Google Donation: Myanmarcyclone

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Support victims of the cyclone in Myanmar (Burma)

You donate (on Google site) and Google will donate up to $1 million to relief efforts. google.com/myanmarcyclone

Unconditional Giving...
As many as 1.5 million people could have been affected by Cyclone Nargis, which struck on 3 May, and many say Burma does not have the capacity to respond adequately on its own. Over 600 continue to pack supplies: 24/7
Video unrelated... I wish you a calm and peaceful Day.

Water Shows The Hidden Heart - Enya
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It matters that we visualize abundance... Especially as the contrasts of the earth, hold different meanings to different people…
There is always someone far less fortunate.

Links:
National Geographic:Mars May Have Hosted Potentially Habitable LakeToday we see those who command earth to be constant...
Hurricane Conspirators of 1657

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US Hoping to Ease World Food Crisis (Record Food Crops Likely)

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"This ought to take the edge off commodity prices" making it easier for poor people to buy enough food. -U.S. Consultant John Schnittker

WASHINGTON, May 9, 2008 (Reuters) — Good weather will help the world's farmers reap record wheat and rice crops this year, the U.S. government said on Friday, which should allay fears of shortages and help bring prices down from current high levels.
The U.S. Agriculture Department also forecast a record global crop of feed grain, used to feed livestock.

US Moves Forward on $770 ml (World Aid)
Strategists say that that it is rising fuel prices that have impacted the costs of delivering and purchasing emergency aid...
-And -not- 'food ethanol' which has impacted little more than 2 to 3 percent of the overall increase in global food prices... Food Prices said to be up 43 percent this year, over last... Read more.

The USDA said the record harvests expected this year meant there would be an end-year world wheat surplus of 124 million metric tons, despite a rise in consumption of 3.5 percent. The higher rice crop would leave a stockpile of 82.6 million metric tons, the largest in six years, it said...

The USDA said the world wheat crop would rise 8 percent to a record 656 million metric tons in 2008/09. It projected global rice output at a record 432 million metric tons, up 5 million metric tons from 2007/08.

The announcement was expected to calm fears of food shortages, worsened by the cyclone that hit Myanmar's rich rice-producing Irrawaddy delta last week...Read more.

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World Support for Lebanon's Sovereignty

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Hezbollah fighters impose control on Beirut -1 hour ago
By Tom Perry BEIRUT, May 9 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah took control of large areas of Beirut on Friday, tightening its grip on the city...

Hizbullah rejects peace moves by MP Saad Hariri
Iran's Armies over-power (Beirut) -Al Manar television reported
Hezbollah's infrastructure is "threat to regional peace: UN Envoy

Intimidations, disruptions, and over-throws

Lebanon should never have been faced with war again!
These brave Lebanese soldiers desperately fought to purge an 'off-shoot of Fatah al-Intifada' (Syrian 20-year front group) only months ago...



And now, once again, Lebanese stability is threatened by the same cycle of intimidations, disruptions, and over-throws; of which seek to advance-against, and occupy their fragile nation. Shia militant group advances.

In the usual style, "Hezbollah" uses a general strike (this time called by labor unions) to "deploy its gunmen throughout Beirut, and besiege the airport."
Read story. and More.

Iranian-backed Hezbollah Fires Rocket-propelled Grenades...
Turning some neighborhoods of Beirut into battlegrounds... Sadly, this has left Several Casualties in Beirut.


Hariri says:
"Hezbollah leader has started new round of horror’ in Beirut."
Government to Take Lebanon Unrest to U.N., Arab League... Story.

Yesterday's Account by residents, pretty much summed it up:
Strike, Demonstrations, Mayhem across Lebanon

As Lebanese officials try to stop the Hezbollah 'media recruit tool' and close airport observation-points; Syria's Intelligence Operates Through:
Hezbollah Lebanon Communications.

Mind you, these armies claim to be a security apparatus for the resistance against occupation... When in fact, these Iranian-backed militants and their sponsors, currently occupy regional lands which would require exit by the international courts... While threatening security, and jeopardizing the region’s sovereignty!

