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Thu, 05 Sep 2024 03:35:01 +0800

Renewables? Already! 2024-09-05 I read a short passage from Joel Salatin’s “The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs” this morning. Just because we have been blessed with natural resources or […]

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Tue, 03 Sep 2024 07:14:18 +0800

Crushing the Hashashin 2024-09-03 One or two short paragraphs today. When people say that Afghanistan is the “graveyard of empires”, what do they mean? If backward barbarians like the […]

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Mon, 02 Sep 2024 07:21:35 +0800

AI's a good tool, videos are in vogue, and books are best. I happened to pick up a poor, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed young person this morning. I say “poor” because I was the one who happened to pick her up, […]

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Mon, 02 Sep 2024 03:18:13 +0800

Reading part of Ch 11 of "Wealth, Poverty and Politics." This portion is about how it is far easier to concentrate power rather than to concentrate knowledge, and it is knowledge, what lies between people’s […]

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Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:02:50 +0800

Some thoughts on "Good work and Good works." “Good work and good works” is an essay by CS Lewis written probably before 1959 but was published before Christmas of that year in the Catholic Arts […]

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Tue, 27 Aug 2024 07:04:09 +0800

Reading "Good work and good works" by CS Lewis. I came across this essay by CS Lewis while listening to something else online and determined immediately to get a copy in print. Well, electronic […]

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Mon, 26 Aug 2024 01:59:47 +0800

One or two takeaways from the life of Victor Davis Hanson. I embed a video of a conversation between Peter Robinson and Victor Davis Hanson here. If I could add a title in the midst of VDH’s name, I would add […]

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Mon, 19 Aug 2024 02:20:51 +0800

Reading "Fanning the Flames." A very short read today. I would like to buy the book on “Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan” which is edited by KAORU (KAY) UEDA, or […]

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Fri, 16 Aug 2024 02:30:49 +0800

Reading a portion of "The Empire strikes back" of "There is no alternative." This morning we read a small portion of “The Empire Strikes Back” of Claire Berlinski’s “There is no alternative”, which is a book about Margaret […]

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Thu, 15 Aug 2024 02:51:12 +0800

New Current Ukraine War Reality 2024-08-15 I read today George Friedman’s article “The New Reality in the Ukraine War.” This is free on the Geopolitical Futures website and can be accessed […]

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Wed, 14 Aug 2024 01:48:56 +0800

German pianos? Today I read a small portion of Thomas Sowell’s “Wealth, poverty and politics.” I highly recommend that you get the book and read it for yourself. I […]

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Tue, 13 Aug 2024 01:17:03 +0800

Mongol Law 2024-08-13 I read this morning a short passage from Jack Weatherford’s “Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world”. It was taken from Chapter 3 and was […]

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Mon, 12 Aug 2024 01:56:52 +0800

Enough food? 2024-08-12 This is today’s reading of a short passage taken from Thomas Sowell’s “Wealth, Poverty and Politics” which I have enjoyed immensely. It is from […]

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Wed, 14 Feb 2024 06:30:47 +0800

It's the Machete, not Me, Dum Dum! Familiarity doesn’t breed contempt. A lack of honouring those in leadership does. This is because we become disrespectful if we don’t honour […]

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Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:56:54 +0800

De-population bomb. My takeaways from the conversation between Peter Robinson and Nicholas EberstadtI was introduced to the work of Dr Nicholas Eberstadt in Sep 2022, via Peter Robinson’s “Uncommon Knowledge.” Dr Nicholas Eberstadt is a political […]

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Sat, 20 Jan 2024 05:02:13 +0800

Foreign Direct Investment = Capital Flight? I must confess that the lorikeet wasn’t the one who told me that. But think abut it. If your economy is doing wonderfully great in its own […]

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Mon, 15 Jan 2024 02:56:46 +0800

No Manners, please, we're Pretentious. The definition of a deepfake can actually be found in the Bible. I quote it below. (Pro 11:22) As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a […]

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Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:35:46 +0800

Insist on Rigordemia. Fight Acamortis. The Cambridge Dictionary definitions of academia and rigor mortis, according to the Internet, are as seen below. The definitions of the strange […]

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Thu, 11 Jan 2024 03:22:50 +0800

Live Better. Get Moving! When the ball of continuously-dividing human cells called a blastocyst starts to form our alimentary canal or digestive system, the anus is first […]

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Wed, 10 Jan 2024 02:13:21 +0800

Takeaways from RAND article on Ukraine's postwar recovery. I do glance occasionally at what’s going on in the world, and this RAND article caught my eye this morning. You can read it for yourself. The […]

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Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:15:25 +0800

Collective? Or Collectivized? I have heard Dr Stephen Kotkin say on more than one occasion that Josef Stalin had the luxury of mobilizing his collectivized farmers as and when he […]

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Mon, 08 Jan 2024 02:22:21 +0800

Attention to detail. Obsession with detail. I have been blessed with being able to access the works, analyses and so forth of Dr Steven E Koonin, author of “Unsettled. What climate science […]

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Thu, 04 Jan 2024 07:11:57 +0800

Do you like alphabet soup? News of the “miraculous” evacuation of all passengers and crew of the Japan Airlines aircraft which caught fire on the runway at Haneda Airport in […]

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Wed, 03 Jan 2024 03:40:07 +0800

The Marvelousness of "The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs." I am about halfway through “The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs” by Joel Salatin. I bought the ebook because it costs less and I don’t have space for […]

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Tue, 02 Jan 2024 02:26:39 +0800

Compliant? Obedient? To What? To Whom? Portions of two commentaries on Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” come to my mind frequently. When Wu Ch’i fought against Ch’in, there was an officer […]

