Bill Mahr’s documentary about the excesses and idiocies of organized religion was not exhaustive. The Vatican recently excommunicated the Mother and Doctors of a 9 year old who had been raped and received an abortion. The doctors "fear[ed] that the 80-pound girl would not survive a full-term pregnancy". But that was apparently not enough suffering [...]
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Herd Mentality on Cap and Trade
Published under Economics, Entrepreneurship and Management, Environment, Global Mar 02, 2009Thank goodness Ben Stein is an independent thinker who can elucidate why exuberant enthusiasm over a cap-and-trade system is misguided and dangerous. I am afraid we are condemned to this inefficient dreamed artifice, whereas straight taxation of emissions would be far more effective. February 22, 2009 Everybody’s Business The Dangers of ‘Cap and Trade’ By [...]
Boston Globe: OneVoice for Two States Now More than Ever
Published under Israel, Media and Alternative Media, Mideast Negotiations, OneVoice Movement, Palestine, United States Mar 01, 2009James F. Smith of the Boston Globe just did a story about a OneVoice Tour through New England that captured the essence of OneVoice rather well. It also highlighted the importance of keeping the message and movement alive, now more than ever. Roi Assaf of OneVoice Israel (left) and Nisreen Abdallah of OneVoice Palestine [...]
Tony Blair visits with OneVoice Israeli and Palestinian Youth leaders
Published under Israel, Leadership, Mideast Negotiations, OneVoice Movement, Palestine, United Kingdom Feb 22, 2009Paul McCartney on The View praised OneVoice
Published under Israel, Mideast Negotiations, Music, OneVoice Movement, Palestine, United Kingdom, United States Feb 22, 2009Peaceful baby
Published under Family, Gaza, Global, Health, Introspection, Iran, Israel, Latin America, Leadership, Lebanon, Life, Mexico, Middle East, Mideast Negotiations, New York City, OneVoice Movement, Palestine, PeaceWorks Business, PeaceWorks Foundation, Philanthropy, United States Jan 26, 2009His face is so calm Full of love and tranquility How blessed we are to have warm shelter and peace for him. How hard and how painful for the millions upon millions who lack peace, or water or heat, who may not have bread or milk to give their children. How hard and how painful [...]
Three Truths for Mideast Peace
Published under Introspection, Israel, Leadership, Middle East, Mideast Negotiations, OneVoice Movement, Palestine, United States Jan 26, 2009War and horror tend to shake us out of complacency, to force us all to confront ugly realities and say what needs to be said, poignantly, once and for all, even if it is not pretty and requires nuance in an otherwise partisan puddle. And so The New York Times writers who have been following [...]
The Obama Money Machine
Published under Advertising (good vs misleading), Democracy and Freedom (or lack of), United States Jan 17, 2009I was very proud to support Obama’s Presidential campaign from the primaries all the way to his historic victory. And like most of the nation and the world, I have high hopes for his leadership and administration. It is from this vantage point that I am so enormously turned off by all the emails I [...]
Susan Collin Marks, a dear friend and John Marks’ partner at Search for Common Ground, sent a beautiful note to baby Roman when he was born last December (which also explains why I have not gotten a chance to blog for a while – and may have less in the future also). It is worth [...]
Want to understand how messed up our financial system is?
Published under Economics, United States Jan 05, 2009This gripping article from Michael Lewis (Liars’ Poker) and David Einhorn is a must-read: THE END OF THE FINANCIAL WORLD AS WE KNOW IT January 4, 2009 Op-Ed Contributors, NYT The End of the Financial World as We Know It By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN AMERICANS enter the New Year in a strange new [...]