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GREEN ISSUES

I attended the Westchester Bicycle Summit on April 7, 2009 and again the conversations on the Greening of Greenburgh that took place on April 22, 2009. Today on Sunday April 26, 2009 I will attend by special invitation Westchester Progressive Forum discussions on Understanding Today's Economy. I have been able to build a coalition of people with whom I constantly interact to push issues of social concern for our town and county areas.

FUTURE PREDICTIONS

Looking back 50 or so years ago, no one would have predicted the leaps made in the computer technology and communications fields today, Did you know?  How do you predict the future without making a fool of yourself?

Are Men from Mars and Women from Venus?

Apparently there was this belief that men and women speak differently, men are direct women indirect and so what encased in John Gray's 1992 book, "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," sold more than 10 million copies.  Either people believed in the theory or they just wanted to read the book and feel challenged to disprove it.

WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO? FOREIGN AID

UNICEF, including the World Bank and other UN agencies deliver cash and supplies to the government of developing countries as the respective state governments assume responsibility to implement these aid projects. But, when so many developing country governments are blamed for being monopolistic and/or bureaucratic, not to mention, very corrupt, the telling question is how much of foreign aid reaches the poor people?

IS IT STILL HARD TO BE A WOMAN?

What caught my attention of this topic was reading Is it still hard to be a woman?  However like all articles on this subject it discusses the difficulties of women of the industrialized world or world where women are free as men are but yet face difficulties of working in a man's world.

PEDOPHILE PRIESTS RUNNING TO MEXICO

It is rather disturbing what is happening with child abuse in the church and how some priests are fleeing to Mexico, and who knows, continuing their bad practice there. Pity that it is difficult to trust our religious heads. But there is a strong Network to track down pedophile priests.