Blue Earth

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85754962755162777512011-11-27T17:38:59.901-08:00Blue Earthwe are all passengers on this little blue planet. this is the log book of one of those passengers.Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.comBlogger1441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-68555984095445772202009-05-03T13:24:00.001-07:002009-05-03T13:25:36.113-07:00democracy and change

Huge democracies like US or Britain are very slow to change. They can only change themselves during war or serious crisis like a financial crisis, otherwise the will to change does not exist in most participants and nothing changes for a long time.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-59913864145827504032009-04-22T12:06:00.000-07:002009-04-22T12:08:44.589-07:00Hidden Price of Tax Cuts

Interesting article at Toronto Star about how each tax cut is a cut to the benefits of the middle and lower income classes. Each tax cut is a bribe to people for voting for conservatives. Click on the title to read the article.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-9161924116734491092009-02-22T20:04:00.000-08:002009-02-22T20:11:18.456-08:00Education must be from birth to 6 years old

To know how effective early education is just watch the fundamentalist religious sects like Bahai's, Fundamentalist Jews, Menonites and other Christian sects. They start the intense religious education of their children very early and by 6 years old, these young ones have been totally converted to that religion in a way that rarely any one of them can break away from the path later in life and

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-67129812244534223702009-02-13T17:38:00.000-08:002009-02-13T17:43:08.273-08:00SO MUCH WEALTH AND SO MUCH POVERTY

What is the use of creating so much wealth when most of it is absorbed by the 5% rich at the top and nothing reaches the middle and lower classes. Every year our productive powers is increased but what is the use of it for the masses? As long as the CEOs and the rich pay themselves billions of dollars, the mass of people are not going to benefit from this wealth. Reminds me when I was in England.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-78724098422169595782009-01-22T13:43:00.000-08:002009-01-22T13:45:39.703-08:00Why did they kill my children?'

Palestinian MD who'd been offered post at U of T demands Israel probe slaying of 3 daughters, nieceFrom Toronto Star 22 Jan 09http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/575200#Comments

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-54853445655142203632009-01-19T03:25:00.001-08:002009-01-19T03:31:56.136-08:00A victory for Israel??? Think twice please

Are they so out of their mind that they call it a victory in Israel? Massacring defenceless people, destroying a whole city, building and infrastructure, butchering more than 300 small children? Has this massacre made them more popular among Palestinians? More popular in the court of world opinion? Has it wiped out Hamas or made it more popular among the people? Can't now Hamas claim victory just

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-69933740610555105262009-01-14T06:51:00.000-08:002009-01-14T07:01:45.786-08:00The massacre continues in Gaza, shame

FROM PROGRESSIVE.ORGNEARLY SEVENTY YEARS ago, in the course of World War II, a heinous crime was committed in the city of Leningrad. For more than a thousand days, a gang of extremists called “the Red Army” held the millions of the town’s inhabitants hostage and provoked retaliation from the German Wehrmacht from inside the population centers. The Germans had no alternative but to bomb and shell

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-26538648744204205882009-01-08T11:16:00.000-08:002009-01-08T11:24:46.958-08:00Some thoughts about Israel and the massacre at Gaza

1. Gaza is nothing more than a large concentration camp, and now Israelis are killing the innocent and defenseless inmates with the most advanced military technology of the age. It is like Nazi germans invade Aushwiz with tanks and air raids. Palestinains don't have a government and a military and they can't defend themselves. 2. Is it an honor to kill a defenseless people and claim victory? It

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-31728387294597050322009-01-04T20:28:00.000-08:002009-01-04T20:32:15.305-08:00Israel leaders and soldiers are all war criminals now

More than 500 Palestinians dead in one week, among them women, children and civilians. More than 4000 injured, and everybody knows that some of these injuries are worse than dying outright. By now we have to accept that by any standard Israeli leaders have won the title of war criminals, and not only them, any soldier in the Israeli army who is willingly taking part in this genocide or holocaust

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-25391434888152545982009-01-04T06:07:00.000-08:002009-01-04T06:11:03.307-08:00Ground invasion of Gaza

Now Israelis have invaded Gaza again. Do they ever learn? I don't speak of the pure brutality and disgusting affair of invading the most densely populated area on earth with pure military force and killing defenceless people. No, what I mean here is they have been there and done that. They occupied that land for decades, and yet were kicked out at last. What can they do now that they did not do

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-26267159145071971262009-01-04T06:01:00.000-08:002009-01-04T20:36:40.122-08:00New David and Goliath

Palestinian Boy and Israeli Tank. Sometimes a picture really speaks a thousand words!

