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Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Dr. Lauren has long regretted the technological and “human resource” barriers that necessitated the gradual silencing of this blog. To those of  you who noticed, thank you!  While we will try to archive  the many articles that won The Orion Post moderate acclaim, a new blog associated with Be...
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Too many years ago to admit, I had the privilege and persistence to study economics and political theory with the best minds of the time. When these renown, experienced intellects cited post-WWII economics, pre-WWIII economics and the future, they drilled into our tired minds the inevitability of th...
Friday, 29 July 2011
Three children under eight years of age were shot dead last night in the projects of Miami – a spree shooting with an AK47. No motive. No suspects. No one heard or knows who or why... Japanese school children go to school with mini-geiger counters – country-wide. The technology strapped to thei...

Wednesday, 13 July 2011
At a very young age, I had the privilege of studying with Ernest Becker, the author of, among other things, “The Denial of Death”.  S...
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
(A colleague drove me to distraction in order to force me to write this short piece)                           ...
Sunday, 12 June 2011
….and Weiners Prevail. My helpful whiz – the fellow who uploads my articles for The Orion Post, has been unable to do the postin...
Tuesday, 05 April 2011
Chatting our way to... This blog has been silent since March 11, 2011, the day the earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan, and set off the ...
Saturday, 19 February 2011
Noticed? Have you? Noticed? There is a global movement toward claiming and receiving human dignity. Sure, inherently, social and eco...
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Excellence, Role Playing, and the Need for Balance and Variety: It is no accident that today’s entrepreneurs – those with staying p...
Monday, 14 February 2011
The Need for Personalization, Objectivity and the Imposed Power of Containment: It serves corporate managers well to have played and to...
Wednesday, 09 February 2011
Last year when I started to write a book about the dangerous attraction of terrorism to young North American males, including Canadians, a...


The founder of the Orion Post is author, psychotherapist and keynote speaker
Dr. Lauren Kennedy-Smith.

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A large swath of coastal South Carolina is under a tropical storm watch due to Alberto, the first named tropical storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season.
More work must be done before NATO troops pull out of Afghanistan, U.S. President Barack Obama said as he met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Sunday.
Two suspects who appeared in court in Cook County, Illinois, on Sunday are not believed to be part of an alleged terror plot in Chicago during the NATO summit, prosecutors said Sunday.
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Six couples profiled in the first year of the Vows column look back at two decades of marriage — and divorce.
President Obama met with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and American tensions with Pakistan remained unresolved as a NATO summit meeting started Sunday in Chicago.
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Why not move Financial Stability Board’s permanent secretariat to Asia?
Former NBA star and 1960 Olympic gold medalist Bob Boozer has died. He was 75.