TEA PARTY - Planning the 2nd Enlightenment (Part 1 of 3)

This is an excerpt from an article I wrote in re "The Enlightenment" on Examiner.com. Please click the Link at the end of the article to read the rest of the article. "Our USA Constitution and Bill of Rights were...

Private Power Company Negligent In California Sesnon Fire

Two people were killed in the Sesnon fire.  It turns out the a private utility company not subject to State regulations regarding powerline safety, did not have a proper fire birm, or other safety measures...

An open letter to my governement from me the governed - PLEASE READ

"An open letter to my governement from me the governed""With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have...

F1 boss issues breakaway threat

This has been talked about before but it'll never happen." F1 boss issues breakaway threat ...

Dead Canadians and Mexican Injustice

This article doesn't apply to just Canadians.  It applies to anyone traveling abroad.  Why spend money in another country when that government won't even afford an individual the justice they deserve if...

Island of Sark embraces democracy after 400 years

You cant get any greener*..."Four and a half centuries of feudalism were brought to an end yesterday when the Privy Council approved changes to the laws governing Sark, in the Channel Islands, which will introduce...

Australia to say no to aboriginal compensation

Australia rules out aboriginal compensationTue Jan 29, 2008 By Rob Taylor CANBERRA (Reuters)  Australia's government on Tuesday promised an apology for Aborigines forcibly taken from their homes under past assimilation policies, but ruled out compensation payments for...

Daughter of the West

" * LRB * 13 December 2007 * Tariq Ali more detail icon * printer icon print layout * mail icon tell a friend Daughter of the West Tariq Ali Arranged marriages can be a messy business. Designed principally as a means of accumulating wealth, circumventing...

Masked Men Shoot Into Pro-Democracy Venezuela Rally

This is the future of Venezuela. The blood will flow This is the Chavez secret police at work"The march itself, attended by an estimated 80,000, passed peacefully, and student leaders were received by Supreme...

In defense of genocide, redux

In light of the crisis in Dafur, I think this article is worth a re-read.  - The Angryindian--------------------------------------------------"One kind word should to be said for the foundering US president:...

If our next president isn't an FDR or a Lincoln, this country is toast

"There are three Republican candidates for the presidency who don’t believe in evolution.  We now have a prominent political party that thinks we are so despicably dumb that it can present candidates who think that a 2,000 year-old rambling fairy tale is a better...

Pirate Island: The Pirate Bay Seeks to Buy Sealand

I found this posting through boingboing.net: you, too, can be  a citizen of an oil-drilling platform! Think "Treasure Island" meets "Breaking the Waves"."CFI is a group of people working for the peoples right to it’s Internets. We have made progress in Ladonia and are...

Search is On For Abducted Americans

"U.S. and British forces launch an intense manhunt for Western security men seized at a checkpoint. A massive search and rescue operation is under way in southern Iraq for five Western security contractors taken hostage on Thursday. Four Americans and an Austrian were taken...

War or peace at stake as DR Congo votes - Scotland on Sunday

" EDWARD HARRIS IN KINSHASA THE Democratic Republic of Congo will choose a new president today in the first multiparty elections since independence nearly half a century ago. It will be a monumental exercise in democracy that many hope will end decades of dictatorship, war...

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