Media Spin

"Those who can make us believe absurdities, can also cause us to commit atrocities"

- Voltaire

Make of it as you will.

Clear as Mud

 “Are you confused by what is going on in the Middle-East? Let me explain. We support the Iraqi government in its fight against Islamic State (IS/ISIL/ISIS). We don’t like IS but IS is supported by Saudi Arabia whom we do like. We don’t like President Assad in Syria. We support the fight against him, but not IS, which is also fighting against him.

“We don’t like Iran, but the Iranian government supports the Iraqi gov’t against IS. So, some of our friends support our enemies and some of our enemies are our friends, and some of our enemies are fighting our other enemies, whom we don’t want to lose, but we don’t fight our enemies who are fighting our enemies to win.

“If the people we want to defeat are defeated, they might be replaced by people we like even less. And, all this was started by us invading a country to drive out terrorists who weren’t actually there until we went in to drive them out – do you understand now?”

- A Contributor to the Daily Mail - Aubrey Bailey

Developments

Been a while.

Traveling, work and whole host of adrenaline pumping events has made me a bit slack on the blogosphere. I'm sure that you must be really missing my posts people (seriously).

Anyway a lot of developments and changes on the face of this earth - no not climate change, I mean people and Politics. Problems in Ukraine seem to be boiling over. Sanctions from the west and import bans
from Russia. The big bear sabre rattling and flexing its muscles once again. The Middle East - gosh, where to start. One common theme is there seems to be a lot of hidden hands at play. Gaza war, so called Islamic State, Muslims fighting Muslims, Sisi takeover, Libya rising again all seem to be making the region more and more unstable. I think there's something serious brewing in the region, lets hope the lives of people are spared and I mean the lives of hundreds not just one person. Over to the other side of the globe, the shooting of the unarmed teenager Micheal Brown seems to have reignited an age old issue of racism and discrimination within the US police force.

There's a lot more that can be said but lets take it easy after such a long break! In the mean time, check out the Youtube channel of VICE news. Seems like they have a good pool of unfiltered news. Directly from the eye of the storm on occasions! Well worth a browse.

The Past

"We can only judge the future from what we have suffered in the past"

Heard this from a movie little while back. I guess you can put this into perspective with life as well not just the subject of history. You can only learn and move forward in life if you learn from your mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes but the key thing is to think of them in hurdles. That way there will be nothing that can halt your progress in life! Improving and advancing. The past is the past!

Simple Embrace

With only the stars as our cover,

And the silence of the desert night,

Did a simple embrace light  up a dormant spark.




The desert in Islam has a special significance and just sitting out there alone and pondering over its emptiness is something which will surely make you embrace another aspect of your life. The spiritual side. Its a weekly thing now and the next step is to sleep out there. *gulp*