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Category Archives: Spirit & Heart
Who Likes Gold Standards ?
James Rickards, in “The Death of Money,” page 234, comments about gold standards for the economy:
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Tagged economics, finance, gold, monetary policy, stock market
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Getting Mugged is Your Fault – No Right to Favor Americans
A Georgetown University student wrote an article in the school paper defending the teenagers who mugged him at gunpoint. This guy represents many others also growing up who will later represent our nation in Foreign Service. We’ve reached a point where … Continue reading
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Anymore, We Don’t Value Our Citizens First
Anymore, it seems public figures and politicians are tripping over each other to highlight the need to care for illegal immigrants, or refugees of foreign wars, displaced individuals around the globe, or nearly anybody except “Joe Plumber,” citizen of the … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate democracy, economics, globalization, government, politics
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Surveillance Keeps Power in Power
You are monitored everywhere – license plates on passing cars, cameras on roads, shopping malls, gas stations, airports. It has begun to bother me, yet my friends advise “If you’re not doing anything wrong, why do you care if you … Continue reading
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Trouble Today or Tomorrow
Thomas Paine wrote on December 23, 1776 in his first edition of “The Crisis”: