From the vantage point of the establishment, the nationwide protests engulfing America can be the beginning of the end. The cry on Fox news is stop the hooligans now! From the standpoint of the uprising, this can be the beginning of change. A dispassionate view of history reveals that almost every major government and religion … More From Desegregation to Dis-integration

The manipulation of public sentiment and opinion (in that order) in the pursuit of power is almost a definition of our real politik and is as old a practice as human civilization. So, while mindful of new lows in artful execution, yes sparked by the self acclaimed and publicly confirmed (by followers and foes alike) … More More about the choice

There are only two methods of influencing people (i.e getting them to do stuff or to want to do stuff): control or inspiration. There is no other way. Very simply, everybody has a will. That’s what allows us to choose. Either I am going to exercise that will or someone else will (pun intended). In … More On being and becoming

To understand Trumpism without rancor or bitterness, one has to be able to appreciate the conundrum that America now finds herself in. Now I know I’ve given my insecure Trumpian friends cause to unjustly accuse me of Trump bashing.  Struggling   with  the incredulity, from my point of view, of that movement’s seemingly successful  usurpation or … More We the people and voter fraud 1

Watching and listening to the ongoing noise in US Politics – The latest on Manaforte, Flynn, Cohen, ‘Obamagate’ etc could make one wonder that the church of Jesus Christ could get involved with such perversity….only if one is naive. The church of Jesus Christ throughout the centuries and continuing today has been responsible for aiding, … More The spirit of Anti-Christ

Small axe fall big tree. Senegal’s seminal success in containing the Corona virus outbreak….or at least in minimizing it’s fatalities, shows up the blister and blunder of the USA’s catastrophic mismanagement of the whole affair. But to even compare the two, I agree, is unfair granted the huge difference in both situations…as far removed in … More Barking dogs

For all the warmth and friendliness the Jamaican people are known for, that is just the face we show foreign visitors to our shore. As we are well aware, “si mi  an kom liv  wid mi  a tuu difrent  sopm.” We can so easily treat each other like Pariah. Whether the issue is domestic abuse, … More Covid-19 Church shut down.

Everybody has a philosophy of life – an implicit one as well as an explicit one. The latter is defined by our creeds. The former by our deeds. Upon observation, one commentator put forward the view that the three essentials of church practice today are 1. a building or some physical meeting place 2. a … More The three essentials of Christianity

For humans, power is indispensable. Our DNA seems coded with an innate need for control. We are not satisfied with merely being here. We want to know that while we are here, we take control. We also have the disposition to adapt and to surrender. We would not have survived this far without it. But … More Power and Dependency