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A well-known street mantra of community organizing warns that" if you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything." Demonstrations by the disaffected working and middle class are sprouting like mushrooms in all American cities.
Published 26 Dec 11 • Read More
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Disasters and bad news came in three's this year. 2011 Earthquake here in Washington DC, Hurricane Irene and former VP Dick Chaney's tell-all book. I haven't read his book and probably never will. VP Chaney's book is a classic example of trying to rewrite history before he ends up on the wrong side of grass.
Published 19 Nov 11 • Read More
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Due to a family tragedy I haven't written or contributed to my blog for several months. I've always looked at grief simply as a bystander and when it came knocking at my door I realized how difficult it can be to deal with.
Published 08 Nov 11 • Read More
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Into Africa : Tweets, earthquakes and a bus-driving hitman?
Gavin and Bronwen Ryalls left Dunfermline in 2009 to take up voluntary charity work in Rwanda. The country is modernising and internet speeds are increasing but it's not just earthquakes that are causing shockwaves.
Published 01 Jul 11 • Read More
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Into Africa : A wedding, a funeral and a witch doctor?
Gavin and Bronwen Ryalls left Dunfermline in 2009 to take up voluntary charity work in Rwanda. The Royal Wedding is big news but amidst humbling generosity, what's the truth of the 'magic' powder and the witch doctor?
Published 02 Jun 11 • Read More
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Into Africa : Anniversary, grenades and Libya.
Gavin and Bronwen Ryalls left Dunfermline in 2009 to take up voluntary charity work in Rwanda. With the 17th anniversary of the genocide approaching, there are hopes for a peaceful future - although the trouble in Libya may have an effect.
Published 18 Mar 11 • Read More
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Governor Walker of Wisconsin has adopted a reverse 'Robin Hood' approach to economic policy. Take from the poor and give to the rich. Wealthy corporations have been given huge tax cuts which are to be paid for by concessions from the Public Employee Unions.
Published 11 Mar 11 • Read More
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If Missouri State Senator Jane Cunningham has her way, children will now be back in the work force. Eliminating her State's Child Labour Laws will offer some serious competition to factories in Indonesia and China....
Published 25 Feb 11 • Read More
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Into Africa : The kids who are desperate to go to school
Gavin and Bronwen Ryalls left Dunfermline to take up voluntary charity work in Rwanda. Life is tough and they tell of the smart child sneaking INTO school, another who survived life on the streets selling peanuts and the mums who make banana juice.
Published 18 Feb 11 • Read More
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There's two classes of people in Egypt. The wealthy upper class, and then everyone else. President Obama made the right move and now supports the revolutionary movement. In a revolution "you are either part of the solution, or part of the problem" (Eldridge Cleaver). There is no neutral ground in politics...
Published 13 Feb 11 • Read More
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Three bottles of whisky abandoned in the Antarctic ice by British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton more than a century ago returned home to Scotland. Such a tragic waste. I mean the whisky, not Shackleton's fate....
Published 30 Jan 11 • Read More
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There was a whole bunch of them. You know the type, white shirts, black ties and poorly fitting blazers. Knocking on my door on a Sunday afternoon. Interrupting my weekend nap time. Who are they, and what do they want? Missionaries who are targeting me...
Published 18 Jan 11 • Read More
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EIGHT weeks of snow, ice and freezing temperatures have turned the majority of part-time players into footballers who don't play football.
Published 18 Jan 11 • Read More
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Champagne corks are popping up and down Wall Street as Republicans assumed leadership of the House Jan 3rd. An economic Iron Curtain has descended across America now the Republicans have taken control of the House of Representatives....
Published 09 Jan 11 • Read More
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'Snowmageddon' on the East Coast....
Washington DC and the metro area avoided the "Snowmageddon" which hit the East Coast this week. There's snow to the North, South, East and West but nothing in DC. Santa is back at the NP, champagne has gone flat, and the horrible seasonal music in the stores has stopped. Life is just getting back to normal...
