Nothing was “usual” in the death, funeral and burial of Diana, Princess of Wales. Against advice, Prince Charles insisted on flying with her sisters to Paris to bring her body home. It has been well-recorded how shocked he was when confronted with her in the face of her death. He fought to have the royal… [Read more…]
August 31, 2010
There would have been no need for a book about Mexico called Distant Neighbors if we here in the US had always had a broader coverage of news and or television programming. The same holds true for what subjects were covered in our schools. These are old arguments but the urgency for us to know… [Read more…]
August 31, 2010
Globally, women are falling victim to violence, death and evaporation into nothingness at an alarming rate. Just this week the gang rape over several days of hundreds of women and young girls in the Congo right under the nose of UN peacekeepers has been reported. [saharareporters.com] The most difficult to deal with are the thousands… [Read more…]
August 30, 2010
There is no attempt at producing some kind – any kind of philosophy to which one might want to adhere and fight for in the latest letter from Organizing for America. It is just flat-out extremism and it ends in ridiculous bombast: This week’s Republican primary elections in Arizona, Florida, and Alaska delivered a new… [Read more…]
August 30, 2010
She said it herself: “Now I have been asked to speak today not as a politician….” But she had already spoken politics shortly before: “we must not transform America as some would want. We must restore America and restore her honor.” She had talked the talk by addressing her fellow “patriots” she felt humbled to… [Read more…]
August 30, 2010
It has taken Al Jazerra news to say it as it is: It was all there in plain sight. Martin Luther King Jr’s vision for the future gone wrong. The two rallies – one commemorating the civil rights leader’s speech in 1963, the other promising to “restore honor” and pick-up the mantle of equal rights… [Read more…]
August 30, 2010
When Henry Luce ran Time Magazine, some wonderful words were coined. Now, imagination is in short supply and so “ing” at the end of a word has to suffice but is there a need? Aren’t there already sufficient words with clear and understood meanings available? No doubt but if you don’t update, well, publish or… [Read more…]
August 28, 2010
You don’t want to start your own business so you are in the market to work for a company that outsources work for other companies and hires people to work from their homes. You are not alone. This is a growing phenomenon in the work place. Sadly, as with a lot of other things in… [Read more…]
August 27, 2010
Someday soon, some group way of delivering the mail for a block of residences will be devised and we will be taken a step away from knowing the person who delivers the mail to our home. Because I work from home, I rarely miss a delivery but most of all, my dogs rarely miss one… [Read more…]
August 26, 2010
With each new iteration of Facebook, most of us who value privacy recoil into yet another way they have devised to track you either by your own admission to where you are (the new GPS capability) or through your connectivity to your so-called “friends” on the site. Now comes the news that in some states … [Read more…]
August 26, 2010
If the US and Mexico don’t work more effectively in both countries to stem the tide of organized crime, there will be as many dead on this side of the border as in Mexico. Just this week, 72 dead South and Central Americans were discovered on a ranch 90 miles from our border. [Wall Street… [Read more…]
August 25, 2010
Prior to the primaries this week, authorities in the former Soviet Republic of Moldova had intercepted the sale of some “yellow cake,” the kind of material Saddam Hussein was seeking in the old Chemical Warfare days. Yellow cake is an inert form of uranium that has to be enriched to become weapons grade. It is… [Read more…]
August 25, 2010
According to one Senate hopeful, Hilary is excoriating China about its human rights policies but where? In recent time she has sidelined it and focused on economic issues. As pointed out in a previous post (Obama in China: The Dragon Rules), the Chinese simply go throughout the world signing contracts for the raw materials they… [Read more…]
August 24, 2010
Many of us in the West count on intelligence from the Debka File for insight into what is going on in the Middle East. This is an award-winning journal founded in 2002 that relies on many in the Israeli military and the intelligence community for their research. Of late, however, I have been a bit… [Read more…]
August 23, 2010
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Pitty the poor coffee house on Main Street. His “regulars” come days with their laptops, hog tables and nurse a cup of plain coffee – hold the pastry. Many bloggers run their businesses out of such coffee houses. Many coffee houses have either pulled the plug or limited wi fi time per customer and requiring… [Read more…]
August 31, 2010
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