Ukraine Starting Over

The Mood in the Metro was quite dour last week, every day, most hours, people seemed to be a bit withdrawn , somber . There was  notable lack of joy on any face, and not even a hint of mirth. The Easter weekend hardly changed it. It seems to have been the end of the burning season, dark bare Earth of the harvested crop land , the expertly  tilled wheat fields , stretching out  like a persona as vast agricultural lands,  contrasted with the redness of sunsets laden with ash, as colder weather emerged. perhaps it's possible to imagine our social media environment as a contrasted realm of "rustlers" and "wranglers". I think that most free people don't want to have either scenario imposed upon them. If their thinking is wrangled or rustled in a way they tend to agree with, then  maybe it's OK. I am drawn to the conflict in Ukraine as an external observer, originating from a vastly contrasted Socio-economic and political landscape. I find the conflict...

It is anybody's guess how Ukraine's situation will manage to sort itself out. Perhaps,  It is still an intense, very difficult to manage crisis that they are dealing with. whilst the monied elites  might shrug it off , amongst the less affluent people,  I am sure that some  disgruntlement is manifest.  Regarding  the news of the s candal regarding NABU  (National Bank of Ukraine)  that hit the front lines of Reuters news last week. Time and discernment via evidentiary process will determine what did happen there. These are perhaps just just picayune matters compared to the banking scandals, the profits taken in our USA banking system. Massive manipulations from speculators in the Petroleum Markets last year, this year the dollar remains stable, but next year ? Now I hear it all the time, from reticent reflections, sometimes quizzical, some times harshly condemnatory from my contacts: A subset of people in Ukraine won't throw Nadezhda S...