2.28.2015
There are 30 million people living in modern-day slavery throughout the world. Surely, a 10-year-old girl couldn't help them all. But Vivienne wanted to do something, so she set a starting goal of helping to free 500 children, which, according to her father, would cost about $100,000.
http://www.upworthy.com/seeing-that-photo-transformed-how-she-saw-the-world-how-she-responded-pure-greatness?c=ufb1
Israel used “disappearance” of soldier as pretext for killing spree — rights group
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-nieuwhof/israel-used-disappearance-soldier-pretext-killing-spree-rights-group
Coming home from kindergarten to discover Israel demolished your home Authorities this week demolished homes in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Saawa – for the fourth time
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/twilight-zone/.premium-1.644372
Muslim girl sings ‘Star Spangled Banner’ as Oklahoma anti-Islamic protesters scream insults
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/muslim-girl-sings-star-spangled-banner-as-oklahoma-anti-islamic-protesters-scream-insults/
This SCOTUS destroyed America: How Citizens United is ruining more than our elections
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/28/this_scotus_destroyed_america_how_citizens_united_is_ruining_more_than_our_elections/
***** A (Muslim) Facebook Sister: "I wanted to learn from you, how do you manage sitting there day after day, (on Capitol Hill or the White House to Free Palestine) this is what I wanted to know." My reply: "Sister, (you know the following better than I, but still, it is my answer). Your question brings to mind, among other things, a brief passage from Dr. King's Autobiography.... (details)
A (Muslim) Facebook Sister: "I wanted to learn from you, how do you manage sitting there day after day, (on Capitol Hill or the White House to Free Palestine) this is what I wanted to know." My reply: "Sister, (you know the following better than I, but still, it is my answer). Your question brings to mind, among other things, a brief passage from Dr. King's Autobiography I was listening to yesterday as I returned from being on Capitol Hill all day. He was mentioning what is central to my life now, these last 13 years or so, and to my answer to your question. He said something like, 'I believe, and I believed, that what self-centered men can impose, other-centered men can throw off.' Now when I heard this I thought two things, 1. Dr. King, who I adore, and revere, no sir, you are wrong. It is too little, to late. The evil people, the self-centered people are going to 'win' by destroying everything and everyone that is decent, and then themselves. But 2. I thought, yes sir, you've just described the only two ways we humans can Be, self-centered or other-centered. Dr. King may be wrong, I may be wrong, but my answer to you sister is, I have chosen to pay any and every personal price to keep the world's most suffering people at the very 'center' of my being, every breath. I make it my top priority to notice when my attention is drifting elswhere and through meditation, prayer, focus... I re-direct my full attention to the world's neediest, the Palestinians. That's it. The rest is our Creator-given nervious system design doing what it does when it deeply 'sees' others suffering. When the center of our being is the suffering of others, it mobilizes us to respond. - empathy does that. And it harnesses the head to figure the best moment by moment response to best help, to best serve. For me, with my skills, abilities, talents, location, language and LIMITATIONS... it is, when my body allows, and weather allows, to do my online study, advocacy, writing... out in DC with posters people have helped me purchase that advocate for Palestine. I'm desperate to know how to do more, but so far, this is the best I can see. And also, I think by your question you are deliberately showing me kind encouragement, and I appreciate that. (hugs)"
From a “beautiful young man” to Jihadi John – What happened?...... After the identity of the infamous ISIS executioner, Mohammed Emwazi aka “Jihadi John” was revealed on Thursday, questions have been raised about the British security services’ role in radicalising him. Dilly Hussain explains why the MI5’s misdoings must be challenged.
Nd. All of those who support Bernie Sanders support the slaughter of Palestinian children.
All of those who support Bernie Sanders support the slaughter of Palestinian children.
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liberal Moscow has struggled to wrap its head around something that seemed like it simply couldn’t happen, until it did.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/magazine/after-boris-nemtsovs-assassination-there-are-no-longer-any-limits.html?_r=0&referrer=
Nd. Dear Rudy Giuliani, I do not love your America, I hate it. Your America is elitism, division, white supremacy, rape and plunder of the world's resources, rape and plunder of the world's poor, worship of stuff over worship of people's well-being, worship of power over worship of love, worship of leisure over worship of service, worship of lust over love, lies illusion and deception over truth. Satan over God. . Your america is the american dream. .your america is the american dream. . I hate it. With every fiber of my being, I hate your america. So does Jesus. So does God. .My America that I love is the America of the lies I was taught in Elementary School, the lies our politicians speak, the lies of the propaganda called news: liberty and justice for all, give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to be free, democracy, justice, civil rights, human rights, Christian. My America never existed except in the hearts and minds of a very very very few people. My america that I love is the lies we tell our children and ouselves. I'll give my life for that america. I'll continue to give my life to create that america. I will do so knowing that I will completely fail.
Dear Rudy Giuliani, I do not love your America, I hate it. Your America is elitism, division, white supremacy, rape and plunder of the world's resources, rape and plunder of the world's poor, worship of stuff over worship of people's well-being, worship of power over worship of love, worship of leisure over worship of service, worship of lust over love, lies illusion and deception over truth. Satan over God. . Your america is the american dream. .your america is the american dream. . I hate it. With every fiber of my being, I hate your america. So does Jesus. So does God.
.My America that I love is the America of the lies I was taught in Elementary School, the lies our politicians speak, the lies of the propaganda called news: liberty and justice for all, give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to be free, democracy, justice, civil rights, human rights, Christian. My America never existed except in the hearts and minds of a very very very few people. My america that I love is the lies we tell our children and ouselves. I'll give my life for that america. I'll continue to give my life to create that america. I will do so knowing that I will completely fail.
