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  • WHEN CONTROL FAILS – What Illness and War Teach About the Worth of Life

    Gaza: an ongoing death trap of collective responsibility – a catastrophe at holocaust proportions, where the innocent bear the unbearable weight of history repeating itself. ——- A reflection on mortality, meaning, and the courage of those who keep caring when the world collapses. Context Update – October 28 2025 As of this evening, Israel’s Prime… Keep reading →

  • 2013 – 2014 Genocide in the Pacific or even worse?

    “It is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.   Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy.   All you have to do is tell them…

  • Australia’s role in the Asia – Pacific Region

    “In  my  time  I  have  seen  truth  that  was  anything  under  the  sun  but  just,  and  I  have  seen  justice  using  tools  and  instruments  I  wouldn’t  want  to  touch  with  a  ten-foot  fence  rail”      – William  Faulkner  (Knight’s Gambit 1949)   Justice, balance of power and peace   Former Prime Minister Paul Keating said the…

  • The Asia – Pacific Challenge

      – http://cdn.theguardian.tv/brightcove/2012/3/26/120326ObamaHu-16×9.mp4 “Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” – Abraham Lincoln  – Speaking about  an increasing shift in US troops from the Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan to the Asia-Pacific region. – It would seem that the 21st century will be America’s Pacific century with promoting trade and economic ties,…

  • To sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression against human rights and injustice, and create the biggest movement on earth

      – “Each time a man stands up for an ideal or act to improve the lot of others, or strikes against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of…

  • The Art of Leadership and Lessons from the Past – Edward M. Kennedy

    Leadership lessons  (Edward M. Kennedy)   “Ted Kennedy’s life is a reminder that much can be achieved by late bloomers; that you don’t have to have your career all figured out by the time you’re       25, 35, or even over 45.”              – Sarah Green in a post on…

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