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Bobby's Blog: March 2012
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Wednesday, 14 March 2012. If there is no spirit unfolding itself in history,. No gradual growth of consciousness. Beneath the land grabs and forced migrations,. The bought elections, the betrayal of trust. By party faction in the name of progress-. What about spirit in the personal realm. Unfolding slowly inside us, so slowly. That our best days seem like a holding action? Seasons repeat themselves, but the tree. Shading the yard keeps growing. Carl Dennis. The New Yorker, 24/10/11). Hopefully, as we Iri...
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Bobby's Blog: June 2013
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Monday, 10 June 2013. Immigration Obsession: why scapegoat the most vulnerable to protect the most powerful? My government will bring forward a bill that further reforms Britain’s immigration system. The bill will ensure that this country attracts people who will contribute and deters those who will not.". Queen’s Speech, 07/05/13). Neighbourhoods bereft of hope. The centralisation of power has made local government administration impotent. Respecting the equality of difference. But it is a trend at pres...
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Bobby's Blog: Leaving home and coming home
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Monday, 3 December 2012. Leaving home and coming home. Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and left that night for Egypt. (. For many emigrants the heaviest burden is isolation, the loss of family and friend networks, of community, an alienation that is felt particularly in times of crisis. Has anything changed in two thousand years for the vulnerable, the poor and marginal? In the internal journey of the human heart. The loss of an extended family the search for a new community takes time.
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Bobby's Blog: Immigration Obsession: why scapegoat the most vulnerable to protect the most powerful?
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Monday, 10 June 2013. Immigration Obsession: why scapegoat the most vulnerable to protect the most powerful? My government will bring forward a bill that further reforms Britain’s immigration system. The bill will ensure that this country attracts people who will contribute and deters those who will not.". Queen’s Speech, 07/05/13). Neighbourhoods bereft of hope. The centralisation of power has made local government administration impotent. Respecting the equality of difference. But it is a trend at pres...
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Bobby's Blog: August 2011
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Wednesday, 31 August 2011. They’re off again. It’s the end of September. Looking out my window. I notice the swallows congregating. Around the end of the building. As they hover anenergy is palpable. As if in preparation for something big. The news on the radio invades my attention. It’s telling that Irish people are emigrating again. The newspaper on the floor of my room tells of. The destruction of an immigrant camp in France by the police. Another newspaper headlines brain drain from Ireland. Most wou...
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Bobby's Blog: December 2012
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Monday, 3 December 2012. Leaving home and coming home. Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and left that night for Egypt. (. For many emigrants the heaviest burden is isolation, the loss of family and friend networks, of community, an alienation that is felt particularly in times of crisis. Has anything changed in two thousand years for the vulnerable, the poor and marginal? In the internal journey of the human heart. The loss of an extended family the search for a new community takes time.
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Bobby's Blog: JBFAs, WWWs and BBs: returning after emigration
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Tuesday, 17 September 2013. JBFAs, WWWs and BBs: returning after emigration. I left home young and not till old do I come back,. My accent is unchanged, my hair no longer black. The children don’t know me, whom I meet on the way,. 8220;Where do you come, sir? 8221; they smile and say. He Zhizhang, Chinese poet. We are arriving as partners, not lords and masters. So let tread softly and tread humbly.". So, for happy landings:. Availability of objective information about emigration and return migration.
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Bobby's Blog: April 2013
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Monday, 29 April 2013. Ma, I’m on the third floor. Help me.". Then the voice went dead. A girl calling her mother after the clothing factory building collapsed in Dhaka. In a bubblegum culture not only is the item of clothing disposable but the person that fashioned it is too. This is obvious from the conditions they slave in and the accidents that occur either in fires or in the collapse of buildings similar to the one in Dhaka this week. So, what do you do? What should we do? Check the brands we wear.
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