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Ani Zonneveld sent an open letter to the current Saudi King. She “has correctly highlighted Saudi Wahabism as a major source of extremism and the foundations for terrorist groups like ISIS.”
In studying sociology I found a singular concept that almost works like a tool to uncover hidden knowledge. That concept is called “empirical indicator”. This means “what we see” thus “shows us” something else. The idea is that there can be one or more things that we can see but may actually stand for some hidden meaning. In sociology the examples given are typically things you might see in a person’s office may indicate their rank in the organization. If…
Lawrence Wilkerson, the former Chief of Staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell joins Ian Masters to discuss his article at The Huffington Post “The Magnificent Seven” What is shocking in the radio segment is Mr. Wilkerson is candid and seemingly honest in his evaluation of the Republican Party. The most shocking view that he puts forth is that one of the Republican Party’s problem with President Obama is black prejudice. I have suspected this for a long…
This American Life served up a rather shocking view, September 26, 2014, showing us an inside view of the inner workings of the New York Federal Reserve that appears to reveal how some administrators exhibit weakness and seem warm to the banks that they are expected to regulate. If a staff member shows backbone and tries to adhere to the mission of the institution they may find themselves out of a job. The sum total of this program seems to…
Colorodo Senate President John Morse and Colorado Senator Angela Giron voted to stiffen Colorado’s gun law. They were put out of office for doing so. It is simply terrific to witness political backbone and personal intelect going up against stupid.
My wife and I were in San Luis Obispo June 23 on vacation. That evening our room lights dimmed, a brown out. A while later we lost power. My wife looked out the window and reported not seeing any lights. After finding two LED flashlights I pulled out my hand held ham radio and turned to one of the local repeaters. (146.670 MHz). It took a while but within, I would guess fifteen minutes, we got a pretty clear picture…
