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The Aquarius Sports Resort Hotel in Marawila, a sleepy western coastal town of Sri Lanka is always a fascinating place to me. The beach-end restaurant of the resort facing the scenic Indian Ocean will become at times a forum for various international issues. I had a good discussion with Marita Kantar at the beach-end restaurant of the Aquarius Hotel today. The sun had started to go further and further towards the deep-end of the Indian Oceans horizon. While I was talking to her on various issues, I asked her how she felt about the massacre of Jews by Adolf Hitler. She said, "They are only the victims for a person who was mad and power-hungry."

Trying to find the origins and history of what is known today as ?political correctness would prove trying to the fairest minded researcher. The best anyone may be able to determine about it with any certainty is that it is a system of checks and balances whose very premise hangs in mid air.

If it were possible to hear her voice, we would hear the earth herself crying out in protest at the slaughter of innocents in Iraq - at the flimsy justification of the destruction of one group by another, at the action of Cain against Abel. For the earth carries our pain, just as we carry it. She carries the energies of destruction that we inflict upon each other, trying all the while to cleanse them from her heart.

Iowa Senators take objection to new chemical security regulations affects on Iowa farmers. They miss the fact that large propane tanks are a potential terrorist target depending on where they are located. Some simple measures will get most farmers, who are not terrorist targets, through the requirements of the new DHS regulations.

An intimate glimpse into the depth of wisdom and soul-awareness that George Washington had access to, which allowed him to be receptive to the vision concerning America that he is famous for, as well as more generally to be responsive to inspiration and guidance from other levels.

How many Americans know what is really going on in the Middle East? Perhaps Americans are working and playing too hard to get the true picture. What is brewing there comes with no promise to remain over there. Global conflicts don?t remain over there anymore in our shrinking world.

What can the United States do about an Iran seeking nuclear technology? The government and the media contemplate sloppy and broad economic sanctions or clumsy and bloody military operations. I suggest an alternative: neo-containment. Let's reinvent our strategy against the Soviets for the 21st century threat from Iran.

China?s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television said it has set a home-grown technical standard for broadcasting multimedia content such as television programs to mobile devices, in a move to boost the provision of mobile-TV services, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Yet, what does this say about our world, where such an obscene industry can thrive? It's not just the growers and traffickers that are contributing to the problems, but the users of the end product. Those users ultimately feed the entire industry's cash flow.

The firebombing campaign was supposed to begin with an USAAF Eighth Air Force raid on Dresden on February 13 but bad weather over Europe prevented any American operations. So it fell to RAF Bomber Command to carry out the first raid. During the evening of February 13, the RAF bombers 796 Avro Lancasters and 9 De Havilland Mosquitoes were dispatched in two separate waves and dropped 1,478 tons of high explosive and 1,182 tons of incendiary bombs in the early hours of February 14. The ideal weather conditions at the target site, the wooden-framed buildings, "breakthroughs" linking the cellars of contiguous buildings and the lack of preparation for the effects of air-raids made the attack in Dresden a devastating. For these reasons the loss of life in Dresden was higher than many other bombing raids during World War II.