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" The Failure is Sundered Within"
The failure is sundered within each of us, it festers as blame to others, a manifestation of the shame that belongs not to ourselves but of the participants of a deadlier game. Yet innately the affectation begins with our own visceral manumission of guilt, and sadly, empirically lies buried in our own personal failings.
We ponder all that which seems inherently wrong.
article tags: politics, op-ed, philosophy, republican, democrat
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A democracy? What have we wrought?
One of the great fallacies abroad is thinking that any regime today can lay claim to being democratic. None are. Though we say they are democratic and that they are democracies, they are actually republican government—representative democracies. This means that certain people are elected to serve the interests of the people at large. These representatives make the decisions for the people rather than the people making them.
article tags: democracy, government, representative democracy, polls
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A Dialog about Anti-Semitism and the Fate of the State of Israel
Rabid anti-Semitism, coupled with inane and outlandish conspiracy theories of world dominion, is easy to counter and dispel. It is the more "reasoned", subtle, and stealthy variety that it pernicious. "No smoke without fire," - say people - "there must be something to it!".
In this dialog I try to deconstruct a "mild" anti-Semitic text. I myself wrote the text - not an easy task considering my ancestry (a Jew) and my citizenship (an Israeli).
article tags: united states, iraq, afghanistan, terrorism, europe, war, peace, al-qaida, european union, israel, palestine, jews, judaism
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A Prayer for World Peace, Part II
A Prayer for World Peace, Part II
article tags: hbo rome, rome
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Add Me to the List, Mr. Blair
The terrorists are winning. Gradually but perceptibly, the USA and the United Kingdom (UK) are shedding their liberal democratic veneer, axing their traditions, reinterpreting their constitution (USA) and case law (UK) and, thus, becoming police states.
Both the US Patriot Act, recently extended by Congress and Tony Blair's newly acquired powers to exclude and deport not only active terrorists but also people who disagree with his foreign policy suspend long-standing and hard-won human and civil rights.
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ADHD Newsflash: "Ignoring Useless Information Aids Memory"
It was one of those "Well, DUH" moments for me. I was researching ADHD and came across the headline, "Ignoring Useless Information Aids Memory."
article tags: adhd, add, attention deficit disorder, parenting
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Alzheimer's Disease - 'The Living Death'
When examined under a microscope, her brain showed changes that had never been seen before.
While in some parts there was a clumping of brain matter in other parts it was tangled together.
article tags: alzheimer's, alzheimers, alzheimer, dementia, pre-senile dementia, senile dementia
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America Beware, Hillary Clinton May Run For President
America is the greatest country in the world. Our citizens are caring, generous, trusting and forgiving. Those are some of the traits that make our country so great and so strong. Those traits can also be some of our biggest weaknesses. We are always willing to give people a second, third or even a fourth chance. We want to believe in the goodness of others even when they have shown us time and again that they are not good.
article tags: hillary clinton, politics, political, president, liberals, moderates, conservatives, far left
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America the Narcissist
The majority of worldwide respondents to the last two global Pew enter surveys (in 2002 and 2006) regarded the United States as the greatest menace to world peace - far greater than the likes of Iraq or China. Thinkers and scholars as diverse as Christopher Lasch in "The Cultural Narcissist" and Theodore Millon in "Personality Disorders of Everyday Life" have singled out the United States as the quintessential narcissistic society.
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America's Second Civil War
Reprinted with permission from:
"The Second Civil War in the USA and its Aftermath" by Sam Vaknin (second, revised impression, 2029)
Summary of Chapter 83
"The polities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries swung between extremes of nationalism and polyethnic multiculturalism. Following the Great War (1914-8), the disintegration of most of the continental empires - notably the Habsburg and Ottoman - led to a resurgence of a particularly virulent strain of the former, dressed as Fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism.
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American Sleeping Giant Awakes – But is too Heavy to walk on Islamic Jihadist Eggshells
One of America’s largest Christian broadcasters, Trinity Broadcasting Network has decided to drop one of its shows because it does not want to agitate Muslim Jihadist. Of course they say it is because they don’t want to offend Muslims in general and that because they are beginning to broadcast into Arab countries. Nevertheless the dye is cast and with a brand of political correctness of their own making they plan to bounce the long running show created by the late Zola Levitt.
article tags: islamic, jihadist, jihad, american, sleeping giant, hal lindsey, zola levitt, mark levitt, george bush, 9/11, pharisees, tbn, trinity broadcasting, jim jones, guyana, pharisees, jesus, hypocrites, levitical, priesthood, mosaic, law, christian, christian books, american prophet, politically correct, liturgies, traditions, truth
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An Argument About Money May Really Be About Something Else
Almost everything you do is done for a reason, but sometimes you have to look below the surface to discover the really important hidden reason for your behavior.
Jim was collecting evidence to support his arguments, instead of looking at what was relly bothering him.
article tags: marriage, arguments, communication, fixing partner, relationship, sharing expenses
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ARE YOU CRIPPLED BY PERFECTIONISM?
