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I have read so many fantastic books 2008, old and new. Here are a few that are outstanding: Fiction: Midnights Children by Salman Rushdie Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostevsky Nonfiction: Let your life speak by Parker J. Palmer The bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad Biography: a billion lives by Jan Egeland Theology: The [...]

There’s something about the current economic crisis that is trying to tell us our way of life is insane and unsustainable. Too many experts want to “fix” the crisis without learning what it is trying to teach us. Thankfully, Bob Carlton is a blogger who is trying to learn by reflecting meaningfully on what’s going [...]

Life in Africa A recent article in the Economist writes that matters might not be getting better in Africa, than claimed and hoped for. Here is one claim from the article. “the regional figure for government effectiveness has deteriorated some 17%, as has regulatory quality and the control of corruption. Africa’s performance as regards rule [...]

Fremskrittspartiet It is alarming to see that “Fremskrittspartiet” has slowly become the biggest political party in Norway. more that 30 % of the Norwegian population would vote for them according to a recent poll. “Fremskrittspartiet” or “the Progress Party” is a populist, liberalistic party committed to tax reduction, free market economics and deregulation of the [...]

“We in Norway have won the Lottery both in the morning and evening. We are born in a country with no epidemics, without hunger, without any crises, with good neighbors and with the fish in the sea. And on top of it all, we found oil.” Jan Egeland critizizing Norwegians who complain about high gas [...]