is totally wrinkled.
I'm so grateful that Mr Williams, probably my age early sixties, a small man, black of course, and as gentle and nice a man as I can ever recall encountering, it was the day before his first detail day and he heard about laundry being done but he did not understand all the particulars so he gently and shyly approached me, I think I had a grocery bag in a hand from some donations I picked up at a coffee shop to donate to the guys in the shelter. He rightly judged that I was going to discard the bag and he asked if he could have it for the laundry. I said sure. We need to write our names on a piece of paper and put it inside the bag but, I forget just how he asked the question, he asked I think if I had a pen to write his name on the bag. At least that's what I understood him to ask. I searched in my backpack and found a marking pen. As I type this I am in tears again, will you write my name on the bag please, he ever so politely asked. He does not know how to write. Sure, I answered, so grateful to be able to help, so grateful he trusted to ask me, so outraged at us all for allowing such neglect of our brothers and sisters.
I did not know his name at that point so to enable me to write his name he handed me his identity card. It was his card from prison. The only identity this mid-sixties man, so gentle, so respectful, so unassuming, the only identity card he had was a card from prison.
About a week later I was in the large television room where there are wall outlets where I could charge up my batteries and Mr Williams was there. He was walking into the room and he commented to me that he had to go plug in his ankle bracelet or it would go off because it was running out of charge.
I am gone all day most days so I rarely see Mr Williams except when he is going to sleep or already asleep and I am in the process of doing the same. After I realized that this dear soul might be tied to this shelter having just been released from prison I wanted to be in a position to ask him if he needed me to go to the store to get him anything. Finally, the opportunity presented itself. No, he replied I don't need anything. Thank you. Maybe it was later than that day, or soon after, he saw me and said, I don't need you to go to the store, but I wonder if I could borrow 50 cents. I started to hand him 5 dollars and thought better of it, guessing that he might want singles for the various vending machines, so I gratefully handed him four singles. Oh, he said, I will pay you back. No, I said. It is for you. And here are those tears again. Must be the cold.
Today in my half hour ritual of putting on layer upon layer of sweat pants and other stuff I became aware Mr Williams was asking another fellow directions to a bank branch. I am thinking that maybe his time with the ankle bracelet is past. He heard me speaking to another fellow of the fact I would be on Capitol Hill. He asked me directions to his bank and I gladly called it up on my computer and a map. Anyway he cleverly put two and two together, this shy man who seems a bit lost and confused about life, and upon realizing I was headed toward his bank branch asked if he could walk with me so that he would not get lost. I'll be happy to wait while you get ready, he said, seeing that I needed more time to get my warm clothes on. Of course, I said, feeling so honored and blessed that I could offer a little bit of help.
As we walked I guessed he would not mind me asking the question, so I asked, why is a man who is so obviously very nice, why were you in prison? He replied, in my prior homeless shelter I saw a credit card, I thought it had been lost. I used it, it turns out it had been stolen, so I was in prison for 2 years. He said this with no anger, no outrage, no question, no objection.
I sit here on Capitol Hill where the elite scum of the earth walks past. If Mr Williams should be in prison for 2 years for what he did after what we have done to him, so much deprivation, then 100 percent of the Senators, and 100% of the congressman should be in prison, in solitary confinement, tortured, for the rest of their days.
Every once in a while it plays through my mind what interface and interchange I will have with the judge when I am finally in court, prior to prison, for my attempts to reform our deadly and dying culture. It seems extremely likely to me that within moments I will politely and honestly tell the judge, quite possibly before she or he asks, your honor I hold this Court in complete and utter contempt. I hold the United States injustice system in total complete utter contempt with every fiber of my being. No, it was not Mr Williams that caused this in me. What I see every day for many many years has this in me. But my experience with this lovely man just brings it to the front of my mind just now.
And now the Congress creatures begin to slither by. Soon, if I am still mobile, I may be able to stagger back to where there is some warmth. Pray for me. Be a prayer for my family in Palestine.
In the homeless shelter where I sleep, so that I can do this work with my every breath for Palestine, there are two hundred and fifty men on this 50 and older floor. It is all open except for three quarter length walls that divide us into cubes they are called. Each cube is further divided about 10 men on one side and 6 men on the other. I sleep by the dividing wall that separates the two portions of our cube. I am on a lower bunk.
There is a fair degree of turnover in the shelter. About a month ago the bunk kitty corner from mine in the adjacent part of the cube became empty. And several days later the new occupant arrived, Mr Williams. Every 10 days the occupants of each cube in rotation are assigned a detail it is called, a chore that takes 10 minutes or so to keep the shelter in order. That day after we do our detail is also when we can have our laundry washed and dried and stuffed immediately back into a laundry bag so that it is totally wrinkled.
