"super-rich grew from €200bn to €1.2tn – a 500% increase. Inherited wealth has more or less doubled as a proportion of GDP in advanced economies since the middle of the last century.
Despite this massive upwards redistribution of rewards in western liberal democracies in past decades, mainstream parties are continuing to seek to balance the books by inflicting economic pain on vulnerable people and those just about getting by."
it’s not just economic pain, anxiety, fear and panic are physiologically damaging. they are injuring people.
"“On one day they’ll all be abdominal gunshot wounds, on another they’ll all be head gunshot wounds or neck gunshot wounds, on another they’ll be arm or leg gunshot wounds,” he said.
“It’s almost as if a game is being played, that they’re deciding to shoot the head today, the neck tomorrow, the testicles the day after.”"
mutilating children for fun.
CEASEFIRE NOW
reopen Nuremberg
"Unlike other nations, the US can finance these deficits by simply printing more dollars – a privilege afforded by the dollar’s reserve status. But this creates an asymmetry: trading partners must earn dollars through exports or debt in order to interact with the global economy, while the US absorbs the benefits of infinite liquidity.
Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz has in the past warned this exorbitant privilege will not last for ever. The rest of the world is essentially lending to the US at zero interest, while suffering from inflationary pressures caused by its dollar creation."
funding genocide.
this really is the largest con in the history of cons.
"a cruel and unlawful betrayal of the European project and vision, predicated on upholding international law and fighting authoritarian practices, of the European Union’s own rules and of the human rights of Palestinians”.
She added: “This will be remembered as one of the most disgraceful moments in the EU’s history.”"
hard to think of anything worse that the EU has done.
"The children of Gaza have the same rights as children anywhere – to water, to food, to shelter, to education, to play, to hope, to joy. To life. Yet on Sunday, Israel killed Abdullah Yasser Ahmed, Badr al-Din Qarman, Siraj Khaled Ibrahim, Ibrahim Ashraf Abu Urayban, Karam Ashraf al-Ghussein and Lana Ashraf al-Ghussein.
They were children. They were loved."
"Enough impunity. Enough empty rhetoric. Enough exceptionalism. Enough complicity. The time has come to act in pursuit of justice and peace – grounded in rights and freedoms for all, and not mere privileges for some, at the expense of the annihilation of others.”"
"There is no absence of legal clarity"
"With more than 500 people killed and nearly 4,000 wounded while seeking food, this scheme has had the effect of luring desperate people in with aid, only for them to be slaughtered by the Israeli armed forces.
This is part of the genocide that is being committed in Gaza. And the UK government is complicit."
