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One Thing Leading To Another
Jan. 5th, 2026 01:31 pm The window cleaner was admiring my hat- this one as it happens-
He's from Kosovo- where they wear something similar. He's been in this country since 2001, escaping the troubles which, he says, still go on even if the world is no longer looking
From there it was easy leap to world politics and from there to the evils of US imperialism.
And in connection with that I was researching Venezuela this morning (by which I mean skimming the wikipedia entry)- and its history is lamentable- a chronicle ofcolonisation, wars, coups, revolutions, corruption. The name of the country means Little Venice- and the story goes that Amerigo Vespucci came up with it after visiting a lake village built on stilts....
He's from Kosovo- where they wear something similar. He's been in this country since 2001, escaping the troubles which, he says, still go on even if the world is no longer looking
From there it was easy leap to world politics and from there to the evils of US imperialism.
And in connection with that I was researching Venezuela this morning (by which I mean skimming the wikipedia entry)- and its history is lamentable- a chronicle ofcolonisation, wars, coups, revolutions, corruption. The name of the country means Little Venice- and the story goes that Amerigo Vespucci came up with it after visiting a lake village built on stilts....
