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Crimes of the Elected , Sins of the Electorate
It is impossible not to feel revulsion at the bombing of the rush hour trains in Madrid. Ten simultaneous explosions ripped through trains and stations killing hundreds of people, injuring thousands and plunging a nation into stunned mourning. The legacy that this leaves the families of the dead and injured is deplorable and wrong. It […]
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Enough is enough
The Guantanamo Five – five British men held in Guantanamo Cuba (formerly Camp X-Ray) have now been released to British authorities and returned home after two long years of being interned in a military prison without charge nor access to legal support. These men were captured in Afghanistan during the War on Terror response for […]
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A Question Of Humanity
I have just read a photo journal of a retired Israeli physician working in the Israeli occupied territories of the West Bank. (Photo Journal ). The idea of this, seeing it in pictures and reading a little about what this person is contributing to a alleviate human suffering moved me to tears. It wasn’t the […]
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Haiti Voodoo
A lot of speculation surrounds the departure of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide; popular reports suggest he resigned the presidency and is now in exile in the Central African Republic with his wife and close aides. Another report – verified by distinguished and independent observers – is that he was forced into exile by the US who […]
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Can The Rich Help The Poor?
Apparently there isn’t enough money in the world to address the serious problems facing the planet and its inhabitants. The serious problems identified include hunger, poverty, lack of education, disease and pollution. This is the conclusion of Professor Bjorn Lomborg, author of ‘The Skeptical Environmentalist’ and host of the Copenhagen Consensus 2004 – a conference […]
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A Reluctant God
When you encounter an article that starts ‘What if…’ that’s the cue to engage your imagination and cast aside your preconceptions on life. So… What if God really did not want to be God. What if God was simply asked to do a rush job on the Creation as a favour for some other supreme […]
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Death, you damn bastard.
My friend has a deadly brain tumor. They have done all they can, and now its time to rest and await Death, that damn bastard. He is more than my friend, he is my mentor – the guy I looked up to for the longest time, though not of the same mother or father, he […]