Terry Nettle
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America is currently facing many serious domestic political issues and troubling foreign relations and trade issues. These difficulties may seem unamerican to most Americans, but there is really nothing unamerican about the quirky and destructive political games being played out in the Congress and the White House, the uncivil war between the political divides, and the racial injustice and other glaring inequalities in the American society.
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This book examines the history of science and religion in human civilization and discusses how they are closely intertwined. It is noteworthy that throughout human history, science and religion have developed in tandem. In reviewing the history of this development, one could easily discern ten major eureka moments in science and religion. These are related to the shape of our planet Earth and its place in the universe, the biological evolution, nuclear...
3) Mighty Military and Aggressive Foreign Policy of USA: Horrendous Twin Pillars of National Security
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Despite being the number 1 superpower of the world and has the largest and most lethal military force, America seems to be preoccupied with national security.Could it be because American politicians are obsessed with the longstanding American hegemony, and are loathed to see any possible challenge to its position? Could it be the American politicians are using the highly sensitive issue of national security to justify their belligerent behaviour towards...
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It has often been said, and not least by the many billions of Anglophiles around the world, that Britain is truly Great Britain, because it have done so much in shaping the modern world.
One thing is for sure, Britain has given the world the almost universal language of English that is so beautiful, expressive and powerful that much of the world now use it for all sorts of reasons and ways including all the fields of science, technology, economics,...
5) Irrepressible China and India: Ancient Civilizations and Wisdom. Modern Statecraft and Resurgence
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Chinese and Indian civilizations are two of the oldest civilizations in the world. And although they have quite different heritage from their different history, they have similarly promising future ahead.The resurgence of China And India is a headline story of the modern world.Today, China and India are leading nations in the important economically focused BRICS bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which is emerging as the counterweight...
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This book traces the long history of wars and peace in China, and the many civilized and uncivilized stages of Chinese history. It has often been said that China has a long history of over 5,000 years. But from the most recent archaeology, it is now known that its history may be as long as 20,000 years. The full story of the history of China is comprised of three very distinct periods. These are the Legendary History, Prehistory, and Recorded History....
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It has been widely accepted that Western civilization started around 4 thousand years ago, or 4 tya, in ancient Greece. It is also known that ancient Greece inherited much from the preceding Mesopotamia Civilization of 6 tya.European and western civilizations did indeed learn much from Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent in the Middle East, the strip of land above the Persian Gulf, where the Sumerians, Assyrians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Hittites, and...
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The belligerence of nations has now reached a new height. If this is not curbed quickly by all nations of the world, it will lead to the genocide most foul by WW3. This genocide will be very different from the many genocides that the West has been constantly accusing many other nations of perpetrating around the world. This will be the ultimate genocide that obliterates the whole human race.
A carefully hidden alien Martian observer on Earth would...
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This book addresses the politics and our obsession about the origin of everything.
People often think that if you know the origin of something, you can understand it, do something about it, fix it, change it, explain it, manipulate it, use it to suit your purpose, use it to punish somebody, use it to claim credit, and even modify it to fit in with whatever you want to prove. But this is really the highly dangerous politics of origin.
The politics...
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Anglo-Saxon Colonization Of Britain And America: Anglo-Saxon Hegemony? What's Next?Before Britain ruled the waves and colonized much of the world, the Anglo-Saxons colonized Britain.Britain then went on to colonize Australia, New Zealand, India, and much of Africa.A major British colonization was north America and it spawned the greatest superpower the world has ever seen, USA.How did all this happen?How did Anglo-Saxons become the global hegemon?What's...
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Immigration, both legal and illegal, are probably among the world's biggest and the seemingly intractable problems in the modern age.There are great human tragedies and miseries caused by these problems worldwide. Just look at the Rohingya migrants in Bangladesh refugee camps and elsewhere in the world, and the many illegal migrants taking the perilous journeys to America, Europe and Australia. And then there are the many displaced and dispossessed...
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The Ukraine-Russia War Of 2022 started when Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022 in a "Special Military Operation" with a large force of over 150,000 troops. The surprising way the war progressed over the next four months was not unlike that of a mystery novel. Many mysteries and myths were perpetrated.Why did Russia choose to invade Ukraine at this time? Why did NATO and EU choose not to intervene militarily and send troops? Why did they choose...
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This book presents the many intimate and incisive conversations that Grandma Dolly and Grandpa Thomas had with their two young granddaughters. These conversations are about the secrets of life and the exciting learning journey of young people.
Five secrets for living life well. Five secrets of how to learn effectively. All these are the crystallization of the long and colorful life lived through by Grandpa Thomas. They reflect the precious insights...
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The rise and fall of great civilizations on earth has always been intriguing stories to be told over and over again.This book provides a critical analysis of how the four greatest civilizations on earth arose, and how some of the great civilizations in history eventually declined or were completed wiped out.The book traces how the Western civilization evolved from its origin in the earliest Sumerian civilization in Mesopotamia and developed through...
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The world is in danger of plunging into the abyss of another world war. This time it will be even more terrible than the two world wars that had wreaked so much havoc and misery in the past. This time, it may be a nuclear holocaust and the end of human civilization.In many countries around the world, including many that claim to be democratic, political power is largely concentrated in the political elite and the group of powerful capitalists. The...
16) Share Wealth, Share Prosperity, Share the World: Choose Sharing, Not Hoarding. Choose Peace, Not War
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How can wealth and prosperity be achieved for all?Is this a shared world for all humanity?Can nations share wealth, prosperity, knowledge, and all resources on Earth with all nations, in the cause of one humanity, and not selfishly hoard them as selfish individual nations?Is humankind ready for such an utopia?And how do we achieve and secure the peace that is the necessary basis for all that to happen?
17) Rohingya Refugees and Other Migrant Tragedies: Awkward Questions, Inconvenient Answers, Humanisti
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Some of the world's greatest tragedies are happening today in the many refugee camps all over the world.About 30 million refugees are in refugee camps in various parts of the world. At least a hundred million people are displaced by war, famine and ethnic conflicts. More than 7 million Syrians have been displaced by the continuous war in Syria.In Africa alone, Eritrea has about half a million refugees. In Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central...
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The current brand of Western Political Theatre seems to have surpassed the ancient Greek theatre in so many ways that they are as bewildering as they are toxic. Above all, they are performed more for wars than for peace. They thrive on conflicts, belligerence and arrogance.Politics has been turned into a political theatre by the antics of the many unscrupulous politicians. Everything seems to now turn on fame and on celebrity status.As Western Political...
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This book examines the long and eventful history of ancient China as it relates to its western frontiers and the famous ancient Silk Road. It looks at how the term "Western Frontiers" or "Western Territories" was first used in the classic "Han Book of History - Western Frontiers", closely associated with the epic travels of Zhang Qian, the Han dynasty diplomat-explorer extraordinaire. This was the region which the ancient Silk Road ran through. It...
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Political contrarians all over the world play a game of hide and seek with the authorities in every country. If they continue to grow in numbers and become a sizable opposition, they will gain an upper hand in politics and drive the countries into chaos, deadly conflicts and even civil wars.
Contrarians, dissidents and activists therefore represent a serious security threat in every country, democratic or not. If these groups are not managed properly,...