3.26.2015
SPDF Day 24: ‘Israel’ sells stolen Palestinian gas to Egypt
SPDF Day 24: ‘Israel’ sells stolen Palestinian gas to Egypt
http://falastinews.com/2015/03/26/israel-sells-stolen-palestinian-gas-to-egypt/
http://falastinews.com/2015/03/26/israel-sells-stolen-palestinian-gas-to-egypt/
SPDF Day 24: Elizabeth Kolbert: "Humans Will Eventually Become Extinct"...
Elizabeth Kolbert: "Humans Will Eventually Become Extinct"
In the meantime, says the acclaimed New Yorker writer, we're causing the greatest mass extinction since dinosaur days.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/interview-elizabeth-kolbert-new-yorker-sixth-extinction
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/interview-elizabeth-kolbert-new-yorker-sixth-extinction
***** vlog. SPDF Day 24: The Epitaph on EVERYTHING GOOD will be that the citizens of the world’s superpower found that there was nothing beyond themselves, not even their children, that they would die for
The epitaph on everything good will be that the citizens of the world's superpower found that there was nothing beyond themselves, not even their children, that they would die for. Nothing could be more self evident for the truth seeker, but the truth seeker would die for the truth, and we have virtually none today, which is another way of stating the same epitaph - Americans chose denial over Truth and the result was the destruction of all that was good, forever.
Young Gandhi was in the process of becoming a lawyer . But he encountered two books that caused his life to do a 180 when he was a young man studying in England. One of the books was Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is Within You." The other was .four essays actually, by John Ruskin . An idea that was central to those essays was the assessment that the the British population could be best understood as being comprised of five groups, Doctors ,lawyers, Ministers, soldiers, Merchants. What was considered most important in these essays was that four of the five groups could be expected to give their lives for their clients when circumstances called for it. But that one of the populations, merchants, could be depended on to never do so, and to only serve their own selfish interests. Thereby they were considered a cancer on society, by other words than these.
In 2015 American these essays would clearly have the state that no population any longer existed, with the possible exception of soldiers, who would die for anything but themselves .
This is why there is no hope to save Palestine, to stop ecocide, to save the last remaining remnants of democracy or any economic life worth living in America.
Both books mentioned can be found on Amazon, some libraries, or here (set the adblock on your browser FIRST to prevent the porn ads).
Young Gandhi was in the process of becoming a lawyer . But he encountered two books that caused his life to do a 180 when he was a young man studying in England. One of the books was Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is Within You." The other was .four essays actually, by John Ruskin . An idea that was central to those essays was the assessment that the the British population could be best understood as being comprised of five groups, Doctors ,lawyers, Ministers, soldiers, Merchants. What was considered most important in these essays was that four of the five groups could be expected to give their lives for their clients when circumstances called for it. But that one of the populations, merchants, could be depended on to never do so, and to only serve their own selfish interests. Thereby they were considered a cancer on society, by other words than these.
In 2015 American these essays would clearly have the state that no population any longer existed, with the possible exception of soldiers, who would die for anything but themselves .
This is why there is no hope to save Palestine, to stop ecocide, to save the last remaining remnants of democracy or any economic life worth living in America.
Both books mentioned can be found on Amazon, some libraries, or here (set the adblock on your browser FIRST to prevent the porn ads).
‘New anti-Semitism’ on college campuses is largely blowback against orchestrated Israel advocacy
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/03/blowback-orchestrated-advocacy
SPDF Day 24: on the Hill, in the rain...
The Weather Channel said zero chance of rain this morning. It has been raining for the last hour. I have coverings for me and the computer but not for the signs. I'm hoping I have weatherproof them enough that they are not damaged. This is the last day for the next 10 days that Congress is in session. Current reports say that the rain should stop by noon which is the next time Congress is scheduled to walk. And they say zero chance of rain this afternoon.
