Sacremento homeless camp grows, thanks to foreclosures

[Source - MSNBC.COMLink - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29528182/displaymode/1107/s/2/framenumber/1/] This is a series of 13 photographs from a tent city, occupied by the homeless just outside of Sacramento, California. It is presented by MSNBC at the above link. I am sceptical...

Humanity Comes full circle as the Earth turns.

The Irony of the World and its radical movements through out History.  We had it all, war, oppression, injustice, resistance, terrorism, and we had it from all sides as well as in all eras. Where could we start...

Bringing Back Civility Through Well-Written Essays

"Essays serve as the best forum to discuss the potential solutions that could be adopted to end the escalating war. At least on paper, both sides can remain to be civil in raising their respective points sans the violence that characterizes the current siege. It remains...

Al-Qaeda helps US advance agenda

"Former Cuban president Fidel Castro says al-Qaeda terrorists have been engineered in order to advance the Bush administration's agenda. In an essay published on Sunday, Castro said the terrorist group "was born from the empire's own entrails", using the term "empire" to...

Cambridge students 'plagiarising'

A recent poll carried out at the prestigious Cambridge University in the UK showed that nearly half of all students there admitted to plagiarism. In the age of the internet, it seems that plagiarism has become copmmonplace amongst university students."Almost half of students...

New York Times Rejects McCains Rebuttal Op-Ed to Obama's Last Week

NYT REJECTS MCCAIN'S EDITORIAL; SHOULD 'MIRROR' OBAMAAn editorial written by Republican presidential hopeful McCain has been rejected by the NEW YORK TIMES -- less than a week after the paper published an essay...

Our Money Culture $2

A Critical Essay in Five Parts    In the first of this series of articles, we explored the importance that trust has in the success of our monetary systems and we used a bank card as both a...

Canine hero wins a chance at immortality

Cloning: good thing or bad thing? Read on." Poor old Trakr. Once hailed as a hero, the retired Halifax police dog can no longer use the hind legs that pushed him through the ruins of the World Trade Center as he sniffed for survivors. His hearing has faded and, at 15, his dog...

Who's better for Canada? Obama or McCain?

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly a great divide, when those under 30 years old may take to Obama, where those of us 40-70 years old  may take to McCain.  Guess it all depends who has...

Teen expelled for writing violent fiction

I thought this story was interesting because it demonstrates how nervous school officials are in the wake of Columbine and the many high school tragedies since.  Did they overreact?"TORONTO -- A 17-year-old...

Scientists: Global Warming Cure

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Though fine in theory, perhaps it is best left as a theory. Somehow I don't think the world is ready for worldwide famine, drought and summer blizzards which may...

Soldier-Blogger Killed in Iraq

An American soldier had arranged for a posthumous essay to appear on his blog in the event of his death, and that event has come to pass."Major Andrew Olmsted, a veteran Army officer and blogger, was killed...

Thoughts On News Year's Resolutions

Resolutions?    I don't make them.  It is as simple as that.  One reason is that I amconstantly walking the fine line between self-improvement and selfacceptance.   Another reason is that I have a hard time separating the individual years, ...

Contest Reveals Liberal Democrat of the Future

If Hillary Clinton was in the market for a campaign strategist or speechwriter, she needed only open a newspaper or turn on a television set to find one. Such a staffing prospect gained 15 minutes of fame today in the form of a 6-year-old Texas girl who exhibits all of the...

"BORDERLESS eVILLAGE"

""BORDERLESS eVILLAGE" Project Details * Project Information * Objectives and innovation * User Profile * Results * Sustainability * Transferability * Keywords * Background Information * Contacts View in PDF Project Information Project...

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