US Sapping the Blood of Increase Unemployment

In this 2 January 1974 file photo, people are shown as they sell blood in an Atlanta laboratory.

Blood donors for pay have increased considerably in recent months as unemployment has risen. Economic battered employers eliminated 598,000 jobs in January 2009, the most since the end of 1974 as said by some economist and has catapulted the unemployment rate to 7.6 percent; which lacks the 2 percent margin that was considered the bench mark for the unemployment rate of the 1930’s Great Depression.

With yet more turbulent economic seas yet ahead, as the US economy continues to plummet with no end in sight and no foreseeable manner of return. Even US President Barack Obama’s underhanded moves to force his latest stimulus package, will not save the US economy from falling deeper into the economic pit.

Democrats Playing Economic Dirty Politics

National Democrats Target LA GOP Congressmen

4 February 2009

New Orleans-National Democrats paid for attack advertisements targeting three Louisiana Republican congressmen, in their home districts, to highlight GOP votes against President Barack Obama's proposal to stimulate the economy.

Joseph Cao of New Orleans, Bill Cassidy of Baton Rouge and John Fleming of Minden are freshmen who voted against the plan last week, as did all of their fellow House Republicans.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's radio ads began airing Tuesday. They say the three "voted against economic recovery." The campaign is part of a national effort: in all, the DCCC bought advertising attacking 28 House Republicans in their home districts, the committee said.

Another Louisiana Republican, U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany of Lafayette, said in a statement that the ad campaign is proof that Democrats are "playing partisan games."

George Mitchell and the end of the two-state solution

" One Country for Everyone living together in Peace."-HRM Deborah

Opinion

4 February 2008
By Sandy Tolan

Los Angeles– On the surface, the most daunting task facing US envoy George Mitchell in his trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories is strengthening the Gaza cease-fire, and helping Gazans rise from the rubble.

But actually, the super diplomat's biggest challenge, as he wraps up his first trip and lays plans for future journeys, lies in coming to terms with a grim and unavoidable fact: The two-state solution is on its deathbed.

Since the Six-Day War of June 1967, the two-state solution, based on the concept of "land for peace," has been the central focus of almost all diplomatic efforts to resolve this tragedy. But because of Israel's unrelenting occupation and settlement project in the West Bank, the long-fought-for two-state solution has finally, tragically, become unworkable. Consider:

•In 1993, when Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat famously shook hands on the White House lawn, there were 109,000 Israelis living in settlements across the West Bank (not including Jerusalem). Today there are 275,000, in more than 230 settlements and strategically placed "outposts" designed to cement a permanent Jewish presence on Palestinian land.

•The biggest Israeli settlement outside East Jerusalem, Ariel, is now home to nearly 20,000 settlers. Their home lies one third of the way inside the West Bank, yet the Israeli "security barrier" veers well inside the occupied territory to wrap Ariel in its embrace. The settlement's leaders proclaim confidently that they are "here to stay," and embark on frequent missions to seek new waves of American Jews to move to the settlement.

•A massive Israeli infrastructure to serve and protect the settlements – military posts, surveillance towers, and settlers-only "bypass roads" that allow Israelis easy access to prayer in Jerusalem or the seaside in Tel Aviv – has cut the West Bank into tiny pieces, fragmenting Palestinian life.

•To maintain separation between West Bank Arabs and West Bank Jews, Israel has erected more than 625 roadblocks, checkpoints, and other barriers – a 70 percent increase since 2005 in a land the size of Delaware, the second-smallest state. Israelis rarely encounter such obstacles, but Palestinians seeking to travel between villages and towns must seek permits, and even then, a short journey can take hours.

•Israel's "suburbs" in Arab East Jerusalem, home now to nearly 200,000 Jews, form a concrete ring, isolating the would-be Palestinian capital from the rest of the West Bank. It is therefore increasingly difficult to imagine how a Palestinian president would govern from a capital that is sealed off from the people of his nation.

These massive changes on the ground – the majority made since the initiation of the Oslo "peace process" – have, after 41 years, rendered the two-state solution all but impossible. Workaround "fixes"– land swaps, consolidated settlements, and networks of roads and bridges to funnel Palestinians under and around the Jewish West Bank presence – have become increasingly hard to imagine. The goal, after all, is a "viable, contiguous" Palestine, not one cut up by the visions of Israeli engineers in order to maintain an everlasting Jewish presence on Arab land.