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-41015238493045143602009-01-04T05:58:00.000-08:002009-01-04T06:07:29.669-08:00Somalia same story again

When two years ago Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia to overthrow the Islamic government, I predicted this is not the end of the story. Yes, the Islamic government vanished, it just left Mogadishu overnight and left it open for the Ethiopian troops, but it did not mean they disappeared. They just bided their time and started the smart option of a prolonged guerilla war. It bugged down the

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-9332122544744482842009-01-03T07:52:00.000-08:002009-01-03T07:57:05.488-08:00Don't hate the unions, hate the capitalists

I have noticed here in Canada that many people hate and envy the unionized workers for their high salaries and benefits. I have to say bravo capitalists. They have managed to brainwash people to hate unions instead of asking for more unions in workplace.It is like a person drowning. Instead of asking the few who are in a boat to save him and teach him to have another boat, he wishes for them to

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-48762158350294358492009-01-03T07:45:00.000-08:002009-01-03T07:47:15.871-08:00The rich need the poor for two reasons

The rick need the poor for two reasons:1. By charity and helping the poor they feel good about themselves. They rob them by billions and return a few thousand back to the poor and that is enough to feel good about themselves.2. They need the comparison to know that they are so well off. If everybody lives in a mansion and drives a Ferrari how could the rich know they are rich and enjoy their

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-64612667964884466412009-01-01T14:31:00.000-08:002009-01-01T14:35:12.255-08:00Genocide at Gaza

The genocide at Gaza is going on full force and yet the international media don't care at all. If a few westerners are killed anywhere in the world we will be bombarded for months about the event, but they don't care if more than 400 Palestinians are killed in a few days, their lives are dirt cheap, they better not live at all and give their lands as a gift to the occupying force.Israel will pay

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-44724687347085841802009-01-01T14:26:00.000-08:002009-01-01T14:31:22.130-08:00Iraq and American Withdrawal

5 years ago when the Americans invaded Iraq, I said that the invasion will be quick and victorious, but the aftermath will be a quagmire for the American troops. It happened exactly as I had predicted. Now Americans are happy that the violence rate has dropped in Iraq last year and that soon they will be able to hand over the reins to the Iraqi government. Here is my forecast, the moment the

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-26694635068860662312008-12-29T19:44:00.000-08:002009-01-19T03:34:04.223-08:00The sheep and the wolves, the people and the government

A NATION OF SHEEP WILL BEGET A GOVERNMENT OF WOLVES.An intellectual, also an alpha male, has two options in life. Either side with the wolves and enjoy life eating the sheep, or side with the sheep and suffer like Jesus Christ. Most intellectuals choose some point in between on this scale. I highly respect the few ones who side with the sheep and forego all the benefits of being a wolf.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-12760176160064597192008-12-27T10:01:00.000-08:002008-12-27T10:04:17.998-08:00Blood on Israeli leaders hands, cold blooded massacre

Israel today killed more than 200 Palestinians in air raids. This is a real David and Goliath battle, but this time Goliath is the Jewish people. Shame on the Israeli government. How could a people who had been persecuted under Nazi regime just half a century ago do the same thing to other people???Israeli leaders should be put on trial in the international court of justice for war crimes

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-28911087862580892462008-12-19T15:36:00.001-08:002008-12-19T15:41:04.383-08:00Increase other workers' salaries, don't decrease the 3 giants' salaries

Thanks George Bush. The salvation package for the 3 big auto giants came with strings attached: reduce the salaries of their workers to the level of the salaries foreign owned manufacturers pay their workers. How about asking them to pay their workers Indian or Chinese salaries???Instead of asking the foreign owned companies to increase their workers salaries to the level of the union workers,

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-44190977532074740662008-12-18T13:49:00.000-08:002008-12-18T13:51:20.793-08:00Let the big three go bankrupt

I don't believe in capitalism. But in the situation that now the three big auto find themselves, I think the best road to pursue is bankruptcy. Let them go bankrupt. Out of the ashes of these corrupt slow monsters will rise small and efficient and powerful new companies with new ideas for the future of transportation. They should not sustain these giants on their death beds and let them live

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-70204355001024412562008-12-12T15:51:00.000-08:002008-12-12T16:11:00.019-08:00capitalists trying to disband the unions under the guise of fighting the crisis

Capitalists are at it again. So the reason for the falling of the house of cards in the automobile industry is only the unions, not the stupidity and greed of the bosses who awarded themselves multi million dollar bonuses.Even in the middle of such a huge and devastating crisis, they are still after their nemesis, the proletariat and the wage earners. I say:1. We have to thank Unions. Without the

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-15824620526236963452008-11-04T05:20:00.000-08:002008-11-04T05:23:26.454-08:00Socialism in Nature

When you look at nature, you notice that every complex living organism is actually a socialist state of cells. Cells gather together and work for each other. Every human body is the perfect ideal of socialism. One for all and all for one. Every cell works for the benefit of others and gives, and every cell benefits from the other cells in the community. It is heavily regulated. If cells become

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-27729191686443313682008-11-04T05:19:00.001-08:002008-11-04T05:19:33.243-08:00Thoughts on the capitalit crisis

The governments all around the world have interfered heavily in the markets to save the system. They have bought shares in banks and effectively nationalized some big financial institutions. The libertarians and Republican right calls it the advent of socialism. Nope, it is not. It is socialism for the fat cats and the rich. Because when things calm down and the good times arrive again, all this

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-82710957282331699232008-09-29T19:34:00.000-07:002008-09-29T19:44:25.121-07:00Thoughts on the current caplitalist crisis

The Republicans in US are howling about socialism. As if the American government is turning into a socialist government. Yes, it is true that however they put it, they have effectively NATIONALISED the mortgage firms and the AIG and other firms they are bailing out, but no, this is not socialism, because the moment the markets improve and there is a whiff of profit in the air, they are going to

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-79118481605232874832008-09-25T11:46:00.000-07:002008-09-25T11:55:22.018-07:00Wall Street Saved by poor taxpayers money, business as usual