I'm so grateful that Mr Williams, probably my age early sixties, a small man, black of course, and as gentle and nice a man as I can ever recall encountering, it was the day before his first detail day and he heard about laundry being done but he did not understand all the particulars so he gently and shyly approached me, I think I had a grocery bag in a hand from some donations I picked up at a coffee shop to donate to the guys in the shelter. He rightly judged that I was going to discard the bag and he asked if he could have it for the laundry. I said sure. We need to write our names on a piece of paper and put it inside the bag but, I forget just how he asked the question, he asked I think if I had a pen to write his name on the bag. At least that's what I understood him to ask. I searched in my backpack and found a marking pen. As I type this I am in tears again, will you write my name on the bag please, he ever so politely asked. He does not know how to write. Sure, I answered, so grateful to be able to help, so grateful he trusted to ask me, so outraged at us all for allowing such neglect of our brothers and sisters.
I did not know his name at that point so to enable me to write his name he handed me his identity card. It was his card from prison. The only identity this mid-sixties man, so gentle, so respectful, so unassuming, the only identity card he had was a card from prison.
About a week later I was in the large television room where there are wall outlets where I could charge up my batteries and Mr Williams was there. He was walking into the room and he commented to me that he had to go plug in his ankle bracelet or it would go off because it was running out of charge.
I am gone all day most days so I rarely see Mr Williams except when he is going to sleep or already asleep and I am in the process of doing the same. After I realized that this dear soul might be tied to this shelter having just been released from prison I wanted to be in a position to ask him if he needed me to go to the store to get him anything. Finally, the opportunity presented itself. No, he replied I don't need anything. Thank you. Maybe it was later than that day, or soon after, he saw me and said, I don't need you to go to the store, but I wonder if I could borrow 50 cents. I started to hand him 5 dollars and thought better of it, guessing that he might want singles for the various vending machines, so I gratefully handed him four singles. Oh, he said, I will pay you back. No, I said. It is for you. And here are those tears again. Must be the cold.
Today in my half hour ritual of putting on layer upon layer of sweat pants and other stuff I became aware Mr Williams was asking another fellow directions to a bank branch. I am thinking that maybe his time with the ankle bracelet is past. He heard me speaking to another fellow of the fact I would be on Capitol Hill. He asked me directions to his bank and I gladly called it up on my computer and a map. Anyway he cleverly put two and two together, this shy man who seems a bit lost and confused about life, and upon realizing I was headed toward his bank branch asked if he could walk with me so that he would not get lost. I'll be happy to wait while you get ready, he said, seeing that I needed more time to get my warm clothes on. Of course, I said, feeling so honored and blessed that I could offer a little bit of help.
As we walked I guessed he would not mind me asking the question, so I asked, why is a man who is so obviously very nice, why were you in prison? He replied, in my prior homeless shelter I saw a credit card, I thought it had been lost. I used it, it turns out it had been stolen, so I was in prison for 2 years. He said this with no anger, no outrage, no question, no objection.
I sit here on Capitol Hill where the elite scum of the earth walks past. If Mr Williams should be in prison for 2 years for what he did after what we have done to him, so much deprivation, then 100 percent of the Senators, and 100% of the congressman should be in prison, in solitary confinement, tortured, for the rest of their days.
Every once in a while it plays through my mind what interface and interchange I will have with the judge when I am finally in court, prior to prison, for my attempts to reform our deadly and dying culture. It seems extremely likely to me that within moments I will politely and honestly tell the judge, quite possibly before she or he asks, your honor I hold this Court in complete and utter contempt. I hold the United States injustice system in total complete utter contempt with every fiber of my being. No, it was not Mr Williams that caused this in me. What I see every day for many many years has this in me. But my experience with this lovely man just brings it to the front of my mind just now.
And now the Congress creatures begin to slither by. Soon, if I am still mobile, I may be able to stagger back to where there is some warmth. Pray for me. Be a prayer for my family in Palestine.
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nd. For those of you who do holiday giving please keep in mind the work I do for our family in Palestine. The recent investment in new posters has wiped out my reserves for the $50 per month wifi fee I pay that enables me to do double duty when I keep the posters around the city as I am all day today on Capitol Hill , I do not pay for a phone, and I have no backup funds for when my computer equipment breaks or needs to be replaced. As would be true of any brother with family in emergency, I spend not a dime on my own stupid pleasures, ever. Ever. Ever. Every cent that the creator sends my way goes toward fighting for the least of these our brothers and sisters. For the joy of it.
