Tag: freedom
member name: Rory M.
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June 20, 2007 11:48 PM EDT --
Governments have been on a prolonged orgy of deregulation and privatization of services that had previously been delivered under strict controls or public ownership.
The perfect example of this is the . . .
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September 15, 2007 11:17 PM EDT --
Getting back to nature. Living off the land. Embracing the natural world and sacredness of our Earth Mother.
These concepts have been very popular in recent decades. Going back to the 1960s, people have . . .
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January 20, 2009 03:20 PM EST --
Being a Canadian I have, like many of my countrymen, grown used to looking south to our great friend and ally with a mixture of admiration, fear, hope and judgement .
America is the most powerful . . .
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September 30, 2006 12:05 PM EDT --
We have come to an odd point in our social and cultural development wherein people of good intentions and kind hearts are unable to discuss certain topics without rancour, invective and harsh judgement . . .
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September 28, 2006 05:15 PM EDT --
Someone remarked to me recently how ironic they found it that Germany, a country which had lost the two biggest wars in history within the last century alone, had been torn in two and governed by two opposing . . .
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March 16, 2007 12:55 PM EDT --
There is a tendency to compare the war in Iraq with the war in Vietnam, especially as opposition to the war continues to rise as it did during the waning years of the Vietnam war.
The question must be . . .
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February 18, 2007 12:23 PM EST --
The hot, Cuban sun was a comfort in spite of the hardship created by being forced to sit out in it for hours without rest, shade or water. It reminded Omar of home. He had spent too many years in the northern, . . .
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September 14, 2006 10:40 AM EDT --
As a Canadian, whose current government seems committed to bringing Canada closer and closer to George Bush's destructive American administration, I am always amazed by all the "wars" our . . .
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January 08, 2007 11:57 PM EST --
America has never been an empire in the same way that, for example, Britain and Spain once were. Those nations established colonies around the globe from Hong Kong to North America and from The Philippines . . .
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May 19, 2008 01:01 PM EDT --
This is the third article in the series I have begun to pay homage to the words of other writers that have meant so much to me through my life. The first two articles can be found here:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977347468&nav=MyGather . . .
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October 08, 2006 10:30 PM EDT --
On Friday, October 6th the Toronto Star, the largest circulation daily newspaper in Canada, carried a front page story about a Canadian soldier who was wounded while fighting in Afghanistan. To his great . . .
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October 07, 2006 07:48 PM EDT --
Everyone of my generation remembers the introduction of the Mech 1. Mech 1, of course, was short for Mechanical Man 1, the first fully human formed electronic robot.
The Mech 1 was a startling innovation . . .
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October 08, 2006 11:22 AM EDT --
Tomorrow, October 9th, is Canadian Thanksgiving. So, I thought I'd take a moment to give thanks for things great and small.
I'm thankful for my life. It has been a pretty good ride so far. I've . . .
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January 20, 2007 01:30 PM EST --
I was leaving a grocery store this morning, you know the kind, where you have to insert a quarter to free up a shopping cart. I guess they figure that if you're going to steal a shopping cart that . . .
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February 10, 2007 02:31 AM EST --
We live in an age of rage. Think about it. There's road rage, air rage tax rage not to mention exotic forms of rage with labels like "going postal".
For some reason, this era in which we . . .
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