Robert K Stephen (CSW)

RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “Death Without Mercy”: Your Trip to Hell

It was a quiet early 2024 November evening in Thessaloniki, Greece and I was holed up writing reviews for films I had watched at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Thessaloniki has survived many aftershocks but in 1978 the city suffered aftershocks from a 6.5 Richter scale earthquake killing an estimated 49 people. Greece is noContinue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “Death Without Mercy”: Your Trip to Hell”

RKS Literature: Paying Attention to the Gulag Hierarchy (Solzhenitsyn)

“The foreman matters more than anything else in a prison camp: a new one gives you a new lease of life, a bad one can land you six feet under. Shukov had known Andrei Profofyevich Tyurin back in Ust-Izhma. He hadn’t worked under him there, but when all the “traitors” had been shunted from theContinue reading “RKS Literature: Paying Attention to the Gulag Hierarchy (Solzhenitsyn)”

Press Release: Caravans of Migrant Americans Head to Canadian Border Crossings

2February2025: Spoof News Services: Toronto Thousands of Americans are flooding to the Canadian border waving state flags and chanting, “Gotta get out now or we’ll be a POW!” Unlike Central American caravans that have lately been repelled by tear gas and machine gun bullets at the United States- Mexican border by patriots Canadians have metContinue reading “Press Release: Caravans of Migrant Americans Head to Canadian Border Crossings”

(Trumpian Tariff War): Department of Finance of Canada Lists Various Types of American Beer, Wine, Spirits and Alcoholic Beverages Subject to 4February2025 Tariff of 25%

The 25% tariff is effective 4February2025 and will remain in effect until Trump tariffs end. The Department of Finance product list and backgrounder can be accessed below. https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/02/list-of-products-from-the-united-states-subject-to-25-per-cent-tariffs-effective-february-4-2025.html

(Trump Tariff Wars) News Release – Manitoba- Sales of United States Alcohol in the Province of Manitoba

February 2, 2025 Manitoba Government to Pull American Alcohol Products Off Shelves In response to United States President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the Manitoba government is issuing a directive to Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries (MBLL) to stop the sale of American products in the province, Premier Wab Kinew announced today. “Trump’s tariff tax is an attackContinue reading “(Trump Tariff Wars) News Release – Manitoba- Sales of United States Alcohol in the Province of Manitoba”

RKS Trumpian Tariff War: The Province of Nova Scotia Removes All United States Liquor from Its Stores

The Premier of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Tim Huston, announced he will direct the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation to remove all United States alcohol from its shelves effective 4February2025.

RKS Trumpian Tariff War: British Columbia To Restrict U.S. Liquor Sales

Premier David Eby of the Canadian province of British Columbia announced countermeasures on 2February2025 to “stand up” for British Columbian workers and businesses after the United States announced incoming tariffs of 25% on incoming goods and 25% on Canadian energy. As a first step the British Columbia Liquor Distribution Branch will immediately stop purchasing liquorContinue reading “RKS Trumpian Tariff War: British Columbia To Restrict U.S. Liquor Sales”

RKS 2025 Wine: A South African Red Blend

This Kloof Street Swartland Rouge is a blend of Syrah (41%), Grenache (32%), Tinta Barocca (17%) and Cinsault (10%) which have been fermented using indigenous yeasts. From sustainably farmed vineyard parcels in different parts of the Swartland, up to 48 years in age: Two parcels of Syrah and one parcel of Cinsault and Grenache fromContinue reading “RKS 2025 Wine: A South African Red Blend”

RKS 2025 Film: “Exhibiting Forgiveness”: Bible Thumpers Curing Horrific Wrongs?

Forgiveness is an essential component of Christian and mindfulness ideology. Forgiving is perceived as liberating and healing. But are there certain dastardly and evil deeds that simply can’t be forgiven such as the endless episodes of genocide plaguing world history? Tarrell (André Holland) is a black artist seemingly living the good life, a real upContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Exhibiting Forgiveness”: Bible Thumpers Curing Horrific Wrongs?”

RKS Literature: The Perpetual Sentence in the Gulag (Solzhenitsyn)

“Another thing the searchers looked for in the morning: men wearing civilian dress under prison clothes. Never mind that everybody had been stripped of his civilian belongings long ago and told that he’d get them back the day his sentence ended (a day nobody in the camp had yet seen).” “One Day in the LifeContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Perpetual Sentence in the Gulag (Solzhenitsyn)”