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BRAZILIAN GRAND PRIX - TEAM MERCEDES AND HAMIILTON TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE IT A DOUBLE WIN!! THE END...

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So,  A Very Big Congratulation to Team Mercedes and Hamilton , for having achieved probably more than they had anticipated, but as much as they could have hoped for, from the 2018 Brazilian Grand Prix.  A Very Big Congratulation to Team Red Bull and Max Verstappen, for having made it to P. 2 , even though P.1 was there for the taking.  If only Verstappen had continued to drive on the highway of the wind, and not throw caution to it.  If only he had been more prudent, and not considered himself to be impregnable to the pitfalls which fate sometimes sprinkles into the path of those who proceed without due care and attention. A Very Big Congratulation to Team Ferrari and Kimi Raikkonen , for having somewhat redeemed themselves, by taking P.3, following the relatively fading away of the hoped for, but unrealised challenge from the struggling but much respected Sebastian Vettel. Even without the much predicted and, for some teams and racers, hoped for rain. The 2018 B

JUST A THOUGHT - ON WHETHER WAR REMEMBRANCE DAY GLORIFIES OR REPUDIATES WARS. THE END...

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Please note that Part 3 referred "Burundians", when it should have been 'Rwandans." Why cause people who had not live with such horrors, to place themselves in an 'as if situation', where you inundate them with the terrible plight of people who are now dead?  Why induce them to feel sorry of proud of men, women and children who are no longer with the living?  For what reasons do nations and their governments perpetuate the repetitive traumatisation of current and future generations. By regaling them with the horrors of wars and man's inhumanity towards his fellow humans? Yes, I have no doubt that one of the reasons is to 'remember and honour' the dead. The men, women and children whose lives were brutally and excruciatingly snuffed out.  But that cannot be the main and most enduring reason, since the dead cannot be truly 'be honoured', even though they can be remembered.  And neither is it, in my view, mentally h

JUST A THOUGHT - ON WHETHER WAR REMEMBRANCE DAY GLORIFIES OR REPUDIATES WARS. PART 5.

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Providing it is 'the right country', and not one such as, we suppose or presume, the former Nazi Axis countries of World Wars 1 and 2, or North Korea, et al.   Remembrance Day is more about 'the glorification of wars', than it is about 'honouring the dead' and deterring wars.  It promotes 'nationalism' and perpetuates the 'enemising' of nations, than it promotes peaceful cooperation.  Not least because it continually introduces and  'reminds' the young men and women of each succeeding generation.  Of who was, and probably still is 'the enemy', 'the bad guy', even when there has been decades of reconciliation.between 'enemies.' And former allies have fallen out. So, no, Remembrance Day is not about promoting reconciliation between former 'enemies and foes.'  Neither is it about helping the still living wounded former soldiers and their families to recover from the trauma of war. 

BRAZILIAN GRAND PRIX - TEAM MERCEDES AND HAMIILTON TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE IT A DOUBLE WIN!! PART 1.

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'There are times when we are not the best on a given day, but, if we continue to perform to the best of our ability, should fate then intervene to obstruct the progress of those who, on this day, are better than us.  we should be well placed to grab it and run with it to achieve the goal which we might not otherwise have achieved.' And so it was, that, fate, not having been overbearingly good to the Intrepid Max Verstappen.   As he made his way, relentlessly, towards achieving what, until a fateful careless manoeuvre by him.   Presented Team Mercedes and their driver, Lewis Hamilton, with the opportunity to transform their race, from a seemingly uncertain and relatively disappointing finish.  In one of a somewhat unlikely or unpredictable triumph.  Not only did Hamilton made it to being the first racer to greet the Checkered Flag.   Thereby succeeding in converting his temporarily lost P.1 starting position into a win at the Autodromo Jose Carlos Circui

JUST A THOUGHT - ON, IS PAKISTAN BEING RULED BY 'ISLAMISISED MOBOCRACY'? THE END....

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This is why Allah or God and Man cannot rule the same domain; the rule of humans must be left to humans.   While the rule or reign of God, must be left to that time when, if ever, humans have taken on the appearance of the gods and can communicate with one another. The concept of the 'Islamic state or Republic' has failed to adhere to what the 'Prophet, Jesus Christ', is reported to have said about, 'giving unto Ceasar what is his and undo God, what is his.'  In trying to be both the Kingdom of man and the Kingdom of God, the 'Islamic state or republic', both concept and practice, cannot truly become either.  It is devoid of purity and perfection, as humans cannot be perfect, as it is 'perfection' and 'imperfection' which separates the Gods from us humans.  It is also lacking in humanity and justice, because, in requiring humans who live under its oppressive yoke, it denies us our basic humanity and freedoms.  

JUST A THOUGHT - ON WHETHER WAR REMEMBRANCE DAY GLORIFIES OR REPUDIATES WARS. PART 4

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There was nothing 'honourably or virtuous' about the United States of America making war on the Vietnamese people.  Nothing 'honourable' about the Hutu regime slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Rwandans, as the Hitlerites among the Hutu population, set about trying to exterminate all the Tutsi population of the country.  Nothing honourable about vile slaughtering of the people of the former Yugoslavia, because of their religions and ethnic origins.  There is nothing virtuous or honourable about the destruction of Libya by the West, or about the continuing destruction of Yemen and Syria, by or with the complicity of the West. One of the underpinning rationale for Remembrance Day, is that it reminds the world, us humans, of the tremendous cost of wars, in terms of the number of lives extinguished and blighted, and the amount of resourced destroyed.  That it should help us to realise how pyrrhic is the true cost of resorting to war, and of h

JUST A THOUGHT - ON HOW 'FAILING COUNTRIES' IN THE AMERICAS CANNOT RESOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS BY RETURNING TO THE 'OLD WAYS.' PART 7.

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Something which a small number of Honduras are making a token gesture to 'escape' to the United States of America.  A country where they would not be welcome by either its current government, or probably most of its population.  Not least because they do not want to set a precedent , by welcoming them.  Knowing only too well that it could, and probably would, be followed by tens of millions of South Americans migrating to the United States of America and Canada.  After all, there is the reasonable fear that, included in these migrants and refugees, from gang violence and oppression and persistent and increasing poverty and destitution.'   Would be many who would seek to recreate the conditions from which the poor are fleeing.  There should be nothing surprising about this.  As the gangs, the men of violence, and the corrupt politicians, government functionaries, and business people.   Have become a 'normal' and important part of the the