#economic

tom_s@friendica.ambag.es

How Britain stole $45 trillion from India

And lied about it.

There is a story that is commonly told in #Britain that the colonisation of #India – as horrible as it may have been – was not of any major #economic benefit to Britain itself. If anything, the administration of India was a cost to Britain. So the fact that the #empire was sustained for so long – the story goes – was a gesture of Britain’s benevolence.

New research by the renowned economist Utsa Patnaik – just published by Columbia University Press – deals a crushing blow to this narrative. Drawing on nearly two centuries of detailed data on tax and trade, Patnaik calculated that Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the period 1765 to 1938.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/12/19/how-britain-stole-45-trillion-from-india/

harryhaller@diasp.eu
mlansbury@despora.de

We can't save the world with electric cars

Going electric does not solve our problems, it only deepens them. As engineers, we must say the opinion of the professionals in the industry is contrary to the mainstream, and for good reason, Zsolt Horváth and Tamás Ignácz write.

We’ve known for a long time that our GDP addiction and capitalist economic model are incompatible with life on Earth.

Scientists kept saying that for decades, yet very little happened. A few years ago, the electrification of passenger vehicles had begun its journey, hoping it could reduce CO2 emissions to save the planet.

Not only does it not help — it worsens the situation, and yet we keep heading towards a disaster.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/12/26/we-cant-save-the-world-with-electric-cars

#EV #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Co2 #carbon #electric #energy #Green #GreenEnergy #transport #cars #GDP #addictions #capitalism #economic

aljazeera@squeet.me

Argentina’s Javier Milei warns of 'shock’ as he takes power | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

Argentina’s new president Javier Milei sang to his supporters and stopped his motorcade to pet a dog, on the day he was officially sworn into office. But the...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Argentina #Economic #JavierMilei #Milei #Protest #Shock #SocialSecurity #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines
Argentina’s Javier Milei warns of 'shock’ as he takes power | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

nowisthetime@pod.automat.click

https://youtube.com/watch?v=75oYd8GYF2E
#WEF #plan to #stop #food production to starve the population of real natural sustenance.
#world takeover with a revealed world government of godless demons
#Larry-Alex-Taunton interviews #JimFerguson I Went to The World #Economic #Forum as a Spy —THIS is What Scared Me The Most. In this episode of Ideas Has Consequences, I chatted with Jim Ferguson about this. Here’s a hint… it’s #not #good #news for you!

ramnath@nerdpol.ch

billionaires are doing the #depop
https://youtube.com/watch?v=75oYd8GYF2E

Larry Alex Taunton interviews #JimFerguson I Went to The World #Economic #Forum as a Spy —THIS is What Scared Me The Most. In this episode of Ideas Has Consequences, I chatted with Jim Ferguson about this. Here's a hint... it's #not #good #news for you!

Larry engages in an #enlightening #conversation with #Jim-Ferguson, a passionate advocate standing shoulder-to-shoulder against the World Economic Forum and its intricate global strategies. Jim, a devoted patriot from Scotland with a fervent belief in individual liberties, delves into the meticulous research he has undertaken, unraveling the intricate web woven by the WEF. Unveiling their intentions to exercise control over the worldwide food chain by unsettlingly seizing farms, Jim’s insights bring to light the gravity of the situation.

Furthermore, the video sheds light on the disconcerting connection between prominent #WEF benefactors and their zealous promotion of C*vid-19 and other vaccines. Astonishingly, these very individuals ardently advocate for a drastic reduction in the global populace by several billion souls. The discourse takes an alarming turn as we explore openly discussed aspirations of globalist powers. The urgency for ordinary citizens to be prepared and resolute in opposing the affluent utilitarian puppeteers orchestrating the World Economic Forum becomes undeniably apparent. Join us to delve into these crucial issues that demand the vigilance and determination of all those who champion the cause of #freedom.

