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Humans vs. Birds: Hitchcock in reverse
Mickey Z.
"Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts." - William S. Burroughs, Thanksgiving Prayer
Once, there were many billions of passenger pigeons in America. Then the "settlers" arrived. As one of those settlers wrote in the 1600's: "There are wild pigeons in winter beyond number or imagination, myself have seen three or four hours together flocks in the air, so thick that even have they shadowed the sky from us."
"By anyone’s estimation, it was the most abundant bird on Earth," writes Alan Wiesman in his book, The World Without Us. "Its flocks, 300 miles long and numbering in the billions, spanned horizons fore and aft, actually darkening the sky." As late as April 1873, residents of Saginaw, Michigan witnessed "a continuous stream of passenger pigeons overhead between 7.30 in the morning and 4 o'clock in the afternoon."
Bush tortured children, and America yawns
Mary Shaw
“You have the power to hold your leaders accountable.” – President Obama,
Ghana, July 14, 2009
At an Amnesty International conference a few years ago, I had the honor of attending a talk by Clive Stafford Smith, a British attorney who represents some of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
Smith shared some alarming details about the abuse that his clients received. Perhaps most shocking was Smith's description of cigarette burns and other scars that covered the body of a teenage prisoner. This boy had been taken into custody when he was only 14 years old. And this kid is allegedly not the only child who has been forced to experience the nightmare that is Gitmo.
The Many Layers of NaHalt Shimon beg the question: Where's the money coming from?
eileen fleming
[Occupied East Jerusalem] Last Sunday morning just before sunrise, Israeli forces evicted seventy more Palestinians from their homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
"The events in Sheikh Jarrah garnered international censure from the European Union, the United Nations (UN) and from Britain, which said it was 'appalled' at the move. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday night called the Israeli evictions "deeply regrettable" and she urged "the government of Israel and municipal officials to refrain from such provocative actions." [1]
NO-COST v. HIGH-COST CARE
Re-reported, edited by Carolyn Bennett
“… In this country if you’re poor — you don’t have much of a shot,” says Stan Brock, founder of Remote Area Medical, an organization originally created “to help poor tribes in the former British colony of Guyana, South America,” now devoting “60 percent” of its work to helping residents of the United States of America.
Remote Area Medical (established 1985) is a publicly-supported all-volunteer organization, an airborne relief corps of volunteer doctors, nurses, pilots, veterinarians and support workers participating in expeditions across the world. They work at their own expense and use donated medical supplies, medicines, facilities and vehicles.
A MATHEMATICAL EQUATION FOR WORLD PEACE / E=mc²
Allen L Roland
Einstein's mathematical equation E=mc² has been used to produce the Atomic Bomb and the means to destroy all mankind. I am using the same equation to produce a revelation which could save mankind and lead to world peace:
On the 64th Anniversary of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the world is rapidly edging closer to the likelihood of a nuclear incident . As such, we must become aware that the Ego consciousness of separation, control and domination is being counteracted by a growing Soul consciousness of unity, empowerment and social cooperation ~ which is also the driving force of evolution.
American Intifada - Shaking Off Six Decades of Deceit
By Jeff Gates
During the 1960 Christmas season, Americans flocked to the theaters to see Exodus, a 3-1/2 hour epic featuring romance, handsome freedom fighters and the triumph of Jewish destiny over Arab evil—all set against a Yuletide backdrop of Biblical prophecy as heroic Jews returned to their promised land.
Many moviegoers failed to realize that Exodus was not fact but fiction adapted from a 1958 Leon Uris novel, the biggest bestseller since Gone with the Wind. Directed by Otto Preminger and starring a young Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint, the film featured Lee J. Cobb, Rat Pack member Peter Lawford and Italian crooner Sal Mineo, a teen heartthrob who received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a Jewish émigré.
Then as now, Americans are easily swayed by sympathetic portrayals of an extremist enclave, granted nation-state recognition by Harry Truman. A Christian-Zionist who had famously read the Bible cover-to-cover five times by age 15, Truman was a True Believer in the prophecy that the Messiah could not return until the Israelites returned to their ancestral home.
Gaza’s Kite Runners
By Ramzy Baroud
When seen from a distance, kites in Gaza may look quite ordinary. But while Gazan children, in many respects, are just children, their kites are hardly ordinary. Often adorned by the red, black, green and white of the Palestinian flag, Gazan children’s kites are expressions of defiance, hope and the longing for freedom.
This is hardly a cliché. People living under oppressive rules take every opportunity to express defiance, even through such symbolic ways.
CALL IT AN OBAMA DEPRESSION / DESPITE WALL STREET CELEBRATION
Allen L Roland
President Obama inherited a Bush recession but instead of initiating badly needed banking reforms ~ Obama chose a top down Wall Street bailout which accelerated Main Street's agony to the extent that it is now an Obama Depression:
Anti-Zionists: The New Heretics
By Jeff Gates
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”-- George Santayana
How quickly we forget. With the Inquisition still fresh in memory, America’s Founders embraced democracy as a means to protect liberty from the manipulations of faith. That’s why facts were enshrined at the core of self-governance grounded in the rule of law. The duplicity at the heart of the U.S.-Israeli relationship puts that founding principle at risk.
For seven terrifying centuries, heretics were punished under canon law. In 1633, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was condemned for “grave suspicion of heresy” when he showed that the Sun—not the crown—was the center of the universe despite what the King’s subjects—with help from the Church—had been induced to believe.
A Small First Step In Cleaning Up the West's Middle East Mess
Franklin Lamb
An oil slick from Israel's bombing of Lebanon's oil storage facility at
Jiyeh, 30 kilometers south of Beirut, produced an environmental
disaster for Lebanon's territorial waters and beaches.
Sunday morning on the dunes: Why Hezbollah and Americans joined other Lebanese friends and cleaned up Lebanon’s “Free Gaza Beach”
"Lebanon’s endangered Green Sea Turtles are no less genetically imprinted by nature to return west to the sea than her Palestinian Refugees are imprinted by justice to return south to their homes." Nehme Hamie, Horse Rancher near Baalbek, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon
Ramlet el Baida, Beirut -- It is hard to believe that it has already been three years since July 13 and 15, 2006, when American MK 82 and MK 83, 500 and 1,000 lb. bombs, and four US TOW missiles, gifted to Israel, destroyed Lebanon’s oil storage facility at Jiyeh, 30 kilometers south of Beirut.
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