Published 02 Jan 11 • Read More
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This has been a very disappointing year. President Obama has shown himself to be a giant with feet of clay, with no real muscle or ability to fight. Unemployment is at a record high, with China and the Saudi's owning billions of American assets in the form of purchased US debt....
Published 23 Dec 10 • Read More
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Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived here this week in DC to promote his book "Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization". I haven't read the book, and if it is as long winded as the title, I probably won't.
Published 16 Dec 10 • Read More
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Into Africa : Christmas in the sun but bunnies have no fun
Gavin and Bronwen Ryalls left Dunfermline last year to take up voluntary charity work in Rwanda. Christmas, in 30 degree heat, is coming but there are issues with glue sniffing kids, poverty and, on the lighter side, a question mark over why their rabbits won't mate!
Published 16 Dec 10 • Read More
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Prison inmate No B33920, (Charles Manson) was found to have a mobile phone under his mattress at California State Prison at Corcoran. Smuggled phones aren't unusual in state prisons, however, how a high profile inmate like Charlie got one is a puzzle.....
Published 11 Dec 10 • Read More
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Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange remains on the lam. Interpol advisory arrest notices for a string of burglaries committed in at least four countries. Of course not, but they are as genuine as the charges for which Sweden cites in requesting his arrest. Being head of a whistleblower organization is a mere coincidence...
Published 04 Dec 10 • Read More
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If you can't rely on ancient Mayans, who can you rely on? Researchers have recently discovered that the 'end of the world' event as predicted in the Mayan calendar may have already happened. That's really not funny as I was hoping to get the last laugh on Republicans.
Published 29 Nov 10 • Read More
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A traveler at San Diego International objected to the 'pat down' security measure instead of being scanned by full body X-Ray. Not the sort of thing you expect at an airport. Labeled the 'Rosa Parks' of airline travel, 'don't touch my junk' has become a rallying cry for air traveler's rights
Published 23 Nov 10 • Read More
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In politics there are heroes and villains. Winston Churchill was a hero, Richard Nixon was a villain. President Clinton was almost a hero, until he got caught fraternizing with an intern....
Published 18 Nov 10 • Read More
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Within 24 hrs of being re-elected, Senator Jim DeMint from South Carolina reneged on his campaign pledge not to vote on increasing the national debt ceiling. Backpedaling on campaign promises is normal in politics, and everyone expects it of course....
Published 10 Nov 10 • Read More
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Dig out your dark sunglasses America, sharpen those boxes of pencils and polish those apples, because you’re going to be selling them on street corners now the Republicans have won control of the house....
Published 04 Nov 10 • Read More
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The ‘Rally to Restore Sanity’ and ‘Keep Fear Alive’ in America wrapped up in Washington, D.C. this weekend with a huge crowd on hand to see performances from The Roots, John Legend, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Ozzie Osbourne, Tony Bennett, Sheryl Crow, Kid Rock and more. Tour buses and fans arrived from all over the US.
Published 31 Oct 10 • Read More
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President Bush emerged from exile in Texas to do what he does best, putting his foot in it. Regretting he never got the opportunity to privatize the Nation’s pension system while in office. President Bush was kept busy instigating foreign wars and alienating the American working class...
Published 29 Oct 10 • Read More
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Five goals, four penalties, two of which were missed, two sendings off, a last minute replacement for the original referee, a switch of referees at half-time and the last-gasp arrival of the team's right back. Press reporter Graham gibson blogs about a truly bizarre game ...
Published 28 Oct 10 • Read More
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Supporters of the American Tea Party like to wrap themselves in the American flag. I mean literally wear the flag as a shawl or a throw blanket. That’s a little tacky and irksome...
Published 24 Oct 10 • Read More
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Into Africa : Faster internet but now the school's closing. Progress?
Gavin and Bronwen Ryalls left Dunfermline last year to take up voluntary charity work in Rwanda. The country is rapidly changing since the preseidential elections but is the gap between rich and poor narrowing? And what's this government move from right to left?
Published 21 Oct 10 • Read More
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