The Old Tin Shed

Have been hanging on to these video's for quite a while now.  Its in summary about how I feel about the world and my place in it.  There are some incredibly inspirational speeches below, if you have the time they are worth a listen An amazing speech, I wonder if in the real world these days anyone would have the balls to stand up and say the same thing for real.  Because I think its those things he talks about that have us lost on our way. An old speech before mobile phones before drones, and before the internet, yet truer now than any other time in history.  An amazing speech, Another truely amazing speach, I think it tells us a lot about ourselves and our destiny in the world.  He has gone down as one of the greatest leaders of all time and its brilliance like this speach that made it that way.  I will however quote the following; " You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of m...

Hi all.  Normally on this blog I try to keep away from current affairs, I may delve from time to time into issues of personal importance to me, but I try to keep it refrained. However today I am going to step out of that realm to set some so called experts right.  I will be talking directly about the up coming engagement between Iran and the rest of the known world, over its badly hidden nuclear weapons program. First things first.  There is no love lost between Iran and Israel, Iran has repeatedly stated that it will burn the state of Israel from the map.  It has incited violence and sponsored terror throughout the middle east and the world.  It claims to be a peaceful loving country, yet its actions show it to be anything but.   The US and Iran are also long standing enemy's, with the US having sponsored a war between Iran and Iraq with bad consequences as history has shown. But there is more to this future conflict than meets the...

Over the last couple of months, this question has been bandied about like an old hooker.  This has primarily been asked because of the decline in the US economy and the supposed rise of those in Asia.  China, India and Pakistan are now seen by some as ascending to be the most powerful nations on earth, both economically and militarily. Top 10 Economies link What everyone forgets, and sometimes I think its intentional is that the USA is the largest single economy on earth.  China is catching true, but a lot of that economic development in China is being driven by off shore demand for products produced in China.  A very large group of manufacturers have closed factories in the USA and right across the west to take advantage of cost savings of producing in china.  Lots of call center jobs have been exported to India and Pakistan, again taking advantage of cheap labor.  This leads to a cash flow out of the western economies into the developing ones.As the US ...