Revolution


‘We need a revolution Camp, an uprising; marching in the streets, shouting from the rooftops. We cannot let these crypto oligarchs take over the world and take away a century of functioning democracy.’

            ‘You’re right my friend, we need a revolution but it is the domain and prerogative of the young, not seniors and old farts like us. Where are the young who do not want to put up with a dictatorship by the super-rich?’

            ‘Busy staring at their little screens, texting, tik-toking and U-tubing? They seem to have no leader, no direction, no incentive.’

            ‘A revolution is needed when the rich oligarchs grab everything for themselves and leave the population floundering and poorer. That’s what’s happening in the USA thanks to the unprecedented, punitive trade war Trump has started, along with firing thousands of civil servants. He ignores one important fact: his own citizens are punished and paying for his wild and arbitrary tariffs and reciprocal countermeasures.’

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Revolution


         ‘Do you think there is a chance that there will be a reset from income inequality to fair wealth distribution in the rich nations.’

         ‘You mean the poor should be richer and the rich poorer?’ Camp said, raising one of his prominent, white eyebrows. 

         ‘Well, kind off. I guess I’m talking about the fact that according to the Federal Reserve, the top 1% of households in the US holds 32% of the country’s wealth, while the bottom 50%, the least wealthy households, accounted for 2.6%. That’s at the end of 2021. In Canada it’s a bit better.

         ‘Doesn’t surprise me,’ Camp said. According to Forbes data, the combined wealth of all US billionaires increased by 2 trillion dollars, 70%, between March 2020 and October 2021, that is during Covid.’

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Cuba Revisited


Havana is a ruinous city, like an old prostitute covered in too much makeup to hide the pain and suffering, but yet resilient and full of life. The crumbling facades of the  wedding cake villas and opulent palaces of the former sugar barons and casino moguls, of the corrupt regimes before the revolution, bear witness to the ravages of time, decay and lack of money. Sixty years of neglect, coupled with numerous hurricanes and the salty fecundity of the climate is not a recipe for a well functioning infrastructure.

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