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KEVIN STODA-has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.--He sees himself as a peace educator and have been-- a promoter of good economic and social development--making-him an enemy of my homelands humongous DEFENSE SPENDING and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues.
"I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' and 'alone' when I write and publish.- I-keep two blogs--one with BLOGGER and one with WORDPRESS.- My writings range from reviews to editorials or to travel observations.- I also make recommendations related to policy--having both a-strong background in teaching foreign languages and degrees in teaching in history and the social sciences.--As a Midwesterner, I also write on religion and living out ones faith whether it be as a Christian, Muslim or Buddhist perspective."
On my own home page, I also provide information for language learners and travelers http://www.geocities.com/eslkevin/-,- http://the-teacher.blogspot.com/-& http://alone.gnn.tv/
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021Have you called the FBI on Trump, 134+ Congressmen and Senators yet ? Why did I file a tip with the FBI sharing my concern that based on current public facts I overheard on the radio, Trump, 134+ Congressmen and Senators, et al., for breaking the RICO Act?
Monday, October 26, 2020Practically telling the 10-year-old to leave her own country This is the persecution I have faced for decades; now they turn on my own kid.
Thursday, October 8, 2020Covid and GOP: What's the matter with Kansas? I know Kansas (like Missouri where I live) is a red-state that voted for Trump big-time in 2016, but why is the GOP doubling down on both infecting fellow Kansans and on even killing off some Kansas voters at an increasing rate--right before an election? They are like the many faithful of Jim Jones drinking the Trump cool-aid.
Sunday, October 4, 2020We told you so? But, it's not too late to change your ways, My Dear Relatives What you need to continue to tell your family and loved ones this election is something like this.
Sunday, September 27, 2020Trolls and the 3 Possibilities concerning Russia's Covid Vaccine One obvious alternative explanative for Russian confidence in their own vaccine is that the Russian government and its research facilities, may have developed the current Covid-19 virus themselves. The virus may have spread from Russia to Europe after a new strain emerged or was created in Russia or elsewhere. But what will Trolls do with such a conspiracy story?
Wednesday, August 19, 2020Without a doubt America needs CPR ! (1) If you were involved in revising our current constitution through amendments and constitutional conventions, what would you tell the committees organizing such and event? (2) How should we proceed with assisting Americans now and in the future with CPR?
Friday, May 1, 2020MayDay! MayDay! MayDay! "Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice-procedure radio communications. It is used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by aviators and mariners, but in some countries local organizations such as firefighters, police forces, and transportation organizations also use the term." Now, Let me Call Out: MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY here in Missouri, too.
Wednesday, April 1, 2020Kansas City (Missouri and Kansas) , A Tale of Two States and the Corona Virus As a political, social and medical experiment one can juxtapose two state governors (A Kansan Democratic one and a Pro-Trump GOP one) and their responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Or, you can compare wealthy urban vs. inner city or suburban responses to the virus pandemic. The author does this by looking at lives in Metropolitan Kansas City
Monday, March 30, 2020Corona Shock Doctrine Opportunity based on Historical Reflection of Quarantined lands I predict that in the second half of 2020, peoples in the West-after months of suffereing with a global pandemic will demand changes as they go into the streets and visit the seats of power to reclaim sovereignities that these same masses have missed out on. They will at least temporarily kick out those who are seen as representatives of the 1% or 0.1%. i.e. who have the most representative or dictatorial powers
Sunday, February 23, 2020To my Dear Trump-Supporting Relatives I am aware that many of you have defriended me on Facebook for my progressive views about reforming the country after so many bad decades of no or low wage growth in your towns and villages in rural Missouri. I don't condemn you, and Iunderstand how your anti-education, anti-multicultural, and anti-immigrant (or anti-newcomer bent) came to be in the first place.
