Spetses a small island that has made its mark in Greek history. How could such a small island be famous? For about a century starting in 1750, its shipowners built hundreds of large sailing ships that carried wheat from the granaries of Russia and Romania on the Black Sea to Italy, France and Spain. ButContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: The Importance of the Greek Island Spetses”
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RKS African Literature: BRUTE FORCE: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
But to be on the safe side, Kimeendeeri will build prisons and law courts and will hire armed forces, so that anyone who opposes Shamba’s system of laws or wishes to leave the confines of the farm will be punished by being jailed or detained in pits of total darkness or shot and thrown toContinue reading “RKS African Literature: BRUTE FORCE: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS African Literature: Learn from the Whites and You’ll Never Go Wrong (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
My son, listen to your father’s words of love. I know you have book learning. But the wise man is he who has been taught by someone who has seen it all before and has learned from the experience. A career of theft and robbery is the only one for anybody calls himself an adult.Continue reading “RKS African Literature: Learn from the Whites and You’ll Never Go Wrong (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS African Literature: Take the Communist Nonsense to China or the Soviet Union! (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
Those who want to awaken the masses should be shown the whip-detention or prison- just like the fellows you all know about. But I normally send around my thugs round to those who are obstinate-after plying them or course, with drugs and alcohol and money-and then they cart their bodies along to the hyenas onContinue reading “RKS African Literature: Take the Communist Nonsense to China or the Soviet Union! (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS African Literature: From Slaves to Servants to Friends: Colonialism in Transition: The Master Speaks (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
As for you, from now on I shall no longer call you slaves or servants in public. Now you are truly my friends. Why? Because even after I had given you back the keys to your country, you continued to fulfill my commandments and to protect my property, making my capital yield a higher rateContinue reading “RKS African Literature: From Slaves to Servants to Friends: Colonialism in Transition: The Master Speaks (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS Literature: Human Heads on a Pole in Kurtz’s Enclave (Joseph Conrad)
….I want you to clearly understand that there was nothing exactly profitable in these heads being there. They only showed that Mr Kurtz’s lacked the restraint in the gratification of his various lusts, that there was something wanting in him-some small matter which when the pressing need arose could not be found under his magnificentContinue reading “RKS Literature: Human Heads on a Pole in Kurtz’s Enclave (Joseph Conrad)”
BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: RORY’S TREATMENT PLAN: WHO ARE THESE MYSTERIOUS CHINESE DIPLOMATS?
While preparing for our alpine walk in the afternoon Fritz, the institute’s porter, pulled me aside informing me three Chinese diplomats (verified by showing their credentials)insisted upon seeing me but due to a strict no contact or visitor’s policy Fritz would not let them enter the premises. Although with ten 100 Euro banknotes and aContinue reading “BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: RORY’S TREATMENT PLAN: WHO ARE THESE MYSTERIOUS CHINESE DIPLOMATS?”
BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: ONCE STUNG ALWAYS SHY
I can scarcely believe I am in Switzerland undergoing “medical treatment” but then again after my Southeast Asian abduction adventures my life seems destined to be one of a rapid maturity. My philosophy is roll with the punches. Playing along with my abductors in New Jersey, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia saw me through safelyContinue reading “BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: ONCE STUNG ALWAYS SHY”
RKS CANADIAN WINE: PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY CHEATERS?
Approximately 220 kilometres from Toronto and 370 kilometres from Montreal lies Prince Edward County or “the County” as it is affectionately known as. It has its own geographical designation as some of it wines are “VQA Prince Edward County” but many of the wines bottled in the County are made from grapes trucked in fromContinue reading “RKS CANADIAN WINE: PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY CHEATERS?”
RKS TURKISH LITERATURE: AN ISLAMIST FANATIC ADMONISHES HIS MURDER VICTIM A “SHAMELESS ATHIEST” (Orhan Pamuk)
Head scarves protect a woman from harassment rape and degradation. It’s the head scarf that gives women respect and a comfortable place in society. We’ve heard this from many women who’ve chosen later in life to cover themselves. Women like the old belly dancer Melhat Sandra. The veil saves women from the animal instincts ofContinue reading “RKS TURKISH LITERATURE: AN ISLAMIST FANATIC ADMONISHES HIS MURDER VICTIM A “SHAMELESS ATHIEST” (Orhan Pamuk)”
