Now for something a bit different. Scientists predicted this doomsday scenario. So many completely wrong “scientific” predictions over the many years. Any others come to mind? Read on..Yahoo.news In 1960, Science, one of the world’s leading science journals, published an article with an unambiguous title: Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026. It predicted that on […]
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I’m back!!
And hope to have something up soon. Due to mass, nearly city wide vandalism we lost our internet and home phone service.. The theft of copper wire is a huge problem. This was the first time our neighbourhood was struck. Not just my area. Plenty of others city wide. Business were out. Churches out. It […]
Recluse.. I don’t listen often enough. Though I should because this was interesting. In depth Apple Podcasts Look here for more good listening neorealism, neoliberalism, China’s views on neoliberalism and US decline, the use of disinformation/misinformation narratives to rationalize the incompetence of Western policymakers, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), bilateralism, China’s preference for bilateralism, […]
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Dad has passed
It came quick and was not at all expected on May 12/25. Yes, he was old, but, he was a hardy and resilient man. Strong willed, tough and stubborn. He was coherent, aware, articulate until the end. The will to recover was strong, but his body could not continue. He is already and always will […]
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The Burning Archive
Very interesting podcast- The Burning Archive I’ve been enjoying the numerous archived interviews etc., so far https://www.youtube.com/@theburningarchive/featured This channel looks at World History and how it affects geopolitics today – Great Powers, Changing Cultures, & Civilization States. And great history books, of course. I share book recommendations, deep dives into world history, and commentary on […]
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2025
Seneca “Floods will rob us of one thing, fire of another. These are conditions of our existence which we cannot change. What we can do is adopt a noble spirit, such a spirit that befits a good person, so that we may bear up bravely under all that fortune sends us and bring our wills […]
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
Buon Natale! Joyeux Noël! Happy Holidays! Good tidings to everyone. From A Christmas Carol He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the […]
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Under the Weather
I’ve gotta bug or should I say it has me? It has me, definitely! Be back soon 🙂
What caused this ship to sink is still unknown. And is what I’m most interested in. https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/bayesian-superyacht-robots-sonar-divers-deployed-pn8q6l7mx Italy is providing special forces divers from a secretive unit of the Italian military– web archive link Divers from an Italian navy special forces unit are searching the sunken yacht Bayesian for clues to why it went down […]
I would have thought they’d have drowned? So, if anyone else wants to chime in, please do. Four victims on Mike Lynch yacht died of suffocation, autopsies suggest Initial examinations of four of the people killed when British tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s family yacht sank off Sicily last month indicated they had died of suffocation […]