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West is Experiencing Serious Problems in the Area of Morality and Community: Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton discusses a variety of topics and issues concerning philosophy, art, literature, travel and architecture.

(TEHRAN) - Alain de Botton is a Swiss public intellectual, author, philosopher, television presenter and entrepreneur living in the United Kingdom.

He has written several books on literature, philosophy, art, travel and architecture. In August 2008, he established a new educational enterprise in London called "The School of Life". Among his prominent books are "How Proust Can Change Your Life", "The Consolations of Philosophy" and "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work".

Alzheimer`s, Medical Marijuana and President Reagan

Yes, he did smoke it!

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - The Oregonian just printed a story about Alzheimer's, the difficulty of diagnoses and the standard useless, rotten, misguided treatment. It seems that physicians are very reluctant to tell a patients or family caregivers, for this disease in effect rots the brain.

I have previously written about this: Alzheimer's: Promising New Therapy in Oregon, August 16 2010, and Alzheimer: Marijuana as Effective Medicine. Oct. 25, 2010, both on Salem-News.com.

Merry Christmas Kids from Purdue Pharma, Maker of OxyContin

The maker of OxyContin -- the ones who lied about the addictive and abusive qualities of the drug -- now want to reach out and "help".

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - The Partnership for a Drug Free America launched a new Website offering resources for those seeking help for their kids and teenagers who are struggling with addiction.

Initially one would think the "Time to Get Help" Website was very informative and helpful to parents until the sponsorship of the website is named -- Purdue Pharma -- along with an anonymous donor...

A Seat On The Bus For Rosa (In Memorial)

Can't have a fire without a spark.

(CLEVELAND) - I keep getting email's seeking donations for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial which is almost completed. I certainly have nothing against MLK but, if it was not for Rosa Parks who started the movement, not MLK, where would Black America be today?

Stop and think about how many men gave up their seat on the bus.

Pilger`s `The War You Don`t See` is a Dose of Mind Numbing Reality

Pilger is right, there is no just excuse for the types of wars the west is waging.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Coming to understand my own role in promoting the US wars overseas as a former embedded reporter, John Pilger's: The War You Don't See, shoved me right off of the cliff of ignorance, into a painful valley of understanding.

I used to think it was different for me because the only thing I've shot in a war was my television camera. I increasingly understand that I was part of the problem.

Intrasexual Competition Facilitates Evolution of Alternative Mating Strategies in a Colour Polymorphic Fish

Biological researchers in New York and Florida reveal new findings...

( SYRACUSE / CORAL GABLES) - Intense competition for access to females can lead to males exploiting different components of sexual selection, and result in the evolution of alternative mating strategies.

Males of Poecilia parae, a colour polymorphic fish, exhibit five distinct phenotypes: drab-coloured (immaculata), striped (parae), structural-coloured (blue) and carotenoid-based red and yellow morphs.

Dioxin and Glioblastoma in the Vietnam Veteran Population

Summary and recommendations for IOM open session Albuquerque NM 2010.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - The tracking of glioblastomas in the aging population of Vietnam veterans exposed to dioxin has been neglected.

The poorly researched and nonsensical U.S. AIR FORCE RANCH HAND study has been sighted as evidence. The Seveso Italy incident is also used as evidence.

Mystical Christmas Eves and Why I am `Flaming` Fleming

Excerpted from BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu 's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - The following is excerpted from BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker. Specifically, it is from Chapter 16 which is titled: Mystical Christmas Eves,

"The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it." - John 1:5

Name That Operation

As for Operation Locked Kindergarten (Gaza, 2006), the casualties of which predictably included children, it is not clear whether the IDF computer was drawing in this instance from the database of sadism or the database of clever irony.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - As we approach the two-year anniversary of Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, I have been thinking about potential names for a strike on Iran.

But first a word on the naming process from Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev, who was quoted in Haaretz last year registering his distaste for “Cast Lead”.

Bankers, Oligarchs, Media Magnates and Leakers

In a recent interview with Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, world-renowned British novelist John le Carré briefly touched the third rail of respectable political discourse:

(OSAKA, Japan) - Apparently, Amy Goodman was so eager to hear le Carré’s fictional account of international corruption that she hadn’t time to ask him about the very real connection between Nathaniel Rothschild and Oleg Deripaska—one of eight of the nine richest Russian oligarchs who qualify for Israeli citizenship.

With the help of an advisory team hand-picked by the pro-Israeli Larry Summers, Obama’s former top economic adviser, the oligarchs looted an estimated $1 trillion from Russia’s struggling post-Communist economy.