ebola (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Rev. Dan Vojir)
What the Christian Right thinks - or doesn't think.  

Violence and Strike in Syria: The Future Strategy (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Muhammad Irfan)
In   fact, this turbulence-centered issue precipitates to three fundamental aspects,   likely to be profoundly investigated with their future ramifications. These   aspects of the study include domestic, regional and international:       Domestically,   the locals support is considered as the most important component of the   military strategy, aimed at toppling ISIS. It is projected that IS combative   capability is worth mentioning. That is why US forces are required to cope with   them with acute plans and iron fist. Thus, given the IS capability, the local   tribes and peoples support is important. According to a source, 'The   nationalistic Opposition should be supported.'[i]       Regionally,   the efforts are required to be realistically made for amassing the augmented   strength before landing on the battlefield in a quest to confront with the   adversary. This goal can promptly be pulled off when alliances are revitalized   with the Arab friends. According to Fredric, 'Sunni Arab world's sustained   involvement in war is important.'[ii] That   is how The Sunni Friends can prove productive in the said struggle.       However,   there might be two restraints, which can fetter the outcome of this plan. First,   this restraint includes the Arabs security concerns and reservation regarding   the past US apathy. Nonetheless, this can be removed by ensuring them security   assurance. According to a research fellow, 'The only way we can build up our   alliances is by providing security to our friends.'[iii]       Second,   Iran's role is another restraint that USA, the leading actor in fight against   ISIS, has to face. This fight unveils the importance of Iran. Excluding Tehran,   the fight might expand towards other frontiers with the challenging powers   having auspicious access to the conflict prone zone. However, in this pursuit,   the Arab's reservations cannot be pacified. That is why an effort, aimed at   unity with Arabs, ultimately would remain futile.       Internationally,   the competition with the challenging powers cannot be ignored in the matter of   the fight against ISIS.  According to   Pepe, 'How does full spectrum dominance apply when two actual competitors,   Russia and China begin to make their presence felt?'[iv]       Particularly,   Russia has reservations upon what secretive plans the US establishment pursues   in Syria. Therefore, the keen diplomatic interaction is relevant to forgo any   collision against Moscow in these critical moments. It depends on how   Washington interacts with Moscow specifically when the former is locked into   indirect conflicts with the latter. Accordingly, the US military strategy   against ISIS in both strategic as well as tactical levels would be succeeded.       In   wake of the said military actions, the displaced and effected populace needs many   sympathies. Their troubles can be estimated only by suffers. However, the   architects of the preventive strategy should think on basis that these effect-tees   should be cooperated and given financial support to let them settle in their respective   areas after the ISIS is tackled so that they might not join the ranks of global   jihadists and the peace and stability may forever be restored.               [i]   Nicolas   Burns, Arab Allies Key in Fight against ISIS, The Atlantic Council, September 25, 2014.                   [ii] Fredric C. Hof, Strikes in Syria:   one Hand Clapping, The Atlantic Council,   September 24, 2014.                  [iii]   Michael   Doran, Why Flexing America's Muscles in the Middle East will not make Things   worse?  Brookings Institute, October 03, 2014.                   [iv]   Pepe   Escobar, Can China and Russia squeeze Washington out of Eurasia? Oriental Review Research Journal,   October 10, 2014.                                     rence>:Fn   Xr----nt-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';   mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:   minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:'Times New Roman';   mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:   EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[ii] Bilal Y. Saab, Besides   Airstrikes, How the USA can accelerate the ISIS defeat, The Atlantic Council,   September 05, 2014.                   [iii] http://www.businessinsider.com/isis-is-recruiting-westerners-countries-2014-8                           [iv]   James   Dobbins, Does ISIL represent a threat to United States?, Rand Corporation, October 3, 2014.                   [v] Mathew J. Burrows, Middle East   2020: Shaped by or Shaper of Trends, The   Atlantic Council, August 14, 2014.         

Independent Escorts in Bangalore (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Sikha Naidu)
Sikha naidu is an Independent Escort in Bangalore and would like to share her lovemaking skill to people who need some relax to their body and wants to feel free with the frustrated lifestyle. Actually I am living in a luxurious from the birth so I am looking for high profile gentleman who can afford my expenses. A dating service that I provide to my clients who wants to go abroad for the business meeting and also need some fun in the hotel so I will be available at anytime.  