When faced with a serious hip problem, I received the inner message that I was crippled by my perfectionism. I discovered that I had crippled my own spiritual growth by perpetuating a false self-image, and found relief and joy
in beginning to acknowledge and accept the negative qualities that I encountered in my dark side.
article tags: spiritual growth, healing, physical health, inner light, idealized self, perfectionism
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Australia Considers Putting All Schools on Solar Power
You have to love politicians. Jumping on the renewable energy bandwagon, they are suddenly coming up with all kinds of programs to solve energy problems.
article tags: australia, solar, labor party, schools, solar power, solar energy, politics, politicians, australians
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Bush Flirts with Fascism
DETROIT -- The regime has already produced so many ignominious legacies that historians in the near future will be able to feast on the task of measuring the damage from the wretched deeds the Busheviks have wrought.
Certainly, the unnecessary pre-emptive war in Iraq, sold with lies, will echo for generations as a symbol of America's failed experiment in empire cloaked as proselytizing democracy.
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Bush's Holy Cronies have feet of clay
DETROIT -- Deception, arrogance, greed, hubris, corruption, incompetence and isolation -- the seven deadly sins of political life -- snared President George W. Bush and his cronies long ago. That's how they gained and maintain power.
While praying and thumbing their Bibles, loudly proclaiming their virtue and righteousness, the faith-based Busheviks claim to be the chosen and anointed, carrying out God's work on earth.
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Colors of the American Flag
I would imagine that even before the ink on the Declaration of Independence had dried, the sentences: "Are we gonna have a flag? We gotta have a flag! Britain has a flag!" were echoed by members of the Continental Congress. But then, a flag is important. It is a symbol representing a group and their beliefs -- a means of identification.
It has long been reported that in May of 1776, Betsy Ross sewed the first version of the flag we use today.
article tags: colors, flag, continental congress, betsy ross, red white blue, symbolism, stars stripes, u.s., american
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Containing the United States
European intellectuals yearned for the mutually exclusive: an America contained and a regime-changed Iraq. The Chinese are more pragmatic - though, bound by what is left of their Marxism, they still ascribe American behavior to the irreconcilable contradictions inherent in capitalism.
The United States is impelled by its economy and values to world dominion, claimed in March 2003 an analysis titled "American Empire Steps Up Fourth Expansion" in the communist party's mouthpiece People's Daily.
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Contenders for Iraq and the Potential for Civil War
Iraq stands at the junction of three different and competing cultures for the control of the country. Kurds, Shia and Sunni Arabs all want to control their own affairs and that of the Iraqi state. Since each of them have their own distinct identity and their own supporters the potential for conflict is great. The first group entails the Kurdish people who have developed an independent living arrangement for their 25 million people spread among Turkey, Iran and Iraq.
article tags: muslim, iraq, war, desert storm, sunni, shia, kurdish
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Creating Meaningful Work
Many people don't find their work to be meaningful and show up just to punch the clock or to get money. This has a destructive effect on the fabric of our society. Learn how to create meaningful work by aligning it with personal values.
article tags: meaningful work, work with purpose, life purpose
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Czech Republic: Democracy Without Training Wheels?
An article examining the Czech Republic and the work of vaclav havel
article tags: havel, vaclav, vaclav havel, czech, politics, václav
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Democrats Versus Republicans, The Battle Is Almost Over
The following are the opinions of the author and although I believe them to be true I am not stating them as anything other than my opinions.
Ever since the time of Abe Lincoln, Democrats and Republicans have been fighting for control of the United States Of America. In the beginning, both political parties contained liberals, moderates and conservatives.
article tags: democrats, republicans, liberals, moderates, conservatives, politics, political
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Does Voice Recognition Replace the Need for Typing?
Voice recognition does not replace the need for typing skills. Typing skills are important for school work starting as early as elementary grade level. Life will be a lot easier for your children if they learn correct typing techniques at a young age.
article tags: home schooling, homeschooling, learn to type, typing skills, learn how to type, home schooling, voic
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Forget Politically Correct – Check out Politically Ignorant
In August of 2006 CNN News conducted a poll that was meant to see how the average American viewed the Hezbollah. The result would leave anyone with an ounce of political savvy in a state of disbelief.
The poll concluded that forty seven percent of those polled think Hezbollah is friendly toward America. Leaving aside the generally accepted idea that our allies’ enemies are our enemies you’ve got to wonder if those polled have a clue.
article tags: hezbollah, muslim, beirut, israel, marines, iran, super power, 9/11, middle east, cnn, cnn news, news, polled, poll, politically correct, complacency, u. s. embassy, embassy, embassy annex, israeli border, sucide bombers, ayatollah khomeini, ostrich, ignorant, political, politically ignorant
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France’s Troubles: Learning from US
I know that there are some people who are celebrating France’s recent troubles with delicious glee. I guess I can understand how they feel, given France’s ongoing hypocrisy concerning the Iraq War [hmmm…whose hand is in that oil-for-food cookie jar?] and the all too common and world renowned snooty attitude displayed by many Francophiles toward outsiders.
article tags: france, civil unrest, war, iraq, muslims, christians, catholics, politics, america, civil rights
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