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Blog postPeter Zeihan, whom we've met in these pages on several occasions, is a geopolitical and demographic analyst who has controversial but well-supported views on the current and future state of the world.
Earlier this month Mr. Zeihan gave a two-and-a-half-hour presentation at the Naval Postgraduate School titled "Energy at the End of the World". The whole thing is very interesting, and I highly recommend that you watch it if you can make the time. Be wa -
Blog postGathered from around the Internet over the past week. Click any image for a larger view.
More next week.
Peter
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Blog postThe marimba is a fascinating instrument, similar to the xylophone but with a deeper, richer sound. It's come a long way from its primitive tribal origins. It was developed in Africa, being found in many sub-Saharan tribes and cultures in one form or another. From there, African slaves brought it to South America, where it was further developed into new forms; and from there, it "migrated" to the USA, where it was commercialized and standardized
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Blog postWe hear a lot of discussion today about "equity" of outcomes, equality and inequality, and so on. Much of it is very ill-informed; a great deal of it is nothing more than political propaganda, with the speaker spouting dogma and theory from his or her perspective but not basing it in historical or current reality. Such terms have become buzzwords, slogans, in popular discourse, rather than something concrete. What's more, they're often used to w
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Blog postAs regular readers will know, I'm permanently partially disabled due to an on-the-job injury almost two decades ago, and my wife has had some fairly serious injuries in the past. I'm permanently in some degree of pain, and she gets hit by it if she over-exerts herself, or if the weather (heat, humidity, pressure, etc.) affects her particularly badly.
The other night we both woke up, in pain, shortly before 2 a.m. I got up and fetched pain-killers for both of u -
Blog postIn discussion with a group of friends, the question came up: "What is the best, most realistic, historically accurate sword fight in the movies?" We weren't interested in made-for-the-camera montages that have little or nothing to do with accurate depictions of real fighting (although we all laughed at the comic duel in Zorro, The Gay Blade, where George Hamilton was at his over-the-top best).
There were a number of suggestions, but most of us agreed -
Blog postI have to admit, I boggled when I saw this auction posted on MeWe (courtesy of novelist and friend Michael Z. Williamson).
LOT #36RUSH: ALEX LIFESON "WHITEY" STAGE- AND STUDIO-PLAYED PHOTO- AND VIDEO-MATCHED 1976 GIBSON ES-355TD CUSTOM ELECTRIC GUITAR (WITH UK WORK PERMIT, ORIGINAL BACKSTAGE PASSES, BOOKS, AND BLU-RAYS) - WITH NFT
CURRENT BID: $200,000(4 bids)
ESTIMATE: $200,000 - $300,000
STARTING: $50,000
There's more at the l -
Blog postFrom Victor Davis Hanson:
When revolutionaries undermine the system, earn the antipathy of the people, and face looming disaster at the polls, it is then they prove most dangerous—as we shall see over the next few months.
Go read his thoughts on the matter. I don't think he's wrong.
Peter
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Blog postAs a pastor, I ran into several cases of SIDS - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Every one was tragic. The parents sometimes went to pieces emotionally, blaming themselves, blaming God, unable to accept that their otherwise perfectly normal, healthy baby had gone to sleep and never woken up again. Some were able to recover their mental and emotional balance, and have more children. Some never did. Even worse, sometimes law enforcement entered the situa
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Blog postCourtesy of Kevin at The Smallest Minority:
Religious Fanatic (n): “A person who does what God would do if only He understood the situation.”
That'll work!
Peter
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Blog postNovelist Ian Fleming had his James Bond character opine, "Once is happenstance; twice is coincidence; three times is enemy action". That's a yardstick that's been used by many organizations to assess what's going on in the world, whether at war (as Fleming did when he worked for a British military intelligence organization during World War II) or at peace.
There are so many signs of organization behind the current chaos and disorder in the worl -
Blog postLast week I posted "Doofus Of The Day #1,092", about a municipality in Japan that mistakenly transferred a large sum of money to a recipient who - mirabile dictu! - "could not" return it.
Well, now we know why he couldn't.
The blunder happened when ... 463 low-income households were meant to receive 100,000 yen ($770; £620) each as part of a government scheme to ease financial strain caused by the pandemic.
But on 8 April, a -
Blog postFellow author Brian Niemeier has written an article on his blog titled "Jaimie’s Island". It's an interesting read. Here's an excerpt.
