Our US Analyst and Writer friend, Charles Ortel, warns people to be cautious about believing everything the Western media and politicians feed you, on a number of issues. Winter is coming, and with hardly any independent and unbiased reporters in the MSM, he urges us to hold our bets. Nevertheless, prepare for a tough winter!

We pass quickly on the Nobel Peace Prize of this year, but both Charles Ortel and Geir Furuseth are happy the Nobel Committee didn’t award it to a sitting president, as in 2009…

Neither Russia, Ukraine or the US have yet reached the levels of IS, but we still remember the words of Dwight D. Eisenhower from January 17th, 1961.

As we peer into society’s future, we – you and I, and our government – must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.