“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Five questions Islam cannot answer

Five questions Islam cannot answer

It has been quite a while since I did anything approaching a reasonably deep and nuanced look at Izzlam over here. World events have made such writing irrelevant, to say the least. But it is worth remembering that Izzlam represents a potent threat to Western...
GoldBRICking

GoldBRICking

The economic news coming out of the Western world continues to get worse by the day – while, at the same time, the rising Eurasian continental superpower develops and grows. It is a basic fact of life that economic power dictates monetary power, and on that...
“We are the Dead. Short days ago…”

“We are the Dead. Short days ago…”

Seeing as this is the 105th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the Great War, and seeing as we are now already deep into World War III (or IV, if you believe – with, in my view, good reason – that the Cold War was the third one), it is worth...
The visionary of Valdai

The visionary of Valdai

If ever you want to understand how and why the West seems to be losing on every front, all you have to do is to watch the leaders of the Western bloc’s geopolitical rivals, when they speak in public. We had one such opportunity this week, when the Neo-Tsar held...
Competence is necessary but not sufficient

Competence is necessary but not sufficient

As noted earlier this week in the Great Mondaydact Browser Slayer, the long read of the week was an excellent bit of analysis on the decline, fall, and collapse of the Western world by Gaius Baltar, featured at Larry Johnson’s SONAR21 blog. As Mr. Baltar pointed...
The history we need to relearn

The history we need to relearn

There is a lot one can say about D-Day – the courage, the heroism, the terrible hardships endured by those men on the landing craft as they waited to storm the beaches of Normandy. There was every possible chance it could all have gone very, very badly wrong. In...
The future in one picture

The future in one picture

That graph you see above shows the share of the two most powerful economic cooperation blocs on Earth. The G7 consists of the US, UK, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, and Italy. Back when it was the G8, it included Russia, but then, after Russia annexed Crimea and...
Tour de force

Tour de force

Dr. James Tour’s name should be fairly familiar to regular readers of this site. I have mentioned him a number of times before, particularly with respect to his seminal presentation about the known problems with Origin-of-Life (OoL) research. Dr. Tour is a...
Economic force multipliers

Economic force multipliers

Note: the following post is an expansion of a series of lengthy comments that I made on my Telegram channel earlier today. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conference wrapped up in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (not Astana, Kazakhstan, which is what I mistakenly...
Losing battles to win wars

Losing battles to win wars

The past five days or so have been rather bewildering ones for those of us following developments in the 404 War. Starting on September 9th, basically, the Ukrainians launched a major counteroffensive designed to take back territory in the Kharkov region in the...