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!

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

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 

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!

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”

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 gold

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!

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/ 

Brilliant!

Islam and Scotland - are they incompatible?

Humza Yousaf has recently announced that he feels so threatened in Scotland by “Islamophobia” that he might have to emigrate. That means that, in a year and a half as First Minister, Yousaf changed Scotland into a country which is not fit for habitation by Muslims like himself.

His ignorance about Scotland may be profound, but what does Humza Yousaf actually know about ISLAM and its history? His pose of spiritual rectitude has been questioned by Elon Musk. Many others think he is a victim looking for a victimiser – a sort of spiritual masochist. Does he consider his first duty is to himself or to Allah?

These issues are addressed in this article: https://thinkscotland.org/2024/08/does-humza-yousaf-know-his-islamic-history/.

The book under review is fascinating, too! Enjoy…

The religious dimension of the climate crisis -"Green guilt" is a largely Protestant phenomenon

 

The climate crisis is a largely Protestant phenomenon. Most of the non-Protestant countries do not take it nearly as seriously as Calvinists like Patrick Harvie and Humza Yousaf. (Swinney seems to be in the Biden position, mentally.) It is dependent on induced guilt, which is the Protestant way of forcing bamboo up your fingernails if you won’t write a cheque to the woke aristocracy in order to expiate your guilt for having a nice time. This is the modern equivalent of selling indulgences, and equally corrupt..

All this is discussed in a review of new book about the reparations that are supposed to be due for Britain’s guilt over slavery. You can read it here: https://thinkscotland.org/2024/06/23195/

 Enjoy, and ponder….