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Making sense of "It All?"

Distilling the "bigger picture" from the mish-mash of todays news is an increasingly difficult task for the average news junkie. Newspapers, TV, radio and now the World Wide Web fervently blast out headlines and monologue 24/7 as fast as they can, attempting to incite controversy that sells more advertising than the next guy. How much of what we hear and read that is truly from the heart of the speaker or author we'll probably never knows. One thing for sure, it sells advertising nicely. Standing back a moment and trying to making sense of the big picture (our world) I find a few interesting points that I can pretty well bank on: 1. Man can not stay still and has always been on the move, migrating to the next nearest valley, country or continent and... 2. The further man migrated, the better things got (in general: South America has its problems). One of the first four civilizations began around the area of we today call Ethiopia; Ethiopia today is one of the poorest coun