Christ brought not peace but a sword.

He turned over the tables of the money changers desecrating the temple. Our Earth is our temple, and commerce has become corrupt. Every gardener and farmer knows that the rotting of the old is the substrate of the new to come.
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Pope decries selfishness in economic crisis.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081225/ap_on_re_eu/eu_vatican_christmas
Pope Benedict XVI warned in his Christmas message Thursday that the world was headed toward ruin if selfishness prevails over solidarity during tough economic times for rich and poor nations..."If people look only to their own interests, our world will certainly fall apart."...
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Letter-to-the-editor Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 12/25/8

To: letters@post-gazette.com

Editor:
Regarding
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Thieves cause Hazelwood grocery to give up
post-gazette.com/pg/08358/937017-52.stm
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and
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Market collapse: The neighborhood loses a grocery, and part of itself
post-gazette.com/pg/08359/937303-192.stm
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As difficult as it to see, I believe there is opportunity in every crisis. For many years I have advocated what is being called "relocalization" of food production with individual and community gardens. With inflationary pressures adding to the cost of food, and federal bailouts likely to greatly further increase these pressures, it seems to me to be even more urgent that we be going full scale toward as much food locally grown as possible. With the help of the city, the Penn State Extension Service, and volunteers, some of us have begun to turn empty lots into gardens. Next year, with the continued help of the Hazelwood Initiative, Hazelwood Harvest hopes to take up some of the added burden of providing food. As the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank is receiving more calls for help along with less donations, and organizations like Meals on Wheels are increasingly strapped because of higher food and energy costs, and everybody is feeling pinched at the checkout counter, it's clear that working together to grow food is becoming a necessity. To the extent that we can all enjoy growing food together, sharing with each other rather than stealing from each other, we can maintain the whole community's nutritional status and a civil society.


Jim McCue
Hazelwood
412/421-6496
composter and biotech researcher
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ckm3.blogspot.com
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ashizashiz.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-do-we-fight-this-ill-tell-you-how.html
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12/19/8
feedingamerica.org/newsroom/press-release-archive/bank-of-america.aspx
...investing in the communities it serves, Bank of America will embark in 2009 on a new, ten-year goal to donate $2 billion to nonprofit organizations engaged in improving the health and vitality of their neighborhoods. Bank of America approaches giving through a national strategy called "neighborhood excellence" under which it works with local leaders to identify and meet the most pressing needs of individual communities...
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bushville.org
...Hoovervilles – 1929 – 40’s
Villages of homeless that appeared following the Great Depression...
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9/11 was an inside [and an outside] job.
brasschecktv.com/page/91.html
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spiritual center in the brain?
news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081224/sc_livescience/spiritualityspotfoundinbrain
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