The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday October 22nd, 2022 – International Stuttering Awareness Day
Stuttering has been the subject of interest of many physicians over the millennia, with one of the most famous stutterers being prominent Ancient Greek statesman and Demosthenes. Demosthenes, who lived in the 4th century BC, could not speak without stuttering and was often mocked by his peers, causing him to become determined to get his condition under control, especially since he was an extremely intelligent man who had plenty to say about Athens’ political situation. One of the tactics he used was to practice speaking loud enough to be heard over the waves with pebbles in his mouth, and after much hard work, he succeeded. Other famous people who have had to deal their stutter include the Roman Emperor Claudius, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, and James Earl Jones, whose voice the world knows as that of Darth Vader himself.
Power dance with corruption by Thanos Kalamidas
It was last week’s Trump family corruption news and obviously neither the first nor the last. “The Trump Organization appears to have overcharged the Secret Service for stays at Trump-owned properties by agents protecting the then-president. The charges exceeded the government’s approved rate, according to the House Oversight Committee, which says Secret Service records show payments totalling over $1.4 million.”
After everything we read and heard the last six years there is no surprise here and while rumours have it that in reality Donald Trump has bankrupt his family long ego, living in borrowed money, fact is that the Trump family made some serious money during and after his presidency. The not-paid advisors, Ivanka Trump, Donald’s daughter and her husband Jared Kushner for the year 2020 – last year of Donald’s presidency – added to their bank accounts a combined 800 million dollars. Nearly one billion for doing …not-paid advising!
Sadly, Donald Trump is not an exception where power dances with corruption. This is a very old dance, even ancient and Donald is just the contemporary one, on the news all the time with constant new information and the brightest of all for now. Especially authoritarian figures seem to specialize in the sport power and corruption. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and of course the Russian president Vladimir Putin, stage the best examples of president Donald Trump contemporaries in power and corruption.
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“Old Thoughts” #poem by Jan Sand
“Old age has thrown its cloak on me
Blurring eyesight,
Slowing down my walk,
Blocking off old friends
Who have problems of their own…”
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Berserk Alert! #184 #cartoon by Tony Zuvela
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