The reason behind US support for Israel becomes clear if you consider
what would likely happen if Palestinians became autonomous or if they
became the majority in a democratic, multi-ethnic state. Either
development would upend American-enforced “stability.”
Palestinians in Jordan and elsewhere would attempt to exercise their
right of return. Repressed peoples across the Middle East would rise up
to demand the kind of freedom from dictators that the Palestinians
secured from Israel. Palestinian liberation would trigger a chain of
events that could entirely free the region from the American grip as
people demand that they — not monarchs and not Western corporations —
benefit from their oil.
That’s why the US government’s proclaimed support for Palestinian liberation
is as unbelievable as Netanyahu’s. Anything more than a severely
attenuated Palestinian state would jeopardize America’s seventy-year old
— never-altered — priority. And that prospect, not The Lobby, is the
primary reason that the United States stands virtually alone against the
rest of the world in unconditionally supporting Israel’s violence
against Palestinians.
4.06.2015
Robert Reich: " Republicans and neocons have no foreign policy, and never have had one. They have only intransigence and belligerence....
The alliance of right-wing Republicans, neoconservatives, Jewish
billionaires like Sheldon Adelson and Paul Singer, and Benjamin
Netanyahu and right-wing Israelis, is an axis of no compromise that
feeds and feeds off of hardliners in Iran.
Have we forgotten that the Republican right and its neocon brain-trust were behind the invasion of Iraq -- the single stupidest foreign policy decision since the Vietnam War? They have never been held accountable. Yet many of the same Republicans and neocons who smugly asserted then that we had no choice but to take out Saddam Hussein, including William Kristol and John Bolton, are now refusing the deal with Iran.
Republicans and neocons have no foreign policy, and never have had one. They have only intransigence and belligerence
Have we forgotten that the Republican right and its neocon brain-trust were behind the invasion of Iraq -- the single stupidest foreign policy decision since the Vietnam War? They have never been held accountable. Yet many of the same Republicans and neocons who smugly asserted then that we had no choice but to take out Saddam Hussein, including William Kristol and John Bolton, are now refusing the deal with Iran.
Republicans and neocons have no foreign policy, and never have had one. They have only intransigence and belligerence
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nd. SPDF Day 35: Congress out one more week. Rain expected, but today, NPR - Numbing Paralyzing Rubbish. But first, blood work prior to another doc visit tomorrow.
nd. SPDF Day 35: Congress out one more week. Rain expected, but today, NPR - Numbing Paralyzing Rubbish. But first, blood work prior to another doc visit tomorrow.
4.05.2015
SPDF Day 34: vlog. My unrecognized assumptions at the beginning of this death fast are not working out terribly well
1. That the, immediacy, the horror, the barbarity of the west's terrororization of Palestine yielded a situation that was concrete enough that we walking dead Americans would show a heightened response, any increased propensity to tap into our humanity and respond.
2. The other unrecognized assumption is that the Palestinians, both the Palestinians in Palestine that maybe somehow become aware of this death fast campaign, and the Palestinians in the United States Diaspora, would have a readiness greater than any other population I've seen thus far, to be drawn to an understanding of the necessity and unique power of the death fast.
All evidence that I have so far suggest that these were entirely false assumptions.
Today for example several different small groups of Palestinians stopped by an identified themselves during my 12 hour campaign at the White House. I found no more sense of urgency, no more sense of immediate family kinship between themselves and the Palestinians being tormented in Palestine, then I've experienced in other populations concerned with global warming, for example. This is very disturbing and somewhat shocking to me. It certainly was unanticipated by me, and as I reflect more broadly on observations I can make I do not find these reactions today to be abnormal or an exception. I've had significant contact with people concerned with Palestine through my face book interchange up until about a week ago, and it became ever more apparent that they were involved, as is the chicken, but not committed as is the pig.
This will factor into my thinking as to how far to take this death fast. If a tree felled in the wilderness does not make a sound does it make sense to finely chopped it down?
4.04.2015
Charlie Chaplin: "You need Power, only when you want to do something Harmful, Otherwise, Love is Enough to get everything done."
Charlie Chaplin: "You need Power, only when you want to do something Harmful, Otherwise, Love is Enough to get everything done."
nd. SPDF Day 33: Creator Willing, tomorrow I'll spend the day with Jesus, fighting for the Least of These our Family, in front of the White House.
nd. SPDF Day 33: Creator Willing, tomorrow I'll spend the day with Jesus, fighting for the Least of These our Family, in front of the White House.
