4.03.2015
nd. SPDF Day 32: My left eye has gone near totally useless all of a sudden.
nd. SPDF Day 32: My left eye has gone near totally useless all of a sudden.
4.02.2015
SPDF Day 31: Massively sick today... this afternoon... while in front of NPR - Numbing Paralyzing Rubbish.
My large intestine has been shut down since the first week. That's what they do when they have no food. But I guess, and not dissimilar to prior fasts I've been on, dead cells of my flesh I am consuming to stay alive... accumulate and at some point get expelled. But never like today. There was no way I could stop the torrent. Thank God I've been 'wearing' a large hand towel just in case. Thank God I had on rain-pants for warmth against the 25mph gusts today, or otherwise with the stench, I'd not have been allowed into Union Station for the 30 minute clean-up. Fell into my cot on return. Very weak now, taking liquids. Must see if my doc can prescribe some rubber pants for me.
SPDF Day 31: Netanyahu - "No, I do not think the Palestinians have a right to an independant state."
Ben Nitay aka Bibi Netanyahu feat. Fouad Ajami from arabist on Vimeo.
A 28-year old Benyamin Netanyahu, calling himself Ben Nitay, debates on the 1978 US TV show "The Advocate" against Palestinian self-determination and intriguingly suggests West Bank and Gaza Palestinians could have Israeli citizenship. He is debated (or rather questioned) by Fouad Ajami, now professor at Johns Hopkins University's SAIS. Note that Bibi says that while he opposes a Palestinian state, he thinks Palestinians could vote and have full rights in either Jordan or Israel - essentially endorsing a one-state solution.
SPDF vlog Day 31: Paragons of mental health, who are they? Martin Luther Kin Jr., Malala, Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Malcom X, Oscar Romero.....
Paragons of mental health, who are they? Martin Luther Kin Jr., Malala, Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Malcom X, Oscar Romero, the young people in Tahrir Square several years ago, some of the soldiers who have stood against war such as the Vietnam War war or the war on Iraq and Afghanistan and surely the soldiers in Israel that are standing against israel's barbarity on the Palestinians.
The greatest of all of the formal psychologists Alford Adler said that health, the healthy choice, tends to lie in the direction of courage. For him the hallmark of health was a social interest.
The greatest psychologist of all in that the truth of his insights have had a greater impact on humanity than the insights of anyone else, I'm referring to Jesus, his core notion was universal family, one Father making us all brothers, and his life and words commanded us to go and live our lives accordingly. Lay down your life for your brother. The good shepherd lays down his life for the flock. As you do unto the least of these you do unto me. Whoever would hold onto his life shall lose it, whoever would lose his life shall gain it. Love as I have loved, and of course he ran into the arms of death. King ran into the arms of death, as did Malala as did Gandhi, as did Malcom X.
Only the most twisted would perceive that they had a death wish, that they wanted to die, that they wanted to be Martyrs, whatever that means. And today it means some sort of twisted slender. They wanted to ransom and redeem their suffering brothers and sisters.
For all intents and purposes there is only one way for the human being to get what they want and that is to pay the price for it. The ultimate price that anyone can pay, and therefore the ultimate power that any individual has to affect what they want to affect. Is their life, paying their life is the ultimate price they can pay for the ultimate value that they want.
As Dr. King said so often and so many different ways, the person who does not know what they would die for is not equipped to live.
Whoever thinks that their own life is their ultimate value is already dead. All of the individuals I mentioned lived, live, accordingly by whatever belief they might have. They live accordingly because this is the law of our DNA, it is what is written in our DNA because it was ultimately addaptive for having our species produce generation after generation of human beings.
This healthy nature is rarely seen in our sick culture, our western culture which is more and more the world's culture which has embraced a lower side of human nature, the capacity for morbid and suicidal self centeredness. But this is not what we see in aboriginal cultures, human beings in an environment like that which we were designed for. This is not seen in other species, this morbid and suicidal self-centeredness. It is not seen in any species except for cells that become cancerous which no longer devote themselves to the well being of the group but only to their own selfish interests.
The greatest of all of the formal psychologists Alford Adler said that health, the healthy choice, tends to lie in the direction of courage. For him the hallmark of health was a social interest.
The greatest psychologist of all in that the truth of his insights have had a greater impact on humanity than the insights of anyone else, I'm referring to Jesus, his core notion was universal family, one Father making us all brothers, and his life and words commanded us to go and live our lives accordingly. Lay down your life for your brother. The good shepherd lays down his life for the flock. As you do unto the least of these you do unto me. Whoever would hold onto his life shall lose it, whoever would lose his life shall gain it. Love as I have loved, and of course he ran into the arms of death. King ran into the arms of death, as did Malala as did Gandhi, as did Malcom X.