Why Hindu nationalists would rather honour Gandhi's assassin
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/why-hindu-nationalists-would-rather-honour-gandhis-assassin-10131292.html
Jesus would hate you all — and you didn’t build that: The truth about the ultra-rich and their New York Times apologists
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/26/jesus_would_hate_you_all_and_you_didnt_build_that_the_truth_about_the_ultra_rich_and_their_new_york_times_apologists/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
SPDF Day 24: "My faith demands that I do whatever I can... Jimmy Carter
"My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try and make difference." Pr. Jimmy Carter
3.25.2015
You Can't Understand Why People Join ISIS Without Understanding Relative Deprivation
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amer-tapaenar-/isis-relative-deprivation_b_6912460.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063
vid. Israel Psycho State. Daily Savagery in Hebron by Illegal Colonizer
vid. Israel Psycho State. Daily Savagery in Hebron by Illegal Colonizer
" As we now understand all too well, it is what is privately owned, not what is held in common, that faces destruction by avarice, bringing the rest of us down with it. Hardly a day passes without more confirmation of this fact." The Magna Carta Messed Up the World, Here’s How to Fix It The “logic” of capitalist development has left a nightmare of environmental destruction in its wake. Noam Chomsky
vid. Noam Chomsky: Nuclear Weapons and Unchecked Climate Change Are Leading Us Toward Doomsday
Noam Chomsky: Nuclear Weapons and Unchecked Climate Change Are Leading Us Toward Doomsday
Note to Jewish Voice for Peace re their article in The Hill: Kumbaya my lord, kumbaya.... Your words are nice, your cowardice is CERTAIN DEATH TO PALESTINE... click link for post
Kumbaya my lord, kumbaya.... Your words are nice, your cowardice is CERTAIN DEATH TO PALESTINE. There is no alternative to violence except the willing placing ones own life, limb and treasure at risk for the goal, the willingness in action to die for the cause. Surely you are not so ignorant of history that you don't know this. AJ Muste, "If men are not willing to practice the way of non-violence with the same kind of commitment and recklessness of cost or consequences as they practice the way of war and as Communists work for Communism, clearly non-violence will not work." http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/236846-change-in-israel-will-only-come-from-outside-pressure
***** SPDF Day 23. COULD BE SIGNIFICANT: "it’s time American Jews let all that mythology go...
it’s time American Jews let all that mythology go. That’s what Obama is also nudging us towards. The most disputed territory in the Middle East is between American Jews’ ears; once American Jews give up the idea of a two-state solution, and of a Jewish state, we can proceed (calmly, I pray) to the next phase. - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/03/sitting-shiva-solution#sthash.kRFMccas.dpuf
Beinart was suggesting that American Jews who oppose the occupation fly to Israel to stand in nonviolent solidarity with Palestinians in the occupied territories. What Beinart didn’t mention is that there is a new organization doing just that. It’s called the Center for Jewish Nonviolence. Read more: http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/217296/want-to-fight-the-occupation-after-bibis-victory/#ixzz3VPBqFmBG
Beinart was suggesting that American Jews who oppose the occupation fly
to Israel to stand in nonviolent solidarity with Palestinians in the
occupied territories. What Beinart didn’t mention is that there is a new
organization doing just that. It’s called the Center for Jewish
Nonviolence.
***** SPDF Day 23: ***** EXACTLY THE SICKNESS (USELESSNESS, HOPELESSNESS) of 2015 – activists are devoted to the lie that their very lives are not, are NEVER, DEMANDED OF THEM ...
***** SPDF Day 23: Exactly the sickness (uselessness, hopelessness) of this 2015 US, the 2015 'activists,' is that they think they are NOT called to give their very lives for their causes. THE FOUNDATION ON WHICH UNVIOLENT ACTION RESTS, IS EXACTLY, THE WILLINGNESS TO DIE FOR THE CAUSE. THERE IS NO NON-VIOLENT ACTION, OPPOSITION, RESISTANCE OF ANY HOPE WITHOUT THIS.
vid. 5 min. SPDF Day 23: Indian man thinks, 'Why not do something with my life that benefits all of society?”...
vid. 5 min. SPDF Day 23: Indian man thinks, 'Everyone makes money for themselves and then they die. Why not do something that benefits all of society,' he though?... vid
http://www.upworthy.com/they-told-him-it-was-impossible-it-took-him-a-hammer-a-chisel-and-22-years-to-prove-them-wrong?c=ufb1
http://www.upworthy.com/they-told-him-it-was-impossible-it-took-him-a-hammer-a-chisel-and-22-years-to-prove-them-wrong?c=ufb1
nd. SPDF Day 23: Very weak, and ill, this morning....
SPDF Day 23: Very weak, and ill, this morning. Therefore delayed in getting to the Hill. Expecting to arrive prior to noon and remain until 7pm or later, subject to rain. Can't afford to ruin the posters.
3.24.2015
SPDF Day 22: J-Street was on the Hill today: “I am not willing to die for Palestine”....
