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 21 Nov 2011 @ 22:49
Ukraine, that once mighty component state of the Soviet Union, hasn’t seen much of the light of day of the new republic post-USSR. The once imperious and grand USSR was the world’s 2nd largest economy during its heyday, but historical mills have rolled on and the rugs under the feet of the Union peoples had drastically changed.
Badly sore on its feet for the dis-integration of that economic union, Ukraine had to scrounge for meager resources to re-start its sagging economy. It simply doesn’t have the experience to run a market economy, thus spawning mafia groups that took on every sector of the economy they can grab in a copycat of the Russian mafia. More >
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18 Nov 2011 @ 06:59
A rebel army called the Lord’s Resistance Army or LRA operates in Uganda and neighbors, inflicting damages on ordinary folks there. LRA rebels casually rape women they get across with, much like those ‘comfort women’ of Japanese Imperial Army troops then occupying vast Asian territories at the height of World War II. More >
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17 Nov 2011 @ 22:09
Beware! Other countries might pollute your own country’s waters and ecosystems!
This is the thematic message being highlighted to the global community by West Africa where transnational pollution is wreaking havoc on marine ecosystem. Industrial wastes are of particular concern in the region as they have magnified social dilemmas arising from their unregulated disposal into the seas and coastal areas. More >
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16 Nov 2011 @ 21:52
Where points the policy compass of the USA? This seems to be indicated somehow by the latest survey poll in the states that showed incumbent president Obama leading his GOP rivals by huge margins.
Simpletons across the ideological spectrum, notably the conservatives or Right, have been demonizing Obama as going socialist. Lacking analytical sophistication, the simpletons tend to associate to policy initiatives that fail as ‘socialist’. The fundamentalist Evangelicals, neo-Nazis and Tea Party demagogues equate ‘socialist’ with the Devil, a nauseating contention that only mars the reality as it is. More >
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14 Nov 2011 @ 22:10
UK’s Department for International Development or DfID should improve the monitoring of its aid offers to developing countries, particularly those aid involving infrastructures. This is the assessment of evaluators both inside and outside the UK.
UK’s aid comes from taxpayers’ money, the same taxpayers who are up in revolt over diminishing social services funds for education, health, and related welfare purposes. There are howls raised from partisan quarters concerning the propriety of UK providing further aid to other countries at a time when Britain’s own economy is on fire. More >
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4 Nov 2011 @ 22:28
Climate change + burgeoning population are causing pressures on food production. Famine has hit the Horn of Africa anew due to drought, a famine that has affected 11 millions of poor small planters. What intervention tools can be applied in support of rehabilitation works post-calamities? More >
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3 Nov 2011 @ 22:19
Youth as change drivers is hardly a new phenomenon. The advent of modernity has seen the youth (ages 18 through 30 roughly) began searing critiques of status quo, critiques that later evolved to large-scale mass movements aiming to overthrow establish authority. The Philippines is a concrete case in point where the youth of the late 19th century led the nationalist independent movement that created the new nation. More >
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2 Nov 2011 @ 22:13
The world’s top hegemon is slashing fund contributions to the United Nations. The fund cuts are coated with rubrics of transparency and accountability, which is hardly surprising for the global hegemon that has been tailing behind emerging markets in providing fresh perspectives on global issues. More >
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2 Nov 2011 @ 06:39
In this note I will share to you some more precepts and cogitations about the ‘supreme Deity’ culled straight from the pages of The Secret Doctrine, the 2-volume monumental work that was the first synthesis of science, philosophy, and spiritual discourse, of both East and West, the foundation of Theos Sophia or divine wisdom.
To re-echo the fact, it was the Mahatmas of the Great White Brotherhood, with the greatest contributions by Mahatma KH (Kooth Hoomi Lal Singh, who had ascended as Chohan Kuthumi) and Mahatma Morya (El Morya Khan, who already ascended to Chohan), of the core spiritual knowledge passed on to their chelas. The said Mahatmas, to note, were still in physical embodiment when they conducted the collaborative works with Blavatsky & company. More >
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1 Nov 2011 @ 22:23
Storms have repetitively struck emerging markets in Asia over the last two (2) months. Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, China, Pakistan, Japan, Taiwan, India, Indonesia and other most dynamic economies of the region seem to be liberally wallowing in swamps of floods.
The signs are very ominous as they bring to the surface the ecohazards facing the said countries. The case of Thailand, where 300 people have died in the latest floods while over 2 million people were badly affected, represents such ecohazards for the economic dynamos during the period. More >
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