Only the most twisted would perceive that they had a death wish, that they wanted to die, that they wanted to be Martyrs, whatever that means. And today it means some sort of twisted slender. They wanted to ransom and redeem their suffering brothers and sisters.
For all intents and purposes there is only one way for the human being to get what they want and that is to pay the price for it. The ultimate price that anyone can pay, and therefore the ultimate power that any individual has to affect what they want to affect. Is their life, paying their life is the ultimate price they can pay for the ultimate value that they want.
As Dr. King said so often and so many different ways, the person who does not know what they would die for is not equipped to live.
Whoever thinks that their own life is their ultimate value is already dead. All of the individuals I mentioned lived, live, accordingly by whatever belief they might have. They live accordingly because this is the law of our DNA, it is what is written in our DNA because it was ultimately addaptive for having our species produce generation after generation of human beings.
This healthy nature is rarely seen in our sick culture, our western culture which is more and more the world's culture which has embraced a lower side of human nature, the capacity for morbid and suicidal self centeredness. But this is not what we see in aboriginal cultures, human beings in an environment like that which we were designed for. This is not seen in other species, this morbid and suicidal self-centeredness. It is not seen in any species except for cells that become cancerous which no longer devote themselves to the well being of the group but only to their own selfish interests.
SPDF vlog Day 31: Zionists are the Satanic in the guise of the Godly. ...
Zionists are the Satanic in the guise of the Godly. That's not slander by me. It is a statement within the bounds of our limited language to state as clearly and factually what they are as I am able.
One can disagree with the statement or agree. But it is not slender. It is an attempt to express a monstrously important truth, a life and death truth, for the physical life of the Palestinians, and the spiritual life of the Zionists who are my brothers and sisters.
If I am slandering, if I am wrong to say what I'm saying, then Martin Luther King Jr. was wrong. "Nothing in all the world is so dangerous as evil in the garb of virtue."
Wisdom of the ages is captured in the notion that Satan is the great deceiver. Satan is consummate deception. And that can be, and maybe usually is, self deceptions first..
The point is not that the Zionists know that they are making of themselves creatures of consummate evil, surely some are certain they are creatures of good.
But by any measure of Judaism, by any measure of the life of the man Jesus, they have made of themselves consummate evil. The Ku Klux Klan were not Christians. The Christian Zionists are the spiritual descendants of these crazed evil embracing, people. The Zionists of Jewish background are the equivalent of the KKK. They are the antithesis of the historical Jewish values of justice and righteousness preached by the prophets and practiced by the profits and practiced by great and godly individuals of history like Abraham Heschel and contemporary figure's like Henry Siegman, past head of the American Jewish Council and the Jewish Congress of Rabbis, and the Jews who are speaking out in Israel itself against the barbarity of Zionist behavior and who are paying, and are risking, ungodly social and potentially physical costs.
4.01.2015
“I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime,” Chomsky added. “I am old enough to remember the 1930s. My whole family was unemployed. There were far more desperate conditions than today. But it was hopeful. People had hope.
“I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime,” Chomsky added. “I
am old enough to remember the 1930s. My whole family was unemployed.
There were far more desperate conditions than today. But it was hopeful.
People had hope.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/noam_chomsky_has_never_seen_anything_like_this_20100419
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/noam_chomsky_has_never_seen_anything_like_this_20100419
SPDF Day 30: No Hope: Obama admin unwilling to meaningfully pressure Israel...
SPDF Day 30: No Hope: "Adopting a UN resolution before any agreement is reached between the two parties would be useless unless the administration is ready to try to force Israel to accept a two-state solution by cutting U.S. aid to Israel, recognizing Palestine or pushing the Europeans to sanction Israel and reduce trade, Miller said. “But I see no indication whatsoever that this administration is ready to do that,” he said. "
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-31/obama-s-next-move-may-be-lifting-u-s-protection-of-israel-at-un
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-31/obama-s-next-move-may-be-lifting-u-s-protection-of-israel-at-un
SPDF Day 30: "The "true martyrs" of today, men and women who "offer their lives with Jesus" for their Christian faith. Their witness, in imitation of Christ's sacrifice, "reflects a ray of this perfect, full and pure love [of Christ]," he said. Theirs, he added, "is a service of Christian witness to the point of bloodshed. It is the service Christ did for us, he redeemed us."... " example of a man of our times, and many others, strengthens us in offering our lives as gifts of love to our brothers in imitation of Jesus," he said.
