Smelling Salts and Lightning

Environment

            Pearl River      Sometimes I find myself just wondering about this and that, take for example lightning, thunder, and smelling salts. In the middle of the night, lightning was brightening the room followed by loud, deep roars of thunder.  From childhood, I’ve counted 1001 between every roar to tell me how far away the lightning …

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War’s Hitting Lower Waged Workers Worse

Energy Gas Prices Inequity Inflation War

            Pearl River      2022 wasn’t so long ago that we can’t remember it.  The oil shock that brutalized the world economy then came from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  The reverberations were everywhere, but the impact on Europe was the worse, because they relied on Russian imported oil.  While they weaned off, they were basically financing …

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