10.09.2015
Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared Of Capitalism, Not Robots
10.08.2015
Thursday 8 Cities Change "Columbus Day" To "Indigenous People's Day"
Major Report Exposes Insidious Campaign Against Pro-Palestine Activists on US Campuses Universities often face overwhelming, disproportionate pressure from powerful donors to censor the speech of professors and students.
Major reason to defeat Hilary: keep Bill away from the White House.
Major reason to defeat Hilary: keep Bill away from the White House.
Definition of white privilege: Nine people killed, 20 shot, no murder charges, everyone released
WATCH: Israeli undercover agents shoot unarmed youth at point blank range
Settler shoots Palestinian girl after taking off her head cover
The prisoners who kicked Harvard’s ass: Only people who think Ivy Leaguers are smarter than felons were surprised
***** vid. Violence from Palestine. The eternal violence of Israel's illegal military ghettoization (their Warsaw) makes certain of it.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=532353226921598&id=335052943318295
10.07.2015
***** Video: Israel plants armed “stone throwers” among Palestinian protestors
New Book: America Was Built On Slavery And It Was Much Worse Than You Might Imagine Slaves as money. A breeding industry. Founding fathers of white supremacy.
Video. Amnesty International. Israel's war crimes in Gaza.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156087548975203&id=838410202
Poll: 'Iraqis Are the Saddest & One of the Angriest Populations in the World' The Gallup survey covered 1,000 adults in each of 148 countries during 2014.
****** Ha'aretz, the Israeli New York Times: read this, god damn it. Share. Palestinians are fighting for their lives; Israel is fighting for the occupation That we notice there’s a war on only when Jews are murdered does not cancel out the fact that Palestinians are being killed all the time. Amira Hass
Swing states love love love Joe Biden, non-candidate for president
***** Using deadly force — as a first resort
Israel, Using deadly force against Palestinians — as a first resort
***** It is the example of others lives that has moved my life back in the direction of.....
It is the example of others lives that has moved my life back in the direction of sanity, humanity, compassion, empathy, decency... the self into which we are all born. The lives of those like Eleanor Roosevelt, Malala, Teresa of Calcutta, Alice Paul, Dorothy Day, Gandhi, Martin Luther King jr.... It is only then that their words have helped me understand how to accomplish that move. "Example is not the major thing in influencing people. It is the only thing." Albert Schweitzer
Seen on Facebook: Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy requires getting down on your knees at eye level with the neediest and feeling their pain.
Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy requires getting down on your knees at eye level with the neediest and feeling their pain.
10.06.2015
!!!!! URGENT CALL TO ACTION... How Interfaith Activists Will Counter This Week's Anti-Muslim Rallies
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5612dfcce4b0baa355ace8c8
On Sept. 23, 2015, at least 19 and possibly as many as 22 men in Administrative Detention at the Menard Correctional Center began a hunger strike ...
Environmentalists: The Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement Is A Disaster For Climate Change
South Carolina floods: climate change intensified conditions, scientists say
Sanders campaign apologizes for threatened arrest of pro-Palestine activists outside Boston rally
Owning Up to Failed 'War on Drugs,' DOJ To Release Wave of Nonviolent Offenders New guidelines will bring clemency to thousands of low-level offenders, but many more still 'trapped' in broken criminal justice system
Video: Palestinian artists answer Israel’s Gaza war propaganda
***** Israel: the arms supplier to the global elite's control of the rest of us. Be effing afraid.
Edward Snowden, I am ready to go to prison. "I have paid a price but I feel comfortable with the decisions that I have made. If I'm gone tomorrow, I'm happy with what I had. I feel blessed.
***** Tea Party Republicans Fit The Mayo Clinic’s Description of Sociopaths
I have a proposal... new law: For every 100 innocent civilians killed by our US taxpayer-funded American and Israeli military, one white American adult male, at random, gets executed immediately.
I have a proposal... new law: For every 100 innocent civilians killed by our US taxpayer-funded American and Israeli military, one white American adult male, at random, gets executed immediately.
***** Must must must must read. The 2nd amendment is a gun control amendment. Read that again.
Doomsday Clock Puts Us 3 Minutes Away from Apocalypse
***** I caught a glimpse of something very significant this morning. It is an......
" you cannot call yourself an intellectual if all you use your intellectual gifts for is to find excuses not to do anything. Which, sadly, is what I think a lot of intellectuals do.”
Dissent on Israel Not Permitted at Bernie Sanders Event
10.05.2015
Jeff helper Israel and the war against the world's people
Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters
'Let the people of Israel enter the gates and kill Arabs'
10.03.2015
H ow poverty affects children’s brains
Must read: "I think he is speaking to all of our consciences, and we all have to then search ourselves to see if there are ways that we can do better."
Israel 'playing with fire' on Temple Mount, Erdogan warns
VIDEO: Is Palestine the Exception to Free Speech Rights in the U.S.?
