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The New Pandemic Age
The human race can live without airborne viruses. It is a matter of cleaning up our air the same way we cleaned up our water. However, it has become obvious that this will require cleaning up our system of government.
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The Ukraine War so Far
The Russian conduct of the war has been brilliant. They faced the need to take a territory while causing minimum civilian casualties and damage to infrastructure. They had to do it with a minimum number of forces and avoid excess casualties.
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Fighting the Ukraine war in Canada
Many people can talk usefully about what they know something about and then go shit stupid about a subject on which they are given no facts but instead a lot of emotional triggers.
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A trip to the ER in Covid times
The Covidian age is a bad time to be old, sick, and poor. There could be a serious breakdown of government. The wise old man long ago said the collapse of government would lead to life that is nasty, brutish, and short. Life for people like me could be especially shortened.
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The Donbas Story 3
The accounts of Donbas in western media are, of course, totally ridiculous. They are misinformation based on a need to create hatred against Russia in order to justify aggression. As well, being Western Liberals, they really cannot stand the idea of ordinary people successfully rebelling against a tyranny and creating their own institutions.
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The Donbas Story 2
The Russian government offered little support to the Donbas republics, but volunteers, money, and equipment flowed in from private sources in Russia and some other countries. With this, the Donbas militia not only defeated the Ukrainian army but went on the attack.
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About the Voting Reform Movement in Canada
Like much of my writing, this piece is in fact a Swiss army knife intended to do several things. One is to address the members and board of FVC as to what I, and I think some others, tried to talk about at the Zoom AGM last Saturday. It is also meant to be useful to people who are interested in the voting and democracy reform subjects, and in Canadian and Ontario politics.
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The Donbas Story
I started following the Donbas revolt back in 2014, when the trouble began. I found it to be a very powerful story. People rose up and fought against a really evil regime. I am writing this now because I see a need for it. No good account of it has ever been written in English.