This is us …

By |2022-05-06T10:21:55-04:00May 6th, 2022|Categories: business, community, politics, social|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

still trapped in Plato's cave! "The prisoners would mistake the shadows for reality." – Socrates, The Republic, Book VII (20 min) About 2,376 years before Fox News was founded (1996), Plato wrote his renowned Allegory of the Caves (380 BCE), introducing it with Socrates saying, "And now, I said, let me show in an allegory how far our nature Read more...

One small step for democracy, one giant leap for Port Hope

By |2016-12-10T00:40:56-05:00April 6th, 2014|Categories: communitywatch|Tags: , , |

Is there hope for democracy in small towns? The metaphor of the moon landing is overused but it seems appropriate for a local historic event that happened just one week after the forty-fifth anniversary of the moon landing (July 20, 1969). That first step was on July 21, 1969 and on July 29, 2014, one small town with a lot Read more...

Oh Canada, oh no! Is Harper selling out to China?

By |2016-12-10T00:41:08-05:00October 29th, 2012|Categories: business, politics, social|Tags: , , , , , , |

Prime Minister Harper toasts the selling out to China. All part of the race to beat Americans to the big China pie. (photo: forestethics.com) Sign this petition BEFORE November 1, 2012 – hurry! Stop Canada's Prime Minister Harper from creating his version of state capitalism! Click here to sign the petition: Here's another conservative who says one Read more...

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