a blog for those hard to find news items, awkward subjects and unwanted conversations.
[Follow up to blog post, "China's 21st Century War to Destroy the U.S. | Wake up! We Are Losing!"]
Something is very wrong. The number of press stories / pentagon reports / think-tank assessments and arbitrary Joe Geek office cube conversations revolving around Chinese Hackers continues to escalate and very little notice (publicly) appears to be [...]
Texas Governor Rick Perry stirred the stick of popularism yesterday with his war-cry of secession from the Union during the Texan-chapter of the not-so-great Tea Party rallies. Alas a firebrand pitchfork and torch march on Capitol Hill was not the reality hoped for by hundreds and the mainstream media added just the right measure of [...]
I’m at a loss for words this weekend. Having spent some time playing and exploring the Government’s General Printing Office (GPO) website (which has an amazing array of statistics, databases, raw data files and reports) – I’m seriously wondering …
- Where is the public outcry?
- Where are the pitch forks?
- When [...]
The scent of blood is in the water. The U.S. is on its knees and its enemies are taking bite-sized chunks out of the perception of the invincibility, stability, and confidence that has been the United States of America circa 20th Century.
In the nine years that have passed since the millennium, the ‘beloved’ Bush administration [...]
Interestingly, but perhaps not unexpectedly, China has announced plans to launch an English-language-speaking (bound to upset the French) 24 hour news channel (a ‘Chinese CNN’) to fluff-up their righteous Communist-spewing, human-rights-abusing, environment-destroying, currency-manipulating, African-dictator-supporting image beyond their locked-down totalitarian nation state.
Here’s to fair and balanced! But at least it expands our choice of international [...]
With the daily avalanche of doom and hideous gloom battering us from every angle – it’s very difficult (neigh, almost impossible!) to find any silver lining strong enough to tug on with reasonable focus and interest. So when you trip over the odd headline here and foreign-correspondent article there (in quiet corners of the [...]
Jingoism, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, is defined as ‘Extreme nationalism characterized especially by a belligerent foreign policy; chauvinistic patriotism.’
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