Ovi magazine; Tuesday January 18th, 2022

 

The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday January 18th, 2022

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Dangerous Precedents and Hypothetical Threats: The Deportation of Novak Djokovic by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

Australia’s treatment of Novak Djokovic, the tennis world number one, has been revelatory. Unintentionally, this has exposed the seedier, arbitrary and inconsistent nature of Australia’s border policies. The approval by the Australian Federal Court of the Immigration Minister Alex Hawke’s decision to re-cancel the prominent Serb’s visa left the country a heaving precedent that will be invoked, in future, with relish.

Djokovic had originally entered the country under the assumption that he had been granted a legitimate vaccine exemption. As the former Australian Tennis Open director Paul McNamee explained to the ABC, “every player and support member fills in a form, visa 408, and everyone does that, you are guided through it by Tennis Australia, every step of the way, and then you get approval, that is the process.”

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Those early years #poem by Bohdan Yuri

“I didn’t learn much in those early years,
just remembered a few essential things,
and my middle years were mostly spent
convalescing through my hidden fears.”

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Serious, frivolous, cold people by Joseph Gatt

To put things simply, serious people try to solve problems and plan their future lives. Frivolous people are more concerned with being funny and making people laugh. Cold people are mean, but that’s because they want to be left alone and don’t want people to come too close.

So those are basically the three categories of people that you will encounter. Think about it. You go online, and you have all the serious people trying to get to the truth of the story. Then you have frivolous kids throwing jokes when the atmosphere is trying to be serious. Then you have cold people being aggressive when they are trying to get everyone to stay quiet. And those are the three forces that confront each other.

So what are serious people like? What are frivolous people like? What are mean people like?

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Mika Toxica #016 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas

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Ovi magazine; Saturday November 13th, 2021

 

The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday November 13th, 2021

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The Devolution of Evolution by Bohdan Yuri

On October 24, 2021 the average weekly deaths from covid-19 in the United States was 1509 with a total number of deaths at 736,112. Recently the cases have been decreasing after a late summer surge; but with the winter enclosures ahead the cases will surely rise. All the more reason to get vaccinated.

Fortunately, this winter the world will have a vaccine available to fight the virus. Unfortunately, while many are getting vaccinated there is still a great minority who will refuse to get vaccinated. Their reasons vary:

“Nobody, especially the Government is gonna tell me what to put in my arm or not!”

The government didn’t think they would have to mandate, they assumed that you would welcome the free vaccine to protect you from the pandemic.

“Who knows what the serums actually contain?’

It contains a vaccine that may prevent your death from covid-19.

“What about all those other things…?”

There’s only this one thing: it’s safe, it works, it saves lives.

If that logic isn’t enough then I’d say, “Fine, you win — Don’t Get Vaccinated!”

In this nuanced age of social media distractions we may be spending too much time trying to convince the non-vaxers to get vaccinated.

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Window Pain #poem by Pamela Hunt

“The cat…slate gray, stands sentry-
At the bedroom window, sentry for centuries…standing like an old, tall building,
Green eyes panicky….”

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FW de Klerk: A Negotiator Before Defeat by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

Rarely is the pragmatist admired. Be it in policy or politics, such a figure induces suspicion, a concern that principles will have to be subordinated to broader goals. True dreamers and visionaries, for all their glaring faults, can take the accolades; the pragmatists can be given lower pegging.

These differences have proven stark with the late FW de Klerk, South Africa’s last apartheid president. “De Klerk,” suggested Mac Maharaj, formerly official spokesperson for President Jacob Zuma, “was a man of the moment and [Nelson] Mandela was a man of history.” The late Colin Eglin went one better in his observation of the two men. “A relatively conservative Afrikaner leader decided to negotiate before he had lost, and an imprisoned leader of a liberation movement decided to negotiate before he had won.”

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Ma-Siri & Alexa 21#17 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas

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