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10 JANUARY 2024
There have been two news stories in the last couple of days that have raised spirits and hopes both in the Middle East and here in the US. It is very good to get positive news in a world of constant struggle against greater forces of injustice and brutality. Yet, it would be wise to restrain one's glee. Those forces represent governments (including the one in Washington) and their bureaucracies.
A Chinese Proverb says, "May you live in Interesting Times." Today in the "Age of Donald Trump" and a rise of right-wing political parties across the Globe we are seeing a resurgence of right wing views, anti-Immigrant sentiments and veiled discrimination against "The Other" and the trampling on the rights of various minorities. These minorities include the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Palestinians in the Holy Land, refugees in Europe, Muslims in many countries, Arabs, even Christians in the Middle East, conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslims, attacks against Blacks and vilification of Mexicans and other Hispanics in the United States, and discrimination and even persecution of other minorities.
When a candidate for a political party in a developed country such as Australia has no choice but to resign, after being widely ridiculed, as a result of mistaking Islam for a country, in a television interview and, saying Jews follow Jesus Christ, in the same interview, one has to wonder if this is just "one lone nut", or is she expressing the views of a significant portion of the electorate.
The veneer of respectability has been lifted from the image of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the minds of the Canadian people and the entire world, as a result of the ongoing Senate scandal, which Mr. Harper's own office has characterized as "a gathering mess".
When Stephen Harper became Prime Minister, after his party won a minority government in the 2006 election, he had a wealth of experience in politics, but little else: he had never had a full time job outside of politics in his life.
Just after the Boston bombing, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau told CBC interviewer Peter Mansbridge that "Over the coming days we have to look at the root cause…. But there is no question that this happened because there is someone who feels completely excluded, completely at war with innocents, at war with society."
George Clooney's character poignantly says in the movie Up in the Air, "I stereotype. It's faster." So let's stereotype Muslims. They …
The British critic Charles Shaar Murray once described the central drive of American popular music as "the need to separate black music (which, by and large, white Americans love) from black people (who, by and large, they don't)."
At the moment, no opposition party is strong enough to defeat the Conservatives. Only we, the electorate can block them by strategically voting against them. Chances of defeating the Conservative candidate in your area are greater if everyone concentrates their efforts on electing the candidate with the best chance of winning against him or her.
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