Climate change deniers need to dust off their brains - grin.

Have humans contributed to the growth of deserts? Yep, plenty of proof there even in USA - remember Dust Bowl? What about diseases that could be carried to us from sand/dust storms in Asia and Sahara? Read on and find out for yourself - hack, wheeze, ack - that dust has a garlic flavor - must be Chinese - smile.

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Atmospheric Movement of Microorganisms in Clouds of Desert Dust and Implications for Human Health

Billions of tons of desert dust move through the atmosphere each year. The primary source regions, which include the Sahara and Sahel regions of North Africa and the Gobi and Takla Makan regions of Asia, are capable of dispersing significant quantities of desert dust across the traditionally viewed oceanic barriers.

Asian dust storms can take from 7 to 9 days to cross the Pacific Ocean. Dust storms moving off the west coast of Africa can take from 3 to 5 days to reach the Caribbean and Americas.

During an African dust event that occurred from 25 to 28 July 2005

These data demonstrate the ability of dust storms to impact air quality at significant distances from their sources (Tampa Bay is >6,500 km west of the coast of North Africa).Read more at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

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Planet and People Killing Lessons from Lilly and Monsanto

This article notes how Eli Lilly give women cancer and treats it as well. Monsanto develops (GM) seeds that will love and depend upon its Round Up pesticide and probably spawn a reaction by the natural system akin to cancer and then Monsanto can develop an even stronger pesticide that will give people and the planet cancer at the same time. Look for a partnering strategy between the two.

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Breast Cancer Action Asks You To Be The Billboard

Eli Lilly has taken pinkwashing to a whole new level. By adding rBGH to the products they sell, Eli Lilly has completed its cancer profit circle: it creates cancer with rBGH, it sells cancer treatment drugs like Gemzar, and it sells a drug, Evista, to reduce the risk of breast cancer in women at high risk of the disease. Eli Lilly’s cancer drugs made $2,683,000,000 for the company in 2008. Its potentially carcinogenic dairy hormone made millions of dollars in the same year. Eli Lilly is milking cancer. Read more at www.feministpeacenetwork.org

 

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Life is - Enjoy it says Afghan poet

Amazing the poetry that can be written in the midst of war.

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Never be sad Unhappy Tired of your life Always try and try and try Life has ups and downs Everyone knows it Be happy Work hard And see the results come clear Enjoy your life Life is short Life is good Life is sweet It is very sweet By Sharefa Read more at www.awwproject.org

 

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Beware of "Corporate" Petitions at "Respected" Petition sites

This one looks good until you ask yourself - Does the American Medical Association really care about patient's rights or? (AMA - Get Involved

Encourage your patients to enter the health care debate by joining the AMA's Patients' Action Network. As a member, your patients can make a difference and ...

www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/advocacy/get-involved.shtml )



Recently, another "action" group representing for-profit colleges circulated a similar kind of petition looking good but trying to protect their ability to convince adult students still eligible for student loans that their degree is a doorway to a new future but really is up to $40,000 for an Associate of Arts degree. Check the prices of community colleges - these private schools would have to be really outstanding at that price. At two-year colleges, the average cost for tuition and fees is $2,713. (http://www.collegeboard.com/student/pay/add-it-up/4494.html)

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Congress Threatens Veteran Health Care

Sponsored by: AMA Patients' Action Network Read more at www.thepetitionsite.com

 

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I was looking for fishes and all you gave me was a hand full of water

I was looking for fishes and all you gave me was a hand full of water,
originally uploaded by Linnea Strid.

Linnea Strid is some kind of artist! Meaning she's great! The relationship between people, dogs and water is simple and complext - she's captured all that in this paining - thanks!

Ten (10) Seconds to respond to phone call ending marriage

Ten seconds is just enough time to muster the courage and get hurt, mad and ready to move on... How would you repond?

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10 Seconds

"I've filed for divorce, you have 10 seconds to say something before I hang up."

10 seconds to state how I felt about now being a single parent, to vocalize my thoughts, my shattered dreams, my no more tomorrows, my darkened present, my broken heart, my violated trust, my ridiculed yesterdays, my abandoned todays...Read more at imissedbeingme.blogspot.com

 

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Give Peace a Chance - today!

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BlogBlast for Peace for All Species

Max The Quilt Cat Read more at www.maxthequiltcat.com

 

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Peace Blogblast 2010

It's a gas, gas, gas! Give Peace a Chance!

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Welcome to Blog Blast For Peace 2010. It’s my third time to join this cause and I’m so proud to be a part of it. Here’s a prayer poem about PEACE that I want to share.

Welcome to Blog Blast For Peace 2010. It’s my third time to join this cause and I’m so proud to be a part of it. Here’s a prayer poem about PEACE that I want to share. Read more at wcstock.net

 

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Blogblast 2010_0001.wmv

Peace Blog 2010 - Give Peace a Chance

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My Photos - Peace Blog, 2010

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iSurgeon: Wow! Auto-pancreas transplant

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Look no hands: Robots perform delicate pancreas transplant in amazing world first

Doctors have carried out the world's first robotically-assisted pancreatic transplant on a mother-of-two in Italy.The team from Pisa Hospital performed the operation on a 43-year-old woman who had suffered from type one diabetes for 19 years and had already had a kidney transplant.Read more at current.com

 

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START - The treaty to make the world safer

It is time for the Senate to ratify it!

