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Why Are Politicians Corrupt?
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Most politicians bend the laws of the land and steal money or solicit bribes because they need the funds to support networks of patronage. Others do it in order to reward their nearest and dearest or to maintain a lavish lifestyle when their politica ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 24649
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The Inertia of Power
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I hate it when Saddam Hussein gets proved to be right ...
Buried in all his pre-invasion bluster was a promise that Iraqis would give the Americans 'another Viet Nam' if they tried to occupy the country. To many, this sounded like just ...
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By J Square Humboldt Hits: 27570
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Wanted: And It Had Better Be Alive!
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Pakistan did the USA a favor recently ...
All they got for it was a surprise rocket attack on their own soil.
The situation is well-explained by London's Sunday Telegraph in its 29 Jan 06 edition:
Pakistan ...
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By J Square Humboldt Hits: 1983
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Mayor Wonka and the New Orleans Chocolate Factory
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Whether God sent a judgment to New Orleans for its sinfulness is open to debate and perhaps there is no way of knowing that answer until the fat lady sings. What Ray Nagin said about New Orleans being ¡°a chocolate city¡± is a bit easier to weigh and i ...
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By Rev. Michael Bresciani Hits: 24156
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Colors of the American Flag
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I would imagine that even before the ink on the Declaration of Independence had dried, the sentences: "Are we gonna have a flag? We gotta have a flag! Britain has a flag!" were echoed by members of the Continental Congress. But then, a flag is import ...
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By Regenia G. Butcher Hits: 5588
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The Right To Die Should Be A Personal Matter
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I believe that the right to die should, in most cases, be a personal matter and not a political matter (I am talking for adults, not for children. Children, and I include teenagers in this, have not lived long enough and do not have enough life exper ...
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By David G. Hallstrom, Sr. Hits: 25319
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Is Bush ready to cut and run in Iraq?
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DETROIT -- We are living under a regime that has made war and torture highly profitable for a handful of scummy corporations and individuals. That's the way the Busheviks like doing business, keeping their dirtiest deeds in the hands of for-profit su ...
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By Bill Gallagher Hits: 18797
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Knowledge and Power
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"Knowledge is Power" goes the old German adage. But power, as any schoolboy knows, always has negative and positive sides to it. Information exhibits the same duality: properly provided, it is a positive power of unequalled strength. Improperly disse ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 19376
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Bush Flirts with Fascism
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DETROIT -- The regime has already produced so many ignominious legacies that historians in the near future will be able to feast on the task of measuring the damage from the wretched deeds the Busheviks have wrought.
Certainly, the un ...
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By Bill Gallagher Hits: 28321
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Add Me to the List, Mr. Blair
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The terrorists are winning. Gradually but perceptibly, the USA and the United Kingdom (UK) are shedding their liberal democratic veneer, axing their traditions, reinterpreting their constitution (USA) and case law (UK) and, thus, becoming police stat ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 1656
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Murtha Right, Bush Lies
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DETROIT -- Privately, President George W. Bush is having a political panic attack as he retreats to his cocoon, seeking comfort from his nannies. Babs, his mommy, wife Laura, Condi Rice and Karen Hughes serve as his ladies in waiting, assuring our co ...
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By Bill Gallagher Hits: 18523
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Thanks Mankind!
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I got to thinking today and i have to say, we rock! Humans I mean. For some reason, as I sat there, eating my McDonalds, I started thinking about technology. Man was I impressed! We have so much, and we dont think about it enough. I suppose it really ...
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By Tyler Hits: 8798
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France?¡¯s Troubles: Learning from US
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I know that there are some people who are celebrating France?¡¯s recent troubles with delicious glee. I guess I can understand how they feel, given France?¡¯s ongoing hypocrisy concerning the Iraq War [hmmm?¡whose hand is in that oil-for-food cookie ja ...
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By Matthew C. Keegan Hits: 5642
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America's Second Civil War
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Reprinted with permission from:
"The Second Civil War in the USA and its Aftermath" by Sam Vaknin (second, revised impression, 2029)
Summary of Chapter 83
"The polities of the nineteenth and twentieth cent ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 24614
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