Foray into US Culture: Recycling ... and Marketing Recycling (p2) (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Susan Galleymore)
NO BRUSHOFFI am    wandering the aisles in Trader Joe's seeking hummus and figs and    European Bread and Greek yogurt...when I remember my sore gums and head    for the small shelf selling 'personal products'.    Now, clearly, someone as sensitive to messaging as I am must apply    some sort of scale to judge Promo-speak for the moments I fall prey to    the cultural imperative to shop 'til I drop. My scale ranges from    soft-core=benign but present, to hard-core= subterfuge, outright    lying, distortion of facts. Happily, I find TJ's toothbrush Promo-speak is soft-core...probably because TJ's carries only one line of toothbrush - and that line promotes recycling. This means it comes with a   built-in pious-o-meter: I recycle therefore I am (good, brave, trendy,    forward thinking, beautiful, smart, liberal, _________ [fill in the    blank]).Moreover, not only is there no toothbrush brand    competition, TJ's line is politically correct, environmentally friendly,   and  ...Made with love &RECYCLEDyogurt cupsWhile   it sells for close to $3 - more than double my ideal toothbrush    'spend', and given the givens (my lack of enthusiasm for shopping; that I   am already shopping; the symmetry of purchasing yogurt in a yogurt cup and a toothbrush made from recycled yogurt cups, not to mention a 'dentist designed grip' ) - I purchase one.It   is green - as shown on the packaging, above, and the promo goes like    this (from the front -image on the left - to the back - image on the    right):  [front] 100% RECYCLED HANDLEMADE IN USAFIVE GREAT COLORSgimme5 [logo] makes itrewardingto recycle [back] Smile BrightlyTiered bristles and dentist designed grip for cleaner teeth.Mail Back Pack makes recycling easy.gimme5 is our recycling communityWe turn your used #5 plastic productsand packing into new products.Recycle two just like this: [illustration of two spooning toothbrushes] [How to recycle your toothbrush] 1. Enter your rewards code at mygimme5.com [the code in the small grey box] 2. When you're ready to recycle, print the postage paid label and tape it to this package.3. Get surprises like a Preserve food storage container.ATTACH POSTAGE PAID LABEL HERELaunch a BottleshipGive your recycling a boostSend back 6 in a plastic bottleVisit mygimme5.com to learn more. [ editorial comment:    See, this is why marketing is fun...the folks thinking up this gimmick   had a good laugh at the Launch a Bottleship pun-of-sorts, and fun in    the workplace keeps workers content and coming back for more. Does the    top recycler gets a Bottleship named after her/himself? S/he should.] Nit pickin' Nit pick 1:    Packaging  explains that 'gimme5 is our recycling community' and urges    the new user to 'Enter your rewards code at mygimme5.com'. Linking to    gimme5.com, however, lands the user on a site that is not    gimme5.com. Rather, gimme5.com calls up a bland page that suggests a    domain name squatter owns 'gimme5.com' (and may be experimenting with    'recycling' of her/his own: recycling dollars from gimme5.com's pocket    into the pocket of the farsighted person who registered the domain name    first and will happily squat on it for as long it it takes). Nit pick 2:    The route to gimme5.com's website is circuitous. 1) the user keys in    'mygimme5.com' but lands on Preserve's gimme5 program: 'good deeds yield   many great returns'. Nit pick 3: gimme5.com displays the de rigeur happy, wholesome, and healthy blond all-'merikan gal wearing a t-shirt and recycling logo. Nit pick 4:    Clicking on any link on the mygimme5.com page lands the user onto     preserveproducts.com: 'Nothing wasted. Everything gained.' Yet Preserve    products does not recycle.   Nit pick 5: In order to fulfill the promise inherent in my toothbrush I must:1) join mygimme5.com - or at least enter my rewards code, share my contact info, and be open to receiving more promo material2) hold onto my toothbrush packaging so that I can mail in this toothbrush and the next one ('Recycle two just like this')3: not only hold on to 2 toothbrushes to mail but, if I want to reap the reward of launching a Bottleship I must hold on to 6 more used toothbrushes and a plastic bottle to mail. Oh, the tangled (world wide) web we weave....Despite   my Nit pickin', I do appreciate that happy, wholesome, healthy, and    blond all-'merikan youth still have the entrepreneurial spirit...and    that this business model builds in the ability to hold-your-head-up-high   (by buying and recycling as opposed to the    hang-your-head-in-shame-if-you-understand-the-business-model of    traditional corporations like Chevron, etc). Recycling businesses allow    entrepreneurs to generate profit from scratching at small corners of the   overwhelming pile of plastic trash drowning our planet.Good on ya, kids.  

