1.06.2016
***** If you want to spot a true Christian, look for the one in a million that is being crucified by the church.
Ya'alon approves expansion of Gush Etzion settlement
Fishing boat destroyed off Gaza coast in Israeli shelling
1.05.2016
Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk—they come from families with money
Israel’s Human Rights Activists Aren’t Traitors
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/opinion/israels-human-rights-activists-arent-traitors.html?referer=https://news.google.com
Israeli Arabs removed from flight at demand of Jewish passengers The Israeli Arabs constituted a security risk, said Jewish passengers, who prevented the flight from taking off by standing in the aisles.
Saudi and Israeli denials of human rights atrocities carry different weight in the ‘NYT’
Why the Islamic State Is the Minor Leagues of Terror The fate of our Earth and putting threats into perspective for 2016
The American Empire: Murder Inc. The reality of empire rarely reaches the American public.
The new normal in Israel, Violence, racism, fear and no political horizon: that is what Israel’s leadership has to offer.
1.04.2016
Obama pushing thousands of new regulations in Year 8
Saudi further oppression of Shias ‘very likely’
***** This is the first and only insightful look at the future that I have seen. Must read. The end of capitalism has begun.
***** Every liberal’s favorite billionaire is actually cut-throat, not cuddly
UN monitor on Palestine quits over Israel’s entry denial
Oil drives our Israel policy: New government documents reveal a very different history of America and the Middle East
1.03.2016
***** Netanyahu's speech at scene of Tel Aviv shooting: A shameful, fear-spreading horror show The prime minister proved that he has not lost his penchant for hatred and inciting against minorities, for seizing every tragedy to make political hay. It was low, even by his own standards.
***** Ha'aretz. Fascism in Israel? It's up to you I'm sick to death of the Zionism of horseshit, of the incitement which prides itself on hatred and, yes, that 'beautiful face' of fascism. It's up to every one of us. We can stand up now, or be put down later. Like dogs. Bradley Burston
1.02.2016
Donald Trump cites Israel’s illegal separation wall to justify banning Muslims
AJ Muste, "If men are not willing to practice the way of non-violence with the same kind of commitment and recklessness of cost or consequences as they practice the way of war and as Communists work for Communism, clearly non-violence will not work."
"If men are not willing to practice the way of non-violence with the same kind of commitment and recklessness of cost or consequences as they practice the way of war and as Communists work for Communism, clearly non-violence will not work."
I think that the human caused evils of the world are infections. And those infections awaken antibodies, good people that devote their lives to fighting the infection. The question in 2016, and I'm afraid it's not much of a question, is, are there enough antibodies that will come alive fast enough, and devote their lives completely enough? It seems clear to me that the answer is No. But the answer will become clear with each passing day.
I think that the human caused evils of the world are infections. And those infections awaken antibodies, good people that devote their lives to fighting the infection. The question in 2016, and I'm afraid it's not much of a question, is, are there enough antibodies that will come alive fast enough, and devote their lives completely enough? It seems clear to me that the answer is No. But the answer will become clear with each passing day.
1.01.2016
Syrian refugees find a safe haven in Amish country
A woman's brave crusade. Suffragette
To a law officer I have been blessed to know for years; concerning the possibility of police brutality and violence in America today: Our conversation......
To a law officer I have been blessed to know for years; concerning the possibility of police brutality and violence in America today:
Our conversation yesterday got me thinking. And it helped me understand something about myself, maybe for the first time.
I have known about myself that I am a fiercely loyal individual. I'll pay a personal price that most people can't imagine to fulfill my duties within a group with which I am affiliated, and/or responsible to.
But I have never been able to stop there. My ultimate loyalty is never to the group, or even individual, with which I am affiliated or to whom I am responsible. My ultimate loyalty has always been, will always be, to the whole, all of humanity, all of creation. This is not something I sought out. I think I got it from my father. Wherever I got it it has always been part of me.
It has always made me an outsider. And has always made me distrusted, and alien to others.
It is a quality about myself that I deeply value. I think it is what others might call ultimate loyalty to God. I see it as a central quality in those throughout history I revere, Jesus, Martin Luther King jr., Gandhi....
I find this lacking in almost all of my sisters and brothers.
I refused to become a licensed psychologist because I came to see that psychologists are ultimately loyal to themselves, to the group, and not to their clients.
I think this is a central failing in what calls itself the church.
I don't see an institution today, maybe with the exception of Nursing, that isn't plagued by this.
But few places is it as dangerous as in and among men and women in uniform who carry weapons of death. And with few exceptions I see their ultimate loyalty to their group, not to those who they have a duty to serve.
Look around you, at the 2016 world ... and where it is headed. Unless and until things are profoundly turned around, no one with a shred of humanity, compassion, empathy... should bring new children into the world.
Look around you, at the 2016 world ... and where it is headed. Unless and until things are profoundly turned around, no one with a shred of humanity, compassion, empathy... should bring new children into the world.
Israel one of world’s most unpopular countries and it’s getting worse: BBC survey
12.31.2015
I can't wish you happy new year because I've always found such manmade constructs so, well, manmade...........
I can't wish you happy new year because I've always found such manmade constructs so, well, manmade...unnatural, so foreign, artificial... alien... ungodly. My very Dna finds such things repugnant. Oh, I know how to find such things pleasurable, if I try real hard. But I find it so inferior to just trying to live in full solidarity with all.... Creation... Nature... not the little fragments we shatter Nature... Creation... into. Ungodly.