I more or less gave up blogging here some years ago, opting instead to blog, yes blog, on Facebook and more recently (2018) on V-Kontakte (VK), a Russian social media platform. Everything I have blogged since that time I have blogged first on VK and then exported that to FB and occasionally to here. I... Continue Reading →
The End Of… Well, Quite A Lot Of Things, Really
I have for some time now been saying (on my VK site: https://vk.com/bernie.edwards and elsewhere) that the world should expect dramatic changes in the way we live, either this year or the next (2019/20). Meaning basically that the lifestyle you now have will entirely, not partially, entirely disappear along with all the chaos, disruption, and... Continue Reading →
The End of Human Rights
As we bid goodbye to 2018 - and why wouldn't we want to? - it is time to take a very brief - we don't need to look too closely or we might become a little despondent - look at what the past year has been all about. One thing, above all else, stands out... Continue Reading →
Squaring Up To Face The ‘Ancient Covenant’, or Biting Off More Than I Can Chew?
l return to my blog site, after a rather long break, in order to attempt to answer a self-imposed question that I had no hope of adequately tackling in a social media post. Have I bitten off more than I can chew? I can't answer that until I reach the end of this story but,... Continue Reading →
Age? Eve? (Either/or) – of Destruction.
I remembered it as 'Age of Destruction' (well, it was a long time ago, and my memory has seen better days, and I was looking for a way to tie it in with my previous post), but in fact it was 'Eve of Destruction'. It is a song, an anti-war song, penned in the Vietnam... Continue Reading →
Past The Age of Be- Through The Age of Re- Entering The Age of De-
Twilight of humanity... The final generation of growth... The final generation of 'old people'... No more great grandparents... No more grandparents... ... There are 24 started but unfinished posts sitting in the edit section of this blog. This is one of them. I hope to finish it now. I wrote the words above the ellipsis... Continue Reading →
Civilised Man?
What effect has modern civilisation made on its denizens (that's us) for good or ill? There must have been some progress, some shifting from barbarism and bestiality to more 'humane' behaviour, surely? Some softening from the necessarily 'hard' shell honed for survival in a hostile world? Some growth and maturation of culture, appetites and outlooks... Continue Reading →
The Myth of the Kurdish YPG’s Moral Excellence
I'm reblogging this as a rather cleverly constructed exposé of the true Kurdish situation. A quite larger dilemma than what the current focus on its intrusion into the war in Syria might suggest. Not that I wish to belittle or deflate the significance of that intrusion, since it carries a much greater impact in that... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 