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This is another video of a pair of courting and nesting Crows. Please take a look and, if you will, share your amazement at some of the things which are common to all higher order primates.  Including how we find a mate, court them, prepare a home, have young ones, and nurture and prepare them to begin the process in their time, so that the respective species can continue to survive.

'So, if we use 'moral' as the standard  in making decisions onwhen to make or not make war.  How do we measure the 'moral offence', and the comparative 'moral standard' or 'morality' of different peoples, religions and civilisations?  Are we, using 'moral standard', able to all speak from the same 'moral fountain' and with one voice'?  Or is the use of a 'moral standard', as opposed to a 'secular, legal standard', of little use for the prudent conduct of the international affairs between nations and peoples'? Today, I am feeling somewhat better than I was feeling on Saturday morning.  When, before publishing a post on this blog, I decided to check The Guardian on line.   In case there had been developments about which I needed to know, before pressing the "Pubish" icon on the Blog.  So, imagine my sense of shock, of disbelief, when I saw the news that the United States, Britain and

The days or epoch when one country could make war on another country without a declaration from the United Nations, had long gone.  Now we are in the epoch when, all the powerful nations which wants to make war on or "punish" other nations for not doing what they have been told to do or not do.  Is the military means and meetings and agreement between the 'coalition of the willing and/or coerced.' And so it is, that when the American government says, "we have the right" to take action against Syria. The question has to be asked:  Who gave you that right, and on whose behalf do you intend to exercise it, and to what benefit?   Is it a right which you could successfully defend in an international court of justice? After all, the principles and exercise of justice, would require that the people of Syrian should benefit from the exercise of justice.  And not be left in a worse state than that preceding the application of 'justice&#

Congratulations to Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari for having delivered Pole position to themselves in the Chinese Grand Prix Qualifying! Congratulations also to Kimi, for coming in at P.2, and to Bottas, for remaining consistent in his placing himself at P.3. For Hamilton and Team Mercedes, the feeling of travelling through the desert and being beckoned and encouraged by the appearance of alluring oasis, only to have them ever receding into the distance, as they approach them.  Yes, so far, it has been a quite discouraging 2018 Formula 1 Season for Mercedes and their drivers, Hamilton and Bottas.  Yes, it is not things  are anywhere near the stage where their status and standing as the first amongst equals is irredeemable.  No, after all, this is only the third race of the Season. However, reputation counts for a lot in Formula 1 races.  A team and driver can sail, or drive to new heights, travelling on the crest of the latest win.  Whereas failure to win can

The decision to go to war has already been made by Macron, May and Trump. This they have declared to the world.  They have all stated that 'Their Red Line' has been crossed by the government of Syria, and that that government "must be punished."  President Macron, Trump and Prime Minister May have consulted and conspired.  And now, they have declared President Assad, as leader of the government of Syria, responsible for the reported and alleged chemical attack in Eastern Ghouta.  But with what legal authority? President Assad and the government of Syria did not have to present any defence, other than that which Syria and Russia's Ambassadors to the United Nations presented.  But the 'Conspirators' and their allies would not have been listening.  They would have been taking the position of 'we are not listening, because we have heard your defence before and we do not trust you.  After all, the American, British and French

Unless this is done, the problem cannot be resolved. How can it be, if those who are responsible for it, are refusing or deflecting responsibility for it?  Who benefits from the police not being allowed to take appropriate and effective action to reduce the number of people, especially children and young people, carrying knives and guns?   With the intent of committing crimes, whether those crimes are intended as 'self-protective' or offensive?  It is probably not even a matter of 'benefiting', but, rather, who is able to hide behind making a holy grail of no  'stop and search?' Yes, only the knives and guns carriers. Members of the public, irrespective of their ethnic origins, do not trust the police.  But, in times of strife, they all or most of them, probably understandably, will still look to the police and the government 'to do something.'  But not 'stop and search', as you will be targeting the black community&

'So, by what legitimate means or mechanisms, do countries acquire the authority and 'right' to intervene in other countries to assert and exercise that 'authority' and 'right' which they assume or presume themselves to have?  Are they 'given' such 'authority' and 'right' by the people they declare themselves to be 'helping', be they the some of the nationals of the country they are intervening in, or their own nationals and governments?  And, if so, by what means do 'the people on whose behalf these countries declare they are acting, acquire the 'legitimacy' to call on the intervening countries to come and fight on their behalf?  Are there 'offences' for which one perceived offending country must be "punished" by other countries?  And, if so, what is the process, means and procedure for determining the nature and severity of that "punishment"?  Is it to be the ad h