Friday, 25 February 2022
Gorilla Raider
Our Oldest Beliefs
Many people still believe in horoscopes and astrology ....
Early Jewish Zodiac - Same The Babylonian Zodiac. |
..... they may even believe that the stars under which they were born influence their lives on a daily basis.
1938 Revisited
The announcement by President Putin of Russia that he recognised the breakaway Russian backed Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk as separate states, was in one sense, only a confirmation of the facts on the ground ....
Russia Has Recognised The Rebel Regions As States |
..... Russia had backed the Russian rebels in those two Ukrainian provinces since 2014, and was never going to allow the Ukrainian forces to recapture the land currently held by the rebels.
Friday, 18 February 2022
Burning Snakes And Hornets
A World In Conflict
With the era of the old Cold War apparently being revived by Russia and China in a New Cold War ....
A World In Conflict |
.... the actual end of the official Cold War has generally seen many of the
world’s smaller conflicts that were sponsored by the USSR and USA
steadily becoming fewer and less bloody, with less war between sovereign
states.
The Land Of Silence
The Grand Poobah of Turkey, his Royal Imperial Highness and Sultan, the Caliph of Istanbul and (Life) President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey is a very sensitive soul ...
He Is A Sensitive Soul |
.... whose feelings are easily hurt, and who needs to be protected from those who would bruise those feelings.
Friday, 11 February 2022
Three Wheels On His Wagon
I once thought that drink driving had all but died out, as drinking and then getting in a car was such a serious social no no ....
Robbed In Retirement
One of the complaints of the UK's Generations X, Millennial's and Generation Z .....
Robbed In Retirement ..... |
..... is that the UK's Pensioners (made up of the 'Baby Boomers' and earlier generations), get too much money and state spending instead of allowances for them.
Little Big Boots
The French, who have long been big on talk, and often small on action when it comes to NATO support and troop deployments etc ....
Being At The Big Table Is Important In Election Year ...... |
..... In fact President Macron has publicly dismissed Nato as being "brain dead" after Donald Trump was elected US President.