Glory be, a Scot? Education is difficult/impossible for some because it takes so long and requires patience and persistence. The wealthy may use certain schools like the Ivy League to bolster/insure their social and financial future- there was one scandal I remember of Harvard fudging grades to benefit alumni children.
Syria is a sad problem as no one will step in to assist the protestors and the military is brutal. The American Revolution was saved by the French, afterall- beacuse the French hated the British! On Aug 10, 3:07 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > I think we've seen this happen already Vam. In the UK personal wealth > rose from £500 billion to £2,700 billion in the twenty years from 1979 > but our society went backwards and only the very rich got richer. The > trend has continued ever since with wages pegged back and various > economic bubbles in property and financial services leading to > increasing state and private debt. It's clear Enron-style false > accounting has been rife and that anything other than what I'd term > 'primitive banking' has been a scam based on a very old insurance > swindle (basically take the premiums with no intent to pay up) and > Ponzi schemes. The real problem is that the conditions of employment > that were hard earned here did not go global - naked oligarchy did > instead on the basis of rigged markets - a very old story linked to > organised crime. > We have riots across English cities at the moment, though these are > more to do with disaffected criminal youth than political protest. > I've long thought, as you may remember, that serious war is coming. I > believe financial interests were behind the world wars and continue to > provoke volatility in various ways now. I doubt any of us live in > democracies in which citizens can direct anything - we are simply told > we can't afford policies of reasonable equality and sensible creation > rather than inane consuming. > I often wondered, while teaching, why most people find education so > difficult. Part of the problem is almost non-existent memory and an > inability to think in world-views - people reduce all evidence to one > - and that one is created in nonsense conflated with tradition. I was > brought up to believe the road to serfdom was that of the Sino-Soviet > 'experiments' - but however ghastly they were the real problem was > everywhere to do with centralising accumulation that relies on > speculation in a very crude form to succeed through exploitation and > violence. Prestigious US university alumni funds invest, through a > British hedge-fund, in land grabs in Africa that evict (or kill) the > tenant farmers. The banksters created a vast gambling den, elite > access only, in which the rich could bet and never lose, the > bookmakers get very rich and which was presented as 'all above board' > - it was, in fact a massive market-rigging, insider-trading den of > vice and we are all paying off its debts as though they are ours. > What sickens me is we have the technology to do so much better and > have collapsed backwards into bad old ways. My own country (Scotland) > is showing signs of 'going Scandinavian' and I welcome that. Sadly, I > live in England, and the only people in protest here about our > nongovernment are criminals! > > On Aug 10, 7:48 am, allan deheretic <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > When you are influenced by a pack of lies and deceit. the question is not > > about making a free choice .. It is about making a responsible choice. For > > many people that is sad because they are so influenced by propaganda they > > have lost the ability to think clearly. Their on going education in life is > > one of being "dumbed down"! > > Allan > > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The voters still have free will do they not? Things are 'balanced' by the > > > bank rolls of the super rich on the left don't you think? Like Soros and > > > Arab princes that have a vested interest in seeing America fail > > > economically. These are the folks that have bankrolled Obama and he's > > > delivering. > > > > dj > > > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Vam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> The Walsh Commission, set up in 1912, had warned that, “the power of > > >> wealth could overwhelm democratic culture and politics.” > > > >> Has its warning come true for the US, considering how the Koch > > >> brothers have bank rolled sustained opposition to Barack Obama and his > > >> proposed policies ? http://bit.ly/q8kZYK > > > >> There's a lot more to read here : Bilderberg @http://bit.ly/oLuxq4 > > > -- > > ( > > ) > > I_D Allan > > > If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken > > Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