00:00 The Systematic Alteration of Language
01:00 Ideas Have Consequences Show Opening
02:50 Show begins
03:20 Intro on the WEF
05:40 WEF influence in the UK
07:03 Tome Special Offer
09:00 WEF influence in the UK
14:20 ULEZ
14:50 World leaders involved with the WEF
16:00 3000+ Dutch 🇳🇱 Farmers Forces to Sell Their Land (Unelected EU Tyrants Involved)
17:50 The WEF’s attack on Farmers
19:30 The WEF’S goal
22:40 Global attack on Farmers
27:40 WEFers
35:50 A study on the Vaccines
40:25 Jim Ferguson
49:00 UK opinion on the USA
53:00 If America Ever Falls
54:50 People Need to Wake up
57:30 Populist Uprising

escheche@diasp.org

The President and the Press ~ The Day JFK Warned Us About the Globalists’ “Monolithic and Ruthless Conspiracy” and Their Censorship Regime

https://www.globalresearch.ca/day-jfk-warned-us-about-globalist-monolithic-ruthless-conspiracy-their-censorship-regime/5818226
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfknewspaperpublishers.htm

The US is at a crossroads with its waning #political and #economic #power in this new #geopolitical landscape. #JulianAssange and #EdwardSnowden were targeted by Washington for exposing Western foreign and domestic crimes, they themselves were #censored and charged for various crimes. The #Pulitzer-prize-winning-journalist, #SeymourHersh is also being censored for his reporting on the #US-Norway terrorist attack on #Russia’s #Nord-Stream-gas-pipelines

#president #jfk #johnfkennedy #speech #the-president-and-the-press #27april1961 #press #globalists #monolithic-and-ruthless-conspiracy #censorship #us #cia #secrecy #journalism #truth #freepress #freespeech #freeassange #address-to-the-american-newspaper-publishers-association

libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com

https://www.nationofchange.org/2023/10/25/why-capitalism-cannot-finally-repress-socialism/

Why capitalism cannot finally repress socialism
By Richard D. Wolff -October 25, 2023

..."Over the last two centuries, as #socialism spread from Western Europe across the globe, it interacted with very diverse #economic, #political, and #cultural conditions. Those interactions yielded multiple, different interpretations of socialism. For some, it was an evolving critique of #capitalism, especially its injustices, inequalities, and cyclical instability. For others, it became the ongoing construction of an #alternative economic system. More broadly, millions were brought to socialisms that aimed to change basic social institutions (family, city, government) that capitalism had subordinated to its needs. The different, multiple socialisms debated and influenced one another, accelerating change within them all.
...
Such a socialist system entails the continuance of traditional capitalism: enterprises owned and operated mostly by private capitalists, individuals, or corporate groups. What it adds that makes it socialist is a government (often but not necessarily run by a socialist party) that closely regulates and supervises markets and enterprises.

Such socialist governments aim to moderate key effects of private capitalism including its very unequal distributions of income and wealth, extreme business cycles, and unaffordable access by the general population to healthcare, education, and much else. Progressive taxation typifies socialist governments’ means of intervening in otherwise private capitalism. Moderate socialisms of this sort are found in many European nations, in the programs of many socialist parties around the world, and in the statements and writings of socialist individuals.
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People have often organized their collaborative production and distribution of goods and services as self-conscious communities within larger societies. Sometimes such productive communities were organized hierarchically with governing groups (councils of elders, chiefs, kings, lords, and masters) paralleling how they organized residential communities. At other times, they organized productive communities more horizontally as democratic cooperatives. A rapidly rising concept of socialism in the 21st century differs from the three basic models discussed above in its focus on and advocacy for the organization of workplaces as democratic, productive communities functioning within society.
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Among critical socialists’ analyses, some eventually reached the conclusion that previous socialisms focused too much on the macro-level of capitalist society and too little on the micro-level. Socialism cannot only be about the balance between private and state enterprises, about “free” versus state-regulated markets, and about market versus state-planned distributions of resources and products. That limitation can and should be broken. Failures at the macro level had causes at a micro level that socialists had too often neglected.

When socialisms left the internal organizations of production and distribution enterprises inherited from capitalism largely unchanged, they made a major error. They left in place human relationships that undermined chances for enterprises in socialist economies to reach socialism’s goals. A truly democratic society cannot be built on a foundation of productive enterprises whose internal structure is the opposite of democratic. The employer-employee capitalist model is that foundational opposite. Capitalist employers are neither chosen by nor genuinely accountable to their employees. In worker cooperatives, by contrast, the employer-employee division is ended and replaced by a democratic community. The employees are likewise and collectively the employer. Their one-person-one-vote decisions, by the majority, govern what gets produced: how, where, and when. They likewise decide democratically what to do with the fruits of their collective labor, how enterprise revenues will be distributed among individual workers, and as investment funds and reserve funds."...

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escheche@diasp.org

Martin Luther King Jr. ~ A True and Visionary Radical

January15,1929 - April 4,1968

As we celebrate #Martin-Luther-King-Jr-Day, let’s look at some of the things he said that challenged #capitalism and are left out of most history books.