Must read! Before Milton Friedman was earning plaudits as an economic genius, he was a shill for the real estate industry and an early pioneer for big business propaganda known as libertarianism
Flash Floods, 'Once in 200 Years Rainfall Event' Loom in South Carolina
Oslo was from the very beginning a tool for Israeli expansionism — it's time to let go
10.02.2015
Islamic Holocaust: Western wars have killed AT LEAST 4 million Muslims since 1990
***** I am a single issue voter on Palestine and you should be too. Holocaust anywhere is an invitation to Holocaust everywhere.
***** I am a single issue voter on Palestine and you should be too. Holocaust anywhere is an invitation to Holocaust everywhere.
War Against the People is a genuinely frightening book. At its heart, author Jeff Halper provides an exhaustive survey of Israel’s weapons technology.
‘NYT’ preaches to Palestinians about launching ‘intifadas’
‘NYT’ reporters parrot Israeli claims re cherry tomato
Netanyahu’s dreary and menacing UN speech provokes Internet mockery
'Unlike the Holocaust of Adolf Hitler against the Jews, the Jewish Government of Israel’s Holocaust against the Palestinian people is conducted under the presence of the UN and without any World war.'
Food Industry To Congress: We Need You To Act On Climate Change
Roger Waters to Jon Bon Jovi: “You stand shoulder to shoulder with the settler who burned the baby”
***** pic. I bring you Good News. You'll experience this life as heaven, tho materially it will be hell, if you......
I bring you Good News. You'll experience this life as heaven, tho materially it will be hell, if you live, every breath, these three commandments: 1. Love Creator (Loving), 2. Love your Brother (exactly everyone)... with your whole mind, your whole soul, your whole body, your whole spirit. 3. There is no number 3, 4, 1000.... The churches are lying to you. For 2000 years they have been lying to you. There is only 1 & 2.
Charles Pierce nailed it: The Vatican confirms Pope Francis was “ratf*cked” into meeting Kim Davis
Israel’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, openly declares that Israel has no intention of handing any of the West Bank over to Palestinian control.
***** I'm pro life: Pro my idea of life, that I insist on imposing on yours. My ability......
I'm pro life: Pro my idea of life, that I insist on imposing on yours. My ability to kill your life to protect mine. My ability to kill the lives of others to protect my life. My ability to imprison, terrorize, subjugate, subordinate, impose, force upon... to enforce my idea of how life should be. Yes, I am pro-life. My life. Screw yours.
***** These are the real terrorists, truly, actually, as a matter of fact: The freedom to terrorize is the freedom fought for by those who fight all sane gun regulation. The freedom to terrorise you.......
***** These are the real terrorists, truly, actually, as a matter of fact: The freedom to terrorize is the freedom fought for by those who fight all sane gun regulation. The freedom to terrorise you. Freedom from law. Freedom from lawful action. Freedom from collective responsibility. Freedom from a sane society. Freedom to kill you, your dearest ones... anyone, at any time, that they so choose.
***** There is no 'we must do something,' there is no 'we.' That 'we' is an excuse for each individual to....
There is no 'we must do something,' there is no 'we.' That 'we' is an excuse for each individual to wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait... safely, meaninglessly, pitifully on the sidelines. There is only change when one I, then another I, and another I, and another and another and another... stands up and does not sit down until the change occurs or until they are killed.
***** warning, if you read this, read the entire thing. I find the zealous right to lifers to be.......
***** warning, if you read this, read the entire thing. I find the zealous right to lifers to be disgusting, degenerate, moral mutants. They have so little empathy, so little compassion, so little humanity that the farthest their hearts can expand is an unborn zygote. They reduce all that is important in the world to an unborn zygote. And I am concerned that even Pope Francis may fit in this category. This is not religious, it is, at best, A perverted fetish. I find equally deadly, and maybe more so, the masses of us who place little or no active value on that zygote, which indisputably is life. We too murderously violate the 'reverence for life' which is the centerpiece sanity and constructive living.
10.01.2015
***** “As Mr. Netanyahu tells the world he wants to negotiate for two-states, he has built the largest illegal settlement enterprise seen in modern history, on the land of the State of Palestine, while his settlers continue to terrorize Palestinian civilians.”
***** FBI. Exposed: Pro-Israel Modern Day McCarthyites Going to Extremes to Slime Human Rights Activists As pro-Israel extremism reaches new depths with the notorious Canary Mission project, the FBI investigates growing threats against BDS activists.
Free speech for all on campus! Unless you’re criticizing Israel, that is
Despite cancer, Jimmy Carter plans Habitat trip to Nepal
Exclusive: Obama brushed off Reid's plea on Palestinian state. The Senate leader wanted the president to side with Israel by disavowing a U.N. resolution calling for a Palestinian state. It didn't happen.
Tea Party Republicans Fit The Mayo Clinic’s Description of Sociopaths
Of course Pope Francis met with Kim Davis. Jesus would have.
Israel land grab, one home at a time
9.30.2015
Number of fish in the sea has dropped by nearly half since 1970, report says
Pro-Israel groups targeting Palestinian organizations in US, report finds
Report reveals 9 Israel lobby tactics to silence students
Israel approves Hebrew names for Arab streets in Jerusalem
Cancer update: brain scan revealed....
