
Today the global warming situation has been getting a ton of media coverage Many scientists from all over the world have agreed that the planet has been getting warmer due to many environmental factors...
The call to make a positive difference in the larger world around us is heard by millions of people every day Most of us just put it off because we are understandably busy with our day-to-day lives of surviving and thriving: families, incomes and personal pursuits need to be sustained and nurtured...
What an irony that while Chinese police apply their batons against Tibetan monks, just over those mountains Bhutan has just voted for their first time, and have a leader they voted in. Joy, next to sorrow and pain....
Chinese antique wisdom flows from Confucian respect for the Emperor, all serve He who could behead you at his whim or will. Thomas Jefferson has some vintage Greek vintage democracy that would go well over that....
An occasional glimpse of modern China can be enlightening. We do not see this on our local television but international news interviews with family life and with the children to school shows free young minds....
The news shows the American political leader Nancy Pelosi in northern India, hand in hand with the Dahli Llahma of Tibet, after riots to protest their loss of freedoms....
Abraham Lincoln said that every man can handle adversity, but to see the character of a man give him power. The incumbent vice president of America comes to mind....
The year 2008 has been a downhill roller coaster for most of America, and as we stay the course the deeper we sink. What may be needed, if the hole we keep digging is sinking us, is to fill the hole back in and build a fine new world atop the rubbish and folly....
Until now China has behaved with impunity while becoming rich by using our capitalism to sell us goods base on their vast cheap labor. But they make normal living and healthy lifestyles impossible for millions in Darfur while they sell the guns to allow the genocide in Darfur while trading that for oil, taking most of the oil from that land. Well done, Steven....
The past 100 years has seen the Earths surface warm up approximately 06°C...