Monday, December 16, 2019If I Ran as a Progressive Republican Against Trump Would He Threaten My Life? In they were not a fringe group but important, determined men at the heart of the party, with "Fighting Bob" La Follette, governor of and later senator from Wisconsin, at their head. He was joined by Sen. Hiram Johnson of California, Senators Borah of Idaho, Norris of Nebraska, Beveridge of Indiana. They were followed by teachers, city councilors, legislators, writers, and most articulate of all, by journalist William A White
Tuesday, December 10, 2019If I were to run in the Republican Primaries for President, these items would be on my platform Pt. 2 This is the second in a series of articles covering how any GOP progressive could take a great share of votes in the upcoming primaries--despite what the status quo might say, predict or predicate
Wednesday, November 6, 2019A Place where America Needs to Turn for Help Every evening and morning, I look out at the Kansas City VA Medical Center just down the hill from where I live here off Linwood Avenue in eastern Kansas City, Missouri. It is also a place where Vets go to get help as well as a place to go to commit suicide.
Sunday, September 29, 2019Censorship of Teachers and Students All of our lives we face some sort of censorship from media, but our schools are called to do the same. How many good teachers have been tossed aside do to self-censorship or open censorship in schools and educational settings in the USA? How many students have had their right to protest and to write under first amendment been hampered by censorship?
Sunday, September 15, 2019Review of G.S. Griffin's RACISM IN KANSAS CITY What do you know about Racism in your hometown? Have you ever studied the history of your own town through the eyes of racism's role in its history? Kevin Stoda who lives in Kansas City does this in reading G.S. Griffin's RACISM IN KANSAS CITY. He then argues that it should be required reading in local schools and colleges
Saturday, May 18, 2019Gregoria felt that "Administrative Leave" was like being a Cockroach or Prisoner When Gregoria Samson revisits the tales of Kafka, she cannot help feeling a part of these stories. On the one hand, she feels off-balance, like Kafka's friend who is in some sort of exile in Russian. On the other hand, Greogroia especially feels part of the life of Gregor in The Metamorphosis
Wednesday, May 15, 2019"Our Slave Heritage and Family Hero"--Recollections of Oman and slave heritage by a young Omani Americans talk about slavery and our generations who have lived in the wake of slavery. In Oman, a country that only abolished slavery in 1970, people are even more intimate with slavery and how it had affected development of modern families. This is a short essay by one Omani student reflecting on her grandfather and ancestors who were slaves in the family. It then ends in an appeal to Omanis to seize the day & hard work.
Saturday, April 27, 2019Should we take a peace dividend for the next generations and reduce our wastefulness in terms of Defense and Security? With this article I'm passing on my suggestion(s) and concerns to the DCCC and Sharice Davids (Congresswoman from Kansas 3rd District) whom I told yesterday to "Use a reduction in armed forces (bases in 177 countries) and out-of-control DOD spending to pay for Green New Deal Infrastructure, Schools, & Medicare for All." Nancy Pelosi needs to follow suit or get out of the way of progress/progressives. In short, there's money
Thursday, March 21, 2019Review- Gina Apostol's INSURRECTO, a tale of American and Filipino Memories that most of us need to be aware of Pulitzer-Prize winning author, Viet Thanh Nguyen, has surmised, Apostol's book of memes and memories, "INSURRECTO', plunges us into the vortex of memory, history, and war." INSURRECTO takes American readers to the land of the Philippines as defined by cinema, yellow journalism, popular sports figures (like Mohammed Ali) and Youtube videos. It takes present day Overseas Working Filipinos on a tour of what it is like to live in
Friday, January 4, 2019This quote is paraphrased from recent M*A*S*H rerun, originally set in Korea, 1951-1952 BUT IT FITS IN 2019 "Without a doubt, I think that after 15 years of the recent Iraq War and nearly 18 years of the War in Afghanistan (and other wars on terror), Americans are praying that 2019 will be "a damn sight better than the past years of endless war". This quote is paraphrased from recent M*A*S*H rerun, originally set in Korea, 1951-1952.
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