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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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 – 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…

  • 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…