Cancer update: brain scan revealed....
What my beloved father must always have known...
Negative...
No brain........
Full cat scan of the body revealed no cancer.
Blood tests reveal no cancer.
Brain scan reveals no cancer.
Neural opthamologist today says he too sees no problem to explain the rapid onset of apparent blindness in my left eye cept that the glasses that were created for me did not fulfill his prescription of two months ago. They did not adhere to the specification for my astigmatism. I returned to the glasses place with that information this afternoon and they said they would recreate the lenses for me over the next 2 or 3 weeks.
Benjamin Netanyahu wants bloodshed: A new, deliberately provocative right-wing incursion into sacred ground
NBC: White Americans Are Biggest Terror Threat in U.S.: Study
9.29.2015
Slavery Myths Debunked The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than Northern factory workers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and other lies, half-truths, and irrelevancies.
After 60 million years of extreme living, seabirds are crashing
Obama praises Secret Service
UK government: 700 Israeli attacks on Gaza since 2014 ceasefire
Why Empaths Freeze Around Inauthentic People
92% of biophysical scientists surveyed believe that human activity has contributed to global warming
Man Dies a Hero, Pushes His Wife to Safety and Out of Path of Oncoming Car
***** this can be big. This can be very very very very big. Navigation The Christian Post Michelle Obama Launches #62MillionGirls Campaign to End Poverty at Global Citizen Festival
***** Behind the Scenes with Pope Francis in America
***** I think our job to be hated for our Loving. Truly, I think that it is. To be deeply hated for our utter foolishness of Loving completely and unconditionally, and if we are not regularly hated that we probably aren't doing it right. Please consider: Somewhere......
***** I think our job to be hated for our Loving. Truly, I think that it is. To be deeply hated for our utter foolishness of Loving completely and unconditionally, and if we are not regularly hated that we probably aren't doing it right. Please consider: Somewhere in the Francis visit coverage in the final days I heard martyr described as someone who is hated for their faith. I think it was Francis that I heard speaking of this and I view him as practicing the faith of Loving. And, along with other things I am learning, and experiencing personally, it brought to my mind that yes, in the near complete evil darkness that is 2015 earth, it is our job individually to be so radiantly Loving that we are hated for it and thereby might cause the hater, in expressing their hatred towards us, to be convicted by the shard of Loving that they were in their infancy, and that still resides within them as a distant memory. And in having that shard of Loving within them convict their evil spirit that rules almost all of us, therein lies the hope to return their sanity, decency... humanity. I do think it is our job to be so Loving that we are hated by almost all. I hope to do a better job at this. Oh, without question, to do this, one must be willing to happily die for it. It occurs to me I will be more directly facing this as I travel through the southern states.
***** must read and share. Leading Israeli journalist says Israel is an Apartheid state
9.28.2015
In Plains, crowds flock to see Jimmy Carter at peanut festival
***** I think our only real chance to help is to live such a profoundly moral life, every breath, that it empowers the good in others and convicts the evil in them.
***** I think our only real chance to help is to live such a profoundly moral life, every breath, that it empowers the good in others and convicts the evil in them.
***** I'll write again that the last several months I sense that I have made a huge leap in my understanding of the essentials. I detest dogma, this should be well known. I detest following words without understanding deeply the underlying meaning. For me, this is the norm in the Catholic Church which was my early background. I have found the notion of, seeing Jesus in everyone, revolting. It makes no sense to me, it has never been explained to me in any way that makes any sense. But if there is any sense to be made of such things, it came to me on my 35k journey among the less affluent, the less educated, the less advantaged .... What occurred to me first was that I was seeing in people for the first time in many many years, occasionally, a sense of awe, a sense of wonder at important things in life. This quickly brought me to the notion that as newborn infants, and in our first months of life, this awe, this wonder, this profound humility... Is central to our nature. I further then realized that we all have that experience. That, now, is what I understand to be the correct meaning of Holy Spirit, the divine within us. And I can now see that in virtually everyone that in earliest childhood, that holy spirit existed, and still potentially exists if it is brought back to memory, and most importantly, if it is brought to reign within us.
***** I'll write again that the last several months I sense that I have made a huge leap in my understanding of the essentials. I detest dogma, this should be well known. I detest following words without understanding deeply the underlying meaning. For me, this is the norm in the Catholic Church which was my early background. I have found the notion of, seeing Jesus in everyone, revolting. It makes no sense to me, it has never been explained to me in any way that makes any sense. But if there is any sense to be made of such things, it came to me on my 35k journey among the less affluent, the less educated, the less advantaged .... What occurred to me first was that I was seeing in people for the first time in many many years, occasionally, a sense of awe, a sense of wonder at important things in life. This quickly brought me to the notion that as newborn infants, and in our first months of life, this awe, this wonder, this profound humility... Is central to our nature. I further then realized that we all have that experience. That, now, is what I understand to be the correct meaning of Holy Spirit, the divine within us. And I can now see that in virtually everyone that in earliest childhood, that holy spirit existed, and still potentially exists if it is brought back to memory, and most importantly, if it is brought to reign within us.
