Strike Over Housing in Israel

Whle housing is tight in the Bronx NY, squatters are grabbing building.  We heard there was a theft of an air conditioner and some metal parts from the old Per Scholas factory site at 1575 River Street, Bronx NY.  Now there is some action in Israel on the other side of the world.

The mass strike that began with a housing


protest, is spreading and expanding throughout Israel to include

all sorts of economic sectors, all protesting the collapse of

their living standards in radical free-market paradise of Prime

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.



On Thursday thousands of Israelis took part in "stroller

marches" by parents with their children in 16 locations across

the country, including Tel Aviv, to protest the high cost of

raising a family. A similar march will be held in Jerusalem on

Sunday.


"The country has breached its contract with the citizens,

and has betrayed us," The Israeli daily {Ha'aretz} quotes a

mother who took part in one of the protests. "People thought that

if they work hard, pay taxes, and have children everything will

be alright." "Parents have in fact a second mortgage," said Anat

Rozilio, one of the organizers. "Besides the burden of the rent,

once you have a child up to three years old, there is no place

besides daycare centers, which cost 3,000 shekels a month." She

added, "I have spoken with many mothers who told me 'one child is

enough, I can't live in poverty.'"


The Israeli Council for the Welfare of the Child said it

supports the struggle, as "raising children has become an

intolerable financial burden."


On Friday, hundreds demonstrated in Tel Aviv protesting

escalating fuel prices.  Meanwhile, the doctors' strike led by Israel Medical

Association chairman Dr. Leonid Eidelman intends to present Prime

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a petition with tens of

thousands of signatures calling on him to "save public medicine."

The doctors set up a protest tent camp outside Netanyahu's

office, where Eidelman, who has been on a hunger strike since

Monday, and a number of other doctors, plan to remain until the

strike is settled.


President Shimon Peres has intervened in the situation,

holding a telephone discussion with Eidelman, where he asked him

to end his hunger strike. "An entire country is watching you, you

have proved your leadership and courage. You are bearing an

important message of advancing and improving public medicine in

Israel on your shoulders, and as President I am asking you to

look after your health and strength. You are dear to us," Peres

told Eidelman, who said thanks, but that he was continuing his

hunger strike.


Trainee clinical psychologists joined the tent camp in Tel

Aviv on Thursday to protest against the desperate situation

facing the country's clinical psychologists, who say the state is

trying to destroy the public mental health service as part of its

privatization drive.


Since the mass base of the Likud is the lower 80% of the

population, calls from Likud activists demanding he do something

have increased. One activist, Yanai Braz, is demanding that

Netanyahu dump his Finance Minister and political ally Yuval

Steinitz. "Bibi and Steinitz are detached from the people. They

don't understand what the middle class is going through. Rich

people have the stock exchange and capital market. The middle

class have nothing.... I want the Finance Minister replaced."

Starving Children in the USA

U.S. hospital emergency rooms are reporting increasing numbers of underweight and malnourished children

showing up in their departments, directly because more and more families are unable to afford to eat.

Hospitals in Baltimore; Little Rock, Arkansas; Minneapolis; Philadelphia; and Boston all

reported this in a new survey, which medics say is the worst incidence of malnutrition they have seen since

they began to monitor hungry children 10 years ago.  LaRouche Pac told you so.


The situation is typical of what once was called an

undeveloped country, is the description of the coordinator of the

survey, Dr. Megan Sandel, a child and public health professor at

the Boston Medical Center (BMC). The details were released this

week by Children's HealthWatch.



Boston Medical Center has had the most dramatic increase in

undernourished children out of all the other cities and

hospitals. Doctors attribute this to New England families being

hit with impossible trade-offs in heating and housing costs.


Before 2007, when the crash set in, 12 percent of youngsters

age three and under, were significantly underweight, in a random

survey of BMC emergency department records; this jumped up to 18

percent in 2010, and is getting worse. The survey also reports

that the percentage of families with children, who say that they

did not have enough food each month, soared from 18 percent in

2007, up to 28 percent in 2010.


