Efficiency Obliterates Identity

Creating A Positive Future Begins In Human Conversation. The Simplest And Most Powerful Investment Any Member Of A Community Or An Organisation Can Make Is To Begin With Other People As Though The Answers Mattered.

In The Deregulated Realm Of Us Banking And Finance, Crime Does Occasionally Pay For Its Foul Deeds, Not In Prison Time But By Making Modest Rebates To The Victims.

The Trauma Of 9/11 Stimulated Infinite Possibilities For Worry - Some Quite Plausible, But Most Inspired By Remote What-if Fantasies. A Society Bingeing On Fear Makes Itself Vulnerable To Far More Profound Forms Of Destruction Than Terror Attacks. The "terrorism War", Like A Nostalgic Echo Of The Cold War, Is Using These Popular Fears To Advance A Different Agenda - The Re-engineering Of American Life Through Permanent Mobilization.

Fellow Senators Balked At Punishing Senator Alfonse D'amato Of New York Though He Was Caught In A Series Of Transactions That Earned Him The Label "senator Sleaze." D'amato Explained Their Reluctance As He Defended His Own Behavior. "there But For The Grace Of God Go Most Of My Colleagues," He Said.

The Rich Nations Of The World Are Acting Like Ancient Usurers, Lending Money To The Desperate Poor On Terms That Cannot Possibly Be Met And, Thus, Steadily Acquiring More And More Control Over The Lives And Assets Of The Poor.