30 November 2023https://youtu.be/BJx7xoR70h4?si=3Kc6mbqVO1fHcSuMYou've read the panchatantra and understand that war is the natural condition of our species. In different way, Jan Oberg is saying the same thing from a different point of view. https://youtu.be/D_3itcQ9wqQ?si=WuYYi-z1M0ZXLVRqSalman Rushdie too.https://www.youtube.com/live/2cmAISDWnL4?si=r6byPknnAf3w6ty4Mearsheimer is as perplexed as all normally-adjusted people. Despite Rushdie's condensing a thousand years of human history and wisdom into a hundred words, noone...
Thursday, 30 November 2023
PANCHATANTRA STORIES
30 November 2023Have you heard of the Panchatantra stories?I hadn't until I listened to Salman Rushiehttps://youtu.be/D_3itcQ9wqQ?si=Z19zsmSlj97KoKnzhttps://chat.openai.com/share/bb113c9f-af65-4a40-a6a8-ad48ec4b8...
Monday, 27 November 2023
LOY KRATONG
27 November 2023The river is full of tiny "kraton" they are called, little mini boats made from a slice of banana trunk, with a candle and a couple of sticks of incense and a few flower heads. It's like an Armada of tiny ships floating down the river, there are hundreds and hundreds of them. People go to the temple opposite my block to "make merit". Temples are very often built on land by the river. The faithful say a prayer and push out their mini banana boat.Meanwhile, the sky is filled with these "sky lanterns", a squadron of floating...
Friday, 24 November 2023
REASONS FOR DOLLAR DEVALUATION
24 November 2023Government debt 33t just a shade below 140% of GDP.Total country debt a shade below 400% of GDP. Debts that will never be fully paid.Unfunded government liabilities is at $212 trillion.$1.8 trillion student loans seeing increasing default, the $2.7 trillion auto and credit card loans likewise.Commercial real estate collapsing.Soaring zombie companies bankruptcies.CLO defaults,Small and medium regional banks in serious trouble.Collapsing household savings.Over stretched household balance sheet.Stagnant population growth and aging...
Thursday, 16 November 2023
BIDEN CORRUPTION - HOW IS IT BIDEN IS STILL POTUS?
16 November 2023
How come this charlo is still POTUS?is.gd/hHPhuZ"Our mission statement is to ensure the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of the federal government and all its agencies. We provide a check and balance on the role and power of Washington - and a voice to the people it serves."The detail summarised:In February 2014, a Russian Oligarch Sent $3.5 Million to a Shell Company Associated with Hunter Biden and Devon...
Monday, 13 November 2023
IS WESTERN SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL AND UKRAINE SUCCEEDING?
13 November 2023
Things are looking very bad. The Russians are butchering the Ukrainians, and along comes Hamas with a jolly trap for Israel. Israel fell in straight away so now we have another bloodbath.The circumstances are horrific, although this is a military confrontation. What might happen when hostilies cease?Let's take a look at what these ongoing massacres mean through three lenses. The scale is global: these conflicts are local,...
UKRAINE IS LOST TO EUROPE
13 November 2023
Ukraine is lost to Europe and the dying EU should conserve contributions from member states for worthwhile projects that enhance our peace and prosperity.Ukraine has lost this war. It foolishly rejected peace in 2015 and in 2022 and now faces the consequences. The people of Ukraine will realise how idiotic has been their president, who has cost them half a million lives. They will rise up against him. He will flee the...
Monday, 6 November 2023
WHY INTELLECTUALS ARE MOSTLY LEFTIES
6 November 2023
This is the title of an extract from a conversation between Roger Scruton and Hamza Yusuf.https://youtu.be/FYo4KMhUx9c?si=Wfj6jcH9797jumbQIt's a very good presentation by Roger. He is talking about the appeal of left-wing ideologies today to those seeking a solid framework for their beliefs and ideas, pegs on which they can hang their knowledge. Like the leaves on a tree, if the leaves are the bits of knowledge, an ideology...
