Samsung has reported that their new phone Samsung 7 Edge is safe and was not totally responsible for the explosion in the truck queue delivering humanitarian supplies in Syria...or, if it was, it was only because someone turned one of them on...and that battery was only ever designed for the Chinese market anyway. As it was, there were too many batteries...It was meant as a humanitarian gift to the Syrian people.

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.