General

The worlds we inhabit are noisy places. The external environment, particularly cities, where over half the population now live, suffocates under a cacophony of competing sounds, from road and air traffic, to power tools, car alarms and neon lights: and, for most of us, the internal, mental space in which we live is equally chaotic and cluttered. Contradictory thought patterns rise up one after another, jostling for attention, demanding to be heard and acted upon. Conditioned, and therefore partial thoughts, move us away from the present – where exists peace – and into conflict.

On September 25th 2015, 193 world leaders will commit to the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. 17 goals to achieve 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years. End extreme poverty. Fight inequality and injustice. Fix climate change. If every school in the world teaches children about these goals, we will help them become the generation that changed the world.
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For years spy masters have warned that foreign governments are scheming to send the United States back to the dark ages by hacking the power grid. One such apocalyptic scenario, modeled by the University of Cambridge, predicts that a broad scale cyberattack on the grid could cost the American economy as much as $1 trillion.

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Blasting down highway 95 through the Mohave Desert on a northerly course toward Las Vegas Broken Dreams International Airport, my thoughts turn to the distant past. This seems to happen every time I travel to Mexico. Deja vu all over again as Yogi would say. Growing up a long stone’s throw from the southern border, I became a Mexicophile at an early age. This evening my wife and I will board a late night flight into the tropical central highlands.

Sorry I’m so irritable.  It’s just my back again—kind of twinges, you know—especially if I bend over or sometimes when I drink too much. Doctor sent me for a CT scan—nothing. Waste of time and money. What do they know about pain?
Sorry to go on like this.  It’s just nice to have you here, listening to me when I hurt.  It hasn’t been easy, what with this aching back and my anxiety disorder.  Oh, I know, I shouldn’t worry so much.  But how would you feel?  Prescriptions, painkillers—but that’s no panacea. But still, sorry to obsess like this—you’re a real martyr to put up with me!

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:  and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”

For a number of decades, corporate entities have made financial investments in expatriating workers. Such investments are supposed to cover monetary compensation, skill development, and the toil that future assignments might entail. Due to overseas business interests, professional researchers have had to acknowledge “reentry” — the repatriation phase of international assignment — since at least the 1960s.

Socrates and Plato were not in a hurry. Neither was Aristotle nor Heraclitus. They took time to think deeply. As far back as twenty-four centuries ago, they offered insights and observations about the human condition, character, and personality that are as true today as they were then.

Establishment forces are trying to silence Stanley Cohen, a lawyer for those who resist.
*****Stanley,