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The Dirty Business of War. Part III

Continued. Read Part I here and Part II hereThere comes, slowly but surely, this late understanding that Putin’s Russia must be dismantled. Its injurious policies cannot go on. And as long as Vladimir Putin is in power, the world is …
The Dirty Business of War. Part II

Continued. Read Part I hereRussia started this war but never officially called it “war”, it is only a “special operation”. It is for political and financial reasons it seems. If you are a soldier and you are killed or maimed …
The Dirty Business of War. Part I

What we describe below was mostly collected online. Mind you, we have no military service experience, see things through layman’s eyes and have no more sources of information than anyone else. It’s all out there, on the Internet and TV. …
The Long Arm of Corruption

As Russia’s war against Ukraine rages on, we, in the Western world, begin to see things that were hidden in plain view Corruption kills. The Russian Federation had been corrupted to the core and that lead to war. War leads …
I Accuse

We are not the first to say this. French writer Emil Zola used the phrase in a famous newspaper defense of a wrongfully accused person in the bygone year of 1898. It is now our turn. The world had been …
Killing Two Birds with One Stone. Putin vs. Ukraine, January 2022

We are witnessing unprecedented build-up of Russian forces along the borders of Ukraine these days. It is our prediction that they will imminently attack that country. Why do we think so? Because the troop build-up had not stopped for one …
Fear In – Fear Out

Have you noticed just how much fear has begun dominating our daily lives? Not the fear of something that would cause pain and discomfort. More like that primal, innate, evolutionary fear programmed into our brains. Fear as instinct was given …
Be Damned If You Do – And If You Don’t

As we move forward on the timescale the world divided over Covid vaccination begins to realize that maybe, just maybe, not all is well with the process. We read someplace that over 7.5 billions vaccine vials had been distributed. Most …
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Part III

Continued. Read Part I here, and Part II here After separating from the EU through Brexit, Britain is experiencing gasoline shortages all over. Not enough truck drivers involved in distribution and none are willing to come to the UK from …
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Part II

Continued. Read Part I hereTo have a nation with borders and immigration laws is “unconstitutional,” according to a radical Florida judge. If this is not a wake-up call about the irremediable corruption of the judiciary, then nothing ever will be. …

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