Racial tendencies

“The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.” – Abraham Lincoln
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Progression

There are those who believe that we
climbed down from some perch in a tree,
and while perusing gathered nuts
saw suddenly some ifs and buts.
These formed new pathways in the mind
those of the search-for-answers kind.
So somehow revelations came.
We stood, and went in search of game
with tools and weapons we had made,
worked by the fire that came to [...]

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Follow the wind

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things [...]

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Apulian sojourn 3

As driving a car in unfamiliar places is increasingly likely to bring on panic attacks, I don’t do it any more. So to get away from it all, my wife and I usually throw ourselves into a package holiday. During our stay in Apulia this meant that we found ourselves for a time each day [...]

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Uluru

Welcome to Aboriginal land
Pukul ngalya yanama Ananguku ngurakutu.
—Yankunytjatjara welcome
Pukulpa pitjama Ananguku ngurakutu.
—Pitjantjatjara welcome
The Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra peoples form collectively the Anangu, the inhabitants of the area.
Tjukurpa panya tjamulu, kamilu, mamalu, ngunytjulu nganananya ungu, kurunpangka munu katangka nintirinkunya kanyintjaku. This Law was given [...]

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Ancient secrets

Hello, well I’m in a bit of a philosophical mood this early afternoon. The coffee was reviving and the cheese sandwiches all you could wish from sandwiches with cheese inside – even the sharp tang. I’ll skip over lunch as breakfast was rather late due to a lingering hangover from Saturday night [...]

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Apulian sojourn 2

The region is noted for the production of olive oil and olive trees dominate the landscape to tight and left as one drives through rolling hills and valleys with the Adriatic never far away.
Italy, as someone said, is just one great big museum and although Apulia’s historical buildings are perhaps less overwhelming than those in [...]

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Apulian sojourn

Well, just to liven things up a bit again I thought I’d tell you something about where I’ve been while the computer was having its makeover (it just smiled contentedly). My companion and I took a week’s holiday in Apulia, Italy which is in the southeastern corner of that fair land – at [...]

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Government inflation

"The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society." Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816. ME 14:490
Who wants more government meddling in their daily lives? Haven’t we got more [...]

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Social behavior

Doesn’t it almost bring tears to one’s eyes when one reads that important legislation is passed by the American Congress and the Senate without the majority of its members having time to (fully) read it? The lame excuse forwarded is that having to read and adequately study the contents would cause unacceptable delays to its [...]

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