The John James Newsletter 114 16 April 2016 In the darkest hours of existence we grasp tight, no matter how illusory, to the starry gleams of hope Milton Washington’s game plan for Iraq was to shock and terrorise the entire country, deliberately ruin its infrastructure, do nothing while its culture and history were ransacked, and Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 65 4 July 2015 – Souppes–sur-Loing Temperatures in France have pipped 40C over past two days. Records broken as heatwave hits US northwest: Both India and Pakistan have had heatwaves this year, Western Europe is developing one and North America is enduring one, in its northwest. The precise definition differs from Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 120 28 May 2016 The victor will never be asked if he told the truth Adolf Hitler When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law Frederic Bastiat Men occasionally stumble on the Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 119 21 May 2016 I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back the bodies of living men, but their eyes were cold and dead Edmund Vance Cooke We will have to repent in this generation not merely for Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 118 14 May 2016 I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me Dudley Field Malone I’d rather be pessimistic and doing something than being pessimistic and not doing anything at all Justin Marshall Russia helped liberate Palmyra, fully cleared it of mines and unexploded Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 117 7 May 2016 I am asked how can I bear to immerse myself in such news, and continue to do so for years. To explain: the Newsletter is my personal spiritual journey, my sadhana. I have learned that if I remain attached to an outcome, any outcome, I create personal Continue Reading →