(written in 2006, but remains valid) CAUSE AND EFFECT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PUBLIC-PRIVATE-PARTNERSHIPS AND CORRUPTION The false idea of Public-Private-Partnerships has been embraced by different political parties: – the Conservatives (Michael Wilson, Federal Finance Minister in Government of Brian Mulroney was one of the early promoters of the idea in about 1982). – the Liberals under [more]
NOTE: it is better to watch the video of this talk. Please see 2013-04-08 Excellent! TED Talk, Ron Finley, A guerilla gardener in south central L.A. – – – – – – – – – TRANSCRIPT Showing Revision 3, created 03/07/2013 by Morton Bast. Title: Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA Description: Ron [more]
I highly recommend clicking on the link and listening. http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/ID/2340427936/ Thanks to Janet for sending it; she writes: Holy shit! (if I may be so bold) I have written & just recently — about the power of conversation CONVERSATION You can read it here if U wish http://janetsplanet.ca/?p=11295 but never mind Instead, listen to [more]
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE … enough money within her control to move out and rent a place of her own, even if she never wants to or needs to… A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE … something perfect to wear if the employer, or date of her dreams wants to see her in an hour… A WOMAN [more]
On a moonlit night Over a moonlit water With open windows . . . we danced Like shear curtains in the breeze Then I noticed the yawning camels Watching us showing off A communion with spirit Grace & coordination beyond the norm Then seeing camels’ faces contorted with pain Abandonment & isolation Why did they [more]
PAUL EHRLICH is controversial. He wrote The Population Bomb in 1968. Some of his dire predictions have not come to pass. Others argue that it is because of his warnings that the global community made adjustments and delayed the day of reckoning. Ehrlich (below) is joined with other scientists. “More than 3,000 experts concluded humanity [more]
Dec 272012
THOUGHTS CONVERGE A little puzzle Perhaps an epiphany Three simple words I didn’t understand. Which three words? Did you guess I love you? . . . No, not those! All my relations All my relations Please what do Those three words Mean? That’s the maybe Struck in face Epiphany. . . . I worked [more]
With thanks to Janet Eaton: http://beyondcollapse.wordpress.com/ CBC Radio, Sunday Edition program, Michael Enright interviews founder of `People Who Share` movement & co-founder of `buynothingchristmas.org` Enright notes that emerging alternatives to consumerism such as `people sharing` networks and `buy nothing Christmas` campaigns challenge our way of life and restructure our economy and he questions whether this [more]
(I am sorry, I don’t know why I didn’t record the URL’s from which the following was assembled. Arendt’s ideas about the relationship between freedom and action appear nearer the bottom.) Arendt’s essay On Violence distinguishes between the concepts of violence and power. Arendt maintains that although theorists of both the left and right [more]
Jun 222012
BRAVO, ROMEO! ROMEO D’ALLAIRE’s speech in the Senate on the Harp Gov’t’s watering down of the Bill (Bill S-10) against the use of those ugly weapons, Cluster Bombs! BRAVO, ROMEO! ******************** “And yet, Bill S-10 contains an exception, in Section 11(3)(a), that would allow Canadian Forces to aid and abet the use of cluster munitions while [more]
