The ghiorse factor
« The White Houses
move away
packaging trees
around them. . . . ”
Excerpt from “Small Towns Are Passing” by Wesley McNair (born 1941), Maine poet
“Every country has its mafia. In Russia, the mafia has its country. “
— Garry Kasparov (born 1963), from Russia, a foreign human rights activist and former world chess champion, now lives in Croatia.
“Television contaminates identity. “
— Novelist Norman Mailer (1923-2007) in 1972
“I have time and now time is wasting me. “
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), in his play Richard II
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Providence and some other communities are pouring too much salt on some streets, some of which were bright white last week, amid piles of salt pebbles. This is poisonous to plant life and contaminates water supplies. More care, please.
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Is it fair to make sure that teachers at, say, Barrington High School have 3 COVID vaccines as a condition of employment when a few dozen students are allowed to attend without getting vaccinated?
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In addition to the much quieter electric leaf blowers, there is this revolutionary device called a rake. A few decades ago, me and other teenagers made pocket money by raking, mowing the lawn, and trimming hedges. Where did those smart gigs go? Why do so many other wealthy people think they want to rent a “gardening company”?
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Could PPL, which plans to buy National Grid’s Rhode Island operations, be persuaded to bury those drawing nearby lines of force at Providence’s India Point Park?Narragansett and millions of other people on the adjacent Route 195 each year. And the buried lines would be safe from storms.
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Probably, the maximum effective quick sanctions would be to block all U. S. generation transfers. The U. S. to Russia, hoping that the entire West and allies like Japan and South Korea would sign up for us. This would hit the Kremlin temporarily and hard.
After all, about the number of devices whose software and hardware are manufactured in the United States and through our allies.
As far as possible, Russian monetary assets in the loose world will be immediately frozen and ALL Russian institutions will be banned from accessing SWIFT, the high-security network that connects thousands of banks and other monetary institutions around the world so that they can make payments.
However, the foreign exposure of the Russian elite linked to Putin is enormous; it is time to take on those ill-gotten gains hidden in Western accounts and real estate for cash laundering. (See the Trump Organization. ) Seize yachts, attics of oligarchs, etc.
And as far as possible, monetary assets in western Belarus, Putin’s puppet, and key figures in that mafia state, who aided in the invasion, will also be frozen.
The despot, who to recreate an edition of the brutal Soviet empire with himself as absolute ruler, would use a takeover of Ukraine to position himself much stronger to undermine the fragile democracies of Central and Eastern Europe — Russian troops and tanks on its borders!– and pushing beyond Russia’s borders the examples of disgustingly rich liberal democracies that make Putin look bad. In fact, this tyrant and others around the world, fearing examples of democratic success, seek to undermine representative government anywhere they can.
And we deserve to be wrong about the concept that Putin cares about the well-being of the Russian people, whom his government has impoverished. He only cares about the power, greatness and wealth of Tsar Vladimir Putin. And he knows that NATO will not. attack Russia militarily directly, it will have to be relentlessly attacked with many other tactics as long as Putin directs it.
Americans, especially enthusiasts of their own evil kleptocratic narcissist, Donald Trump, might prevent and wonder how Putin and allied autocrats, by undermining liberal democracy, would limit the global area in which the human values of open societies, democracy and freedom dominate and where the West can freely sell its products and services. Confronting Putin is in our own political and economic interest, although it will cause us some pain. Not seriously punishing the invasion of this damn gangster will cost us much, much more than the side effects. on us of any sanctions that oppose Russia.
Ukraine is like, for example, Islamofascist Afghanistan. This European country seeks to be part of the West, and its values are Western.
In 1961, John F. Kennedy called for patience and courage in the “long twilight struggle” against communist tyranny during the Cold War. Do Americans, known for their impatience and preference for prompt gratification, have patience with dictators?
And do Americans have the rigor to misinform, whether it comes from Putin’s mafia or, for example, from the deeply corrupt fascist (and pro-Putin) wing of the Republican Party, part of which is funded through billionaire oligarchs reminiscent of the “Did they feed and feed back Putin, an admirer of Joseph Stalin?”who murdered several million of his Soviet subjects. As for idiotic dictators in the media like the spoiled preppy liar Tucker Carlson, take out the Lysol!
Click on those links to learn about Trump’s sordid history with Russia and Ukraine:
https://www. politico. com/magazine/story/2017/03/connections-trump-putin-russia-ties-chart-flynn-page-manafort-sessions-214868/
https://www. businessinsider. com/trump-russia-business-financial-ties-2018-11
https://www. newyorker. com/magazine/2019/10/14/donald-trumps-ukraine-scandal-tiene-sus-raíces-en-rusia
https://www. cnn. com/2022/02/24/politics/donald-trump-praises-putin/index. html
https://www. politico. com/news/2022/02/24/ukraine-trump-impeachment-00011406
https://www. theguardian. com/world/2021/jul/15/kremlin-papers-appear-to-show-putins-plot-to-put-trump-in-white-house
https://www. npr. org/2021/03/16/977958302/intelligence-report-russia-tryed-to-help-trump-in-2020-election
To what extent will Americans tolerate emerging energy costs and Russian cyberattacks before many to appease the aggressor?
