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Who is Pete Hegseth?
I re-watched all of my Harry Potter collection along with the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and couldn’t find any reference to this man. So, being like a dog with a bone I revisited all 73 episodes of Game of… Continue reading
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Was he an example of the Sane Madness of Modernity?
What aspects of Wittgenstein’s life contributed to his intellectual acumen and success? Give me the child until he is 7 and I will give you the man’, is a well-known quote that’s attributed to both Aristotle and St. Ignatius Loyola,… Continue reading
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Near Death Experiences: Fact, Fiction or Fallacy?
A friend recently shared a video of a man claiming to have been dead for 3 hours, and miraculously coming back to life. Fascinating stuff. Near death experiences (NDE) have become increasingly common; however this one is of particular interest… Continue reading
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ANZAC Day 2026: World War 1, Historical Revisionism & the Distortion of the Horrors of War
ANZAC day marks the sacrifices young New Zealand and Australian men made during World War 1. I was born 35 years after the end of WW1 and 8 years after the end of WW2, so both major world conflicts, along… Continue reading
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Artemis ll: Is Science still a Candle in the Dark?
It was mesmerizing. Artemis ll soaring towards earth, some 400 miles above our planet, before it entered the mighty force of gravity, and began its perilous descent towards the Pacific Ocean. The statistics of the mission to orbit around the… Continue reading
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An Easter Reflection
I am an old man. I have spent the greater part of my life working and traveling abroad. My life’s work in international education introduced me to the rich and vast variety of peoples in our world. From the hinterlands… Continue reading
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Book Review: Mary L Trump; “Too Much and Never Enough”, or I told you so, but you still voted for him!
Mary Trump’s definitive biography on her uncle Donald, gives extraordinary insight to his character, behaviour and how he exercises authority and power in office as the 47th president of the United States of America. Published in 2020 by Simon &… Continue reading
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Birds of Bureaucracy by Martin Howard Samuel
¿Qué pasó el 3 de enero de 2026? Our world leaders bar none (vultures each and every one) are no more than hypocrites if their talks are doves of peace (they say it’s purely politics) why let fly the hawks… Continue reading
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Armistice (Remembrance) Day 11/11/2025
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young by Wilfred Owen So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,And took the fire with him, and a knife.And as they sojourned both of them together,Isaac the first-born spake and… Continue reading
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Meditations on the Impermanence of Life
Meditation l: Ozymandias by Percy B Shelley I met a traveler from an antique land,Who said—“Two vast and trunk-less legs of stone; Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand; Half sunk, a shattered visage lies,… Continue reading
The LB Chronicles by Lawrence Burke, Ed.D 