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We saw it happen in the UK, we saw it in the Philippines, and now we see the same in the US; all three are protest votes about the operative culture of kleptocracy, managed and ordered by an equally ‘corrupt system’. Actually these are in fact the ‘new barbarians’ ready to rule in their ‘new […]

Governance is a privilege given to political parties with a commanding majority in any democracy; after a due process of a good, right, and fair selection and an election based on a choice of the people, by the people, and for the people. Some governments, nevertheless after the fact, deny even that choice, as is […]

The Sun headlined a story of an orphanage which allegedly tolerated and allowed the continuance of abuse of under-aged girls; all of whom were below 15 years of age. The abuse was reportedly condoned or tolerated by a Malaysian Datuk and Datin, who are obviously a credible Malaysian pair since they hold sultan- and Malay state-ordained […]

What is the cost of one human life? What if the person is an Islamic State (IS) terrorist? Does his life cost any less? What if the person is a Palestinian? What about an Israeli? Are there different rules of human value for different peoples? What would be that basis? Would it be colour or […]

Are there good and bad religions? Or, is the question itself a bad one? Maybe then, the right question is: are there good and bad followers of specific religions? Now, if our real question is the second one; the core issue begs yet another question. How or in what way do adherents of all religions […]

Original intentions are usually captured in words, symbols, photographs and recordings, plus scripts of any event; whether intended by the co-organisers or not. Truth matters are recorded and captured in history of time; and such matters do tell the different truths of related observers. If such a spirit of truth of those moments is missing […]

My eldest son’s favourite toy is Lego. From his earliest birthdays, he has always enjoyed and appreciated Lego. There was a stage in his life when he and his best American friend, in the Washington DC area, declared themselves as ‘Lego Kings’. Consequently we visited Legoland in 1992. Lego is a line of plastic construction […]

I have defined ‘an idiocrat’ as any public official within any jurisdiction who does not understand the rule of law principle and instead seeks to rule by his/her interpretation of those laws, or by fiat, or premised upon personal bias. The newest President Of The United States (Potus), whom I choose to call ‘Donald Dedak […]

The ‘polis’ of ‘politics’ is the original root word deployed for Athenian ideals and ideas about rule of the people, by the people, and for the people. The same ideal is called democracy today. Athenian democracy developed around the fifth century BC in the Greek city-state (which was known as a polis) of Athens, comprising […]