Posts

Showing posts from March 11, 2018

JUST A THOUGHT - ON THE SKRIPAL TRAGEDY AND THE FOLLY OF GOVERNMENTS. PART 2.

Image
  And so the folly continues, with the Russian government now hitting back and was expected.  Resulting in the continuance of the 'absormal relations between the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom, and her EU and Nato allies.  Destroying things can be so easily achieved. It takes great leaders to build in times of great challenges.  Is President Putin and Prime Minister May upto to the challenge, or are they individually and collectively fated to wallah in the pungent mud of egotism? With probably the greatest gain being the return of Crimea to the Russian Federation. To the great chagrin of the EU and NATO; resulting in them imposing serious economic and political sanctions on the Russian Federation.  While these sanctions have hit and continue to hit the Russian Federation hard.  As, indeed, they have done to the imposing countries.   The net result is that they have force the people of the Russian Federation to develop their self-reliance capabilities and

JUST A THOUGHT - ON THE SKRIPAL TRAGEDY AND THE FOLLY OF GOVERNMENTS. PART 1.

Image
' As western leaders and governments become more autocratic in becoming prosecutor, judge and jury in convicting and punishing other nations with sanctions and military intervention.  They should heed the fact that, It is easy enough to push ourselves or others of the cliff  and into the void. But it can be extremely arduous to pull them or ourselves back up onto firm ground.  Sound decisions require good and accurate information, insightful   analysis, clarity of thought and time to reflect on their probably and likely impact and repercussions. Is this reflected in the British government's handling of the Sergei Skripal incident'? For many years now, the relationship between the British and Russian State has been in a most unsatisfactory state.   With the governments - yes, the governments and not the people - having been at loggerhead and hostile towards each other.  It is a row which is also replicated between the Russian Federation and the Western hemisp

FURTHER RUMINATIONS OF I PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, ON WHY I HAD TO FIRE REX TILLERSON! THE END?

Image
With my new homogeneous Secretary of State, Pompaeo, we can now get on with the venal, the pernicious and insane business of fucking up America and the rest of the world.  We can begin to more fully show ourselves to be the Anti-Christ demons which we truly are.  As we further hijack the Presidency of the United State of America. The same Presidency which Rex Tillerson had been trying to protect, by refusing to resign, and leaving me no option but to fire him. Yes, we are on our way. Tillerson was our final self-imposed hurdle or obstacle.  I had made a mistake in hiring him, and it has cost me dearly, but fortunately, it has not been a fatal mistake. I thought he was one of us, he certainly presented himself as been one of us, initially. But, I guess he later allowed himself to imagine that he was better than us.  He was still sane, while he saw us for what we really are, a bunch of insane Americans who have the 'audacity' to not only dream of making

JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON WHETHER 'RACE' OR CULTURE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT IN DETERMINING OR INFLUENCING ALLIANCES. PART 1.

Image
The world is becoming more complex than it has ever been before, with regards to people of different 'races', ethnicities  and cultures living together, or, at least in close proximity towards one another.  Yes, it really is the case that this, of itself has been going on for hundreds of years, if not millenniums, and is, in that context, not new.  However, what is new, is the awareness that people have about these, the 'differences' between them.  The causes of these differences, how they are perceived in particular societies.   How they are impacting on society and particular groups of people, and their willingness to challenge the negative impacts. These differences have become more talked about than they have ever been before.  They are placed under the scrutiny of the media, which in turn forces governments to take notice and action, whether ameliorative or repressive.  With people of different 'races', ethnicities, religions

The Long Seduction, Or Reproductive Ritual!

Image
This is a video of a pair of pigeons going through the complex ritual of courtship preceding the business of starting a family, as it were.  The complexity of it, as you can see, might make the observer tired, and suggest that these birds have more energy, stamina than us humans might imagine.  Had humans had to go through a similar display of affection before taking things to the next stage, there probably would be less of us on Planet Earth.   It is clear that patience and persistence are two of the most important attributes in professing love and demonstrating passion between these love birds. Please take a contemplative, and probably appreciative look and listen; if you will.

FURTHER RUMINATIONS OF I PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, ON WHY I HAD TO FIRE REX TILLERSON! PART 2.

Image
Rex Tillerson spoke eloguently, much more than I could or would have done, about how he continues to serve at 'The President's pleasure.'  Yes, it is true that he had been reported that as calling me "a moron", but I am not going to hold that against Rex.  Why should I, when there are clearly times when I do say moronic things and do behave as a moron.  But it has, it had been my good fortune to have Rex in my team, Team Trump. Team Trump has been blessed to have Rex Tillerson to 'sanitise' it.  I, President Donald J Trump and my Cabinet and government, have been able to take some cover under Tillerson's sanity.  But, at the sametime, I and my Cabinet have been under immense pressures from our endeavour to pretend to be sane and intelligent people.  So much so, that, have we not already been insane, the pressure might have driven us into a state of insanity. And, it is within this context that I can honestly borrow the res

JUST A THOUGHT - ON NATIONS' RESTRICTION ON THE LENGTH OF TENURE OF THEIR LEADERS. THE END!

Image
But greater circumspection is needed from the public, to enable them to differentiate between what is a 'political issue', and what is a basic 'human rights' issue, and when the two might be overlapped. What is needs to be and remain strong and durable. And that is the difference between China's President Xi Jingping, and his western detractors.  It is the difference between ordinary people and a great leader! It is the difference between Western model of government and the Chinese model of government, both of which have evolved out of the respective history and culture of the two regions.  With the Chinese model having been informed by thousands of years of Chinese history of governing what has become China.  And the Western model having evolved out of a few hundred years of western political and social enlightenment.  With the Chinese model having also been informed with probably thousands of years of Chinese civilisation, jurispruden

FURTHER RUMINATIONS OF I PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, ON WHY I HAD TO FIRE REX TILLERSON! PART 1.

Image
Oh, let no man, neither any woman, for that matter, be unaware of the heavy and onerous burden which all Presidents of this soon to be great again country of the United States of America, has to bear.  Yes, I, Donald John Trump, who is probably destined to soon to become the greatest President of this our beloved country, might be expected  to competently deal with these presidential pressures.  Which I believe I can, being the the great businessman and deal maker I have been for all these years. But  it is not those kinds of pressures of which I speak. The pressures which I, President Donald John Trump speaks of, are those pertaining to having a sane person within my Cabinet; my inner circle.  A man who we know as Rex Tillerson. Rex Tillerson 'The Sane', if you wish, since, having one among the many people in my inner sanctum, justifies him being accorded a title of distinction. I mean, God knows I have tried with Rex. I have done all that I could, t

JUST A THOUGHT - ON NATIONS' RESTRICTION ON THE LENGTH OF TENURE OF THEIR LEADERS. PART 3.

Image
Does it makes good sense to jettison a good leader from the project of doing a good job at building a nation, simply because he/she has done their 8 or 10 year stint?  Is the two term presidential limitation a substantial obstacle to nation building? Anymore than it would be logical to argue that a leader which is busily taking the nation over the cliff of oblivion, like, say, President Nicholas Maduro of Venezuela, should be allowed to complete his tenure? There is a balance to be struct between the interests and well-being of present generations and future generations.  Between the interest of the people and the nation as an entity which has to be maintained for more than the life-time of one or more generations.  There is a balance to be struck between the how much personal and social 'freedom' and 'democracy', 'human rights', the individual and the people have.   And how much it is restricted in order to promote nation building and