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Friday 20th 53F, uniform grey overcast. A walk to the lanes in fine drizzle under grey skies. The prairie was having a spray by a huge machine. So I altered my route. Not that it will reduce the symptoms we both have after every, post harvest spraying going back for years.Lazy dragonfly taking a break from keeping the mosquitoes down.
A short ride to the shops. The tailwind allowed me to cruise at 19mph into the village. Coming home I paid the interest for the earlier journey. With rain to add to the fun. Only 7 miles. The sky is now leaden with sun shining through the holes.
Most of the houses in Copenhagen have been bought by foreign speculators and/or money launderers. So the city is planning to build more houses [for foreign speculators.] On an exclusive artificial island, no less.
The entire project will be built by imported economic slaves [as usual.] Probably a mix of North Koreans and trafficked, Eastern Europeans living on the bare floor of the building site for negative wages maintained by threats against their families back at home. The usual arrangement. This is only going on past form. Where most, major, Danish, public building projects are involved.
No cycle paths will be needed to connect the island because oligarchs don't ride bicycles. We are probably looking at an exclusive, private toll bridge. Most likely built to an open, international competition winning design for a bit of free, extra sales promotion. Though it is hardly needed on what is an absolutely guaranteed, obscenely high return, absolutely safe, tax-free investment for mere pocket money for a billionaire, entirely at taxpayer's expense.
Typically low paid, armed, private security guards will keep any Danish riff-raff out. No doubt a marina for mega-yachts will be incorporated. For when an oligarch pops in for an odd weekend to gloat over his tax-free, taxpayer-built and subsidized, handout.The island is deliberately being built higher than most of Copenhagen. So they will need a yacht to reach their private island within a couple of years anyway.
It would be bad form to arrive in a noisy, jet powered, private helicopter. Not with so many fellow billionaires maintaining the standards of their exclusive investment. Nobody has yet explained how they will import the vast quantities of priceless marble so desperately needed to smarten up their latest properties. Again using slave labour.
Can you have a Servant's Entrance on an island for all those articulated lorries? Having them rolling in convoys over the exclusive [international architect designed] toll bridge is not quite the look one might be hoping for. Is it?
The only major worry now, is finding enough unpaid, masochistic servants. Well, Somebody has to live in a broom cupboard and dust the original, Louis 14th furniture while the Master or Mistress is absent. Then accept the brutal beatings. For not living up to "the expected standards" of a raving, sadistic, "entitled" psychopath. Probably with pretensions to royalty.Does all this sound sickeningly familiar from countless news stories from every other major city right around the globe? Thought so. Welcome to today's reality. Slavery is not dead. It just invented new names for itself. A slave driver is now any and every "entitled" person [of wealth.] 😉
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