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Profile of Film Director Oliver Stone

This is a Wikipedia overview of Oliver Stone who is the Director of ‘Snowden’.  He has an interesting background.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Stone

William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of Midnight Express (1978). He also wrote the… Continue reading

Buckminster Fuller: Competitive Versus Holistic Philosophies of Nation States

 Competitive Versus Holistic Philosophies of Nation States

Governments around the world typically formulate legislation and policy in the national interest.  Governments in the current era have a predisposition for economic policy as the belief is that economics provides social and economic stability and prosperity.  In an expanding capitalist global economy, economics is… Continue reading

Do We Really Want Peace in the World?

 

I am a peacemaker and to be honest today I felt sad at my own plight trying to get peace into schools.  I am not talking a few attempts, over 18 years I have been on a journey to understand peace.

Today I felt to go to a park, interestingly I needed to… Continue reading

What You Look Like Is Not Who You Are

 

This is for women who define their self worth through the eyes of men.  They are not the determiner of your value, YOU ARE.  I don’t know how many times men have smiled at me as I appear attractive but I have come to realise that objectivisation (being an object in their… Continue reading

Does God Condone Rape of Innocent Girls?

 

This article below is heavy reading.  It is about the systemic rape of Yezidi girls and women by some ISIS fighters hiding behind the Quran to justify their violence.  I have been researching psychological abuse and investigating the emotional disconnect that enables a person to commit violence against another and not… Continue reading

From the Material Divide to World Unity

From the Material Divide to World Unity

This musing fuses the poetic metaphor with intellectual discourse symbolic of the creative and logical parts of ourselves united.  For this integration will surely open up new horizons to transform the world of dreams into a world that is living in harmony in the true sense of… Continue reading

Mohandas Gandhi

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

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