...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 →
A Tale To Warm The Heart – FOCAC
No, I am not back to writing or even functioning normally, yet. But I am improving, and I have something I want to give air to and promote as being something which warms my heart, in contrast to most of the world news which crosses my path on a daily basis. Africa, so long known... Continue Reading →
Where am I?
I'm Ok. Just hibernating ...and trying hard not to dissolve into some miasmic sludge while curled up in a fetal position in a dark corner. Instead, sustaining myself with this thought that came my way today... and, no, I am not being dramatic. "Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later... Continue Reading →
ASEAN’s No-Brainer Choice
It doesn't pay to get too single point focussed on an issue. I missed something on my previous post, something noteworthy, and so I must return to the recent ASEAN summit to elucidate. America. In a way, despite all their wrongdoings and spiteful misadventures, it is sad to witness the undoing of a once great... Continue Reading →
Why Does America Always Take Positions Which Set Itself Up For Failure?
I could give numerous such cases but let's look at something current - a very long running saga, the US relationship with Asia. The tune of that relationship, such as it is, such as it ever was (and there is only one single tune - though numerous variations), can be played on a one string... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 
