With the world's population exceeding 7 billion it is imperative to understand where mankind's sources of food are coming from and the impact of how they are grown and harvested has on the earth's environment. Most of today's food comes from direct or indirect {as animal...
For the European crisis that bell of uncertainty is set to ignite a cataclysm of disaster spreading woe and misery to all four corners of the earth. What was once the ash pit of a continent following both world wars many thought that Europe just might get it right this...
While practically every economist has predicted that the economy in the United States had begun a slow methodic climb out of the doldrums that America experienced following the financial crisis of 2008 they may have been be a bit too optimistic. When you look at the...
With all the debate focused on the repeal of the President's Affordable Health Care Act of 2010 it is a very good time to focus of the true nature of health care in the United States today. In all actuality our nations health care well, there really isn't a national...
The poor, the destitute, the hungry, how many times have we all heard the downtrodden's plight? The gauntlet has been thrown, the challenge made, and the dye has been cased. Yet, no one has come forth to pickup that gauntlet and lay claim to the challenge of rescuing...
Not since the Great Depression has a whole generation of Americans become so destitute. Pay-Day lenders and Credit Card companies continue their onslaught of luring more and more people into situations where inevitably they end up so impoverished it is almost impossible to...
No other person in the history of Europe has ever come close to doing what Charlemagne did for his people and for the Catholic Church. By the Sword and the Cross Charlemagne swept across Europe and united nations. Through-out his reign he was determined to bring order and...
Just like in the game of Life there comes the time for dealing with the consequences of the decisions that were made by the financial institutions and governments. That time is rapidly approaching. The day of reckoning from all those financial decisions that has and is...
In a distant time far removed from the harsh realities of today for me there was that summer place. A place where we all felt safe and warm especially on those cool summer nights. This is the period in my life where the youthful adolescence morphed into a new awakening. No...
When a recent report indicated that Tampa, Florida overtook Detroit, Michigan as the worst metropolitan area economically speaking; they did so because the Tampa area continues to be infested with mass foreclosures, double digit unemployment, now over 17%, faltering school...
Straight out of a Hollywood script you might say when a Deja vu episode unfolded. This time where 2 billion dollars vanished from the coffers of JP Morgan. It was only a few years ago that the entire financial world almost came crashing down. If it wasn't for the bail out...
On the eve of his 61st birthday Jim Ryan was suddenly called into his bosses office. Upon arriving Jim noticed that the old familiarity of niceties that used to prevail whenever anyone was called in before was suddenly gone. Instead, within a few seconds after walking...
When Reverend Billy Graham recently supported legislation to ban same sex marriages in his state he pointed to one very important facet of American society today. That is the overall morality in this country has been eroded almost to the point of no return. We have to...
Not since the Great Depression has the United States suffered such agonizing prolonged financial woes for countless millions of Americans. When we have legions of unemployed citizens followed by more legions of underemployed Americans is keeping the United states from...