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'According to a verse in the Bible, a man postulated that, 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.'  That is what is called a parable, a puzzle or, even a riddle. Make what you will of it, but one way of interpreting this parable, this riddle, is to take it as a reference to the 'power of the word.'  Of 'the thought made into a coherent idea or vision of the way forward.'   Which is then used as the 'engine or locomotive to drive towards achieving the goal which is envisioned by the 'idea.'  Is speaks of the 'power encapsulated into the vision.' A vision which is so powerful that it can drive a people into taking 'the  necessary and appropriate actions ' to realise their goal.  ' Necessary and appropriate ', being operative 'words', as the 'idea' the 'vision' cannot be realised by the people not doing what is the required action to achieve i

'With religious belief so much a part of the American psyche and ruling elite, despite the fact that many of the country's most profound thinkers do not believe in either religious doctrine or the existence of God. Could it be that Donald Trump's Presidency has some profound religious significance?' Yes, from what we do know about the rise of Donald Trump, from being an unknown to a well-known businessman.   From being an unknown and unlikely presidential candidate, to becoming the 45th President of the United States of America.   It is not  unreasonable to think, to believe that there is something almost mystical about this man.  I remember what now seems to be a distant but fateful time, when, during the United States Presidential campaign and elections.   A close relative, with what was to him, a certainty, and to me, an incredible turn of fate, calmly declared that Donald Trump would win the election and become the President.  Now that

They might be neither 'the oppressed' or 'the oppressor', since both of those are more likely to be found at the extremes of both categories.  It is more likely that they 'belong' to the group which is being oppressed, and the group doing the oppression.  With belonging not being the same as being 'oppressed,' or being an 'oppressor.'   Except when speaking in generalities, which, of course, rarely, if ever apply in all or most specific cases. They might also feel that they should be feeling 'guilty and responsible.'   If they are identified as belonging to the dominant ethnic groups, and 'aggrieve', if they belong to the 'oppressed' and/or 'wronged group/s.'  When, arguably, there is little point in the descendants of  the past 'oppressors', feeling guilty for the 'sins of their fathers.'  And here, we might ponder why 'mothers' have been omitted from being responsible for

It should also be clear why the Palestinians, after only 70 years of Al Nakb, are not able to 'move on' from not having a decent and viable life to live.  How can they, when what the  State of Israel is doing, is pursuing a program of 'ethnic cleansing'? So, as this 70 year old struggle of the 'righteous David' against the 'unrighteous' and grievously oppressive 'Goliath' and his 'Ogre American Friend' continues.   What should the Palestinians do, or can do, if anything, to turn the tide of injustice? Must they all flee Palestine and seek to become citizens of other countries all over the world, and then await the passing of millenniums?  And then await another conspiracy, but then, an anti-Jewish one, in the form of a Jewish Nakba, to remove the by then, probably exclusively Jewish State and disperse its inhabitants?  After all, if the belief of the Zionistic Jews, that Jews have an ancient right to the territory which t

This is a short video which captures the simple joy of two different species of birds enjoying the simple watery pleasures of life, on a sunny day in late Spring. Please take a look and have a listen, to see if there is something here for you to enjoy, as well.

There is a saying; 'be careful you do not get what you hoped for.' At least, when you are not certain what you really want.  And so it was that I had hoped for a "spectacular" Spanish Grand Prix, when what I probably should have said, was that, I hoped the race would be 'exciting and thrilling.'  People who, like me, take a certain delight and satisfaction in endeavouring to use words to sculpt and bring our thoughts, our vision to life.   Should be very careful to ensure that we use the appropriate word/s to conceive and bring to life the pictures we want to convey.  Yes, in describing the Spanish Grand Prix, you could, rightly, say that the gods of fate did deliver a 'spectacular' race.  However, it has transpired that, what the Barcelona Circuit  did provide us with, was something more of a 'spectacle', than a spectacular race.  Yes, the adrenaline was there alright, but, so was the chaos which saw no less than

How can they, a people who have been made landless, deprived of their access to the sea and to the air, move on?  More on to where, they might ask? Are they to move on by accepting their enslavement by the State of Israel? With the modern, but also retrograde State of Israel not being willing and/or able to move on from their claim to their mythical 'home of Ancient Israel.'  After its dissolution, if it ever existed, thousands of years ago?   How can anybody reasonably expect the Palestinians to 'forget and move on' from the gross injustices to them, which the existence of, yes, a still very racist and colonist State of Israel represents? How can the Palestinians really be expected to accept their unjust lot, and get on with their state of being dispossessed?  When the unjust and inimical conditions which were inflicted on them 70 years ago, are still being rammed down their throats today and will continue tomorrow?   When their lands and water are s

But still, for many of us who are confronted by these challenges, there will at least be the receding 'welfare safety net.'   By which the State provides a certain sum of money to enable each 'eligible' citizen and family to avail themselves of requirements to have a 'basic standard of living.' So, is the burden of those who are trapped in the vortex of educational under-achievement, unemployment, low expectation and economic and environmental blight.   Alleviated, and their fall into the abyss of total despair or having to literally live a day at a time, avoided.  But what of the millions of people living in societies, countries where the 'pockets of great poverty and deprivation' are the norm and not the exception?  Societies which are characterised by their predominance of poverty, while the 'pockets of affluence and 'reasonable standard of living' are the exception?   Societies where probably every citizen or most citiz

'What is given birth to by unjust, immoral, illegal means.  By deception and cruelty, must, it seems, from the modus operandi of the State of Israel.   Be maintained and protected by unjust and cruel and immoral means. An unjust and immoral State making 'laws' to attempt to legitimise and purify its oppression of others.  Cannot expect to cleanse itself, when those 'laws' only enhance it criminality against the Palestinians.' By its own bloody hands, is the State of Israel declared guilty of  and condemned for it crimes against humanity, towards the Palestinians. That they, the Palestinians and the Israelis, should have been given birth to by the same father and mother, by the same set of  treacherous and conspiratorial circumstances?  With the one benefiting from it, at the cost of the other suffering because of it. Circumstances which curse both of them to assimilate shared hatred, fear and anger towards each other.  Like the proverbial '