And how many will fall into the obscene false equivalence of Russia/Soviet Union and the United States?Or will they go down and read some history?
I bet many Germans that their country has shut down its nuclear power plants, which has made it too dependent on Russian gas. The burning of fossil fuels, for the generation and transportation of electric power, not only causes what may be catastrophic global warming, yet it also supports dictatorships. The European Union is belatedly taking steps away from Russian fuel.
Meanwhile, many are wondering how Chinese dictator Xi Jinping will manage to ally himself with his fellow tyrant Putin, given the vast industry between the West and China. This?
By the way, Lukoil, owner of many fuel stations in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic states, is a Russian company run by oligarchs with very close ties to Putin. You may need to fill your tank at the company’s outlets.
Neighborhood show
In fact, it’s news that Ed Brady and Jeff Quinlan, whose Dig In Dining food stall organization includes Thirsty Beaver and other establishments, will revive the much-loved Park Theatre, built in 1926 and closed since the early days of COVID-19. make it a place for a new performing arts center and other activities. The owners plan, among other things, to play old videos and have a comedy club and a coffee shop.
This will energize the community and beyond. So great to have stalls that are located in the grocery shopping malls.
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Are we ready for many more people to catch colds and flu, while mask mandates are abandoned?Do not throw away your masks.
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Elite schools like Brown: Wall Street sharks run their forums and careerists, tactile cultivators dominate their student bodies.
The offshore wind sector is slowly reaping economic dividends on land. The most recent example is that Prysmian Group, an Italian company, will acquire 47 acres in Brayton Point, Somerset, Massachusetts, to establish a $200 million facility to manufacture submarine transmission cables to bring electric power generated through offshore wind turbines to the New English Grid. It’s great symbolism because Brayton Point is the site of New England’s last giant coal-fired power plant.
Just off Highway 195, there is an offshore wind facility in New Bedford, such as the Somerset site connecting to wind turbine networks to pass into southern New England. The Whaling City facility will handle the assembly and deployment of the turbines. . And a site in Salem, Massachusetts, is being thought of as a transit domain for the turbine gathering, adding nets in the Gulf of Maine.
The best Trumper Pol
H. Russell Taub, who used the name “ambassador,” reminds me of too many members of the Trump cult: amoral, greedy, and obsessed with strength and status. He is the former Republican congressional candidate who was jailed for defrauding donors of his crusade to defeat Rhode Island Democratic Congressman David Cicilline in 2016.
However, it turns out that a few months before this election, he sent a message to a Twitter account – Guccifer 2. 0 – used through the Russian secret services. He asked them to give him stolen information about Cicilline.
Taub was named “ambassador” in 2014, according to a five-year-old edition of the International Commission on Human Rights. The organization is connected to the Czech Republic and interests in Ukraine and claimed a workplace in Nigeria, one of the most corrupt places. puts on the planet. It is not known what criteria the mysterious organization uses/has used to confer the name “ambassador” on its recipients.
In the case of inflation
Large companies continue to drive up costs and report record profits even as consumers buy, buy and buy with abandon while complaining. cash policies and the overly stimulating effects of the $1. 9 trillion U. S. bailout, enacted in March last year. Therefore, too many dollars for too few goods. And now Putin’s aggression will drive up the costs of energy and other raw materials.
To be fair, the rescue helped many other people, especially in low- and middle-income teams that needed it urgently to stay afloat. Of course, as with all those big systems, some other wealthy people have also benefited from them, and as with the pandemic relief systems put in place under the Trump regime, there has been fraud. It will probably take years to know how much.
On the other hand, the costs of the $1. 2 trillion infrastructure law enacted last year would tend to be anti-inflationary by making transportation, power grids, ports, and other works more reliable, efficient, and convenient. This is what happened before with government subsidies for canals and railroads in the nineteenth century and public paintings from the New Deal onwards.
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I am pleased that, regardless of the reason for the current relationship, CVS based on WOONSOCKET will close the maximum of its pharmacies of 1:30 p. m. a 2:00 p. m. to give workers a break from their incessant workload. I hope the concept will spread. Some Walgreens pharmacies have been doing this commendably for years.
Impossible to escape from it!
Many other people flock to the cities of Sunbelt and Mountain West to escape high housing costs. But in doing so, they drive up housing costs in their new cities.
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And many are finding that they want or at least want public facilities in the cities they’ve left, which require higher taxes.
In the labyrinth of Moscow
Anyone who needs more information about the pathologies of post-Soviet Russia that helped create the existing nightmare would do well to read columnist and economic historian David Warsh’s captivating e-book, Because They Could: The Russian-Harvard Scandal (and the Expansion of NATO) After twenty-five years, with its detailed history, you are there, and its collection of provocative opinions. Harvard University is doing very badly.
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