A fellow sent me a stupid email the other day. It said that the magnetic polar shifts are causing massive global superstorms. The electromagnetic interaction of our planet and the sun and the sun’s magnetic sphere will cause countries to collapse.
Storms with winds as much as 300 miles per hour will be on the horizon or coming from the east.
Check Australia, Pakistan, Britain and most recently the major snowstorm in the United States that affected 150 million people over a range of 2 000 miles. We talk of inches of rain, but this phenomenon speaks of feet of snow.
But I do not want to frighten people and prevent them from going to the East Coast to genuflect. If a monster storm were to hit Barbados, I would not be here afterwards to see the damage. So why worry about the cost of living?
Perhaps if I could go to the company and buy a soft drink or a bottle of beer and not have to buy these items via the middleman, I would regret disappearing from this earth.
Perhaps if I could get something for my tea on mornings and not have to buy it from a shop which buys it from a supermarket with a 35 per cent markup, which buys it from a middleman with God knows how much markup, which buys it from the makers with God knows how much mark-up, I would be sorry if a superstorm were to come and I have to depart this earth.
Perhaps if I could buy a little weed direct from the big man and not around the corner, I would not have to worry about the big boys’ ostentatious living style or how they manage to import it.
(I have sympathy for the Commissioner and the tremendous job ahead of him.)
“But Harry,” said a fellow to whom I send my articles for approval, “what you rambling about? Did not Prime Minister David Thompson and his platform promise to look into those things? Did they encounter an immovable mountain when acquainted with the facts of re-election? Were they told better accounting arrangements?
“How come the cost of living is such a focal issue and nothing has been done about the middleman or no big shot has gone to jail? And you, you talking about the poor banks who now publish their balance sheets showing that they did not make super superprofits as you predicted.
“That the powers that be cannot make headway against the powers that have ever been on behalf of the people, who say that they have the power is inconceivable. You think that they are afraid? Or you think that they have relegated the issue to the back burner so that the powers that have ever been can continue their iniquitous policy?
“This country funny! You hear about who sell this and that and cannot bank $1 000 in a single day, yet can still put up buildings, ‘Big as Hilton hotel’ for cash.
“If the building finance is passed through a bank, it is the bank’s obligation to question the source. If the money is not passing through the bank it is the bank’s obligation to ‘know your customer’ and question the source of the wealth? In some countries banks that do not pick up unaccounted for wealth are found liable.
“No use passing laws unless they are implemented.
“Can people get ‘catch’ with dope walk free? Are we appearing under the Libra sign or under the capricious Capricorn where we moult to suit the environment? But you know, Harry, no name no blame, no lock-up.”
Why do we have a democratic Government if not to see that all citizens abide by the law and that all citizens are not gouged by iniquitous prices and unfair trade?”
Barbados is 166 square miles, 167 if you count the Port.
