Currents
December 2018
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Circumstance
While the United States is dealing with the
extreme right swing of the pendulum, the rest of the
world, which has been dealing with the conse-
quences of the climate change and its refugees, is
again showing its tendency toward protectionism.
Daily migrants from the current resource wars are
driving the same Nationalism movement across the
globe with no end in sight.
The latest report, if one can believe such things,
tells us that the tail-end of the
baby boomers’ generation, will
spend the “golden years” fighting
for resources and against
weather extremes.
Some parts of the global wil
bel okay for another generation,
but weather extremes will tarnish
the golden years, much like the
movie “Interstellar” more and
more human and technical
resources will be dedicated to
caring for the 8 billion humans
occupying the planet. Currently,
the worlds largest corporations
have gained control over most
fresh water sources and are sell-
ing back to the population. Imag-
ine the price of water when the
only potable water on the planet
belongs to corporations.
Pompano Beach
Locally, the tight mayoral race
finally went to District 3 Commis-
sioner Rex Hardin, who only ran
negative and untrue ads and
whose website lists only vague
accomplishments and whose per-
sonal financial life makes his fis-
cal competence suspect. Not to
mention his criminal ethics viola-
tions. Nonetheless, the people
chose him to lead the city into
more of the same. The only posi-
tive issue raised by his campaign
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