SYDNEY: Sir Charles Court, the former Western Australian premier credited with developing his state’s iron ore industry, now crucial to the nation’s resources boom, has died, reports said Sunday. Sir Charles, who was 96, passed away overnight, the local media reported. Tributes poured in Sunday for the conservative politician who opened up the mining industry […]
Should Governmental Candidates Run on Their Opinions?
Among democracies, candidates seeking elected positions universally run on issue-based platforms – Candidate X believes in Y, and therefore should be elected to a given position. The assumption is that if enough of the voting public subscribes to position Y, Candidate X will be elected and will follow through on the promises that embody the […]
The Art of My Life
I am going to talk about the art of my life and how I came to it. It is going to be a long article since it spans my whole life. I cut many things off, but it is still quite long. So please bear with me. As a kid, I enjoyed playing very much […]
Japan offers apology vs comfort women
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledged before U.S. Congress that the Japanese imperial forces set up brothels for its troops during the war. Mr. Abe even went beyond offering his deep apology for Japan’s misdeeds at that time when countless number of comfort women were forced as sex slaves. Historians claimed that an estimated 200,000 […]
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