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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • “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!”…

  • 2013 – 2014 Genocide in the Pacific or even worse?

    “It is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.   Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy.   All you have to do is tell them…

  • 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 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…

  • 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…

  • The Art of Leadership and Lessons from the Past – Nelson Mandela

    NELSON MANDELA “I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be,…

  • 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…

  • The Art of Leadership and lessons from the Past – some general features

    “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow”. “The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein.  Countries and organisations at whatever level are the combination of all-around “living” and existing dynamics and the art of leadership is based on the concept that it is important to mobilise the existing recourses of available people in the…

  • The Art of Leadership and lessons from the Past – introduction.

    “Where there is no vision, the people perish”  -(Proverbs 29:18) – “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – (Ralph Waldo Emerson) – “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” – (Mark Twain) – INTRODUCTION – Yes, it’s all…

  • 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 10 – former President G.W. Bush)

      Image via Wikipedia The 43rd US President   This article will focus in particular on the background and the lead up to the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq during the G.W.Bush Administration, including the triggering reason which we know as the September 11 attacks.   Behind the scene there were powerful persons like the US…

  • US Presidential profiles in violations of Justice. (Part 9 – former President W. J. Clinton)

    The 42nd US President William (“Bill”) Jefferson Clinton  “Part  of  our  essential  humanity  is  paying  respect  to  what  God  gave  us  and  what  will  be  here  a  long  time  after  we’re  gone.”   – Bill Clinton.  (1946 –       – Born 1946 in Hope (Arkansas), Clinton graduated at both Yale Law School and Oxford. Between 1973 and…

  • US Presidential profiles in violations of Justice. (Part 8 – former President H.W. Bush)

    The 41nd US President Herbert Walker Bush    “America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world”.   – H.B. Bush.   Again an interesting US President for…

  • US Presidential profiles in violations of Justice. (Part 7 – former President Ronald Reagan)

    Image via Wikipedia The 40th US President Ronald Wilson Reagan   “Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction” – Ronald Reagan.   “Government is not the solution to our problems;government is the problem”  – Ronald Reagan. – An interesting man and an interesting US President. Perceived by many as one of the greatest US…

  • 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…