***** Pr. Carter Severs ties to Baptist sect over subjugation of women. "The carefully selected verses found in the Holy Scriptures to justify the superiority of men owe more to time and place - and the determination of male leaders to hold onto their influence - than eternal truths. Similar biblical excerpts could be found to support the approval of slavery and the timid acquiescence to oppressive rulers."
vid. 1 min. US rejects Netanyahu’s demand for Iranian recognition of Israel State Department says agreement with Tehran is ‘only about nuclear issue’. White House bids to prevent congressional interference Read more: US rejects Netanyahu's demand for Iranian recognition of Israel
US rejects Netanyahu’s demand for Iranian recognition of Israel
State Department says agreement with Tehran is ‘only about nuclear issue’. White House bids to prevent congressional interference
***** SPDF Day 33 vlog: Why play chicken with death , or worse?
Gandhi was adamant and explicit that he was just scratching the surface of the practice, perfection, expression of nonviolent action.
So I'll not apologize for my own self recognized inadequacy in expressing, let alone fully grasping, my own attempts at radically powerful, utterly transformative, world direction changing.... If only in the attempt, efforts.
And let me be explicit on this last point. No part of me is interested in being a band aid, a slight dragon on, the extermination of the Palestinians, the elimination of the final shreds of democracy in the United States, or the end of all livable life on earth. I'm not interested in 'doing something about' these issues. I'm interested in stopping these atrocities, or failing spectacularly in the attempt as is of course profoundly likely.
I have no respect for the efforts of me or anyone to confront these issues. I disrespect that. I profoundly disrespect that. I see it as profound cowardice. If your child is dying and only an impossible miracle can save your child, I have nothing but the profoundest disrespect for the efforts of the parent that 'tries to do something' rather than devotes their very being to trying to be the miracle. And so I feel about my efforts, and those everyone else above the age of 12, in the face of these three unfolding Armageddon's that I frequently mention.
As I've spoken before, and as I will continue to speak, each time trying to better understand, and better articulate, what has me in its grasp... Why this playing chicken with death that I am now in the midst of being past 30 days of no food, and thereby passing the time threshhold when physical death, permanent mental impairment, blindness and such things become a physical potentiality?
Why playing chicken with death as I am? Well, I am not 'playing' anything.
I am waging every breath, every be of my heart, to beat all three of these impending Armageddon's. And that's impossible, and that has never been done, and no one has tried, and no one is trying, so I'm on my own to plan, strategize, analyze, attempt, invent, articulate....
Early in this death fast I wrote a centrally important post, must read, on the law of social change, which is the law of suffering, which is the law of paying a high enough price. If I had $1,000,000,000,000 it would not be enough to stop all three, or even one, of these impending Armageddons.
I do not have $1,000,000,000,000. I do not have $1000. I have no care about either because they are irrelevant to what is needed.
What I do have is that which is of ultimate value among the few human beings that are alive, the ultimate value, a human life, my own human life. This is what Gandhi recognized in himself and others as the ultimate value to be wielded for goal. This is what Martin Luther King Jr. recognized as the ultimate value that if wielded intelligently, boldly, aggressively, with consummate generosity, with total courage... could buy a substantial if not huge change in world, or at least national, direction.
What I'm doing is nothing more or less than what these greatest among us have attempted before. I have studied, and I study, with every fiber of my being, their examples, their lessons, their spirits, their essence, to attempt to incorporate in myself and in my efforts every drop of wisdom, of value, that is to be derived from their prior efforts, and dozens of those like them throughout history.
I am profoundly accountable for the constructive use of the life I have been given for the service of humanity. It would be practically impossible for me to take that responsibility more seriously than I do. I experience my life as a sacred trust I have been given to be used purely in the service of humanity. And I feel the profoundest joy and realizing that's the only reason I have that life.
I could not take that responsibility more seriously. I totally understand that that means that in the face of three of the greatest calamities ever faced by the human species, that means that if I am being conservative, if I'm being cautious, if I'm being careful, if I'm being timid, if I'm being self protective... I have already desecrated that sacred life that I have been given, and all of humanity that I was placed here to serve, just as you were placed here to serve all of humanity.
If I were interested in cars as I was as a sick individual in this culture through my forties; if I saw an automobile that set me afire with lust; lusting to possess that car, and I had access to the tens and tens of thousands of dollars that it would require to purchase that car, and maybe it was the only car of its type that would be available for many many months, I might figuratively yearn with all of my being that I could get immediate access those funds of mine, fast enough, and deliver them quickly enough, and favorably enough, then I could secure that car. On smaller or larger scales this would be deemed profoundly normal and appropriate and even admirable behavior in our sickest of all cultures.
