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How Safe Is Your Career from Today’s Economy? It’s Time to Fix Young America
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This morning the Young Entrepreneurship Council’s founder Scott Gerber emailed me about their latest campaign to Fix Young America. I agree wholeheartedly that it’s well time to bring our education system out of the industrial age and leap forward into the information age and the coming entrepreneurship economy which is upon us, so I’m proud to share this entrepreneurial push with you.

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Dodging Real Bullets: Revolutionary Behavior & Violence in the Real World
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For two months, Bangkok Thailand was victim to violent political unrest and riots, with military “Live Fire Zones” where soldiers were ordered to shoot on sight and homemade explosives and Molotov cocktails erupting all around the city. Ask yourself this: would you truly want to be a part of a bloody, real-life revolution?

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Sangsom, Bullets & Tony Bourdain: Strange Days in Bangkok
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Political riots plague Bangkok for weeks, getting violent just in time to ruin Songkran—Thailand’s national New Year water festival. Why the hell do I love this place so much? After 15 months living in Thailand, here are my thoughts.

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Coming to America: Help Change Someone’s Life
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For a majority of people born in the West, into a middle-class family, with decent education, it has never been easier to grab the reins and create the life you want. But unfortunately, the reality is that a large population of disadvantaged refugees and victims of other socio-economic circumstances are not so fortunate. Read my friend Ryan’s account of life as a refugee.

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Looks Like My Political Rant Provoked Some Good Discussions

Thanks again to everyone who supported me and helped promote my last post about the economic bailout, presidential race, and culture war. I’ve said my peace, so I’ll try my hardest to make this my very last political post until next year, but I just wanted to follow up on the discussion. If you haven’t been following it, there are [...]

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I’m Mad As Hell and I’m Not Gonna Take It Anymore! This Government Is An Unprecedented Failure. It’s Time For Change!
I’m Mad As Hell and I’m Not Gonna Take It Anymore! This Government Is An Unprecedented Failure. It’s Time For Change!

The financial sector is failing. The dollar is already a lame duck in currency markets, and the Fed just printed up another trillion dollars (God knows where that will come from!) so Wall Street can pay their C-level executives. The presidential campaign is like a bad joke, and the absence of laughter in the crowd is deafening. And then there’s [...]

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Why I Don’t Watch the News

At the Democratic National Convention last week in Denver, Dan Rather spoke to an audience about how mainstream media companies have compromised journalistic integrity by prioritizing stockholders before public interests. Dan Rather has covered the news since 1956, and he should therefore have a tremendous amount of our respect for his service to our country. He was the first to [...]

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