Literature
So, farewell then, Brandon………
So. Now Biden has officially dropped out of the race to be the next President of teh US – after earlier running for, and securing the nomination of the Democrat Party. Biden didn’t drop out [more…]
Corruption
21st Century
A Former Ukrainian MP Blew the Whistle on Burisma’s Connections to Terrorism
The dirt that Andrey Derkach shared about Hunter’s Burisma corruption scandal made him an enemy of the American and Ukrainian governments. Former Ukrainian MP Andrey Derkach, who’s reviled by the Biden Administration for sharing dirt [more…]
Economics
75 Years of Decay
As I enter my seventy fifth year I ponder the most depressing decay of my country not dissimilar to the fall of the Roman Empire. Indeed like that empire it is totally self inflicted. The [more…]
Economics
Government’s real role has limits
President Ronald Reagan said the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”. We wonder whether he appreciated their full truth. The role of government [more…]
21st Century
Cocaine Importation Agency and Qatari bagman Agent Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy, American agent1 (The Frog on the Seine is all mine all mine) On 2nd September 2005 Jacques Chirac suffered a serious stroke and ceased to govern. He was no longer able to execute [more…]
Authoritarianism
A View From The Greenhouse; A War To End All Wars?
The summer, what little we’ve seen of it since the heady days of the June “heatwave”, moves along bringing with it dire warnings of the upcoming conflagration about to be unleashed on us all, not [more…]
Literature
Maintaining the status quo – the condemnation of the conspirational
Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. Euripdes OK, I admit it. I am a conspiracy theorist. Or more accurately, a conspiracy realist. The synonyms for theorist include logician, [more…]
Democracy
Keeping It in The Families
Your humble author and Imelda Marcos have been in the same place at the same time only once. Thirty years ago the trade winds had tempted a much younger me to a dusty road beside [more…]
Authoritarianism
A View From The Greenhouse (Putin-Mad, Bad, Or Just Being Vlad)
“It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good” as the saying goes and it’s as true for owners of large glass structures as it is for anyone else. Since my last epistle we’ve faced [more…]