What's Inside This Mental Breakdown of Writing? Here, you'll find my wandering thoughts on economics, geopolitics, culture, technology, and daily ideas. Plus, I'll be dropping little peeks behind the curtain on my novel and nonfiction projects.
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 gathered and discussed. As a family, we felt protected because of the knowledge we were acquiring…
"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 the Middle East conflict, to talk about the Jewish-Muslim civilization as an axis." ~ Slavoj…
"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 importance of our mental outlook determines our success or failure.
We all experience adversity,…
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 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, accusing them of serious war…
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 unconditionally supports the Israeli military actions in the Middle East and anywhere else.
For…
"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 defined by power, mainly concentrated in a hierarchy.
In such a hierarchy structure, the worker is…
"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 of violence and aggression, many people draw a sharp line between themselves and those who exhibit…
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 the mistreatment of an indigenous peoples - violence, retaliation, occupation, and political…
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 glass everywhere, women and children buried alive from the rubble.
Žižek, might call this a fantasy,…
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 that is not including other nationalities within that nation-state by laws and regulations.
In…
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 out homes, businesses, hospitals, schools, universities and the amount of rubble and twisted rebar…
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 gain stability, reduce homelessness and housing insecurity.
Rent subsidies and rent control…
"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
"For decades Israel has been capturing, and kidnapping Lebanese and Palestinian refugees on the high…
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 to the Netanyahu government's 20 year agenda.
Many small to medium size Israeli businesses, as…
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 would be fired off towards the United States and European Union to annihilate those countries,…