7 January 2022
Can democracy survive? What is the life cycle of democracy?
22 December 2021
Number of conflicts as per the report tweeted by Chris Wilson
2 December 2021
Chris Wilson tweets "We know from the study of political violence that movements often become more radical and violent as attention to them wanes and they achieve little through institutionalized channels. Comments on this post calling for violence, obtaining weapons, perhaps indicate this". https://twitter.com/Chris___Wilson/status/1466119475762057216
21 October 2021
The purpose of the Coroners Court is to establish the facts of how someone died and determine whether any recommendations should be made for how similar deaths could be prevented in the future.
17 October 2021
Imran Pratapgarhi and Hashmi Ferozabadi are preaching peace in different words.
24 August 2021
Historical memory by Shashi Throor
20 August 2021
"Historians, soldiers, and politicians will debate for decades the particulars of what went wrong during America’s intervention in Afghanistan. But a simple truth has been apparent for years: We Westerners failed not for lack of effort, but because military and economic power alone cannot change the Islamic world in a lasting way.
The U.S.-led coalition arrived in South Asia 20 years ago seeking justice after 9/11. Soon we turned into apostles of universal civilization, the idea that human beings everywhere would make the same fundamental decisions we made in building political community. We set out to establish a liberal democratic state, not realizing that politics lies downstream of culture, and culture downstream of religion. It never occurred to us that America was what it was because of Christianity, and Afghanistan was what it was because of Islam.
The political scientist Samuel Huntington was right: Islamic societies belong to a distinctive civilization that resists the imposition of foreign values through power. We may believe that argument or not, but trillions of dollars, tens of thousands of lives, and two decades of warfare have not proved otherwise.
Still, many remain blind to the obvious. Facing seemingly unrelated chaos in places like Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Yemen, Libya and Nigeria, our diplomats and strategists devise one-off responses that ignore the common ideologies and actors that link them. Finding piles of broken china around the room, they diligently glue the pieces back together, not seeing the elephant nearby whose feet are covered in ceramic dust.
This blindness is driven by a noble desire to see humans as equal, interchangeable beings for whom faith and culture are accidents of birth. But these accidents are non-negotiable truths for hundreds of millions of people who would rather die than concede them. Failure to comprehend this is a symptom of spiritual emptiness: Alienated from America’s Christian origins, millions cannot fathom how faith could play a vital role in binding humans together."
10 February 2021
"Religion, Ideology, and politics divide us
Humanity, dreams, and anguish bring us together". Milind Deora
20 January 2021
Today I just got the idea and am writing. "Conflict can be minimized by following rules of law. These rules inculcate fear of punishment. Hindus added fear to the religion, and it inculcates fear of retaliation in the next birth. Atman takes rebirth. There is a reaction to the action taken. If I kill someone, he shall kill me in the next birth. Fear is created to reduce crime.
Muslims said that if you kill Kafir, you may get many virgins for sexual pleasure after death. Fear and award are used by religion to inculcate fear to perform well for that society".
30 December 2020
28 December 2020
"Conflict due to identity of north, south, east, west, and religion cannot be eliminated but minimized by opening borders and educating white, black, brown, and yellow children.
Class (rich and poor) generates conflict. We can reduce this conflict through good governance.
Conflict due to political leaders and elites' egotism (greed and grievance) cannot be wished away. It causes war, genocide, rape, and evil in humanity. On the other hand, the religion of nonviolence teaches love and affection" by JPS.
11 December 2020
Government report informs some details for unity
5 December 2020
James Madison " It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control government abuse. But what is government itself, but the greatest reflection of human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place oblige it to control itself." The Federalist No. 51
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31August 2020
Facebook by JSD Belarus, Berlin, and Washington demonstrations
29 July 2020
"The aim, indeed, is not to unite against China or anybody else, but to pull in China and others, and convince them that their political stability, economic prosperity, and security too depend on the rules-based order."
"A lot depends on China’s behavior, of course. China is an authoritarian state, and it is a great power. The EU and the US have to speak up for human rights. Therefore, they must criticize China’s violation of the principle of “one country, two systems” in Hongkong and its horrible treatment of the Uighur population in Xinjiang. But because China is a great power, Europe and America speak out in the knowledge that they have little leverage".
