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Do You Get The Feeling That The World Is Spinning Out Of Control?
The Omicron variant of the Coronavirus comes at a time when the world is especially vulnerable, battered as it is by the repeated disruption to economic and social life. Indeed, I would say that the Omicron variant can very well spell the death knell to the nascent economic recovery that most nations worldwide were beginning to experience. Moreover, with so much media hysteria about this variant, it is likely that panic responses would ensue like lockdowns and bans on air travel, being announced at short notice. This is already happening as can be seen in the multiple travel bans that most countries have imposed on the African countries, from where this variant is spreading worldwide.
Rammohan SusarlaPublished 2 years ago in The SwampEsperanto and why it's problematic
Esperanto is a Constructed language, meaning for all intents and purposes, its a "fake" language. In the sense that it carries no culture, religious or Ethno-historical significance with it. It was created much like many constructed languages with the intent of being a Linguistic experiment, an experiment of creating a language that was easier to learn for as many people as possible. It reduced the stress of learning appropriate grammar, syntax, etc. As Esperanto grew into what it is today, it garnered more and more support from Political circles as a possible lingua franca or "bridge language" for the world. However, this concept although a good idea, I personally don't think Esperanto is a good choice, both Historically and practically.
Quaker-nomicsPublished 2 years ago in The SwampBorn a Crime: A Must-Read for This Generation
What if I told you Chinese people are black and Japanese are white? Would you believe me? When I encountered this information, I was as confused as you are now. How can this be possible? I can see the color of their skin. Both of them are white and shiny to my brown Asian eyes.
S M Mamunur RahmanPublished 2 years ago in The SwampWhat to know about omicron, the new COVID variant
The United States is imposing travel restrictions in response to a new form of the coronavirus prevalent in southern Africa. The limits, which are slated to go into force on Monday, are being put in place out of a sense of prudence, according to a senior Biden administration official.
Pathum DilshanPublished 2 years ago in The SwampSo What's Going On Here?
I have been watching the news since the Covid crisis first started in March of 2020, suffered through the lockdowns and restrictions like everybody else, diligently washed my hands, every time I turned around and masked up.
Maureen Kellar-KirbyPublished 2 years ago in The SwampWhat happened to the outrage over Black Friday?
I’ll never forget the Friday after Thanksgiving, 2011. I was vaguely aware of the pseudo-holiday known as Black Friday, but I had seldom participated. On that day, however, I had to go to a local big-box store to get diapers and baby wipes for my then four-week-old daughter, Catherine. As the sun sank in the dreary November sky over Toledo, Ohio, I noticed traffic in this small Midwestern city had slowed to a crawl more than a mile from the mall.
Ashley HerzogPublished 2 years ago in The SwampRittenhouse: Fools Rush In, and That’s OK
I suppose it’s good to know if your underage son or daughter procures a weapon, seeks out trouble in a nearby town, kills two people, and wounds a paramedic, all will be forgiven — self-defense.
Gary JanoszPublished 2 years ago in The SwampTigary: Humanitarian Crisis!
CAUTION! NEWS: Humanitarian crisis present in the state of Tigray, Ethiopian Region! Culture and peoples in threat of geneocide! Since November 4th of 2020, locals have and are still being starved, attacked, raped, and/or murdered by Ethiopian forces, Eritrean forces, and armed Amhara militias, as per orders of their governments. Countless horrific war crimes have been committed beneath the public's eye for over a year now, and not much has been done to stop it.
Cara Jean AndersenPublished 2 years ago in The SwampWhat your parents did not know about climate change.
Here, a kid that has born in the 90s. But, I want to talk to all the kids that they have been born from the 90s on. We grew up in a world of disruption. But we did not know that.
Kevin FantinattiPublished 2 years ago in The SwampA Few Things about Potato or Is It Potatoe?
Nobody wants to be called a potato head, not even Vice President Dan Quayle. I remember how relentless the media coverage was when Dan Quayle altered a young boy's spelling of the word potato on national TV.
Thirty Yards
30 Yards (1965) Selma Ala 1965 The hatred outside my world first touched me at the age of eight on a cold March Sunday afternoon. While playing, a ruckus came from Alabama’s Highway 80, the road from Selma to Montgomery. I crossed the street and trespassed the base commander's yard to the perimeter fence that separated me from the world. At eight years old and the third of four boys, I had free rein within the base neighborhood. My fighter pilot dad, the Chief Test Flight Officer, had brought us to Craig Air Force base in Selma, Alabama. The students and instructors broke the jets, maintenance fixed them, and my dad performed the in-flight tests before returning to flight operations. The din from the highway grew louder.
J. S. WadePublished 2 years ago in The SwampNeoliberalism Failed us. Let us at least Salvage The Present, Even if We Do Not Have a Future Worth Living For.
It would be an understatement to say that Neoliberal Capitalism is dying. Right from gross inequalities and inequities of wealth and access to goods and services, to environmental destruction to glaring deficiencies in the way public services as well as the “wealth of the commons” is distributed, neoliberalism as an ideology and as a working model on how to run our societies has failed. Indeed, the only good that has come from this grotesque concept is that the Top 1% have seen their incomes and wealth grow exponentially to the point where the rest are locked in a desperate “race for even to survive”.
Rammohan SusarlaPublished 2 years ago in The Swamp