Fairness and helping the less fortunate: – the disparity between the wealth of the rich nations and the poverty of the poorest should be the concern of all, and addressed through multi-lateral, bilateral and other aid programs. – Development of resources in common areas , especially the deep seas, Antarctica and outer space, should be …
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Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to; or he cannot and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. But, if God both can and wants to abolish evil, then …
“It is one of the most detestable habits of a Lilliputian mind to credit other people with its own malignant pettiness.” People like Rush Limbaugh are both petty and vindictive. On the other hand, a man like Limbaugh makes simply oodles of money, so in the minds of those who worship money and low taxes …
In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S. At the time, Ben Bagdikian was called “alarmist” for pointing this out in his book, The Media Monopoly. In his 4th edition, published in 1992, he wrote “in the U.S., fewer than two dozen of these extraordinary creatures own and …
Contributed by Jane Dean On the world news, I was listening to news about the fierce fighting between the Tamil Tigers and the Government forces in Sri Lanka. It was happening near a particular Catholic church in which there was a statue of the Virgin Mary, purported to be able to heal snake bites and …
Nmebelifurniture Elhovoew York city January 2008 was the first snow-less January in the last 75 years.
“The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.” Honore de Balzac “Old Goriot”
“…their cold, hard faces were worn like coins that have been withdrawn from circulation, but there were greedy teeth behind the withered lips.” From “Old Goriot”
The current American Administration has handed over the running of the country to the big corporations, has lifted most oversight and has abandoned the old (Republican) policy of preventing monopolies. The huge financial crisis that is currently playing itself out is solely due to maladministration, incompetence, and simply bowing to the convenience and greed of …
It is important for Epicureans to be not only tolerant, but to be seen to be tolerant of the views of others. American religious fundamentalists are attacking Epicureans as godless, without values or ethics .  These attacks can only get worse this year in election year, since these people have clear political ambitions that are …
“I’ve been thinking some more about CNN hiring Tony Snow as a commentator. Coming in the wake of Newsweek’s hiring of Karl Rove, and the New York Times’ hiring of Bill Kristol, the mainstream media’s embrace of these unabashed propagandists has revealed a self-loathing streak a mile wide. Have they been so cowed by the …
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In the U.K local Councils have been urged to address a “chronic shortage” in the number of allotments being allocated by urban developers as demand for the plots of land reaches unprecedented highs. Allotments are small plots that were originally made available at small cost during the First World War to help people grow their …
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In his 1821 Independence Day address to the U.S House of Representatives, John Adams said, America "goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all." America will "commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example." …
corporotic, cor-por-o-tic n. Rule by unaccountable international corporations that promote sex, pornography, nationalist posturing and the antics of public “personalities” in order to the divert public attention away from real social and political issues and safeguard and promote their own political and commercial interests. Thus, corporatocracy, the political system that under the current Republican regime …
Whenever there is a rebellion in any country you can be sure that the establishment crushes it with every weapon in its power. What we are seeing vis-a-vis Obama is the whole corporatist media and their hangers on attempting to crush the man who wants to change the corrupt and anti-democratic culture of Washington D.C. …