"God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else_God is in this person's life." Francis
"God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else_God is in this person's life."
As I posted the other day: "If one has the answers to all the questions_that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble." Francis
As I posted the other day: "If one has the answers to all the questions_that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble." Francis
Baby boomers ruined America: Why blaming millennials is misguided — and annoying
9.27.2015
Chicago rabbi questions need for Jewish state
In letter, Clinton condemns Israel boycott movement
Palestinian journalist Nidal Abu Aker, held in administrative detention in Israeli jails without charge or trial and on hunger strike for 39 days, is refusing to drink water in protest of his continued solitary confinement.....
I wonder if John Boehner is displaying a moment of greatness rarely seen in our culture. I wonder if we are seeing from him self-sacrifice for a greater good.
I wonder if John Boehner is displaying a moment of greatness rarely seen in our culture. I wonder if we are seeing from him self-sacrifice for a greater good.
***** I don't recall ever feeling more hopeless than I do at the moment about the future for humankind and creation. During the 35 days on the road....
I don't recall ever feeling more hopeless than I do at the moment about the future for humankind and creation. During the 35 days on the road I was forced to escape the many many hours a day looking at what is happening in the world, Palestine in particular, but Syria, United States, well, pretty much everywhere. In the last 3 weeks I have been able to devote many hours a day, as I have, looking at things square in the face.
Early on felt moments of elation with words from Francis on his current tour, but in the last several days I have seen him gravitating toward meaningless dogmatic doublespeak and there by diluting his earlier, crystal clear message, of living universal family.
Several days ago there was a physical attack on the vehicle where I store it at night stealing $200 worth of electronics that are useless to anyone but me. A grim reminder of what hideous creatures we've devolved to in this loveless, godless, lost... culture. Yes, this victimizer was undoubtedly poor, probably homeless. More deadly by far are the ultra wealthy vulturous creatures on Capitol Hill.
Yesterday I was subject to a withering verbal attack by a psycho in the shelter.
At the moment I can't think of a more sane, moral applicable tale than that of Don Quixote. The only hope is for personal salvation in this life from living the material and spiritual hell that is earth today. To do so by fighting the unwinnable fight, dreaming the impossible dream, fighting when the odds are impossible.... Yes, truly, with no hope of winning.
The Greatest Threat to Campus Free Speech is Coming From Dianne Feinstein and her Military-Contractor Husband
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/25/dianne-feinstein-husband-threaten-univ-calif-demanding-ban-excessive-israel-criticism/
9.26.2015
Nuclear Holocaust is the last of my concerns. At this point, truly, I would almost welcome a nuclear planet-wide annihilation. It is the torturous death by a million cuts that horrifies me.
Nuclear Holocaust is the last of my concerns. At this point, truly, I would almost welcome a nuclear planet-wide annihilation. It is the torturous death by a million cuts that horrifies me.
***** must read: September 11, 2001, had the unintended consequence of serving the breathtaking expansionist plans of the neoconservatives who dominated the Bush administration. Only a plausible enemy was lacking to make their execution possible. From the storehouse of the Western historical imagination, age-old images of a hostile Islam were retrieved. Islamic terrorists conjured up in a believable form for a frightened America the “threat to civilization” that every empire requires to justify its own violent acts of domination.
President Jimmy Carter: 'I Was The Only White Child In The Neighborhood'
Jeremy Corbyn moves to a more humble office because his grand leader's one is too big
The Piercing Cry of Child Poverty in Economically Rich but Spiritually Poor America
9.25.2015
**** Those who do not live, moment by moment, in humility... have no knowledge of or feeling for or relationship with Creator, notwithstanding whatever we might think. Creator is the stuff of overwhelming awe where humility is the only possible response.
**** Those who do not live, moment by moment, in humility... have no knowledge of or feeling for or relationship with Creator, notwithstanding whatever we might think. Creator is the stuff of overwhelming awe where humility is the only possible response.
12 Lakota Virtues, Essential to balance and happiness. (VIDEO)
Striking Warehouse Staff Call On Amazon For Better Pay And Conditions
Warning to any who associate with me on Facebook or anywhere else: For any professional person in the United States, any person of standing or means, or anyone associated with such people, criticizing Israel, or, being friends with those who do, is grounds for your personal and political destruction, and if that isn't sufficient, the destruction of those with whom you associate.
Warning to any who associate with me on Facebook or anywhere else: For any professional person in the United States, any person of standing or means, or anyone associated with such people, criticizing Israel, or, being friends with those who do, is grounds for your personal and political destruction, and if that isn't sufficient, the destruction of those with whom you associate.
Israel’s assaults on Palestinian education amount to genocide
Obama Administration Set To Take Away Money From Cities That Criminalize Homelessness
***** Sometimes when you are in a dark place you think you've been buried but you have actually been planted. Seen on Facebook
Sometimes when you are in a dark place you think you've been buried but you have actually been planted. Seen on Facebook
I take no satisfaction and one man (Obama, Francis....) trying to do the job that we citizens refuse to stand up and do. He can't. We won't. Time's up.
