Orts #898

History never really says goodbye. History says "see you later".
(La historia en realidad nunca dice adiós. La historia dice: "Hasta luego".)
    -- Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015)


    Iraqis voted in their fourth free election last April-- or rather, fewer than half of them bothered to vote at all, so pessimistic were they about the notion that voting can change anything. And after the election, the politicians seemed to be living down to their expectations.... Corruption in Iraq is a system, not a series of individual crimes, and the beneficiaries of the system will fight tooth and nail to preserve it.
     -- Gwynne Dyer, in a column published in the Guelph Mercury Tribune, October 9, 2018

 

A recent poll shows that 46 percent of the American electorate do not think their votes will be counted fairly...
The Election Has Already Been Hacked
https://nyti.ms/2DkBPbG
 

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Every day in America, about 104 people die from guns,
while in Japan it takes about a decade for that many to die from gun violence.
https://nyti.ms/2Pt8aCO