Sex and food in Pagan Culture

From ancient pagan (pantheist) cultures that reflected the multidimensional nature of humans living in nature to more modern monotheistic religious cultures that are dogmatically dichotomous relegating people to good or evil categories, food and sex and inexorably linked. In pantheistic or monotheistic culture, food and sex reflect society and human nature that in some religions, [...]

Carbon crunching at low price for the benefit of advanced nations

Tucked up in the middle Himalayas, farmers in the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh will crunch atmospheric carbon to help rid the Spaniards of their climate woes. Over the next two decades, over eight lakh tons of carbon dioxide equivalents are likely to be sequestered in over 4,000 hectares of variedly degraded agriculture and forest [...]

The promotion of islamophobia in the US

Tape composed by the Center for American Progress to illustrate how it works. The video consists of fragments of people warning against the so called ‘danger that sharia becomes law in America’. Do we know who are the people that promote islamophobia in the United States? (From where it spread to  other western countries?) Yes, [...]

Super Tucano for Indonesia Air Force arrived next year

Embraer (Empressa Brasileira de Aeronautica) said they will sell a squadron of  Super Tucano EMB-314 turbobrop trainer. The plane is planned to replace the aging Indonesia Air Force OV-10 Bronco. Embraer said the first phase delivery will go on March 2012 with 8 plane as preliminary. Embraer has production facility at Gavio Peixoto and Botucatu [...]

Libya and Obama (part 2)

In the presidential campaign, Obama will be foolish not to take credit for ‘capturing Bin Laden, and helping bring ‘democracy’ (free market Western-style capitalism) to Islamic countries. This is what I would advise him to do if I were on his staff, and I think he needs no advice because he is a political animal [...]

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