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  • WHO ARE WE, – AND WHAT COULD WE BECOME??

    If life has thrown stuff on your plate which was not of your making, and even when there have been times that you wish you could escape from it, the memory of people whom you love dearly and with whom you feel loved as well, – keeps you balanced the pathway you have to follow,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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, but also…

  • 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…

  • From Pol Pot to Darfur

    – On the 25th of April each year, Australians  commemorate ANZAC day, the landing of Australian and New Zealand Troops at Gallipoli in 1915. The spirit of this day – as suggested by the official war historian C.E.W Bean – both stand and stood for “reckless valour in a good cause, for enterprise, resourcefulness, fidelity, comradeship and…