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12.27.2011

As deadly as Coal: Green groups find success fighting shale oil boom Chicago Tribune

Analysis: Green groups find success fighting shale oil boom

Chicago Tribune - ‎1 hour ago‎
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A resurgent green movement is launching a multi-pronged counter-attack against the shale oil and gas boom in the United States that could slow, though ultimately not stop, development.
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Netanyahu is fanning the flames of religious incitement Haaretz

Netanyahu is fanning the flames of religious incitement

Haaretz - ‎12 hours ago‎
By Sefi Rachlevsky Benjamin Netanyahu is not guilty. He learned that trick the first time he was elected. After he took part in orchestrating the rallies inciting against Yitzhak Rabin ("With blood and fire we will expel Rabin" ), along came the ...

Obama, Clinton top most-admired lists for 2011 USA TODAY

Connecticut Christmas Fire: Grandfather Died Trying to Save Granddaughter ABC News

'As long as there is breath, Life, Love fights for the body.' SL

'Joey, my near total isolation, a gift immense, and crucial.' SL

'EVERYTHING I know (1), do, am, Live By... HERE.' SL

Obama Wins Most Debt Demand Since Before George HW Bush BusinessWeek

Obama Wins Most Debt Demand Since Before George HW Bush

BusinessWeek -
27 (Bloomberg) -- The US government received record demand for its bonds in 2011, pushing longer-maturity Treasuries to their best performance since 1995 in a sign that President Barack Obama may have little difficulty financing a fourth consecutive ...

Romney has company in telling lies about Obama Syracuse.com

Romney has company in telling lies about Obama

Syracuse.com (blog) -
... for syndicated columnist Paul Krugman's Christmas Eve article, “Now, the post-truth presidential race,” which was about the inaccuracies, untruths and downright lies Republican candidate Mitt Romney has been uttering about President Barack Obama.

12.26.2011

Obama's approval numbers climb in to positive territory The Hill

Obama's approval numbers climb in to positive territory

The Hill (blog) -
By Jamie Klatell - 12/26/11 07:07 PM ET More people approve of the job President Obama is doing than disapprove, according to Gallup's numbers.

If You Care About Keystone and Climate Change, Occupy Exxon


Hmmmm. The idea is good, but ideas are worthless, action, ACTION is everything­. "Example is not the major thing in influencin­g people; it is the only thing," Albert Schweitzer­. If you ACT on this, it will be one of the first and only rays of hope we've seen.
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NASA: Climate Change May Flip 40% of Earth’s Major Ecosystems This Century

The Debunking Handbook Part 1: The First Myth About Debunking

Newly released court documents cast doubt on Gingrich version of ... ‎ CNN

Newly released court documents cast doubt on Gingrich version of ...


CNN - 29 minutes ago
By Alan Duke, CNN Former Speaker Newt Gingrich, a major candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, has been married three times. ...
Blog: The Gingrich divorce papersPolitico (blog)
Doubt Cast On Newt's Version Of DivorceKTVZ

Hunger Strike Terminated - 'Have you ever ridden a roller coaster, the first time?'' SL

Hunger Strike Terminated - 'Have I Fundamentally lacked Humility.?' SL

Hunger Strike Terminated - 'Did I recreate Jesus in my own image?'' SL

Hunger Strike Terminated - 'Correction - '...Realize you will barely make any difference at all.'' SL

Ever since I read it about 13 years ago, this anonymous, ancient Buddhist quote has meant a great deal to me: 

"Live as though the entire world depends on what you do, and realize that what you do will probably make no difference at all."  But it is in error.  More correctly:

""Live as though the entire world depends on what you do, and realize that what you do will HARDLY make any difference at all." 

Maybe I can't communicate the difference in any way that has meaning for another, but here's my attempt.  Not that the first iteration gave me the idea that I one might massively change the world - almost everything in our culture gave me that, early in my years.  But this quote pretty uniquely captured that notion.  ALL EVIDENCE suggests that this is false.  All evidence suggests that, as no one ever has, NO ONE EVER HAS MASSIVELY IMPACTED HUMANITY, no one ever has.  Start, what about Jesus - he has billions of followers?  No, he doesn't.  Billions have him on their lips, but not one in a million of those have him on their Heart, poor things.  Jesus tried to give us back God (Good), and were he standing among us today he would say that he totally and entirely, and completely failed in doing so.  Gandhi, King, Camara, Romero....

Slightly aside the point, but only slightly - I've long revered Teresa of Calcutta, but with a significant reservation - I recall her saying to the effect that - 'Everybody knows that no one should spend time on politics.'  Huh, I thought?  But this morning I'm thinking she said, what I'm maybe figuring out now.  What cell in the body, which yeast, which levin devotes it's moments of life to exhorting, leading, attempting to influence all the others?  None.  EXCEPT THROUGH ITS OWN, HUMBLE, PLODDING EXAMPLE.  This may be true of how Teresa lived, and Romero, and Camara, and Bonhoeffer, and, well, Jesus.  Has it been true of SL?  I'm not sure, but I'm more than ever suspecting, 'no;' that I've lacked that level of Humility, Reality.

A Christ-mass miracle? South Korea ex-first lady Lee Hee-ho meets Kim Jong-un BBC News

South Korea ex-first lady Lee Hee-ho meets Kim Jong-un

BBC News - ‎47 minutes ago‎
South Korea's former First Lady Lee Hee-ho has met the North's designated new leader Kim Jong-un during a trip to Pyongyang, Seoul officials say.