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Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! It is not a Barack Obama quote – it is a classic in the Theater of the Absurd. It is part of the conversation of the two losers Waiting for Godot in the Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece. The US spent trillions of dollars...

They call it anti-incumbent wave. Make no mistake: the Establishment (both Republican and Democratic) is celebrating. It is like a snake shedding its old skin, because the monster needs more space. It is the same old snake only it looks new. All you need is ton of sleaze to slide out of the old suffocating casing. And the politicians are always well lubricated during election time. Joe Sestak beat the old and confused man Specter with the slogan “Washington is broken”. WTF! Sestak is a Congressman since 2007. He served as Director for Defense Policy on the National Security...

America was surprised again when the US Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner apologized to China for the Arizona immigration Law. There is no surprise here. The guy belongs to the same government crowd that believes that: Requiring people to follow the law may be oppressive, unless it is the tax-law. Working for Wal-Mart is oppressive, but sweeping the streets for workfare is social justice. Wall Street is oppressive despite the fact that people voluntary invest there, but government taking away your money with taxes is social justice. Paying for college education is oppressive, but paying taxes for somebody’s college...

Territories: places where people live and work – don’t really know how to function according to Pierre Calame: a high profile player in the Gorbachev/Strong Earth Charters Commission. I have no control over how long these videos will be available; the folks pushing the Solidarity Oeconomy will probably delete them soon. To sum up the content: the current model of the “dominant economy” will be replaced with a new model of “solidarity economy”. According to Calame the multinational corporations and the governments will no longer be the pivotal players in the economy. Instead the territories will interact with the Global...

KNOWING THE TARGET AUDIENCE It is always easier to convince people to act upon something they already believe than to convince them to act on something they do not yet believe… Environmental concerns may not be important to the advocate’s audience, in which case the advocate must determine what is important to this audience and frame the message to tap into it. For example, an advocate may wish to frame the message around such issues as religion (stewardship), public health, people’s livelihoods, children, or cultural and historical preservation. The tip comes from a toolkit distributed by ISAR: Resources for Environmental...

Turkey is joining the Eurovision 2010 contest with an interesting song. That is mildly said. I find it creepy, but I live in America so I am not voting in the Euro contest. “We could be the same” is the title. The official Eurovision website suggests: About the lyrics, the band has stated that they expected the listeners to find out what the song means. However, they revealed that the message of the song is the quest for a peaceful world where people live with love and faith. So let’s find out! Here is a snippet from the lyrics:...

Authorities are arresting men on administrative immigration charges for overstaying their visas. No, not in Arizona: in NYC and Boston. Following the money trail in the case of Faisal Shahzad the federal authorities are raiding homes and detaining Pakistani immigrants involved in money transactions with the Times Square bomber. Only they arrest them on immigration charges because the men were in the US illegally. It is perfectly fine. It is the same federal law that Arizona is trying to enforce. If somebody is in lawful mish-mash with the authorities, the latter should be allowed to ask for the immigration...

There is something rotten in the state of Britain when a conservative Prime Minister gets elected with the help of Mao loving Anita Dunn. David Cameron got her for campaigning help in February which ironically coincided with his ratings going down. The true-conservatives in Britain refused to vote for the progressive Cameron carrying Alinsky in his pocket and the Tory were not able to get majority in a year when all the stars were aligned for them. Instead of Conservative change the UK got a perverse union of a Climate Change/Big Society Cameron and the Pro-EU/Pro-Euro/Pro-Amnesty Clegg. In a...

From Greece to Britain and the USA – trillions in bailouts disappear into the black holes of the overspending government bureaucracies and irresponsible corporations. It is amazing that the stock markets are still functioning. May be it is because the Wall Street stopped reflecting the reality long time ago. Instead the market invented the new dimension of reality – the derivatives of all kind. Wall Street is trading crap – the derivative markets are like trading shares for vacations on asteroids, because Obama said he has a plan to go there, when the economy recovers and he gets revenues from...

We love Greece, but the country’s problems are EU problems and the USA tax-payer should not be on the hook bailing out Greece.... In the USA we have a gigantic debt problem of our own. If we have extra cash we should be reducing our own deficits, not pouring money into Greece though IMF. The best way to help our Hellenic friends is to get the US economy going full force so the most adventurous of us can go on vacation to Greece. If we recover the US economy we are going to consume more products of Greece – like...