Well, that is the desperation that I feel in my attempts to parlay my life, in whatever most intelligent form of delivery I can conceive from instant to instant, based on changing circumstances that I monitor instant by instant every waking breath. That is the same desperation I feel in delivering my life in the way that will best confront and thwart the three looming Armageddon's.
What I am attempting to do should be so easy to understand. It is so easy to understand for me that it is hard for me to imagine any other way. But I wasn't always of this mind. I was raised to survive and thrive in the Matrix, not outside of it, as I've been these last 10 years or so; well, really, for all of my life, but explicitly these last 10-15 years.
It is obvious based on my total isolation and solitude in my activist work, and never as much as in this final campaign, that no one understands what I'm doing. Yes, no one understands what I'm doing, because were there wiser than I, who understood what I was doing, and perceived that it was a suboptimal way of pursuing the goals I am pursuing, they would have the kindness and compassion and humanity to speak to me from that obvious depth of understanding that they had and to attempt to show me the error of my ways.
And it no time in the last 10 years of my devoted activism has anyone, ever, at anytime, even approached doing that.
SPDF vlog Day 33: My dearest loved ones, you were right. We never belonged together.
We are not emotionally together now, we're emotionally separated now, and we were never spiritually joined. True spiritual joining is so rare in this sick culture of ours, practically never happens, one in a million.
As I think of those of you who have been in proximity to my life no discredit to me, no discredit to you, we were never spiritually together except for maybe a moment here or a moment there in just one maybe three of the cases I can think of (with the exception of my Dad with whom I was intimately, and only, Spiritually United)..
It's not your fault. It's not my fault.
I worship, I revere, I adore the truth no matter how painful it might be in the same way any drowning person reveres firm land coming under their feet. That firm land makes Life possible, without it, only drowning is possible. We are taught to tolerate and even find pleasure in drowning. I never learned that lesson. When I'm not standing on, when I don't understand, when I'm not grasped by the truth, I experience myself as drowning and in entire misery.
This Stop Palestines Death Fast campaign I am on has produced a final separation with maybe all of you. One in particular, the person who I have loved above all, has finally manifest her separation from me totally, frigidly, sharply, finally, absolutely, Truly. I view this with a sense of relief, gratitude, Joy... all of these separations, simply because the manifest the underlying truth that I think we all must have realized was there. All of you to whom I am referring, to some degree we wanted to be spiritually together, to some degree we wanted to be in relationship, and to some degree you and certainly I realized that spiritual unity was not the Truth for us.
Several days ago I vlogged, wrote that for the first time I am recalling that I had extremely sharp eyes for spotting people that belonged on extreme performance teams that I needed to establish, and to spot those who did not belong on those teams. And that as expert I was at that I admitted that I have been that much of a failure at spotting other relationships that should be or not the in my life, that could or, in the vast or total majority, could not work.
That same insight of just several days ago applies to what I am sharing here. All of you who have been in some proximity to me, I can see now, using the eyes that I now know to select, I concede now that we had a mutual desire and affection, but that it never could have been; I see that totally, so clearly, now. We are not destined to be on the same teams, on the same missions, devoted to the same goals. I am a profoundly different species of human, sort of. You are the profoundly different species from me. You are the near total majority. I the near entire outsider, foreigner, alien. You are of society. I am devoted to heal it.
No discredit to me. No discredit to you. No credit to me. No credit to you.
I find this comforting, comforting with respect to my future, comforting with respect to feeling less clueless, less of a failure but that's not a problem with me. But less of a failure in that I see that what I wanted so much, spiritual unity, was not a failure of my efforts, but a failure of my initial and ongoing perception, vision of what was possible, which is now being radically corrected. And surely I don't see it as a failure on your part anymore than on mine. Round pegs don't fit square holes, and versa visa.
My loving of you all is unconditional. It is neither increased nor diminished by these insights of recent days. My Loving of you is infinite.
What separates us exactly is the capacity for a life of unconditional loving.
Whatever life I have left will be devoted to being unconditional loving for the possibility of thereby, and only in the way, spreading unconditional loving by example to you and others.
Yes. Of course. The odds are that I will continue to totally, profoundly, absolutely, pitifully fail. But I'll not fail to try, with my every breath.
***** SPDF vlog Day 33: I SEE NO LIFE, NO 'NEVER AGAIN,' NO HUMANITY, NO SANITY... JUST WALKING DEAD LIBERALS. NO?
In the movie the Matrix we're led to believe there are millions or billions of humanoid creatures. What we see in the movie, do we consider them people who are alive? Except for those fighting with their lives for the well being of humanity, that one in a million, no! Central to the notion of the movie, we do not view them as humans, live humans!