A majority of Lebanese want their country to be independent, after suffering under 20years of Syrian occupation; which looted the country, and left them beat-down! May the Arab Community, expel these militants, NOW!

Adnan al-Dulaimi | Aqild Ah-Mal
Mahfutin Yu-Ras | Sheik M'Diqin Yu-Rfase
King Abdullah Bin-Abd-al-Aziz Al Saud
King Abdullah Jordan
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

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Clinton Campaign: Is that all there is

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The ‘drag on’ selection of Democrat candidate was wearing... And revealed much more than one cares to empower... But we can agree upon one thing: There are much more urgent events which need attention, than those which "serve the media"...
Post-Election Violence Worsens in Zimbabwe - 21 hours ago
Thousands of others have been beaten, tortured, arrested, kidnapped or chased from their homes since March 29 election, opposition officials say.

Election 08: Presidential, Senate and House Races Updated Daily
Track the electoral college and congressional elections with a red/blue map of the US updated daily using the latest state polls...
Not exactly sure why the Democrats chose the weaker candidate… But when do they say, enough is enough, & move forward? And, how many billions have they paid the media?

Wednesday Eve... HT: Gabriel posts this: The Morning After
And an Ace "Good-bye"... Haha
Not sure what year this is from, but seems appropriate about now...

"Is That All There Is" -Peggy Lee

“This candidacy and this campaign continue on,” Howard Wolfson, the communications director for Sen. Clinton, told CNN on Wednesday morning. “We do have to do well in the remaining contests,” he acknowledged, describing West Virginia, where she is expected to win as handily as she did in neighboring Ohio and Pennsylvania, as “a critically important swing state.” Read more.

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Russia Begins Medvedev Presidency

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Caption: Russian army jets fly over the Ivan the Great bell-tower
-Alexander Zemlianichenko

The inauguration of president-elect Dmitry Medvedev will mark the start of three days of Celebration; including a ceremony at which names Vladimir Putin as prime minister... During the Red Square Victory Day parade; held on (Fri.)

Putin's eight years changed the face of Russia, from tremendous challenges to booming economy; and the job of the new President will be to keep it so.
Presidential Oath before the People of Russia

Medvedev Replaces Putin Today With Focus on Prices, Etc.
Bloomberg - 4 hours ago -By Sebastian Alison and Henry Meyer May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Dmitry Medvedev will take the reins of Russia's presidency from Vladimir Putin today with promises ...

Medvedev in Putin's shadow at Kremlin inauguration AFP
Putin's presidency to end as protege Medvedev takes Russia's top.
The Canadian Press

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1600's Volcanic, Led to Global Disruption (Chile Revisited)

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It might have been a bad day in Chile, today... VIDEO
More than 5,000 People Leave Chilean Towns nearest to the erupting Chaiten Volcano, to escape from hot fragments, ash and gas cloud. Images

Thank God, it was nothing like Chile in 1960...
(Sorry the 1960 News splices our Space-program right after this.)

Cataclysm Pacific Area 1960
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We're just starting to understand about Volcanic eruptions, and their long-term impact upon crop production and weather... Scientists link world events as: 1600 Eruption Led to Global Cooling, Social Unrest?
National Geographic - April 29, 2008
Concerning Huaynaputina's eruption in southern Peru (2/19 - 1600)
Here is what the geologists found:

Volcano in 1600 Caused Global Disruption
In Russia, the period from 1601 to 1603 brought the worst famine in the country's history, leading to the overthrow of the czar. Records from Switzerland, Latvia and Estonia mention the exceptionally cold winters from 1600 to 1602. The 1601 wine harvest in France was late and wine production collapsed in Germany and colonial Peru.

In China, peach trees bloomed late, while in Japan, Lake Suwa had one of its earliest freezing dates in 500 years.

"In one sense, we can't prove that the volcano was responsible for all this," Verosub said, "but we hope to show that 1601 was a consistently bad year, connected by this event." Read more.

And Health Hazard from Eruption in Hawaii...
Vog - volcanic smog - kills plants, casts a haze over Hawaii
AP - May 5, 2008

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