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Healthcare Heroics
If you try to help someone who’s drowning, they often clutch and claw in a frenzy and pull you down with them. People in the grip of panic are often unpredictable and irrational, and lash out at anyone trying to help out. So it’s been with healthcare reform in the USA in recent months…. Continue reading
Economics in a Nutshell; a Natural View
Let’s look at social groups for a moment (families, companies, cities, nations…) from a natural perspective… and then a simple, natural view of economics will emerge. Continue reading
So, What About 2012 and the End Times?
… As far as 2012, or any other timeframe, not even the Ethereals really seem to know exactly WHEN the ‘apocalypse’ is going to shake things up here big-time…. Continue reading
Standards: The Key to Compatibility and Peace in the World
… So, if we’re going to take that final step from a feudal past into a future of peace, that’s a great place to start… worldwide compatibility in economics and politics. Peace doesn’t occur until there’s compatibility. A fact of life: When there’s compatibility, only then can there be peace….
Blown to Bits in the Computer Age
The computer industry takes the text we read and the pictures we see, and music soundwaves… and breaks it all to bits, literally…. Next week we’ll see how standards could bring greater compatibility to almost all fields of human endeavor…. Continue reading
Fox New Is the GREATEST . . . Gauge . . . of . . .
I’m not suggesting that Fox News is the direct cause of all the squabbles on the planet, but . . . . Continue reading
China vs. Google: The Real Solution
Modesty, tolerance, courtesy, and other noble virtues form the cement that holds Chinese society together. From its beginnings more than 4,000 years ago, the Celestial Empire has matured into a society of people more interested in a stable community than in … Continue reading
What Obama and Stalin Really Have in Common
Nearly a century ago, Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was in charge of a country that was living in the past. Changes had to be made, so Stalin did what he had to do to drag Russia, kicking and screaming, into the 20th Century. Today, Barack Obama (1961- ) is in charge of another country that’s living in the past. Again, changes have to be made, so Obama is doing what he has to do to drag America, kicking and screaming, into the 21st Century. Continue reading
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Solving Israel’s Problems
Currently Israel is making concessions to the Palestinians, but any agreement that emerges will probably be short-lived. Let’s see if we can figure out why, and at the same time try to get to the root of the situation to come up with a real, lasting solution that would bring perpetual peace to the region…. Continue reading
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Bad Counsel and a Short Leash
…generals should be left out of policy-making. When they advise on foreign policy, they tend to advocate strategies for attack. That’s what they do. They’re fighters. Especially in modern nations like the US, militaries have powerful weapons and huge ranks of soldiers and sailors… and the generals (as well as weapons developers) are always looking for ways to put them to use. Heed their counsel under normal conditions? Bad idea…. Continue reading
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Noble Savage World 