.My America that I love is the America of the lies I was taught in Elementary School, the lies our politicians speak, the lies of the propaganda called news: liberty and justice for all, give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to be free, democracy, justice, civil rights, human rights, Christian. My America never existed except in the hearts and minds of a very very very few people. My america that I love is the lies we tell our children and ouselves. I'll give my life for that america. I'll continue to give my life to create that america. I will do so knowing that I will completely fail.
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More than a third of the population in Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Latvia and Hungary are at risk of poverty and social exclusion, according to a new report. In half of the EU's 28 member states, at least one in three children live in poverty
http://www.euractiv.com/sections/social-europe-jobs/alarming-report-reveals-rampant-poverty-across-europe-312264
George Bush: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq...... The people you are allowing to control your world are living a fantasy
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/07/iraq.usa?CMP=share_btn_fb
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Magnificent mushrooms. Save the pictures because we are destroying roughly 100 species per day.
http://www.boredpanda.com/mushroom-photography/
***** READ THIS. The return of the 19th century.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/30/1242221/-The-Return-of-the-19th-Century?detail=facebook
In winter Israel cuts off electricity to thousands of West Bank Palestinians
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-electricity-west-bank-palestinians-20150223-story.html
800,000 truckloads are required to meet Gaza’s current housing needs created by destruction during repeated Israeli attacks and population growth during eight years of siege. Oxfam says that less than 0.25 percent of this figure entered Gaza between November 2014 and January 2015.
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/six-month-after-gaza-slaughter-aid-groups-still-afraid-criticize-israel
nd. I am feeling horrible about the massive hours I am spending every day trying to understand the world barely well enough to function responsibly within it. I do not think the problem is entirely or even mostly my own. Rather, what I think it is revealing to me is: 1. That what purports to be a news media today is nothing of the sort, quite he opposite, by consequence of operating in a delusional culture, a consumer culture, and increasingly a malevolent ruling class; 2. Lies and illusions gush at ever higher rates at us from industry and the government burying the truth under mountains of sludge; 3. Our culture, our white, Euro American culture is based on 600 years of barbarity and continuing, and up until 15 years ago my education was those centuries of lies; so necessarily it is taking massive time to even begin to climb out past those lies to see the truth - taking almost all of my time.
I am feeling horrible about the massive hours I am spending every day trying to understand the world barely well enough to function responsibly within it. I do not think the problem is entirely or even mostly my own. Rather, what I think it is revealing to me is: 1. That what purports to be a news media today is nothing of the sort, quite he opposite, by consequence of operating in a delusional culture, a consumer culture, and increasingly a malevolent ruling class; 2. Lies and illusions gush at ever higher rates at us from industry and the government burying the truth under mountains of sludge; 3. Our culture, our white, Euro American culture is based on 600 years of barbarity and continuing, and up until 15 years ago my education was those centuries of lies; so necessarily it is taking massive time to even begin to climb out past those lies to see the truth - taking almost all of my time.
nd. Friends, I am not interested in my own opinion, so, no offense, I am not interested in your, on the world's great issues, which is all my life is concerned with. I am interested in facts, or as close as we can get thereto.
Friends, I am not interested in my own opinion, so, no offense, I am not interested in your, on the world's great issues, which is all my life is concerned with. I am interested in facts, or as close as we can get thereto.
nd. :-( No White House Free Palestine Vigil today - the 2/3 of my large intestine still left did not feel right this morning... and given the extreme cold, and such, I felt it unwise to take the risk of an accident. So cold I think there would be little traffic in front of the White House, and of those few, fewer that would stop, look and think, let alone talk. Next Vigil projected for Monday on Capitol Hill the day prior to Satanyahu's seditious talk to congress.
nd. :-( No White House Free Palestine Vigil today - the 2/3 of my large intestine still left did not feel right this morning... and given the extreme cold, and such, I felt it unwise to take the risk of an accident. So cold I think there would be little traffic in front of the White House, and of those few, fewer that would stop, look and think, let alone talk. Next Vigil projected for Monday on Capitol Hill the day prior to Satanyahu's seditious talk to congress.
2.27.2015
nd. Free Palestine vigil resumed. No lack of health could keep me from capitol hill two out of three of the last days before Netanyahu comes to fan the flames of civil war here in America to enable him to continue his terror campaign on Palestine. In spite of the bitter cold going down another 10 degrees tomorrow I hope to be on the north side of the White House tomorrow and possibly Sunday, returning to capitol hill Monday for as many days during the week has my body will allow.
Free Palestine vigil resumed. No lack of health could keep me from capitol hill two out of three of the last days before Netanyahu comes to fan the flames of civil war here in America to enable him to continue his terror campaign on Palestine. In spite of the bitter cold going down another 10 degrees tomorrow I hope to be on the north side of the White House tomorrow and possibly Sunday, returning to capitol hill Monday for as many days during the week has my body will allow.
Israel is galloping to the next war in Gaza - Opinion ..... ***** "Israel is galloping to the next war in Gaza Israel is heading to the next violent eruption with the Palestinians as though it is some sort of natural disaster that can't be avoided."
Israel is galloping to the next war in Gaza - Opinion
***** "Israel is galloping to the next war in Gaza
Israel is heading to the next violent eruption with the Palestinians as though it is some sort of natural disaster that can't be avoided."
***** "Israel is galloping to the next war in Gaza
Israel is heading to the next violent eruption with the Palestinians as though it is some sort of natural disaster that can't be avoided."
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