The effects of COVID are ongoing and will continue as long as the ‘restrictions’ for the pandemic continue on business intercourse. However, remember as I have said that what COVID is doing is not so much ‘destroying’ the economy, but exposing what already existed and was going to cause major problems in the future. It […]
I have said this before, and I will say it again because it is a point worth repeating. Almost all of the so-called “leaders” of these strange, racially-charged “nationalist” movement are directly tied to the government, which encourages said tensions in order to “root out” real potential threats. The government has been doing this for […]
While the world is paying attention to other news, there does not seem to have been a lot of focus given to Tigray. The tiny region in northern Ethiopia with a separatist history has been the site of a terrible conflict that has resulted in countless dead and millions at risk or displaced, and as […]
COVID has caused many problems in society, but unfortunately, the effects of the response to the pandemic will likely be more severe long-term. That said, it is of interest that as ThomsonReuters reports, the Biden administration is looking to further expand the current COVID regulations. The Biden administration is “actively looking” at expanding mandatory COVID-19 […]
There are a lot of things that Pope Francis says that people disagree with. However, Pope Francis’ recent comments on genocide and how it could happen again are very accurate, where as the AP notes, he said that “ideological proposals that claim to save a people” can end up doing the very opposite and destroy […]
With the rise in promiscuity of all types comes natural consequences of such behavior. Disease and its spread is very serious, and given how the spread of STDs has lead to the rise of drug-resistant bacteria, it is slowly reviving pre-early 20th century conditions, where a person could die from such an infection. Now according […]
Biden spoke of it, and there are more discussions that Harriet Tubman, the famed anti-slavery activist and historical persona, is going to be on the $20 bill as a replacement to President Andrew Jackson. The Biden administration has said it will seek to push forward a plan to make anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman the face […]
There is a mythology in American thinking that prosperty can continue on forever. This is a lie, because prosperity, like good and bad times, ebbs and flows. It is natural to see success, as well as decline. According to a recent study reported on by Bloomberg and redistributed by MSN Money, poverty in the US […]
Millennials have been criticized for many things, some necessary, and others not. What can be said about the generation is that it is very sad, with a lot of wasted potential and a lot of opportunities stripped from it due to bad advice from family about debts and now two major recessions. The generation is […]
When a plaza, mall, or other type of shopping center is built, it usually includes one or a few ‘anchor stores’, followed by many smaller stores. The concept is that the ‘anchor store’ pays the largest bills and supports, arguably, the existence of the smaller stores. Examples of such anchor stores include such as Sears, […]
For years, the threat of Islamic terror was discussed, and while terrorism in Islam is real as a theological imperative and can be explained by Islamic sacred scripture and tradition, some expressed concern that such talk of terrorism was being prepared so that it might be used on fellow citizens. Both views are correct, and […]
One of the trends I have watched is the state of Russia in decline and at a crossroads. The great eastern nation now stands at an important point in her history, following an almost century-long rape by the Bolsheviks from which she has never been able to recover. This is not to say that Russia […]
One of the trends that I have explored and been warning about are the shocks that COVID is causing, naturally or artificially, to the supply chain worldwide. I wrote a piece about this in March 2020 discussing tool shipments (which prices have risen for and there have been consistent shortages or delays in purchasing), and […]
I have been saying repeatedly at Shoebat.com that the effects of COVID were going to be worse than the virus itself, for pandemics pass, but the effects of bad decisions can endure for a very long time. In the case of COVID, it is that the already-crumbling world economic system’s problems have been dramatically amplified […]
With nationalism on the rise, and separatism continuing as a long-term trend in world and especially European politics, where divisions are often precursors of war, this trend will be important to watch. With the completion of BREXIT, it has naturally caused a series of problems in the relationship between Europe and the UK. These problems […]
Piracy is known problem in East Africa, near the Somali coast. However, there are also pirates in other places near the continent. In an interesting story reported by the Turkish Anadoulu Agency, a Turkish ship was attacked by pirates near Nigeria and was forced to land in Gabon., with fifteen being kidnapped. A cargo ship […]
