Interesting that with Shimon Peres' death, the world media notes him, very profoundly, as a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize but fail to mention the co-winner of that Peace Prize was the remarkable Mr Yassar Arafat.

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On Trump and Clinton:Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream? R. D. LAING, attributed, Mad to be Normal: Conversations with R. D. Laing

RD LAING: Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

This is a lovely book...Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata...you pick it up and think 'gosh this small book is hardly anything...so few pages...why should I pay $9 for this?' and you read it, and it stays in your thinking for at least 50 years. This is literature, and this is what literature does.

I see the US is threatening to disengage from the war in Syria...well, that'd be good, if you could trust them, but you can't. You know they won't stop.

I still wonder why international news agencies don't see a link between the downing of the Malaysian passenger plane, M370, and the direct personal gift soon after of $800 million from the Saudi Royal family to the Prime Minister of Malaysia who orchestrated the investigation.

That area of the South China Sea where the plane actually went off the radar and out of the sky is an area with massive US Navy forces testing and perfecting all kinds of advanced technology to knock out and ping China's sea coast defence systems...and amazingly, they didn't see or hear a thing...nope, not one thing...
Soon after Obama arrived in Malaysia to work out a new military aid plan for Malaysia and the Saudi Royal family gave the Prime Minister of Malaysia a personal gift of $800 MILLION US Dollars.
I doubt the US Military MEANT to knock the plane down, but I think they did do it. Then everyone looked everywhere else instead.
As we know, these kind of military errors happen all the time in that kind of dangerous probing provocative theatre.