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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.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

25 Feb - Refined Realities

US Military DeathsImage by Jayel Aheram via Flickr

The Dark Underbelly of Occupation: Iraq

"Look around," the drill sergeant said. "In a few years, or even a few months, several of you will be dead. Some of you will be severely wounded or so badly mutilated that your own mother can't stand the sight of you. And for the real unlucky ones, you will come home so emotionally disfigured that you wish you had died over there."

"It was Week 7 of basic training ... eighteen years old and I was preparing myself to die," said Michael Anthony in "Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception and Dishonor in Iraq." The book is more than a simple memoir about a difficult experience. It is an insider's scathing testimony of an ongoing illegal and unethical military action in a distant, once-sovereign state, by the US. Perhaps, this fresh account will raise some outcry over an issue that has all but dropped out of the American public's radar. 

The Silent War: Israel's Blockade of Gaza
http://current.com/items/92210812_the-silent-war-israels-blockade-of-gaza.htm?xid=45

Israeli Racism & Hate?
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Noted :
A pamphlet of prominent thinkers exploring key questions about ethics today
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/20/citizen-ethics-time-of-crisis

More from Citizen ethics


http://books.scoop.co.nz/2010/02/24/in-defence-of-brainwashing
It is unusual for the details of an academic course to become a hot topic of conversation in the blogopshere, but over the last week or so a paper offered by Mohsen al Attar at the University of Auckland’s Law School has engaged the attention, if not the intellects, of scores of commenters at New Zealand’s most popular blog.
After Kiwiblog proprietor David Farrar posted a link to the outline of Mohsen’s paper, which is called ‘Colonialism to Golobalisation’, comments boxes quickly filled with denunciations of the propagandists for communism, political correctness, civil unions, and similar abominations who supposedly dominate Kiwi campuses.


http://books.scoop.co.nz/2010/02/03/kvetcher-in-the-rye


http://current.com/items/92210074_how-to-create-18-million-jobs-part-2.htm?xid=45

During recessions unstable economies leave banks scared to lend, and businesses scared to borrow. Fear of lending leads banks to raise their interest rates so that they don't lose money on their loans in case of loan failures. This makes it even more difficult for businesses to borrow.

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