It is hard to figure out which is the dumbest one so I will leave the particular order to you. Here is what the mighty Obama administration had to endure so far: - Closing Gitmo without closing it; - Shahzad making a dry run on Times Square practicing bomb planting; - AbdulMutalab lighting a bomb in his underwear on a plane despite the fact that his father spelled his name to the officials weeks before; - Nidal Hasan attending few of the Presidential Transition Task Force of the Homeland Security Policy Institute meetings and making Power Point presentation of...

The UK Independence Party came forth in the overall vote in the 2010 British elections with over 900 000 people putting their trust in the party running on the platform of getting out of the European Union. The British National Party came fifth with over half a million votes. Both UKIP and BNP received zero seats in the British parliament – 0, nada, zilch, none… The hate for the EU is spread all through the Kingdom, but is not concentrated in any particular place so the party can gain a seat in the parliament.... The Out of EU, fiscal...

The Tory victory in the UK (although without glamorous fireworks at the end) was expected. The conservative wave that started in Germany hit Britain and is now on its way to America. The only surprised faces over the results were those of the Liberal Democrats. They thought that Barbie face Nick Clegg Obama-like rhetoric will carry them long way. The liberal media in the Great Kingdom drooled out so much saliva over St. Nick that Bernie Goldberg may collect enough for a Slobbering Love Affair – British edition... The Tories however did not get the majority. Two things sunk...

The White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs would have been a lot of fun if he was a PR person for Cycling News or Backpacker Magazine. Did you know Gibbs has a new bike? If you follow the Press Secretary on Twitter in hope that some important news may stream from there you probably saw this: Gibbs tweet: Got a sweet new Trek bike yesterday and am about to head off on the maiden voyage – beautiful day in DC… Many folks are happy for Gibbs. Even those who just bought used bike for their kids from Craigslist are...

The NBA basketball used to be the best in the world. It was like Magic. Like Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. It was like a dream. Like a Dream Team with Patrick Ewing, Larry Bird, Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan, Clyde Drexler, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Chris Mullin, Charles Barkley, Earvin “Magic” Johnson... It used to be the basketball that was bringing people all over the world in the hall and in front of the TV. The Phoenix Los Suns (formerly known as The Suns) general manager Steve Kerr remembers that time. I remember I was rooting for him and...

The terrorist is in custody. So what do we do next? Like with the Christmas bomber America got lucky that the device did not work and we are not counting bodies in NYC today. The underwear bomber had his Miranda rights (courtesy of the Attorney General Eric Holder who made the decision) after one hour of chit-chat with the authorities and immediately stopped talking. We learned that the USA has lived for one year without High Value Detainee Interrogation Unit. On his first day in office President Obama took away the interrogation authority from the CIA and gave the power...

My five-year-old brought these picture from school today. I’ve seen many like this through the years but for the first time there is a community organizer in the mix with the community helpers. Right there: between the veterinarian taking care of a dog and the trash man picking up a banana peel. Asked to explain how the President helps the community the boy said: “He tells them what to do. Like this (spreading hands): Listen!” He is a smart boy. He told me there is global warming and all the people will turn into chicken nuggets.

After ten days of peaceful negotiations with BP and occasional threat of serious sanctions, President Obama is left with two options: nuke the oil spot or deem it a right-wing conspiracy. Let’s compare the photos of the Obama and the Bush White House web sites in the first couple of weeks after environmental disaster in Louisiana.

Left wing hysteria over oil drilling is exactly what the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad needs during his visit to UN next week. His talking points include convincing the world that the Iranian nuclear program is green and for peaceful purposes. It is easy to guess that the Iranian dictator will point to the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and accuse the West in wishing ecological disaster to his country instead of clean nuclear energy. Nobody in the room will believe the whole circus. However, it is hard to ask Iran to stick with “drill, baby, drill”...

President Calderon doesn’t like the new Arizona law. Let me remind him that the USA is not Mexico. Drug cartels are not deciding the court cases and are not running the country. The drug kings are not calling the judges: Ola, take care of the matter. The US legal system will weigh on the legislature fairly and President Calderon should patiently mind his own business while the procedures in the courts take place. May be Calderon thinks he doesn’t have enough problems in his own country so he decided that fixing ours is a Mexican priority. We don’t think...