For a long time, I didn’t watch videos from the Syrian civil war. Even though I know a lot about military issues, I hate to see suffering. The Syrian civil war seemed to be nothing but untrained fanatics slaughtering everyone they could. But one day I saw a video that seemed to show a new…
Clown Apocalypse, otherwise known as western culture
April 13, 2016
During World War I, German flamethrower pioneer Georg Lembke served on the Italian Front. He called it the Clown Apocalypse, due to the suicidal incompetence of the Austro-Hungarians and the Italians. Through sheer coincidence, I bought a photo of Georg, taken on December 28, 1916; the image shows his platoon about to assault the Dead…
Wildest imagination has become fact
April 5, 2016
Because of my brutal childhood, I’ve always had a soft spot for the Middle East. It haunted me. There seemed to be no end to the suffering. Not even in my wildest fantasies did I imagine what’s now happening. And it’s picking up speed. The end of the suffering is imminent. Wildest technology I’m going…