Foray into US Culture: Recycling ... and Marketing Recycling (p1) (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Susan Galleymore)
A winding and varied career path eventually paid me well to work in corporate 'Internet marketing and communication'.I was not responsible, thank the gods, for coming up with hard-core 'messaging' - capitalism's lingua franca   that persuades shoppers, voters, fashionistas, lovers, etc., to shut    down their critical thinking faculties and open up their wallets to keep   up with The Joneses.I was glad to be a paid member of   a media team for I found marketing and communication presented me key    insights into our dominant culture, how it functions, who keeps it    going, how, and why. The point at which it rankled, indeed the point at    which I departed the team,  was when I was tasked with white- and    green-washing corporate ideology.Whether team members notice it    or not, sooner or later, this point always comes in this line of work.    For the essential driver of this work is having fun finding catchy new    ways of persuading people to spend money and ensure    corporate/corporate-like capital accumulates - not only regardless of    consequences but, most importantly, not asking about potentially devastating consequences.Only   recently has a small segment of the shopping public begun to    acknowledge the consequences of shop- 'til-you-drop: garbage dumps that    have grown so unwieldy that America gifts developing countries with its waste; the swirling, unbounded Great Pacific Garbage Patch; and landfills that evolve into residential neighborhoods in the US and around the world.Anyway, let me cut short a long polemic on capitalism and say: Yes, mea culpa:   I am one of a shrinking group who believes, as the Beatles put it,    'money can't buy me love'...nor can money persuade me to spread the    ubiquitous, usually corporate but not only corporate lies that go into    toxifying land, water, air, or people. Read what I mean here.I   fail to see how the complex system that is core to capitalism's wealth    extraction and accumulation can continue to savage the planet with    impunity. Nor do I see happy-ever-after looming on the horizon.Happily,   though, I see a group of people who, not only do not share my    doom-and-gloom perspective but find ways nicely to use capitalism's    messaging tools and coax into bloom alternatives from capitalism's    stagnant waters....JUST THE FACTS Fact 1:    I'm using an old toothbrush whose bristles are distorted and scratch my   gums so they hurt, and sometimes bleed. (Yes, I do have an electric    toothbrush. It is battery operated and opens up a line for future    inquiry: how to dispose, benignly, of AA batteries.) Fact 2: I need a new toothbrush. Fact 3:    I loathe shopping (the avid and avaricious buying 'look,' choosing one    thing from an  overwhelming glut, trying it on, bringing it home,    grrrrr....)   Buy online, you say? Here's an example of that enterprise: NiceTouch Disposable Toothbrushes.   Smooth head has 38 tufts of soft, end-rounded nylon bristles. Brushes    come without mint paste. 144 cello-wrapped brushes per box. Cost?   $45.99 plus tax, plus shipping plus the cost of a storage unit to keep   them until I use them all up or I die of old age, whichever comes    first. Fact 4: I put off and put off and put off the quick trip to a local store to buy a new toothbrush. Fact 5: I shop for groceries (mostly) at Trader Joe's.[read on ... page 2]  

Caoital in the Twenty-First Century (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Thomas Riggins)
  

Ukraine (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by John-Paul Leonard)
  

The Ideal Society and the Ideal U.S. Constitution (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Roger Copple)
After describing 6 major political and religious groups, the author explains how unity among all the diversity can be achieved by passing an amendment to revise Article V so that laws thereafter will be easier to change, and the Constitution will be easier to amend and easier to abolish.  Then when the 7 largest national political parties are empowered through Proportional Representation to have a Constitutional Convention, a new  Constitution can be created.  The author then proposes his ideal constitution called the Third Constitution of the United States, following the Articles of Confederation and the current constitution.     

rlene Goldbard: Art and Story As Activism, Awakener and Change Catalyst (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Rob Kall)
podcast and transcript in two parts  

Anti-Aging and Regeneration (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Dr. Hans J. Kugler, PhD)
Applied anti-aging is a, scientifically documented, reality/possibility.  

Health Care (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Shirley Braverman)
  

Gardening (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Shirley Braverman)
  

Poetry (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Shirley Braverman)
  

Non-interventionism and Ukraine (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Charles Roll)
Non-interventionist sentiment is growing in USA. What should a non-interventionist policy or position look like for the Ukraine issues?  

