Putin puts nuclear deterrent on ‘special alert’ during Ukraine conflict – BBC News

There are many who are well aware that a preponderance of privation in our country represents a societal illness becoming more and more difficult to ignore. In a way, the great ‘State of Homeless’ represents a completely separate state; think of it as the fifty-first state, the boundaries of which extend westward beyond the State of California, eastward beyond the shores of the Atlantic ocean, as far north as the Arctic circle, and as far south as the earth’s equator. It is a landless state, seamlessly woven throughout all states; one of desperation, poverty, and hunger with a population estimated roughly the same as the state of Connecticut’s 3.5 million people. At any given time, slightly over ten percent of our population is homeless. And it grows.

This articles looks at the social contract, or promise, that exists between a government and its people. With examples from our times and from history, the articles shows how trust and confidence are lost with any breech of the social contract. In particularly, this essay uses Joan Wolf’s book Daughter of the Red Deer to illustrate the plight of women who are not allowed to hunt and who thus cannot survive when ostrucized from the tribe where they have toiled at women’s work and tended children. Tje essay looks at the ill health of the social contract between the US and its citizens–and suggests what we can do to heal that promise.

The modern Africa cities are growing more rapidly than the overall birthrate due to millions of rural Africans moving to urban centers each year. Are these new urban residents going to be better off? No one is guaranteed that life will improve with the move to the city. What is guaranteed is life will change.

It is very common in Africa to show hospitality by giving a visitor a drink before any serious greetings or discussions take place. The formality of indulging in drink is very ingrained in Africa. The drinks used vary from one part of Africa to the other.

‘Good morning!’ came a voice from ground level. Sitting before me was yet another of the many homeless wretches eking out a miserable existence on the city’s unforgiving streets.

Mourning, revenge, anger… they’re always natural human reactions to catastrophes like these. But they should never find action. They’re never the answer. The Answer, as it has always been and always will be, is love….

Once upon a time, not all that long ago, a new academic pastime came to be – the study of the mythological beliefs of our ancient ancestors. Mythology was simple. Mythology was fiction, full stop. It was just a collection of folklore and legends, fairytales and tall tales. It was entertainment for our ancestral masses, featuring gods and goddesses, demigods and heroes, villains and monsters, hardships, quests, impossible tasks of all sorts and sometimes true love too. However, there wasn’t always a “they lived happy ever after” ending. Then some bright spark comes along and suggests there might be some reality behind the myths. Mythology lost its innocence and so mythology today ain’t what it used to be just a few centuries back.

“Our land has to be respected. Our land is our heritage, a heritage which protects us. Mining will only destroy nature. It will only destroy the streams and the rivers and kill the fish and kill the environment – and kill us. And bring in diseases which never existed in our land.” This is the plea we hear voiced today by the jungle dwelling Indians of South America’s Amazonian region in response to the illegal gold mining taking place there. From cattle ranchers to gold miners to logging enterprises, the illegal raping of the land is happening at alarming rates. Pollution and disease greatly alarms and saddens these indigenous people.

The Mbuti people of Zaire, Africa make their homes in the Ituri Rain Forest, living confidentially among its paths, valleys, and rivers. It’s speculated that these pygmy hunter-gatherers may be the initial African inhabitants. Around 2500 B.C., the Egyptians recorded the first known story of an expedition to the rain forest calling the Mbuti the “people of the trees”. The forest is vital to the Mbuti’s traditions and spiritual beliefs, and sustenance flows with the life of the Ituri. Often referring to the forest as mother or father, they revere it as the very source of their necessities for survival.

Mythologies are full of events that could be interpreted, if they happened instead within the last six plus decades, as a UFO event. The ‘Star of Bethlehem’ or ‘Wheel of Ezekiel” are cases in point from our Biblical mythology. Many of the mythological ‘gods’ or characters rode around in aerial or fiery chariots, but what about flying rocks or big birds transporting people around? A UFO chariot by any other name is still a UFO chariot.

What’s that famous quote, it’s practically a proverb; “give a man a fish, he’s back every day for another fish, teach him to fish, and he will provide for himself for a lifetime.” Well, it hardly matters if you are a Christian or not, that’s just good wisdom isn’t it. Sure it is, and although some people would submit that Jesus Christ was or socialist, I would submit to you that the socialist programs we have in the United States are actually making people weak, making them reliant on the government, and then the government can afford to provide for…

How can President Obama simultaneously be the destroyer of all things American for some and a great president, descent human being and admirable leader to others? Brain science sheds some light on how we can have such radically opposing views of reality. Until we learn to stop pushing people into such extreme categories of good and evil our future as a species is in doubt.