I want to apologize to everyone for passing along the data that 60 million Americans were living on less than $7 per day published by the New York Times, Financial Times of London and the World Socialist Web Site without doing an independent verification. I’m so sorry, and am working to correct the mess. However, Annie Jacobsen, the rude and nasty, shrill paranoid woman who harassed me and then refused to copy me her on her piece is hardly doing your readers justice with her way of being or tactics. Moreover, she excerpted and took out of context some rather playful biographical comments and used them to ridicule , not inform. Hardly the stuff of good neighbors. Isn’t this the woman who was so paranoid about Muslim clerics on a plane that she had it grounded because of her paranoia of terrorists? I suggest that if she wants to see a real terrorist, that she book a flight to to Iraq, where several well respected studies now report that between 600,000 and 1.2 million Iraqis have died since we invaded. Or, go to the concentration camp Israel has made the Gaza, break bread with the little people while US supplied helicopter gunships terrorize you to death. Many blessings to all.