SPDF Day 30: "The "true martyrs" of today, men and women who "offer their lives with Jesus" for their Christian faith. Their witness, in imitation of Christ's sacrifice, "reflects a ray of this perfect, full and pure love [of Christ]," he said. Theirs, he added, "is a service of Christian witness to the point of bloodshed. It is the service Christ did for us, he redeemed us."... " example of a man of our times, and many others, strengthens us in offering our lives as gifts of love to our brothers in imitation of Jesus," he said.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/francis-chronicles/pope-says-good-easter-requires-making-jesus-passion-ones-own
http://ncronline.org/blogs/francis-chronicles/pope-says-good-easter-requires-making-jesus-passion-ones-own
George Soros: "There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that," Soros said. "It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well. I'm critical of those policies."
"There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe.
The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute
to that," Soros said. "It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but
it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well. I'm critical of those
policies."
http://www.rense.com/general44/soros.htm
http://www.rense.com/general44/soros.htm
***** “You don’t solve Afghanistan, you don’t solve Pakistan ultimately, you don’t solve the increasingly dictatorial Erdoğan in Turkey, you don’t solve Egypt, you don’t solve Syria, you don’t solve Iraq — and by ‘solve’ I mean bring some sort of stability and potential for the future – without Iran’s help,” he asserted. “It’s not really Iran’s nuclear weapon that Bibi fears, it’s what we just described.”
“You don’t solve Afghanistan, you don’t solve Pakistan ultimately,
you don’t solve the increasingly dictatorial Erdoğan in Turkey, you
don’t solve Egypt, you don’t solve Syria, you don’t solve Iraq — and by
‘solve’ I mean bring some sort of stability and potential for the future
– without Iran’s help,” he asserted.
“It’s not really Iran’s nuclear weapon that Bibi fears, it’s what we just described.”
http://www.mintpressnews.com/were-screwed-colin-powells-chief-of-staff-on-the-failings-of-us-foreign-policy/203366/
“It’s not really Iran’s nuclear weapon that Bibi fears, it’s what we just described.”
http://www.mintpressnews.com/were-screwed-colin-powells-chief-of-staff-on-the-failings-of-us-foreign-policy/203366/
nd. SPDF Day 30: NPR Narcotic Paralyzing Radio 7:15am until 6:30pm estimated
SPDF Day 30: NPR Narcotic Paralyzing Radio 7:15am until 6:30pm estimated
SPDF Day 30 vlog: On Sanity, and Insanity
I consider the desire to control the lives of others is insane, pathological, and that sanity is the willingness to pay joyfully with one's life if necessary that others can be free of the control of any one beside themselves.
I consider it insane to choose a life of pleasure over a life of service, and that sanity is exactly choosing the life of service over a life of pleasure.
I deem that our American culture is profoundly insane.
It seems to me that the only sane cultures that I see today are the indigenous Palestinians, although I can't yet reconcile how they keep having children in such a hellish environment, seems cruel and selfish; some of the indigenous of America and Canada that are putting their lives in the way of the destruction of their/ our world.
Among so called activists I see only the International Solidarity Movement as probably very sane; along with, possibly, Sea Shepherds. The rest I see as wallowing in a self-gratifying lifestyle choice of doing what is safe and convenient, or even more so, but by not being willing and eager to pay the ultimate price for our fellow humans, as I said at the top, insane.
SPDF Day 30 vlog: It is not inconceivable that in 2-4 weeks time that I'll conclude that I have wielded the Death Fast for as is long as is constructive, this time....
SPDF Day 30: It is not inconceivable that in 2-4 weeks time that I'll conclude that I have wielded the Death Fast for as is long as is constructive, this time....
I am unable to put my finger exactly on what it is that I am sensing this morning. But I suspect that it is at least possible that by 2-4 weeks from now I will conclude that this death fast has provided as much benefit as it can provide at this time in 2015 and that I will be better able to serve Palestine by terminating this death fast rather than to let it run its full course.
There are a number of factors that I did not expect that have raised this prospect in my mind. I believe my expectations at the beginning of this I stated fairly clearly, I expected this death fast to have no impact until after it terminated me. That's how sick I thought we were. But I did not anticipate the aggressive , extreme , distancing that I have experience from the few people who had remained at all close to me in my life, with maybe two, possibly three exceptions . I take this as a sign that we are even more morbidly willing to amputate anything and everything close to us or far away so we can maintain our self centered , cancerous , world killing individual, self-centered existences .
