Before anyone starts criticising my grammar or reason, let me say that the heading above is a compromise. I wanted to use the title "What's In A Name Acronym?" for instant recognition of a well known (but adapted) phrase. Except that my blog editor won't allow strikethroughs in post headings. Therefore the compromise - which... Continue Reading →
A Refreshing New View
"Syria: Neoliberalism vs Sovereignty" - Renegade Inc Forget the title of this piece for a moment, important though it may be. I want to say something which I feel is significant. People like me, and there may be more of us than is generally realised, who write about aspects of our world, their drivers, mechanisms... Continue Reading →
Why Can’t We Accept That Some Things Are Beyond Our Control?
I love it when the mind of some other human being melds with my own. This happened again today - not physically, but through the medium of writing (and reading of course). And while what I share with you now may lie outside the things I normally talk about, it is nevertheless important. We are,... Continue Reading →
Declaration: War Is No Longer Inevitable – But Still Possible
I've had a partial change of mind. For months now, I have been of the belief that war is an inevitable outcome at some time this year, as a result of movements and intentions of the Continual War Party of the compulsively aggressive Western nations. Particularly the psychopath led states which form the Five Eyes... Continue Reading →
Australia Has 9 Years of Happy Motoring Left – The Government Thinks
"Last remaining oil refineries urged to stay in Australia with $2 billion fuel security package" - ABC News Australia As probably sufficient background to the situation I will quote just three paragraphs from the ABC article... before I tear it to shreds (the situation, not the article)... Concerns about Australia's fuel security were heightened after BP... Continue Reading →
The Terror Wars, Never Ending They Are
It never was a 'War On Terror', simply 'Terror Wars'. And now YOU are the target. In fact, YOU always were. I'm sharing this without any further comment from me. It needs none. "Second Stage Terror Wars" - Edward Curtin - Off Guardian
No “Back To The Future” For The West…
...So says Stan Grant, an Australian First Nations descendent of the Wiradjuri people (though if Australia was one nation I would not need to make that distinction), news presenter, journalist, and Professor of Global Affairs at Griffith University in Queensland. Stan is a man who knows a thing or two, though not quite perceptive enough to not see China as... Continue Reading →
Are You Among the Willing or the Unwilling?
"Where Did The Science Go?" - Raúl Ilargi Meijer - The Automatic Earth "I’m at a loss for words," says Ilargi, to finish off his latest editorial in another of my cherished sources of proper news. Well, he manages to put enough of those words together, and in the right order, to make a good stab... Continue Reading →
US Weightless Words – All Talk, No Substance
I am not going to prolong or polarize my attention to the Xinjiang affair, there are much bigger issues impacting or about to impact modern life. But this 4 minute video in the Hu Says series is worth sharing for its level-headed perspective. The US is losing its manipulative control over Xinjiang issues (video) Who... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 