BMC saw a 58 percent increase in the number of severely

underweight babies under the age of 1, who were referred by

physicians to BMC's GrowClinic, for intensive intervention

(nutritional, medical and other measures) to boost the babies'

growth. The Clinic had 24 cases in 2005, then 38 in 2010, and now

it's worse.


A typical case is that of a baby treated last year at the

BMC GrowClinic, who at age 1 weighed under 19 pounds, when the

average child is more than 24 pounds. Chronic hunger can lead to

lasting cognitive and other developmental problems.

A dramatic mockery of this reality comes from Mrs. Obama,

who is doing her part, while her husband is allowed to remain in

office, to conduct herself as a British royal tabloid celeb. She

is on the August cover of {Better Homes and Gardens} for a story

titled, "Fresh and Healthy" eating. Shown at her White House

picnic table, serving Washington, D.C. fifth-graders fresh food,

Michelle tells you to take charge of your family's eating.

"Children's habits can be changed so much easier than adults," so

they don't need to be fat. "They don't have control over their

diets -- we do."

Fight in the UK over Breaking Up the Banks

Vincent Cable, Britain's Business Secretary, today called for full banking separation. Cable did

not use the name Glass-Steagall, but his opponents did in

attacking him. Speaking to a consumer group, Cable called on the

Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) to review its

"ring-fencing" recommendation in favor of a full separation. "My

own instincts lie with full separation of retail and proprietary

banking," Cable said.

Cable's initiative confirms the existence of a faction in

the British establishment which is not willing to go under with

the expiring monetarist system under the current policies of the

City of London. On the other side, some of the City's most

influential figures gathered at the offices of Freshfields law

firm yesterday, to stage a debate on banking separation, which

was won by those "who oppose Glass-Steagall-style break-ups,"

{City A.M.} reported.

Next Biggest Loser

Author: Isiah Williams

Have you ever wanted to get rid of a few pounds? How about a hundred pounds? Maybe even three hundred pounds? The truth is that most of us would love to shed some extra weight and would do so willingly if given a bit of extra time, money, or other resources. Or, maybe some of us would still be lazy and need some extra motivation to shed the extra pounds. A show which motivates just about anyone to get off the couch and shed some weight is "Next Biggest Loser." This fabulous show is a competition in which over 10 obese people compete against one another to lose the most weight.

I think it is interesting to watch this show on my satellite tv from http://www.directstartv.com/ to see how people lose weight. I love seeing what the people must do to lose weight on this show. I always try to apply their own techniques for losing weight to my own life. One major tip I learned from this show for losing weight was to run every single day. On this show, I would always see contestants running long distances and then magically shedding pounds over the course of only a few weeks. Let me just say, that I have tried this approach in my own life, and it has worked fabulously. I have already lost 10 pounds!

Hey, I'm the Blog of the Day

Greetings to http://jesseacohen.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-think-im-gonna-be-sick-in-like.html
and hey hey hey, I'm the blog of the day. I have to admit, I feel real satifaction that Copyboy decided to make howiecopywriter.blogspot.com his blog of the day. I try to make this an interesting blog, as the nation is imperiled by economic and moral collapse. We don't have to pay the debt of the fraudulent investment banks. Time to pass the Glass-Steagall Law of 1933 again, now in the form of HR 1489 sponsored by Congresswoman Marcie Kaptur, and co-sponsored by nearly 30 other Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives.

