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Robert H. Little Sept/89
935 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto Ca. 9430l-3395
LABOR DAY WEEKEND
Warm weather here. Action all over the world. The news
media make most of it known. It is part of the propaganda
called advertising. It was noted years ago that if our
emotions were aroused, an advertising slogan or picture etc.
would make a deeper impression on our memories. That is one
reason that the hucksters delight in violence. There is
money in it.
(1) A cheerful item from todays New York Times. In tiger
country, in India, hundreds are killed by tigers. It was
noted that tigers like to attack from behind the victim.
Now villagers are wearing face masks on the back of the head.
So far, no one so attired, has been killed by a tiger.
(2) U.S. Blood Banks are Turning increasingly to Europe to
fill out our supplies
Some years ago we bought blood supplies from Columbia.
For a long time various derelicts have sold their blood to
buy alcohol & dope. Now we buy from Europe
For many years I have been angry about this sort of thing.
[a] Too difficult to control the quality. Many innocent
people get disease from bad blood.
[b] Heart operations and transplants use buckets of blood.
[c] In big central cities, hospitals are busy sewing up
people from violent neighborhoods who slice up each other on
weekends or shot each other anytime.
Suggestion: Allow ordinary healthy people to form voluntary
blood groups to help each other in certain emergencies.
The group could carefully screen new members. Men who gave
blood could be proud. Those who received, would know who to
be grateful to. It would help bring people together.
All members would be typed ahead of time. Similar groups
could cooperate with each other. In my experience, fresh
whole blood from healthy donors is superior to stored blood.
At least under certain circumstances. It is not a matter of
cheapness or extra work. It is bigger than that.
(3) VANDAL FLEETS of the PACIFIC. N.Y.Times.
Drift nets, 30 miles long and 30 feet deep are deployed by
the fishing fleets of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
These gigantic traps threaten to become a scourge to all
animals who use the ocean's surface waters.
Sometimes the nets break loose but go on killing life
indefinitely.
This enormous, continuing tragedy, makes the Exxon oil spill
in Alaska a temporary affair. A few years at most.
(4) Violence at Virginia Beach Va. About 50,000 decended on
the city to celebrate GREEKFEST. Most of them came from
Black Colleges on the Eastern seaboard. The students claim
that they were not universally welcomed. Violence ensued.
Stores on the main sreet were trashed and many looted.
The city claimed that there was no way they could handle
that many young people of anykind.
Colleges are expensive, someone is footing the bill. Too
many students appear frivolous. They are wasting gasoline
and causing other people trouble. A frightful oil shortage
is on the way, in their lifetime. College students should
be serious conservationists. They are taught the slave
owner attitude which can be as destructive as slavery itself.
The present people on the planet are collectively destroying
the planet. It would be helpful if the colleges and their
students continually demonstrated a lifestyle that was kinder
to our planet.
