If we were rational people, the evacuation of California would begin today. The destruction of Haiti by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake is not only an immense catastrophe, of Biblical proportions, for that accursed country, but is also a prophecy for California. Earthquakes do not strike only the poor. Nor are they always a surprise.

Along geological fault lines, where tectonic plates -- huge chunks of the earth's crust, floating like enormous icebergs on the molten magma of the earths interior -- grind past or into each other, the accumulation of strain and its release as earthquakes is... Read More

Water is too scarce to use for bathing, and drought has created dust bowls. The problem is compounded by AIDS and treatable diseases -- such as diarrhea, pneumonia and tuberculosis and these problems lead the poor into inhumane solutions causing them to sell off their children to save the lives of other members of their families, thus creating modern slavery in the modern world. "While the world's attention is currently gripped by events in other regions, Africa is in crisis with thousands of people dying silently each day, " Experts warn that the current stocks located in the countries... Read More

It is time for Britain/America to exorcise the ghosts of the past and come to terms with its history as it steps into the new millennium.

It is time for the governments and all who participated or benefited from slavery to repent and admit to these colonial horrors of our past and the extreme effects of such a negative precedent. Allowing racism to continue sends a criminal message by stating that slavery was and is a positive alternative. Furthermore the message goes on to say that it was/is not a crime to commit an offense against the darker people of the earth and so we continue to... Read More

In our tiny 200 years, we've killed virtually all of the buffalo. We've killed virtually all of the Native Americans. We moved in and stole a country and dominated it like we had the right. We've kidnapped, stolen and sold, owned and murdered slaves by the millions, and had a major internal Civil war. We've Established and run the 5000 strong KKK and had five Presidents in it, (a despicable notion ). We have the highest number of people in jails per capita of any country on Earth. We've given birth to the greediest, most disillusioned generation on Earth; and attacked and murdered 100... Read More

John Famalaro, also known as the Cold Storage Killer, was a high school classmate of mine. We both attended St. Michaels Prep, a very strict Catholic boarding school in the city of Silverado, Calif. In 1975, we were roommates and got to know each other fairly well. Although he was a strange and sometimes very arrogant guy, I never suspected for a moment that he would go on to commit one of the most heinous crimes in Orange County history. Now he sits on death row in San Quentin, awaiting execution. Living in San Francisco, I drive by the prison often, and every time I do I think of John.... Read More

Sometime between 1:07 a.m. and 8:06 p.m. Sunday, it was announced that Saddam Hussein will be hanged for his role in the 1982 killings of 148 people in a single Shiite town after an attempt on his life. Of the eight total people in this particular trial, only one, Mohammed Azawi Ali was acquitted due to lack of evidence. For all of those who believed that this was a crock trial set up by the United States to get Hussein, one has to wonder why all seven weren't convicted. Interestingly enough, it was brought to my attention that over 650,000 Iraqis have died since Hussein was forced out of... Read More

It seems that Saddam Hussein, in spite of all of the setbacks of his trial, is set to be sentenced today. How interesting. The accompanying photo (at left) shows the deposed dictator of Iraq quite well dressed in his suit coat, with no tie. However, the eyes give him a look of incredulity.

It is as if he cannot comprehend what is about to happen here. It would be a hilarious photograph if it were in a Halloween movie and he had just heard a "bump" in another room of the house. He could even be a stand-in for Eli Wallach in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. (Except in the parody I... Read More