Global Issues
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THE FUTURE We see a shape but dimly there Not certain what we see. Project on it our hopes and fears, No clue what it will be. A thing of beauty it may be, Yet certain we are not. It may be brutal or bizarre, May prove ice cold or hot. The problem…
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I mean really… What the heck am I thinking. I made it through April by the skin of my teeth, yet here I am writing another verse. Sometimes I really wonder about me. Our Own Worst Enemy Technology is not the foe, it’s not your enemy. That AI that you dread so much, is…
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Currently, I’m well over halfway through this round of NaPoWriMo. Predictably, my mental batteries are starting to run a bit low. But hey… I’m still in there swinging. Doomsday? There are rumours about a war, that may come to us soon. It’s times like these I wish I lived, on Mars or on…
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I have to take a moment out from my month of poetry to draw attention to this. Over 200 girls were abducted from their school at gunpoint in Nigeria. While no one has claimed responsibility the well known terrorist group Boko Haram is believed to be behind the kidnapping. Read the full story here. As…
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U. S. President Barak Obama has announced an end to the “War on Terror” begun by his predecessor, then President George W. Bush. I have commented elsewhere on this blog about the futility, indeed idiocy, of a war on a concept. Finally, there is someone in the Whitehouse with enough brains to realize it. Well…
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My 22nd NaPoWriMo effort is in honor of Earth Day. Earth Day A vernal warmth is on the land As round the seasons go. On this small world we call Earth The only home we know. She gives to us all that we need Trash is all we give back. The water’s dead, the soil…
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I’ve been reading a fair bit about the ongoing drone war controversy. I don’t agree with the idea of murdering people because they might be a threat to your “interests” somewhere down the road. Let’s not kid ourselves. If you kill someone without due process of law, that’s murder. Even more so when the dead…
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In a recent story by the Atlantic Wire, Adam Clark Estes raises the alarm over a clause in the drone war policy that allows the U.S. government to kill Americans too. It seems Predator attacks are only fun to watch on CNN when the person on the other end is a foreign national. So now…
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