I couldn't stop lolling (overcome by 'lols') when I read this. So, it is all over red-rover. Afghanistan is free again after 20 years of invasion and rape of the country by the dogs of war from across the Atlantic and their fawning puppies from whatever holes in the ground they were dragged out of. Game... Continue Reading →
Making What Sense Is Possible From A Bugger’s Muddle
I am developing a level of trust in Pepe Escobar's assessments of geopolitical movements in today's world. This current appraisal is no exception... 'A Saigon moment looms in Kabul' - Pepe Escobar for Asia Times The opaque mists of recent events will eventually settle down to some prescribed reality, of sorts. Of course nothing is... Continue Reading →
United States: The Centre of All Evil
"...more than 400 military biological laboratories created by the United States in 25 countries, including former Soviet republics – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.""Suspicions about the involvement of foreign US bio-laboratories in the emergence of very strange diseases in the countries where such secret facilities exist are growing."Vladimir Platov - Quotes from his... Continue Reading →
Planet Earth: What Goes Around, Comes Around
I said yesterday that climate change was not the greatest threat to humanity this century, and that is true. We are at the same time as climate issues are developing, also moving into a greater than in any previous period threat from global conflict and pursuant potential nuclear catastrophe (with singular thanks to the aggressive... Continue Reading →
Future Foreshortened
I was reminded today. In a world that is so busy, busy, busy, that it has no time to reflect on what it is doing - and I am talking of the world of mankind of course, the world of nature simply going along at its own natural pace (where that has not been interfered... Continue Reading →
Aligning the Indian Elephant
Such a broad range of news stories are available just now that picking one to feature here grows increasingly difficult. I often try, not always with great success, to choose something that on the face of it may not be 'big' in terms of immediate impact but have potential for development in to something more.... Continue Reading →
How The Tables Have Turned, Since Gorbachev
I don't need to say anything about this. It is just one of several recent messages from Andrei Martyanov on his 'Reminiscence of the Future...' blog Friday, July 30, 2021. The title should be enough of a draw for you to read it for yourself. 'You Get Gorbachev Only Once a Century.' - Andrei Martyanov... Continue Reading →
COVID, Lockdowns, Even Economic Downturns, Not Going to Affect Climate Catastrophe in Any Positive Way
That's the thing about 'Tipping Points', you see, it doesn't matter what you stop doing that might have contributed to the cause of the tipping point, once the tipping point occurs, nothing will stop it until some purely natural cycle brings about the general conditions which nullify the tipping effect. We have known that all... Continue Reading →
A Fitting Conclusion
Having now published a couple of posts on what is a recent great Russian achievement, the completion on May 9, 2020 (a significant date, being 75 years to the day, the true day, when the Great Patriotic War - WW2 to some - was completed in Europe) marking the completion of the Russian Orthodox cathedral... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 