http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/23/israel.sweden.organ.harvesting/index.html

"Israel hits back at Swedish organ harvesting article"

I'm writing this on xanga because there's less people to see it than if I post my commentary on facebook.

This article basically talks about how Israel is condemning a Swedish newspaper for having an article about how Israeli soldiers are suspected for taking out Palestinian youths and then harvesting their organs.

3 things wrong with what's going on.

First of all, Sweden has a free press, they can print whatever the hell they want to as long as the article has some sort of basis. (In this case interviews from the Gaza region)

This brings us to the next problem. The Swedish article was a report, yet Israeli government officials went straight to blaming antisemitism and lingering medieval bitterness about how Jews use Christian blood to make bread. I mean you've got to be shitting me right? There's articles all over the world about various countries and their organ harvesting practices, but somehow when there's an article about Israel, it's because the writer is a Jew hating Nazi? I'm not saying I believe the Swedish article, but if you're going to try to convince me that they're wrong, don't go stripping Swedish reporters their access to Gaza, or saying there's Jew hate involved. Instead take the issues they bring up, and debunk them. Give me reason to believe they're wrong.

Besides, I saw this article on CNN. a quick google search of "Israel Organ Harvest" yields a bunch of links to forums and such that has someone talking about the issue after reading about Israel's complaint on some other major media source. If Israel really didn't like the article and don't want other people reading it, then it would react with restraint, instead of firing up every international media outlet to do a story. Hell if they didn't react at all (since it's just one small Swedish article) I would never have found out about it, my opinion of Israel would be a tad higher, AND i wouldn't have gone on a google hunt and found out that the article has some basis.

That's right a little research yields that this problem with Israeli organ harvest isn't new. in 2002, multiple Arab world news sources had confirmed reports that two Palestinian youths had been killed and taken away to have their organs removed. How did they know that? Well if you have to bury your son's body that just so happens to have a giant stitched up cut, what else could it be? "oh but the Israeli army conducts autopsies sometimes on enemy casualty!" .... WHY?! If you shoot someone in the head, I don't think an autopsy is necessary to determine what killed the guy you just shot.

and that is a little slice of the morning before i return to school.

I'm going to try to update more often, because I find it fun to read old entries.

I just had the craziest mother****ing dream ever. Possible the clearest dream I've had in years.

Besides the fact that I just slept till 12, missing one of my classes, I think this dream is the cause.

I was in the gym with a few colleagues, and yes my dream encompassed the whole workout, then when i was done, I had to get my stuff out of the lockers. it didn't look like UNC lockers, but I dreamed of this locker room before, perhaps this is me in an alternate dimension where I went to a different school, or maybe it was my graduate school locker, ionno. So anyways, someone got a call from a friend or something and it went something along the lines of "something is going on...." and that health officials just realized a lot of recent patients are showing symptoms of dementia, disorientation, violence, and other neurological conditions after getting what seemed like the common cold. In my dream, I was like "oh... a mutant strain of the virus, I knew this shit was going to happen." as if I had training in pathology. I don't even know what the fuck pathology is! so anyways, somewhere in the jumble, I thought about the somewhat recent (in my dream) discovery of the cure to the common cold.

