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/
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29 March 2025
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…
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049 - Three Summers in Kintyre
13 December 2024
A lovely film about a dreamy place on the west coast of Scotland
A short film about a secret hideaway where magical things happen and fine malt whisky has been known to be consumed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaxvJIfT3UQ
10 December 2024
Thhe climate warming scientist who once wrote about "a new ice age"
This article describes a revealing book by a famous climate
crisis promoter, Stephen Schneider (joint part winner of 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
with Al Gore). It is an early publication, dating from the 1970s and it has a
lot of lessons for modern crisis boosters. Most of them are a warning on
fashions in doomography, but there is one good one: “Consensus is a bad way to
do science.”
This book gives informative background to the climate
science debate: https://thinkscotland.org/2024/12/when-the-end-of-the-world-was-nigh/
Enjoy!
15 November 2024
Who really is JD Vance, Donald Trump's Vice-President to be?
We know so little about this guy, yet he could well be President in four years' time. There are all sorts of conspiracy theories, but really, he is a guy who should not be unknown since he has written an autobiography which will interest most people.
For more detail read this piece: TS 045 - Climate change and the political utility of a “Crisis”
09 November 2024
The wickedness of windfarms among the beautiful hills of Scotland - particular on the Mull of Kintyre
Kintyre is being covered with windfarms, some as much as an eighth of a mile high! Paul McCartney (who sings on this film) would be turning in his exile!
Details in this film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Lbd0xifqs
This environmental vandalism is being organised by the Scottish government and implemented by cash-hungry power firms from all over the world. Our government is selling Scotland's priceless beauty to the highest bidder. This film describes the problem and shows how you can help stop the last turbine-free area, the MULL of Kintyre, being invaded by a company from Bremen, in Germany, called EnergieKontor. If you would like to preserve Kintyre for the future, you should write to: Your preferred social media, The conventional media, Your MSP, The Scottish government planning appeals office: dpea@gov.scot Quoting: WIN-130-9 Breakerie. You might even try EnergieKontor's Head of Public Relations in Bremen: julia.pschribuella@energiekontor.com Let them all know your view; this is still a democracy Kintyre is not a commodity to be bought and sold for German gold23 October 2024
The lies of the "green" agenda and the real reason why governments tell them
As
the Scottish government tries to destroy the countryside by covering it in vast
windmills, you might like to consider the wider implications of climate
bullying: https://thinkscotland.org/2024/10/climate-change-and-the-political-utility-of-a-crisis/
There are major lessons to be learned about the dishonesty of government and
the willingness of opposition to sponge up the nonsense they are fed by a
government with an axe to grind. Better to take the axe to the turbines!
07 October 2024
How Soviet dissidents carried on while the state was trying to carry them off - to psychiatric prisons. They were brave people!
As
Britain heads into its “late Soviet period” under Starmer and the rump SNP, a
brilliant new book has been published showing how the Russian people defended
themselves against their Soviet masters. Hamish Gobson, the sage of Great
Todday, shines the light of free scholarship on this work in the context of
Britain today - see here: https://thinkscotland.org/2024/10/how-the-snp-dallied-with-participatory-dictatorship/