You may have already heard of the INSTC - I have mentioned it several times before, and there is now a new development. The acronym stands for the International North-South Transport Corridor, a plan to facilitate the movement of trading goods from Russian industrial centres in the North, through Azerbaijan, Iran, to ports in India... Continue Reading →
‘Australia’s Electricity Future’ – Now That’s a Subject Which Caught My Attention. Seeing there is not much else of any great importance going on to an Old Geezer like me just now.
- Not to be intentionally controversial of course, but here's how it begins... The climate scare is failing fast, but the damage it has done could take a long time and a lot of money to fix. A good start. I like that. Can you tell I am beginning to edge toward 'being done with... Continue Reading →
New World Emerging
I think this video represents one of the most agreeable and substantive stories to emerge from the stables of World Affairs in Context, by Lena Petrova. Well, she is a CPA* and therefore very professional, as well as possessing an interesting vocal delivery accompanied by, in my shallow, male, opinion, being easy on the eye.... Continue Reading →
Europe Chooses the Suicide Option
Boy am I glad I had the foresight to vacate and relocate from what I then perceived to be an eventual graveyard some 44 years ago. Where I moved to - Australia - is not in much better shape of course, having botched its only chance to escape the colonialist hell in a failed (built... Continue Reading →
Arctic Sea Ice Extent November 2025
Time for another month-end update and again 2025 has led us in a merry dance with a somewhat disappointing ending. Not seriously so, but we might have expected better. Below is a chart of NSIDC data plucked from the Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph, showing just this part of the current year (blue) plus last... Continue Reading →
Open Mind; Closed Mind. Open System; Closed System. Is There an Advantage? How About in AI?
I am no expert in AI, let me state that up front. Although it has been around in rudimentary form in the gaming arena (my favourite passtime*), and possibly in other places, for years. And whatever your views on the subject of AI, its benefits and inherent dangers, it is not going to go away... Continue Reading →
Bunkers Under Mountains Busted By Bombers? Nah. Agreed Deception More Like.
While I do not know the man personally, and the little I have gleaned about him - mostly self-revealed - would not place him within a close circle of friends (even if I had such a thing), I have adjudged him to be a man who says what he says, always concisely and to the... Continue Reading →
Deceit and Distortion – The American Way
I wish I could ignore this situation and write about something more interesting, but I can't. Chiefly, I suppose, because my own country, Australia, is also caught up in this distasteful mess - on the fringes, but also on the wrong side again (as per usual). Can I be more specific? Of course. Take a... Continue Reading →
Why Do We Do The Things We Do? And is That a Climate Issue?
For me, there are few main drivers in my life, which after brief moments of thought might boil down to being defined, at a fairly high level, as: countering the global climate fraud; exposing global injustice in the form of deceit, corruption and misuse of wealth and power (in a small number of cases of... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 