US and the IOWA HealthSCARE

drawing by marguerita

No illusions there about how the magic of the marketplace solves all problems.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/opinion/31krugman.html?ref=global-home

What's love got to do with it ,happiness is more contagious than previously thought.

collage by marguerita

With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, [ 5 ]
Sing Heav'nly Muse,that on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth
Rose out of Chaos: Or if Sion Hill [ 10 ]from Paradise Lost by Milton


YouTube - What's love got to do with it Tina Turner

Gaia and The DeadlyCloud

drawings by marguerita- all rights reserved-(excerpts of a unpublished book What is Going to be Eh?- story and drawings by marguerita- 1976.
BEIJING — A noxious cocktail of soot, smog and toxic chemicals is blotting out the sun, fouling the lungs of millions of people and altering weather patterns in large parts of Asia, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations.
The byproduct of automobiles, slash-and-burn agriculture, cooking on dung or wood fires and coal-fired power plants, these plumes rise over southern Africa, the Amazon basin and North America.
But they are most pronounced in Asia, where so-called atmospheric brown clouds are dramatically reducing sunlight in many Chinese cities and leading to decreased crop yields in swaths of rural India, say a team of more than a dozen scientists who have been studying the problem since 2002.
The report was issued on a day when Beijing’s own famously polluted skies were unusually clear.
.For those who breathe the toxic mix, the impact can be deadly.
“We used to think of this brown cloud as a regional problem, but now we realize its impact is much greater,” said Veerabhadran Ramanathan, who led the United Nations scientific panel. “When we see the smog one day and not the next, it just means it’s blown somewhere else.”
.U.N. Reports Pollution Threat in Asia - NYTimes.com