Independent Website and walking a tightrope.
New York City, October 25, 2005

Our website, in its analysis of what is needed in order to enable life
on
earth for future generations, found itself lately, more and more,
involved in
pointing at the political leadership in Washington, and we honestly do
not enjoy
doing so; simply we found ourselves in forced need to react at the
behavior of
others and we prefer to spend our time at thinking rather positive
thoughts.
We set out to be an independent media think-tank and not political
pundits.

We found it difficult to choose between the US presidential candidates,
though we wrote that Teresa Heinz Kerry would be an excellent first
lady and Mr.
Holbrook a very good Secretary of State; we believe the UN must undergo
complete
reformation rather then just reform, and we welcomed Ambassador
Bolton’s
arrival at the UN - in short we allow ourselves to take a completely
independent
position and follow what we think best by looking on how these folks
see their
role in steering with long range views.

I am writing this piece now as two articles in the Epoch Times of
October 24,
2005, caused me to reflect on life’s realities. The first piece may
seem to
be far fetched, but, obviously, I do not think so. The piece is about
Harold
Pinter getting the Nobel Prize.
He is obviously a wordsmith and some may think of his work as
“conversational
barbarism.” That is known, yet the Swedish Academy claimed that he
“restored
theatre to its basic elements” with “unpredictable dialogue, where
people are
at the mercy of each other and pretense crumbles.” The ET Arts Editor
sees in
this that the Academy believes that the truth lying behind the pretense
of
social relationships is that we are at the mercy of each other. That
our basic
human truth, the truth that Pinter captures, the truth that we should
acknowledge, is that we devour one another. Where is the truth in which
people are enno
bled by sacrifice and enriched by vision? She feels betrayed by an
Academy that
helps shape this global culture without taking responsibility for it.

Is it far fetched to see in above the spirit of the corporate reality
and the
way Washington backs these corporations? Is there really no better way?

ET has a second piece written by a stuff member who is a newcomer to
the
United States. He says that the US, while one of the youngest countries
in the
world, and admittedly, one which is disliked by many not living in its
borders,
“It has from the start been a country that protects freedom of speech
and
belief, as long as it does not harm others.” He continues “What the US
lacks in a
rich culture and heritage, it makes up for in a basic moral foundation
that has
for the most part been taught and bequeathed for generations … if the
US
had not been involved in World War II, our world today might be one run
by
Fascists and Nazis. If the US had not opposed the Soviet Union in the
Cold War, the
world today would be in a tragic state, with communism bringing misery
to all
humanity. If the US was not the watchguard for human rights and
democracy
around the world, more terrorist regimes bent on harming mankind would
have
spread unchecked …
“The United States and its leaders may be flawed; its system may not be
perfect, but I for one, think the US is the greatest country in the
world.”

Yes, these words teach us something we may have forgotten for a moment,
even
so we have pointed out that at the Yalta Conference in 1945, President
Roosevelt practically turned over parts of Europe to Stalin in exchange
for having
him withdraw from the oil fields in Iran, and for not trying to
interfere with
the US taking over the oil interests of the Middle East. Yes, there was
an Iron
Curtain. Yes, we pointed out, in a nonpartisan way, how deeply flowed
is the
energy base of the US economic development, yet, nevertheless, had the
leadership been in the hands of another nation things probably could
have been worse.
Luckily, from time to time, a newcomer to the US is able to tell us why
he
came here, and make us feel that not everything is lost yet, even
though we must
point out needed change. Thank you for reading this.