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As for interests, actually there is a major energy interest in the area which I am surprised the EU did not stand and do more to secure. The Gas Interests for the EU come in a large part though the Ukraine. Russia, Ukraine Reach Deal on Gas Supplies in EU-Brokered Talks - Bloomberg Business Russia is owning this, now, and especially in the Future as their oil/gas reserves are absolutely Immense and the world will be wondering what happened in the not so distant future as Russia laughs all the way to the bank. |
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Should Britain leave the E.U. ???
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The KGB offered Michael Foot a job when he had naff all chance of picking anything else up. He was also in with a chance in Scotland. I doubt either opportunity will be offered to Corbyn!
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Energy supplies
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It amounts to about 10% of the gas supplies from East to West into Europe (from reading elsewhere) and most of it ends up in Germany, as it happens. The Ukraine takes a "piece along the way" as payment for the leasing of the pipeline which is handy for them because their economy is bust. Some commentary says that a reason to depose the Assad regime in Syria is to enable the construction of a "Sunni" pipeline from the middle east into Europe, thereby putting more pressure on Putins' Russia. |
The new world order
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The money that "you have in a bank account" is no longer yours. By putting it on deposit into the account you become a creditor of the bank and the bank is a debtor to you. It may be a matter of "if interest rates return to normal levels" whatever we may define as normal. Arguably, the world cannot afford the historical interest rates and so they won't occur despite what the USA Fed tried to do recently. |
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There are ways around this state of affairs, of course. However, mostly these are not available to the main street by a long shot. Therefore, when worst comes to happen, it will be the middle classes the ones who will end up hurting much. Those who can afford it already took the necessary steps to protect the bulk of their assets. Quote:
If this thing of the cashless society moves forward (DNB in Norway said something on that particular yesterday which should be read carefully) it won't be a transitory thing. It will be permanent. Can you say how will the world be in, say, 10 years? |
Quite so.
As for forecasting the future, no one 10 years ago would have said that we are where we are now. Perhaps, more relevant, is that those pulling the strings don't need to look forward anything like 10 years. It may be that they only have to look forward, say, 3 months and pull the strings to suit their purposes. We puppets will dance accordingly. |
Do the pupeteers still really control events? Or do they even exist?
There are tons of issues in the world right now which seem to have gone astray. The world economy is just one of them but look at the MENA region, even Europe in several itens, the South China Sea with several itens there as well, Japan both internally and in what concerns its relations with China, the strong possibility of a major world war, etc, etc, etc. There is too much going wrong for one to think about some sort of pupeteers. Maybe several "pupeteers", each trying to defend its interests but which in the end will be bad for almost everybody. Not everybody, though. |
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Out of Eu.
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Stuff the EU
Stuff the EU, with all the rules and regulations. The EU is just one big black hole sucking money in from the rich countries and giving to the poor. Britain is not been any better off with all of the foreigner's flooding into the country claiming benefit. I think that if Britain gets out of the EU then that will be the beginning of the end of the EU. It is strange now that Britain can get many rules changed now that they indicated they want out. They should of listened to Enoch Powel.
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I would encourage anyone to read http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...e_Pirate_Coast which covers how Americas policy of installing puppet dictators for commerce got started. |
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https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2016/01...d-why-we-wont/ He doesn't always get things right in his blog - in the sense that I don't always agree with him - but he always writes from the heart as he sees things and he is entitled to that, for now anyway :innocent::innocent: Quote:
You guys were latecomers to this - 1804 and just finding your feet in the world - and went about displacing the British Empire. In turn we had done for the Spanish interests in the new world and had a fair amount of effort directed toward the Dutch, to name two other nations. But, most of our effort was directed to "enabling" compliant foreign governments to trade with us - at the latter we were pretty successful e.g. in India. Some historians would say that Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown because he couldn't be bothered any longer - he had a better job to go to, as Governor of India. |
Cashless coming sooner than we realise
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Therefore, it would just be a case of removing a small element of the role of money from the economy - we are on the way with contactless cards as a recent device to convince us all of the convenience factor. I expect that the gypsies would develop a work-around however, for their own purposes. Crypto-currencies perhaps? |
Who is John Ward??
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Your right wing comment is bizarre though: do you know this John Ward? https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/about/ |
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