In these tumultuous times, what’s playing out is “Five Roads to Cairo” with James Mason, “Suez Canal” Tyrone Power, and a “Man without a Country”, a short story by Edward Everett Hale.
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Not that our minor planet needs a James Mason, his ex wife, precocious daughter or a Oscar Levant chain smoking n.c., while in synch with his Pittsburgh born recall: aka Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”
But the hordes of Egyptians bringing the Cairo leadership to its knees for the second time in 12 months, is but the oil going thru the “Suez Canal”. Whence the Detroit assembly line of Henry Ford, his sons, grandchildren’s dependency.
Along with Toyotas, Hondas, and other models that depend on the gasoline, fusing the oil, to sell the gas guzzling jalopies to make their bottom line, and justify copying Henry Ford’s Model T and Model A aboriginal aggressiveness.
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Finally dear reader, Major Fenton comes to what Winston Churchill says is an enigma within a riddle or vice versa: a conundrum within a whistle blower’s psyche.
To form an alliance with “leaky leaks” and disguise his interior dialogue by joining a contractor for an ulterior motive, belies Edward Snowden playing out his “whistle blower”
role.
The original “Man without a Country” was given “Solitary”, imprisoned aboard a ship, sailing our planet’s seas into eternity.
the Fifth of July, 2013, the city that never sleeps.
