Cracking Under Pressure

The West is in dire straits. The EU is imploding. The US is disintegrating. Canada is facing an inflation rate of 10%. Western Liberal Democracy is in tatters. Riots and demonstrations are commonplace on the streets of Europe. The far-right has risen and obtained political power and representation in most countries. Visible minorities are getting shot on the streets of Sweden. Germany has announced the failure of multiculturalism. The authoritarian police state apparatus has been or is on standby to be implemented.
There is a global currency war raging currently as each country tries to devalue their currencies to boost trade. Countries that are formally allies and "friends" are bickering and sniping at one another. The international order set up after the Second World War has unravelled. Even the Maastricht and Lisbon Treaties are dead letters. The UN is a dinosaur fast on the way to extinction.

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Back To Life, Back To Reality

This is my first post on this blog in a long time. I have not stopped writing. To the contrary, I have written quite a bit over the course of this year. I was hired to be the chief correspondent for a website called The Age of Nepotism. Unlike this blog, I was actually paid to write. While it's nice for a writer to get paid, it comes at the price. The Age of Nepotism is not my site. While I was able to write many interesting articles and had the freedom to choose most of the topics, I had to refrain from expressing my politics. The owner of the other website is quintessential petit-bourgeois. He is a capitalist. I'm a socialist. With the most recent posts, he wanted me to attack the reactionary Republican Tea Party. While I was more than happy to do so, I balked at advocating voting for the Democrats. It's clear that the Democrats, especially under President OHbama, are just as reactionary and pursue the same policies as the Republicans. In fact, OH is even more right wing and reactionary as the previous Bush administration. I was able to criticise OH under the context of disproving why he is not a socialist. My future with that blog is uncertain considering that I was employed by the owner of the website to work for his in his rather unsuccessful business endeavours. Enough about that. I would like to turn my attention to more pressing and urgent matters.

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