New List #7 - 50 Key Developments in Science prior to 1850

 In chronological order (more-or-less)

1. Science of Agriculture (Irrigation, Plant and Animal Domestication).
2. Greek's develop the concept of the Atom.
3. Euclidean Geometry and the Mathematics of Conics.
4. Aristotle formalize logic.
5. Greeks conceptualize the concepts of change and motion.
6. Birth of Diagnostic Medicine - Hippocrates
7. Determination of the circumference of the Earth, distance to the moon and the distance to the sun.
8. Law of the Lever
9. Archimedes and the concept of buoyancy
10. Arabs expand work on Optics.
11. Madgeburg Experiment - Concept of the vacuum.
12. Copernicus and the Heliocentric revolution
13. Brahe and the changing heavens
14. Invention of the Telescope (First Refracting then Reflecting)
15. Galileo and the Birth of the Experimental Method - Inertia + Free Fall + Simple Harmonic Motion + Projectile Motion
16. Mineral Science develops under Agricola.
17. Vesalius and Modern Anatomy/Physiology
18. Kepler's Three Laws
19. Newton's Law of Universal Gravitiation
20. Newton and the Dispersion of White Light
21. Paracelsus and the Field of Toxicology
22. Newtonian Synthesis of Terrestrial and Cosmological Science
23. Newton's Three Laws of Motion - concepts of Impulse, Momentum, Action + Force.
24. Invention of the Calculus (Differential/Integral)
25. Invention of the Microscope
26. Birth of Cartesian Geometry. Synthesis of Trigonometry and Algebra.
27. Pascal's work on Pressure.
28. Mathematics of Probability
29. Fermat's Principle
30. Vector Algenra (and Calculus)
31. Foucault's Pendulum (Rotation of the Earth)
32. Comet Periodicity
33. William Harvey and the Circulatory System
34. Linneaus and the Taxonomic Classification system
35. Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and oxygen as the driver for combustion (extension on the work of Priestly).
36. Huygens Wave Theory
37. Cell Theory
38. Mathematics of Differential Equations (Laplace, Euler etc)
39. Benjamin Franklin's work on distinct charge
40. Dalton and the Early Periodic Table
41. Bernoulli and Fluid Mechanics
42. Buffon and advances in Natural Science
43. Hutton - Modern Geology and Gradualism
44. Cuvier and Catastrophism
45. Jenner and the rise of Immunization Theory
46. Volta and the first electric battery
47. Charles Coulomb and the Electrostatic Force.
48. Sadi Carnot and the Ideal Heat Engine
49. Oersted discovers magnetic fields around current carrying conductors
50. Weather Patterns - Coriolis Effect.

New Lists # 6 - Top 10 Biggest overachievers in the World Cup (since 1950)

 1. Croatia 2018

2. Bulgaria 1994

3. South Korea 2002

4. Turkey 2002

5, Cameroon - 1990

6.West Germany 1954 - Actually won the World Cup against the more fancied Hungarians

7. Morocco - 2022

8. Uruguay 1950 - Took the title after a comeback win against Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro.

9. Sweden 1994

10. Belgium 1986

Reflections LXIX - Tabulating Thought

 Sometimes I think that the story of history is a tale of recovery from bad ideas implemented.

Every leader given enough time will come crashing down from their pedestal.

The function of bureaucracy in the modern state is to protect the power structure from radical change and circumvent reform. Democracy is the illusion sold to the public that the change is possible.

The best way to violate people’s rights and do so with their consent is to rebrand it under the labels of safety and security. The Covid lockdowns typified this.

The greatest apocalyptic threat isn’t war, famine or disease but the embrace of bad ideas by the population who have been coerced to forgo common sense.

Marvel comics blurred the line between Science in the Spiderman origin and Magic as exemplified by the Norse hero Thor. The distinction became indecipherable until the world was given no choice but to rescue itself with alternative universes. By that time it was too late. Credibility had collapsed.

The fertile ground for Islamism in the west is the post modernist platform that has elevated indifference as the mainstay of the liberal democracies today.

