Each child who begs for money on the street and who is denied medical
care and education is “a painful cry that goes directly to the heart of
the Father, and accuses the system that we adults have built.... Children are the responsibility not just of their parents, but of everyone....”
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-francis-brings-down-hammer-says-dont-mess-with-children-80226/
4.08.2015
SPDF Day 37: Pope Francis: "EEach child who begs for money on the street and who is denied medical care and education is “a painful cry that goes directly to the heart of the Father, and accuses the system that we adults have built.... Children are the responsibility not just of their parents, but of everyone....”
vid. "Don't console yourself that you are the 99 percent," he says. "If you live near a Whole Foods; if no one in your family serves in the military; if you are paid by the year, not the hour; if most people you know finished college; if no one you know uses meth; if you married once and remain married; if you're not one of 65 million Americans with a criminal record — if any or all of these things describe you, then accept the possibility that actually, you may not know what's going on, and you may be part of the problem."
http://www.vox.com/2015/4/8/8325613/privilege-anand-giridharadas-ted
SPDF Day 37: War Crime Happening NOW: Israeli Occupation Illegally Seizes Over 1,000 Dunums Of Palestinian Land for Settlement
https://occpalgaza.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/war-crime-happening-now-israeli-occupation-illegally-seizes-over-1000-dunums-of-palestinian-land-for-settlement/
SPDF Day 37: A new set of racist anti-Arab laws is before the Knesset
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/middle-east/17926-a-new-set-of-racist-anti-arab-laws-is-before-the-knesset
***** SPDF Day 37: Chris Matthews: the neocons continue to fight to destroy the Middle East and remake it as pro Israel
http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/04/chris-matthews-quit-running-these-goddamn-right-wing-ads-on-msnbc/
vid 4min. Activists on the high seas climbing the Shell Oil Rig headed to the Arctic. This is what paying a price, this is what activism, looks like.
https://scontent-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xfp1/v/t43.1792-2/11048526_890447437664829_2049780471_n.mp4?efg=eyJxZSI6InZpZGVvX3ByZWZlcnJlZF90YWdzXzIwMTUwMTIxLDIwMTUwMTAxIiwidmVuY29kZV90YWciOiJsZWdhY3lfaGQifQ%3D%3D&oh=c5eeedc10629abafebed0d489bd20f3b&oe=5525769D
SPDF Day 37: vid 2 min. Israeli sadism in Jerusalem. Statistics. Facts. Slaughter.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?spfreload=10&v=A8wb0uqDvRs
SPDF Day 37: NBC, you murdering, savage, Israeli bastards. 1 Palestinian is murdered by Israel every 4 days and you report this? Palestinian Stabs Two Israeli Soldiers in West Bank Attack
http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nbc-news/palestinian-stabs-two-israeli-soldiers-in-west-bank-attack-424709699890
SPDF Day 37: The Rising Tide of Suicide in Gaza : The Suffering of a People Manifest
http://www.middleeastrising.com/the-rising-tide-of-suicide-in-gaza/
‘Passover siege’ in Hebron: Palestinians endure military lockdown so Israelis can enjoy holiday in occupied West Bank
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/04/passover-palestinians-israelis
Some called it resumption of violence by Palestine, some called it mass murder by Israel. George Galloway
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwxyEN20yB4
Hamas, Arab-Israeli MPs: attack on Yarmouk only serves Israel
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/17922-hamas-arab-israeli-mps-attack-on-yarmouk-only-serves-israel
SPDF Day 37: Christians and Muslims grow closer in defiance of Israeli attacks
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gazas-christians-and-muslims-grow-closer-defiance-israeli-attacks-372261379
4.07.2015
SPDF Day 36. vlog. Doctors visit, blood work, psych eval, etc.
This morning was a review with my Sainted Doctor, about the results of yesterday's bloodwork. She said everything looks fine. She has me on a regimen of two, horse pills, of potassium every day. She also has me on a multi vitamin. They are both seemingly doing their jobs.
My eyes have gone blurry as has happened on prior fasts. To read anything on computer or my tablet it must be held very close to my face, but thankfully that seems to work ok.
I had a candid conversation with my Doctor about my concern regarding her concern as to my mental health. I told her it was nothing I needed her to resolve, that I am capable of surviving the situation; but that I could not assume she understood how important she is in my life and work, so I told her briefly, that she is one of the only people I know whose life , and work path, I respect; this Georgetown grad that has devoted her life to we homeless. And that I wondered if she could imagine if one of the people in her life that she most respects raised the question about her mental health, particularly as it relate to using her greatest skills in the direction that they found questionable, such as ministering to the poor. I asked her if she could image how troubling she might find that, especially if this individual she highly respected was entirely wrong.
