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  • 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…

  • You CAN’T refuse this 2016 offer , – CAN YOU ??‏

    An offer you can refuse? – NOT the offer as shown in the Godfather by Michael Corleone or by his dad. We may remember this master of drama and art. A genius mafia crime film by Francis Ford Coppola in the 70ties and 90 ties. Many of us have seen this, either in the cinema…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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 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…

  • 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…

  • “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!”…

  • 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 other…

  • 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…

  • Profiles in US Presidential Violations of Justice (Part 11 – Epilogue & Summary)

       – – –                                                                                                                           If this is the first article you read in this series about “Profiles in US Presidential Violations of Justice”, you might be interested to read first about the 8 Presidents being discussed in the 10 earlier chapters . Start in this case at Part 1 or 2 and work your way up to Chapter 10. Perhaps one at the time.…

  • US Presidential profiles in violations of Justice (Part 5 – former President Ford)

    The 38th US President Gerald Rudolph Ford:   “An American tragedy in which we all have played a  part” – “If Lincoln were alive today, he’d be turning over in his grave.”  – Gerald R. Ford. Born in 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska, he studied law at Yale and during the Second World War he served in the US…

  • US Presidential profiles in violations of Justice (Part 4 – former President Nixon)

    The 37th US President Richard Milhouse Nixon “I am not a crook” – R.M Nixon:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh163n1lJ4M&feature=player_detailpage RICHARD   NIXON’s   VIOLATIONS  OF  JUSTICE Richard Milhouse Nixon (1913-1994 was born in Yorba Linda (California) in a lower middle class quaker family of an Irish background. After his degree at Duke University he worked for 5 years as…

  • US Presidential profiles in violations of Justice (Part 3 – former US President Johnson)

    The 36th US President Lyndon B.Johnson – “I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be, and when this election is over I am going to open a museum and put them on display”  -LBJ. Introduction Perhaps Lyndon Baines Johnson neither needs a museum to put his assumed actions by his opponents  on display,…

  • Profiles In US Presidential Violations of Justice – Front page (Part 1 of 11)

    Front page of  “Profiles in US Presidential Violations of Justice”. Part 1. – Introduction: – “Profiles in US Presidential Violations of Justice” gives an overview of some previous US Presidents from the perception of  violations of Justice,  the last including both the law and/or  US Constitution. The facts are actually somewhat sobering perhaps and offer an insight at the Executive…

  • Profiles in US Presidential Violations of Justice – Introduction (Part 2 of 11)

    >>INTRODUCTION<< – “Democracy…while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy.     Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”  – John Adams  (1735 – 1826) “A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood…

  • Review JFK Assassination 2011: An issue for both Democrats and Republicans.

        This article has been edited and reviewed in November 2013. See contents below:  Anniversary JFK assassination and review   Anniversary JFK assassination and review Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure…

  • 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.…