Serendipities Of A Nomad's Life

If you read this quote from Eugene V. Debs you may 9or may not) agree that is a sorry commentary on America today. Then look when the words were spoken. ” It is extremely dangerous to exercise the constitutional right of free speech in a country fighting to make democracy safe in the world….. These [...]

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I wrote recently about the amazing amount of our plastics now floating about in the oceans.  A new story by Victoria Gill of the BBC highlights the situation in the North Atlantic where researchers have found a massive garbage zone. The maximum density of plastic trash was 200,000 pieces per square kilometre! The tiny pieces [...]

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Everywhere we go these days there are plastic bags, bottles and other trash.  Even walking up to the source of the river Ganges, the holy river of India, that high in the Himalayas in 2008 I gathered kilos of garbage dropped by pilgrims eager for the blessings of Mother Ganges but content to throw unwanted [...]

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Here’s a brilliantly funny video of what happens when someone tries to speak out for peace in Central London. This is British humour at its best – ironic, witty, and without a trace of anger or bitterness.

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There is nothing inevitable about the destruction of tribal societies. What is happening today to the Yanomami in the Amazon, and to many other peoples worldwide, is the deliberate theft of land and killing of people, as has happened wherever Europeans have landed on foreign shores. Apologists seeking to explain this subjugation as the unhappy consequence [...]

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