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Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:58:20 +0800

Sample Reading Aloud of GPF article "Family Matters in Russia" by Ekaterina Zolotova. I like articles from Geopolitical Futures because they are level-headed and based on facts. The analysis is good but of course not perfect. There […]

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Thu, 28 Dec 2023 02:38:58 +0800

Sample Reading Aloud of "The Marvellous Pigness of Pigs" by Joel Salatin. As part of the Read Aloud Program, this video is embedded below. If you would like to come on board the Read Aloud Program, do contact me for […]

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Tue, 26 Dec 2023 03:23:01 +0800

Quick takeaways from "Moneyball Military." I’m sharing a quick thought or two on what I have taken away from watching this discussion, which occurred on 26 Sep 2023 and featured Christian […]

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Sat, 23 Dec 2023 07:18:31 +0800

Focus on ME? Miserable Existence! The hashtag #MEFIRST is an eyesore because it means that people love having such messages popping up in front of them every too often. The media […]

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Fri, 22 Dec 2023 02:05:43 +0800

Emergency Room. Excessive Reading. I consider myself blessed to have had much opportunity to read as much as I liked. I would often sit at the crook of the staircase at home, taking […]

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Wed, 20 Dec 2023 01:53:22 +0800

Want small government? Grow LARGE People! We see lots of news articles, debates and conversations about having small government. We also see more and more cries for more government […]

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Mon, 18 Dec 2023 02:42:02 +0800

Operation Whorehouse I read a curious book several years ago as a young child. It was called “Devil’s Guard” and was supposed to be a sort of verbal history of a […]

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Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:24:23 +0800

Strategic Investments? I’ve never made or managed any “Investments” worthy of the term, as people in the investment world would view them. I’ve dabbled in trying to sell […]

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Tue, 12 Dec 2023 02:49:22 +0800

My Takeaways from the Conversation on "When Therapy Governs Society". I share here my takeaways from this YouTube conversation between the Hon John Anderson and Dr James Orr. I had already embedded the conversation in […]

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Thu, 07 Dec 2023 02:47:37 +0800

Avariciously Ingenuous What emerged out of the Singapore Conference On AI, or SCAI, aparently held from 4 to 6 Dec 2023, were 12 concerns that AI poses for mankind. I’m […]

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Wed, 06 Dec 2023 02:52:17 +0800

Integrating Immigrants. Recurring Refugees. Dr Condoleezza Rice, the current Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution, says quite frequently that “It doesn’t matter where you […]

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Tue, 05 Dec 2023 05:26:41 +0800

Singing? Would you like an orchestra? I was chatting with someone working for a global company and here for work, meetings and so forth. She was in charge of marketing, surprise, […]

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Mon, 04 Dec 2023 08:34:47 +0800

Well Connected? How United? Henry Kissinger has died at age 100. Many will remember him as the most well-connected person on the face of the earth. George Friedman of […]

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Sun, 03 Dec 2023 05:53:17 +0800

Conserving Conversing. Stopped at a traffic light, I observed a couple with their pet dog waiting to cross. The dog had caught my eye because it looked like a cross […]

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Thu, 30 Nov 2023 07:25:21 +0800

Patton's Patterns I refer of course to the Second World War American General George S Patton. I’m grateful to the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the […]

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Wed, 29 Nov 2023 03:02:03 +0800

AR. Absconding Responsibility? Most of you reading this will have come across AR, for “Augmented Reality”. This is where AI is used to help you to “see” and perhaps later […]

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Sat, 25 Nov 2023 16:07:30 +0800

Excuse me, are you an autodidact? “How would you know unless you have been taught?” echoed hollowly in my memory as I recalled what some supposedly senior person had intoned from a […]

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Sat, 25 Nov 2023 03:31:21 +0800

A few posters you could make better and use Here are five posters. Feel free to improve on them and use them as you like. Make some of your own, too! You’re […]

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Thu, 23 Nov 2023 03:28:45 +0800

You Make Me Feel Brand New. Theme for 2065? I grew up in the 60s and 70s, when it seemed that the Stylistics were “falsetto-ing” their way through suburban streets and shopping centres almost […]

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Wed, 22 Nov 2023 02:45:05 +0800

Mutual Financial Interests Trumped Political Squabbles The title of this post is taken from Chapter 9 of Jack Weatherford’s “Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world”. It relates how the Mongol […]

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Tue, 21 Nov 2023 03:27:18 +0800

The Role of Rote Learning. Role Play is Artificial. Yesterday, I listened in grim dismay to two people who were obviously engaged in the schooling of young persons talking about how a few of their […]

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Mon, 20 Nov 2023 04:00:14 +0800

Character and Competence? Character ACQUIRES Necessary Competence! We’ve all probably heard that we have grown from “Character OR Competence” to “Character AND Competence”. Simple but far too simplistic. Yes, there […]

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Sat, 18 Nov 2023 04:39:16 +0800

Do Doves Cry? Parrots Parley, Perhaps? Hearing someone trying to defend his views that the best thing which parents can give to their children is a good education and observing him […]

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Fri, 17 Nov 2023 03:02:33 +0800

Artificial Intelligence, or Appreciative Inquiry? It is always refreshing to talk to people who actually seem to know what they’re talking about. So distinct from people just shooting their mouths […]

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Thu, 16 Nov 2023 03:49:44 +0800

Assassins in every shadow? In Frank Herbert’s Dune series, it was said of Thufir Hawat, the mentat (Basically a human computer) of House Atreides, that he “…sees assassins […]