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Last week the news was dominated by the chaotic and dangerous evacuations of embassy staff and others from Kabul in connection with the seizure of power by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The evacuation is a disgrace for the governments involved, yes some people have been brought into safety, but that is all you can say….

This week the radical-islamist Taliban seized power again in Afghanistan, power they lost twenty years ago in the aftermath of 9/11, when a Western alliance led by the US occupied the country. Despite the fact that this seizure of power could be seen coming for months, several countries among which The Netherlands had not evacuated…

While Germany had to contend with lots of water this last month, in Greece it is fire causing big trouble. The fire had even reached the outskirts of the capital Athens and although the acute danger seems to be over there now, the fires are still burning. As we discussed in last week’s post big…

The last few weeks your reporter was in Germany to hike, but immediately the skies opened and water came down in streams, unseen for a long time. Germany had not experienced such a flood in almost sixty years, the damage done is enormous, the number of deaths is more than 180 now. Other countries were…

The transition of the Great Conjunctions from Earth to Air signs in 1980-2020 have caused many political changes. As could be expected in this time of transition, the establishment was confronted with strong opposing forces, in some way promoting radical solutions. Often these were forces resisting the movement to the Air element (globalization, migration, loss…

Last Sunday Formula-1 driver Max Verstappen won the Grand Prix of France in style and by this victory he strengthened his leader position in the ranking for the world title.The season is still long, there are 23 Grand Prixs and the one in France was the eighth, but he seems to have a good chance…

On 6 June the daughter of the “exiled”royal pair Meghan Markle and  (ex-) Prince Harry was born in Santa Barbara, California. The child received the name Lilibet Diana, Lilibet is a pet name for Queen Elisabeth and the combination with Diana relfects the whole family drama. So it seems  inevitable that this family history can…

The past few weeks the increasing tensions in Northren Ireland were discussed on this blog, and the threat that things might again get out off hand. First, the Irish radix was checked by investigating some important historical developments, then the current progressions were analysed. There were no very dramatic things to be seen, although the…

In my last two posts the progressions in the Irish radix were discussed and big crisis situations, like the start of The Troubles in 1969 and the Great Famine in 1845-1850, turned out to be clearly indicated by strong tensions in the progressions. Brext has now led to a stronger fear that the old conflict…

Brexit has not done the UK a lof of good. Not only is the country facing its economical consequences, on top of Corona, also the Scots seem to be getting very serious about independence. And in the Irish part of the now still United Kingdom tensions are on the rise because of the  administrative “customs…