Because he says it so much better than I do..."Freaky-Deaky" - Kunstler
What More To Say?
What can I say? There's really nothing left to say. Everything I have talked about, waited for, looked forward to, is now happening real time. All there is left to do is watch... listen... understand... and maybe a little shaking of the head at the loss of what could have been. There's no point crying... Continue Reading →
Who Is Standing Up In This Time Of Crisis?
"Russia Sends COVID-19 Response Group To Rescue Italy As Chaos Spreads Across Europe" - Southbank Notice that it is Russia, and also China as reported elsewhere, not the USA, nor any nation of the West, that is reaching out to the beleaguered Western nations in this time of virus inflicted crisis. Western nations are not... Continue Reading →
The Virus
Hey! Australian ABC News has stolen my name for The Virus, yes, 'The Virus', as the title of one of their news videos. Not that I'm seriously complaining. We should stop calling it coronavirus. Coronaviruses are going about all the time, for example some versions of the common cold. This one is different. It is... Continue Reading →
Bring A Little Mirth To Your Day
This is not a time for mirth and joy. At least there is little of that to be found at the moment, but if you need a lighter moment among the seriousness of current affairs, please read on... This is a story that highlights the very sad state of affairs in Ukraine, a situation I... Continue Reading →
Free-fall Everything
While I have been warning of economic/financial collapse for many years now, I have to admit that non-one really knows - because we have never seen it - just how that will play out in real life. We are now seeing something that has all the hallmarks of being the beginning of such a collapse... Continue Reading →
Seeing Our Future, In The Present
 ...except, without the artificial lighting. "Friday essay: the uncanny melancholy of empty photographs in the time of coronavirus" - The Conversation epa08280545 An interior view of the nearly-empty Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II arcades (Italy's oldest active shopping mall) in the Lombardian capital of Milan, northern Italy, 09 March 2020. The Italian authorities have taken... Continue Reading →
How Will We Remember Spring 2020?
Let me first say that for me it is Autumn, not Spring, but that is beside the point. Every day now, The Virus (let's start calling it that shall we?) numbers become worse and worse. The figures, for what they are worth (but you can bet your boots they are proportionate to reality) are chillier... Continue Reading →
Who To Thank For Low Oil Prices Just Now? Vladimir Putin.
If ever there was a man, made and destined for the times he lived or lives in, and especially for today's times, it is the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir V Putin. It is difficult to find something worth writing about at the moment (perhaps because there are too many choices) but this story... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 