Boomers left parenting up to TV, and Millennials are leaving parenting up to tablets and phones.
As a result, young adults today have little contact with the highs and lows of the real world. Instead, their lives are defined by screens that act as windows into false realities where nothing really happen -
Blog postCity Journal has published an article titled "Confessions of a Loan Shark: One of the last survivors of Boston’s Gangland War of the 1960s opens up about his notorious past". It reminded me of a number of hardline convicts I met during my service as a prison chaplain. I'll cite an excerpt from the article, then talk about what such people were like behind bars.
Boston police said he was marked for death. He was caught up in a gangland q -
Blog postLast month I warned that the World Health Organization (WHO) was mounting a power grab that might give it the authority to override national governments and dictate state policies - up to and including controlling our everyday activities. The two articles I wrote were:
Imagine a US election being halted, or even overturned,by a "Public Health Emergency"...
The World Health Organizationis launching a power grab over nation-states
If you -
Blog postMany people have pointed out over the years that one race in particular has a gun violence problem, rather than America as a whole. The latest study by the CDC confirms that.
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. saw the highest firearm homicide rate in more than 25 years, according to a new analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Firearms were involved in 79 percent of all homicides in 2020, an increase -
Blog postI've posted warnings from Michael Yon in these pages over the past few months, warning of what he terms PANFAWAR (Pandemic, Famine, War) and its consequences. More and more knowledgeable people are picking up on the same clues he's seeing, and coming to agree with him. Most recently, he stated flatly:
Famines always create enormous HOP: Human Osmotic Pressure.
OGUS — Occupation Government United States — is down here in Panama increasing the mig -
Blog postGathered from around the Internet over the past week. Click any image for a larger view.
(For the innocent among us who don't get it - NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR FAMILY!!!)
More next week.
Peter
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Blog postThis morning I'm obliged to the anonymous blogger at 357 Magnum for introducing me to something rich and strange. It's guitarist Steve Vai's newly designed Ibanez "guitar". He calls it The Hydra, borrowing the name from antiquity. The steampunk-themed instrument looks weird, but he makes it sing.
MusicRadar says of the Hydra:
This one-of-a-kind instrument is ambitious even by Steve Vai's standards and five years in the makin -
Blog postIt's been a while since we've enjoyed Rudyard Kipling's verse. Here's one of my favorites: "The Ballad of Boh Da Thone", set on the frontier between India and Burma during the bandit years of the 19th century. If you'd like some background information and an explanation of some of the more obscure words, the Kipling Society's notes to the poem may be found here.
This is the ballad of Boh Da Thone,
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Blog postFrom Twitter user HOZ:
They say that every 90 years humans repeat the same behavior.
1916-1929 vs 2000-2022.
The end game...
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Worried yet? I think we should be, because nobody in authority seems to give a damn...
*Sigh*
Peter
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Blog postPolitifact has put out an article purporting to show that gender and sexuality "education" in schools is not grooming, but merely addressing actual issues where children need support. I don't propose to quote from it here; if you're interested, you can read it at the link provided above.
I'll merely post links to certain images below, and invite you to decide for yourself whether what you're reading - the very same pages that our children are being e -
Blog postAs I mentioned on Wednesday, the work crew arrived yesterday and erected our new utility building in only a few hours.
It's not very large by metal building standards, but at 400 square feet it's more than six times bigger than the old, dilapidated, owner-built shed that came with our house. Once it's complete, it'll be very useful indeed. Now to lead electricity to it; install a garage door; add a small split-level ductless A/C uni -
Blog postToday's award goes to the municipal officials of Abu, a town in Yamaguchi Prefecture in Japan. A tip o' the hat to Francis Turner, who posted the link on MeWe.
Last month, the town ... sent 100,000 yen [about US $768] each to 463 low-income households affected by the pandemic.
But in the process, they mistakenly transferred an additional lump sum of 46.3 million yen [about US $355,000] to a single household.
Red-faced officials immediately visi -
Blog postThe fuel market was rocked yesterday by a series of tweets from Craig Fuller, the CEO of Freightwaves, one of the premier logistics and shipping monitors. They included these examples and response (click each tweet to be taken to the source document):
Those initial reports have not (yet) been followed up directly. As of this morning, Freightwaves is reporting:
Continuing declines on the East Coast have raised concerns about adequ
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