The Return of the Penny Pensioner: Chapter 5: What’s Wrong with The United States?: Entitled Unionized Workforce and Their Greedy Bosses Create a New “Disaffected Class” Ripe for the Political Picking

Excuse my amateurish attempt at economic theory bearing in mind you are reading this because you are preferring adventure like you were a theatre goer in “The Last Picture Show” as opposed reading dry political economics. At one point in time the U.S.A. had it all with almost all consumer and industrial goods produced internally.Continue reading “The Return of the Penny Pensioner: Chapter 5: What’s Wrong with The United States?: Entitled Unionized Workforce and Their Greedy Bosses Create a New “Disaffected Class” Ripe for the Political Picking”

The Penny Pensioner Returns: Chapter Four: Misleading to Say Americans are Canada’s Enemies?

Hold back for a moment before we enumerate the American attack on Canada. Let’s recognize there are many Americans who are dismayed at this attack and recognize that friendship is generated by their respect for the values that Canadians stand for. They recognize and appreciate Canadians have been there for them whether its is lendingContinue reading “The Penny Pensioner Returns: Chapter Four: Misleading to Say Americans are Canada’s Enemies?”

The Return of the Penniless Pensioner: Can I Save Canada? Chapter Three: I Am Not the Man I Used To Be

If you have read my book “The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous” you might be tempted to say I morphed in light speed from a spoiled Indo-Welsh brat into a man of intrigue. Am I happy? How can you ask that after my sweet Calabrian plum Ginevra and our unborn child were killed inContinue reading “The Return of the Penniless Pensioner: Can I Save Canada? Chapter Three: I Am Not the Man I Used To Be”

The Penniless Pensioner Returns: Can He Save Canada: Chapter Two: Some Transparency

You are no doubt swept up in the jargon of the day which includes transparency and conflicts of interest. My colleague and friend, Robert K. Stephen, will be assisting me in the writing of this treatise. No. He is not a ghost writer but a coach and an experienced author of several literary masterpieces (hisContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner Returns: Can He Save Canada: Chapter Two: Some Transparency”

The Penniless Pensioner Returns! Can He Save Canada?

Chapter One: What to Do Next In the published recounting of my life described in “The Penniless Pensioner: Misunderstood, Maligned but Marvellous” we certainly had a ride bordering on the fantastic. We started with my childhood in Bombay with an introduction to my Welsh mother Juanita Wallenberg the almost massively famous blues singer and myContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner Returns! Can He Save Canada?”

Press Release: Vice President Jimbo Nochance Explains United States Free All Inclusive Vacation to Canadian Government Cabinet at Guantanamo Bay

Spoof News Services: 4February2025: Washington “Yesterday evening 60 United States Marine Walrus Special Forces limousines were dispatched to Ottawa, Canada with large “51st” markings on their exterior. Fittingly the vehicles entered through Kingston, Ontario and after a stop at McDonalds for wholesome American food our nation has come to love they proceeded 4 hours furtherContinue reading “Press Release: Vice President Jimbo Nochance Explains United States Free All Inclusive Vacation to Canadian Government Cabinet at Guantanamo Bay”

RKS Literature: The Never-Ending Prison Sentences in Stalinist Soviet Union

“Shukov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or not. To begin with, he’d wanted it very much and counted up every evening how many days he still had to serve. Then he’d gotten fed up with it. And still later it had gradually dawnedContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Never-Ending Prison Sentences in Stalinist Soviet Union”

RKS Literature: Freedom of Speech in the Gulag (Solzhenitsyn)

“The good thing about hard-labor camps is that you have all the freedom in the world to sound off. In Ust-Izhma you’d only have to whisper that people couldn’t buy matches outside and they’d clap another 10 on you. Here you could shout anything you liked from a top bunk and the stoolies wouldn’t reportContinue reading “RKS Literature: Freedom of Speech in the Gulag (Solzhenitsyn)”

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)”

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)”