This will be my last essay for the next three weeks. At least, that is the plan. And no need for a well defined 'Plan-B', since this blog is not all that important. Lives do not depend on it. However, when you plan for war, you'd better think things through, and decide on a 'Plan-B', in case 'Plan-A
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Stick to what you know
Facts are pesky things which may ruin your day, week, month, year, or life. Paying attention to them before you decide to act is sound advice. In the past I've referred my readers to a statement of one of the officials in the 'Bush Administration', after '9/11', who claimed that the 'Reality-Based C…
Eat Ze Bugs
The people who brought us the 'Gaza Beach Project' succeeded in murdering Khamenei and his family, as well as some prominent military leaders, in addition to a group of schoolgirls. This was their stated aim. Not the schoolgirls, but who gives a damn if they are not Ukrainian? So? Did they win?
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Life is full of surprises
Surprises are caused by ill understood natural phenomena, more than a few happening in the universe around us, away from our tiny Blue planet, irrational behaviour, human error, and predictive models which are crap. Or the data-sets used to feed those models, including 'AI', are incomplete, or mired…
Copping out, and blending in
‘For as long as it takes’ signals commitment, or being cornered. If you find yourself trapped in the ‘Epstein Network’, you are cornered, unless you indulge in it, in which case you are committed. Hopefully you understand what I mean. That ‘Network’ is not limited to the sexual escapades of those wi…
Forgive them, Lord, though they know exactly what they are doing
Tucker Carlson went to Israel to interview Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador in that country, and it was a disaster for Huckabee, Israel and Trump. Go and watch the interview in full at Carlson’s ‘TCN’ channel, or just the ‘juicy parts’, but the timing was horrible for Trump and Israel, given their p…
A boilerplate excuse for yet another war
In June of last year, Israel attacked Iran with the help of the United States and other NATO allies. The latter initially merely defended Israel against the inevitable retaliation. But eventually the United States launched their own bombing run, and accepted a token reply launched at a vacated Ameri…
An unhinged spending spree
One of the most hotly debated topics related to this military conflict on the territory of Ukraine, is the role of NATO in all of that. On these pages I’ve stated that I feel strongly that it was a *grave* mistake not to dissolve NATO when Gorbachev pulled the plug on the Warsaw Pact. You are likely…
Friend, or Foe? (Part 2)
As we are kept busy with all kinds of ‘side-shows’, that Network of which Epstein was such a prominent member, is going on without him. Or, if you are so inclined, with him if you feel he is still alive. No way of knowing for sure, since the crucial recordings of those surveillance camera’s in Epste…
Friend, or Foe? (Part 1)
According to the Ukrainska Pravda Dutch and American fighter pilots are manning the F-16’s NATO provided to Ukraine to fight Russia, but officially that is denied. But then again the officials lie about everything, and they did so for decades, in the run-up to Februari 2022, the start of the Russia…
Oh please, drop the charade!
A new war with Iran is in the works. And it is about the oil. No individual on the ‘Epstein’ client-list is concerned with Human Rights, and certainly not those of the Iranians, or any other people in the Middle East. Or they would have broken off all relationships with Israel, and the Emirati alrea…
What do they want from us?
Though whistleblowers and investigative journalists are invaluable in a healthy society, the serious investigations ought to be done by law-enforcement and the courts. To dump all the evidence in a case on the public, and let them sort it out, is not merely unconventional, but it opens the way to hy…
We cannot afford this
Fascism is a philosophy related to the structure of government. It does advocate the need for strong, centralized leadership and an all powerful state which sets the rules. That leadership has to make sure the people recognize it as being in charge, and not the people. Below the leaders there are re…
Rationality is not a defining trait
Yesterday I was watching a video on YT which was put up by the ‘Duran’, essentially Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris. Both have their own individual channel as well, with daily contributions. That particular video was about an interview posted on line where Lavrov, the Russian minister of f…
Talk to the Hand
Like many people my age, generally listed as ‘Boomers’, I enjoyed the rise in general wealth, since I was born in Europe. But unlike most people my age I always wondered how that came about. In part because I did, and still do travel a lot, and ‘Boomers’ elsewhere, in Russia, in China, in India, the…
The science behind it is scary
If you catch your partner, or your trusted employer, cheating on you in ways which reveal that he or she took you for granted all along, your likely first impulse will be to deny that it is true. There *has* to be some sort of an excuse. Merely a glitch. A moment of weakness perhaps. People are lyin…
You worry too much
In a way this is the ‘Free-Rider’ problem, where some of us invest too much in others who really do not deserve our attention. But with a twist. Since these people may ruin your entire life if you simply ignore them. Or they blow up the planet, and terminate all of us. I’m old enough to remember the…
You want it darker
In a complex environment, something may be true, but irrelevant. And if a complex system fails, there is a priority-list in order to solve the problem. Do it backwards, and you’ll loose the patient, so to speak. System designers will be asked to write protocols to cover emergencies, and users will b…
Total System Collapse
Throughout my professional career I’ve had the privilege of being trusted with the responsibility of operating complex machines, in complex environments. I know a thing or two about the enigma of complex machines, and ‘black swan’ events which may ruin your day, or worse. In my article posted yester…
How the West was won, and where it got us
This is going to be a controversial essay, irrespective of your principled position. Yesterday I watched a 2019 interview with Jeffrey Epstein, and I came away impressed. I will add the link below, because I do not want you to be distracted before hearing me out. The interview, allegedly ‘raw’, unre…
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