Kunstler lays it bare.  "Money Minus Value, No Limit" - Kunstler I love him when he's in this mode.  I also have a soft spot for Wile E. Coyote and, like Jim, I also don't buy into the conspiracy theories.  There are plenty enough real ones of those around, but not concerning this virus.  Though... Continue Reading →

On the other side of the world to my previous post is a different story. Public abuse makes it unsafe for nurses to wear uniform outside the hospital. Fear, frustration and anger in my own country, not to mention supermarket brawls over toilet paper, show the beginnings of societal breakdown as COVID-19 imposes tighter grip... Continue Reading →

"Coronavirus has seized control of New York. Here's why the city may never be the same again"  - Australia ABC News And this thing is nowhere near over yet. I have no other comment.  What else is there to say? Or at least I have no appetite for getting into saying it.

It appears that Russia is not alone in organising to have its Foreign Ministry represented, as spokesperson, by a woman of natural beauty, intelligence (under the word's primary and proper meaning) and possessed of a cutting wit.  China too has such an appealing and rational female asset occupying that same role, in Hua Chunying. And... Continue Reading →

Another day, another +80,000 new COVID-19 cases reported. Nothing else has changed.  At least nothing in the general ratios that mark the progress of the global health crisis we are living through.  Nothing other than the growth in total cases.  Which clearly indicates that at the moment we, humanity, are passive passengers on the trolley-bus... Continue Reading →

Late last night I began to wonder if I had been a little over-excited when I said yesterday (see image below - I somehow failed to post that VK message here, as I usually do) there would be over a million people diagnosed with The Virus today. But there the figures are in black and... Continue Reading →

What is it with this airlift of Russian aid to the US?  It began with the weekly phone-call between the heads of state on Monday.  The Russian aircraft were said to be loaded and ready to go on Tuesday for a Wednesday, April 1st delivery.  While much speculation has been going on, and not a... Continue Reading →

It's very rare that I make three consecutive posts that are all linked thematically - in fact this may be a first for me. This and the previous two posts all concern concurrency in timing (during the worst pandemic to occur in a century, if not longer), geopolitical situation (the world on the brink of... Continue Reading →