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I forget why I started doing this
Writing this
Painting this
Like a sentence so long
That the end does not recall
A need for speaking

Any community must have
Spiritual leadership
Not denominational
Reflecting the innocence of a child
Yet aware of the manipulations of
Acquisitive self-interest.

A spiritual leader
Does not lead the life of a saint
But requires a conscience
To intuitively reject the bad

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Why the wireless telecom industry can't admit irradiation causes health problems, like brain tumors:
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Last year, I was asked to edit a translation of a scientific report about effects of cell phone radiation in studies at a research institute in Russia. European nations have taken a cautious approach. To better understand the dangers of cell phone radiation, I read another book by Dr. George Carlo, an epidemiologist who has written extensively about the subject. I now use a headset whenever I use the wireless phone, and I cringe when I see anyone holding a cell phone against his or her skull.

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We are villagers but there are no villages.

Fred Engels died last week, at the age of 97. Fred was the Nazi SS officer who was tried for overseeing a massacre of Italian villagers in 1944. In his defense he told the court that he didn’t order the murders or do the shooting—-his job was to select the victims from a jail that the fascists had been using to hold people they didn’t like or suspected of sedition, sort of like Guantanamo Bay...

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Many people are commenting on the Moslem cartoon fiasco. Those who are not attached to a position are trying to understand how such a gross incompatibility of culture view can be accommodated without constant strife.

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Why the wireless telecom industry can't admit irradiation causes health problems, like brain tumors.

Last year, I was asked to edit a translation of a technical book about effects of cell phone radiation demonstrated in studies conducted by scientists at a research institute in Russia. Russia and European nations have taken a conservative approach. After reading these studies, I read another book by Dr. George Carlo, an epidemiologist who has written extensively about the subject. I now use a headset when I use the phone, and I cringe when I see anyone holding a cell phone against his or her skull.

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Last October, I was asked to edit a translation of a technical book about effects of cell phone radiation demonstrated in studies conducted by scientists at a research institute in Russia. Russia and European nations have taken a conservative approach. After reading these studies, I read another book by Dr. George Carlo, an epidemiologist who has written extensively about the subject. I now use a headset when I use the phone, and I cringe when I see anyone holding a cell phone against his or her skull.

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The posting re Gloablization missed a zero. The one after the number 400. It should be 4000, or perhaps 14,000. We humans have a tendency to think that the "world" is the world limited by our knowledge and imagination. Four thousand years ago, the world for Egyptians, into which they navigated to trade to bring home slaves and products, was as complete a picture as the "global" world we now imagine. This generation needs to get over itself--all of the artifacts of civilization, including GATT, NAFTA, the UN and Washington, D.C., are but interim structures that will not even be remembered in 400 years, let along 4000. What will remain, if we are lucky are the articulate works of artists and designers and writers challenging the universe with inspired consciousness. The rest is all rationalization for systems of hierarchy that benefit whatever whoevers are managing things for either personal or organizational hegemony. Things haven't changed in 25,000 years that we know of human existence. What is important, thus, are your principles. What you stand for, In your community. With your vote, Your courage and commitment to life in your interactions and your speech and what you write.

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It boils down to authenticity, which is why people say, "write about what you know best". If you're over 40, and have been awake part of that time, that could be yourself, but not necessarily. Another way to say it, is, it's not how well you write, but what you're writing about that people are interested in. If the story you're telling has the ring of truth about it, and your writing doesn't distract, that's getting the job done, and if your style is like no other's, then that's just proof of the pudding. Sometimes an editor can help you improve your writing style, but only if the result is that the story is revealed more effectively, and that can mean a lot of different things, so don't be too narrow minded. If you tell it like it is to your own community, someone is going to let you know when your full of hot air, and when you hit the bull's eye, and when got the ass instead

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My father produced four litters that I'm aware of. I've only met a handful. I didn't meet him until I was 35, and it was an unnerving situation for me. At a spaghetti restaurant in Belmont California. What sticks in my mind about that meeting is his hands. They were my hands, 35 years older. And some of his gestures, the way he spaces out. Some of the things that are inherited are not what you'd expect. I could not escape the resentment I held for him. I could not escape my anger. It was confusing. I felt no love and I didn't want to either. I did not know why I wanted to meet him in the first place, except to say, fuck you, too. Which I didn't because it would have been so out of place. The person I was angry with wasn't him--it was a figment of my imagination. The good that came out of it was that I acknowledged my profound respect and love for my stepfather, who had stepped up to the plate, and never, ever let me down. Not once. Not ever. He gave me everything he could and regretted that he could not give me the one thing that I was so desparate for because I did not let him.

