Numerous Narratives

"Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own." ~ Pope Francis "We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else" ~ St. Teresa of Calcutta "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they ca...

Just thinking... of my younger years... I just noticed my mother’s and father’s reading habits. My parents were extremely voracious readers and connoisseurs of literature. They would read and discuss at least 12 or more nonfiction books and international papers on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. In total, we must have hosted 50 to 100 writers and thinkers—Indigenous and Black intellectuals—at our humble home over a 5-year span. It was amazing how many individuals with so many interesting ideas ...

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it" ~ Mahatma Gandhi "Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should be understood as "state terror." Terrorism also serves as an excuse to avoid diplomacy and the peaceful resolution of conflict." ~ Richard A. Falk "We usually speak of the Jewish-Christian civilization - perhaps, the time has come, especially with regard to th...

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens." ~ Khalil Gibran "Nurture your mind with great thoughts" ~ Benjamin Disraeli "Have fun, work hard and money will come. Don't waste time - grab your chances. Have a positive outlook on life. When it's not fun, move on." ~ Richard Branson Life is an ongoing series of challenges, battles, and struggles, and the...

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. ~ John Bolton Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is an unequivocal “no”. As prosecutor of the ICC, I reject any suggestion of this in the strongest terms. ~ Fatou Bensouda There are arrest warrants for Israeli P...

The world is watching the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... Unfortunately approved by the USA and UK of war crimes for the past 2 years. Now the world is watching and understanding that the US American government will give Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government full support for whatever Israeli military does. Multiple times, the American government, specifically the Biden presidency and the White House spokesperson has told the world unequivocally the United States of America ...

"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have." ~ Leonardo da Vinci "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." ~ Thomas A. Edison "Work is love made visible." ~ Khalil Gibran Working for people versus working with people is about power, autonomy, and collaboration. When we think about working for a manager for a so-called boss or an owner, we're looking at traditional structures of working roles d...

"Violence does even justice unjustly." ~ Thomas Carlyle "No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." ~ Thomas Jefferson "Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Recognizing our aggressive impulses is somewhat important for understanding human nature. Humans are capable o...

The concept of eternal recurrence is deeply reflected in how history repeats itself... Over the 78 years, an Israeli political cyclical violence is placed upon the Palestinians. Over the 7 decades, Israeli politicians would name or label Israeli military bombings of the Palestinians as, "mowing the lawn" or "mowing the grass." A process of dehumanization of the Palestinian people to commit a cyclical decades long, mass murder of an indigenous people of that region. The continuous cycle of th...

In the vast, often cruel theatre of human affairs, ideologies do not merely obscure reality; they mold it, imprison it within the confines of a simple moral fantasy, one where truth is reduced to the tragic absurdity of “good” against “evil,” or the hollow rhetoric of “security” against “terror.” In the Israeli bombardments of Gaza, an empty comfort that blinds the eye to the suffering of the Palestinians, whose lives are shattered beneath the weight of bombs, burned out buildings, broken glas...

Whenever a country is expanding its borders nationalism is central to any conflict. Whenever there is competing nationalities deeply tied to religious and historical claims to land, the "Storm of Nationalism," competing nationalities tend to compete and conflict and possibly War with each other. Political anarchism that we tend to see on social media news and on traditional news channels can be considered a rejection of traditional authorities or a rejection of the nationalism state structure...

Now military analysts from Europe and North America are coming forward and giving a rough estimate that there are over 200,000 Palestinians that were killed in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli bombing for the past year. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson and Fmr USMC Captain Matthew Hoh give a very grim assessment, and the rationale for both sides not telling the world, the actual true numbers of individuals that have been murdered by the Israeli bombing. Their assessments based on the amount of bombed ...

September 20th, 2007, was the last time the Canadian dollar hit parity with the USA dollar. Average household income before taxes in USA is close to $74,500 with approximately 12% poverty rate. Average household income before taxes in Canada is slightly above $106,300 with approximately 7.5% poverty rate. Just by looking at three basic simplified ways we Canadians can improve our standard of living... Expand housing affordability in urban areas. Affordable housing will help more people ga...

"Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?" ~ Ismail Haniyeh "There is not one single place built in Israel that did not have a former Arab population." ~ Moshe Dayan "Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return." ~ David Ben-Gurion "Fo...

