Hope. Let's take a look at this blight to humanity. It is a blight because people who hope do nothing. They wait and see. Change, changing takes so much energy. Pandora was given a box and told not to open it. She did, of course. Pandora opened her box... (774 more chars)
I wrote an article some time ago, "A Good Word About George Bush" ( http://www.mwcnews.net/content/view/3044/26 ), that was, at the time, a satire. I'm not so sure it was, for what we've got now is just that aristocracy, an oligarchy, with pretty much e... (781 more chars)
As the economy of the world, via the US, comes tumbling down like Humpty Dumpty, I read articles about the End of Capitalism, some writers even noting that with controls it would still never work. For once, I think age works in my favor, age and an educati... (19147 more chars)
Hear we go again, folks! I wrote a while ago about the possibilty of martial law. I saw, elsewhere, another but then I found this today, 26 Sept: Why Is a US Army Brigade Being Assigned to the "Homeland"? at http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/25-7 . A... (335 more chars)
America: Land of Bobble-heads Every time I read the news about America, I am amazed at my countrymen's idiocy. My country is full of mindless, thoughtless people, people who, like the man on a lame donkey, blame the potholes in the road for the damned bu... (6146 more chars)
On Saturday, 17 May, the Olympic torch will pass through Shaoxing. What is more important is that it will pass through Shaoxing wenli xueyuan (Shaoxing College of Arts & Science). This is the only university so honored because China's premiere modern write... (7588 more chars)
Myanmar Burma's military dictatorship has, until just recently, refused to allow in all comers who wish to help with the devastation caused by Nature. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but. . .didn't George Bush, President of the United States, also ref... (266 more chars)
I really try to stay away from talking about my family but this item is the height of selective blindness. It is this: my family finds absolutely nothing wrong with the fact that the government is reading their mail, listening to their phone calls, following... (10831 more chars)
The left, the freedom fighters, the people who yell and shout and raise all kinds of hell about censorship and the right to speak out, the people at Mother Jones Magazine. . .they engage in the same trashy censorship, the same repression of expression the gov... (2346 more chars)
Tibet was a sovereign nation, as the Dalai Lama says, but for only around 50 years. Since the Yuan Dynasty, the time of Genghis Khan, Tibet has been a tributary of China. That is, Tibet paid to be a country. Tibet was a colony of China. The Yellow Hats, th... (4730 more chars)
The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007 on March 11, 2008. As in previous years, the reports are full of accusations of the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions includin... (30260 more chars)
I just read the most inane bunch of bullshit by an agency post at mwcnews. I'm amazed that such trash would make it here. Too many squat toilets in Beijing. Is the reporter in Beijing? How long has he been in China? Is the US--and its Western China-bashing a... (1388 more chars)
The recent and growing spate of laws making it illegal to feed the homeless is not about the homeless at all, it’s about life in America. It’s about American values and the American dream. Yes. It will work to eradicate the homeless from the af... (3949 more chars)
In an "agency" news report on China's lunar mission, we find the followiing: "The ruling Communist Party is committed to clambering into the select ranks of global space powers, even as hundreds of millions of Chinese struggle in rural hardship." You would n... (1184 more chars)
When living a nightmare scenario, even if not of your own making, there are ways of escaping. Most, however, take the easy way out. . .and Americans are lazy. Babes in Dreamland We are lost in a dream world, people often say. But. . .don't we cont... (16777 more chars)
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