Six thousand years ago, a great civilisation was born. They were the Sumerians, who lived in what is now modern-day Iraq. Zecharia Sitchin discovered through their ancient texts, that humankind was created by extra-terrestrial beings, the Anunnaki, who come from a 12th planet, which Sumerians called Nibiru. The book of Genesis in the Bible is based on Sumerian narratives.
One evening, coming back from the office, Pia arrived home to find a letter from Max. She was pleasantly surprised because she had lost touch with him. She tore the envelope open and read his short note under the hallway light.
“Dear Pia,” he wrote. “I asked for your address from your mother, and I am writing to you about something that has been bothering me for some time. It’s about the wine account you were handling many years ago. On your next trip to Manila, please give me a call. Max.”
The wine account? Pia stared a hole in the wall in front of her. She immediately went to the telephone and called Mr Lortan at the office. He often worked late, and she asked to be absent on the morrow. Then Pia called her parents to let them know that she was coming to Manila and to call Max at the office in the morning to inform him. She packed a small travelling bag and tinkered about the house, as she waited impatiently for news from Max.
It was a warm late afternoon when Pia arrived in the metropolis, Manila. Her plane had just landed at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport and she was now on her way to meet her former colleague at a restaurant in Makati.
Along the road a common sight greeted her. Barefoot children were begging for coins from passing cars. She sat in the comfort of her mother’s chauffeur-driven old banger and wondered what it would take to make this country the progressive nation it could be, so that its citizens would live a better quality of life. (more…)
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
-- Haile Selassie
If you don't stand for something, you stand for nothing.
-- Mel Thompson
Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything.
-- Alexander Hamilton
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. -- H.L. Mencken
Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. -- Albert Einstein
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. -- Joseph Goebbels