Well, well, well, Republicans and Democrats both voted to save Wall Street firms again. Did we expect anything else? Not me. It is business as usual in the heart of capitalist world. Taxpayers money is used as usual to foot the bill for saving the bungling big firms. They are allowed to gamble with other people's money, to lose billions of dollars, to pay themselves hefty bonuses, and whenever

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-87250892653544854912008-09-15T06:39:00.000-07:002008-09-15T06:44:06.056-07:00The fall of Lehman-Brothers and the stupidity of the so called financian geniuses of Wall Street

Lehman Brothers joined the other giants of wall street falling one after the other after the mortgage crisis, and yet, you think these rocket scientist geniuses of the financial markets will never make a mistake. What is the difference between these and every other Joe in the street then. They were taken by the same market exuberance in the mortgage markets and before that in the tech bubble

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-8304590744598884732008-08-08T19:40:00.000-07:002008-08-08T19:55:04.664-07:00scientists are the real prophets

Scientists are the real prophets of this world and their work is the real miracle. If ten million people pray for a rock to move an inch, it does not move a micron, but if one people uses his brain and moves the rock, it will move to the top of a mountain. Religion can't do anything for the people, it is the science that is the true miracle. From TVs to Cell Phones to cars and planes, we see the

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-74373454937026242092008-08-08T19:36:00.001-07:002008-08-08T19:39:04.140-07:00stupid society yet still worth living in

For an intellectual, the human society is mostly illogical. The wars, the fights, the people using drugs and drinks and cigarettes. One sometimes wants to just escape the society and live like a hermit. But then, without this society we could not live longer than 40 years. Without this society we could not have health care. Without this same society we would live hungry and dirty most of our

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-66508819435817025322008-08-08T19:29:00.000-07:002008-08-08T19:35:31.863-07:00Ugly Billboards

As a city planner I find it abhorring that the cities let all these huge commercial billboards go up anywhere in the city. Just look at the Dundas Square in Toronto. It makes the city really ugly. I believe there should be some regulations limiting the use of billboards in the cities.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-78430630565451100962008-07-12T05:58:00.000-07:002009-01-03T07:50:56.067-08:00What is Your Ideal Utopia- Part 2

* In my ideal Utopia, the human population on earth won't be more than a few million. Billions of people is too much for this poor planet, we are destroying the environment and the ecosystem totally and we are growing fast. God knows what are we going to do to the planet when our numbers are even more than today.What is important in a population is the quality of it not the quantity. A few

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-20510115019401367412008-05-02T05:08:00.000-07:002008-05-02T05:14:27.016-07:00robots and hopeless optimists

I think I am a hopeless optimist. I see a future where robots do all the manual labour and for the first time in its history mankind is free from manual labour and left to do the real creative work. But then, when I read in the papers how military/industrial complex is enthusiastically pursuing soldier robots, I understand that I again have been too optimistic about this animal called homo

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-68175221691900850862008-04-07T13:00:00.000-07:002008-04-07T13:05:41.314-07:00Pope and death

We humans know inherently and in our genes that after death there is nothing. There is no after life. Our genes know it very well, and they enforce this reality on us, despite all our beautiful beliefs about life after death. Fear of death has made us build all these religions and fairly tales about a beautiful after life. But, deep down, we all know these are just what they are, fairy tales for

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-12126387483842890502008-04-07T12:54:00.000-07:002008-04-07T12:58:32.651-07:00Aliens, Us, and Chimpanzees

If an alien race visits the earth, I don't think they will differentiate much between us and our keen chimpanzees. We are not that different! What they will report to their home planet is that among all the other animals on this planet, they have found one species that is a tool maker and has managed to build pretty advanced tools. This animal tends to be social and gathers in large groups, but

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-62384730914044621292008-04-07T05:16:00.000-07:002008-04-07T06:06:21.691-07:00Internal Opposition, US and Rome

Christianity was the internal opposition against Imperial Rome's excesses and corruption. Not all Romans approved and supported the imperial order. There was always a great opposition inside Rome and by some Romans against the imperial order. Christianity was one form this opposition expressed itself. Gradually, when the Imperial power was waning, this internal opposition helped to collapse Rome.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-79909138650454743312008-04-07T05:06:00.001-07:002008-04-07T05:09:49.885-07:00Tibet, China and the protestors

There are lots of protests worldwide over the state of Tibet and Chinese oppression there now that they are taking the Olympic torch city to city. One thinks, would these people protest so much if Tibet was free but China was still a dictatorship oppressing its own people? I don't think so. One wonders! Are Chinese people not as important as Tibetans? Is a government allowed to oppress its own

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-76410900994155077222008-04-02T16:38:00.000-07:002008-04-02T16:45:30.196-07:00Sometimes at least, ask what I can do for my country and community!

Human societies are a lot like human body, or any other multi-cell living organism. It is true that cells benefit from living together, but it is not possible for cells to live together if they don't contribute as much as they benefit from this community. Each cell has learnt this simple fact, through billions of years of evolution, that in order to survive in a community of cells, you have to

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-66743211692179024222008-03-18T10:47:00.000-07:002008-04-07T13:23:32.907-07:00Stalin, a product of Lenin! Lenin, a product of the Tsars!

