Roger J. Burke
Roger Burke is a writer living in Queensland, Australia, and has published numerous articles and ebooks on the web.
In no particular order, Roger was a patrol officer in New Guinea for five years; has been an IT professional for thirty years; did sales for three years; is a self-defence and karate instructor, and has been one for twenty years; involved with website development/Internet marketing for ten years; and a family man with seven kids, over the last forty-three years.
He has a BA (Literature and Composition) from Griffith University, Brisbane, and is now completing an MA (Creative Writing) with Swinburne University in Melbourne.
He can be reached at mayapan1942(AT)yahoo.com.
In no particular order, Roger was a patrol officer in New Guinea for five years; has been an IT professional for thirty years; did sales for three years; is a self-defence and karate instructor, and has been one for twenty years; involved with website development/Internet marketing for ten years; and a family man with seven kids, over the last forty-three years.
He has a BA (Literature and Composition) from Griffith University, Brisbane, and is now completing an MA (Creative Writing) with Swinburne University in Melbourne.
He can be reached at mayapan1942(AT)yahoo.com.
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Articles by Roger J. Burke
May 15, 2009
Arthritis is a painful scourge that resists cure. That's what we're told, and have been told for years. For ten years, however, I've successfully eliminated the pain of osteo-arthritis completely and reduced the swelling to almost nil. You can too.
March 07, 2009
So little time, so much to do: while politicians talk about saving the world's economy, the situation just gets worse daily. Financial indicators, particularly the Dow, show no real sign of recovery. Soon, a tipping point will be reached unless the global credit crisis is resolved.
February 26, 2009
Capitalism, as practiced today, wreaks havoc upon the world. When the current fiasco ends, business as usual is not an option because we should learn from our mistakes, not repeat them ad nauseam. As a starting point, the fundamental tenets of business ownership in the capitalist system must be modified to drastically reduce the probability of another financial catastrophe.
February 20, 2009
Capitalism is in a two-fold crunch with trillions in bad debt globally and few banks willing to allow credit. Consumers have closed their pocketbooks, resulting in the worst retail downturn in forty years. Hundreds of businesses are retrenching or bankrupting daily. Something must change to save global capitalism – otherwise, the cycle will continue.
February 15, 2009
Those who advocate torturing jihadists are simply feeding the fire of extremism. Moreover, any information obtained under torture is almost certainly valueless. And nothing will change the use of terror tactics unless captured jihadists are deprived of their main goal: martyrdom.
January 28, 2009
The world recession is now over a year old. No end is in sight yet, and probably won't be for a number of years. The world's economy is staggering like a drunk with a hangover on the morning after. Millions of jobs are disappearing, as are dreams of wealth and prosperity. It's enough to give anybody a headache. So governments better watch out when angry millions with headaches decide that enough is enough.
January 20, 2009
Next time you hear somebody use the words 'pragmatic', 'pragmatist' or similar, you might want to ask for clarification - if only to make sure you both understand the same thing. Being merely practical - a synonym for pragmatic - is fine. It's when you get into the philosophy of pragmatism that things can get murky, dangerously subjective and even horrific.
January 14, 2009
We all use and abuse it. We all ignore it, when it suits. But, we're all slave to it, regardless of what we do. Yet, we cannot see it, touch it, taste it or smell it. However, although, we can hear Time tick away our lives, Time is probably "our greatest illusion".
January 06, 2009
So Bernie Madoff conned the con artists of Wall St and a few too many others? So, what else is new about the world? Greed and lies are part of daily life. So, always: CAVEAT EMPTOR. And you can trust me on that!
December 15, 2008
The USA is in crisis, financially and economically. With the potentially disastrous demise of the US auto industry, what can or should be done to alleviate the pain, if the Big Three close their doors forever? Can the US economy survive such an upheaval? Can the USA afford not to allow the Big Three to go under?
June 15, 2008
Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used the fear of another al-Qaeda attack upon USA as one of its linchpins to justify the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, implement a whole range of security and border controls across USA, and a gradual restriction of personal freedom for all US residents. But, what is the evidence to support the fear of attack? This analysis suggests that attacks are more likely in other countries for the forseeable future.
December 19, 2007
I suppose there comes a time in everybody’s life when one begins to see the sands actually running down.
Time is of the essence, you keep hearing. Time is all you’ve got, say others.
That is, of course, if you believe that time actually exists; which, according to some sources, may not be the ...
December 14, 2007
This is a true story, and it happened one summer morning recently.
Since childhood, we all know about the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Well, just a few weeks back, I was idly looking at the clouds, during a rain-shower, and saw the rainbow as it emerged. And, just as idly, I wondere...
December 12, 2007
Everybody has a worst nightmare.
Soon we'll all be able to share one more: a passenger jet being blown out of the sky while a terrorist sips his latte in the airport lounge, having just triggered the onboard bomb via mobile phone.
No doubt you have a mobile, perhaps two. In emergencies, they m...