"More importantly, even if China were to become a democracy tomorrow, it would still be a great power, pursuing global interests. A democratic China would not likely drop its claims to the South China Sea, abandon the Belt and Road Initiative, or stop its influence operations in Europe and other places. That is what directly affects the European and American interest, and what they should push back against when China violates the rules-based order".
https://www.facebook.com/Vedicteacher/posts/3331373516942302 and it is taken from my E-mail dated 29 July 2020 - see the label of Democracy without borders
https://www.democracywithoutborders.org/14091/?fbclid=IwAR0ar7-hLc44H-OHJJGI_bqljA2ablE30LQN3ZvTsCkCx1d2NMTv2TUWwz0
Read other articles published on my FaceBook as stated above.
29 July 2020
World Citizens Initiative
https://www.worldcitizensinitiative.org/
22 July 2020
If you want peace, prepare for war
9 July 2020
New welafre world by Jaipal Datta
1. Syria and Iran are signing a pact to keep the US away from their region. Danger to democracy.
2. "Time is not on our side in #Libya," Secretary-General said in the Security Council today. "The conflict has entered a new phase with foreign interference reaching unprecedented levels." His full remarks: https://bit.ly/3fd3WZN
3. Amid a compilation of articles praising Xi's concept of a "community with a shared future for humanity," Zhou's article oddly stands out. It was as if to say that the "community" Xi envisions is an economic bloc.
"The demise of the Soviet Union is a topic in which Xi himself has been interested. He sees it as a bad example that China must avoid.
He once said, "Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and convictions wavered."
"Finally, all it took was one careless word from Mikhail Gorbachev to dissolve the Soviet Communist Party, and a great party was gone," he said.
Xi made the remarks in Guangdong Province in December 2012, shortly after taking the helm of the Chinese Communist Party as its general secretary.
Xi is firmly determined to protect his communist rule at any cost and prevent any moves that could lead to "color revolutions."
The introduction of the highly controversial national security law in Hong Kong is one piece in this puzzle."
https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/China-up-close/China-warns-of-US-decoupling-and-a-divided-world
8 June 2020 Hatred
DW news - Media under attack
Australia
France
Churchill was as corrupt as the zionist-Jews controlling him. Churchill was the reason Israel attacked and invaded Egypt when a peaceful resolution had already been achieved. Churchill claimed to be anti-communist yet sided with Stalin, the communist that murdered 50mn+ Christians.
Top Trump officials claim there's no systemic racism in US law enforcement agencies as Americans flood streets in protest https://cnn.it/3h0Z4YR
US: Attorney General William Barr said in an interview with CBS that he did not believe racism was a systemic problem in policing and that he did not support reducing the number of immunity officers have when someone dies in their custody
5 June 2020
Teach your children to love, not hatred, to minimize conflict:
Saint Paul Police Chief Marches With Community Faith Leaders after
CNN's Poppy Harlow spoke with Saint Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell, who said that any police officer who thought the video of George Floyd's arrest showed an "acceptable" use of force should hand in their badge.
More than 170 businesses damaged or looted since Floyd's killing. National Security Advisor "I don't think there is systemic racism" in police forces. But Chief Todd Axtell, Saint Paul, MN Police, accepts truthfully that there is systemic racism in police forces. He is giving remedies how to minimize the conflict. Racism is in everything. Unless we fix Health care, education, Jobs, economics, policing, economic housing, the list goes on and on. If you look at the above figures, we can not minimize conflict till we rectify it. We must act. We must have this courageous discussion about white privilege regardless of our color and background. I keep thinking about always how young these conversations need to start? We must know how we view the world? should we share with our children at an early age? "Human beings are born to be racists. We know we learn behavior."
Integrity, Respect for All, Compassion, and Empathy, these qualities are nonnegotiable - as law enforcement professionals and human beings (4:35 to 5:21).
Brigadier (Dr.) Kapil Mohan V.S.M and Padam Shree of India taught me,