Beyond the Spin on Syria:
our country have used the resources for
endless war for peaceful purposes? Maybe
we would have heeded warnings about
ecological overshoot when the world had
only four billion people.
Mark Robinowitz
Eugene
HELP WANTED
Last winter we had deep snow, biting
record temperatures in single digits,
plus the usual wet and windy weather.
Again this year we expect an increase of
individuals in need of critical services,
including utilizing the 24-hour warming
center.
Albany Helping Hands provides three
meals a day, 365 days a year, serving over
75,000 meals annually to homeless, low
income and the community at a cost of
$4.50 per day per shelter guest. Everyone
is welcome for meal service, even those
not registered with the shelter.
The shelter provides 24/7 emergency
housing for an average of 70 people daily
throughout the year, at a cost of $13.88 per
day or $429 per month per person housed.
We also provide a warming center
during winter months, GED training to
the whole community, housing searches,
counseling, job programs, mental health
referrals, clothing, furniture and more.
Albany Helping Hands would like
to thank those for past generous giving
and assisting in our mission. We are
now asking, please, for immediate help
from good people who do care. Your
generous donation, big or small, is greatly
appreciated.
To help, please make your check out
to Albany Helping Hands and mail your
donation to P.O. Box 2252, Albany 97321.
If you prefer, you may make a secure
credit or debit card donation by phoning
926-4036.
Pastor Bill Lane
Chairman, Albany Helping Hands
Is US Military Helping or Hurting the Eff ort to Stop ISIS
POLLUTED MINDS
The majority of Americans think
money allocated to education is a positive
way to spend a portion of one’s taxes and
donations. We seem to view education as
learning experiences benefiting the open
minds of children, adults and society
in general. We give little thought to the
preconceived notions already existing
within the minds of individuals.
For example, how can people grasp new
concepts when their minds are constantly
being polluted with outright lies, absurd
ideas and Orwellian analyses from
salespeople having their own agendas?
The products, politics, promises
and diversions offered by corporations,
politicians, religious cults and the
entertainment industry control most of us
to the extent we’ve become Pavlov’s dogs.
We let rewards and punishments,
approved by the global corporate elite,
rule our lives. Yet we’re expected to have
the ability to make rational decisions
about what’s healthy for our wellbeing.
Both sides of the same propaganda coin
include: the Bush family and the Clinton
family, environmental destroyers and the
EPA, Jews and Muslims, Christians and
Santerians, FOX News and NPR News, the
History Channel and any sitcom, human-
caused climate change rhetoric and anti-
climate change rhetoric, and so on.
Before more money is spent in
attempts to educate the public, nano-sized
raw sewage treatment plants need to be
installed inside the conditioned brains of
we the people. Research and development
could be left in the capable hands of
scientists favoring transhumanism.
Robert Simms
Eugene
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