Yep. I remember growing up and thinking Castro must be a Satan worshipper if the things on the news were true. As children, we believe someone is all good or all evil. I wish that were true. It would make it much easier to decide whether to waste your empathy on someone, but like everything in the universe, there must be balance. Maybe t…
Yep. I remember growing up and thinking Castro must be a Satan worshipper if the things on the news were true. As children, we believe someone is all good or all evil. I wish that were true. It would make it much easier to decide whether to waste your empathy on someone, but like everything in the universe, there must be balance. Maybe there can be only God with no evil, but that's way above my pay grade. The world is very gray. As for the WEF, I'm very aware of the Young Global Leaders. Did you know Zelenskyy is an alum too? It makes the NATO proxy war make a whole lot more sense when you know where everyone is coming from, huh? I spend the better part of six months every year watching every speech from the Davos Billionaires Club (sometimes 2 or 3 times) meeting every year and cross referencing. Know thy enemy, right?
Wow! You are a treasure trove of info. Thanks for sharing it. YOU should have a Substack column. Or do you already have one and I'm just on the outside looking in?
No. Although you're very kind. I have an English degree with a Medieval History minor, so I'm a research nerd not a writer. I once dreamed of writing novels, but my imagination just isn't that good. My strength is finding facts of which people are largely unaware. I've spent most of my life in dusty book stacks in libraries nobody uses. It's where I'm happy. The internet made me largely redundant and I spent the rest of my career as a paralegal. Research is always beneficial to somebody.
Then you're my kinda gal. Have you read "The Library Book" by Susan Orlean or
"The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts" by Joshua Hammer. I would recommend both of them - in between the time you spend working and commenting on various Substack columns. 😉
I haven't, but I'll definitely look for them on the Zon. I've been mostly reading political autobiographies and biographies, watch speeches, read 60 or 70 articles a day and read results from FOIA requests I've made when the government is willing to hand it over. I don't have the money for FOIA lawsuits. I just finished Reagan's book. It was extremely interesting. I had no idea how truly prepared he was for the Presidency. The media treated him as an uneducated and rather silly man and while he was a genuinely funny man, he was well educated and had amazing life experiences.
Remember when he was waiting for Gorbachev to get on the phone about East Germany and joking around, said, "Russia, the nukes have been launched. You have 30 minutes to take cover." Suddenly, Gorbachev's voice comes through all panicked and says, "What!?" Reagan laughs, a bit embarrassed, and says, "Uh, just joking! Now about this wall.." The Democrats lost their minds but I thought it was hysterically funny. 😂 I loved Reagan.
Yep. I remember growing up and thinking Castro must be a Satan worshipper if the things on the news were true. As children, we believe someone is all good or all evil. I wish that were true. It would make it much easier to decide whether to waste your empathy on someone, but like everything in the universe, there must be balance. Maybe there can be only God with no evil, but that's way above my pay grade. The world is very gray. As for the WEF, I'm very aware of the Young Global Leaders. Did you know Zelenskyy is an alum too? It makes the NATO proxy war make a whole lot more sense when you know where everyone is coming from, huh? I spend the better part of six months every year watching every speech from the Davos Billionaires Club (sometimes 2 or 3 times) meeting every year and cross referencing. Know thy enemy, right?
Wow! You are a treasure trove of info. Thanks for sharing it. YOU should have a Substack column. Or do you already have one and I'm just on the outside looking in?
No. Although you're very kind. I have an English degree with a Medieval History minor, so I'm a research nerd not a writer. I once dreamed of writing novels, but my imagination just isn't that good. My strength is finding facts of which people are largely unaware. I've spent most of my life in dusty book stacks in libraries nobody uses. It's where I'm happy. The internet made me largely redundant and I spent the rest of my career as a paralegal. Research is always beneficial to somebody.
Then you're my kinda gal. Have you read "The Library Book" by Susan Orlean or
"The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts" by Joshua Hammer. I would recommend both of them - in between the time you spend working and commenting on various Substack columns. 😉
I haven't, but I'll definitely look for them on the Zon. I've been mostly reading political autobiographies and biographies, watch speeches, read 60 or 70 articles a day and read results from FOIA requests I've made when the government is willing to hand it over. I don't have the money for FOIA lawsuits. I just finished Reagan's book. It was extremely interesting. I had no idea how truly prepared he was for the Presidency. The media treated him as an uneducated and rather silly man and while he was a genuinely funny man, he was well educated and had amazing life experiences.
I thought he was a terrific President.
Remember when he was waiting for Gorbachev to get on the phone about East Germany and joking around, said, "Russia, the nukes have been launched. You have 30 minutes to take cover." Suddenly, Gorbachev's voice comes through all panicked and says, "What!?" Reagan laughs, a bit embarrassed, and says, "Uh, just joking! Now about this wall.." The Democrats lost their minds but I thought it was hysterically funny. 😂 I loved Reagan.
He called a spade a spade.