International Calling Cards Makes Calling Made Easier & Reasonable

If your local telephone operator charges you the moon for making international calls, don't sweat! Help is at hand and international calling cards are the way to go. Not only can you make calls to various countries across the world, you also have to pay less for talking more!

International calling cards, as the name suggests, are telephone cards that allow you to call over long distances as well as dial your friends and family residing abroad from the comfort of your home or office. No longer do you have to pay huge bills for speaking to your loved ones abroad, or your client in some other country. With international calling cards you can enjoy complete freedom and low rates.

Types of International Calling Cards

Typically, calling cards are available as disposable or refillable cards. Some of these calling cards also come with a PIN printed on them. Whenever you make an international call, the charge is applied to your land line telephone billing account. Payment can be made using a prepaid credit system or by credit card. While different calling cards have different payment methods, you can use these cards in many different ways to make the necessary calls, but this would depend on the company that's offering you the calling cards.

Currently, the market has two types of international calling cards. One is the stored value calling card, while other is the remote memory calling card. Now, stored value cards already have a pre-fed amount of money that can be used for making international calls. For ex: if you buy an international stored value calling card worth $10, you'll be able to make calls until that amount runs out. The pay-phones read the balance available on your card every time you make a new call and inform you of the available balance once you have completed your call.

On the other hand, remote memory calling cards work on a toll-free number access. Every time you need to dial the toll-free number, follow the instructions to call the number of your choice. The toll-free number also informs you on the available balance and duration of the call.

Continental Phone Card

Why Use International Calling Cards

If you are traveling aboard for studies, business, or just fun chances are you will get homesick. Calling back home can be an expensive deal especially if you want to talk for more than just a quick hello. Using international calling cards, you can call home or call from home to anyone, any where in the world. Opt for pre-paid calling cards or post-paid calling card plans, but either way you'll be able to fulfill your desire to talk to your loved ones whenever you want without having to worry about the clock ticking away!

There are several companies that offer international, travel, and other such calling cards. Each of these has different plans, different rates, and different denominations of calling cards for places across the world. Choose the one you like the best and that suits your requirements and pocket.

For further information, please visit International Calling Cards.

Why Do We Consume Luxury Goods, But Spend Little Time Enjoying Them?

It can be perceived that day by day, the number of populace investing in Luxury Goods/Services is cumulative. For example, if one was to observe posts on Instagram or Facebook, there would be an increasing number of designer handbags, luxurious meals and luxury cars to be seen. At the same time, it can also be observed that the usage of these products is significantly lower than depicted on social networks. So are people investing in luxury goods and services only for conspicuous consumption?

Conspicuous consumption is a term used to describe investment into luxury goods and services in order to display wealth, or economic power. Veblen (1899) came up with this term when introducing his concept of Veblen goods, which Luxury goods and services fall into. Veblen goods contradict the law of demand. The law of demand states that an increase in price leads to a decrease in quantity demanded. However the price and quantity demanded of Veblen Goods are directly proportional; an increase in price leads to an increase in quantity demanded, and a decrease in price leads to a decrease in quantity demanded.

The reason behind this links once again to the concept of conspicuous consumption. Individuals wish to be seen purchasing expensive goods, in order to appear as wealthier, or stand out by being able to access goods which are not simply accessible for everyone. The use of social media enables individuals to do this as they simply take a photograph of themselves and/or the luxury Veblen good, and display it on Instagram or Facebook for everyone to see. This provides them with the economic power they desire. Social Media has also been a cause of this emerging trend, as it has allowed people to create ideas on how certain goods can give individuals a certain image, and so people can be investing in goods simply to post images of them on social networks, and obtain a certain image within society.

The concept of Veblen Goods and Conspicuous Consumption can therefore be used to explain why individuals spend a prodigious amount of money on luxury goods and services, but spend diminutive time utilising them. It indicates that individuals are more interested in portraying their economic power publicly rather than for their own use. This phenomenon also reveals why an increase in price leads to an increase in demand for these goods, individuals who are able to invest in Veblen Goods are an exception to the general law of demand, in a way that they are more economically powerful, so as a result, achieve their desire of Conspicuous Consumption.