Gender Equality is Essential to our Survival as a Species (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by John Coombes)
For too long our species has been dominated by male dominated short term thinking. We have now reached a crossroads where if this short term attitude is continued it will take us to our own self-destruction. Gender equality is no longer the political football it has been for centuries but a matter of life and death. It was Albert Einstein who said 'The thinking that created the problem is quite incapable of solving it' and nothing is truer about the challenges we now face in this 21st century  

Toke Signals TV / Radio Cannabis / Marijuana Weekly News Program (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by )
Toke Signals TV / Radio is your source for the latest in uncut, uncensored, no-holds-barred, non-corporate-controlled cannabis news, hosted by Steve Elliott, author of the Little Black Book of Marijuana and editor of TokeSignals.com. Find out what you need to know about the week in cannabis / marijuana news, in 30 minutes or less!   

Odisha and Sea Turtles (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Basudev Mahapatra)
Odisha is the only state in India to have three Olive Ridley turtle mass nesting sites. Lakhs of turtles visit Odisha coasts every year for mass nesting.  

Medea Benjamin; How To Interrupt a President (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Rob Kall)
audio podcast interview and two part transcrip-- how to do it-- planning, strategy and execution  

Bill Holt's Dreamies® (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by William Holt)
Video art and politics.  

Prose-poetry, Politics, Personal Growth (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Patrick Frank)
In this series of prose-poems, I explore issues related to personal growth and politics in the form of prose-poetry.  

Globalism/Agenda 21 and Related (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Rima E Laibow MD)
   Globalism is a process in which economic, social, legal, health and military systems are brought under a single controlling agency, often the United Nations and its component agencies.   The policies and intentions of the process of Globalism include sharp reduction of the global population and limitation of personal options, choices, movement and property ownership.   The tools of globalism are, fundamentally, totally antithetical to personal liberty, health or freedom and must be halted, reversed and eliminated while there is still time and opportunity to do so.   Recommended sites: www.TRUTHAboutAgenda21.com, www.DrRimaTruthReports.com, www.GDS-Therapy.com     

The Secret of the Human Heart (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Cynthia Piano)
   The Secret of the Human Heart is a series dedicated to the innate gifts all of us have within; the ability to love unconditionally, assist others, and live a full joyful life.   Through it we explore what we all have in common, to co-create a peaceful abundant world.     

Climate Change (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by CJ Orach)
        

TruthIsLouder News (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by )
   Truth is Louder voices the   public interest. Enjoy interesting and informative articles-   Find out about the harsh realities of whistleblowing and   conducting a legal case without any legal representation. For the general public, 'self-represented litigants', would-be whistleblowers and the   people who support them.      

Whistleblower, No FEAR (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo)
This series will focus on the plight of whistleblowers and social justice. 

EAT THE PRESS - Don't Read It! (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by John K Roberts)
In this series, we published the inane, un-vetted 'prevarications that are passed along to us by unreliable and unknown sources.  Our Journalistic Creed demands that we race to publication before doing any fact checking because we believe:'That Your Right To Know Supersedes Our Right To Tell The Truth'!Proceed with caution and be sure to wear your 'big boy pants', or 'push up bra'; best read in the nude.  - Publisher

Rape, violence, and culture (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Jennifer McClendon)
We need an honest and comprehensive conversation on rape, violence, and culture. I plan to deliver one of what I hope will be many voices on this matter. 

getnetabebe (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by getnet abebe)
getnetabebe is good wish for equality in history in future .getnetabebe    was born in small town in  mola, ethiopia .now i am learn in addis ababa   ,journalism and communication.i have great hope in future,to make    Ethiopia democracy.i am parent less,and i am pass alot of    challenge.personally,i like white but i see equal with black people.life   for me teach alot,leave and learn in ethiopia is very challenge.

War Against Syria? (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Thomas Magstadt)
A two-part series on the folly of fighting another unnecessary war in the Middle East.

Corporate Charades (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Gary Brumback)
A corporation is made up of many parts. Some of them are   charades. One of them is the corporate ethics program. This article is about   it. Others will eventually follow on the other parts. The next essay will be   about corporate social responsibility programs.         As long as the general public is duped and stays duped corporations   and their government stooges will continue pretending they are putting people,   peace and the environment over profit and power. When you think about it, the   entire corporation is a charade, not just particular parts of it. The U.S. Supreme   Court farcically ruled in 2010 that corporations are persons. People who really   believe that carry on conversations with stuffies. If only corporations were as   benign as stuffies!