The agenda of the elites has always been about the control of information. Artificial Intelligence is merely the latest phase in the application of this philosophy.

Christianity would never have enjoyed the success it has had without its skillful manipulation of pagan iconography.

New List #5 - Top 15 Teams that never won the World Cup but should have,

 1. Netherlands 1974

2. Hungary 1954

3. Brazil 1982

4, Brazil 1998

5. Netherlands 1998

6. France 1986

7. Brazil 1950

8. England 1982

9. France 2022

10. Germany 2006

11, Portugal 1966

12. England 2006

13, Italy 1970

14. Belgium 2018

15. England 2002

New List #4 - Top 18 Greatest World Cup Winners since 1950

 1. Brazil 1970 - Brilliant Brazilians

2. France 2018 - France at its finest

3. France 1998 - Zidane's elite

4, Brazil 1958 - Pele's breakout year

5, Germany 2014 - 7-1 Destroyerrs of Brazil

6, Argentina 2022  - Messi's machine

7. West Germany 1974 - Slayers of the Great Touch team

8. Italy 1982 -  Rossi's Resurgence

9. Argentina 1986 - Maradona's Cup

10. England 1966  - Coming home to blighty

11, Spain 2010 - Tiki Taki Spain

12. Brazil 2002 - Ronaldinho/Ronaldo world Cup

13. Italy 2006 - Uber Defensive Italians

14. Brazil 1962 - Brazil by default

15, West Germany 1990 - The West Germans final hurrah

16, Argentina 1978 - Argentina;s home winners

17, Brazil 1994 - Champions on US soil

18, West Getmany 1954 - Kocked off the Marauding Magyars

Reflections LXVIII - Straws to Grasp

There is no group more vilified by social engineers in the contemporary than Asian Americans  whose obvious success in the modern milieu dispels the cherished myth of a fundamentally  rigged white dominated system.

While the Kabbalah offers much that is valuable to reflect on, like all metaphysical systems it is misinterpreted and  denigrated by the irrational drive of the woo mob.

I am not sure who is more deluded – those that believe that ANTIFA’s main motive is fighting fascism or that modern day Green Parties are primarily concerned with ecological issues. Both groupings are Marxist Wolves dressed in more palatable clothing.

The first step in decline is the death of shame. For once that goes people will feel no compulsion to question their motive when endorsing blatant lies.

Once the recourse to empiricism has been negated almost all ideologies will evolve into cults of various sizes.

The sad truth about human nature is that many would rather see others fail than themselves succeed. This reality is that it requires far less effort.

No society can survive the death of objective standards which is why the enemies of the west through post-modernism have placed such standards in their cross-hairs.

Reflections LXVII - Insights Unlimited

By the very nature of the election cycle that eschews the boldness of action democracies tend to cement themselves along the axis where its leaders are at best mediocre.

The story of human history is that of leaders acting on a poverty of information. Strong leaders win as they are less impoverished in knowledge than their antagonists.

The Russian survival instinct historically is to cultivate a misery that can be spread with interest to their opponents.

It is only natural that the brave Persian people should seek to overthrow the yoke of a belief system enforced on them by conquest. This sits at their heart of the rebellion against the Islamist overlords.

I seek a world where many of the so-called cultural acting elites can return to their role as court jesters and entertainers rather than political know-it-alls.

The flaw in Laissez-Faire Free Enterprise is that there is no built-in safeguard that the market can invoke to protect themselves from the cutthroat monopolist. This is why it inevitably relies on the mechanism of good government. Unfortunately the latter has become all too scarce.

The doctrine of the welfare state will ultimately crumble as it is predicated on human decency and contentment. Both of these are easily steamrolled by greed.

It is a sad quirk of history that the only time the Indian sub-continent was united under a single authority was during the British Raj.

It astounds me as to how few people are aware of how close Fascism is to Socialism in terms of economics. Benito Mussolini and Oswald Mosley were at one point socialists. Peron oscillated between the two. So did many Nazis including the Strasser brothers and Goebbels. At their core they are both statist and advocate for coercion based politics