Americans Are Addicted to Indulgence

We Americans have been on a rampant escapade to indulge in just about everything. Stuff ranging from make-up, automobiles, expensive clothing, fast food, slow food, toys, drugs, alcohol, medicine, big screen TV's, iPods, cell phones, houses, gadgets, and the list could go on for quite some time. Think about it to yourself for a second. Think about how much money you have wasted on stuff you do not even have or use anymore. We intend to "one up" our neighbors. We purchase better clothing, bigger TV's, better cars, a bigger boat, a bigger house. We do this because as a society we believe that bigger, better, faster, is the way to be. We purchase this stuff, and some of it is necessary, and some of it is not. We indulge in both the stuff we need, and stuff we do not need. I would like to talk about the stuff we do not need.

Stuff we do not need floods our homes, might I add these are homes we do not even own. Hardly any of us own the cars we drive in. Look around at your friends and ask them if they own their car, I bet the percentage who do own is low. Some of us do not even own the computers we use to purchase all this useless stuff. Instead of saving our money, we spend our money, we borrow more money, we live beyond our means.

Indulgence is like a drug, and most American's are addicted. We have dug a hole so deep its going to be a tuff climb out. Each individual will need to use their own will power to climb out of this mess. Ill say it again, the hole is deep, and it will be an incredible climb. It starts with you, and no one else. Stop the spending and get yourself into financial shape.

We American's must now realize that the unnecessary spending has gone on for to long. It is time to stop the spending. The Federal Reserve is running their printing press 24/7. Our Federal Reserve has printed one trillion dollar bills from 2007-09. These dollars are sitting in commercial banks waiting to be loaned out to American's who want to continue their spending escapades. Do not join in on this trickery, we have done it for to long. The government is not the hand that feeds you, stop giving in to their lies. Government sponsored programs such as health care, only means more tax dollars from your pocket. The American Government is the epitome of indulgence. Do not follow their lead, they are wasteful. It is we American's who keep this system going. If we do not step up, and demand real changes, (not the changes promised to us by Obama, that will never happen), then we as American's are doomed as free people.

Finding an Online Job

There are many opportunities for employment on the Internet. If you're looking for a job at home or at work at home jobs in a search engine you will find many jobs at home with a job site. Some offer free membership and certain monthly costs, annual registration fees or life. Many offer a free trial of State or member of the process.

Equipment Directory, no fee work at home

However, there are also many other businesses online job right at home at no cost to you. Some of them are Outsourcing Services recruitment staff of the House their own websites. It will also assist ads desired temporary and permanent research agencies for employees. They consider the work of administration, the number of staff, the independent Web sites that recruiters wanted to help the classifieds or the jobs of the staff of the research. An online virtual services personnel should provide practical assistance in a variety of virtual staff, that the search for employees to work for their clients.

Outsourcing Services does not charge

There is a lot more work at home about the possibilities of the Internet with Outsourcing Services. You already have a large customer base and marketing system and are on the lookout for more staff to help their customers. There are call centers, supporting customers and providers of customer relationship management, the companies pay for the support of the customers work in the house, business premises in search of specialists for the sale of virtual assistant for the research of virtual assistants, the processing of Data for the research as an input for typing and other outsourcing services for the advertising of staff, whose online. You can also see many outsourcing services such as online advertising for the handling and attitude of publishers to work for their online services, or writers, typists, accountants, etc. Many agencies currently work independently and also advertising for Web sites workers who are in the outsourcing projects for them.

Classified Ads

To see the latest ads and wanted to look at FreshJobs.com and ExpertNetSurf.com. The recent reports with titles like "we are looking for employees", "Help Wanted Jobs" and in newsgroups, jobs, forums and message boards too. JobBoardMagic, Job-Search-Engine and JobLine check many job boards in their job search. You can also use your resume to deposit and HelpWantedSite job seekers with your CV from its website. CareerBuilder, a large employment and career site, and Jobvertise.com also use this service free of charge.

Jobs at home Newsletter

There are also many jobs at home websites that give you in the last job advertisements in a newsletter or ezine. They combine their mailing list or subscribe to their free newsletter on their Web site. ExpertNetSurf is recommended for new jobs at home advertisements in their free newsletter. Bassador.com, telecommuting and HomeJobStop.com-Connection.com also free access to jobs at home information in their newsletters. E-mail notifications are also in many jobs and career sites, including CareerBuilder, and HelpWantedSite and IHireAccounting.com.

Internet newsgroups

Another resource for job search and help wanted advertisements is Internet Newsgroups. The jobs will be in the newsgroup to Google in newsgroups such as alt.jobs.offered, misc.jobs.offered, biz.jobs.offered, us.jobs.offered and misc.jobs. You will find many recently wanted advertising in the newsgroups and news on this topic. You can also jobs. Many more jobs at home opportunities are in groups, Yahoo and MSN Groups.

