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Book Review: A Beginners Guide to Reality

How do we know what is real? How do we know if anything we believe is real is actually real? How do our brains process the sensory data and produce our perception of the world we live in?

This is one of the best books I have found that covers western philosophy and it's evolving understanding of how we think, how our minds work and how the reality we perceive is created. It would seem that east and west are close to a juncture point of understanding the real nature of reality.

A Beginners Guide to Reality

The American Gulag: U.N. denounces secret detention centers

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said that "the reported existence of secret detention centers where suspects are held incommunicado is ... of grave concern." The US representative to the UN John Bolton as usual attacked Ms. Arbour. We don't want anyone telling the world of our sins against humanity...

U.N. denounces secret detention centers

The United States of Higher Consciousness

we pledge allegiance
to our universe
and the united states
of higher consciousness,
and to the creator by whose
love we stand
one creation,
under one consciousness,
indivisible with
inner harmony and
unconditional love for all.

words by Kevin John Higgins © 2003
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Relationship between Crime and Economics

In the 1990's people discovered that miraculously the level of crime diminished significantly. Studies indictated that there was a direct correlation  between the health of the economy and the crime rate. If people could get jobs they would rather work than break the law.

FBI reports biggest violent crime jump in 15 years

Iraq: It wasn't about the oil.....

Bush reviews Iraq plan, says oil is key

Open Letter to Senator Arlen Spector

Dear Senator Spector,

What you have before you now is a choice of whether the United States will continue to be a democracy based on the rule of law and the protections guaranteed by the constitution of the United States or whether it will become a totalitarian state with all power concentrated in the hands of the executive branch with unlimited power to spy on the most ordinary activities of it's citizens. There can be no compromise on this. I hope you do not want your place in history to be that of the person who willingly handed over our democratic process into the hands oi powerful politicians who have no conception of the long term damage they are doing to our country and it's long tradition of democracy. If our government has 'carte blanche' to spy on us the threat from within will far outweight the threat from without.

You are a politician yourself, you know what will inevitably happen if politicians are given unlimited power. Our forefathers were wise enough to know this.

All of us are counting on you,

-Ed Fladung

It's Official: The U.S. will no longer uphold the Geneva Convention

The issuance of the new army field manual which omits references to provisions of the Geneva Convention, makes it official, that the U.S. will not abide by it's treaty obligations and will allow and encourage U.S. soldiers to violate the Geneva Conventions. Before we weren't quite sure that the responsibility for torture came from the top, now we know the responsibility goes directly to the top of the chain of command.

Pentagon to omit Geneva ban from new army manual: report