From Brexit to Brazil via Hong Kong, China, Russia and the USA

by John Richard Spencer

Overview

FROM BREXIT TO BRAZIL VIA HONG KONG, CHINA, RUSSIA AND THE USA

An insightful foray into the colourful volatility of today's world this collection of prosaic essays remarks on the political, social, lifestyle and environmental maelstrom in which we find ourselves. John Spencer comments on this in a provocative manner and ponders possible solutions. Many world leaders would be extremely displeased by his observations and opinions.

China's ruthless expansionism, evidenced by the suppression of democracy in Hong Kong and its bullying threats to Taiwan, is one of many issues discussed. John has closely followed events and trends in our world for many years. The issues that bother many people have intensely concerned him and he wishes to promote further discussion in the search for available solutions.

The trend to elect populist leaders without due regard to the consequences is one of his lines of inquiry. Others include the ever increasing disappearance of freedom, the increasing human overpopulation, along with its aging, and the looming environmental disaster. Some of the essays point to the likelihood of such pandemics as COVID-19 as well as the early demise of the elderly. Greed, stupidity and overpopulation are closely examined as is the predilection of the young for danger. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780648835615
Publisher:	Energy Tours
Publication date:	10/14/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

About the author John Spencer has a background in philosophy, literature and history and has comprehensively explored the world around him through his blog posts. www.creativityandpower.com and www.cassandradoom.com His work has been published in a number of countries including the USA, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Zimbabwe. John has a keen interest in our world including geo-politics and other issues that affect us all. He has had much multicultural experience due to marriage, teaching, travel and years of living in the Philippines and other parts of Asia, has taught English in Australian high schools and overseas, has taught elementary school, and has driven taxis in Sydney and on the Gold Coast As well as his first novel, "Brownout - 666 or the real meaning of the swastika" John has written a book about the worst kind of grief, the loss of a child. This nonfiction work is titled, "Waiting for a Miracle - Life in the Dead Zone." His formal education includes an honours degree in Philosophy and majors in English Literature and History along with a Dip.Ed.

Table of Contents

Foreword....... 5

"1984" is coming sooner than you thought .. 6

American massacres and the 2nd Amendment .9

Be Afraid of the Future...... 11

The only real solution to the Refugee Crisis .11

Why the world's economic system destroys people 12

Beyond Good and Evil..14

Artificial Intelligence-the way forward or the precursor to

the doom of humanity? . 15

Hitler and Jesus were both right 18

Environment, Society and Economy . .23

The Singularity ...

Brexit-Like a bitter, expensive and unnecessary divorce 24

Julian Assange-champion of Freedom and Transparency....26

The Evil Triangle . 34

China's uncompromising plan to take over the world . .36

The UK and Europe at the Crossroads...38

Putin's War on the West.... ..42

What the rise of China, Putin's Russia and Brexit mean for freedom...44

Beliefs in themselves ..50

Actions and the Rights of Others 51

Capitalism, War and the Arab Spring.. .54

War and Capitalism....55

Recep Tayip Erdog˘an. . 57

Were Nazi Economics the Real Cause of WWII?. 59

The Brexit Debacle... 61

Leaders the World would be better off without . .62

The Global Corona virus pandemic and

its aftermath - What will follow?... 77

Australia and the PRC Chinese Diaspora... .80

The Expansion of China and the rise of Covid-19 virus..... 84

Essays about Humanity and Lifestyle .. 92

A Metaphor for Humanity .. .93

Testosterone and Youth .94

Healthy attitudes to sex go a long way towards a Healthy Society...  .. 95

The World spends more of its scare resources on the frail elderly,

than it does on babies and young children 98

Early Demise for the Elderly .. 103

Buddhism and Christianity.... . 106

Tobacco taxes, poverty and organised crime.. ..107

Want to be rich for a day or a month?.. . 110

Addendum promoting novel, "Brownout-666;" p. 195

Editorial Reviews

Vera's Review of "From Brexit to Brazil via Hong Kong, China, Russia and the USA"

When I read this interesting and informative book the first thing that struck me was the author's passion. John Spencer has obviously taken a lot of trouble to learn about our world and cares deeply about it. When I was much younger I lived in my own carefree bubble. The world's problems were nothing to do with me. It was if they didn't even exist. I just didn't notice them and I certainly took no interest in politics.

In more recent times I began to study Social Work and began to "see" what was happening around me. When I read Spencer's collection of essays, the issues that face humanity came flooding back. Probably the main thing I learned from this fascinating work was that an event or policy that occurs in one part of our world has repercussions and ramifications in many others. Everything is so interconnected that we simply cannot escape from what surrounds us no matter how much we may wish to. From Brexit to Brazil, from Xi Jinping to Donald Trump, everything will affect us and our children's future and we had better try to deal with it.

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Laurence O'Bryan

@LPOBryan

Jan 10, 2020

One of my favourite essays was 'Be Afraid of the Future' which looked at our current and future leaders, who rarely have the interest of their people, being more concerned with their own power and egos.

The author as well as enumerating the problems does offer some possible solutions and that is reason enough for reading this work. If you have an enquiring mind and care about the future you should read this book.

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