By Denis Campbell
Good riddance to the noughts! It was a decade where snarkiness, fear and division triumphed over almost everything else. I say almost because when one reviews 2009’s top stories, Barack Obama’s ascendancy to the US presidency was inspiring, challenging and filled us with globally healing headlines.
Yet the internal tone and level of anger [...]

By Denis Campbell
A periodic rant about UK, Welsh and local government group thinking (as much of an oxy-moron as ‘postal service’ or ‘military intelligence’)
Today’s Topic: The Leisure Centre Construction Project
When overlapping budget requests require funding from different sources, then that leads to cancellation of ½ of the project midstream defeating the broader purpose of promoting [...]

By Denis Campbell

Coincidence? You decide.

A little over 3 weeks ago we ran a UK supermarket pricing story and its accompanying photo essay in partnership with BBC Wales’ X-Ray consumer news programme.

Tesco, PLC “cherry-picked” items I discovered from the X-Ray programme and attempted to discredit my findings with a written statement to X-Ray’s producers read, as sent, [...]

By Denis Campbell
Many read my article on how the Mind Body Spirit world is established to financially hook one into spending lots of money. Now the industry’s tactics have expanded into luring former US Presidents into pimping, errr fronting for them.
George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States has passed on the Council [...]

By Denis Campbell
“He was really a nice guy, a bit eccentric, but how could this have happened? The ________ I (choose one: know, dated, went to school with, sat next to on the schoolbus, played baseball with, lived next door to, etc.) could never have done this sort of thing.”
The brutal murders of a Yale [...]

By Denis Campbell
The USA’s ‘Cash for Clunkers’ was just extended a new $2 billion dollar funding lifeline. It is such a simple programme doing so much good on so many levels, we wondered if schemes like it could boost the UK and global economy? Between zombie banks, MP Expenses and the pound getting pounded, we [...]

by Denis Campbell
(Reprise of 18 November Article) While Maricopa County (Phoenix) Judge Edward O. Burke agreed with the state’s Libertarian Party that county elections director, Karen Osborne, did not follow election law, ensure ballot integrity and provide an unbroken custody chain, he ruled against them saying, “in a county the size the size of Maricopa, perfect [...]

 
by Denis Campbell
As appears on the Huffington Post World Page
Almost everyone knows coffee drinking is the last reason anyone visits an Amsterdam Coffee House. Stroll into one of the many flag festooned café-like establishments along the Kalverstraat and you are handed a unique menu that instead of Kenyan, Javanese or Blue Mountain beans, contains the [...]

How can two cities from two different sides of the ocean be so alike in so many ways? Vadimus Post’s Denis Campbell looks at this psychological “Tale of Two Cities.”

UPDATED: We’re back and displeased! After living under a suspension suspicion with zero recourse other than e-mail to an unattended box @UK Progressive, @BostonTweets The Boston Phoenix (one of the USA’s oldest alternative newspapers), Mathaba.Net’s tech @Matahaba_Forum,  and hundreds (if not thousands of other bloggers and media outlets if one follows Twitter “chatter”) were all [...]