Normal national colours are rectangular and let's put it this way... peaceful. That is not the case with the Swiss national colours. Here follows the extraordinary journey of the Swiss flag. Depicted: the Swiss Pantone 485 C Red. The approved colour of the Swiss Confederation's flag. Our story begins in the Middle Ages, up in … Continue reading The Abridged Story of the Swiss Square Flag
Today I am going to break one of my self-imposed rules. Today, I will be all heart. Today, I won't try to be a brainiac. Funny thing, when you google 'brainiac', you find out "he is a super-intelligent alien being from the planet Colu who has fought Superman." Who knew? Who cares? Now that we … Continue reading My Proustian flow of consciousness
Working hypothesis What if the Spanish Flu (1918-1920) was created in a lab like so many other killing inventions during WW1? But before I can properly answer this question, I need to tell you the story of a man, part angel part demon, which made me believe the Spanish Flu could have been made in … Continue reading The Spanish Flu – An accident of history or a weapon of war? Part 1
Preface When I started writing this blog three months ago, Covid-19 pandemic was in full swing, and the world seemed on a downward slope to oblivion. Because I did not want to add to the utter confusion of those days, I stopped to reflect. Some might even say I took a knee. In truth, I … Continue reading Your Country Wants You Dumb
Hoarding is morally wrong. Personally, I believe that any person who hoards food, medicine, medical supplies, toilet paper in excess to their needs, and for the purpose of profit making, is a person who believes they can survive when his peers are dead. Newsflash: they can’t. We all live because we need one another. We … Continue reading Covid-19 vs. Freedom
I've started to watch a new TV series: For All Mankind. Very interesting. Thought provoking even. CCCP flag on the Moon!? Crazy, eh! What an incredible show! Where do I start? The premise is simple yet foreboding. Everybody knows that the Americans landed on our single natural satellite on 20 July 1969. In fact, my … Continue reading The Lost Future
The world today is under attack. It is being assaulted by a vicious microscopic creature that can barely be called a life form. Our world is being attacked by a Coronavirus, which is the same virus that causes Influenza A: Covid-19. Covid-19. The face of mortal danger. A few years back, I was watching a … Continue reading Nature answers only when she is questioned – Covid-19
Sometimes we are wrong. I was wrong to say that the Covid-19 epidemic did not compare to any of the ones that came before it. Originally, I believed that it was one of those scares that killed a few people, scaring millions into washing their hands, and then fizzled out. But, boy, was I wrong. … Continue reading History is Cyclical
I will preface my answer with Milan Kundera’s epic quote: Czech author Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Kniha smíchu a zapomnění) - (1979). There is something about the Czech esprit de fronde, which has always captured my attention. Ever since I learned about the self-sacrifice of Jan Palach, I started paying more attention … Continue reading What’s the most important war that nobody talks about?
Each day and age comes with its own fears, some misplaced, some authentic, but what am I saying, most of them are totally bogus. Some of the public fears show how easy we give in to hysteria. For future generations who might look at our day and age with the same wondrous incredulity that we … Continue reading The Coronavirus hysteria
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