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AMERICAN DREAM/NIGHTMARE - BIDEN 'BETTER' THAN TRUMP BUT THE TOXICITY REMAINS!!! PART 10.

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  It speaks of America, again,  assuming the mantle of being a delinquent, a renegade nation.  Something that former President Trump was withdrawing from. So, yes, it would appear that most of what President Biden is offering the United States and the world, is simply a respite from Trumpism.  And a reinstitution of pre-Trumpian Americana. It least, in as much as it is feasible for the Biden/Harris administration to bring that about.  It will or should not be a straightforward operation, since the world has not been standing still during the 4 years of Trumpian Americana.  Yes, there have been some countries that have been holding their breath, as it were.   During the past 4 years and awaiting the return of 'America, as we have come to know it'.  The return of 'our America.' But there have been other countries, other leaders who have been more prudent.   And have realised that Trumpism has provided them with an opportunity.  To be continued!

JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - THE FUNDAMENTAL DISHONESTY, DECEIT AND CONSPIRACY UNDERPINNING RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. PART 3.

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  Except that humans have now codified, put into recorded or book forms, such as the Torah, Bible, Quran, the Vedas, the Adi Granth, et al.   What they claim is the official records of their gods and those privileged few who claimed to have had special dealings with their respective gods.  Whether it be the Jewish people, Islamic, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Jain, Buddhists, et al. So, yes, the world of our distant ancestors would have been a very frightening, even terrifying place and time to be living in.  And yes, we can understand and appreciate how our ancestors would have needed every protection they could conceive of.   To keep them out of harm's way and to survive each day that they found themselves alive.  How they would have needed all the amulets, good luck charms, and spells from the witchdoctors and soothsayers.  I mean, after all, it has only been for about the past 200-230 years.   That us humans can lay claim to be benefitting from modern science, medicine and techno

AMERICAN DREAM/NIGHTMARE - BIDEN 'BETTER' THAN TRUMP BUT THE TOXICITY REMAINS!!! PART 9.

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  How they should behave, and how they are expected, by the United States, to adhere to the principles of 'human rights', 'freedom of speech', and 'democracy.'  Never mind that this is the country whose citizens of colour have been on the nation's streets recently.  Demanding to know why, nearly 155 years after the American Civil and the freeing of the African-Americans from slavery.   They are still being despised and subjected to industrialised and institutional racism?  Or why, after having successfully fought for its independence from Britain for 237 years, the United States is still not able to show much evidence of realising or embodying the grandiloquent and fine words written in the nation's Constitution? The 'White Western Missionary' Approach of President Biden towards the international community, is a very worrying one.  It could lead to the escalation of tensions and conflict in the world.  It is an imperialistic stance. Very much a r

JUST A THOUGHT ON - 'SURVIVING SOCIAL WORK. PART 4.

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  When things go wrong, vulnerable children, for example, can suffer significant harm, which can result in major disabilities and even death.  At such times, the legal system will address the issue of investigating who is responsible and whether any criminal proceedings should be instituted.  For the local authority, the first response will be to begin the process of carrying out a review.  Whereby they will set up a multi-agency panel to examine social services and other agencies involvement with the family.  With the objective of trying to find out what went wrong to have resulted in the harm or potential harm resulting from the incident.  And how it could, or might have been prevented. A more honest interpretation might be to see the brief of the review, as that of finding out who is to be blamed for what happen.  Who was it who did not - or could not - do their job well enough.  For the frontline social workers, this is a fearful time.  To be continued!

JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - THE FUNDAMENTAL DISHONESTY, DECEIT AND CONSPIRACY UNDERPINNING RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. PART 2.

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  At first, it appeared that our ancestors adopted natural things, such as the Sun, the Moon, Stars and Planets, bodies of water, trees, large and rare animals, as their gods.  Gods to whom they would make sacrifices, including killing their fellow humans to do so.  And later on they would even see such 'human sacrifices' as a way of taking messages to the gods.  As just like now, over probably 70,000- 40 thousand years after our direct human predecessors took to walking on two instead of 4 limbs, have continued to try to communicate with the gods/God.  Of course, just as how the gods/God refused or is unable to communicate with present day humans.  So were our so-called heathen ancestors only able mastered the art of having one way communication with their gods.  They could speak to them, their gods, but their gods, but their gods could not speak back to them.  For that, they had to rely on the privileged and more deceitful class among, who claimed to have a special relationsh

AMERICAN DREAM/NIGHTMARE - BIDEN 'BETTER' THAN TRUMP BUT THE TOXICITY REMAINS!!! PART 8.

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  It speaks of man's inhumanity to his fell men/women/children.  It is not a criminal justice system which any self-respecting nation would want to follow.  It is a 'punishment system.' It is a system for producing both willing and reluctant offenders.  So that the nation's incarceration and criminalizing system can remain profitable.  Has President Biden and his administration got the commitment and the prudence.  Which is required to carry out the fundamental and massively challenging  reforms that the American criminalising system needs to humanise and make it rehabilitative?  Especially when doing so will make it less profitable to the private incarceration industry.  Which has become dependent on it and the profits they are squeezing out of the poor people they have been criminalising? In terms of the international scene, President Biden, like other Presidents before him, except for Donald Trump, appears to be assuming the mantle of being the School Master and Miss