Matlock Report

Markets across the world and throughout history are known to have shady characters. Like in the days when old town peddlers came through peddling their medicines and novelties, modern society needs to be on alert. The current pandemic has aroused fear where hoarding continues. But have shoppers overlooked safety and quality? No time than the …

The sights and sounds are that of a “Gotham City.” What I am seeing are cities resembling the likes of those in comic books. Men representing the State and the Law appear like the pompous “Penguin” and “Riddler” speaking in riddles. The Superhero, in the guise of a wealthy businessman fighting crime and corruption, is …

Rest in Peace, George, Ahmaud, Eric, Laquan, Tamir, Walter, Michael, Freddie, Sandra, Philando, Botham, Briana, Rodney, MLK, MalcomX, …………….. Americans and those around the World, let’s Respect and Honor our thousands of Brothers and Sisters in the U.S. and the millions around the World who have been brutally killed because they are Black. Brothers and …

Martin Niemöller reminds us, “First they came for…then they came for me.” At Neuschwanstein Castle this past Christmas holiday, I looked across the icy mountains remembering an encounter with a male and female. Overhearing their conversation, I was sure they were American tourists. The female spoke with words that were cold and crystal clear, “Mom …

“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.” Bertrand Russell One President rejected the idea of “importing nurses” awaiting resources to train its …

“China has become the world’s prime breeding ground for new and exotic strains of influenza and other viruses, including both the deadly SARS virus and avian flu…and the possibility of a pandemic in which tens of millions of people may die.”– Peter Navarro, Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy (OTMP). From Navarro’s …

Government Administrations quick to fund Defense Systems with soldiers and weapons stockpiles to take lives are realizing that defunding Health Systems’ staff and supplies ends lives.  In my February 2019 paper, The User: Has it replaced the Pedestrian? I posed the question, Is the user no longer a pedestrian? Is this what progress consists of? …

”Had the peoples and the nations known how much harm they brought upon themselves by destroying the Temple of Jerusalem, they would have wept more than the children of Israel” – TALMUD  The title of my paper was inspired by the film, Au Revoir, Les’Enfants. The film, written and directed my Louis Malle, is based …

Patentochter und Enkelin von Modedesigner und Modellbaue , ich lernte wie wichtig Handwerkskunst und Qualität sind. Als kleines Mädchen, das mit meinen Buntstiften in meinen Malbüchern auf dem Wohnzimmerboden meiner Großmutter malte und skizzierte, sah ich zu, wie sie mit ihren Handwerkszeugen – Bleistift, Papier, Maßband und Schere – künstlerische Muster entwarf. Wunderschöne Designs, kombiniert …

“The Ants 27:88 “You see the mountains and think them firmly fixed…” The Spider 29:41…but truly the flimsiest of houses is the Spider’s house…16:68 “…taught the Bee to build its cells in hills, on trees…”  – The Qur’an In 2015, a year before the 2016 U.S. Election, I wrote an open letter, Dear Future Madam …