Monthly Archives: July 2011

Ich Bin Ein Sino

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa “We don’t build walls to keep our people in” told John Kennedy to West Berliners standing next to the small wall that had divided Europeans among themselves in 1963. The Chinese were intently listening … Continue reading

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Guns And Prisons

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The United States of America is clean. Squalor worries Americans, particularly since the end of World War II and the Eisenhower I-State system and more so since Lady Bird Johnson’s beautification of the country, … Continue reading

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The Geopolitics Of The US Debt Ceiling

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The usual sweltering summer heat of Washington is keeping those in homes with high ceilings cool, and if they care to open their windows, on a lower consumption of power. But those homes are … Continue reading

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The Money Changers And The Wealth Of Nations

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa James Joseph Jacques Tissot (1836–1902), The Merchants Chased From The Temple, Brooklyn Museum, Source: Wikipedia Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he … Continue reading

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The Jewish Diaspora?

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa “Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over … Continue reading

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The Elites And All Else

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Social elites everywhere have one thing in common: they are free. Their gains of wealth or their share of the society’s wealth comes from being raised in freedom. It becomes a way of thinking … Continue reading

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The Partisanship Of The Federal Reserve’s Political Independence

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The year 1913 is consequential in American history. Two seminal institutional changes occurred. The first was the introduction of the income tax and the second was the creation of the nation’s central bank, the … Continue reading

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Clean Collar Jobs: Advice To Barack Obama

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The election of 2008 was interesting to the say the least. Two Amendments to the Constitution of the United States had competed in that election: Amendment 13 and Amendment 19. Amendment 13, following Abraham … Continue reading

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The Coming End Of Israel?

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Leon Panetta, has been reported as saying that Iran is aiding the militant groups in Iraq and this could be a concern for the stability of … Continue reading

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Raising Harvard

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard, the three universities in the English-speaking world, separated by about three centuries between the United Kingdom and the United States, together with Padua, Bologna, Sorbonne and Heidelberg represent a continuum in … Continue reading

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