“The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Seattle, Washington 12-24-2015
It’s Christmas Eve, not that it matters much anymore, the thermometer reads minus119 degrees, but if feels every bit like minus 120, not very funny. It’s getting harder to find things that will burn [...]
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king
Is the Fourth Estate a Fifth Column?
Corporate media colludes with democracy’s demise
By Bill Moyers
I heard this story a long time ago, growing up in Choctaw County in Oklahoma before my family moved to Texas. A tribal elder was telling his grandson about the battle the old man was waging within himself. [...]
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are [...]
“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence.”
Charles Austin Beard
(1874-1948)
“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”
David Rockefeller