Today’s music video is ‘Going Home’ from Mark Knopfler. This song was written by Mark Knopfler for the movie ‘Local Hero’ a quirky movie that did surprisingly well. It starred Burt Lancaster in a minor role as a Texas oil Company owner who wanted to build a refinery in ...

PART TWO OF TWO PARTS In the previous post I discussed the Ayn Rand novel ‘Atlas Shrugged’, and how the intent of that novel is most relevant right now. So, then how does something like this apply to the current situation we are in now? Is it just following something from a fiction novel...

I want you to watch this video very closely, especially the first 90 seconds. Don’t read the text while the video is playing in the background. Watch the video and just listen to what Paul Kanjorski is saying. I want you to watch this video very closely, especially the first 90 seconds. Don...

This Sunday’s music video is ‘Wedding Cake Island’ from Australian Band Midnight Oil. Surf Music is a large section of the music industry, and has been with us from times before before Jan and Dean, and on a bigger scale The Beach Boys. Surfing music is one of the few genres that a...

The short series of posts I made about misconceptions about our use of, and the generation of electricity were linked to at another site, and there was a comment posted at that site. The comment was made with the best of intentions no doubt, but again, what it effectively highlights is that misconce...

I have specifically left this post separate from the others, because it needs a full post of its own. We have been led to believe that coal fired power plants are what amounts to the main cause in what will amount to global catastrophe. The only real catastrophe that will result will be when ill inf...

PART 3 OF 3 PARTS With those two earlier posts I have tried to explain in somewhat simplified terms some of the things that people mistakenly believe as something that can quite easily be achieved, while the facts are that it is more complex than what a short sound byte from well intentioned people ...

Today’s music video is ‘Laguna Sunrise’ from the band Black Sabbath. When you think of Black Sabbath, you think of Heavy Metal, and a band that was exceedingly good at what they did, but they were renowned as a band that had ’substance’ issues. You think of Ozzy Osbourn...

PART 1 OF 2 PARTS Just how did we allow ourselves to be taken in by this? Here is a link to the genesis of all this current scare campaign about Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions. Read this very interesting article for some insight. What started just after the Second World War with someone applying for...

Electrical Power Generation Chart for January 2009. Chart from U.S. Government Energy Information Administration. (EIA) PART ONE OF TWO PARTS These two posts will be along the lines  of ‘told you so’, only I’m getting in early. What I wanted to do was to actually create a ‘b...