Our universe is expanding, which means that in the past it was smaller. In the distant past, billions of years ago, it was much smaller. In the extremely distant past, around 13.77 billion years ago, our universe was the size of a peach…...and had an internal temperature in
Not many people know this, but when the Paris mob stormed the Bastille in July 1789 - with a view to releasing political prisoners therein - they found it empty. Having seen the attack coming, the Bourbon regime moved the inmates to Another Place. There is a very clear analogy
EIGHT ACTS OF PIRACY ARE ALREADY BEING PARROTTED OUT THERE 1. The Second American Civil War A week and a half ago, we learned that President Trump would “not be deflected from inspecting the real amount of gold in Fort Knox”. We applauded. On the same day, he called Pfizer
Open minds and new ideas die all too easily on the vine For those aware of the Great Awakening to come, there's some great stuff out there at the moment, but very little better than the latest offering from Clive Hale's View from the Bridge. His
Wilferd Peterson was born in Whitehall, Michigan, but lived most of his life in Grand Rapids - where he was vice president and creative director of an advertising firm. Peterson [above] lived by his own advice about Big & Simple. This is what he had to say about "leaders&
Another year, another approach of the Ides of March, and so another Congressional CR threat to another US President is coming down the road. It's the annual "sign off on our budgets or face Shutdown" melodrama. For the benefit of non-Americans like me, a continuing resolution,
I have to admit, I got something of a pasting last week on social media (especially Musk's vehicle Twitter X) for describing Elon as someone with "the potential to be a constitutional vandal". So far in his position as shoulder parrot to Long John Trump, Mr
It's time to restore the balance between Mammon and Mankind Down at the nearby beach here in Gambia there is a restaurant, inside which are several shelves of paperbacks donated by tourists, over several decades, for others to enjoy or abhor. I rarely visit the eaterie any more,
The full-floor confirmation vote in relation to Robert F Kennedy Junior before the United States Senate was finally scheduled last night for 10:30 a.m. today....that was 3.30 pm London and Gambia time. The result was that not one single senator flipped or flopped, and so Mr
ONLINE: A LIAR'S CHARTER FOR THE DEEP STATE It is made for those who wish to distort and deceive, because while it makes examination by our five primary senses seem relatively easy on the surface, such interrogation is almost impossible in reality. Even if you can see the
Is the blanket silence about a date for Kennedy's full-floor Senate vote a State ploy to buy time for aggressive lobbying to threaten and/or buy the lawmakers involved? Although the GOP has a six-vote majority in the Senate, feedback from usually reliable media desks in Washington and
Being a POMO is not what you'd call "all the rage". The acronym stands for Person of Minority Opinions...and so by definition, it's hard to get respect and recognition if you're a POMO citizen in a democracy where majority rule applies.