FIRST IMAGES FROM SHANGRI-LA
Colonel George Ramsay faced a dilemma. He had been reminded a second time by Calcutta that the Viceroy Lord Canning had instructed a compilation of photographs of native peoples and distinctive landscapes and monuments to be documented across [...]
THE DELHI DURBARS AND THE RANA REGIME
The Delhi Durbar 1877
Maharajah Jung Bahadur Rana was thrilled to get the confirmation of his long sought-after ambition: to host a British Royal in Nepal. Following his visit to England in 1850 A.D. at the invitation of the British [...]
RANI MAHAL, STORY OF ITS MAKER
PROLOGUE
The first time I ever saw this historical edifice thirty five years ago, she was in ruins and looked like an old hag during the winter of her life, simply waiting for her eventual demise. I was then on my way further west on a [...]
“just Ignorant and Uninformed”
Not sure about you, but I am sleeping great again, relaxed and relieved. I had been fretting that our President was a racist. Why else would the leader of the greatest immigrant country during a bipartisan meeting in the White House repeatedly [...]
Charles Darwin’s Tangled Bank Job: Just More Evidence of his Science Fraud by Plagiary
– By Mike Sutton –
A recent review in the Guardian newspaper of the historian A.N. Wilson’s book on Charles Darwin points out – quite correctly – many of Wilson’s mistakes and his failure to understand what [...]
An Experiment On Impact
Google Scholar’s Citation Index H-index score was mentioned with reverence at a recent meeting in a British University. The speaker was explaining how universities ranked the relevant importance of academics and the impact of their work. [...]
Will Banning ‘Killer Robots’ Actually Stop Robots From Killing?
A University at Buffalo research team has published a paper that implies that the rush to ban and demonize autonomous weapons or “killer robots” may be a temporary solution, but the actual problem is that society is entering into [...]
An Opportunity to Change US Policy on Taiwan
By Stephen Bryen.
United States defense policy toward Taiwan must change. Now there is a rare opportunity to make that happen with the election of Donald Trump. But everyone knows he lacks experience in foreign affairs, although [...]
SPOILING FOR A FIGHT, THE INTERREGNUM BETWEEN THE FALL OF BHIMSEN THAPA AND RISE OF JUNG BAHADUR
One cannot help but wonder what would have happened if the Punjab, Avadh and other princely Indian states had formed an alliance with Nepal during the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814-16 A.D. Subsequently what would have happened had Jung Bahadur [...]
El Salvador and Manufacturing Exports
By: Donna Welles
El Salvador has defaulted on its national currency and now uses instead the United States Dollar. Violence in El Salvador is well documented by the media. El Salvador shares land borders with Honduras and Guatemala [...]
Saving Ancient Christian Ethiopia
The written sources of ancient Christian Ethiopia (which included part of contemporary Eritrea) are considered by scholars as the most important element of the cultural and historical heritage of the region. Experts estimate that currently [...]
THE MAHARAJAH’S LAST REPOSE
The maharajah was having a nightmare. He often did since he left the hurly burly of Nepalese politics for a life of a raj-rishi with determination to devote the remaining few years of his life to spiritual pursuit. He dreamed of a calamity striking [...]
Did Obama Deliberately Sabotage his Mortgage Relief program?
May 2016
by Ronald Bleier
At the heart of the Great Recession of 2008 were the millions of underwater homeowners — those whose mortgage debt had risen more than 20 percent higher than the value of their homes. At the peak of the 2008 [...]
Follow the Data: Wikipedia is being run by a weird cult called “Wikipedia Editors”
– By Mike Sutton –
Readers of my research might know I have a rather long-term issue with the fact that a number of Wikipedia editors are actively and “tautologically” engaged in their own pseudo-scholarly personal [...]
The fall of Palmyra – ISIS on the run?
By Rick Francona.
The historic archaeological-treasure city of Palmyra fell to the Syrian Army on March 27 (Easter Sunday in the West). Palmyra had been under the control of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) since [...]
On States of Denial
– By Mike Sutton –
The British ‘establishments’ of the BBC and Royal Society were in a ‘state of denial’ about the serious serial lying and other delinquent activities of celebrities Sir Jimmy Savile (OBE), [...]
In a Terrible ‘State of Denial’: Revealing More Facts that are Seemingly Invisible to Darwin Scholars
– By Dr Mike Sutton –
The Day the Supposedly Obscure Writer, Patrick Matthew’s Book “Emigration Fields” was Recommended Reading Material for Captain Fitzroy of the Beagle. No less!
The Year 1844. The publication:
The [...]
Capitalist ethics and myths
By Jon Kofas.
The Question:
Does the value system and Western-centered ethics that exists under the political economy of free enterprise best serve all of humanity, or merely a very tiny percentage of it? If indeed all of humanity [...]
The Hillary Enigma
By Alan Caruba
Does it strike anyone as strange that the only candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination to be the next President of the United States is the wife of a former President? There is no historic precedent for this, no way [...]
My 2015 Commencement Address
By Alan Caruba
All manner of people are giving commencement speeches to students graduating from colleges and universities these days. It is doubtful that any will be remembered because the prospects of students depend in large part on the economy [...]