Adding to the increasing impracticality of a two-state solution is the stubborn presence of the settlers themselves, some of whom have pledged violence should soldiers come to evict them. Their religious fervor, and their formidable numbers – dozens of times that of the Gaza settlers removed in 2005 – suggest such threats are not idle.

Israeli President Shimon Peres warned in London recently that such an "evacuation" could trigger a civil war in Israel. Weakening the two-state option even further has been the rain of Hamas rockets from Gaza, and Israel's outsized response, which have placed basic necessities and reconstruction well above peacemaking on the list of priorities.

Mr. Mitchell would do well to listen to people who are thinking beyond two-state options, and foster an openness and creativity absent from American diplomacy since the beginning of this tragedy 60 years ago.

He will continue to hear from former US negotiators, such as Aaron Miller, author of "The Much Too Promised Land," that two states represent "the least bad alternative." Indeed, some of the nightmare futures – the continuation of the status quo, which is growing inexorably into apartheid; or, expulsion of West Bank Palestinians to Jordan, which is already being seriously discussed among Israelis – are completely unacceptable. So is a one-state solution, to Israelis, which they insist would mean the end of the Jewish state.

Yet it was no less a man than Albert Einstein who believed in "sympathetic cooperation" between "the two great Semitic peoples" and who insisted that "no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." A relative handful of Israelis and Palestinians are beginning to survey the proverbial new ground, considering what Einstein's theories would mean in practice. They might take heart from Einstein's friend Martin Buber, the great philosopher who advocated a binational state of "joint sovereignty," with "complete equality of rights between the two partners," based on "the love of their homeland that the two peoples share."

• Sandy Tolan is author of "The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East." He is associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.

The United States Empire on the Global March

The US Empire is equivalent to the conquests and foreign policies of ancient Roman and Babylon Empires; of old.

The Milk of Human Kindness

Milk of human kindness, is care and compassion for others.
Compassion and care is especially important when you see a person has fallen into troubles and you take out your hand to help them up, help them with the problem in a kind and generous manner. Brush off their clothes and send them on the good path again.

Sometime’s, a simple hug or a kind word when someone is in a time of sorrow or pain can do more good, then anything else and Allah (G-d) is always pleased.

For we should care for all living things upon this earth and relieve all suffering.

Compassion is like a cup filled with love.

Compassion and caring for other’s, makes you feel as though you have wings.

The Housewife and the Brush Salesman

One day a brush salesman came knocking on the housewives door and she not knowing it was a salesman opened the door.

She very politely told the salesman she was not interested in purchasing any of his products, but to force her to buy he put his foot in the door and refuses to remove it until she purchased a brush.

Over and over again, the salesman would come to the housewives door and all the while within the housewives home her husband was a bit angry because of the high cost of the brushes and that one brush in particular had causes a rash and some of her hair had fallen out.

This had been going on for quite some time with the housewife in all the while was trying to come up with a solution, she had gotten treatment and even though her hair was returning; the salesman kept coming back sticking his foot in the door forcing the housewife to make a purchase.

Until one day, the housewife was dressed very nicely with pointed high heel shoes on and was on her way out when; who should pounce on her door that day, the salesman.

As usual he stuck his foot in the door insisting she make a purchase, but today would be different; the housewife not only stomped on his foot, but took the end of her shoe and kicked the salesman in the shin.

After this he came no more to the door to bother her. -HRM Deborah

Commentary:

For over a hundred and nine years, Palestine (the Housewife) has been subjected to a very harsh and often times, violent salesman known as the United States. They caused the hundred and eight year war that is now over, but yet they continue to harass, dictate and undermine policy in a foreign government and country which should not be allowed in any manner and collaborate with known terrorist organization within the country to keep the unrest fueled so they can continue bullying the people of the country.

The United States, also does the same to the majority of the countries in the Middle East, if they stopped the bullying tyrannical tactic’s the unrest in the Middle East, as well as Palestine; would be not only resolved, but after the red, white and blue dust cleared; countries would be in happy harmony and with the utmost; peace.