***** Jesus was a human. He gave us none of the outs that we give ourselves. He was an absolutist and he told us to be the same. Love as I have loved. Do unto others all that you would have them do unto you. Pick up your cross. The good shepherd lays down her life for the sheep. As you do unto the least of these you do unto me. He gave us not one excuse, not one out, not one bit of leeway. Any more than in loving us he might have said, hey, it is okay if you usually do not eat poison, deadly poison, but it is ok if sometimes you do. Selfishness is poison. He told us that in every way possible. We don't like the answer so we deny deny deny deny deny deny. I never thought, & I still don't think, it was ever about forgiveness, being better than, being worse than..... I think it was always about joy or suffering. And I think he was trying to tell us that selfishness, although it seems like a good idea, is deadly, slow acting, poison. Of course, I might be wrong. But every day, every study, every experience... tells me that this is correct.
12.03.2015
John Pilger on Paris, ISIS and Media Propaganda
***** utterly magnificent. Absolute must read. Israeli and U.S. state oppression are deeply interconnected. Tear gas used against protesters in Ferguson is the same used daily on Palestinians. Israeli police proudly train U.S. police in population control tactics, and vice versa. State-sanctioned killings and systemic racism play out in our city, as well as in occupied Palestine.
***** Pic. Live a full and total solidarity with the world's neediest.
I have come to believe that this is what Jesus lived and taught and that by violating it for 2000 years we have brought on ourselves near certain and total destruction of all that is good in the world. This gets clearer to me with every passing moment. The best of us convinces our self that it is okay to live with greater resources allocated to ourselves than to our neediest sisters and brothers. I believe that Jesus said, and lived, no.
Your thoughts? If Jesus were alive today, he and his immediate disciples, they would be A. Homeless and poor, B. Middle class, C. Upper class economically? Please respond. Would they live in full solidarity with the world's neediest, or not?
Your thoughts? If Jesus were alive today, he and his immediate disciples, they would be A. Homeless and poor, B. Middle class, C. Upper class economically? Please respond. Would they live in full solidarity with the world's neediest, or not?
Israeli invaders threaten to burn Palestinian family of 11 alive
The New York Post has no shame: The ugly truth about its outrageous “Muslim Killers” cover
Syed Farooq Is an American: Let’s Stop the Muslim vs. Christian Debate and Take a Look at Ourselves His terrible deed does not spring from an unknowable foreign culture. It is violence endemic to the United States.
From Jabotinsky to Netanyahu: How the Israeli right got its might A new book tells the story of how Zionism's outsiders became its power elite.
Top Israel advocate uses San Bernardino killings to attack Islam
Top Israel advocate uses San Bernardino killings to attack Islam
No mention in the US mainstream press. This is not an oversight, this is murder. Over 1,000 Israeli troops raid Jerusalem refugee camp to demolish home
FBI Report Highlighted White Supremacist ‘Infiltration’ of Nation’s Police Forces
12.02.2015
Chris Hedges, Wages of Rebellion: Our terror is delivered daily to the wretched of the earth with industrial weapons. But to us, it is invisible. We do not stand over the decapitated and eviscerated bodies left behind on city and village streets by our missiles, drones, and fighter jets. We do not......
Chris Hedges, Wages of Rebellion: Our terror is delivered daily to the wretched of the earth with industrial weapons. But to us, it is invisible. We do not stand over the decapitated and eviscerated bodies left behind on city and village streets by our missiles, drones, and fighter jets. We do not listen to the wails and shrieks of parents embracing the shattered bodies of their children. We do not see the survivors of air attacks bury their mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters. We are not conscious of the long night of collective humiliation, repression, and powerlessness that characterizes existence in Israel’s occupied territories, Iraq, and Afghanistan. We do not see the boiling anger that war and injustice turn into a cauldron of hate over time. We are not aware of the very natural lust for revenge against those who carry out or symbolize this oppression. We see only the final pyrotechnics of terror, the shocking moment when the rage erupts into an inchoate fury and the murder of innocents. And willfully uninformed, we do not understand our own complicity. We self-righteously condemn the killers as subhuman savages who deserve more of the violence that created them. This is a recipe for endless terror.
Why these shootings? Because we over-privileged liberals have allowed the economy for our less privileged white brothers and sisters to be destroyed so the only power they feel that they have, the only way they can compete, the only way they think they can win, is with guns. And who can say that they are incorrect?
Why these shootings? Because we over-privileged liberals have allowed the economy for our less privileged white brothers and sisters to be destroyed so the only power they feel that they have, the only way they can compete, the only way they think they can win, is with guns. And who can say that they are incorrect?
Israel fans flames as Palestinian death toll soars
Nightmares in Jalazone: Families deal with trauma following Israeli torture
Pediatric and intensive care patients injured as Israeli military fires tear gas into Jerusalem hospital
Renegade Police in Rural Alabama Accused of Mass False Arrests of Hundreds of Black Youths
Jerusalemite forced to demolish part of his home by the Israeli Gestapo
Three Israeli suspects in arson attack released
Israeli troops raid Shu’fat, cordon off homes of slain Palestinians
12.01.2015
US ends phone data collection exposed by Edward Snowden
Israel to approve the largest settlement project in al-Buraq plaza
Politico has an article up about Republican candidates trying to win the support of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Washington this week, and the article never mentions Israel. Jewish conservatives are just another flavor of conservatives. But the fact is that the RJC and just about everyone named in the article cares primarily about Israel. So who’s fooling who?
Realistically, good people, for the thousands of years we've lived in such impossibly large groups, have lived as though it was unreasonable for goodness to prevail . I think we need to stop living so reasonably. I think we need to live as though now evil is no longer acceptable. I don't know what that means for me. I hope I have the wisdom and courage to live accordingly.
Realistically, good people, for the thousands of years we've lived in such impossibly large groups, have lived as though it was unreasonable for goodness to prevail . I think we need to stop living so reasonably. I think we need to live as though now evil is no longer acceptable. I don't know what that means for me. I hope I have the wisdom and courage to live accordingly.
Israelis – Not Muslims – Cheered in Jersey City on 9/11
Israel tightens restrictions on Gaza Palestinians seeking medical treatment
***** I think that kindness, charity, are criminal, self-serving, cowardly luxuries from the over-privileged like me behind which we hide from our moral duty of lived solidarity with the global neediest. I am sorry for this lifelong error of mine.
***** I think that kindness, charity, are criminal, self-serving, cowardly luxuries from the over-privileged like me behind which we hide from our moral duty of lived solidarity with the global neediest. I am sorry for this lifelong error of mine.