April 4, 2005

April 4, 2005


Okay, I know for all of my two or less readers that you haven't written anything since the election. I didn't mean to let this go on for this long. Now instead of writers block I have writers backlog. I have so much in my head that I need to write about and just haven't found the time to do it so. This is my deal I need to write 3 original pieces a month that way I will have listen my best say when are you going to write again I now have an answer. I will write three times a month one in the beginning, the middle around the 15th of the month and the end of the month. I am look for a new look for the blog and how I can post links again to other sites and bringing back buzzflash as well. So please bear with me as I try to make this blog better and more original in thought and research so I can get a lot more readers.

The Value of Life

April 3, 2004

The Value of Life

We were engrossed in the Terri Shiavo case this past two weeks most of were sickened about

how politicians wasted time and money on what would be in normal case be a family decision.
What made this situation so important? What made this family so different?

Your answer is as good as mine. However, while my husband and I were listening to Mike Malloy show on Air America he mentioned a story about a six month old little boy named Sun Hudson. Sun Hudson had a fatal genetic disorder which involved the development of lungs.

His mother Wanda felt also that he too would get better in time just like Mrs. Shiavo’s mother. They both could not function with out assistance of machines. Both were victims of George W. Bush politics. Both had laws that would seal or in one case prolong their fate.

So what are the differences between their stories? We all know about Terri Shiavo’s story it has been going on for fifteen years. Little Sun’s story did not leave the city of Houston.

Mrs. Schindler had the support of many powerful attorneys, a litany of famous faces waying in on her case, reporters and clergyman across the country. Ms. Hudson was prevented from having reporters to show her son’s suffering, she had one attorney and no famous faces by her side. The biggest difference between the two cases is that Mrs. Schindler had resources to keep her daughter alive such as the courts and politicians. Ms. Hudson was told to by the Texas Children’s Hospital that her son would be disconnected from life support by 2pm whether she liked it or not. In the state of Texas there is a law called the Futile Care Law in which George W. Bush signed in to law while he was Governor. The law states (and I am paraphrasing), that if a patient is not progressing from treatment or terminal the hospital has the right to withdraw life support and the family has ten days to find another facility that would be willing to take that patient.

Terri’s law was rushed through the state house in Florida and states that if there was no living will or written instructions or family can’t agree then the government will take over. (Once again, I am paraphrasing).

Little Sun nor Terri Shiavo would not have been cured in time that one thing that we do know. So why the three ring circus in Florida and none in Texas? Where were Fox News and all the rest of them when this hospital in Texas decided to pull the plug on this little boy’s life? Terri Shiavo had a choice she stated that she did not want to live in a vegetative state. Little Sun did not have that choice. I can write about the similarities and differences of these stories forever.

But there is one that can’t be denied ..............

Little Sun was black

Terri Schiavo was white.

Was the outcry really for white life?

Something to think about…..

Camille Cosby's Speech

Camille Cosby's Speech

It is even more crucial to vote this year. Imagine what would happen if Bush is in the White House when this issue comes up in 2007!! Below you will find a speech that Bill Cosby's wife gave at a function. Everyone please read this and pass it on to as many African Americans you come in contact with.

Camille Cosby just made a reference about the Voting Rights Act in her most recent open letter on racism. This is extremely important. We are quickly approaching the 21st Century and we were wondering, and when I say 'we', I mean others of us out there who wonder if everyone else out there knows what the significance of the year 2007 is to Black America? Did you know that our right to VOTE will expire in the year 2007? Seriously! The Voters Rights Act signed in 1965 by Lyndon B. Johnson was just an ACT. It was not made a law.

In 1982, Ronald Reagan amended the Voters Rights Act for another 25 years. Which means that in the year 2007 we could lose the Right to vote! Does anyone realize that African Americans are the only group of people who require PERMISSION under the United States Constitution to vote! In the year 2007, Congress will once again convene to decide whether or not Blacks should retain the rights to vote (crazy but true). In order for this to be passed, 38 states will have to approve an extension. This is ludicrous! Not only should the extension be approved, but also the ACT must be made a law. Our right to vote should no longer be up for discussion! , review and/or evaluation.

We must contact our Congress-persons, Senators, Alderpersons, etc., to put a stop to this! As bona fide Citizens of the United States, we cannot "drop the ball" on this one! We have come too far to let government make us take such a huge step backward. So please, let us push forward to continue to build the momentum towards gaining equality. Please pass this onto others, as we are sure that many more individuals are not aware of this. I urge all of you that are able, to contact those in government that have your vote and make them aware of our combined concern for this issue. One voice!...... One Vote! You cannot complain, if you do not participate.....local, State, & national......


When I received this one I had no choice but to pass it on.

What are we gonna now!!!!!!!!

I have this to say to that. We lost because we letthe DLC take over DNC once again in our elections. First of all as far as Ralph Nader is concerned weneed him at the table this time we don't need him as an advisary we need him at the head of the table.

Second the Democratic Party needs to back to their roots. No more fancy parties, no letting Bush getaway with losing uranium that why Dashle lost stopletting the republican party push the agenda of moraland high grounds when they FUCK up bash 'em, get intheir face call the Hanitys and the Lintball and call them on their shit.

The conservatives believe that itis revelution time they have no clue what is coming down the pike.

Thirdly we need to take it to 'em start mobilizing for voter reform. No one should wait four hours to vote and when they do the machines don't work,not only that we don't have alot of time we have only5 seats in the senate to hold on to. We have got to start putting a foot in the behind of the senators to get this done. Going back to Ralph, I think that thisshould be his next crusade voter reform.

SWING STATES

VIRGINIA IS NOW A "SWANG" STATE BUSH ACCORDING TO ZOGBY ONLY LEADS BY 3%, LET'S TURN VA BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NORTH CAROLINA IS NOW A "SWANG" STATE BUSH ONLY LEADS BY 6.5% LETS "C'MON AN' RAISE UP " AND TURN IT BLUE
GO TARHEELS IT YA BIRTHDAY
GO VOTE AND TURN IT ALL BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOVE YA RED SOX WE BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Random Thoughts.....On and on and on...

I am sitting here between the parallel of boredom and gratitude. Frozen between what to do if anything what not to do. Bored to tears, Not really. I'm not a deep person, once in a while I have a deep thought now and again.

I wonder why is it so hard for people to talk about religion and politics. Why is it so difficult to fathom that we are all the same or that the different parts so it can reach everyone's ear.

I get Christian email, I see people praying in the copy room in the mornings not that I am offended by outward expression but I guess it sort of envy it. Picture this, what if a Muslim sent what they thought was an "inspirational" email to there co-workers quoting different surahs from the Qua'ran or Hadiths. Or better yet, a Christian walks past the copy room in the morning and spots 10 Muslims making salat (prayer) with prayer rugs and the whole nine.

I'll you exactly what will happen with the email the well meaning Muslim would have been fired or severely reprimanded for being "sensitive" of their fellow co-workers beliefs. The praying Muslims would have been FIRED and turned in to the authorities on the ground of "national security", or trying to "WAGE JIHAD" in the workplace.

It is very obvious that there is no religious freedom in this country. Since 9-11 George Bush and his cronies make it okay to be ignorant , close minded and ethnocentric. It's not okay not in the least bit, it's not funny, cute , it's not okay to mask bigotry under the guise of fear no matter what has happened.

Why ARE Americans so fearful of having meaning dialogue about religion and politics, what keep us divided on such issues. If we were to pick up and read each others holy books we would find that the story of each leader be it the story of Jesus, Prophet Muhammad, Buddha or Moses; Most would find that these leaders share several experiences.

1. They all found enlightenment, was informed of their mission
2. They had small amount followers
3. The believers were persecuted
4. They were all ran out of there homeland
5. They all did to have to make the sacrifice, they were either rich or lived comfortably

These are just some of the things I noticed and I didn't have to look very far. I am a Muslim but coverting to Islam helped me to be more open minded about other people and their belief structures.

Like it or not America has got to become apart of the global community and events like 9-11 makes that all to real. Americans have got to stop wanting to be saved by the "good ol boys" like Ronald Reagan or even George Bush. We've got to be more progressive in our thinking and move forward and leave narrow minded ethnocentric bigotry behind and hang on the shelf of the past where it belongs. Religion and politics when discussed intelligently can move our country to a more progressive path and help us to better embrace others and truly have a melting pot in this country. Or we'll just keep repeating the past on and on and on and on ......LETS STOP IT AND MOVE PROGRESS FORWARD.

One World!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!