Land, sea, property, governments, institutions, debt, secrecy, health services, care services, emergency services - everything has a price. Democracy, citizenship, even statehood are commodified and up for sale. Our world is a shop where even the fundamentals of life can be bought and sold by ruthless, criminal, insatiable psychopaths addicted to the accumulation of personal wealth.
Astonished to learn that BlackRock's first international acquisition was in Edinburgh - four years before the Scottish Parliament was restored. Yet given the supine behaviour of SNP Ministers it wouldn't have mattered when it happened.
Utterly bizarre. Reminds me of Humza's rail against all those white Scots in Scottish history. Umm, yeah, Scotland is a Northern European nation. It's like a white politician in Pakistan (are there any?) complaining that whites don't play a larger role in Pakistani politics.
I'll catch up with the YouTube later as I'm playing catch-up folowing hospitalisation. However, while in hospital I read the remarkable book 'The Invisible Doctrine' by George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison (Penguin paperback for under a tenner at Waterstone's) which I'd recommend to anyone wanting to understand just how neoliberalism has taken over global economics and politics and has significantly derailed efforts to halt global warming. It's not a big tome at 162 paperback pages of text (excluding source details and index), but is a cogent explanation of how and why we are where we are today.
Brilliant as ever Leah but sucking depressing.
Land, sea, property, governments, institutions, debt, secrecy, health services, care services, emergency services - everything has a price. Democracy, citizenship, even statehood are commodified and up for sale. Our world is a shop where even the fundamentals of life can be bought and sold by ruthless, criminal, insatiable psychopaths addicted to the accumulation of personal wealth.
Astonished to learn that BlackRock's first international acquisition was in Edinburgh - four years before the Scottish Parliament was restored. Yet given the supine behaviour of SNP Ministers it wouldn't have mattered when it happened.
Utterly bizarre. Reminds me of Humza's rail against all those white Scots in Scottish history. Umm, yeah, Scotland is a Northern European nation. It's like a white politician in Pakistan (are there any?) complaining that whites don't play a larger role in Pakistani politics.
I'll catch up with the YouTube later as I'm playing catch-up folowing hospitalisation. However, while in hospital I read the remarkable book 'The Invisible Doctrine' by George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison (Penguin paperback for under a tenner at Waterstone's) which I'd recommend to anyone wanting to understand just how neoliberalism has taken over global economics and politics and has significantly derailed efforts to halt global warming. It's not a big tome at 162 paperback pages of text (excluding source details and index), but is a cogent explanation of how and why we are where we are today.