Back to the events. So i'm at my locker, and I had stuff in two containers. One of them had my wallets and shit, however in the panic, i forgot which one was associated with which combo. One of them had a combo of 209, another had 234. (209 is my room number here at UNC) so anyways, while I try to figure that out, one of our trainers is just sitting there and I chat with him and he seems chill in a scary sort of way.. All my acquaintances already ditched me and they headed home to find out what was going on. but later the lights started turning off cus the gym was closing, and so I got my stuff, and stuck some cut out news articles from korea back into the container. I run off, and had to pick up (not with a car....but via public transportation of sorts) someone who looked like my brother.... but he was still like a baby.... maybe it was my child? 0.o So after that I go to the hospital, where outside I saw this really crazy looking lady, and I sensed something is wrong so i just kept staring at her after she walked past me. She then would keep turning her head and giving me glares, but after i reached the hospital door, I said something mean. I forgot what i said but she definitely heard it and started coming back to the hospital. But anyways, I go in, and it's pretty packed, but everyone seemed chill, so I was like ok... nothing wrong... guess the news isn't big yet (maybe the guy who found out in the gym was part of a disease control division) but i was scared shitless by the woman and I made sure i stood in a part of the room where she can't sneak up from behind, and I was about to go to the counter when I was like wait a second what about my parents? So i call with my cellphone, and it was like the "you've dialed the wrong area code" sort of tune, but then after a few seconds, my mom picked up, and she sounded really shaken. Apparently, she knew about it earlier than everyone else, and her and dad immediately bought tickets to Australia, but it was like an exclusive relocation sort of thing, and they had to go through quarantine in American Samoa and check out to be uninfected before heading over to Australia. She was like I left in a hurry, and didn't contact me. Maybe I was disowned or something, but anyways, I find a woman there at the Hospital, I couldn't remember how she looked, and we just start speedwalking to a church I go to in my dream. The city was pretty damn big, and somewhat classy looking, reminds me of something like DC. So i'm in the garden right, and I get out my laptop and I start searching for something. Then i was like shit i don't have enough money for airline tickets. So i walk off to call my parents. ionno what happened tot he woman and child, I think they went inside the church. So I call and I'm like. I only have 1200 in cash, I can't buy enough airline tickets. My mom again on the phone, was like I'll wire over 4000 dollars. It'll cost 200 dollars to transfer from hong kong to American Samoa, apparently she was doing internet searches and that was the only route, and probably not jammed packed by panicking people leaving the US. so after I finished the call, I go back to the bench where I had my laptop.

I see there a dude Sitting on my laptop, which apparently is flexible and bendable, it was kinda folded in an awkward way, something in my dream told me that I CAN do that but i'm not suppose to. Anyways, I see the guy is some crazed janitor who was raking leaves. I argue then get the laptop, and while walking toward the church, I met a religious figure, not the pastor, but someone whom I know closely. So I walked into the pretty elaborate cathedral and I have a talk with the guy. I get my laptop out and start typing in it. I'm talking with the dude and his wife comes in and I was like you want some burritos? so then i share two burritos with them. 0.o. then once i bought the tickets online I started feeling funky and i had a flashback where one of my friends was testing out the stability of a normal and infected mice, and ionno what the significance of that was. But anyways, I get out, and find my way to the airport (i forgot alot of the stuff that happened . So the airport was damn futuristic, pretty stylish with large windows, and I board the plane, and once I locked myself into the seat, my brain went haywire and it was like I was in a different world, and apparently, I was experiencing an introduction/advertisement for Southeast Asia. One second I was in a huge motorized vehicle going through mud, the next I was chilling at a vietnamese resort, where a distinguished entertainment figure got onto one of those big motorized vehicles with large inflated tires, and he was like I can drive in water too, but there are lots of sharks in these waters, and if i tip over, then it's bye bye. Then there were scenes where he was enjoying the shit out of driving on water, and thats when i started getting jabbing headaches, and the scene ends with me/the camera rolling upward to get a birdseye view of the village, which turned out to be in the shape of a resort logo. In the next one I was looking at the water streets of thailand, where people sell their merchandise on boats. That's when I got a jolt and I woke up from my dream. My arm and my whole right side was sore when i woke up.

Well if you look at the raw data, Obama promised that the 800+ billion dollars would create up to 4 million jobs in the next 2 years.

If we were to directly distribute the money to the public, that would be roughly $100,000 a year to each of the 4 million people. However, we all know that 100,000 can support an upper middle class household.

But of course, that wouldn't solve anything, because after 2 years, then what? who's paying for that 800 billion dollars?

What if you have a giant public service project like FDR and you pay the workers at a near minimum wage (though enough for them to live sustainably) Then we're talking a ton of the money going to the bureaucracy that is needed to carry out the projects, which is good, because the bureaucracy would = jobs too.

Wait a second, remember that $700 billion dollar bailout and the other few $100's billion dollar bailouts passed (yeah betcha didn't hear about those.) where did that go? I mean, come on, + 1 TRILLION dollars of bailout money woulda at least created temporary jobs for 6+ million people. How many are really made through that? 100,000? Sure i know the bailout wasn't used to make jobs, and that it was to help the banks out and stop the collapse. But the banks failed anyways.

What happened to economics like our granddaddies used to do? I guess I can't say that because we're in this mess because we didn't do economics the good old way for the last decade or two.

What do you think we should do? I personally have no alternatives, I kinda think we're screwed, but that's just me. Maybe distribute the "bailout" instead as non-interest loans? Come on in a deflationary period, that's damn good of an incentive... earn money by borrowing.. instead of whining?!