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Helen A Jenkins's avatar

Barry...your level of information is mind blowing for me. Thank you so much for putting together the inter-connection of the various autocratic Dictators or would be Dictators (here in the US) which we are watching before our very eyes. I come from reading Tim Snyder's article, his analysis of what the Trumpomuskovia could show us!

I also come as one of many Americans who will be working to poke holes in their plans. I am not willing to just give up. I am 80 and was here before Trump and Musk. So I will do my part while I have breath in me to poke holes in their plans like many others who are younger than I. You know, perhaps enough holes can sink the ship!!

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BARRY GANDER's avatar

Yes, Tim Synder is brilliant. You will see Trump and Musk sink in your lifetime! Keep drilling those holes...

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Jane's avatar

Thank you to all of the writers who are allowing their articles to be read without paywalls. The digital distribution is growing exponentially. I wish the three dimensional paper version could be as accessible (in case our power grid is lost). Little neighborhood libraries, book clubs, or sixteenth-century style salons need rev up!

If enough people learn the background to wealth around the world, they will figure out a way to counter the exploitation and excess that always goes with wealth. Many of the most unhappy and mentally-tortured people I know…are the people who covet their financial statements! The great minds of all the ages have told us again and again…Matthew for one, Matthew 19:24………

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BARRY GANDER's avatar

Nice thought about the paper versions being good for distribution! For others, the quote from Matthew that Jane cites is the one about how hard it is for a rich man to go through the eye of the needle...the needle was a narrow gate in Jerusalem and if your camel was so overloaded it could not get through the gate, you had to give away your cargo to the poor until your camel's load was thin enough to pass.

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