Headlines below the fold

The Oil spill in Guimaras is no longer in the news, but the people there still suffer. The Phil Government is seeking reimbursement...and the local families LINK have been told they can return home.

Quite a few NGO's are helping...including" the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica), the German Development Cooperation (GTZ), World Vision International United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Canadian International Development Agency, Oxfam and the United Nations Children’s Fund "(Unicef)."
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A UN official finds that many OFW from Asia working in Bahrain are abused: Overworked, underpaid and often physically or sexually abused....SHHHH...GMA ignores it because the Phlippines needs the money, Bahrain ignores it because they need workers, and the press ignores it because they can't blame Bush...
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Happy news article of the day: Knitting Grannies stitch up the world.
"Across the country, groups like this are finding pleasure in what is sometimes called community knitting. Other knitters, including men, stitch at home and during lunch hours. Collectively they form an invisible army, creating afghans, caps for newborns, security blankets for ill or troubled children, and clothing to provide warmth and comfort."

My mother used to do a lot of this after she retired...her knitting group made hats etc. for guys at the local prison...

so on this week, when political spin and mudslinging is dominating the news, just remember:
"....(Hope) is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of solitary. individuals whose deeds and words every day negate frontiers and thenegate frontiers and the crudest implications of history."-- Albert Camus
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And good news below the fold: Courtney Love in her biography claims that Mel Gibson helped her seek drug treatment. The bad news is that she was so drug addled that she can't remember exactly when it happened.