Security News > 2020 > April > Friday Squid Blogging: On the Efficacy of Squid as Bait

France is a next-door neighbor spanning about the same latitudes as Germany, also has an excellent health care system, and in my estimation has a not very different distribution of skin pigmentation but France has about six times as many deaths per unit of population.

A friend who has a wife of South Anerican descent who can speak English, French, German, Italian Portuguese, Spanish as a "natural speaker" found the two years she spent in Germany doing translation for the Government very disquieting, not only were neo-nazi entities prevelent, she found her self being stared at with hostility pretty much where ever she went For her even though she has no love for the Turks, she realised that with those in Germany being burned out of their homes it would not be long befor she made it onto somebodies target list As she said herself at the time Germany is no place for a brown face, so don't get a suntan".

It's a country I very much like, but some of the other students had come from the south of Europe and they were stared at even in the heart of Stockholm that was in the middle of hosting a "Tall Ships" stop over.

The problem with "Central" and "Economies of scale" as a philosophy the neo-liberals hold as a mantra is that it makes things overly fragile even in the very best of times But they care not because they have "Hit and run" leaving the resulting mess for others to deal with.

As one senior cardiologist pointed out I should have been dead and it was just pure luck I got to A&E very much just in time because I was well well outside the "Golden hour".

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