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Treaty Makes America More Secure, Has Broad Support, and Is Urgently Needed The New START Treaty Makes America More Secure. Significantly reducing – by nearly 700 – the limit on the number of strategic nuclear weapons that Russia can deploy; allowing us to keep a close eye on the remaining ones; building stability, predictability, and transparency for the two countries with 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons; and strengthening America’s fight against nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists and rogue states.Read more at www.state.gov

 

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Not your everyday bike race even in Northeast!

Rough, tumble and ET call home, your Avatar is calling you Halloween costumed bike race - fun.

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Photos from a costumed Cross Crusade Read more at bikeportland.org

This past weekend, the Cross Crusade headed to Astoria for a double-header of racing and Halloween fun. I wasn't able to make it up there this year, but I wanted to share some of the hilarious costumes and scenes from the event.

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The Polar Bears: aka John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance

Cool and timely!

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Wait A Minute! Do I Hear Bears Singing? So I'm sitting here minding my own business this Sunday afternoon when suddenly I hear....Lennon? Yes. It was definitely Lennon. I looked up to see a team of polar bears, one wearing sunglasses, singing "Give Peace A Chance" on YouTube!  It was incredible. They were in tune and everything!

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Private Prison Profit Reason for Arizona Illegal Alien Law

The current Governor has really close ties to private prison companies. What better way to up profits than by putting more people in detention. As usual - follow the money and you will find the stink. Race bait voters so you can get money from filling up private jails that are paid with your tax dollars!

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Tucson Hearing Puts Spotlight on Private Prisons in Arizona

Tucson Hearing Puts Spotlight on Private Prisons in Arizona

From Mike Wilson of the Tohono O’odham Nation to Joe Glen of the Maricopa & Pima Juvenile Corrections Associations, the theme was the same: Companies such as Corrections Corporation of America, Management Training Corporation, and the GEO group consistently focus on profit over safety and rehabilitation of those who are incarcerated in their facilities. Coming directly on the heels of the Tucson Hearing was a scathing report from National Public Radio exposing the influence that private prison corporations had in the development of Arizona’s controversial immigration law, SB1070. Corrections Corporation of America, which holds contracts with the federal government to incarcerate immigrants, was a key player in creating a law that would increase the number of immigrants in detention, thus representing the potential for tremendous corporate profits. The report describes how a shadowy organization called ALEC provided opportunities for corporations to meet with state legislators to draft model legislation, which those legislators later took back to their states.Read more at bsnorrell.blogspot.com

 

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Intel to California workers - who needs you! Opens biggest plant in Vietnam.

Shame and loyalty to California workers, voters, consumer - naw! Loyalty does not compute for Intel!

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Intel opens its biggest plant

Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini speaks during a news conference in Taipei. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

HANOI - US-BASED chip maker Intel on Friday opened in Vietnam US$1 billion (S$1.3 billion) assembly and test facility billed as the company's biggest. Read more at www.straitstimes.com

 

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Fear - the dark corner in this Afghan woman's mind and heart

Let's hope her brave poetry helps her and does not end up costing her, her life - as it could in her land.

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Whenever… Whenever the door of my heart begins to open Something closes it with fear. Whenever I try to fly free and high Something covers my wings before I can try. Whenever it is time to speak up Something seizes my words. Whenever the past is about to be forgotten Something reminds me of it over and over. Whenever I can take a step forward Something pulls me in reverse. Whenever I can try a new endeavor Something draws me back to the old. Whenever I have a new idea Something destroys it to the marrow. Whenever my accomplishments blossom Something keeps them captured. Whenever more can be written Something prevents me to continue. Whenever I say enough is enough Something says it will never be enough. When will I find out what this Something is? by Meena Z.

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Oops! Covered up admission of Alaska Senate candidate lies uncovered

Not a good time for the truth to come out for him but maybe good for Alaska - but who knows; they may want to elect a good liar - it is their call.

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Revelations that Joe Miller altered files on colleagues' computers put safe Republican seat in jeopardy

Miller, in personnel files released late on Tuesday, admitted lying about the computer scandal.

In a memo at the time to his then boss, another lawyer, Rene Broker, Miller said: "I lied about accessing all of the computers. I then admitted about accessing the computers, but lied about what I was doing. Finally, I admitted what I did."Read more at www.guardian.co.uk

 

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Some days, an Afghan woman tells us, even your skin does not fit right

Poems are like the blues - they let you get it all out and at the same time share it with others who feel the same and let them release their hurt as well. Well done.

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No One… No one knows how it feels to be so sad No one knows how it hurts to live so alone To walk on a dark path No one sees when your heart is broken No one cares if you have pain When your dreams are taken No one takes your hand when you are fallen No one knows how you are exhausted of living or listens if you cry, “the world is selfish!” No one loves a mad girl No one wants a sad girl No one cares if the cruelty doesn’t finish By Shafiqa

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Nevada's Angle Takes Lessons from the Racist George Wallace of Old.

She'll not be outdone, it seems, in slamming Latinos and anyone she can smear for thinking they are as human as Anglos.

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Latest political ad by Nev. GOP Angle slanders all Latinos -- she should be sued!

One of the highly objectionable lines in the ad says that "waves of illegal aliens are streaming across our border joining violent gangs and forcing families to live in fear." Every picture of these "illegal aliens" is one showing Latino youth. The family living in fear is Anglo.

The insinuations and implications made in this ad are not just highly insulting -- they're slanderous.

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