Emerging markets and developing economies will be improving their economies by 4.3% India has amazing growth in all sectors with 7% growth. With China mainland with 5% economic growth. United States and Canada with 2.4% economic growth. With the European economic growth at 1% Israeli economic growth at 0% One of the worst situations that Israel is in due to the constant attacks towards different areas of the Middle Eastern societies, there's a massive reduction in economic activity due ...

As leader of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has warned the world, "Russia will never lose a war, especially a nuclear war." A typical Russian cultural thought process that we have read through many Russian writers such as Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Russia has always had a very grim War strategy. "You destroy me, I then will destroy you" If the Russian society are close to losing a war, especially a nuclear attack, they have the "dead hand" or Perimeter fail safe system in which all the nuclear weapons...

"The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule." ~ Philippe Kahn "Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts." ~ Tim O'Reilly "In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved." ~ Linus Torvalds "There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness...

Whenever you treat people with dignity and respect, peace happens. Treating others with dignity and respect, fosters and cultivates trust, understanding, harmony, and positive change, leading to a peaceful environment. When we are disrespected, discriminated against, emotionally and physically mistreated like non-citizens, scapegoated, and targeted, it's hard to bring about peace. It is much harder to cultivate peace when, we are disrespected, discriminated, and mistreated. For many individu...

Collective punishment through military bombing of targeted infrastructure of a society as a whole is considered unethical. When civilian populations are specifically targeted such military actions are considered against International law, which was established by the Geneva Convention to protect civilians during times of internal and external conflicts and war. The world has watched for over a year now of the collective punishment dealt out by the Israeli military advised and supported by the U...

The scale of the casualties in the Gaza Strip since October 2023, with approximately 43,000 deaths, mostly women, children, and the elderly is atrocious, an absolute historical mass murder of innocent civilians, victims of "collective punishment" as the Israeli military and government describe their mass murder of the Gazan civilians. 43,000 Palestinians killed out of 2.2 million is a staggering comparison to Canada’s population. If we translate this figure to a proportion of Canada’s 40 milli...

As a new Canadian, starting college can be both exciting and daunting. But with the right support, it's definitely achievable. To make college more accessible, we need to break down barriers and create a more inclusive environment. This means offering programs to help you upgrade your qualifications and meet prerequisites, providing language support, and offering courses to prepare you successfully for academic life. Mentors can guide you through the process, while counselors can offer sup...

"History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse." ~ Eric Alterman "At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses." ~ Karl Liebknecht "The worst thing that will pr...

"Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex." ~ M. Scott Peck "That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But i...

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits. Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges? ~ Khalil Gibran "Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom." ~ Albert Einstein "Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge." ~ Mahatma Gandhi "Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you...

One of my good friends said, "Israeli military are so tough, they bombed a mosque and a church where people were praying." Bombing Muslim mosques and Christian churches while people pray is such a tough military. The world should look up to an Israeli regime that killed 43,000 children and women and elderly, in Gaza and now in Lebanon. The Israeli military must be so proud of bombing Muslim mosques and Christian churches that Arabs and other cultures that pray to GOD. When you pray to God, a...

"The biggest problems with Iran in the region are not due to the size of their resources, but due to the fact that they've been more effective in supporting proxies and stirring up dissension and conflict in the region than America or our allies have been in stopping those activities." ~ Barack Obama "Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right at this moment." ~ Hillary Clinton The United States has a long history o...

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it. Carl von Clausewitz War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. Carl von Clausewitz War is politics by other means. Carl von Clausewitz War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others. Carl von Clausewitz ...

"Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent." ~ Elie Wiesel "The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead." ~ Nikita Khrushchev "Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe." ~ Carl Sagan "If there was a war, a big war, a major war on the planet, it would be a nuclear war, and it would destr...

"In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people." ~ Nelson Mandela "True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know." ~ Desmond Tutu "I remain convinced that most hu...

If the Canadian Parliament, including the Liberal Party of Canada, hired the world's best economists to plan for eradication of poverty in Canada, with the total funds of 8-10 billion dollars, Canadian inflation would decrease. There would be more jobs for Canadians and there would be much less poverty and homelessness. John Maynard Keynes in the early 20th century devised of a plan that was so different compared to everyone else that eventually all the modern liberal democracies adopted and s...