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Just a quick post...

To announce, I'm still alive.
Slogging through the detritus of my own mind, lately. I'm mentally ill, and face difficulties getting out of bed, and after that, getting out of the home.
My pessimistic attitude regarding the direction the world is heading helps none, either.
But, I'll try. I'll try to make a habit of writing, this year. I'll try to keep up to date on what's happening, these days, and to inform myself of what might happen next.
For instance, there's rumblings out there in the world of a serious recession, this year. Are you all saving your money? I hope so. Times will get tough, this year, again. We're at a point, now, where there's a slight danger of entering into an uncontrolled deflationary cycle. Do you think Canada's prepared? The USA? Even if they were prepared to do something, what could they actually do? Not much. Manufacturing was heavily shipped over seas. Manufacturing is the backbone of any economy. And with the removal of Canada's manufacturing base, we've become jellyfish-like.
Syria's all but won, now. And it was Russia that won. The West was basically shut out. There still remain pockets of resistance, but so long as Russia controls the Syrian-Turkey border, there's little help for the hapless rebels.
Climate change is beating us up, now. Droughts on one side of the world coincide with floods on the other. And it's just getting started. We're not prepared.
I suppose there's good news out there, as of right now. I'm not seeing it, at all. The forest for the trees, y'know?

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