I think what you are calling “Capitalism” I would call “fascism” the Boeings I listed are not competing in the free market of Capitalism but in the shady dealings of government contracts. I have yet to see a company declare war, that is what governments do, maybe a company might profit from that war but that is after the fact. Look at all the US companies that have had to disinvest in Russia.
Yes, wars are evil and it is governments, not the free market that is the evil here
Aye - this is the dark side of capitalism - ‘shady’ deals have been done here in UK between Govt and companies during covid.
But there is one thing we have to not lose sight of - these deals are contrived between people (sadly mostly men) and greed lies at the root.
Thing is I’m a capitalist in that I believe in and participate in a free market, I make money from that market - but here lies the conundrum - first up how do I make that money, second what do I do with it?
First part is easy enough - just work my butt off, make it honestly and legally, second part is not so easy…
Anyways, today got to see some of the most beautiful parts of Ireland - combining work and pleasure.
Not just in the UK… You can watch the video (Not you Pete…) linked below and see what’s currently going down in Europe. Transparency is a dirty word when used in conjunction with this Pandemic!
Wait till details emerge of the collateral that was required by Pfizer and others before these supposed life saving Vaccines were supplied to many nations around the world… Absolutely Chilling…
You can feel it in the air can’t you? The massive pressure of millions of idiots trying not to admit they were wrong…
Star Trek has always served as a parody of modern culture, The Ferengi were invented to represent capitalism and greed, while Starfleet represented our arrogant government, This little 1-minute speech by Quark from Deep Space Nine puts things in their proper perspective. I will take the Ferengi over Washington any day
‘We got our miracle’: Freed Americans back home in Alabama
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Two U.S. military veterans who disappeared three months ago while fighting with Ukrainian forces against Russia arrived home to Alabama on Saturday, greeted by hugs, cheers and tears of joy at the state’s main airport.
Alex Drueke, 40, and Andy Huynh, 27, had gone missing June 9 in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine near the Russian border. The Alabama residents were released as part of a prisoner exchange. The pair had traveled to Ukraine on their own and bonded over their shared home state.
Ohh, I’m not the only one… Take up of the Booster Shots has cratered across the Globe… Most have realized that these vaccines just don’t offer anywhere near efficacies that were promised.
More of the fully vaccinated have passed away in 2022 than the non/partially vaccinated throughout 2020 and 2021 combined.
You my fully jabbed friend are living proof as a recent survivor of the Virus. Feel free to attribute it to a form of divine intervention, because I’m pretty confident your God Given Immune System had a major part to play…
Anyway, enough with the Virus, that debate is for elsewhere on this forum. My interest, as it always has been is the malevolence around this Pandemic…
On the back of it’s refusal to be transparent around it’s Billion’s of dollars Pandemic spending… The EU is beginning to play Judge, Jury and Jailer style authoritarianism by telling sovereign nations who they should be voting for within their own countries…
Remember how the EU threatened the UK for voting the ‘wrong’ way in your Independence Referendum? And it still does! Italy is Italy, it’s not the EU, so the Italian flag should be flown!! Why is that a bad thing??
Von Der Lyin should not even be in this position, she is unelected, and yet controls Billions of dollar’s and Millions of citizens across many sovereign nations… The warning signs are all there!
So how did she get to tell the people that pay her huge wages what to do?
First the UK, now maybe Italy… The Domino’s maybe beginning to topple…
Here in Florida as we brace for what looks like a pretty scary storm, and openly discuss the storm on social media, I can’t help but think about how 2 years ago when it was a pandemic sweeping across our country, saying coronavirus, covid, pandemic and a number of other words would have gotten your Youtube content demonetized, and Facebook page deleted. Funny how different things are when big pharma is not involved
Look like somebody was trying to steal the election.
Video shows fake Trump elector in Georgia letting 2 Trump associates into an elections office on the day that a voting system was breached
Cathy Latham, who was working as the Coffee County elections supervisor during the 2020 election, was filmed allowing in at least two men who worked with the data firm SullivanStricker and whose visit was coordinated by Latham and former Trump attorney Sidney Powell.
Latham was among the 16 GOP officials in Georgia who rejected the voters’ choice for then-presidential candidate Joe Biden and instead cast state electoral votes for Trump in a closed-door meeting on December 14, 2020. She was also the chairwoman of the Coffee County Republican Party at the time.
Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported last month that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is also probing how a data firm linked to former Trump lawyer Powell had made copies of data from Dominion voting machines in Coffee County. It is currently unclear if the Powell associates who visited the Coffee County office or Logan had made any copies of data.
Host Bill Whitaker asked Riggleman to confirm his belief that Meadows’ texts “provide irrefutable, time-stamped proof of a comprehensive plot at all levels of government to overturn the election.”
A former technical adviser to the January 6 committee said texts former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows turned over provide “irrefutable” proof of a plot to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
An advisor to the January 6 committee said Mark Meadows’ texts provide ‘irrefutable’ proof of a comprehensive plot to overturn the 2020 election
2022 is the ‘Soylent Green’ year… So maybe we should start to worry…
If you know the 1973 movie Soylent Green at all, it’s likely for the arresting last line. “Soylent Green is people,” lead actor Charlton Heston bellows as he is carried away on a stretcher, simultaneously becoming a meme and summing up the plot so thoroughly that there’s little need to catch the rest of the film.
Less well known is the year Soylent Green is set in: 2022. That’s right, we’ve reached the point when Hollywood told us that millions of New Yorkers would be fighting each other over protein bars made from the finest processed human. Presuming that a fad for cannibalism doesn’t arrive with the next NYC fashion week, we can safely say that humanity has successfully avoided the threat of the movie’s main premise. (Instead we’re grappling with the threat of the Omicron variant, which itself sounds like a Charlton Heston movie.)
Scary stuff, it is not just novels like 1984 and Brave New World, but Hollywood movies have been conditioning us for a dystopian future for decades. They may not have the dates right but the plots sure do rhyme with what is playing out right before our eyes
and it is not conservatism that is bringing all this to life, but the two factions of the democrat party, you have the so called progressives wanting a “1984” world, and the Technocrats pushing their version of “Brave New World” I see us landing somewhere in the middle with " Hunger Games" and boy is that playing out
Jesus, I hope you are coming soon, we are running out of time
Countries that once dominated the world hundreds and thousands of years ago might have thought that time was running out and they were in their last days.
But the last day didn’t come, but instead, an era shift began, and those countries and eras were written down in history books so they could be remembered and discussed thousands of years later, and as this era comes to an end, America will also be mentioned in history books years from now. All of us will be dead by the time this era shift occurs, and we won’t be able to witness it.
The universe is a game of chess that goes on until the last day, and nobody knows when that will be.