I am reading a book titled "Young Stalin". It is by Simon Sebag Montefiore. I have found within the book's pages a totally different man from whom I thought Stalin was. On the one hand most biographies of Stalin are written by his enemies in exile, so can't be impartial. On the other hand, the only biographies with a positive attitude towards this dictator were written only in his lifetime in

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-57338644209604728402008-03-18T05:34:00.000-07:002008-03-18T05:51:43.852-07:00CAPITALISM, OR GOVERNMENTAL CORPORATE WELFARE SYSTEM

Bear Stearns downfall and purchase by JP Morgan proves again the hollow claims of capitalists about Laissez-faire economy and the rule of government in it. At times of prosperity when the greed rules supreme, their economists claim that the government should be as small as possible. It should not interfere in the affairs of the market and must let capitalists shave the public as much as they

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-56418376399495499002008-03-10T14:38:00.000-07:002008-04-07T05:14:56.637-07:00Women and Men

I watch the pigeons on my balcony. I always used to think these are real romantic birds. Look how deeply they kiss each other. Then I watch more closely and the reality sinks in. They are not kissing, what happenes is as simple as this: The female is getting food from the male. Exactly like how a chick gets food from the parents, she pushes her beak into the males' open beak, and the male

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-16888386961873503392008-03-01T06:40:00.000-08:002008-03-01T06:44:21.052-08:00HUGE MARKETS BEGET DICTATORSHIP AND CORRUPTION

In a country with a huge population, the market is huge. In such a country, the capitalist system can reach the height of its power because of the size of the market. The money and consequently power tends to concentrate in fewer and fewer hands and in the long-run the political system becomes a corrupt plutocracy and democracy dies. In Such a society the gap between rich and poor becomes wider

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-76942079392196832222008-02-18T12:49:00.001-08:002008-02-20T07:10:17.559-08:00McCaine Killing Innocent Vietnamese

Everyone these days mentions Senator McCain and his heroic spell in Vietnamese jails. But nobody, not even one person that I know, not even one journalist, asks the very simple question: ‘Senator, why did you end up in Vietnamese prisons in the first place????’Did they come to the US and snatch you from your cozy big house? Did they invade your country and arrest you while you were fighting

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-90704088604779923762008-02-08T17:50:00.000-08:002008-02-08T17:51:36.202-08:00Why we should not expect intelligent beings in the universe

One of the latest books I have read was “A Brain for All Seasons” by William H. Calvin (University of Chicago Press- 2002). It is about the evolution of humans. I want to share some reflections on this book, It is interesting that in 4 billion years of history of life on this planet, intelligent beings, humans, have only been around for not more than 100,000 years, which compared to that

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-82188512174796998872008-01-24T20:08:00.001-08:002008-01-24T20:16:51.340-08:00Buy, Buy, Buy ... to save the capitalist system

A recession is looming, and what does Mr. McGunity tell us to do? To buy! Two days ago he advised all Ontarians to go to malls and buy, buy cars, buy houses, buy stuff.This is capitalist system. Pure and simple. A system based on consumption, not on taking care of real human needs. Buy, buy, buy until you consume the whole planet, and turn it into plastics and metals and junk. Like a virus that

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-77625906950386024832008-01-23T07:33:00.000-08:002008-01-26T08:55:02.277-08:00Death and Man

Life is a stupid, aimless, chemical compound, like water, like salt, like any other crystal. It is inherently tragic, because it is meaningless and it ends in death. Every life is tragic, but human lives are more, because we are the only animal who knows that it is going to die and yet tries to live like there is no death. We go around our daily business with great enthusiasm, we battle for

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-65599275204659995442008-01-15T08:56:00.000-08:002008-01-15T08:57:56.072-08:00EUROPEAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY PAYS

Linda McQuaig article in Toronto Star about the benefits of social democracy

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-38520055359054959112008-01-06T06:13:00.000-08:002008-01-06T06:33:01.297-08:00Reflections on church and Christianity

A few days ago, a friend invited me to their church and I sat through the whole mass. These are some of the thoughts that passed my mind:1. How much cruelty and tribalism resides underneath the bible. The sermon was about Moses and how he let the Israelites pass through the red sea "and then the sea came together and drowned hordes of Pharaohs soldiers". Didn't those soldiers have wives and

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-71835284586636614722008-01-06T05:38:00.000-08:002008-04-02T16:38:18.198-07:00Immigration and Democracy

Most immigrants do it for financial reasons, not democracy and freedom. Give them enough money in their autocratic countries, and they won't move one step out. It is a rare immigrant that does it to flee dictatorship. When they come to the new democratic destination, they just strive for money and prosperity, they don't take part in the political process. That is sad but true. The risk the target

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-77501310084753636362007-12-12T19:46:00.001-08:002007-12-12T19:54:27.463-08:00Power of brainwashing, Christmas tunes in Dec

Don't you find yourself whistling and repeating the Christmas carols melodies and tunes in Dec? Aren't you irritated by these tunes that run endlessly inside your brain? Well, what is this except the huge power of brainwashing. If something is drilled again and again and again into you, it becomes part of your brain circuits and you can't get away from it.In Christmas time anywhere you go, from

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-17926342696742476122007-12-11T21:42:00.000-08:002007-12-11T21:45:21.035-08:00First Nations(Indians) poor and begging in their own land

