At long last, America seems poised to take its real place in the community of ...
›Each week on our planet, humans are given 168 hours of life. Let’s generously grant that the average American spends eight hours per day asleep – a cumulative total of 56 hours per week. Let’s also generously grant that at least five days out of the week, the same average American spends eight hours per day working, ideally ...
›Neo-colonialism of the third world by tourist dollars has been acknowledged by the first world for some time. But the stranglehold Western money has on third world economies is much more destructive. Half the worlds poor live in SE Asia. Guess where our cheap clothes come from? Lonely Planet does not recommend that its readers stay in Old Delhi – they suggest the backpackers’ ghetto of Paharganj. But the novice and expert India travelers logged on to Indiamike.com heap mixed reviews on ...
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THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY ON EARTH. OR 5770 IF YOU ARE AN OBSERVANT JEW. 1432 IN THE ISLAMIC CALENDAR. 5000+ FOR HINDUS. HOWEVER YOU COUNT THE YEARS THE POINT IS THE HUMAN RACE HAS BEEN AROUND LONG ENOUGH TO COME UP WITH DECENT VALUES FOR ITS MEMBERS. LONG ENOUGH TO HAVE RID OURSELVES OF THE MOST BEASTLY (LITERALLY) INSTINCTS OF OUR ANIMAL COUSINS. THIS STORY SETS US ALL BACK IN THE DARK AGES. EVERYONE OF US WHO TURNS AWAY OR RATIONALISES. WE IGNORE IT AT OUR PERIL. WE HAVE TO ...
›That particularly American and seemingly intractable conflict between liberties and rights – a zero sum game ...
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