"US offers to form new alliance of states to counter China - Pompeo" - TASS What's this? A last Hurrah? A big mistake Mr Pompeo. Hasn't that chump realised that the US no longer has any real friends (perhaps a few imaginary ones) almost anywhere around the globe? Or maybe he has just learned of... Continue Reading →
Need Something More to Think About?
Hey guys! You think COVID-19, buckling national economies and a growing potential for global conflict are all we have to worry about? Take a look at this. For more than a decade now we have been seeing a rapid decrease of sea ice cover around the north polar region. It started being noticed in 2007... Continue Reading →
Headed For The Grease Trap?
"'Is Thinking Cancelled?" - Kunstler If anything can be taken from JHK's Monday blog post this week it is the inescapable thought that what used to be American society is inexorably drawing closer to the event horizon that marks the point of no return for that 'city upon a Hill, beacon of hope' (if it... Continue Reading →
Restating Innocently Misstated Intent
"Russia not interested in European states falling apart — ambassador" - TASS Let me firstly interpret the meaning, for the Western ear, of this unfortunately not well expressed article title by TASS.  What it DOES NOT mean is that Russia doesn't care if European states fall apart. It definitely does not mean that - although... Continue Reading →
Is It Really A First Past The Post Thing? Why?
Russia announces its first COVID-19 vaccine is now ready, having passed clinical trials in two separate tests on diverse groups of volunteers. "Russia’s first COVID-19 vaccine ready, deputy defense minister says" - TASS See also: "Volunteers participating in Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine trials develop antibodies" - TASS Coincidentally (or is it?) the UK's Oxford University also... Continue Reading →
COVID-19 – A Contrast of Ideologies
Why is there such a world of difference in the effects of the coronavirus pandemicised as COVID-19 across the nations and regions of the world? Shouldn't such an outbreak, assuming it is the same disease everywhere, produce similar responses in different populations of the same species wherever they are? And why would the death rate... Continue Reading →
Advanced Russian Armaments – How Sweet Is That?
Unmanned artillery with guided munitions for a variety of targeting needs, including the taking down of small aerial vehicles (which, to me, has always seemed to be a misuse for very expensive missiles) in both seaborne and mobile land based use and with up to 14.5 Km (9 miles?) range. How sweet is that? And it... Continue Reading →
How Could I Know?
When I wrote in my previous post - 'Withdrawal Policy' - yesterday, about the UK hopefully withdrawing from the UN (following the lead of the US), I hasten to assure that I had no prior knowledge of the content of the quite innocuous TASS post I share today. "Russian envoy wishes UK to remain UN... Continue Reading →
Withdrawal Policy
"UN Secretary General initiates New Global Deal for fairer world order" - TASS Oh dear! Oh my! All this talk of a New Social Contract from the UN Secretary General spells trouble at the OK corral. All this talk of fairness and equality and the barely disguised finger pointing at the US and its capitalist... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 