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We move so quickly through our lives, and the problem is that we don't notice this until we're well into our 60s. And then, we notice it because the expanding rate of population growth results in there being more people around you who have been around for less and less time. In other words, the benefit of the experience gained by living grows proportionately less respected as the rate of population growth expands.

The effect of this is made worse by the influence of commercial media. It is easier to exploit a market that is less knowledgeable and more easily conned, i.e., cupidic, so commercial media has become increasingly more focused on selling products and services that glorify youth. Since sex and romance are such ubiquitously limbic motivators, commercials for products that promise enhancements for people who prefer to be seen as sexy, young and successful, rather than knowledgeable dominate the airwaves. Since producers and sellers want to reach the market with these values, they hire people for whom the natural idiom is the most recently evolved—people with less experience show up in the workforce involved with the production of media, publications of news and information, and on the Internet.

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I am in no sense a Jew
when I am with God
but when you sit at my table
or I at yours, there are obligations...

what kind of Jew am I?
that loves to dance
what kind of Jew am I?
that loves romance

each day when I awaken
I take you in my arms;
in your eyes I see reflected
what kind of Jew am I...

by birth, my mother tells me,
I am a Jew
but what this denomi-
nation means is hardly clear to me,

nor does it clear this up
when in the synagogue
old men pass with sour faces
clutching to their breasts the sacred scrolls...

some common features
I see in faces-a gesture perhaps

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Some guy bought a new fridge for his house. To get rid of his old fridge, he put it in his front yard and hung a sign on it saying: "Free to good home....You want it, you take it". For three days the fridge sat there without even one person looking twice at it. He eventually decided that people were too un-trusting of this deal. It looked too good to be true, so he changed the sign to read: "Fridge for sale $50". The next day someone stole it. Caution! These people Vote

While looking at a house, my brother asked the real estate agent which direction was North because, he explained, he didn't want the sun waking him up every morning. She asked, "Does the sun rise in the North?" When my brother explained that the sun rises in the East, (and has for sometime), she shook her head and said, "Oh, I don't keep up with that stuff"...She ALSO votes!

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Judge Jones said the plaintiffs were just applying the label, “intelligent design� to the same old Christian fundamentalist view of creation.

Dover, Pennsylvania is not a bunch of fundamentalist baby boomers. They dumped the dogma of Creationism for reasons not addressed by Judge Jones. Scientism is just like any other ism. The operating principle is that public education in America is a brainwashing process and the people of Dover simply wanted the brains of their kids washed with a Christian myth as well as a scientific myth.

The question of whether children should be indoctrinated rather than educated is of greater concern and it never came up. In a democracy, education is supposed to prepare people to think for themselves. To do this requires that they recognize the interim quality of hypotheses. Nothing can be known. All knowledge is hypothetical.

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During the “Cuban Missile Crisis� President John Kennedy called the hand of Soviet leaders, demonstrating that the USSR was not ready to rain nuclear havoc on American cities—that the Soviet leaders were fearful that we Americans are crazy enough to start a nuclear holocaust. Thank god, GW Bush and his cretin cronies weren't in the White House at the time--what would remain of us would be hiding in bunkers.

Following JFK's confrontation with the USSR, which backed down, the Cold War unraveled. The arms race had been eating up the American economy since the end of WWII, using the national budget for “defense� rather than for education, medicine and social progress.

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This is written in response to an article (copied below) by Jack Kelley of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, in which he talks about evidence presented in a recent German TV documentary related to the assassination of Jack Kennedy.

(Dear Mr. Kelley,)

A King was killed and nothing was done about it. The effect of this deepened the sense that nothing makes a difference, which made politics into a cess pool of quid pro quo corruption. As a nation, we lost hope, which gave us a future shaped by an attitude of, "so what?". We lost our belief that America was a place where the ideals of justice and equality under the law are respected and defended.

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