Many times in downtown Toronto you can see poor Indians, inebriated, dirty, homeless, begging for a cent. It is so sad to see these scenes because you know that if this land has an owner, it is the Indians not us new immigrants. They have been here for thousands of years and it is so unfair to see them begging from us newcomers on their own land, which has been conquered by us.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-59147296101258628902007-11-24T10:19:00.001-08:002007-11-24T10:21:09.782-08:00Warning by Warren Buffet about low taxes for the rich

Warren Buffet, one of the richest men in the world, has warned against repealing estate-tax in US. Tax cutting by Bush and cronies has reached to a point that even the rich are complaining:Read the article here

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-26037679474354335812007-11-19T07:11:00.000-08:002007-11-19T07:37:18.563-08:00Capitalism, immigration and alienation

Capitalism in North America needs immigration and feeds on it. Immigrants, especially uneducated non-skilled immigrants are willing to do the dirtiest jobs, with minimum wages, without any complaints, and actually are thankful to be in North America. They are the epitome of the slave labour which is a necessary requirement for capitalism. The native labour force can never be treated as badly as

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-69746147579616966312007-11-19T07:07:00.000-08:002007-11-19T07:11:43.382-08:00A polish man and a Taser

There are two very separate issues in the event of the murder of the innocent Polish man in the Vancouver aiport:1. Irrespective of what he had done, the reaction of the police guys was too aggressive and over the top. Taser is usually left as a last resort, but the video taken there shows that they use it as a first resort, without even asking him a question.2. Now that his background in Poland

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-91629207296334485182007-11-01T05:50:00.000-07:002007-11-06T20:12:46.807-08:00Human Beings Sane? Why do we think we are any better than other animals?

Human beings think that they are advanced and more reasonable than other animals. I always think 6 reasons are enough to prove how stupid and unreasonable we "hairless apes" are: 1. smoking: Despite 50 years of heavy campaign against smoking, and despite extensive research that proves beyond doubt that smoking is a serious health hazard, there are still millions and millions of human beings

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-19780868203865621122007-10-31T02:40:00.000-07:002007-10-31T02:49:13.651-07:00Harper the tax cutter bribes me and you with another GST tax cut

Harper the tax cutter did it again and cut more taxes. By just cutting 1% of GST, the government will lose around 6 billion dollars a year, and who will benefit, only the rich who are conspicuous consumers, not the poor that only buy food and some very low price items.Instead of cutting the GST, why doesn't he invest the money into health care, education, housing and other social programs? Are

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-6608943570405065492007-10-26T16:31:00.001-07:002007-10-26T16:35:52.763-07:00The greatest political act

As Jesuits used to say: give your newborn child to us and we will guarantee that we will make a true Christan out of s/he for life. They knew well. What we are, our habits and personality is formed by the time we are 6 years old. Insert good habits in these first six years, and the person will always follow and be a good one. Ruin him/her during these 6 years, and there is nearly no possibility

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-30529099815276647872007-10-20T05:38:00.000-07:002007-10-20T05:40:28.130-07:00Canada deserves long term thinking

A very interesting article in Toronto Star which is not good only for current vote seeking situation in Canada today, but for all times in a democracy.Canada deserves better

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-46789172595580564652007-10-16T04:12:00.000-07:002007-10-16T04:18:28.942-07:00Conservatives wasting the surplus on tax cuts again

Stephen Harper is at it again. "Bribing" simple minds among the masses with tax cuts to vote for him again. I can't find a better word to explain his tactic. Wasting the hard earned surplus that belongs to all of people, on a wealthy few. This surplus must be used to build new infrastructure for the country, renovating the faltering existing infrastructure, helping the near bankrupt cities, etc.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-81842358116022039792007-10-15T07:12:00.001-07:002007-10-16T04:12:09.148-07:00what does being a Canadian mean?

Multiculturalism was good when Canada opened its doors to the world at the beginning of the 70s. It was good in that it stopped racism. But now, Canada is being inundated under the waves of immigration and there is no Canadian identity left. I think now Canada has to have a revision in the ideal of multicultrualism and instead look more into the "melting pot" idea. The newcomers to Canada have to

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-47673596288156830622007-10-07T20:58:00.000-07:002007-10-07T21:05:03.196-07:00How to create New Humans

Communists in Russia tried to create new man. Their endeavour ended up in Russian mafia. By studying communities like Mormons or Mennonites we can learn what is the effective method of creating the new man according to any blueprint for humanity. You don't enforce and impose your model to a whole society, it is impossible. People are different and for any ideology there are always just a minority

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-31343439696303972232007-10-07T15:41:00.000-07:002007-10-07T15:44:16.324-07:00The modern election bribe

In the simpler times of yore, they used to bribe people directly to vote for a candidate. They took them to lunch, paid a small amount, etc, and got the vote they wanted. Nowadays, it has become a little more sophisticated, now they promise you a "TAX CUT". If you look at it closely, it is no different then the other bribes they used before.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-8010734897984818242007-10-02T19:50:00.001-07:002007-10-02T19:51:22.822-07:00Hijab

With all the fabric she had wrapped around herself, you could cloth 5 people and still have some to cloth her. What a waste of fabric and human energy.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-1028634447390562122007-10-01T13:12:00.000-07:002007-10-09T18:18:24.461-07:00Death and Evolution- Why should we die for the species to exist