For those of you who do holiday giving please keep in mind the work I do for our family in Palestine. The recent investment in new posters has wiped out my reserves for the $50 per month wifi fee I pay that enables me to do double duty when I keep the posters around the city as I am all day today on Capitol Hill , I do not pay for a phone, and I have no backup funds for when my computer equipment breaks or needs to be replaced. As would be true of any brother with family in emergency, I spend not a dime on my own stupid pleasures, ever. Ever. Ever. Every cent that the creator sends my way goes toward fighting for the least of these our brothers and sisters. For the joy of it.
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11.18.2014
Article. Why does Israel lie? Chris Hedges is truly worthy of our respect a former New York Times writer who has paid dearly to tell the truth. All governments lie, as I.F. Stone pointed out, including Israel and Hamas. But Israel engages in the kinds of jaw-dropping lies that characterize despotic and totalitarian regimes. It does not deform the truth; it inverts it. It routinely paints a picture for the outside world that is diametrically opposed to reality. And all of us reporters who have covered the occupied territories have run into Israel’s Alice-in-Wonderland narratives, which we dutifully insert into our stories—required under the rules of American journalism—although we know they are untrue.
***** nd. I am NOT certain that I ever thought to share this before: one of the reasons that I tattooed the core truths of sane human life on my face are because I expect to spend much of my life in prison. I expect that the state, and my fellow Americans, will do that because of my non violent rebellion against the status quo, and for a sane, humane, loving world. . And in prison I did not want them to be able to completely strip me of the ability to broadcast the core truths of human existence . Stop starving. Stop killing. Start loving. Wage love, or die.
I am NOT certain that I ever thought to share this before: one of the reasons that I tattooed the core truths of sane human life on my face are because I expect to spend much of my life in prison. I expect that the state, and my fellow Americans, will do that because of my non violent rebellion against the status quo, and for a sane, humane, loving world. . And in prison I did not want them to be able to completely strip me of the ability to broadcast the core truths of human existence . Stop starving. Stop killing. Start loving. Wage love, or die.
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Article. Abba and Hamas are responsible for the terrorist attack in Israel. Abbas and Hamas are not responsible, this is by Netanyahu's own hand. You cannot terrorize people for 67 years without expecting at least this response. The American revolutionaries responded to infinitely less with physical force.
The Atlantic headline. Hamas endorses massacre. This is a historical lie as you would hear from President Carter and major Jewish intellectuals. What is historical truth through this exact second, Israel is the massacre of Palestinians since well before its inception in 1947 through this very hour. Roughly 1 Palestinian is massacred by Israelis every day. A Palestinian was lynched yesterday by Israelis. That is this is kept out of the complicit US media makes it no less savage but rather more so, infinitely more cruel, infinitely more horrible, infinitely more sadistic .
Merchant action required. Link provided. Immediately email secretary Duncan to not sensor pro Palestinian activities in federally funded schools. Do this and get everyone you know to do the same or know with certainty you are handing a destroyed democracy to your next seven generations and a police state as well.
pic. 19 degree wind chill here on Capitol Hill. On post since 9 a.m.. A group walked past me and 1 male in a skull cap said, your signs are strange with disgust and hostility, Palestine launched a terrorist attack on Israel just today. I shouted in reply, so all on the hill could hear, Israel does worse to Palestine every hour of every day since 1947! This is the historical fact. And you must scream this back truthfully, honestly, with outrage, and respect, every time you too are confronted on such things.
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11.16.2014
nd. No archeological evidence has been found to support the Book of Exodus[3] and most archaeologists have abandoned the investigation of Moses and the Exodus as "a fruitless pursuit"
No archeological evidence has been found to support the Book of Exodus[3] and most archaeologists have abandoned the investigation of Moses and the Exodus as "a fruitless pursuit"
nd. I do not think it is very helpful to anyone when every conspiracy theory that comes along is passed along to distract others from what information is most important, credible, scholarly and actionable. Doing so does not really take much integrity, intelligence, thought, or caring for others. Maybe those who do so are so brilliant that they understand in depth every of the many issues they send such garbage out on, but I doubt that they are really that right. I think that usually they just like attention and excitement and don't care who it hurts. Just being honest. If the shoe does not fit please do not wear it.
I do not think it is very helpful to anyone when every conspiracy theory that comes along is passed along to distract others from what information is most important, credible, scholarly and actionable. Doing so does not really take much integrity, intelligence, thought, or caring for others. Maybe those who do so are so brilliant that they understand in depth every of the many issues they send such garbage out on, but I doubt that they are really that right. I think that usually they just like attention and excitement and don't care who it hurts. Just being honest. If the shoe does not fit please do not wear it.
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