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
QED - tank numbers are not from WW2. These are the current figures.Si vis pacem para bellum! If you want peace prepare for war! Svizzeri armatissimi et libertissimi! Machiavelli said that 500 years ago. He meant to say that the Swiss owe their liberty to their arms! If Hitler had invaded Switzerland and implemented Operation … Continue reading How strong was the Swiss Military compared to the Germans during World War 2? Would the Swiss have been able to resist a German invasion?
Every now and then a public figure emerges from the nameless masses by making a distinct case or by ejaculating nonsense. Sometimes, there may even be a seed of truth or logic to what they’re saying. Sadly, this is fast becoming a rare occurrence. Also, let me be clear. The next case has nothing to … Continue reading The Rise of the Moron
YouTube is very educational. Unlike it's brethren, Facebook, which is almost useless when it comes to learning something useful, YouTube looks as if was made to advance human knowledge by the sheer power of moving pictures. It is rather true what they say about a picture being worthy 1,000 words. What about 26 or 60 … Continue reading Switzerland – The Last Democracy
Winston Churchill was the greatest English man who ever lived. Let me explain. "Churchill mobilized the English language and sent it into battle," as Lord Viscount Halifax noted after his famous June 4, 1940 speech in the Commons. Mr. Churchill achieved that which was thought impossible by his enemies, his friends, and those fence-sitters who … Continue reading Winston Churchill and The Denial of Death
I was at work today and thinking of fate. Fate manifests itself in a myriad ways. Some people are born with a deficit of luck, but through either hard work or a reversal of fortunes, make it big. And some other people, born with all the right pedigree, family connections, power, wealth, and health, suffer … Continue reading Life is a prison and everybody is an inmate
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