Armistice Day Links and more

Armistice Day
"Would that all of our combat veterans return transformed to renounce violence and to serve the oppressed. Soon there would be no more "Universal Soldiers." And PTSD might be laid to rest once and for all.
I will wear poppies today and reflect."
http://firefliesandbonfires.com/weblog/blog1.php/2009/11/11/armistice-day

Good News
"AFTER MONTHS OF REPUBLICAN RESISTANCE, SENATE CONFIRMS DR. BENJAMIN AS SURGEON GENERAL: A trailblazing African-American physician with a long record of service to Alabama's rural poor, Dr. Regina Benjamin has said she will emphasize disease prevention and public health. (11/2/2009)"
http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/11/after-months-of-republican-resistance-senate-confirms-dr-benjamin-as-surgeon-general.html

Not so good news
"The White House has nominated Mr. Siddiqui for the position of chief agricultural negotiator in the office of the United States trade representative. He is presently a vice president at CropLife America, a coalition of the major industrial players in the pesticide industry, including Syngenta, Monsanto, Dow Chemical and DuPont. That job doesn’t seem to square with the Obama administration’s professed interest in more sustainable, less chemically dependent approaches to agriculture."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/opinion/04wed4.html

Thoughtful analysis on sustainablity
"Rethinking Jobs for a Sustainable Economy
By Matthew Cardinale, North American Correspondent, Inter-Press Service; News Editor, The Atlanta Progressive News (November 10, 2009)"
http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0544.html

Maureen on Wall Street.
"But the little people who are boiling simply don’t understand. And Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi, who unforgettably labeled Goldman “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money,” doesn’t understand.
Banks, Blankfein explained, are really serving the greater good."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/opinion/11dowd.html?th&emc=th

More on Nidal Hasan
http://talkingstick.gamountains.net/news/index.php/2009/11/11/more-reflection-on-nidal-hasan-1#comments

More on rendition disgrace
"Two courts, one in Italy and one in the United States, ruled recently on the Bush administration’s practice of extraordinary rendition, which is the kidnapping of people and sending them to other countries for interrogation — and torture. The Italian court got it right. The American court got it miserably wrong."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/opinion/11wed1.html?th&emc=th

From Bob
The Generals' Revolt:
http://www.rollingstone.com:80/politics/story/30493567/the_generals_revolt
Seymour Hersh: Military is Waging War Against the White House:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/23/seymour-hersh-military-is_n_332139.html
Sack the General; Stop the War:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09280/1003447-374.stm#ixzz0THbOo9Py

Late Breaking Outrage
After all they are doing "God's Work."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-nancy-snyderman/planes-vaccines-and-no-eq_b_353727.html