RSS- Barbara Ann on The Great Taking
- William Eaton and The Battle of Derna
- The battle for Ocheretyne
- Supreme Court oral arguments to be heard on April 25 about presidential immunity for official acts
- Nasa’s Voyager-1 sends usable data from deep space
- The Wondrous Oak
- Three Seas Summit: Vilnius 2024
- Tit for tat until it all goes boom
- Deadly H5N1 avian influenza strain detected on mainland Antarctica
- “BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery soon with more range and even lower cost”
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Fake News, Sedition and Public Apathy by Publius Tacitus
Where is the outrage? The evidence is quite clear. It is no longer a matter of informed speculation that during the final year of Barack Obama's Presidency, key leaders of the intelligence and law enforcement bureaucracies conspired and collaborated to … Continue reading
Posted in As The Borg Turns, Russia, Russiagate
47 Comments
HARPER: WHEN MOORE IS LESS
The defeat of Roy Moore in Tuesday's special election in Alabama, to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, was a welcome development. But Democrats should not rush to congratulate themselves and draw too many unwarranted conclusions about … Continue reading
Posted in Decameron, Harper, Politics
52 Comments
Robin Wright admits that the Borg has lost in Syria
" … given the political and military realities, U.S. officials have now concluded that any transition of power would depend on a credible election conducted by the United Nations. And the physical realities in Syria today are just as … Continue reading
Posted in Syria
101 Comments
Waiting for the punch in the mouth – TTG
Back in 1987 a reporter interviewed Mike Tyson about his upcoming fight with Evander Holyfield. The reporter asked Mike if he was worried about Evander and his fight plan. Mike famously replied,”Everybody has a plan until they get punched in … Continue reading
Jerusalem update – 10 December 2017
The US decision to give Israel the title deed to ALL of Jerusalem without diplomatic recompense will look worse and worse as time passes. The street demonstrations breaking out in places like Beirut and Amman are just the beginning of … Continue reading
Posted in Borg Wars, Middle East, Palestine, Russia, Syria
102 Comments
DECAMERON: LET THE BUILDING BEGIN — IN THE USA
Bloomberg news: "Trump promised during his campaign to introduce a $1 trillion proposal within his first 100 days in office, then the administration said there’d be a plan by the third quarter. That didn’t happen…" "The president aims to … Continue reading
Posted in Decameron
30 Comments
HARPER: THE TIES THAT BLIND
In 1965, New Left godfather Herbert Marcuse, a founder of the German Marxist Frankfurt School, wrote an essay in a book called A Critique of Pure Tolerance. Marcuse's essay, "Repressive Tolerance," argued that liberal society was dead and that the … Continue reading
Posted in Harper
74 Comments
Watergate Deja Vu and Fake News by Publius Tacitus
If you have HBO I encourage you to carve out some time to watch their latest documentary on the life and times of former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. The most important take away from the film is how different … Continue reading
Posted in As The Borg Turns, Current Affairs
72 Comments
More on Kushner and company.
First thing to understand is Trump's "Peace Initiative" is a sham. The only thing he is trying to do is to keep the region from exploding. He is under pressure from the Arab countries to do something to make life … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Palestine
51 Comments
Is Kushner next?
"Jared Kushner failed to disclose his role as a co-director of the Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation from 2006 to 2015, a time when the group funded an Israeli settlement considered to be illegal under international law, on financial records he filed … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Politics, Russia
53 Comments