Colin Powell officially resigned his post as Secretary of State for the US on Friday signaling a further move to the Neo-Con Right for the Bush Administration. Powell was universally known and respected as a diplomat and negotiator. It was also well known that he was the “moderating” voice in an otherwise hawkish Bush White …
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I will be attending the local Remembrance Day (Armistice Day) ceremonies here in Victoria. I’ll ty to take some pictures as well as it looks like it’s going to be a gorgeous day. Remembrance Day is always a powerful day for me. Given the times that we live in I believe it to be that …
For the past decade or so we’ve constantly heard that the explosive growth of the populations of India, Africa and other poorer nations will lead to an unsustainable, and generally poor, world population of around 12 billion by 2300. Currently, the world sits at 6.4 billion people. China is the most populous, but due to …
