It is often exceedingly difficult to cut through the sugary coating surrounding the reporting of events that ever more frequently (and there is a reason for that) take place around our troubled world. Basically, before you sink your teeth into the Turkish Delight that the mainstream news media presents to us, you need to take... Continue Reading →
Careful Who You Piss Off
Be careful who you piss off. Unless, of course, you are a brainless jihadi who doesn't give a shit about anything. OK. You can piss the Americans off, and they will react by randomly bombing a few inconsequential buildings, killing more civilians than jihadis, but without any real plan to deal with you properly which... Continue Reading →
Hair Raising
I knew there was a good reason why twelve years ago I decided that I would never again have my hair cut. That was a time of great change in my life. Among other things, it was when I started to live alone and change my diet to become vegetarian. I didn't know quite why... Continue Reading →
The Biggest International Heist Ever Perpetrated. And The Joke’s On Us
You've heard of the TPP, right? You know that I have, for years, been warning against Australia having anything to do with it, right? You know that our government has sold us out by signing up as part of it, right? You know that the full details of what it contains have only been released... Continue Reading →
Game Changer
Vladimir Putin - the necessary catalyst for defeating ISIS. So far, the US, NATO and their allies have only been playing the game. Using mainly rhetoric and having no real interest in inflicting defeat on these monsters. It is all about the oil of course. It always is. Always will be, at least for the... Continue Reading →
Surprise! Surprise!
This post was inspired by : BP proposal to drill exploration wells in Great Australian Bight rejected Photo: The regulator was not satisfied that BP's environment plan met all of the regulatory requirements. (Bill Griffiths) Well, there's a nice surprise. Those mega-corporations are no longer supremely unbeatable and they don't, increasingly often, always get their... Continue Reading →
I Said To Myself…
"Now, what do I want from here?", I said to myself as I stood, with my pantry door open. Actually, I spoke the words aloud, as I often do when by myself (well there's nobody else to talk to and I don't want my voice to shut down, do I?), but don't tell anybody else... Continue Reading →
Guilt By Association
"To honor the dead, we need to look inside ourselves, and inside the societies we live in. And only when we've found, and eradicated, those things that make both us, and our communities, 'guilty by association' -for lack of a better term-, will we have paid proper respect to those who lost their lives." -... Continue Reading →
WATERCOURSE
I came across this interesting blog today, courtesy of a visit and kind words by the owner, to mine. Worth exploring ...and, in this post, a nice surprise for old 'Chisel' fans.