Also I must conclude that it is possible that by now whatever Palestinian Diaspora in Washington, DC has some slight idea of what I have been doing in front of the capital and now up in front of NPR until Congress gets back next week . I must conclude that there is some slight awareness and that I must attribute some significance to the fact that there has been zero out-reach , zero support , zero encouragement , zero dialog . Zero visibility.
I wasn't smart enough , or maybe I realized it just wasn't my job , to take the time to anticipate how this community would react , but I do consider it now . And I consider that this is evidence of a soul-dead Palestinian Diaspora which I did not anticipate. It seems that they have been so infected with the western culture that they too feel that there is nothing that they would sacrifice , gladly, their own personal well being for .
This is a level of spiritual death in relevant communities beyond what I had anticipated .
If these perceptions hold and or develop within me then they place me where I wound up in the late or middle of my prior death fast , perceiving that I was conducting the death fast in a graveyard . Surely conducting any kind of action to inspire the action of others in a graveyard is not a good use of time .
This analogy does not hold in that there may well be an online of record of this death fast ,, which I am working diligently to provide, that could serve people in the future . But nevertheless I am seeing indications that it is absolutely a graveyard I am conducting this in beyond even what I had understood . And if these perceptions old within me then I may conclude that I can better serve Palestine by terminating the death fast before it terminates me , or, maybe not ,
I could terminate the death fast today based on these perceptions but I think that would be premature . My confidence that death fast is the only weapon to save Palestine , save any last remnants of democracy in America , stop ecocide ... are only strengthened by these perceptions .,honor an hour. But that my termination at this moment or 2 to 4 weeks from now would add any value to this current demonstration of the weapon has this morning arisen as a question in my mind.
I am unable to put my finger exactly on what it is that I am sensing this morning. But I suspect that it is at least possible that by 2-4 weeks from now I will conclude that this death fast has provided as much benefit as it can provide at this time in 2015 and that I will be better able to serve Palestine by terminating this death fast rather than to let it run its full course.
There are a number of factors that I did not expect that have raised this prospect in my mind. I believe my expectations at the beginning of this I stated fairly clearly, I expected this death fast to have no impact until after it terminated me. That's how sick I thought we were. But I did not anticipate the aggressive , extreme , distancing that I have experience from the few people who had remained at all close to me in my life, with maybe two, possibly three exceptions . I take this as a sign that we are even more morbidly willing to amputate anything and everything close to us or far away so we can maintain our self centered , cancerous , world killing individual, self-centered existences .
Also I must conclude that it is possible that by now whatever Palestinian Diaspora in Washington, DC has some slight idea of what I have been doing in front of the capital and now up in front of NPR until Congress gets back next week . I must conclude that there is some slight awareness and that I must attribute some significance to the fact that there has been zero out-reach , zero support , zero encouragement , zero dialog . Zero visibility.
I wasn't smart enough , or maybe I realized it just wasn't my job , to take the time to anticipate how this community would react , but I do consider it now . And I consider that this is evidence of a soul-dead Palestinian Diaspora which I did not anticipate. It seems that they have been so infected with the western culture that they too feel that there is nothing that they would sacrifice , gladly, their own personal well being for .
This is a level of spiritual death in relevant communities beyond what I had anticipated .
If these perceptions hold and or develop within me then they place me where I wound up in the late or middle of my prior death fast , perceiving that I was conducting the death fast in a graveyard . Surely conducting any kind of action to inspire the action of others in a graveyard is not a good use of time .
This analogy does not hold in that there may well be an online of record of this death fast ,, which I am working diligently to provide, that could serve people in the future . But nevertheless I am seeing indications that it is absolutely a graveyard I am conducting this in beyond even what I had understood . And if these perceptions old within me then I may conclude that I can better serve Palestine by terminating the death fast before it terminates me , or, maybe not ,
I could terminate the death fast today based on these perceptions but I think that would be premature . My confidence that death fast is the only weapon to save Palestine , save any last remnants of democracy in America , stop ecocide ... are only strengthened by these perceptions .,honor an hour. But that my termination at this moment or 2 to 4 weeks from now would add any value to this current demonstration of the weapon has this morning arisen as a question in my mind.
SPDF Day 30: With Netanyahu's reelection, the peace process is over and the pressure process must begin
With Netanyahu's reelection, the peace process is over and the pressure process must begin
If Israelis have the right to vote for permanent occupation, we in the Diaspora have the right to resist it.
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.647682#.VQyutV17T54.facebook
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