Plutocracy antonym4/10/2023 ![]() Thus, the ordinary Afghan gets killed in the name of Communism by the then USSR and then in the name of democracy or anti-terrorism by the US & its allies the Vietnamese peasants get napalm bombed by Americans the Tibetans see their country getting annexed by the Chinese and their lands are seized Hitler & his pal Mussolini - incidentally the inspiration for India's own RSS and the BJP - perpetrate the Holocaust on European Jews the European Jews in turn do their own ethnic cleansing in lands they seize in the Middle East the Islamic Janjaweed fighters wreak havoc on the animist & Christian south Sudan light skinned, Muslim Punjabi soldiers of West Pakistan commit a genocide on dark-skinned Bengali Muslims in erstwhile E.Pakistan India sees its own blood-letting on a large scale during the Partition of the 1940s Yugoslavai experiments with its version of ethnic cleansing and Srebrenica stands as a monument to man's brutality to man in the heart of Europe Bush fils rains death on Iraq and promptly screams "Mission Accomplished" Putin bombs Ukrainian maternity hospitals. However, mass murders, ethnic cleansing, forced population transfers and other atrocities are not the monopoly of any ideology, person or nation - they seem to be universal. I am broadly in agreement with the thrust of what you say Mr Jain. I'll save the contrast between Biden's closing sentence in Warsaw yesterday compared to Yanis' call for a settlement, the only sound basis of which would be each of the parties getting less than they want at this point" - for another time. That comment disappeared and was replaced by "democracy vs autocracy." A little better. But his posting here was right on target I don't know how many readers of PS saw the comment of President Biden to the troops of the US's 82nd Airborne Division in Poland, but Biden stated he didn't want to get "philosophical," but the fight in Ukraine was about "democracy vs oligarchy." I gasped for obvious reasons. Varoufakis "the Winston Churchill of the European Left" which I doubt he would accept in formal title. ![]() "Nobody knows the trouble I see, nobody but Jesus." I'm not religious these days, but these the words from an old black spiritual from the days of slavery came to mind for these reasons, touched upon by Yanis V. The year anyone can sell anything to anyone with any line from any where going no where and back again. 2022- historical milestone- Feedback looped. Russia is a quick change act, nothing more than a transvestite repositioning nothing. Seeing as the 3 guys that used to run the show got slammed, and 3 other guys are secretly telling the story, and Amnesty Intl, is blaming little ole Alaska and Oregon’s employee pension funds for all kinds of nasty behaviors, no wonder a senior Israeli cabinet minister finds solace in the greatest up-yours of buyouts to imagine that anyone is really acting in any fashion against any common enemy, least of all, Iran. If a capital investment fund, labelled- M, state-owned, chaired by a crowned prince (from some hot place- UAE), who is just one of the largest investors in the 1bn-Euro equity fund labelled- N, which runs spyware to spy on everybody labelled- P, (from some hot place -Israel-) now owned by another N private equity fund, bigger than the first M fund then, and now sure looks like the Arabs have control over what really counts in the bigger schemes of things. You gotta love em all- meaning all the oligarchs, based on the latest from FT. Why else would countless corporations register in the US state of Delaware, using post office box addresses that guarantee their owners anonymity? Western countries’ legislation prevents governments and the public not only from disturbing wealth stored in their jurisdictions but also from even knowing where and how much of it there is. But it wasn’t hard to convince the oligarchs to flood London with their money. David Cameron, then UK Prime Minister, appealed in 2011 to a Moscow audience to “invest” in Britain. ![]() True, Western leaders encouraged the inflows. To put it bluntly: the West’s legal foundations. Meanwhile, a host of London properties belonging to Russian oligarchs entered a long-overdue process of liquidation. An athletics icon, City grandees, and even a respected Times columnist, each representing different American multi-billionaires, descended on London in a race to buy the club. ATHENS – No sooner had Roman Abramovich, newly targeted by the United Kingdom’s sanctions on Russian oligarchs, announced that he was selling Chelsea Football Club than the feeding frenzy began.
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