My Talks With Ex-Slaves by Dr. Joseph Bailey
What most impressed me was listening to their real, plain, and simple Common Sense principles of “Right” living they gained through observation, trial and tribulations, and reflection.
This is not a temporary drought. California’s climate is changing, and according to some sources the previous long-term climate change in California lasted 200 years or more. The solution is a systemic readjustment of California’s agriculture industry.
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To ancient Eastern Philosophers, “Vivid” referred to the Cosmic-Spirit—the life-force energy (Universal Energy or Ch’i, Ether, Prana) that penetrates, pervades, and enlivens all things. By being essential to life it conveys the idea of freshness in whatever is full of life inside or outside the mind.
Continue reading …It snowed in Cairo for the first time in 100 years. The United Kingdom had the strongest tidal surge in 60 years. In January, Alaskans mothballed their jackets, and bears, like little children, refused to go to sleep.
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The expression: “It is darkest before the dawn” characterizes my sense of what is now nationally going on in the Selfhoods of many Black Americans. This sense is drawn out of the atmosphere of something drastic happening, of which most are at a loss to pin-point what it is. Contributing to this sense are rumblings of USA people’s dissatisfaction and from increasing numbers of telephone calls and visits to my home from those I have not heard from in years.
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The American Winter is reshaping America just as the Arab Spring reshaped Egypt and Tunisia. One-by-one corrupt politicians have been driven out of office, just like the Arab Spring, and a populist attitude has taken command with the view that the old way of governing must die.
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When those who are economically powerful are in a position to use their power to wrest privileged rights for themselves, then among the economically weak there will grow up a corresponding opposition to these privilege
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After nearly a quarter of century of developing and providing affordable housing, experience has revealed that the model as originally conceived is not viable and contributes to negative social impacts to the community.
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WASHINGTON, The Center for Immigration Studies has published a new backgrounder, “Motivation for Hiring Alien Workers? Hint: It’s Not a Labor Shortage”,analyzing the reasons behind the employer push for a massive increase in temporary foreign worker admissions.
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With its radical premise as a tech-free adult camp, sanctioned by Oakland-based group, Digital Detox, Camp Grounded has been taking the national media by storm.
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