Africans Breaking with Libya War

We have Congressman Gerald Nadler of Manhattan, NY breaking with Obama's Libya war, and people in Africa also are pissed off. See --Africans Resist Obama's Illegal War Against Libya

July 9 --The destabilizing effects of the U.S./NATO war
against Libya are causing African nations to speak out against
it, and resist U.S. efforts to get dragged into it. The
government of Kenya is being particularly defiant despite U.S.
pressure to break its links with the Libyan regime. Acting
Foreign Minister George Saitoti, yesterday, accused the Western
powers of using "violence against civilians" in Libya and
announced that the government would not freeze Libyan assets in
Kenya. "Kenya has not acceded to pressure by third parties to
sever diplomatic ties with Libya," he said and added that such
calls were "contrary to Kenya's position of the best way" out of
the Libyan crisis, and contrary to recent African Union
resolutions calling for a negotiated settlement. According to
Kenyan media, Libya has vast economic assets in Kenya, including
a luxury hotel and an oil marketing firm with more than 100
gasoline stations, making Kenya a target of western efforts to
isolate Libya.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the continent, concerns are
being raised about arms trafficking out of Libya that is
benefiting the terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
(AQIM), which is said to be responsible for a string of
kidnappings and ambushes across the Sahel region. Last month,
reported, VOA, yesterday, security forces in Niger recovered
detonators, more than 600 kilograms of semtex explosives and
$90,000 in cash after a shoot out with suspected terrorists. The
Niger government said that the arms came from Libya and were
destined for AQIM. In addition to Niger, Mali and Mauretania have
also expressed concern that insurgents in Libya are selling they
capture from the Libyan government to AQIM.
Similarly, Algerian forces are increasing their presence
along Algeria's 900 km border with Libya. According to Reuters,
officials in Algiers are voicing concerns about the arms and
explosives coming into the country from Libya, which are being
looted from Libyan army depots.
Refugee flows are another destabilizing effect of Obama's
war on Libya. Hundreds of thousands of foreign workers have fled
back to their own countries which are hardly able to absorb them
into impoverished economies. President Issoufou of Niger said
that Niger has lost billions of francs in taxes and trade as well
as remittances from 200,000 Nigeriens who were working in Libya.
In the Mediterrean, it was reported that more than 1,000 Africans
landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa, overnight Friday,
bringing the total to more than 11,000 who have landed there
trying to escape various wars in North Africa since the beginning
of the year. According to the Italian Catholic organization
Sant'Egidio, at least 1,820 migrants from North Africa have
drowned in efforts to reach Europe.

Water Projects and the Missouri River

Hey Bronx NY dudes, aren't you glad you don't live in the Missouri River basin. But, still we have to help those people out, they are Americans.

The enormity of the Missouri Basin flooding is evident in
hundreds of devastating ways, if apparently less dramatic than
the new oil spill. Run-off from the huge snowpack, combined with
rainfall, means that vast areas face flooding until October.
However, the impact of the extreme weather is amplified and
exceeded by the extreme Washington policy disaster, as is shown
in the new LPAC TV feature, "For Lack of NAWAPA," released July
2.
In Nebraska on July 2, leaders from the hard-hit Missouri
counties in the southeast, met with officials from FEMA, the Army
Corps of Engineers, and Sen. Mike Johanns about their dire
situation. For example, the water treatment plant is knocked out
in Nebraska City, where the local government is incurring
$102,000 a month for a portable treatment system. Other
communities fear to be in the same situation very soon. But there
are no means to pay for it, without the national Glass-Steagall
resuscitation of the economy.
In Iowa on July 1, the six Missouri River flood counties
received approval as Federal disaster areas, so now they are
eligible for services including swift-water rescue, shelter
supplies, etc.
In Missouri, Gov. Jay Nixon has announced receiving Federal
emergency disaster disignation for all counties on the Missouri
River, which crosses through the state, then entering the
Mississippi River. In northwest Missouri, the extensive road
closures include Interstate-29, (state) Highways 136 and 159, and
30 other roads.
Most of the earlier flooded areas of the Mississippi/Ohio
River systems are seeing receding waters, but are still
experiencing disaster, because of the national and world economic
breakdown. In Indiana today, Federal approval was announced for
32 counties hit by the last two months of storms and flooding
damage.