I didn't say much after the Putin - Biden meeting on Tuesday - there wasn't much to say. On the face of it, any potential war can has been kicked down the road a few months so that Ol' Joe can have a quiet Christmas and the Beijing Winter Olympics can proceed with minimal interference... Continue Reading →
Two Face-Slaps For US From Japan
Japan may be getting ready to get out from under 75 years of US oppression. I did not notice yesterday that Japan was missing from the small list of shamed nations (see my previous post) which mindlessly followed the US lead in voting against recognising the long-serving credentials of the real government of Venezuela's UN... Continue Reading →
Australia On The Wrong Side Of History …Again
In that most august of international bodies, The United Nations General Assembly, yet again Australia shamed itself in front of the world's assembled representatives by aligning itself with that ever smaller growing... [can you 'grow ever smaller'? - perhaps not] Let me rephrase... by aligning itself with that ever shrinking motley crew of sheep nations,... Continue Reading →
It’s A Scoreless Draw
Well, as far as I can tell, we are all still here and I haven't heard any loud bangs or seen any mushroom clouds, so I guess the Putin-Biden virtual meeting was a resounding ambiguity of nothingness which has simply kicked the can down the road for another three months until northern Spring. I am... Continue Reading →
“Two Out Of Three” May Not Be Bad, But It’s Certainly Not Good
...and when those "Two Out Of Three" represent two thirds of your Nuclear Triad - the three pronged nuclear deterrent you have threatened the world with for some 70 years - two arms of which it now transpires are largely if not totally inoperable, that has to be ...wouldn't you say... somewhat catastrophic? Especially on... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 – You Do Know What That Means, Don’t You?
I am appalled that the world has neither realised nor recognised that this moment in time, as I write this, is potentially the greatest moment of global danger for the whole of mankind that we have ever faced. Are we so sunk into our self-made funk that we, apart from perhaps just a few, like... Continue Reading →
Bullock Cart Rewind
Here's a story that surfaced recently and which could be a game-changer. Or perhaps even a game-stopper. https://cleantechnica.com/files/2021/12/Diesel-AdBlue-pixabay-free-for-commercial-use.jpeg 'Crisis In Australia: AdBlue Chemical Shortage Might Render Diesel Trucks Inoperable' - CleanTechnica Now I don't know much about CleanTechnica. It seems to be one of those cleanish-greenish pop-ups with roots in the Techutopia EV myth. So,... Continue Reading →
Where We Once Belonged
Proving that he is not just a master of the story-telling of today's utter shambles of human mediocrity, which 2021 has somehow resolved into, Pepe Escobar graces Asia Times with a piece worthy of the best cultural reportage of earlier and more civilised times. It involves a 'Getting Back' to where we once belonged, through... Continue Reading →
China’s Empowered Women
China has no gender-based so-called 'glass ceiling'. With 2021 being the closing year for completion of China's drive for equality in gender and everyone knowing, perhaps with a certain snide and snickering acknowledgement in mostly ignorant western circles, that China always meets its targets, what can we say about the progress on this issue by... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 
