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Where there is no vision, the people perish. - Proverbs 29:18The history of May 1 as a workers’ holiday is intimately tied to the generations-long movement for the eight-hour day, to immigrant workers, to police brutality and repression of the labour movement, and to the long tradition of American anarchism.
This year International Workers Day arrives with more than 250 million of the world’s workers unemployed. The UN predicts that up to more than 70 million more could be thrown into the streets by year’s end.
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“Positive thinking is a much derided concept, only because if it is not followed by positive action it leads to nothing.” - Aaron A. Fimister By now, I am sure that you have heard about the tragic shooting of 20 small children and 7 adults by, Adam Lanza, a deranged 20 year old in Connecticut, USA. It has been the lead on all news shows and many entertainment shows since it happened.
In the early hours of December 14, 2012, a deadly shooting took place in Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown. The scale of the tragedy and the age of the victims shocked a country that has seen many mass shootings. From the media and political establishment, there is an effort to prevent any discussion of the social and political background to the tragedy, the latest in a long series of similar incidents.
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“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.” - Friedrich Nietzsche “You have three quarters of an hour, because at five o’clock I will issue a press release. You have either to resign or I shall dismiss you by five o’clock.” - My goodness, could one be more arrogant? And this coming from the mouth of the one and only, the unelected, private-jet loving, Portuguese eurocrat, now top boss of the European Union, already eyeing a third term in his office. It seems that he does not see himself as arrogant but actually as really, really great, the undisputed and indispensable leader of the gang.
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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” - Albert EinsteinThree corresponding and analogous cases! But the results??
The first…
The Kappara Junction scenario.
The multi-level junction, that includes a flyover, has been in the offing since the early 1990s and MEPA (Malta Environment and Planning Authority) permits for a previous design had already been issued.
Why did it never materialize and now these newer options, opposed by all environmentalists had to be proposed? What part did the Kappara villa residents had in all this?
"The impact on residential areas would be significant…” said the EPD (Environment Protection Directorate) in its objection to the newly proposed project.
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...The Wrong Way - The English word "greed" usually is defined as attempting to possess more than one needs or deserves, especially at the expense of others. We're taught from childhood that we shouldn't be greedy.“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.” - Albert Camus
"When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life," said Oscar Wilde. "Now that I am old, I know that it is." Mr. Wilde was not wrong in his assessment; money has become the bloody lubrication for the gears of government, mass media manipulation and the steady erasure of basic human rights. To put it more bluntly, as Bob Dylan did, "Money doesn't talk, it swears."
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"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level." - Bertrand RussellLet’s take back our democracy!
I believe, and everybody must grant, that no government can exist for a single moment without the co-operation of the people, willing or forced, and if people withdraw their co-operation in every detail, the government would come to a standstill.
Am I a bit older than you? I am in that group of people who are dying off and will soon be unable to worry about our country and its people.
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