I take no satisfaction and one man (Obama, Francis....) trying to do the job that we citizens refuse to stand up and do. He can't. We won't. Time's up.
nd. To the liberal masses that incessantly place all hope for environmental future on the President, Congress, the media, the GOP...: If my parents generation had not risen by the millions to put their life limb and treasure on the line against the Nazis history would not be pointing at FDR, it would be pointing at them. So it will be for us.
To the liberal masses that incessantly place all hope for environmental future on the President, Congress, the media, the GOP...: If my parents generation had not risen by the millions to put their life limb and treasure on the line against the Nazis history would not be pointing at FDR, it would be pointing at them. So it will be for us.
9.24.2015
Martin O’Malley unloads: Hillary is “a specialist at vaguely saying things”
2014 Journalist Chris Hedges disinvited from U. Penn over Israel-ISIS comparison
***** Francis: "Business... can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the area in which it operates, especially if it sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to the common good”
Francis: "Business... can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the area in which it operates, especially if it sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to the common good”
***** Abe Lincoln (and me). "When any church will inscribe over its altar (ONLY) the Savior's condensed statement of law and gospel: 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind, and love thy neighbor as thyself,' that church will I join with all my heart."
***** Abe Lincoln (and me). "When any church will inscribe over its altar (ONLY) the Savior's condensed statement of law and gospel: 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind, and love thy neighbor as thyself,' that church will I join with all my heart."
***** "Our daily routine can often lead us to a kind of glum apathy which gradually becomes a habit, with a fatal consequence: our hearts grow numb.... Jesus gives the answer. He said.......
***** "Our daily routine can often lead us to a kind of glum apathy which gradually becomes a habit, with a fatal consequence: our hearts grow numb.... Jesus gives the answer. He said to his disciples then and he says it to us now: Go forth! Proclaim! The joy of the Gospel [ do unto others ALL you would have them do unto you ]is something to be experienced, something to be known and lived only through giving it away, through giving ourselves away."
9.23.2015
'One of Syria's bravest cartoonists' tortured to death in prison
Cancer update. Curious; I began crying during the 35 minutes brain scan just now.....
I think it had to do with this: my chosen way of being is to live the pain of the world, the second by second agony of Palestine, the infinite pain of all creation going forward on writhing planet in death pangs. I don't dwell on that pain. But I keep it at the center of my being at all times because it is the primary informing of what I must do. I think by all objective measures I manage that enormously well. But I keep myself on the edge at all seconds that I am awake.
Noam Chomsky: Subsidy that energy corporations... around $5 trillion annually.....
There was a recent study by the IMF which tried to estimate the subsidy that energy corporations get from governments. The total was colossal. I think it was around $5 trillion annually. That’s got nothing to do with markets and capitalism. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/noam-chomsky-bernie-sanders-greece-tsipras-grexit-austerity-neoliberalism-protest/
***** President Obama Drops The "U" Word On The Republican Party
Norway rewards Brazil with $1 billion for keeping the Amazon full of trees
I no longer think that Iraq was about oil. I think it was simply a transfer of wealth from most Americans to the 1%, especially the military industrial complex.
I no longer think that Iraq was about oil. I think it was simply a transfer of wealth from most Americans to the 1%, especially the military industrial complex.
***** If I know anything of value, if I have anything of value to share, it all boils down to this.....
***** If I know anything of value, if I have anything of value to share, it all boils down to this:
1. We are virtually all born in what I will refer to as the Holy Spirit, the spirit of universal, unconditional Loving, what I think Schweitzer referred to as the reverence for life. I understand this as nothing more or less than one of the psychological states that is available to us.
2. Further, I perceive that six thousand years or so ago we moved out of the tiny tribes we were designed to be in, where all the stimulation was of the notion of universal family, and have since developed huge cultures that strip away from us virtually all of the natural stimulation of the Holy Spirit, that sense of universal Loving, reverence for life.
3. As a consequence, now, in 2015, in the United States and the Western world, within months or a few years we strip away from our children the Holy Spirit, unconditional Loving, reverence for life... and replace it with a religiously conditional Loving, a religious lusting for self, for me and mine.
4. What miniscule hope there is now for life worth living depends upon the individual and collective return to every breath submission to that spirit of reverence for life that I believe we were all born into, and that we can still, if we so choose, if we devote the immense time and effort, that we can find within ourselves and return reign over ourselves individually, to. We must find it within ourselves and bring it back to the rule of ourselves individually, and thereby, only thereby, provide encouragement to others to do the same.
5. My life is devoted, every breath, to this task, within myself and to foster it within others.
Israelis to Iceland: Please boycott our country. No, really.
With my last breath I will regret voting for Bill Clinton, twice. He had, and has, nothing but ego where is the soul should have been. Hillary is at least as bad.
With my last breath I will regret voting for Bill Clinton, twice. He had, and has, nothing but ego where is the soul should have been. Hillary is at least as bad.
