New at PJMedia VIP. The media reports that US allies are drifting closer to China. Is Beijing the wave of the future?
The Return of the Nations
What’s He Up To?
Seeing Things
New at PJMedia VIP. When artificial personalities, like machine intelligence and ideologies, actually believe their projections are facts, they are said to hallucinate. Nothing can dissuade them the iceberg is not there except painful collision with reality.
No Rear Area
Death stalks the former safe rear areas.
“MOSCOW (AP) — A car bomb killed a Russian general on Monday, the third such killing of a senior military officer in just over a year. Investigators said Ukraine may be behind the attack.”
Battleship
President Trump announces a future battleship class in the navy. “Battleship!!” is in ways a marketing strategy. It appears to fill a role formerly met by retiring USN cruisers, the “arsenal ship” and the DD-21 “Zumwalt” land attack destroyer.
Continue reading “Battleship”Watch Threats More Useful Than Watching Things
New at the Belmont Club. In New South Wales the main police database was built when Windows 95 was new and Netscape Navigator was king. It failed to link up different suspicious facts about the Bondi Beach shooters. If the Nationals and Liberal parties want a good solid public policy alternative to the reflexive gun and hate speech control strategy of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese they should implement an upgrade of the police and intelligence data systems instead of blowing their budget on buying back guns and focusing on hate speech.
It May Not End Here
In Memoriam
Four rushed the Bondi shooters, only one made it. A married couple about to celebrate their 35th anniversary and a 62 year old man didn’t quite.
Four heroes tried to stop the Bondi terrorists. Three paid with their lives
These are the moments bystanders tried to disarm gunman Sajid Akram. Two of them died in each other’s arms.
Should we be gracious to the fallen foe?
The way in which people react to the defeat, death or misfortune of their foes is largely determined by who they are rather than what their enemies deserve. Should you gloat when a foe falls? You don’t have to be magnanimous, but you could be if you are. Shakespeare said it best:
Continue reading “Should we be gracious to the fallen foe?”The Demon Haunted World
New at PJMedia VIP. “The personal is political” principle means that all our failures, even our unhappiness, is somebody else’s fault. Everyone would be fulfilled but for the malignance of cruel devils we call Nazis who undermine all we do.
Give ’em Number 15
Corruption on Steroids
New at PJMedia VIP. Have you ever wondered why so many Gen-Z revolutions are breaking out in the 2020s? It’s no coincidence. Financial technology and computers have made corruption and crime in the 3rd World monstrously big.