If death was not programmed into our cells, we living things could not adapt to change so fast and would be a gonner by now. Without death evolution can't work its magic and the species that does not let it's individual members die will not last long. Death is a unique "defect" in genes that has actually resulted in the survival of the species and life on this planet.What an irony that DEATH,

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-54067806300819987412007-09-28T13:00:00.000-07:002007-09-28T13:04:44.721-07:00How hard we try to live together

I am at the training centre for elections Ontario for the 10th of October elections. I listen to all manners of fraud that could happen in elections, even in this civilized country of ours, and I think:How hard we try to live together, despite the selfish animal within each of us that wants to have everything for itself and does not care for others. It is like putting wolves or tigers in a tight

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-4068018120916970932007-09-28T12:54:00.000-07:002008-01-06T06:12:56.602-08:00Pearl of Wisdom by Jin Tao

Some women are not good for your health. You wonder what I mean? I mean, women are like food. Some are good for your health, like vegetables, but you rather not touch them. Your mama says it is good for you, and your doctor says it is good for you, and your brain says it is good for you, but your heart is not into it.On the other hand, some are very bad for your mental health and peace of mind,

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-14840598481113951792007-09-13T04:32:00.000-07:002007-09-13T04:44:37.189-07:00Shame on Toronto Councillors who voted down the tax increases and now tax the poor

TTC had to increase it's fares yesterday amid fierce campaign by right wing cabal in Toronto Council to stall the tax increases.WHAT IS A FARE INCREASE? Is it anything else than a TAX on the poor who don't have a car and no other choice than taking the TTC? Also a tax on people with an environmental conscience who don't use cars and don't want to pollute this planet more!Who was the sole

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-72541221265868036882007-09-12T21:42:00.000-07:002007-09-12T21:44:33.996-07:00Intelligence and death

If there was a god, it was not fair to give us intelligence, and then give us death!Why.... among all the animals on this planet, we became the only ones to understand that we are doomed to end and to death and decay?

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-29173788223541876452007-09-06T13:20:00.000-07:002007-09-06T13:24:13.216-07:00Lobbyists

In the middle ages we had Faust who sold his eternal soul to Satan for fame and money. In our own age we have the lobbyists. The most despicable group, who sell their soul to big corporations to push their agenda at congresses and parliaments. These totally anti-democratic personalities are willing to slaughter the whole planet for a few pennies more for their miserable lives. For them global

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-61013174615408143872007-08-16T21:12:00.001-07:002007-08-16T21:24:44.307-07:00Where is the "New Man"

If you are an avid reader of history, and if you are true to yourself, you know that all revolutions start with the promise of a new dawn. A totally new world, the birth of new man, and ...... a few decades later, they all end up with the same old humans. The genes are more powerful than the promises and hopes. The ape wins over the high expectations again and again.All revolutions start with the

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-19042107650649687872007-08-16T08:21:00.000-07:002007-10-07T15:57:59.485-07:00Pearl of Wisdom by Jin Tao

During history of mankind, 95% of human beings have just been spectators and beneficiaries of science and arts. They have not contributed at all to what we are now, they have lived like animals, just living, eating, breathing, copulating, and dying. They could live as easily in 10,000 BC as they are living now in this age. The true mankind has been those 5%, the scientists, philosophers, artists,

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-90852192346973303232007-08-15T07:43:00.001-07:002007-08-15T07:43:53.156-07:00Capitalist system in a few words

In my view the two pillars of capitalism are : GREED at one side, and FEAR at the other. GREED is what runs the capitalist and his creation, the corportations, and FEAR is what runs the mass of people in this system, fear of poverty, of unemployment, of "having less than their neighbor". In a society based on greed and fear I don't see much room for empathy, for humanity, for co-operation. It

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-19434726732345160112007-07-30T12:41:00.001-07:002007-08-15T07:44:35.337-07:00There is no end to human greed, health care in Canada

There is no end, no boundary, to human greed. For instance, take Doctors in Canada. They have very good incomes through the public health care system and yet, recently you see many of the family doctors leaving the system and starting private businesses in laser and beauty therapy or adding these businesses to their health care clinics.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-74354103556405114082007-07-30T12:34:00.000-07:002007-07-30T12:38:20.423-07:00Conservatives in Canada show their true colors

(Doris... Ooops) Day, the minister of public safety, said today that he is against banning handguns in Canada. This is said while there has been a surge in murders committed using handguns in different cities in Canada recently. NRA should be proud of it's Canadian compatriot. It yet proves again that Harper conservatives are no different than Bush people in USA.Read the article HERE.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-26410493352515609742007-07-23T08:53:00.000-07:002007-07-23T09:20:42.095-07:00Hot Pot Sign in Spadina Avenue, Toronto

I shot this picture in July 07 in Spadina Avenue, the main China Town of Toronto.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-38711929397053625492007-07-22T09:27:00.001-07:002007-07-22T09:34:42.748-07:00Human Brain and the Evolution

First, there were single cells. For billions of years earth was inhibited only by single cell organisms. Then, there came multi-cell animals. Entities with a higher consciousness, aware of the world around them but acting more or less like machines. The brain in animals works more or less just to keep the community of cells they are made of; alive!The third stage in evolution happened just