We don't look down on them! We're not lead to be derogatory to them! We're not lead to feel superior to them! But absolutely we are led to understand them as not-alive, walking dead people.
And the one in a million that are alive don't go away on vacation someplace, they fight with their vary beings to try and give life to the millions or billions that have been deprived of it!
Tomorrow is Easter, a pagan holiday, candy, an orgy of food, surely one of the most segregated, least Christ-ian, least Universal-Family days on the planet. Totally un Christ like. But somewhere tucked in there is the memory of a man named Jesus who in the best way he knew how, gave his life exactly and precisely to wake up his fellow human beings who he's saw to a person to be walking dead people.
Were Jesus is to be alive today, were Neo and Morpheus to be alive today, would they see things any differently than they did in the time that they existed? They would not!
And in the case of The Matrix, Jean Baudriallard, the French philosopher, conceived of that story exactly to show us what he thought we were in his lifetime, which I understand was written in the late nineties or thereabouts.
Was Jean slandering, belittling, looking down on... us?
Was Jesus slandering us? Jesus was horrified for us. He did do anything and everything with his life for the sole purpose of trying to give life to us.
Morpheus and Neo did the same!
I see it the same way as they did that and do. EXACTLY.
I want more than anything for life to come to my current brothers and sisters for themselves and so that there is life for all of creation in the future. And like them, no credit to me, so far I am aware of no price I wouldn't pay to give a prayer of that happening.
NOTICE: The exceptions prove the rule. ISM, Indigenous peoples standing against the machine, some of the Christian Peacemaker Teams.... But that's about it. The chicken is involved the pig is committed. Jesus was committed. Morpheus, Neo, Gandhi, Selma marchers, Tahrir Square... were committed. 2015 US 'activists' are involved... walking Dead in the face of ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE FINAL SECONDS OF BEING DESTROYED. WALKING DEAD... BY DEFINITION... NO VITAL SIGNS.
We don't look down on them! We're not lead to be derogatory to them! We're not lead to feel superior to them! But absolutely we are led to understand them as not-alive, walking dead people.
And the one in a million that are alive don't go away on vacation someplace, they fight with their vary beings to try and give life to the millions or billions that have been deprived of it!
Tomorrow is Easter, a pagan holiday, candy, an orgy of food, surely one of the most segregated, least Christ-ian, least Universal-Family days on the planet. Totally un Christ like. But somewhere tucked in there is the memory of a man named Jesus who in the best way he knew how, gave his life exactly and precisely to wake up his fellow human beings who he's saw to a person to be walking dead people.
Were Jesus is to be alive today, were Neo and Morpheus to be alive today, would they see things any differently than they did in the time that they existed? They would not!
And in the case of The Matrix, Jean Baudriallard, the French philosopher, conceived of that story exactly to show us what he thought we were in his lifetime, which I understand was written in the late nineties or thereabouts.
Was Jean slandering, belittling, looking down on... us?
Was Jesus slandering us? Jesus was horrified for us. He did do anything and everything with his life for the sole purpose of trying to give life to us.
Morpheus and Neo did the same!
I see it the same way as they did that and do. EXACTLY.
I want more than anything for life to come to my current brothers and sisters for themselves and so that there is life for all of creation in the future. And like them, no credit to me, so far I am aware of no price I wouldn't pay to give a prayer of that happening.
NOTICE: The exceptions prove the rule. ISM, Indigenous peoples standing against the machine, some of the Christian Peacemaker Teams.... But that's about it. The chicken is involved the pig is committed. Jesus was committed. Morpheus, Neo, Gandhi, Selma marchers, Tahrir Square... were committed. 2015 US 'activists' are involved... walking Dead in the face of ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE FINAL SECONDS OF BEING DESTROYED. WALKING DEAD... BY DEFINITION... NO VITAL SIGNS.
SPDF Day 33: Son of Ben-Gurion designated Irish Moses: "It’s high time that we, as Americans, face up to the fact that supporting Israel is supporting apartheid, and that our military, economic, and diplomatic support of that country has fostered and abetted nearly half a century of continuing oppression of 4.5 million Palestinians
It’s high time that we, as Americans, face up to the fact that supporting Israel is supporting apartheid, and that our military, economic, and diplomatic support of that country has fostered and abetted nearly half a century of continuing oppression of 4.5 million Palestinians. - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/04/occupation-becomes-apartheid#sthash.kegEquF2.dpufhttp://mondoweiss.net/2015/04/occupation-becomes-apartheid#sthash.kegEquF2.dpuf
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