Tag: plutocracy
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Its a mear $40Trillion
The US national debt has now reached $40 trillion, the equivalent of the total debt of China, the EU, and the UK combined. This means that the national debt of 330 million people is more than the debt of almost 2 billion, and its debt-to-GDP is now 125%. Here in the UK, that ratio is…
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Tony Blair: Does anyone really care?
Larry, where is the champagne? Let me start with the current Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. Keir’s visionless win in 2024 was a consequence not of his great political foresight, a credible road map or a public policy agenda, but the electorate having had enough of the Tories. I agree that Corbyn tried to sell a…
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Apologies, My End-of-Year Rant 2025
Once again, another embarrassing and tragic year for our species has passed. Firstly, let us start off with the genocide in Gaza, where the death toll passed 70,000, which includes 20,000 children and not yet counted the many thousands who remain under 50,000 tonnes of rubble. We have a ceasefire where all the October 7…
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