“What I want for you to do is call off your f–king dogs, Barack!” Clinton allegedly barked at Obama
***** For almost all christians Christianity is a fantasy game where you get to (REALLY) kill, oppress, abuse, exploit, enslave... people, Jews, Palestinians.......
***** For almost all christians Christianity is a fantasy game where you get to (REALLY) kill, oppress, abuse, exploit, enslave... people, Jews, Palestinians, blacks, Muslims, Arabs, Vietnamese, Hispanics... and at the very least you get to feel superior to all those who do not ascribe to your so-called beliefs (sociopathic delusions), and to play for eternal real estate in the sky. And almost all Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists... Use their religion for their own form of this bloody fantasy game.
Obama, the Pope, and the President Of China Are Teaming Up To Save the World
9.22.2015
We can only spread love by being love in action. Love is not an action. Love is not a feeling. Love is a way of being. Yes, I know that is a mystery. But that is how it is.
We can only spread love by being love in action. Love is not an action. Love is not a feeling. Love is a way of being. Yes, I know that is a mystery. But that is how it is.
Israelis celebrate video of sniper shooting Palestinian youth
Anti-BDS Website Seeks To Ruin Careers, Reputations Of Those Who Support Palestine
Deeply deeply deeply tragic. Grief over young White House staffer
Pope wraps up Cuba visit with call for ‘revolution of tenderness’
***** I stand totally against the Democratic Party and I stand against Bernie Sanders unless and until they come out absolutely, unequivocally, against Israel's decimation of Palestinian human rights. Germans stood with Hitler because........
Cell phones are the 'Lifeline" for the homeless
9.21.2015
Police Chief makes unique offer to addicts
WATCH: Ex-Hedge Funder Who Hiked AIDS Pill by 5,500% Says Drug ‘Still Underpriced’
Hundreds of full-time New York City workers are homeless
Brazilians protest Israel's nominee for ambassador over settler ties
Vatican, in Switch, Will Join Palestine in Flying Flag at U.N.
nd. Regarding Pr. Obama critics... those who live in glass houses.... I'm appalled by some of his actions... drone program, Israel support, condoning Saudi Arabia and Egypt, TPP.... But ye who cast stones at Pr. Obama repeatedly...
you are a wonderful human being, my oncologist said to me....
nd. My oncologist has ordered a brain scan for me on Wednesday. There is concern about the rapid deterioration of my left eye.
A Reuters article quoting me that I had never seen.
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/james-mcginley-had-his-messages-of-love-tattooed-on-his-news-photo/452548510
Lust for life and Reverence for Life are pretty much the opposite ways of being.
***** How inequality was created. ( if the shoe does not fit do not wear it). WATCH. SHARE. Get off your ass and fix it or die trying for all the young people you know.
9.20.2015
Israeli whore, agent. Why Is Bernie Sanders So Silent On Hate Toward Muslims?
Noam Chomsky: Intellectuals, with very few exceptions, are servants of the state.
Noam Chomsky: Intellectuals, with very few exceptions, are servants of the state.
Franklin Graham slams Obama guest list. The guests are transgender activists Mateo Williamson and Vivian Taylor, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, Bishop Gene Robinson and Sister Simone Campbell, an activist nun who leads a group criticized by the Vatican for its silence on abortion and euthanasia.
9.19.2015
Climate change is so scary it's making these women reconsider having children.
9.18.2015
***** Einstein: our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
***** Einstein: our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Einstein: My religion consists of a humble admiration for the illimitable superior spirit that reveals itself in the slight details that we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds .
Einstein: My religion consists of a humble admiration for the illimitable superior spirit that reveals itself in the slight details that we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds .
***** Responsible people need to stop figuring out what others need to do and look in the mirror and figure out how to redouble what they do. Life is not a spectator sport. Life is not playing imaginary chess with the lives of world leaders. Life is the messy, impossible, hopeless pursuit of what one can do individually as pitiful as that may be.
Responsible people need to stop figuring out what others need to do and look in the mirror and figure out how to redouble what they do. Life is not a spectator sport. Life is not playing imaginary chess with the lives of world leaders. Life is the messy, impossible, hopeless pursuit of what one can do individually as pitiful as that may be.
***** must read article. Tens of millions of people died in Hitler’s war not so that Germans could live, but so that Germans could pursue the American dream
Israel approves use of police sniper fire against Palestinian rock-throwers - reports
Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”
9.17.2015
***** major update. How are things going here in DC? My medical Outlook?.....
As to the outlook for me personally: The major CAT scan including radioactive(?) dye occurred this past Monday and the review of results with my oncologist is scheduled for this coming Monday. My sense is that I will be back on the road spreading the gospel of citizen uprising for many many many many many months. Hence I am working to get all medical issues resolved including dental and other, and logistics such as redirected mail. I have had one dental appointment and another scheduled for several weeks out that could lead to another yet. Also, with up to 10 hours per day of traveling that I do I am scheduled to have an old orthopedic issue addressed the end of October. Whether I will delay my departure that long is not clear.
oh, and an odd, possibly serious, concern has arisen regarding my left eye. Only 2 months ago two different ophthalmologists evaluated my eyes and prescribed my first set of glasses. In just that short time my left eye has deteriorated to the point that one of the opthamologists says that it is no longer possible to give me clear far site. He is somewhat concerned that something may be going on neurologically or behind the eye. In several weeks there is an appointment scheduled to evaluate that situation.
