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Newsworthy
Two
months on, the new battles at ground zero - Wake up anywhere
south of Canal Street, and there's that sickening smell coming
through the window, now a routine part of daily life.
It's
the end of the world... again - A new generation
is getting used to the idea that the planet is not a
safe place. It never was...
You
say you want an evolution - Humans have been the
greatest threat to the eco-system.
Go
green and safe - There are no big terrorist
targets in a truly decentralized renewable energy
system.
Buying
clean air - Can we really trade the air we
breathe?
Laura
Bush: 'Age of self-absorption' is over - "We've been
living in an age of self-absorption .... But the amazing thing is
that on one day it all stopped."
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And
the battle's just begun,
There's many lost, but tell me who has won?...
...And
it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and T.V. reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die
The real battle just begun
To claim the victory Jesus won.
~
U2 Sunday, Bloody Sunday ~
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In-Depth
WAR
ON TERROR
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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF TERROR: Revealed: the bloody pages of
Al-Qaeda's killing manual
The
tenets of terror - A special
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report on the
ideology of jihad and the rise of Islamic militancy
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'Jihad'
Unmasking America's new enemy-
"To kill
Americans and their allies, civilians, and military is an
individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any
country in which it is possible to do it."
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Rays
of Hope
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Where
Is Safety? - How
safe and secure are you today? One of the greatest concerns that we as a nation
and as individuals have in this age is safety and security.
A
time to mourn - It's still not time to carry on
"business as usual"
Technotopia
- We must break
our addiction to the technological system and free
ourselves from the
techno-cocoons.
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Personal
Note
Guess
what? Life is already bouncing back to my normal routine, except in
the area of the news. Not working in New York, not
being a member of our Armed Services, and not having a job in the US Postal
Service, I am more free to be my old self again. There's still the specter of
the unforeseen danger that comes from just being an
American at a time when this qualifies one as a target for kill. For now, my
insular circumstances make that possibility
remote.
What
worries me is how easy it is for me to forget even the worst past tragedy and live
so secludedly, so splendidly in the present's magic moment. The quickness with which loss
is dealt with today is eerie. As life in the fast lane would have it, there
is a blurring of events and a fusion of images as we try to pass through Grief--a one-stoplight burg far off the interstate--doing 65. To idle in
that place for any unnecessary length of time would throw off our tight
schedule since we are in a perpetual hurry to transit to the next town, a
far better destination to make progress.
To
mourn is a lost 'art' in the West. To grieve by wearing black is out of
place, positively old-fashioned to the point of being considered morbid. In
Victorian times the traditional mourning period for a widow ran for two and
a half years. Today, a black veil is a relic. Why would we want to waste
precious time remembering those "no longer with us"?
It's all about establishing value.
What we mourn is what we value outside ourselves. To 'cry' over an extended
time will convey appraised worth. We can't let life become another throwaway
commodity. When there is loss, we need to take precious time and walk the path in
tears.
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Jules Dervaes ~
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