Nothing New Under the Sun

from ecrivain01 and The Manchurian Letter Do you care about America and the future of the world? If you do, wake up. Start paying attention to the fact that there's a real world out there, and that strange things are happening in it. While the U.S. military is being battered to the point of nearly breaking in Iraq (where we are bogged down now over a war for oil that ...

No matter where we are, how long we have been here, or bad we want to hold on, change is necessary for growth. Before you get the pink slip - from a job, a relationship, or from the doctor - make sure you've been paying attention to God's FYI's. Oftentimes we are guilty of ignoring or deleting those messages because we don't want to hear what they are ...

Crabs-in-a-barrel? Now we’ve heard and seen, in real time, how “pundits” employ the age-old tactic of “divide and conquer”; They just identify, encourage, and use for their purpose, “crabs” or fringe players in one’s black-experience repertoire, against the one who threatens the status-quo. Be aware! Our most destructive enemy will have spent significant time in our own households! Was it irresponsible of Wright to make his tour correlate with Obama's campaign? ...

If everyone took responsibility for their own understanding instead of allowing others to selectively feed them, the world might be a little better off. I applaud this YouTuber for stepping up and addressing what is important to her and will ultimately serve to decrease misconceptions and ignorance by creating a necessary conversation. From the Biblical story of Babel, the lesson may not necessarily be that man was meant to ...

from WAMU's Diane Rehm Show "Barack Obama's speech called on the nation to have a high level conversation on race. Much of the media has dropped to the lowest level and focused on trying to drive controversy. Cable news has been in the dirt. The media can drive the conversation. Why not take the high road and do something good for the country?" - Bob, Rochester, N.Y. "First of all because ...

This is not an exercise in futility. It is a clarion call for self-assessment, honest expression, and relational responsibility. It is intended for those who have found themselves in arguments laden with negative energy. There is no point to argument other than to prove a point. The act of proving a point is a controlling process. It requires organization, the belief in law and order, and an agreement to ...

I recently received the following email: Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God. It is an activity of holy thought, consciously performed in the presence of God, under the eye of God, by the help of god, as a means of ...

Masdar City will be the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city, meeting or exceeding a set of stringent sustainability goals established under the “One Planet Living” program established by WWF and environmental consultancy BioRegional. Located just outside of Abu Dhabi, the six square kilometer city will be powered by solar energy. Electricity will be generated from photo-voltaic panels which will power everything from the city's transportation system to its ...

FDA approves cloned meat, milk: newspaper Gloria, the first baby cow of cloned cow Vitoria, is seen with her mother in a 2004 photo. A Food and Drug Administration report finds that meat and milk from cloned animals is, for the most part, safe to eat, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. REUTERS/Jamil Bittar The government declared Thursday that food from cloned animals is safe to eat. After more ...