Games of Nations… Boys Will Be Boys…
The Games… of Nations…
The… hilarious…
Pathetic… political games…
Are… still being…
Played…
On the world stage… today…
It’s… called…
“The… amorality…
Of… power…”
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Culture & History
Martin Luther King… “I Have a Dream”…
President… Obama…
Commemorated today… in his speech…
“Keeping the dream alive”…
The 50th Anniversary of…
Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous speech… “I have a dream”…
Having studied the legendary Martin Luther King’s speech at university… I was left speechless… with the speech that left an indelible impression on me…
I dream… with fascination…
I weep… with inspiration…
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Damian Aspinall.. A Passionate Conservationist…
Damian… Aspinall’s…
Plea… from the heart…
“Look into the eyes…
of a caped tiger…”
Had a… huge impact…
On… me…
I empathise… sympathize…
Totally… completely…
With his crusade to free animals… cooped up in beastly zoos…
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To Catch… a Pink Panther…
The… glamorous…
Carlton… Hotel…
In… Cannes…
On the… French Riviera…
Once… dubbed…
“A sunny place for shady people”… by Somerset Maugham…
Is a favourite destination… of mine…
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Royal Baby.. Born to Be King…
“IT’S… A BOY”…
“We could not… be happier”…
– Prince William and his Duchess Kate
“Delighted”…
– The Queen and Prince Philip
“BRITAIN’S ROYAL BABY… ARRIVES”…
– Buckingham Palace
“Baby… third In line to the throne”…
“A proud nation… celebrates”…
– CNN
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Humanity… Shackled…
Humanity… is shackled…
To… the destiny…
Of… this planet…
I am… but one of this…
Humanity…
Bonded… yet imprisoned to…
The beauty… the beast…
The… fragrant…
The… ugly…
The vast goodness… of the human heart…
The utter capacity… of its savagery…
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“Anthony Bourdain… Parts Unknown”…
Anthony… Bourdain…
Entered… my consciousness…
My… orbit…
When I read… his best selling book in 2000…
“Kitchen… Confidential”…
I… was…
Besotted…
Recently… to my utter delight…. Anthony has been hosting “Anthony Bourdain… Parts Unknown”… for CNN…
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Angela Merkel… Europe’s “Uncrowned Queen”…??
Is…
Angela… Merkel…
Europe’s…
“Uncrowned… queen”?
Or… “Kaiser”?
Watching this unprepossessing woman regularly on one of the many French international channels… the short pleasantly plump woman… cuts an ordinary figure… more like a German “hausfrau”… than a powerful European leader…
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Margaret Thatcher… The Iron Lady…
Margaret Thatcher…
A… tribute…
To… a woman…
The… Iron Lady…
“Who was the only man in the cabinet”… Max Hastings…
“The woman… who saved Britain… 1925-2013″…
After Winston Churchill… Britain’s greatest WWII Prime Minister and war hero…
Lady Thatcher… was no doubt… Britain’s greatest peace time Prime Minister of modern history… if not of all time…
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Madonna and Angelina… A Worthy Cause…
S-o-o-o… impressed by…
Madonna…and… Angelina Jolie…
Patching up… their differences…
For a… worthy cause…
Angelina Jolie, 37… who criticised Madonna on the manner of adoption of her two children from Malawi… David Banda and Mercy James… showed an elegance and generosity of spirit by phoning the “Material Girl” to praise her efforts in helping Third World young women get an education.
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