EVERYTHING POLITICS

2 Hour Special Report on Haiti Part 2

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Agnus Dei Functions was conceived and dedicated to "Remembering", to cause ourselves to Remember. Such Memory is a necessary primary function by which history is either transformed or doomed to iniquitous repetition. Agnus Dei Functions (as a Spiritual Experiment), is testing whether or not a social, political, economical and ecumenical prognosis to the simultaneity of human affairs will be remembered so as to bring about a harmony of interest for the creation of a loving and just order to the i… Continue

It should be noted, on the occasion of the poet Edgar Poe's 201st birthday, that, despite his extended residence in New York City, various of the city's historical institutions, including the New York Historical Society, did not see fit to even reference the 200th occasion of his birth in January 2009, or throughout the past twelve months. Poe wrote the poem {the Raven} only seven blocks from the Historical Society address (at a location now marked by a restaurant bearing his name). There was a… Continue

Many things could have been said about the extraordinary tragedy that we see unfolding in Haiti. First of all, however, {it was largely preventable}--but not at the last minute. Second, it is an ongoing disaster, and will be with us through the next two generations, even if we were to fully rebuild the entire… Continue