TO EVERY EXCEPTION HARMONY - THE POLYPHONIC TEXTURE OF A JUST GLOBE #manyconversations #GreatConversation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emZS4lwgTZ8; http://www.benjamindmartin.com/radio-talks.html

GLEXIT = 'EXTREMISM IS ALL WE HAVE LEFT FOR US'

''Over and over, he has tried to reconcile a materialism which he could not accept with an idealism that he could not realize'' ...

http://theaimn.com/march-white-men-children/; http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/we_are_all_deplorables_20161120; http://fitzgerald.narod.ru/critics-eng/lehan-nowhere.html

LEVIATHAN DETHRONED?

I need to instruct myself and the relevant world in the art of rhetoric - how we present what we ''know'' ...

Let us persuade them - our interests converge and they ''converge at this point''

Life is not geometric, ''The rule'' which Hobbes discussed. Euclid cannot supply our rule for meaning

The ''market'' as our god has clouded our vision - what ''I'' want is an absence of me - I am not fairly defined ... What we are is complex and a metaphysic construct ...

What I want, in some degree I must desire for ''you'' - the fount, or rather spring of wisdom?

''The next landscape of world politics is just beginning to be visible through the lingering twilight of the unipolar world'' - Coral Bell #tickledpink #dogsunleashed

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/pubfiles/LIP21_BellWEB_1.pdf; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5XD-8lJ-PY; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojf18wT_Xtk

BEYOND ANCIENT ENMITY - FROM PARLEYING PARLIAMENT TO ''MULTI-PARTY DIALOGUE'?

''In the face of the foregoing epic changes, it’s no wonder that effective government is an increasing illusion''

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/us-election-hillary-clinton-blames-fbis-james-comey-for-her-defeat-in-call-with-donors/ar-AAkdVgI?li=AAavLaF&ocid=spartanntp; http://johnmenadue.com/blog/?p=8269

GAMELAN DIPLOMACY - A NEW ASEAN DAWNS

http://johnmenadue.com/blog/?p=8260; http://danny.oz.au/gamelan/

BEHOLD YE KRATOS, SMASHER OF TRUTHS #chillwinds

THE 'DISACCURACY' OF ESTABLISHMENT POLITICS: OR, WILL MEN BE PURPOSEFULLY OBTUSE?

Forget ''truthiness'' or the closet-shop liberal world order of late night comedy, identity nostrums and officious cant. Sous La Plage of wandering appetite, lie the seafolk, lost at sea.

Neither right nor left, nor wrong nor right, they are imbalanced by the tidal balance of forgotten force.

Laws serve men, until they will not ....

Let us Rediscover that Law.

SANCTIONS REGIME

1. CANCEL F-35 LIGHTNING PURCHASE AND MAINTENANCE
2. ASEAN APPLICATION
3. JOIN SILK ROAD PROJECTS
4. CANCEL ANZUS
5. REGISTER CONCERN WITH UNITED NATIONS OBSERVERS

AUSTRALIA MUST CANCEL F-35

LET US WALK THE PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP ROAD! - 千里之行，始於足下,

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-10/keating-on-american-foreign-policy-after-trump-victory/8015028

WHY TURNBULL IS POINTLESS: WE'RE NOT LISTENING TO THEM ANYMORE

Trump, in my opinion, is a dangerous guy: According to Henry Giroux, a ''turning point'' in American history.

As part of Asia and the ASEAN region, we need not be part of that landscape. Those who fail to stand for any value other than their own success subside in failure.

ONE WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE

SANCTIONING SILLINESS AND CLINTONISM: WE NEED TO TELL WASHINGTON, CANBERRA AND CORPORATIONS WHO'S REALLY BOSS - US!

Trump may be a blessing in disguise - Churchill's ''very good disguise''.

Civil action is something we have in our power, and power knows it.

We should hold that power in reserve ....

Смутное время - A BETTER WAY THE NEXT DAY

''America’s idealism, optimism, and spirit of self-reliance, its celebration of concerted action, its suspicion of the abstract, its handson practicality, its recognition that in hard times people need one a nother—all these have created the unique American character, a character that has inspired people around the globe. But the America of today is in a state of confusion. We don’t see our problems clearly; or if we do, we often—out of inertia, fear, or greed—fail to deal with them. We too frequently live in the past or revel in the present i nstead of adopting the actions that would secure the future. The federal government has amassed an enormous debt in just the last ten years. Many of our state and local governments, far from being laboratories of democracy, have pursued the “free lunch,” spending lavishly on pensions and health care and then handing on the bill to future state administrations. Much of the financial sector seems unable to decide whether it wants to help build a new world or suck the life out of the declining one. The corporate sector is consumed with the short term, trapped in a financial prison of stock buybacks and quarterly earnings reports, unable to invest or hire in its own long-term interest. Ten years ago, sixty-one U.S. companies had triple-A bond ratings; today there are four. Our culture also seems excessively coarse, marked by gratuitous violence and sex without meaning. Everywhere people are making excuses for their failures, from the athletic field to the corporate boardroom, and then salving their mistakes in the warm balm of public relations. As long as you act ahair’s width within your lawyer’s definitions of the law, you get apass that exempts you from doing what is not just legal but also right'' - Bill Bradley

http://www.billbradley.com/assets/PDF/We-Can-All-Do-Better-Chapter-1.pdf; http://eastwestaccord.com/page/2/

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

MARK KENNY SPEAKS THE 'BLOODY TRUTH' #fromlindtsiegetopoliticalsiege

''People are sick of politics, sick of the growing disparity between rich and poor. They are bewildered by constant technological change and the economic dislocation it threatens, and yet bored by the mundane predictability of their lot and the hope of yet more incrementalism'' http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/all-noisy-on-the-western-front-but-to-what-end-20161103-gshkqy.html

HYPOTHESIS: THE REAL DISDAIN FOR THE BRICS? THE BRICK WALL IS BUILDING AND ''OURS'' IS FALLING DOWN

''Before the invasion of Zingis, China was divided into two empires or dynasties of the North and South; (22) and the difference of origin and interest was smoothed by a general conformity of laws, language, and national manners'' - Edward Gibbon

..

''Recalling all our previous declarations, we emphasise the importance of further strengthening BRICS solidarity and cooperation based on our common interests and key priorities to further strengthen our strategic partnership in the spirit of openness, solidarity,equality, mutual understanding, inclusiveness and mutually beneficial cooperation'' - Goa Declaration

..

''To understand why this should be so, we must return to 1956, when the Suez Canal was believed by the British Government of the day to be of vital strategic value'' - Correlli Barnett

THE PARADOX OF BALANCE: BETWEEN HEARTH & BARGE #theflyingglobewoman #betweenhereandthere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtfe4tfOoDM; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE1NyYT31Tw