I expounded a little bit, but she understood my point and as I stressed what I wrote about last week after seeing her and a psychologist that she asked me to speak to, I made no assumption that she was questioning my sanity, this wonderful Doctor. I took her at her word that she was just trying to be extremely cautions, and today she only emphasized that and explained that she wanted to be extremely sure that the medical work that has gone on with me over the last two years, major operations, had not had some impact my psychology. She indicated that although she didn't see it, at all, she wanted to be extremely careful with another opinion. I made it clear that I was not second guessing her, but that it is an issue of importance to me, and I feel that it was entirely resolved this morning.
I told her prior to creating an opening for her to provide a response to me, that I just outlined, that my campaign is entirely about sanity. That no credit to me I have worked my way to a position of sanity and exactly I am trying to address the mass insanity in our culture which has lost any all notion of an adult sacrificing their own life constructively so that the young can have a future, whether it is a habitable planet to live on, one with some shreds of democracy left in America, or one without the methodology of police state being perfected on an indigenous population in Palestine, and that technology being exported and brought to oppressed peoples worldwide including in the United States.
My assessment is that it was a very comfortable, brief, conversation, and my sense is that this person in my life in whom I have a great respect, although I would not put her in the postition of stating so exactly, does not have a concern about my mental health and understands and respects the work I am doing. So that was quite nice.
Rain is expected on and off today, tomorrow and the next day. I expect to be here in front of Narcotic Paralyzing Rubbish Radio through lunch time and to leave and hopefully get back to the shelter prior to when at 3pm rain becomes more likely. And tomorrow and the next day I anticipate coming back here during those parts of the day where rain is less likely.
I am feeling particularly weak today, but it turns out I had enough strength to change the tire of a young lady whose car I passed, an African American woman, in front of the Union Station area, a fairly posh bakery and lunch spot. She was holding what I recognized to be a jack in her hand, and looking rather dazed, like she didn't know what to do with it. I don't think she did know what to do with it. She was surely intelligent, but it was folded in such a way that it took me several minutes how to take it apart. So I had the strength to do that.
To her credit afterwords she offered me $20 which of course I refused. I did tell her she could help me by watching my belongings for a few moments and by giving me a $1 to offer to the restaurant manager so he would allow me to wash of my hands, the grime off my hands, from changing her tire. Happily she agreed, the restaurant did not require the $1 which I happily returned to her; and I think she experienced this as an event that she will probably remember for some time; and when kindness is so remembered, sometimes they propagate themselves.
SPPDF Day 36: Business of backlash: GOP cashes in on Koch/Adelson anti-BDS donations
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/07/business_of_backlash_gop_cashes_in_on_kochadelson_anti_bds_donations/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
SPDF Day 36: Robert Reich: Colleges, Churches and Non-Profits Doing the Wealthy's Dirty Work It's bad enough that they've bought our politicians. Now the wealthy have bought off the only institutions that can counter their influence.
http://www.alternet.org/robert-reich-colleges-churches-and-non-profits-doing-wealthys-dirty-work
SPDF Day 36: Israel firing experimental weapons at Gaza’s civilians, say doctors
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/israel-firing-experimental-weapons-gazas-civilians-say-doctors
'Israeli Mossad agents posed as CIA spies to recruit terrorists to fight against Iran'
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israeli-mossad-agents-posed-as-cia-spies-to-recruit-terrorists-to-fight-against-iran-1.407224
This time the Nazis control the US gov. .... Israel pushing Congress for legislation to block peace with Iran
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.650813
4.06.2015
nd. Reform Islam? REFORM CHRISTIANITY! For every person killed, terrorized or oppressed by Islam there are objectively 10,000 by christianity. Fact. Don't leave this Islamophobia by the christian state terrorists crap go un-opposed.
Reform Islam? REFORM CHRISTIANITY! For every person killed, terrorized or oppressed by Islam there are objectively 10,000 by christianity. Fact. Don't leave this Islamophobia by the christian state terrorists crap go un-opposed.
SPDF Day 35: LIVE: Six Greenpeace climbers scale Shell’s Arctic-bound oil rig
http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2015/04/06/live-six-greenpeace-climbers-scale-shells-arctic-bound-oil-rig/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=150406&utm_campaign=crossing
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed himself to be something most politicians are not: a terrible bullshitter.
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/06/bibis_iran_shocker_how_he_accidentally_revealed_his_desire_for_more_war/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
Slomo sand from his book why I am no longer a Jew: “I have the increasing impression that, in certain respects, Hitler was the victor the Second World War…his perverted ideology infiltrated itself and resurfaced."
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/06/the-question-of-jewish-identity/
Shlomo Sand and his book, why I am so long for a jew : “If the United States of America decided tomorrow that it was not the state of all American citizens but rather the state of those persons around the whole world who identify as Anglo-Saxon Protestants, it would bear a striking resemblance to the Jewish State of Israel.”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/06/the-question-of-jewish-identity/
WATCH: The feminist struggle for peace in Israel-Palestine
http://972mag.com/watch-the-feminist-struggle-for-peace-in-israel-palestine/105340/
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