***** SPDF Day 22: J-Street was on the Hill today, or many, anyway. "What do we have to do to stop this?" asked one of them as he passed. "We have to die, or be willing to die, so the Palestinians don't. There is no other answer for social change, in history." "I've been fighting this for 50 years, but I'm not willing to die for it." That is why there is currently ZERO HOPE for the Palestinians, (US democracy, stopping Ecocide...). Lip-service. J-Street (or, fill in your do-nothing, pay nothing, risk nothing 'activist' group)- fun meetings, moralistic masturbation, huge circle-jerk. Pay the price???? Nah. Not since the '60's. Activism by 'free lunch.' Uh, there is not free lunch, just more dead Palestinian children. Have a nice f'cking day.
SPDF Day 22: I have an impossibly strong body and have learned to turn my being entirely over to the Family Emergency Response...
A brief exchange with one of the only Friends I have left: "How the heck are you still well enough to sit out there and communicate?"
My reply: "I have an impossibly strong body and have learned to turn my being entirely over to the Family Emergency Response - the most powerful force in the Universe, by whatever name or no name at all. But having been on many hunger strikes, and witnessed others, like the Great Diane Wilson, within the first 10 days it is very tough as the body learns to consume itself. Then, until day 30 or so one is usually quite functional, tho weak. Stuff starts getting dangerous after day 30, although I'm very fortunate this time, 1st time ever, to have a doc checking my blood chem. Stuff like blindness sometimes happens after day 30, tho numerous times I've gone to 50 with no such effects.
Friend: "Wow. I knew you had years of experience but didn't think about how that experience would be helpful now."
My Reply: "Oh, my entire life has been preparation for this campaign. Creating and Demonstrating the Death Fast, the last chance for Humanity, is what I was born for."
Friend: "Our mutual associate posed the question, 'what would it take to get me to join the Death Fast." I would have to be called to do it. So far I have not been called to that specific action. I was called to walk along the KXL, and to start this farm, and I'm listening. You, Start Loving, have obviously been called, that is why i t gives you such joy.
My Reply: I only EVER do what I am Called to do. And I am ALWAYS called to do what is the best way for me to serve the most of the world's suffering... in that instant. The Family Emergency Response. This is the ONLY call any of us can get, that is genuine. Anything else is a misunderstanding.
My reply: "I have an impossibly strong body and have learned to turn my being entirely over to the Family Emergency Response - the most powerful force in the Universe, by whatever name or no name at all. But having been on many hunger strikes, and witnessed others, like the Great Diane Wilson, within the first 10 days it is very tough as the body learns to consume itself. Then, until day 30 or so one is usually quite functional, tho weak. Stuff starts getting dangerous after day 30, although I'm very fortunate this time, 1st time ever, to have a doc checking my blood chem. Stuff like blindness sometimes happens after day 30, tho numerous times I've gone to 50 with no such effects.
Friend: "Wow. I knew you had years of experience but didn't think about how that experience would be helpful now."
My Reply: "Oh, my entire life has been preparation for this campaign. Creating and Demonstrating the Death Fast, the last chance for Humanity, is what I was born for."
Friend: "Our mutual associate posed the question, 'what would it take to get me to join the Death Fast." I would have to be called to do it. So far I have not been called to that specific action. I was called to walk along the KXL, and to start this farm, and I'm listening. You, Start Loving, have obviously been called, that is why i t gives you such joy.
My Reply: I only EVER do what I am Called to do. And I am ALWAYS called to do what is the best way for me to serve the most of the world's suffering... in that instant. The Family Emergency Response. This is the ONLY call any of us can get, that is genuine. Anything else is a misunderstanding.
***** vid. SPDF Day 22: THE SINGLE GREATEST EXPOSITION OF UNVIOLENT ACTION: "LETTER FROM....
***** vid. SPDF Day 22: THE SINGLE GREATEST EXPOSITION OF UNVIOLENT ACTION: "LETTER FROM THE BIRMINGHAM JAIL." Read it once, twice, 10, 20 times, until it is written in your DNA.
"A Reading of The Letter From Birmingham Jail" – Before the Dream... There was a Letter... from Kirwan Institute on Vimeo.
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY a non-fiction film commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” No longer will the Letter from Birmingham Jail be in the SHADOW of the "I Have a Dream" speech.
The film stars community leaders of Columbus, Ohio and educators and leaders of The Ohio State University. The Letter from Birmingham Jail is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racial discrimination, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws. After an early setback, it enjoyed widespread publication and became a key text for the American civil rights movement of the early 1960s.
HOST A SCREENING OR GET THE DVD @ www.kirwaninstitute.osu.edu
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The film is approximately 56 minutes.
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