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Topic: Thought Provoking

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Thought Provoking: Utter Failure; It's Time to Rethink the Prison System
Posted by: IT
With 2.3 million people in America's prison system, we've literally become our own jailers. It's time to call for a compassionate -- and more effective -- judicial system. By Sylvia Clute \| Alternet, Jun 16, 2010 Our criminal justice system is based on a curious set of rules and a double moral standard. The state’s burden of proving guilt is pitted against the accused’s right to thwart such proof.
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Thought Provoking: Google Earth and democracy (from online opinion)
Posted by: IT
	The use of Google Earth to make a virtual discovery... ...which then led to an actual one, is just the latest example of how the spread of satellite technology – and related computer applications such as Google Earth – are changing the way scientists, conservationists, and ordinary citizens are monitoring the environment and communicating their findings to the public.
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Thought Provoking: Hemp Grows on World, Not National, Territory
Posted by: IT
That the so-called US "Drug War" is an artifice and a fraud perpetrated by official ignorance and greed. By Garry Davis \|WSA Jun 25, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. Statement by World Citizen Garry Davis, World Coordinator of the World Government of World Citizens: As the German nation, after World War I was "humiliated" by the conditions of the Versailles Treaty leading eventually to World War II, so the Russian nation was "humiliated" along with its disintegrating army and navy following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Thought Provoking: Guess Which Income Bracket Is the Most Generous in the U.S.?
Posted by: IT
	Greed does not engender philanthropy in most people. It only leads to more greed. By Steven D. \| Booman Tribune May 21, 2009 The poor will always be with us and they will always be more generous than the rich.
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Thought Provoking: Would God Ever Damn America?
Posted by: IT
Many religious leaders prophesy divine retribution for America's bad behavior. I wonder what we would be punished for. By Robert Scheer \| Truthdig March 26, 2008 Would God ever damn America? Is there anything we have done or could do as a nation that might court such severe judgment from the Almighty, or is there a peculiar American exemption from God's wrath?
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Thought Provoking: 11 Things We Can Learn from the Rest of the World
Posted by: IT
	Eleven lessons the West can learn that would improve our lives and create a better future for all humanity. Ode Magazine \| October 23, 2007 The world is becoming one. But the game is being played according to rules set by the West. Where colonialism ultimately failed at running the world, Hollywood and the stock market are succeeding. In the process, we are seeing material gain and progress for developing nations -- but also substantial loss.
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Politic: Were These Same People Applauding the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
Posted by: IT
Did our government and business leaders react with support, applauding China's efforts to stop human rights abuses? Sirotablog \| June 30, 2007 It may surprise us here at home to read international polls showing most of the world thinks China's influence on the world is far more positive than America's influence on the world. Greed Is... Good??? (Michael Douglas in Oliver Stone's Wall Street)
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Lifestyle: Why No One Will Name Their Child 'George' Again
Posted by: IT
	The likes of George Bush I and II, George Tenet and Boy George might prove a death knell for the venerable name 'George.' By Will Durst \| AlterNet May 10, 2007 When a ton of crap is dumped from way high above into the lake of our lives, we rarely worry about the tiny arcing droplets splashing on our face mainly because we're too busy keeping our boats afloat and our breathing apparatuses above water, but I would like to spotlight a seemingly insignificant drop of moisture pooling at the end of our nose that is destined to affect us for the rest of our natural born days. Namely: the name George.
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Lifestyle: Why Having More No Longer Makes Us Happy
Posted by: IT
The formula of human well-being used to be simple: Make money, get happy. So why is the old axiom suddenly turning on us? By Bill McKibben \| Mother Jones Mar 22, 2007 This article is an excerpt from Bill McKibben's new book, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. It first appeared in Mother Jones.
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Thought Provoking: America the Frightened
Posted by: IT
	This is magical thinking. By Alan Bock \| AntiWar.com Feb 17, 2007 It can be both enlightening and frightening to work for a daily newspaper, in that the necessity to listen to and respond to people who have thoughts about what you have written can offer fascinating insights into the thought processes of ordinary Americans. This was brought home to me recently after I did a piece on the pros and cons of going to war with – or even undertaking some kind of cross-border military action against – Iran.
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We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA