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BC Cook I HAVE always wanted to hike in the Himalayas and visit Machu Picchu in Peru.  I have always wanted to sail with my wife around the world.  I want to walk among the ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia.  Someday I will do these things. You have your own list of things you will do if you ever get…

FROM a Wall Street Journal news story last month: “In the verdant hills of Washington state’s Palouse region, Andrew Nelson’s tractor hums through the wheat fields on his 7,500-acre farm. Inside the cab, he’s not gripping the steering wheel — he’s on a Zoom call or checking messages. “A software en…

Ambrose M. Bennett “A special honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his DREAM for America & all Americans – Keeping the Dream Alive, as Ambrodamus is not here by mistake and even divine intervention.”  THE Truth is today 62 yrs. ago in 1963, Dr. King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream…

IN its rabid pursuit of every penny, whether bled off from the capital coffers of state financial institutions, or from the pre-need reserves of a health fund, or the flood control budget of the Department of Public Works and Highways, or even the savings of families and children, a new initiative …

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is being deemed the “Nostradamus of the CNMI,” it is vital that I remind Our Leaders and the People of WHY the CNMI (Dreamed) joined the American Family, which was with the hopes and sincere PRAYERS the CNMI would eventually “develop & grow to become more like the m…

BC Cook DO you remember the story of Robinson Crusoe from your childhood?  A sailor was the lone survivor of a shipwreck and made his way to a deserted island.  He lived alone for years and learned to hunt, fish, build, and prosper without the use of tools or the assistance of other people.  The ch…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is my #1 Bigot & Bully Critic has given me a “new name of Ambrodamus” that I like and truly appreciate, as it is in reference to the famous Nostradamus a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties (publi…

Garapan Elementary School, 1976 STUDYING history lets you step back and see today’s pressing issues in perspective. For example, education. In the CNMI, education is a smashing success, but it seems that few of us realize this. Not a lot of us are also aware that under direct U.S. rule during the T…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is America, including the CNMI, must focus & prepare for decimating the Endgame of Trump on the mainland and the Endgame of Republicans in the CNMI that can ONLY be done BY the People in the Voting Booth — it’s really that simple. Trump and CNMI Republicans gained t…

BC Cook ATLANTIS, the Seven Cities of Cibola, the Lost Continent of Mu, Terra Incognito, Shangri-La, El Dorado.  Nearly every culture in the world shares stories of far-away places that are populated by people who are superior.  The stories are passed down, mixed up, retold, and embellished, but wi…