Charlie Rose

ChongSunWah  09/10/2011 05:05 AM Report

Racism on the rise in Europe

In Norway, England, the Netherlands, Russia, and especially Austria, racist and Islamophobic movements are on the rise.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/09/201192182426183450.html?utm_source=Al+Jazeera+En glish+List&utm_campaign=828a7dad99-Newsletter&utm_medium=email#disqus_thread

WE NEED TO PROMOTE THE BEAUTY OF ALL RELIGIONS IN THE MAIN STREAM EDUCATION, CAN SOMEBODY TAKE THIS LEAD AND AT LEAST TALK ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY? THIS IS THE JOB OF EVERY CARING CITIZENS OF THE WORLD!!

http://dearmmlee.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/religious-study-in-main-stream-education/

http://dearmmlee.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/where-are-the-renaissances-of-our-time-2/

http://dearmmlee.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/where-are-the-renaissances-of-our-time/

SharkswithfrikingLazers  09/09/2011 01:41 PM Report

Good-bye American treasure, terrorism has leveraged it all away.

Per John Lehman: Pentagon money is going to the bureaucracy. In 1947 the act limited the staff limited to 50 around the Secretary of Defense--lean and mean. Now there are 750,000 people around the Secretary of Defense. During the Reagan administration 660 ship Navy and 18 division Army. Today the budget is 50% higher than the Reagan years but the force is half the size and bureaucracy twice the size. This has happened in the intelligence community too. WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING?

State of U.S. National Security August 31, 2011:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/CommissionsR

Good-bye American treasure, terrorism has leveraged it all away.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  09/09/2011 01:35 PM Report

The stages of GRIEF Kubler-Ross identified are:

* Denial (this isn't happening to me!)

* Anger (why is this happening to me?)

* Bargaining (I promise I'll be a better person if...)

* Depression (I don't care anymore)

* Acceptance (I'm ready for whatever comes)

So this book helps the grief? It seems we are back at anger ten years later with this book.

ShalomFreedman  09/09/2011 04:47 AM Report

I don't imagine that for the families of the victims 'time heals'. A horrible event like this divides the world in two. There is the inner circle of those who have been seriously hurt physically and even mentally, and the much larger outer circle of those for whom 'time heals'.

A second point is that in the ten years since the U.S. has made a number of successful steps against Al- Quaeda. But its battle with Radical Jihadi Islam has not been won. And in fact that battle has drained and is draining U.S. resources still. It has taken many more American lives.

As a partial result of that battle but for other reasons of great weight and importance the U.S.'s position globally has in the past ten years declined.

The best thing perhaps that can be said about the ten years since is that the enemies of the United States did not in that time succeed in causing another great catastrophe on American soil.

doodah  09/08/2011 01:36 PM Report

...it's not like they won't like it, they would just rather picnic on rainy day, never a sunny day. I think people will understand.

doodah  09/08/2011 01:28 PM Report

...dysfunctional family what can I say.?.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  09/08/2011 01:14 PM Report

Interesting juxtapositions. The human mind has problems with pain and suffering next to what appears to be lack of care and concern. We get angry very quickly.

Good thing calmer heads prevail--or at least they used to.

doodah  09/08/2011 12:58 PM Report

my, what a splendid coffee table book. It will make for a great Christmas Gift. Perfect gift for my in-laws, The Munsters.

REMant  09/08/2011 11:29 AM Report

I wasn't going to say anything about this, but the thought occurs after writing the other, that New Yorker's belief in the significance of these once proud commercial blocks certainly reveals exceptionalism if anything does.