A Few End of Year Thoughts!

By Rich Kozlovich

Well, another year has flown by, and at my age time moves faster than I like.  Many years ago I had a friend who I think was the smartest man I ever met.  He told me that time passes faster as we get older.  I was in my mid twenties and he was fifty. Well, I snickered and proceeded to tell him that time moves at sixty seconds a minute, sixty minutes an hour, twenty hours a day, three hundred sixty five day a year, and that doesn’t change as we get older. He smiled and – as if talking to an idiot child – said I wasn't seeing it clearly. He said when we go from age one to age two we will have lived fifty percent of our lives. When we go from age ninety nine to age one hundred we will have lived only one one hundredth of our lives. It’s a matter of perception he said, and the perception is that time flies as we age.

Then I remembered how it took me forever to get out of school and that was only twelve years. The four years I was in the Navy took even longer. But from about age thirty it started to really speed up. Then the kids reached their teen years and .....well.... it’s been a jet plane ride ever since.

The boys are now both in their thirties, I'm now the oldest member of my family on my father's side and my mother, who just turned ninety, is the oldest on her side. Hard to believe how fast time has flown.

At any rate, the way his mind worked had a great impact on my thinking. He’s one of the reasons I see the world just a little differently than most others. He was a chemist by profession and naturally he had a chemist's eye for facts, patterns and conclusions. He had a way of asking pointed questions that forced factual answers.  In short - he was only interested in the facts and prepared to follow them wherever they would lead. That’s what I try to do!

There are going to be changes in Paradigms and Demographics this coming year. Changes that I hope will have an impact on the thinking of anyone who ventures down the corridors of information I intend to publish. In 2015 it is my intention to change from a Blogger platform to a WordPress platform and turn P&D into a for profit news service.  A serious news service that doesn't waste space with the typical entertainment and sports claptrap. 

I don’t get a massive amount of hits right now compared to the big news sites, but my readership is worldwide. Why? I have no idea! However, I flatter myself in thinking I present a wider perspective than what is found elsewhere, and I think that’s because mostly I offer strong historical foundation for the information I present.

The countries that have hit P&D this week fall in this order:

France, United States, Ukraine, Germany, Czech Republic, China, Netherlands, Canada, United Kingdom and Bulgaria.

For the month it’s been:

United States, France, Ukraine, Germany, China, Netherlands, Russia, Czech Republic, Canada and the United Kingdom.

The all time top ten are as follows:

United States, France, Germany, China, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Canada, Poland.

For some reason my French readership has surged tremendously these last few months. Why? I have no idea. On occasion in the past I could tell why my blog was hit based on the articles that were hit, as it was with Sweden and Japan when I had a lot of hits on solar energy. Then there was the Bulgarian surge when all the fracking articles were hit a ton. About two weeks later there was a major movement in Bulgaria to overturn the government’s fracking policies.

But that’s not the case most of the time and that’s not the case with France. Nor was it when China surged for months on end, or when Ukraine surged. I’ve concluded one thing though. The only regular pattern that seems to emerge are - crises!  When countries are in crisis I get far more hits from those countries than normal.  At least that’s the only pattern I can figure out. China may have been the exception. I felt they were just desperate for unfiltered information. 

Is France facing crises now? I believe there is a major upheaval on the horizon for France due to a couple of large issues. First and foremost – as they said in the Clinton administration – it’s the economy stupid!  France is going to go through a major upheaval over all these failed socialist policies. Policies that were doomed to fail.

Socialism has always led to economic failure – that’s history and it’s incontestable – but the French as a whole will not accept that. That’s a nightmare for any emerging French leader. Secondly, and I think most importantly, is the problem with Muslim immigrants who refuse to assimilate, get on and stay on government dole, react violently against anything they don't like, and are virtually an alien revolutionary army in their midst.  That’s the harvest for sowing a crop of multi-culturalism, and the rest of Europe is facing the same problem. I’ve often wondered what the Hammer of France, Charles Martel, who saved France and probably the rest of Europe from Muslim invasion would have thought of this. There’s going to be violence at frightening levels if and when the EU collapses economically. And I think it’s a matter of “when” – and not a matter of “if”.

In the meanwhile – although I’m not very optimistic about world events – I do wish the best to everyone.