A different prespective to Life

  I just finished watching a documentary on BBC titled "Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution". This documentary levels us on the relationship between the two of the most outstanding personalities that have ever influenced the Labour Party since it started about one hundred years ago. Gordon Brown has Labour in his blood, his father was a minister in the Church of Scotland, and he saw the closure of the textile mills and then the coal mines in his area around Kirkcaldy, which had an effect on him . His oratory skills are said to be like in the manner of an evangelical preacher, something maybe he picked up from his father. Brown saw the effect of unemployment on the community and was very active in community services. Brown spoke there to keep and maintain the already converted, the Labour faithful, the core Labour base. At the University of Edinburgh, as a doctoral graduate in history, he became the university elected rector, and he was active in student politics. He...

  Although the British seem always to come out as the bad guys, especially in popular culture. All the villain actors of the evil "The Empire" in the blockbuster Hollywood hit film Star Wars seem to have distinctive upper-class British accents.  Emperor Palpatine , who reigns over this intergalactic evil Empire, talks with a British accent. British actors have played villains or a role taken by American actors using British accents. The idea is that once you see the leading actor speaking with a British accent in a Hollywood movie, they are likely to be a villain. Although the British could be considered evil in many respects, the Atlantic Salve trade, causing wars, genocide, forcing Opium on the Chinese and the occasionally regime change, to name a few. The book claims that it was also a force for good. It has spread its form of Christianity to millions and is responsible for the widespread usage of English as an international language. The abolition of the Slave T...

  According to this book by Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Sapiens (modern man) is only about 200, 000 years old and originated in East Africa. It is not biblical but purely scientific, mainly archaeological, geological, and anthropological. In this explanation, he believes that  70,000 years ago, Homo Sapiens emerged out of Africa. Sixteen thousand (16,000) years ago, Homo Sapiens settled in America, hunting most American large animals to extinction, Australia and where every they settled, Homo Sapiens caused the extinction of other species.  By 12,000 years ago, domestication of plants and animals started, leading to the first permanent human settlement - The agricultural revolution. Then about 5,000 years ago, the first kingdoms, scripts and money started. The next important dates were about 500 years ago was the Renaissance in Europe that man admits his ignorance and looks to science. Then 200 years ago was the Industrial revolution placed Europe above the rest of the worl...

  This is an excellent book for anyone who has faced a crisis or is planning to do anything with their life. It helps redirect the attention away from you and helps you look at the bigger picture, vision, or goal in life. This is one of the books I wish I had when going through the darkest periods of my personal life when I believed all hope was lost. It is not a positive spirit uplifting or elevating book, but rather a more practical, level-headed, pragmatic book. It helps you face your future with determination and refocus, and it helps you with examples of successes and failures to convince you that it is not all about you. This book starts with a coat from Rainer Maria Rilke , an Austrian poet and novelist, which seems to set the book's general tone.  "Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise, he would...

The book is about really not giving a f**k about some issues because there is way too much stuff, so many opportunities, and so much to do, with so little time to do it all.  If you decided to pay attention to all the rubbish flying around out there, you find out that you are spread out too thin, and you will achieve nothing in life. You will be so stressed out and have nothing to show for it at the end of the day. The author says that you should let somethings just slide and pay little or no attention to them. And focus on a few other things that you ought to, be selective to what you give your time and energy to. The things that are important to life and your future. And the things you decide to do must be the things you enjoy doing in the first place, as if you hate them, you will become bitter and end up hating yourself for doing them. You will be ineffective at it—the book is about knowing things you ought to pay attention to and others you should not. This book was recommende...

  This is a film on Amazon Prime that repeats what is well known in certain circles and what Micheal Wolff alluded to in his book " The Fire and Fury ". That the 45th President of the United States, Donald John Trump, did not want the job. He saw it as a business move to increase his profile. It is believed that he played the system being a skilled marketer and self-promoter. However, Trump also said that he wanted to run for President in 1988, 2000, 2004 and 2012. People had been mocking him, and while before he had been seen as a business mogul, TV star and professional, by 2015, he was seen as a "has-been" with a failed business empire and lots of debts that were maturing soon. Before, people were mocking him, and even President Obama got in the act at the White House Correspondent dinner. From Seth Meyers of Saturday Night Live to Jerry Springer, who said that "Trump did not belong in the WH but on my show". Trump is not a master manipulator or an evil...