The familiar adage "knowledge is power" has never been more accurate than when applied to educating our youth about veterans. Understanding their sacrifices, acknowledging their contributions, and fostering an environment of respect and gratitude towards veterans is an essential step towards building a future generation that values service and patriotism. Understanding History Through Veterans' Experiences Veterans are living, breathing pieces of our history. Their experiences and...

Fellow Patriots this RED FRIDAY (REMEMBER everyone DEPLOYED). I stand with the families of these warriors who gave their lives for freedom, they were killed for nothing and the families of these fallen are broken today their names are: Sgt Johanny Rosario Pichardo, 25, Lawrence Massachusetts—RIP Warrior Sgt Nicole G Lee, 23, Sacramento California—RIP Warrior Sgt Darren T Hoover, 31, Salt Lake City Utah—RIP Warrior Cpl Hunter Lopez, 22, Idho California—RIP Warrior Cpl...

The Victims of Fires Caused by “Mostly Peaceful Demonstrations” Read the full article at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/many-victims-mostly-peaceful-demonstrations-barry-zalma-esq-cfe and at https://zalma.com/blog plus more than 3800 posts.  When I was a young man the Watts Riots of the 1960’s destroyed a great part of South-Central Los Angeles. Those whose properties were destroyed who had insurance found it was impossible to rebuild and do business in the area because...

Equal Opportunity Does Not Mean Equal Outcomes – For Good Reason There is a lot of news these days about prejudice and bias and working everything out so that life is more fair. There is absolutely no doubt that social and economic disparity exists globally. There should be even less doubt that something radical needs to take place when nearly half of the population of the world lives in abject poverty, lacking not only the basic necessities of life, but lacking the ability to harbor...

Power To The People – The Ombudsman Program Holding the Corporations and Government in Check Without Impeding the Social Standards or Growth and Development There are those that will claim that all corporations are evil … except for those that are not of course … which is beyond just hypocritical … though that is a topic for another article perhaps. There are also those that believe corporations, as the driving factor behind economic stability and growth, are the...

If there has been any real challenge, it has been discovering people of differing viewpoints who are still open and receptive to the differing opinions of others, even if those differing opinions are deduced from the same set of facts. Oddly … or even ironically perhaps, one of the more prominent members of the group who greatly assisted in the creation of the principles for bringing differing views to the same table peacefully, does not have a seat at that table. This is in large...

Permaculture, by its very nature, generally seeks to avoid the destruction of existing ecological systems, even while at the same time replacing them with wholly natural, albeit man-made ecological systems in their stead. Perhaps however, the time has come to replace this thinking, not only in terms of regulation and restrictions, but in terms of acts and actions. If nothing else, the food forests will be substantially beneficial in creating a more symbiotic and mutually beneficial existence...

The toll of illegal lumber practices and timbering in the Philippines is difficult to accurately calculate. There is the financial toll of course, measured by the numbers in accordance where there is a preponderance of evidence and where people have actually been caught hauling illegal timber. This alone is tragic though regrettably it could also be understandable when you consider the financial desperation and the economic standing of a great many of these people … many of whom are...

Why Government Is Not A Sustainable Solution And what is the most viable solution for sustainable human growth and development? Government will most likely always be a necessary social construct. While there will always be those fiercely independent types who elect to live as far away from governmental authority and control as possible, there will likewise and conversely be those who prefer living under the illusion of freedom in order to remain relatively safe. Indeed, the very term...

I recently had something of a minor issue with some of the Sociologists I am working with in regards to Community Building and issues of Sustainability. It seems that all my numbers for production are quite viable. It would seem that mathematically at least, the world can contain and care for far more people than exist today and manage quite well as long as we do our part to take good care of the world that takes care of us. In fact, our little “row” started over this very fact....