The very last thing you want to do is to be some kind of hero. Heroes belong in history books and movies.

She obsessively documents her life on social media. She posts every event, ‘significant purchase’ and achievement (hers and those of her children) for all the world to see. Mirko’s niece is the quintessential Balkan Bitch. A woman used to getting her way. His daughter follows her exploits slavishly online. Mirko ...

US Major Michael Aquino had a brilliant idea. What he proposed was more audacious than original, and more unscrupulous than smart. It was an idea whose time had come. An idea that would energize the military, lift a nation from its malaise and transform the world.  The USA was profoundly ...

Even the Used-Car-Salesman provides their customer with a warranty. Our mass media are accountable to no-one. When not trading lies, they trade in banality. They tear down the truth to elevate deception, they ignore the heroic to fawn over the craven. The following stories should not persist in a civilized ...

Are you curious how the world got messed-up? Read Peter Thiel’s 2004 Essay: The Straussian Moment.  Thiel is a co-founder of PayPal, and the President of Clarium Capital. His estimated net worth is above $10 billion.  Billionaires routinely use their wealth to promote their own agenda. Part 1 detailed how ...

By, Fab Marsani " If you give me free ticket and pay all expenses... I wouldn't go there," says Mirko. I mentioned to Mirko how the Weekend Australian featured a luxury travel lift out supplement, titled: "Albania Mania". He thought I was talking my 'usual bullshit' to stir him up. ...

“The first law of politics is that a body politic is divided into a ruling class and a ruled class. Human beings are born babies…They survive only in nurseries…” R.G. Collingwood–The New Leviathan–published 1942 Let’s talk real privilege: A billion dollars is an obscene quantity of money. According to Forbes ...

Apart from resentment: Inexorably, from orientation to graduation day, your clear thinking will decline. You will have learned how to reflexively obfuscate on virtually any subject. You will possess an acute sensitivity to detect oppression and privilege in all the places it does not exist. Conversely, the worst excesses instigated ...

For very many problems, the problems are combinatorially explosive. You cannot conceivably search the entire space of a problem like climate change. We aren't even sure of all the variables that need to be searched. We do not have the time, the machinery, the resources to search the whole space. ...

the subordinate half of the human species gained direct access to economic power - independent of a male intermediary. Over the ensuing decades, women would rise through power hierarchies in industry, business, and government. They brought with them a new feminine perspective that would challenge, and ultimately transform the embedded ...

There is a hubris problem: excessive pride, dangerous overconfidence, and complacency. It’s not only infected our political leaders, oligarchs, and intelligentsia; it’s infected the entire culture and all of us with it. Consciously or unconsciously we endlessly recycle the patent nonsense emanating from our academics, oligarchs, media presenters, and politicians.

Brace yourself: in 18 months, artificial super-intelligence will have arrived.

Renewable Industry faces insurmountable obstacles?

“If you satisfied every human desire, we would throw it all away just for something interesting to happen, just to give ourselves a challenge to overcome and prove that we are human beings…that man is still man and not keys on a piano.”

The adage, from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations, refers to a pattern in the rise and fall of fortunes.

 It’s what you suspected and feared. Video footage and internal documents chronicling meetings of the World Professional Organization for Transgender Health

Riddle me this: you enter a proxy war against Russia. You have a 24 to 1 military expenditure advantage. 18 months into the conflict, you’ve run out of military hardware and are overwhelmed by Russian artillery shell production! Time to wash your hands, wish them luck, and wave goodbye... Global ...

"This is true,” said Mirko, “I tell Johnny, the woman you have as girlfriend, is not the same as the one you should marry. Too many men make this mistake.