We dream of things that never were and say: "Why not?"

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Tag: Human rights

  • The foolishness of the Ukraine crisis in Europe, with a possible solution

    The foolishness of the Ukraine crisis in Europe, with a possible solution

    “There is no honourable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except it’s ending.” – Abraham Lincoln. Ordinary citizens in both Europe, Ukraine and Russia don’t want war. It’s rarely that people want war. Propaganda, however, can accelerate sentiments in different and sometimes sinister ways, as often shown…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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 centres of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of…

  • US Presidential profiles in violations of Justice. (Part 6 – former President Carter, the exception)

    The 39th Us President James Earl (“Jimmy”) Carter”   “Human rights  is  the  soul  of  our  foreign  policy, because  human  rights  is  the  very  soul  of  our  sense of  nationhood.”  – Jimmy  Carter. – The 39th US President was James Earl Carter born on the 1st of October 1924 in Plains,Georgia. After his graduation from the US…

  • The Dangers of US Decay Within the Foundation of its Democracy.

    Whilst democratic movements spread across the globe the concept of “democracy”  being potentially at risk is more clear than ever before,  – not really only by those countries  opposing the principles of democracy, but  even more at times by those who are supposed to protect it. On a positive note for the US, the 2011 Obama Administration seems to work within…

  • Australia’s Prime Minister and human rights issues in China

      Australia’s Prime Minister and human rights issues in China. Australia’s Prime Minister Ms Julia Gillard spoke at the Australia China Economic and Cooperation Trade Forum during her current trip to China and in her keynote speech she told her audience that the last 30 years the dual way trade with China has gone from 100 million dollars…

  • Let’s take the torch forward

    Good evening – or good morning – wherever you are at this hour. – Wherever you might be in your life, or wherever you will be in the future, – the future being the most important thing for all of us. The future we all cherish, – if we still have dreams or things to do.…