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 I have published two new books on Amazon:  Dodgie Dog  - My Dog and Ending War . They're very affordable, please click on the 'Read More' button to get the links to the books.

 Just published two new books On Amazon The Enigma of the United States ,Quandaries and Explanations Dodgie Dog, Our Dog, The first ask why a country that believes in God, and prays more often than any other developed country, yet kills more of of its people The second is about our lovable dog , who acts as most of the world should , with constant friendship. 

 Melbourne vs Sydney  The Verdict

 This is an announcement about two new books. One on my dog Dodger, and the second is on the stupidities of the United States 

  An American historian, Will Durant, writing with his wife Ariel, tells us that there have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war. [ The Lessons of History , 1968], World War I resulted in 10 million deaths; World War II in 55 million. The United Nations recently reported that there are more than 35 major ongoing conflicts in the world today, and that there have been more than 250 major wars since World War II.   Rabbi Jonathon Sacks in Not in My Name –notes the ongoing conflict between the three Abrahamic religions – Islam, Judaism and Christianity, also that the bible is filled with violence.   Modern scholars view the account of Cain killing Abel in Genesis occurring at the beginnings of agricultural civilization; not the beginnings of man, but it is indicative from our earliest of times, of man’s propensity to violence.   The story may also be based on a Sumerian story representing the conflict between nomadic shepherds and settled farmers. War has been a disaster