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Category: Challenges of our times and generation

  • Hundred Years of Anzac : the spirit lives but which way in the future?‏

    “…….To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” – ― Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems – I would like to raise the opportunity today, in remembrance of “Anzac” and actually to all the Anzacs of the world,  to write briefly to you about the senseless and growing…

  • The Russian Rouble Crisis And Its Dangers‏

    ->>> What kind of genuine agreement is reasonable, within the context of an escalating economic crisis in Russia, and to support the so important international coöperation between superpowers and other countries? – As the Russian rouble crisis may have a global fallout, affecting potentially the word’s financial markets, just a few words about this crisis. A…

  • Sydney Siege 2014: A serious warning for better terror prevention.

    “Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe.” —UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, 13 June 2007 >>>Terror prevention is…

  • Sydney Siege 2014

    Terror prevention is not merely a distant goal that we search for, but a process through which we arrive at that goal, .. a learning experience, and a journey, which we need to travel, – as due to the increasing dangers we face – as a country with other countries…And to travel this, – we…

  • To Cheapen The Civil Rights Of Any Group Of Citizens May Cheapen The Lives Of All Citizens..

    “…………..each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation”  – “If we believe that we, as Americans, are bound together by a common   concern for each other, then an urgent national priority is upon us.  We…

  • WE have a DREAM

      “No matter what people tell,   – your words and ideas can  change the world.” -Robin Williams – -> “It is never my custom to use words lightly.. If 27 years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are…

  • A Collision Course in Europe and the US with Russia?‏ – What is the real Crisis?

    To preserve peace and avoid the threats of war will be a challenge for each generation anew in different identities and requires now to make a united stance against increasing sectarian violence across the borders of inflated perceptions on those which were earlier considered to be opponents. Relations between nations with frictions on relatively trivial…

  • WE SHALL OVERCOME

    “A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” – Albert Einstein – “Perseverance is more prevailing than…

  • Decisions in 2014

    “Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished.  If you are alive it isn’t – Richard Bach – “By this means you will acquire the glory  of the whole world.”  – The Emerald Tablet      (Aprox 3000 –5000 BC) – > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvZYhxT5Mf8  <<    Vivaldi‘s Gloria >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You can still…

  • Christmas of the best kind?

    “Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.” – –Calvin Coolidge  ->> “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” -Roy L.Smith ->>> “Happy, happy…

  • If we have loved well while we were alive..

    “If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here -our love will go on for generations” – Desmond Tutu. “I am what I am because of what we all are” – Ubuntu. “A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an…

  • Rest Well Golden Eagle, – in memory of Nelson Mandela

    “Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people, his country, he can rest in peace. –Nelson Mandela. – “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in…

  • Anniversary JFK assassination and review

        is an edited version on Review  JFK  Assassination  2011: An  issue for both Democrats and Republicans. on June 9, 2011, – with more available information now.   INTRODUCTION   Today 50 years ago was the State funeral of President John F. Kennedy, – the 35th US President.   After 50 years we remember President…

  • The wider implications of the Syrian drama

    What started some 2 years ago in Syria as a protest movement against a brutal oppressive regime is now an uprising of spiralling war between various fractions, potentially dragging a whole region in a whirlpool of vicious violence. – What started 2 years ago as a struggle for justice being compromised became a sad time…

  • Both International And National Security Starts At Home – US in the picture.

    “I have not seen anywhere else in the world a gun lobby that has the same level of influence on its own government as the NRA does in the United States.”    –Andrew Feinstein. – “I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of insidious…

  • Where Allied Forces met again in the ANZAC spirit at Gallipoli

    Churchill did dream about Gallipoli and the Dardanelles, the dead soldiers on both the waters and the cliffs. It was a nightmare! The Dardanelles efforts have been his idea and could have altered the course of the 2nd word war at an earlier stage on the Western Front, – but it didn’t. The enemy was…

  • Remember Good Friday

      >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>> Good Friday, the historical day  of the memory of  the crucification and death of Jesus Christ. – The day which coincides with the Jewish Passover commemoration, – but not being the same!  Not being the same as it goes back so long in Jewish history and tradition for various reasons. However,  the…

  • >>?The Historical Jesus<<

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRtCPlVbGO0      Bach Fugue in G Minor BWV542 Albert Schweitzer – Whilst there is widespread scholarly agreement on the existence of Jesus, the portraits of Jesus constructed have often differed over past centuries until up today. Various scholars have criticized each other on the different approaches being used, – including the studies on the historical Jesus.It’s…

  • 21st Century’s collision course of nuclear disaster, – both the possible and the impossible!

    Among free men,” said Abraham Lincoln, “there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and those who take such appeal are sure to lose their cause and pay the costs.” Those who get confused about the real priorities on earth and lose their cause will pay the costs This is the…

  • The Realistic Threat Of North Korea: a different approach

    Tonight once again, once again the same old discussion. The discussion being heard so many times but so little effective action being taken. The discussion about the pending and increasing dilemma’s as how to deal with North Korea. North Korea perceived as an increasing threat, – North Korea being an increasing threat. North Korea, with…

  • America’s Role In The Middle East – Justified?

    “We shall live at last as free men on our soil, and die peacefully in our own homes”, – as Theodor Herzl once wrote in his book “The Jewish State“. He wrote this almost a century ago, long before the concentration camps of Hitler, long before the increasing tensions in the Middle East, – not…

  • The Question Of Character And Courage

    “Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose” –Tom Krause –>> …We thought about it and we spoke about it for many years already and It has gone through our minds, perhaps someway for ages. Not for everybody but for some. Often we did see the examples in…

  • The Question As How To Serve…

    The best answer on the question as how to serve in the best possible ways can be given by those who serve or served best. Those who went out in any kind of wilderness, – lacking money and recourses and build up their heartfelt dreams. There are different ways of serving. I have neither vivid…

  • To Cross The Waves Of Time..

    “I look up to the people who keep dancing even after the music has stopped, because those are the people who keep on trying even after all hope is lost” – unknown origin “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner” —Nelson…

  • What sort of a Peace..

    “If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.” —George C. Marshall “Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also…

  • We dream of things that never were and say: “Why not?”

    “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Robert Frost – “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned in order to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCrx_u3825g – “You see…

  • Some predictions for 2013 after 2012?

    >”Don’t sweat the small stuff when so much else matters.”< Predictions are not always easy and sometimes impossible. We have one certainty and this is that not nothing is certain. Our agenda for tomorrow based on today or yesterday may well work out, but sometimes it may get disrupted by the unexpected and we have…

  • On the issue of human trafficking

    http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=human+trafficking+photos&go=&qs=n&form=QBIR -Speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative past Tuesday, US President Barrack Obama took the remarkable step calling modern day slavery “barbaric” and “evil” as he spoke against trafficking and praised companies, organizations and people taking up the fight against the traffickers: “It ought to concern every person, because it’s a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to…

  • Macbeth, the power of evil and the evil of power.

    “And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s  In deepest consequence” William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), “Macbeth“, Act 1 scene 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare)   Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare’s  great famous plays and tragedies.   There’s murder, battles and the foreshadow of things going…

  • “Lass sie nach Berlin kommen” – Berlin 2012 takes a proactive lead!

    Angela Merkel “Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was civis Romanus sum (“I am a Roman citizen“). Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is “Ich bin ein Berliner!”… All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words “Ich bin ein Berliner!”…