Tag Archives: United States

Roman Catholic Church in the United States of America at war

After nearly nine years, the American war in Iraq is ending and  many of their troops have come home and been reunited with their families for the holidays. The cost to the American nation has been great. Lots of those … Continue reading

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Internet absurdities

For those living in surrealist Belgium, who think it is the only country were they can create ludicrous laws and force on silly regulations, they should look aver the borders and see what is going on there. I have been … Continue reading

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A dangereous way of censorship

+++ PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. +++ At last we got a marvellous medium to get news fast over the boarders of many countries and get people fairly well informed over … Continue reading

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Payroll tax to afford social security

How could Republicans in Congress, some of whom have pledged not to raise taxes by a penny, oppose extending the same tax cuts they just passed? After years of protecting expensive tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, many Republicans now … Continue reading

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Steering captain Obama

Would some one who brings in the idea to create a Medicare and Social Security system not be a threat for a free country? “The Blue Dog and moderate Democratic congresspersons and senators representing shaky swing and conservative districts are … Continue reading

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Ability for a community to come back from a crisis

When we look at world history we can see that the world encountered many crisis, one more bad than the other, one being on an economical part, another on the human side, another concerning the environment. Some crisis brought the … Continue reading

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Justififiable anger or just anarchism

Violence or an other way to win #2 Contradictors In Violence or an other way to win I showed one side of the coin. But to my regret also I had already to show the thin battered bulged side of the coin … Continue reading

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Nearly 50 milion poor North Americans

You would not think it possible, but from the newly released ciphers we can find a record number of Americans — 49.1 million — which are poor. The  first-ever supplemental poverty new census measure takes for the first time into … Continue reading

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Violence or an other way to win

After a violent Saturday on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 a snowstorm covered the Occupy Denver members sleeping on the sidewalk of Broadway in Downtown Denver but this could not slow down the heat of their anger. They stayed in their … Continue reading

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Voice for the plebs

Citizens ought to value it most extremely when they are been asked to give their opinion.  In a community of men, each individual of that community should be fully accounted for and be taken into consideration. Wanting to know what … Continue reading

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Ecological economics in the stomach #3 Food and Populace

Continuation of: Ecological economics in the stomach #2 Resources Progression over years Humanity has progressed over hundreds of thousands of years, but until about the seventeenth century, progress was a rare event. There were novelties, but a person would not expect … Continue reading

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Anti-Crisis anger calling out

At last, in many countries there seem to be people who want to let hear their voice, making it clear they had quite enough of this system where certain folks can keep enjoying good life at the cost of others. … Continue reading

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Violence against disabled children

The life of children with disabilities is surrounded by stigma, discrimination, cultural  prejudices, ill- perceptions and shocking invisibility. Unfortunately, it is also dramatically marked by heightened risks of violence, neglect, injury and exploitation. When we do find, in 2000,  in … Continue reading

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Good news for Belgium

According to minister in charge Leterme, there has been furnished today a quite important historical break in Belgium.  At last the Belgian coalition negotiators agreed to split the voting district encompassing the bilingual capital, removing the biggest obstacle to political … Continue reading

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US poverty worse than previous recessions

The Big Apple and the Splenid New World can also not escape the same problems as its mother-home continent. The U.S. Census Bureau announced on Tuesday September 13  that in 2010, median household income declined, the poverty rate increased and … Continue reading

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Problems by losing the borders

That, indicating that continued violence is what we can likely expect, can be interpreted as being itself a treat, shows certain international reactions on what the writers of the Brussels Journal write. Though we should  recognize the world for what … Continue reading

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Christian fundamentalism as dangerous as Muslim fundamentalism

Anders Behring Breivik the man who killed76 people in two terror attacks did not bring the carnage of one fanatically driven man, because everything seemed neatly planned and he claims to have worked alongside “two more” terror cells. Friday’s atrocities … Continue reading

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Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #8 Work

Poverty evolution in Flanders 8.     Work Work-related factors were the principal explanations given as to why people were poor or excluded from society, the three main reasons being long-term unemployment (35 % of respondents giving it as one of up … Continue reading

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Voorstel van Obama omtrent oplossing voor Israël

Toen Barack Obama presidentskandidaat was zei hij: ‘Ik zal een standvastige betrokkenheid met Israëls veiligheid meenemen naar het Witte Huis. Ik zal ervoor zorgen dat Israël zich tegen elke dreiging kan verdedigen – van Gaza tot Teheran.’ (bijeenkomst van AIPAC, … Continue reading

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