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WHY WE SHOULD NOT TRY TO “CONTAIN” CHINA

a comment to an article by Andrew Browne published in the Wall Street Journal on 12th June 2015  We should sincerely thank Mr. Browne for his article published by WSJ on June 12th, 2015. As our memories of the Cold War hysteria have been fading away, the author reminds us of our leader’s myopia and, since… Continua a leggere WHY WE SHOULD NOT TRY TO “CONTAIN” CHINA

THE SHAME OF AMERICA

Over Spring Break in Florida, a young college co-ed lay unconscious on the beach. She was then gang raped in broad daylight, watched by hundreds of male and female college students—who did absolutely nothing to help this defenseless young lady. Not a single college student even called the police. This is an atrocity—and every observer… Continua a leggere THE SHAME OF AMERICA

SEX IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

My hypothesis has proven true. The wrenching of sex out of its life- and biblical-context, as conservative as that may sound, is, I believe, nevertheless the correct view in the diagnosis and therapy of our culture’s obsession with sex. Our cultural separation of sex from its natural context of marriage has weakened our culture intellectually… Continua a leggere SEX IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

PUTIN’S EVIL AND THE COMPLICITY OF THE CHURCH

“No man can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” (Mt. 6:24) Putin ordered the hit on Nemtsov as he has done on seven others: Paul Khlebnikov, Alexander Litvinenko, Boris Berezovsky, Anna Politkovskaya, Natalya Estemirova, Anastasiya Baburova,… Continua a leggere PUTIN’S EVIL AND THE COMPLICITY OF THE CHURCH

TORTURE: IMPOLITIC, UNETHICAL, UNCHRISTIAN, AND UNAMERICAN

11“I want to shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.” –President John F. Kennedy   The recent release of many CIA documents by the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee detail: 1) the CIA’s secret and systematic use of torture after 9/11; 2) the CIA’s repeated denials that it was using… Continua a leggere TORTURE: IMPOLITIC, UNETHICAL, UNCHRISTIAN, AND UNAMERICAN

WAL-MART: THUGGISH CORPORATE CAPITALISM AT ITS WORST

“All hope abandon, ye who go through me”—Wal-Mart’s Employee Credo      “A truth forgotten is a truth lost.”—the author   I went to a Wal-Mart in Santa Fe, New Mexico, last Saturday. I had grave misgivings about doing so, knowing a little of its sordid dealings with the cities in which it locates and of… Continua a leggere WAL-MART: THUGGISH CORPORATE CAPITALISM AT ITS WORST

THE EVISCERATION OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

Admiral William McRaven, head of the US Special Operations Command, has been chosen as chancellor of the University of Texas system upon his retirement in the fall from the military. And he is not the first military officer, or national security official, to be chosen to head an American university or college, either. Is he… Continua a leggere THE EVISCERATION OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

EVIL UNOPPOSED

Europe today is experiencing déjà vu: a frightful reliving of the accommodation to evil of the 1930’s, when France, England, and Italy permitted Hitler’s seizing of the outer rim of Czechoslovakia  which bordered  on Germany, called the Sudetenland, and   home to Czechoslovakia’s approximately three million ethnic Germans. The Sudetenland was an important industrial and banking… Continua a leggere EVIL UNOPPOSED

BOREDOM : THE DEATH OF CULTURE AND THE RISE OF ELECTRONIC NIHILISM

“Many people find it difficult to use their minds to entertain themselves…In this modern age, with all the gadgets we have, people seem to fill up every moment with some external activity.” –Timothy Wilson, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia   Professor Timothy Wilson devised, for our technological age, an important experiment to see what… Continua a leggere BOREDOM : THE DEATH OF CULTURE AND THE RISE OF ELECTRONIC NIHILISM

SARKOZY & CO: THE FELONIES OF ‘DEMOCRACY’ OPEN THE ROAD TO SORTITION

They have quasi-arrested, however shortly, former president Sarkozy -which is very good. But they, better all of us, should do much more: should cancel professional politics. No country will ever clear its politics of corruption without shutting and sealing the ballot-boxes for good. Three, even four centuries of electoral democracy in North America have proved… Continua a leggere SARKOZY & CO: THE FELONIES OF ‘DEMOCRACY’ OPEN THE ROAD TO SORTITION

ALTRUISM VS SELFISHNESS: OR, CAN WESTERN CULTURE BE SAVED?

        Only the supersensory, superlogical, unmediated merging of the object and subject into seamless oneness allows an adequate knowledge of the object or the true reality.                                                                                                                         –Pitirm A. Sorokin For well over a century now, several of the West’s deepest and most sensitive thinkers and writers have been experiencing what they believe… Continua a leggere ALTRUISM VS SELFISHNESS: OR, CAN WESTERN CULTURE BE SAVED?

YAHOO’S SHAMELESS DISTORTION OF THE NEWS TO FAVOR THE NRA

We all know that most of the media is owned by a handful of people or corporations (e.g., General Electric owns NBC and Rupert Murdoch, FOX), and that nearly all media are run by ideological right-wing Republicans; and we all know further that the last thing right-wing Republicans offer the public is impartiality of news… Continua a leggere YAHOO’S SHAMELESS DISTORTION OF THE NEWS TO FAVOR THE NRA

THE PUTIN GAMBIT—CHECK!

There are some people for whom the most elementary truths are just beyond their ken. Putin is one of these. He just doesn’t get it. People—nations—want to be free. It is just that simple. His KGB background, which depended ultimately on coercion, has saturated his soul so that it is impossible for him to think… Continua a leggere THE PUTIN GAMBIT—CHECK!

GILEAD SCIENCES: $84,000 OR YOUR LIFE

John C. Martin, CEO of Gilead Sciences, a pharmaceutical company, has set a price of $1,000/pill in the US for the newly-approved drug Sovaldi, which has recently been proven to cure Hepatitis C. The full treatment would require 84 pills, which in combination with other drugs would raise the price of a cure to around… Continua a leggere GILEAD SCIENCES: $84,000 OR YOUR LIFE