Sorry for missing a day. I was giving a speech to the MHC Alumnae Club in Houston. A wonderful, and very gracious group. But it was a long trip–the airlines are currently being led by Torquemada.
The Pew Foundation ran a poll in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland and the Czech Republic which was conducted from March 2 to March 27, 2013. The poll asked questions about the economic situation in Europe and the prospects for the European Union. Needless to say, there was a high degree of gloom among some of the states, and some of the results show real problems for the Union’s future. THe one outlier in the poll was Germany, but that’s no surprise since most of the economic issues reflect some of the special strengths of the German economy.
Labor unrest in the textile industry in Bangladesh has dramatically increased after the tragedy at Rana Plaza in which over 1,100 garment workers died. The Bangladeshi textile industry is one of the largest in the world, but the conditions for the workers in the industry have been deplorable for many years. Finally, the world seems to be paying attention to the plight of the workers and the workers are demanding that their conditions be dramatically improved. The change is long overdue.
The Israeli-Palestinian dispute is clearly over land, but, in truth, the underlying concern over the land revolves around the access to water in the region. Understanding how difficult it is to parse out the land with underground aquifers is central to moving forward in the dispute. The ultimate resolution will involve much more than simple “land swaps” if the two parties ever get to that point.
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