A high-school friend who is a singer / songwriter shared a new composition with our class group yesterday. It's a very catchy jingle with its core theme in the chorus:
Is it one God or some religion
That everybody needs
Or do we shake those shackles off
And use reason as our belief
... online meetings have become a thing for even obscure corners of the world.
Multichoice has come under flack lately from keyboard warriors after Russia Today fell off the company's DSTV offering.
“Sanctions imposed on Russia by the European Union [EU] have led to the global distributor of the channel ceasing to provide the broadcast feed to all suppliers, including MultiChoice,” Multichoice was quoted as saying.
Hmmm, I thought, so why not simply downlink the Russia Today signal directly via satellite?
It turns out Russia Today uplinks to two satellites.
Let's talk about Taiwan and why I believe they are destined to go the route of Ukraine.
Three rainy seasons in a row have failed in the Horn of Africa and its surroundings.
Some years ago, I drove from Johannesburg to Lüderitz on the Namibian coast for a friend’s wedding.
As I approached the town, the dysfunctional railway line which once linked Keetmanshoop to Bahnhof Lüderitz (as the Germans who built it in 1906 called it), frequently vanished under shifting desert sands. In the town, the station itself was derelict.
Construction of the railway line by the Germans took 9 months. Let me quote a well-documented historical account :
Theodore Roosevelt is said to have said: “If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”
There's an abundance of wildlife video showing hyenas taking down lions. The hyenas attack the lion's testicles first. This causes the lion to sit down and then it's all over.
I attended a birthday party today; my mother's best friend turned 90 during the week. They have been friends for 75 years.
Two things of significance for me today:
1. Russia called an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council claiming that the United States was funding research to create biological weapons in Ukraine.
2. YouTube blocked access to the biggest Russian media channels including Russia Today and Sputnik.
I'm not going to dwell too much on these other than to point out a couple of things.
Japanese folklore tells of the Jorōgumo which is a type of Yōkai 妖怪, ("apparition"). Tales dating back to the Edo period (1603-1867 AD) say that this particular apparition is a spider that can shapeshift into a beautiful woman. She seeks men to seduce, binds them in her silk, and devours them.
