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29 March 2025

China is coming after you

 A new analysis of President Xi’s political approach ought to send serious alarm bells ringing all round the world. This book, by Australian ex-Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, should be a heaven-sent warning to those, like the poisonous Ed Miliband, who like to consort with tyrants that seek to dominate everyone who does not accept the modern version of the Mandate of Heaven: https://thinkscotland.org/2025/03/he-man-xi-unmasked/




22 January 2025

A quiet film about saweed - ideal for meditating

A beautiful film about the fish and seaweed which live beneath the harbour in Campbeltown, on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland.

You can see this film here: 14 - Marina pontoons - YouTube

And you can see more films of that sort here: The Seaweed Channel - YouTube






17 January 2025

Alexander von Humboldt - man of the moment (or should be)

 A new biography of one of the most interesting scientists of the late eighteenth-early nineteenth centuries – when we know so LITTLE about the earth, our history and the way in which the cosmos works.

Despite that, Humboldt manged to figure out that everything is connected. His originality was astounding, but there was a good reason for that.  He never went to school. Neither did he earn a university degree. Nor did he ever take any interest in politics. These ought to be important lessons for the left-hemisphereist multiple-choicers of the modern, data-driven half-world in which bogus fact-mongers on public sector pensions like to flash their digitalia as a badge of status. By contrast, Humboldt simply smiled at criticism, moved on and invented modern science.

 

This is all explained here: https://thinkscotland.org/2025/01/the-more-you-know-the-more-you-know-you-dont-know/

 

Enjoy!




03 January 2025

A poet in Paradise - soon to be destroyed by windfarms

 

An article about a very interesting man, the local historian of Campbeltown. He made one area of Scotland interesting for all by his descriptive books. Now it is about to be destroyed in the name of political advancement for pseudo-“green” free-loaders in Holyrood, most of whom seem so stupid they do not understand what they are destroying. But their poisonous breath is polluting the whole of Kintyre, where once the mossy saxifrage blossomed…

TS 049 - Three Summers in Kintyre

And this film is relevant too:

 
Hands off the Mull of Kintyre! NO MORE WINDMILLS