Monthly Archives: March 2013

The Red Waltz Of The Cardinals

March 14, 2013 – 8:08 am

White smoke issued from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel signaling that the Catholic Church has a new pope, Francis I. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elevated to the Papal throne to replace Benedict XVI who unexpectantly retired from the world earlier in the year. The new Pope is the first from Argentina. He is […]

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Colonel James Steele

March 13, 2013 – 1:20 pm

While running my F1 shopping internet website in Thailand, I decided to adopt an alias. I told the Thai selling Ferrari shirts and McLaren jackets that my name was James. “James Bond,” they remarked with a smile. “Not James 007, but James Steele.” And like that I became James Steele to hundreds of people in […]

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Shut Your Mouth

March 11, 2013 – 8:06 pm

The other day Samira Ibrahim was denied her State Department award after the right-wing Zionist Weekly Standard supposedly found anti-Semitic comments on her Twitter account. According to the Weekly Standard Ibrahim has since “refused to apologize” for her tweets, writing on Twitter that the “Zionist lobby in America” is to blame, who was being honored […]

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Monday Monday

March 11, 2013 – 5:39 pm

It has been a gray day. No rain. Not cold. All day long sirens have been wailed enroute to Brooklyn Hospital. People are getting hurt out on the streets or falling ill in their houses. The frequency of these sirens say this gray day is a bad day, but I can’t decipher the causes of […]

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Peace on Women

March 11, 2013 – 9:43 am

Last Friday I helped a friend film the UN Women for Peace March. The weather was sloppy snow and the pavement of Dag Hammarskold was wet under foot, but hundreds of women and a few men trudged across 1st Avenue from the UN Building to hear speeches. The first speakers addressed the surge of violence […]

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