JIMMIE MOGLIA—‘Security’ is the nominal, illogical reason why this class imposes criminal measures on behalf of the rest of the nation, claiming to act for the nation’s interest. Unable or unwilling to realize that the most tragic form of loss isn’t the loss of security – rather the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different. Counteracting the ‘macho’ view there is (luckily), the great majority of the ‘other’ Americans, who are helpful, independent, practical, kind, considerate, genuinely interested in others, generous and helpful to their neighbors as a matter of course. These traits were equally necessary and indispensable during the ‘so-called’ conquest of the West. And they equally and globally describe the class ‘H’ Americans (‘H’ for ‘Humanity’).
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EU members countries, from Czechia to France and Germany, are watching their populations explode in anger as a result of sharp rises in the cost of living, the inability to secure stable supplies of energy, and the irrational warmongering and criminal NATO/EU sanctions imposed on Russia. The demonstrators are finally getting fed up with the EU’s corrupt and arrogantly inept leadership, and its own irrational decision to not accept Russian gas. The prospect of an endless war, sold on lies, which could now easily degenerate into a nuclear confrontation, and a harsh winter with no heating fuel, plus inflation and a poor job outlok, are all adding to the pent-up anger that many experience now in the working class all over Europe.
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BATIUSHKA—Truss’ decision to increase government spending – not least to double the UK ‘Defence’ (who is attacking the UK anyway?) budget to £50 billion by 2030 – to send over £3 billion of military supplies to Kiev so far this year, to subsidise 100,000 Ukrainian ‘refugees’, and at the same time to make tax cuts for the rich (what else would you expect the Conservative Party to do?) has not been accepted by Biden, the IMF and, above all, by the markets.
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The cost of vassalage to Washington is beginning to cost Europeans dearly. Not only are they depleting their own stocks of weapons to keep Ukraine from collapsing, or as virtue signalling since all these regimes are members of NATO, but now their OWN decision to attack, denigrate and SANCTION Russia in the vilest and most vociferous way, while rejecting their own access to Russian gas, oil, etc., is pushing Europe into an economic and social disaster with probably grave political repercussions.
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RON RIDENOUR—Finland began following the rest of the West with neo-liberalism deregulations and cutbacks in the 1980s, but has not gone as far as the others yet. One of its hallmarks is education. See Michael Moore’s most recent film (2016), “Where to invade next”. It is an excellent and entertaining source for values in which the US is contrasted to several countries. Finland tops the world for the best education, the best results for its elementary school students, who also rank among the happiest. Its secret: no homework, more time to be young, to play, to relax. Students are motivated to learn in a disciplined way for the 20 hours they attend classes.
