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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

8 Sept - QuickPost

The Elders' view of the Middle East
Gaza, which is now a walled-in ghetto inhabited by 1.6 million Palestinians, 1.1 million of whom are refugees from Israel and the West Bank and receive basic humanitarian assistance from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Israel prevents any cement, lumber, seeds, fertilizer and hundreds of other needed materials from entering through Gaza's gates. Some additional goods from Egypt reach Gaza through underground tunnels. Gazans cannot produce their own food nor repair schools, hospitals, business establishments or the 50,000 homes that were destroyed or heavily damaged by Israel's assault last January.

We found a growing sense of concern and despair among those who observe, as we did, that settlement expansion is continuing apace, rapidly encroaching into Palestinian villages, hilltops, grazing lands, farming areas and olive groves. There are more than 200 of these settlements in the West Bank.

An even more disturbing expansion is taking place in Palestinian East Jerusalem. Three months ago I visited a family who had lived for four generations in their small, recently condemned home. They were laboring to destroy it themselves to avoid much higher costs if Israeli contractors carried out the demolition order. On Aug. 27, we Elders took a gift of food to 18 members of the Hanoun family, recently evicted from their home of 65 years. The Hanouns, including six children, are living on the street, while Israeli settlers have moved into their confiscated dwelling.
full article please visit The Washington Post.
http://imeu.net/news/article0017366.shtml

Eight years after 9/11 - photos

economic collapse is a planned demolition leading to WAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVNX0BJsW4c

Proposed South Texas Project Reactors Pose Increased Water Use and Radioactive Contamination Risks
http://texasvox.org/2009/09/01/proposed-south-texas-project-reactors-pose-increased-water-use-and-radioactive-contamination-risks

I saw a definite 'Heads-Up' post on healthcare comparisons at They Gave Us a Republic and an even better
Real Canadians Talking Real Health Care Sept 2
drinking liberally in new milford
http://drinkliberal.blogspot.com
Republicans Sacrifice Chickens For Healthcare
Murphy Calls On Congress To Walk The Healthcare Walk
77% of Americans support having the choice between a public option and private insurance.

For those politicians and media stenographers that have a problem with reading comprehension I took a moment to annotate this Survey USA graphic. There is your "Left of the Left" in RED and BLUE...





The black ink in the ledgers of insurance corporations is being balanced by the red blood of Americans.


Right now about 22,000 Americans die every year because they are under or uninsured. This has got to stop.

Dr Johns Hiding Place

Ubuntu - messing around...
Adios Nonino - my weekend music
1859 - When the Sun went wild
It is 150 years ago that the 'Carrington Event" took place. An exceptional solar explosion hurling some of its mass towards the Earth. Just before noon on September 1, 1859, the British amateur-astronomers Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson independently noticed a bright white cloud of light that had separated from the Sun's surface. The next day an immense magnetic storm developed on Earth that disturbed telegraph connections, setting telegraph paper on fire, becoming visible as a beautiful aurora that could be seen from Cuba and Venezuela. Little did one know those years about the Sun-Earth relation. Scientists looked astonished to their magnetometers sometimes peaking outside preset ranges. It almost took a week before the event was over and things went on as usual. What would a new 'Carrington Event' mean for our technological world?
"One sees clearly only with the heart..."it's the journey through life, not the destination, that's for us so important!
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