Insight (Page 40)

Sixteen typhoons and a record breaking monsoon devastate Asia. Florida gets struck by back-to-back hurricanes, each bizarre in its own way. Meanwhile, fires devastate forests in Indonesia, Morocco and Alaska, which an astonishing five million acres burning in Alaska.

Scientists announce that carbon dioxide emissions measured in Hawaii increased at double the expected rate in 2003. CO2 levels worldwide reached a level not seen in fourteen million years, and, most crucially, NEVER seen during the time that we have had the unstable climate that we have been in for the past three million years.
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Will writes in one of our new Communion Letters about a problem many of the people reading this may have had. He says: Last night, after reading in bed, I went to sleep and had a horrible nightmare. I was dreaming of visitors. I thought they were in my room. Images of grays were playing in my head over and over. I had a very strong impression of standing in a bookstore and having a gray look straight at me from across a rack. All of the grays in my dream were the classics with the big heads and big eyes.
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The mastermind behind the Swiftboat commercials presently causing such controversy is Houston lawyer John Ellis O’Neill. John and I were close friends at Central Catholic High School in San Antonio, between 1960 and 1963. We were debaters and often debated as partners, sometimes as opponents.

John was the son of an admiral. They weren’t from San Antonio. The Admiral had retired here and was involved in residential development to supplement his income. John was, in those days, very much as he appears now: a frumpy, genial fellow with an extremely good mind. He was also loyal to his friends and to those whom he loved, to a fault.
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We are receiving a lot of alternate news from Florida that tells a very much different story from the one appearing in the general media. We have not fact checked these stories, but they are coming in a wave of pain and despair, and they mean, to us, that what is unfolding there is almost certainly much worse than the CNNs and Fox News channels of the world are telling us. What is most disturbing and convincing is that the story of Hurricane Charley disappeared from the general media so quickly. But the pain, the loss, the devastation of ordinary American lives has continuedforgotten, of course, by the elite that rule the country and the media that follows them. This is one of many such ‘underground’ reports. Is it an accurate depiction of what’s happening in Florida We fear so…read more