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-26403271701852391322007-07-18T12:33:00.000-07:002007-07-18T12:52:30.718-07:00Contradictions in US

People always wonder why there is such a huge contradiction in US. On one hand they are so advanced in science and technology, on the other hand the general public, apart from a small educated minority are on average ignorant, backward, still in 19th century when it comes to religion and their other beliefs. It seems you have cut an advanced part of a European country and pasted it on a

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-21531692249760239462007-07-17T03:59:00.000-07:002007-09-11T21:56:35.850-07:00I am disappointed with Toronto

Again Toronto showed it does not have the courage and the will it takes to be a great city. Again at the last moment the city council wavered and voted no to the new taxes to save the city from bankruptcy. When we can't help ourselves, how do we expect federal and provincial levels of government to care for us? Just by ONE vote, city hall voted to defer the final decision about the taxes. Shame

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-73140814309335640032007-07-15T10:16:00.000-07:002007-07-16T19:11:53.790-07:00Is this is a country to live in?

Imagine an industrialised country where even middle class families have difficulty sending their children to college and university because they can't afford it. They have to borrow, they have to save from when the child is born, and yet still some can't afford it.Then imagine an industrialised country where 40% of the population don't have absolutely any medical insurance. It means when the

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-16463783482789124382007-07-12T15:32:00.000-07:002007-07-16T19:12:58.629-07:00Please Support the New Taxes in Toronto

The city hall is going to decide about adding a very little extra to home and car buying taxes and already the huge and powerful capitalist coalition and lobby is raising rabble about it. Please write letters and emails to your councillor supporting the new taxes. These taxes will save the city from bankruptcy when the federal and provincial governments have downloaded all the expenses to the

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-56765775432153882302007-07-10T07:44:00.000-07:002007-08-16T08:21:34.604-07:00New Pearl of Wisdom by great philosopher Jin Tao

This one was discovered recently:If these men of cloth, these great clergy, really believe in god and life after death, then why do they do their best to prolong their life and delay death. From Pope to Khomeini, they cling to their dear lives up to the last day. They don't show any willingness to rush to meet their god. They use the latest medical techniques and inventions and drugs to live one

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-29953644289416149212007-07-08T17:10:00.001-07:002007-07-08T17:11:32.485-07:00Break Dance in Harborfront

I shoot this video in Harborfront July 07.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-30269481949185360312007-07-08T06:41:00.000-07:002007-07-08T06:46:25.716-07:00Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibtion and Women Artists

My friend was visiting the marvellous Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition this weekend. Visiting all those stalls with some very good art work, he noticed one thing: Most women artists were more beautiful than their art work. It was more pleasing watching them than their work, although some of the works were amazingly good.Is it true what he noticed there? Women artists are more beautiful than the

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-41305775678593863902007-07-08T06:29:00.000-07:002007-07-16T19:15:01.726-07:00َA Warning to Al Gore

Al Gore is veering too much to the left especially with his latest book. He knows it and the corporations know it and the whole American capitalist system knows it. He has turned so much to the left that now his election might be a danger for the inherent capitalist interests in US. On the other hand the pressure is mounting heavily on Gore to be a candidate in the elections.His son's arrest is

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-15326265633864339762007-07-01T23:20:00.000-07:002007-07-01T23:27:32.787-07:00Public Accpetance of Evolution in Different Countries

Source: Scince Magazine and the New Scientist. Read the article HERELook at the position of US at the bottom of the chart. It is shocking, isn't it? I am often stunned by the public ignorance in the US.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-59456860344431790412007-06-26T05:34:00.000-07:002007-08-15T07:46:07.022-07:00Taxes are necessary for living in a civilized society- Toronto and Torontonias

I am appalled by the indifference of our citizens to tax debates. Anytime there is a tax debate in the city hall, it is taken over by the right wing organizations that send their cronies and supporters en masse to the meeting. There are no supporters of tax for the benefit of public in these meetings. What you hear is moaning by a bunch of millionaires and their supporters that there are already

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-90868591970329330702007-06-22T07:09:00.000-07:002007-06-22T07:27:27.657-07:00Bush, Stem Cells and Iraq

Bush did it again. He vetoed the stem cell research bill for the second time. He is a really great man. He is so much worried for the life of cells, single cells. Who cares if millions and billions of people are going to benefit hugely from this research that needs these cells. Who cares if this research is going to save people from miseries and pains of cancer, Alzheimers and many other

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-67107316595388576952007-06-22T06:51:00.000-07:002007-06-22T06:55:32.313-07:00Luminato gala opening in Toronto June 2007

Click on this link to see a clip of the ball runners in the gala opening of the Luminato

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-90060174343449395092007-06-20T04:11:00.000-07:002007-06-20T04:42:16.238-07:00What has happened to the modern art and culture

I am reading a book called "OUR CULTURE, WHAT'S LEFT OF IT" by Theodore Dalrymple. I don't agree with all his opinions. Some of them are shot from the right wing of the British classes, but I can't agree more with some of his opinions. I loved the article " A Lost Art" and advise everybody to read it and write their opinion here. In it he writes about the demise of modern art.Personally I think

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-19691460460662467002007-06-20T04:05:00.001-07:002007-06-20T04:10:46.380-07:00Hillary won't win