Mercifully and miraculously the very tough staff of the shelter I have been staying in broke all rules several times and fully allowed me back after being away for 35 days. Also, the parking arrangements in front of a massive DC Municipal Building at night is also working out allowing me to sleep away from the vehicle.
While confined here in DC for reasons mentioned above I am situating the vehicle and myself in high traffic areas spreading the gospel among the zombies; yesterday and the day before at a park three blocks from the White House on K Street, the heart of lobbyists and nonprofit land. Today on Capitol Hill. Next week with Pope Francis drawing huge crowds to DC I will hope to situate in the midst of those crowds outside of Union Station. I will not know till then if security arrangements will make that impossible.
Strategically my sense is that I have been blind for years but now can see dimly. That is, now that I see what the problem is the absence of reverence for life, ( http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2015/09/day-35-reverence-for-life-is.html ) which may be essentially what is correctly meant by the Holy Spirit, I am equipped with a workable problem definition. Equipped with this problem definition it is possible I may learn to better fashion myself into some minuscule remedy which is all that I wish to be, which is the only interest I have in remaining in this prison we call 2015 life. One of the impacts of this vastly improved problem definition that I now have is the notion it has given me that when I am in the presence of another I am in the presence of one of two things that are almost always possible from that individual: I am in the presence of their zombie, evil, spirit... Or, highly unlikely, the presence of the Holy Spirit, their reverence for life with which I believe we are all born. My a tendency has been to confront the evil spirit, the spirit of death and destruction, and the evil and idiocy, and or the excuses, cowardice and diversions... that it invariably spews. But the new insight with which I am now equipped at times, and I think possibly will become a primary response from me, causes me to simply wait, yes, maybe for eternity, but to wait for the Holy Spirit return within the individual who is in front of me. Yes, I do think there is some minuscule hopefulness to doing so, an infinitely greater hopefulness than any other response I can think of. What hopefullnrss? The hopefulness encapsulated in this: nature abhors a vacuum. If I am now, after a lifetime, finally seeing the problem clearly, I think the hopefulness would be in then, with my current clarity which may well increase substantially with practice, to be a presence in someone else's life, even for a few seconds, someone who is in the spirit of evil, self-centeredness, selfishness, lust... that is inhabiting them, a presents that sees clearly and with conviction that this evil spirit is not their natural, true, only spirit.... That putting them in contact with, in the presence of, someone who sees this truth might well be the, the only, way that one person can provide another the chance of salvation, escape, from that evil spirit. -- Sent from Fast notepad
Global Warming Could Lead to Worldwide Wars
This kid came up to ask how much the food cost. I told him it was free
Israel denies water, fresh air to hunger strikers
Arab bid to monitor Israel's nuclear sites rejected at UN atomic agency
Outrage over Gaza drove Iceland’s capital to back Israel boycott
Bernie Sanders' Stand for Racial Justice Requires That He Stand for Palestine
It's time to recognize the State of Palestine, Mr. President
audi king seeks 'urgent' action on Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque
Western Nations: Beacons of Hope or Source of Destruction?
9.16.2015
Soccket Ball: Electricity Through Soccer Four women from Harvard created a technology that is changing the game for energy.
Wrong Turn Leads Teen To A Dying Horse That Changes Her Life
Bravo school!!! After Coming Out In Her Junior Year, This Transgender Teen Was Voted Homecoming Queen
How Obama Can Save The Two-State Solution Before He Leaves Office
Environmental activists go on hunger strike in McPherson Square ahead of pope’s visit
T hey created solidariTEA, an iced tea company that donates 10 cents to community groups for every bottle of tea sold.
How Hillary Clinton's State Department Sold Fracking To The World
800 miles in 35 days. What I have learned from ELF .
* my opportunity is to add power, not to speed the ELF with my legs
* I carry my own weight and let ELF carry his. that is, under most circumstances I can deliver about 1.5 amps per hour and I use about 2 amps per hour from the battery on long distances
* ELF will easily flip if I am not careful
* if you are insured against theft (Veloinsurance) and you are not locked you are not insured
* using my legs like pistons seems to work best for me
* the faster I go on battery the less energy I can contribute per mile lowering the battery range
* I can get seven or even 10 miles per amp except where there are many hills and there I can drop to as low as 2 miles per amp or less.
* at 63 with stage 4 cancer I can contribute 1.5 amps, 75 watts, per hour
* regarding reliability and maintenance the vehicle is a sophisticated three wheeled bike, not a car. align your expectations accordingly.
* 'Solar fusion bike car' is my best phraseology so far for grasping this vehicle
* very few bicycle repair operations will touch the elf because it takes up too much of their floor space, or is too large to get through their door. but some can. Find out.
