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Category: Quarantine diaries

  • 7/11/1944

    Every day we learn more! The question is, why we did not know about it before? So-called – “incident!”It reminds me of Russian planes shot by Turkish F-16s and Syrian air defense provoked by Israeli F-16s. Or about the story in the book of Jeffry Archer, “The Fourth Estate.” Recommend this fantastic book!Namely, Keith Townsend…

  • Sokollu Mehmed Pasha

    Long before American independence Ottoman Empire ruled many places. One of the memorable statesman was a Grand Vizier of three Sultans, Mehmet Pasha Sokollu. Some years ago monument showing two brothers or two close relatives, Mehmed Pasha Sokollu – Sokolovic and Makarije Sokolovic, was unveiled at Andric Grad near Visegrad. Visegrad is a home town…

  • Insane Delusion

    It is throughout the history that we have those creatures around us acting for us without us! They are delusional and insane. Tragedy. The term insane delusion is used by J.M.Keynes in his remarkable 1919 book “The Economic Consequences of Peace.” ….

  • Brief thoughts

    Lithuania – who looses in strategy looses nerves first and uses others to get punched as no courage left! That is an island country, so poorly runned ex colonial power. Without reforms ex will stay. From TASS news agency “Vilnius is not blocking Russia’s Kaliningrad, says Lithuanian PMEarlier, it was reported that Lithuanian officials had…

  • While Drinking Beer

    While drinking beer, not for 100 euros (https://philosophyofgoodnews.wordpress.com/2022/06/19/beer-and-profits/ ), I got many messages from concerned people reading the above post sharing their thoughts about what we are passing now. They all share the same feelings. That of uncertainty, fear, anger, and despair. Few are positive. Increasing prices of all products became daily news, drastically affecting…

  • Beer and Profits

    Recently I came across below anecdote. “A German walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender tells him: “That’ll be 100 euros.” The German is in shock. “What do you mean, 100 euros? Yesterday it was only 10!” “Well today it’s 100.” “But why 100, dammit?!” “I’ll explain it to you now”, the…