It is just a gut feeling, but why do I feel that Hillary won't win the elections in the US? I just write it down here for the posterity and will check it after the 2008 elections.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-38925894071378424892007-06-18T16:44:00.000-07:002007-06-18T16:48:32.629-07:00A City Without the Ads, It can be Done

Sao Paolo Brazil has passed a law to clean up the city from any and all ads anywhere. On the buses, billboards, benches, etc.Others dare to do this, and do it, why can't we in Toronto be like them? Look at Dundas Square in the heart of Toronto, supposedly the heart of Toronto. Nothing is more garrish and ugly than this square with huge ads and billboards all around it.READ THE ARTICLE HERE

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-80655195232236501602007-06-17T07:26:00.000-07:002007-06-19T08:44:19.518-07:00As I had Expected- Hamas and Fatah

As I had expected Hamas easily won the battle in Gaza. Hamas was elected by the people of Palestine in a free and fare elections that has the approval stamp of all the organizations that observed it. The corrupt Fatah did not like the defeat and unfortunately the dumb US policy supported Fatah. If Americans had not supported Fatah, had not stopped the international aid and tried to get rid of a

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-70020048097043677672007-06-13T20:26:00.000-07:002007-06-13T20:29:12.776-07:00Hamas and Fatah

Fatah and hamas are fighting it out for the control of Gaza strip. Years ago, when Hamas was just a very small and marginal group, Israel helped it to grow in the vain hope that it will destroy Fatah. Now it is happening. Apparently the Israelis brought a dragon into the wolf’s den(wolf from their viewpoint, not mine) to get rid of it, without thinking twice what will they do when the dragon has

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-77644837940305445042007-06-12T05:20:00.000-07:002007-06-12T07:15:59.885-07:00We Are All Parasites, But Wonderful Parasites

Apart from Plants, all other animals on this planet are just parasites; parasites on the body of plants. Plants are the only living things that produce their food directly from inanimate chemical ingredients. All the other animals depend on plants to survive and live. But what wonderful parasites are we! We are much more advanced and complex than the living things we rely upon to survive. Nearly

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-69274398621982525072007-06-09T17:23:00.000-07:002007-06-09T17:30:06.741-07:00Wolves, prey and the human society

I was watching a beautiful National Geographic documentary about wolves. While watching how the wolves hunt their prey, it passed my mind how similar are we, the human society, to a pack of wolves and also their prey. All through the human history, a small pack of cruel Alpha males in the form of armed groups have done unimaginable cruelties to the huge masses of the people, and yet, like the

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-20735386093313970692007-06-08T06:19:00.000-07:002007-07-16T19:11:21.970-07:00Click Here to see the New ROM's Crystal's photos

ROM's Crystal opened on Sunday 3rd of June. It was open just for one day from 1am Sunday until 6pm. I was among the lucky few who managed to visit this gem of architecture and took photos of inside without the permanent exhibitions. The photos show the raw Crystal, only the spaces inside. It is amazing, I really loved the building. Minus some central spaces which seemed to be wasted, like

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-54908737190758665112007-06-08T06:11:00.001-07:002007-06-08T06:18:20.910-07:00See how Heather Reisman the owner of Chapters/Indigo escapes the meeting with Nader

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-42599737083681116242007-04-23T13:38:00.000-07:002007-06-17T19:28:39.633-07:00Parenting needs licensing

Parenting needs training, education and licensing, like anything else in our society, like driving, etc: Even the simplest most basic jobs in our society nowadays needs a license and at least months of coaching and training. Even to drive a car you need a license. And yet, the most difficult, the most delicate of jobs, which is educating and bringing up the young is totally neglected in this

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-87852586424394489062007-04-23T13:24:00.001-07:002007-08-15T07:46:52.690-07:00Is domestic capitalist ownership better?

What is the difference between foreign ownership of means of production or domestic ownership. We hear from time to time moans and groans about how the whole Canadian ownership of corporations is being disappeared. Most of the large Canadian companies have already been gobbled up by foreign owned companies from American to even Chinese. But I don’t see why the hype. Capitalists are capitalists.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-40166773947686152002007-04-22T16:23:00.000-07:002007-08-15T07:47:13.190-07:00CAPITALISM

Nothing is changed much since they made this poster early 20th century. Except that now instead of the mostly manual labourers you have to put white collar wage earners and service sector employees at the bottom of the food chain.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-4547282989497640662007-04-20T08:11:00.001-07:002007-04-21T08:37:45.984-07:00The main goal of education in any society

What is more important in education, teaching history and math, or teaching how to be a good citizen, respect other people’s rights, avoid crime and etc? Our educational system sacrifices the main aim of education which is the rearing of a good and responsible citizen for the goal of teaching mainly useless stuff which will never be used in later stages in life.

Blue Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946243460427073426noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575496275516277751.post-17849504342825902162007-04-20T04:18:00.001-07:002007-08-15T07:47:37.493-07:00Shouldn't we worship the human brain instead of god??

My cell phone rings. I answer the call, it is from Iran. I start talking and we talk for a long time. It never stops to amaze me. I am sitting here, half a globe away and I can talk to my mother in Iran as if she is in the same room, or sitting next to me in the bus.What is a miracle? The story of Lazarous in the bible, or this amazing gadget in my hand? This small miracle of human ingenuity that

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