I recently received this sad “humor” forwarded by a very old friend from our high school and young-adult days.  (In spite of it, she’s actually a very nice lady – a retired nurse – normally caring, gentle, compassionate.  But she lives in Florida, and I can’t help but think she’s just fallen-in with a bad [...]

The Phi hopes to do for radio what Apple I did for computing—spark innovation. by Timothy B. Lee - July 5 2012, 9:00pm EDT Published by Arstechnica   In 1976, two shaggy-haired college dropouts founded a company called Apple to manufacture personal computers. The company’s prospects looked so poor that the third co-founder relinquished his 10 percent stake in [...]

UN Role in International Population Policy, Reproductive and Sexual Health and Reproductive Rights: Evaluation of Declining Birthrates (Synopsis of the plenary address presented in the World Congress of Families, Moscow Summit on Demographic Declines, 2011) Ambassador Professor Dr. Farooq Hassan Barrister at Law, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court Pakistan, (QC), Attorney at Law, (US), Special UN [...]

An essay written by Alan Page. http://commongood.typepad.com/blog/, with background information from William Mitchell, and Ellen Brown Introduction: The “common good” is the collection of what no one person owns, but which all people depend upon for life.  A simple example is the air we breathe.  No one owns it but we would all perish without [...]

Back in the bad old days, email vendors limited your communications to the boundaries of their walled gardens. That is, if you had a Compuserve account, you could only send email to other CompuServe account holders. The same was true of AOL, Prodigy, etc. This made operating an email campaign for Clinton/Gore in 1992 a [...]

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Dr. Farooq Hassan Barrister at Law, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court Pakistan, (QC), Attorney at Law,   (US), Special UN Ambassador for Family, Professor, Harvard (Synopsis of address given at the International Conference on Family as a Value: In Religion, Tradition And Modernity” on 26-27 November 2010. Antalya/TURKEY organized for the Journalists and Writers Foundation by [...]

       Dr. Farooq Hassan Barrister at Law, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court Pakistan, (QC), Attorney at Law, (US) Special UN Ambassador for Family, Professor, Harvard (Synopsis of address given at the Round Table of the 2010 Rhodes Forum on 10th October 2010 at Rhodes, Greece)   I am honored to address today this distinguished gathering [...]

Commentary by:  Jock Gill   How are we going to reduce Vermont’s carbon footprint and at the same time protect Vermont’s agricultural heritage and family farms, create local jobs, and stimulate small business formation?  Is utility-scale wind part of the solution? I would suggest the answer is no. For a number of reasons, utility-scale turbines are [...]

What is this picture all about?  Read the whole Char-B-Que story and find out. Author:  Jock Gill

John Gray’s current essay in The New Statesman is a strong argument for inventing Modern Era 2.0. “… The reality, which is that western power is in retreat nearly everywhere, is insistently denied. Yet the rise of China means more than the emergence of a new great power. Its deeper import is that the ideologies [...]