The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday February 25th, 2022
#Inflation in #Malaysia is increasing the class divide – Cronies are taking over the supply chains by Murray Hunter
Over the last six months the prices of everyday staples have been on the rise. Now some markets are beginning to see chronic shortages of items like chicken. This is beginning to bite very heavily into Malaysian households’ consumption, which has already been strained over the last two years with Movement Control Orders (MCOs) restraining business and trade, at community and micro-enterprise levels.
With limited government assistance, many households are relying on charity to eat. Some pundits are even predicting that hardship may manifest into spontaneous demonstrations on the streets in coming months. There are already signs of this, where flash mobs have been quickly broken up by authorities. Food security is also becoming a major concern, where there doesn’t appear to be any coherent national strategy to address this problem.
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New Memories #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“We reclined
Together on the couch,
Your soft breasts
Perched on my chest
Like a pair of white doves,
Your head resting on my
Shoulder.”
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Rudolf Steiner: Education: The Road to the Higher Self by Rene Wadlow
Rudolf Steiner (1861 – 1925) was a person with many interests and made contributions to several fields. We note his birth anniversary on 25 February. The link among his many interests was that each person has a Higher Self, which he sometimes called “the Soul”, and that the road to the flowering of this Higher Self was through education, especially self-education.
To consider every child as a unique individual and to establish a relationship with the child based on mutual trust is the aim of the Rudolf Steiner schools, also called the Waldorf Schools after the first one he created shortly after the end of the First World War in Stuttgart, Germany. German youth had to deal with the tramas of the defeat and radical changes in society. In periods of crisis, creativity, imagination and audacity are needed.
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #004 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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