* this is an extremely sane way to commute around Washington DC proper
* shallow pumping of the brake flashes oncoming traffic from the rear greatly increasing safety in highway situations. Pumping so shallow of course that you don't actually activate the brake itself
* I often feel much more comfortable with additional flashing lights on the rear of the vehicle in highway situations to alert fast oncoming traffic from the rear to a slow moving vehicle
* pulling a second solar panel on a trailer for my cross country trip is wonderful more than doubling my energy generation
* after caulking around the solar panel ELF no longer leaks in the rain
* despite numerous rain storms rarely have I wanted doors. Sometimes I use my rain suit
* due to the necessary vehicle weight the nuVinci gearing gives me an additional 5 or 10% range over traditional gears I am sure
* a no slip shelf liner helps keep my butt in place
* a full graphics wrap of the elf cost around 1000 bucks applied
* chaining the handlebar in a sharp left or a sharp right turn with a lock is almost always sufficient security even in the city for me, and it is quick and easy to put in place or for me to remove
* the folks in Durham are very nice, very competent, and like a very large informal bicycle shop. Set your expectations accordingly and you will be happy, as am I.
* I have found some pockets where the culture is extremely hostile to bicycles like Fredericksburg Virginia.
* I've been very glad to have a can of tire repair slime
* as an extensive rider I'm glad to now have cycle analyst
* even without cycle analyst I can judge the battery charge with a multimeter measuring the voltage, 54 volts roughly full, 45 volts empty, rather linear in between
* for security reasons in a city I am glad to have a large trunk that can be closed
* favoring long range without wall-recharging, as I do, the vehicle is an seven to nine miles per hour vehicle except on extreme flat where it may be 10 to 11 miles per hour at my level of strength and technique.
* running errands all around Washington DC the elf is plenty fast enough, has plenty of range, speed being limited by the horrible potholes
* elf is often too wide for bike lanes. one needs to be willing to ride in a main lane often. it is not for the faint of heart.
* Google Maps: on cross country trips I generally lie and say I am a car selecting the option for no tolls, no highway. often I do not want to be away from where I can plug in, where otherwise the selection for bicycling would place me
* if I plug in for an hour, then unplug from the battery to check the charge level with a volt meter, unless I unplugged from the wall for several minutes, the charging does not resume. no problem, now that I know
* for me the elf is like the early Wright brothers planes. In some respects a joke. The beginning of a new future which sadly is coming too slowly to save creation.
* I have profound respect and affection for this vehicle. I think it is an important invention
* the vehicle is quite stable at 35 or 40 miles per hour, speeding down hill, watch for crosswinds. However, very unstable if not toed-in 3 degrees (?) in the front.
* the front is very light and can easily be flipped by even a low speed bump under one wheel or the other or a fast turn. Just keep that in mind and you will be fine
* I find the front cargo tray extremely useful
* you need a bike shop that will happily work on your vehicle or you need to learn to do it yourself. It is not a car. It is a high-tech tricycle
* I wish Organic transit would put up a very serious support site up with well done, way longer than 1 minute, videos on how to maintain and repair the vehicle.
* Organic transit should publish a list of required tools and possibly assemble into a kit and sell the same, as they once did.
* I have found ELF very sturdy and reliable
* I have learned that my technique makes an enormous difference to how much power, and range, I can inject. where I place my feet on the pedals, where I adjust my seat. I wish I had studied articles on cycling technique earlier. I'm glad I finally did, and do.
* I am happiest with very very fast cadence until I achieve speed of 6 or 8 or 10 or 12 miles per hour... and then slower cadence to maintain that speed.
* on steep hills or any breaking from higher speed I think that pumping my brakes may produce less wear on the system.
* Runtastic Pro is the best Android app I have found. Many useful features. For most or all of the cycling apps I have found that they understate distance traveled by about 13%, oddly. Google Maps seems correct as does the cycle analyst.
note: all serious questions and comments and or suggestions on the above would be welcome. http:Start-Loving.blogspot.com
9.15.2015
Israel’s Agent of Influence: Senator Ben Cardin shows how it’s done
Pope Francis Calls for Ending Tax-Exempt Status of Churches That Don’t Help the Needy
***** must read article.... Niebuhr also knew that traditional liberalism was a useless force in moments of extremity. Liberalism, Niebuhr said, “lacks the spirit of enthusiasm, not to say fanaticism, which is so necessary to move the world out of its beaten tracks....
http://m.truthdig.com/report/item/a_time_for_sublime_madness_20130120
Reinhold Niebuhr, as Cone points out in his book, labeled this capacity to defy the forces of repression “a sublime madness in the soul.” Niebuhr wrote that “nothing but madness will do battle with malignant power and ‘spiritual wickedness in high places.’ ” This sublime madness, as Niebuhr understood, is dangerous, but it is vital. Without it, “truth is obscured.” And Niebuhr also knew that traditional liberalism was a useless force in moments of extremity. Liberalism, Niebuhr said, “lacks the spirit of enthusiasm, not to say fanaticism, which is so necessary to move the world out of its beaten tracks. It is too intellectual and too little emotional to be an efficient force in history.”......