Libertas Continued

Just to keep up to date on the cost of the War on Iraq. As of today there have been 3,157 U.S. Soldiers killed in Iraq. Here are some links that will give you complete access to the updated numbers. Graphic Chart of War Collision Casualty Count Why we went, officially. What they will not show you.

300,000,000 people X $1,000 = $300 Billion / year = War On IRAQ Four doctor visits, and two dental checkups per year, one physical, a couple of X-rays, an eye exam, prescription drugs at reasonable prices, and catastrophic emergency insurance with a high ($5000) deductible. Total cost of basic health care for one person is about $1000/year. The most difficult thing most growing small businesses deal with is healthcare costs. Students can't study when they are sick. Children are vulnerable. We have a basic responsibility to take care of each other. If more people are healthy, we have more workers, working harder, longer. More income, more tax revenue, happy people with more potential live longer. There are 300 Million Americans. Total cost of a U.S. national single payer health care plan is $300 Billion per year, or about the same as the war on Iraq. Enough said. (note: those who already have health insurance pay about $300 Billion per year already. They would save about half of tha

Director, Godfrey Reggio Cinematography by Ron Fricke Score by Philip Glass From the Hopi word meaning 1 crazy life 2 life in turmoil 3 life out of balance 4 life disintegrating 5 a state of life that calls for another way of living Translation of the Hopi Prophecies sung in the film. "If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster." "Near the Day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky." "A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans." Art is about the journey, not a destination. Meditate, pray, discipline your mind. Rats race a maze, motivated by basic need. Have we lost control of our technology, our lives? Are we looking at a cityscape or a circuit board? Corporate Religion is feeding our unquestioned life. Our language is in a state of vast humiliation. It no longer describes the world in which we live. Everything that they call normal, we call a

Nominated for 2006 Academy Award for Best Documentary Al Gore nominated for Nobel Peace Prize. An Inconvenient Truth - By Al Gore "There is a very well funded, unethical, corporate campaign that is putting misinformation into the minds of the public, and this really threatens democracy." - Al Gore, on NPR's Fresh Air From the first picture of the Earth in space in 1968, a few enlightened profits have supported the change in consciousness that calls for us to look at the world as an island in space, a singe unit, fragile and alone. Seeing such an image, we must take the view that the arbitrary nations and divisions of the Earth are meaningless in the overall scheme of life's existence in the universe. "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain Light from the sun warms the Earth, and radiates back out into space. Carbon in the atmosphere holds the long wave-length infrared ra

Historically Essential Viewing Every time I think I've seen everything, I watch another of these Award Winning War Documentaries, and find I can not sleep through the night. "For three weeks in October 2003, against the backdrop of increasingly violent resistance to the U.S. occupation of Iraq, the award winning web-based Guerrilla News Network sent a crew to document everyday life for Iraqis and American soldiers. Dramatic Eyewitness accounts and candid commentary are interweaved with the heart-wrenching story of a former anti-Saddam Hussein guerrilla, who has returned to Iraq (13 years after G.H. Bush called for Iraqis to fight Saddam following the 1991 Gulf War), to find his family. BATTLEGROUND goes beyond the headlines and partisan politics to offer a wider understanding of this diverse conflict." It is very important to note that this documentary was made in 2003, only six months after the end of "Major Military Operations", well before we forced Iraq to

The history of our country is exceptional. At no other time in history has a single person had the power to destroy the world. The evolution of human understanding and the challenges that arise from ultimate power have great and dire implications for both our potential and our fate. From the beginning of World War II until the end of the Cold War, perhaps no man had greater influence upon our destiny than Robert Strange McNamara . Fog of War - 11 Lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara McNamara was educated, in Logic and Ethics, at UC Berkeley and became the youngest tenured professor at Harvard, and then President of Ford Motor Company. As the former Secretary of Defense during both the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, Robert S. McNamara is a man that many consider a "Son-of-a-bich", but his experience and responsibility in leading the United States Military during some of the most crucial crises of the 20th century give him a unique perspective. Any wisdom he has g

"LAST August, a federal judge found that the president of the United States broke the law, committed a serious felony and violated the Constitution." - James Bamford, in NY Times It is just another fellony in a long list, but why not list them all? James Bamford The Puzzle Palace Body of Secrets