So many good posts on the Titanic Lifeboat Academy today. Posts that will get your heart thumping and cause empowering chemicals to surge around your arterial system. Whether you can agree with them or not, they will provide food for thought and just may incline your personal views in a totally different direction to that... Continue Reading →
Kunstler’s ‘History Lesson’ Is No Lesson At All
I have to speak out about this. Kunstler's latest blog post - 'History Lesson', is no lesson at all. It is difficult to promote or rescue a hypothesis when the very first statement of that explanation is an obvious falsehood. Kunstler says "Let me take you back to the mid-20th century. America had just fought... Continue Reading →
Gradualism’ vs ‘Catastrophism’ – A Layman’s Perspective – Part 2 of at least 2
This is a work in progress. In fact at an early stage of progress. I have only posted it in this condition to act as a driver to the personal impetus I must find in order to make any success of the project. I will update this post as I go, and when complete or... Continue Reading →
Something to Ponder
I've said recently that I find nothing much of importance in current events. The issues that matter are not generally up for discussion. Trivial things like pandemics, elections and trade, occupy the global mind and of course the perennial East/West war which thankfully has so far been restricted to words and thoughtless, bad-tempered, perhaps even... Continue Reading →
Time to Stand Tall Europe – Kick the US Pigs in the Nuts
Quick post. "Germany SITREP: Former German Chancellor Says U.S.- EU Alliance Could Now End" - Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog This latest news from Europe is music to my ears. Could it happen? If those running the EU have any common sense or self-respect, it will. But that is not a given. The people... Continue Reading →
‘Gradualism’ vs ‘Catastrophism’ – A Layman’s Perspective – Part 1 of at least 1
While I am waiting for something truly catastrophic to happen, and having declared (and by doing so have backed myself into a corner - a corner which fortunately has several escape doors which I may utilise) that nothing else is currently worth pursuing as a subject for me to talk about, I have turned my... Continue Reading →
Mid-year Point
Where I am it has just passed midnight on the June 30, July 1 boundary and, while I didn't catch it exactly, here are the current Worldometers statistics for global population. https://www.worldometers.info Net population growth in the last six months (first 6 of 2020), is a little over 40.5 million. I guess we can knock... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 