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Many years ago during the days of the Mid-Ocean News, I wrote an op-ed about the terms negentropic or entropic socioeconomic design. Of course, I have no claims on prophethood — some things are simple logic and can be deduced through science. Two com...
DATE: Dec 29, 2020
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Khalid Wasi
The idea of freedom and democracy is not a cliché; it means something that is to be activated. The idea of a free world or society has implications that require a structure in order to be perpetuated with integrity and believers willing to stand, mor...
DATE: Nov 24, 2020
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Khalid Wasi
We hear the public are crying out, “Where is the beef?” They have heard the Throne Speech, seen the Auditor-General's report; all they need now is to reconcile the two. Before going any farther, while it's obvious the country needs more money circula...
DATE: Nov 19, 2020
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Khalid Wasi
OK, in the context of levelling the playing field for Bermuda politics, let's say the war was won. Now Bermuda must win the peace.
I recall the famous author D.H. Lawrence at the end of the First World War complaining about the horrible tools of war...
DATE: Nov 03, 2020
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Khalid Wasi
“A flash in the pan sets the whole house ablaze”.
The recent Senate seat reversal by David Burt was a clear demonstration of people power. Perhaps the whole drama would have been avoided if left alone.
The appointment of Government Senate Leader...
DATE: Oct 13, 2020
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Khalid Wasi
It has been said that history repeats itself because the nature of people never changes. Human behaviour is a labyrinth with patterns to our behaviour from which we can discover something about our tendencies and emerge free from its cyclic hold. In ...
DATE: Oct 09, 2020
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Khalid Wasi
The result is in, the electorate has spoken and, perhaps with a 54 per cent turnout for a General Election, the unspoken speaks equally as loud.
The incumbent government gets 60 per cent of the votes cast, which represented a victory with 33 per cen...
DATE: Oct 05, 2020
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Khalid Wasi
Listening to the United States presidential election and the deep divide, you can’t help but think that they are so dangerously close to civil war as a result of rampant hatred and the two-world realities shown dramatically by the media.
It takes no...
DATE: Sep 24, 2020
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Khalid Wasi
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a modern-day role model of courage, conviction and principled stewardship while at the same time displaying the indomitable spirit of a true human.
We all can take example from her to strengthen our own resolve to live...
DATE: Sep 23, 2020
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Khalid Wasi
The epic question: did the times make great leaders? Or did great leaders make the times? It doesn’t take too much work to describe Bermuda as living in perilous times of political disillusionment, economic uncertainty and social disquiet.
The emerg...
DATE: Sep 18, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi