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First posted on 20 March 2013, updated on 2 August 2024
A Vision for a Troubled World, a World in Pain and Agony
Let the Cyrus Cylinder Shine Light and Hope in the Darkness Again
The Cyrus the Great Cylinder is the first charter of right of nations in the world. It is a baked-clay cyliner in Akkadian language with cuneiform script. This cylinder was excavated in 1879 by the Assyro-British archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam in the foundations of the Esagila (the Marduk temple of Babylon) and is kept today in the British Museum in London.
The Cyrus Cylinder: Ancient Persia’s Gift to the World
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Portrait of a Man with a Dog by Bartolomeo Passerotti (1585)
Some of the values and sentiments of our ‘best friend’: Gratitude, Contentment, Loyalty, Companionship, Friendship, Forgiveness, Love, Compassion, Kindness, and enjoying the simple pleasures of life.
Dogs not only have these values and sentiments, but they show them and live them to the full. Just imagine what a life and what a world we would have had if we were a bit more like our dogs!
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First posted on 7 October 2023. Updated on 14 July 2024
A Timeless Case Study on the Consequences of Demagogues too blinded by a Demonic Ideology: A Case Study of Water Privatisation in England and Wales
Water Privatisation is a Scandal, Prem Sikka, Emeritus Professor, University of Essex (Water companies have loaded themselves with debt while pumping sewage into waterways, hiking bills and paying out billions to shareholders – a scam against the public that will only end by taking our water back from the profiteers.)
‘The British economy has been subject to a giant experiment: privatisation on a scale more extensive than in almost any other oecd country. Perhaps most strikingly, following the lead of Augusto Pinochet’s Chile, in 1989 the Conservative government privatised the water industry in England and Wales. This outlier status remains to this day: the majority of water infrastructure in other countries is held and managed by the public. To see the disastrous effects of this experiment, one need only look at England’s crisis-ridden water companies—or brave a swim in an English river flooded with sewage…’-Mathew Lawrence, director of the Common Wealth thinktank and author of Planet on Fire, in The Economist, Jul 10th 2023
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It is estimated that we can survive twenty-five days without food; six days without sleep, but only four days without water.
What is Water?
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