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To: TobagoJack who wrote (200401)	7/20/2023 11:54:00 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217739

re <<Napoleon tour>> A whiff of grapeshot...

To: TobagoJack who wrote (200401)	7/23/2023 8:29:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Recommended By 3bar Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217739

Such a different life from inside Mao's Maelstrom. And from mine at that age. I did not see work in those pictures. Work in the sense of doing something to earn money that one would not otherwise do. Which is not to say that money cannot be earned by doing things for others that one also wants to do anyway, but to me it's not really work in that case. Like Irwin Jacobs starting and running QUALCOMM for fun. It was work in a way, but really mainly fun. Most people work in a way that they do not do a bit more on a Sunday just for the fun of it, unpaid. VVV foundations = Learn, work, save, invest, spend wisely [preferably by philanthropic investing with a 99% chance of failing in the attempt - such as inventing an antigravity system to reverse gravitons, or produce a proabiliistic low temperature fusion reactor]. Much emphasis on fighting, killing, conquering, confiscating I see. Such an atavistic approach to life unfortunately remains common, with USA! USA!! USA!!! a primary exponent of that way of life. Taxes running at about 50% of GDP [as in so much of the so-called "free" world]. War running hot, with spending in the $trillions and MAD beckoning the mad, such as Ursula and those Feminazis who have proven that we no longer need to pretend that if women ran the world life would be lovey dovey and hunky dory. Of course they say "Oh, it's not us. We're the Good Guys. It's that horrible little man Putin who we need to putsch so that we can rule supreme in the 4th Reich. If he had simply surrendered, abandoned Crimea and shrivelled Russia up into some liittle disarmed rump state over by the Urals things would have been great." It's fascinating how the evil people think they are the good guys. I'm sure that Germans by the million did not think themselves the evil doers during Barbarossa I. Americans had to destroy the village to save it in My Lai - a noble operation apparently. The million dead in Iraq no doubt would prefer to have NOT been saved in the imagined WMD clearance operation which cleared zero WMDs as was obvious BEFOPE the invasion. Invading sovereign countries is bad when Russia does it to keep Crimea which was Russian for hundreds of years. But good when USA!USA!!USA!!! does it in Syria to conquer Assad. I dare say a lot of Libyans are not too happy either [if they were alive to report]. Same for swarms in Yemen. I say keep the powder dry so that China thinks two or three times about murdering their way into conquest of the lovely happy people of Taiwan who are not voting for anschluss. There was no ethical basis for Made in China conquest of Hong Kong either as the possession and lease by Queen Victoria from some emperor in charge [more or less] in the 19th century need not apply well into the 21st century. I prefer voting as a means of determining who is in charge rather than might makes right. Handing over Hong Kong to the Beijing bosses was a mistake. Turning it into a version of Singapore would have been better. Let 100 flowers bloom and all that. Singapore is doing very well. Mqurice