Last week I reported that the annual Arctic sea ice loss could be approaching something like the previous 2012 record melting season. A week later and that situation looks even closer to realisation. That is bad enough, and its portents are terrifying. But that is sea ice, the melting of which adds nothing measurable... Continue Reading →
Are Japanese Memories So Short-Lived?
"Russia to take deployment of US missile systems to Japan into account" — Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Ryabkov. Is Japan lining up to be the first new 'willing nuclear target'*? Are Japanese memories so short-lived? I doubt that weakly formed statements of intent and control plans will be deemed to be acceptable conditions. In... Continue Reading →
Do You Ken?
"We have to make it absolutely clear, before propaganda campaigns begin saying 'Why us? We’ve just let the US place its missiles on our territory, but they are aimed exclusively against terrorists (Iran, North Korea, Syria and so on)'. No, this is not going to work. Those who place missiles automatically and willingly become a... Continue Reading →
Life in the Western Town…
Life in the Western Town, in the 21st century.It's goddamned pointless, goddamned worthless, and pretty goddamned fragile.With a majority of Western folk on 'meds' of some kind, mostly to numb blown minds, joyless lives, barely existing, no dreams to dream, and no future hopes to hope, endemic physical and mental disabilities, is there any reason... Continue Reading →
The Train Now Arriving At The Station Of Frustration…
"...the train of “maximum pressure” has now stopped at the station of frustration." - Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), in response to the recent listing of Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif with sanctions by the US. What bigger and better ridicule of The US salacious* sanctions policy (the policy... Continue Reading →
London Fears…
Linked TASS article: "London fears Russian ‘super quiet’ submarines operate unseen in British waters" 'London fears' - As Western nations navigate themselves into bankruptcy and ever unpayable debt burdens, fears are bound to grow that those who despite having restrictive economic sanctions imposed on them but somehow manage to continue to grow in stability and... Continue Reading →
Floods and Fires…
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 →
Not Something Else 