I am bemused when the sins that we recognized in the past are now being redefined by the modern world. Greed, of course, is behind our “addiction” to oil, the war in the Middle East (no blood for oil”)  and the manipulation  of the stock market. Lust however is still being touted by the NYTimes [...]

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Will the hiring policies of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia result in the loss of jobs for Filipino and Indonesian maids? Last week, the Indonesian government was upset when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia beheaded a maid working there for murder. From RaissaRobles‘ webpage: Saudi authorities had refused to give Indonesian diplomats access to Ruyati Binti [...]

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I came across this article yesterday on the Science 2.0 website, with a very honest title; "I confess: I don’t know when human life begins". Paul Knoepfler, Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine, walks through all the stages of gestation and does, however, come up with his [...]

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FFIEC is the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council which is a government body empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards and report forms for the federal examination of financial institutions by and for numerous other government, public, private and financial entities. If there is a “good” place for your tax dollars to head, it’s to the [...]

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Video is a great thief repellant. It is one layer of security that must be incorporated into every home security system. However there is no such thing as 100% security. And while video often catches a thief in the act, it can’t actually catch a thief. That’s what police are for. In Des Moines Iowa, [...]

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It is difficult to understand why this site bloggernews.net remains blocked in India. Some time back one article written by me here was sought to be blocked with a Court order. It was related to a dispute between a company called E2labs in India and the owners of Zone-H.org. E2Labs had filed a defamation suit [...]

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Today two interesting news reports have appeared in the news papers. These reports have come to my notice as common man and if I was merely one of those “Mr Citizen” types, I would have perhaps ignored the news or at best glanced through them and proceeded to more interesting news of what Sachin says [...]

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