“I imagine you already know that I am much more #socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic… Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive… but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness.”

Letter to Coretta Scott, July 18, 1952.
“In a sense, you could say we’re involved in the #class-struggle.”
-Quote to New York Times reporter, Jose Igelsias, 1968.

“And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the #economic-system, about a broader distribution of wealth.’ When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole #society…”
-Speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1967.

“Capitalism forgets that #life-is-social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher synthesis.”
-Speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1967.

“Call it #democracy, or call it #democratic-socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.”

Speech to the Negro American Labor Council, 1961.
“We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical #redistribution of #economic and #political #power… this means a #revolution of #values and other things. We must see now that the evils of #racism, economic #exploitation and #militarism are all tied together… you can’t really get rid of one without getting rid of the others… the whole structure of American life must be changed. America is a #hypocritical nation and we must put our own house in order.”

Report to SCLC Staff, May 1967.
“The evils of #capitalism are as real as the evils of #militarism and evils of #racism.”
-Speech to SCLC Board, March 30, 1967.

“I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective - the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed matter: the #guaranteed #income… The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate #abolition-of-poverty.”

Where do We Go from Here?,1967.
“You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying #profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.”

Speech to his staff, 1966.
“We are saying that something is wrong … with capitalism… There must be better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.”

Speech to his staff, 1966.
“If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of #life, she too will go to hell.”

Speech at Bishop Charles Mason Temple of the Church of God in Christ in support of the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike on March 18th, 1968, two weeks before he was assassinated.
#mlk #mlkday #martinlutherkingjr #civilrights

tpq1980@iviv.hu

So-called "fossil fuels" aren't made from #fossils. If they were, they wouldn't be able to be extracted below the fossil layer & Saturn's moon #Titan wouldn't have vast amounts of #oil inside it.

"Petroleum" is from the ancient #Greek petra + oleum which means rock + oil. Oil, or #petroleum comes from the Earth's geological processes, not fossils. "Fossil fuels" are more accurately called "hydrocarbons."

We've been conned by #BigOil, the #Rockefellers & #marketing agencies in order to create a false #perception of #scarcity to control #population & #economic development via artificial #energy scarcity & #price fixing.

#fossilfuels #hydrocarbons #gasoline #petrol #linguistics #usa #etymology #rockefeller #uk #artificialscarcity #geology #saturn #cartel #conspiracy

ramnath@nerdpol.ch

sick fucks on the war path

https://rumble.com/v1p9lmy-evil-wef-leader-caught-planning-mass-extinction-event-to-inner-circle.html
Another week, another leaked video from the #World #Economic #Forum featuring Klaus #Schwab’s advisors casually discussing their #plans to #depopulate the #planet.

According to these two #WEF stooges, all religious groups are opposed to the World Economic Forum because religions want “more souls” and the WEF “wants less on the planet.”

At what point do we stop and say “enough”? How many times does the World Economic Forum have to declare their sinister intentions before the world stops and listens?

Klaus Schwab’s right hand man Yuval Noah Harari, who has a history of saying the quiet part out loud, and last week he admitted what many people have long suspected.
According to Harari, who was promoting his new book, the big political question of the 21st century is “What do we need so many humans for?”

And it’s not even the first time Yuval Noah Harari has let slip regarding their plans for humanity. He recently declared that the WEF considers the vast majority of the human population to be obsolete, useless and redundant.

According to Harari, so-called “common people” are right to be fearful of a future in which they will be made “redundant.

The WEF advisor assessed the widespread anxiety among “common people” as being rooted in a fear of being “left behind” in a future run by “smart people.”

Such fears are justified, according to Harari, who spoke on behalf of the elites and confirmed “We just don’t need the vast majority of you.”

Harari’s comments are deeply disturbing because when they are placed in context with comments by other WEF advisors and affiliates like Bill Gates, it becomes clear that they have disablement and depopulation on their mind.

And the UN is working hand in glove with the WEF. Here is Christiana Figueres letting the cat out of the bag about the plans of the elite.

Alan Gregg, an official for the Rockefeller Foundation, said the world has cancer and the cancer is man. Prince Phillip, Queen Elizabeth’s husband, said if he could be reincarnated he would wish to return to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. A nice guy, that Phillip.

Jacques Cousteau said we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. Media mogul Ted Turner said we need a 95% decline in population. Okay, Ted, you first. These guys for the New World Order want to reduce the population of the world from it’s present 7 billion to a half billion.

Charles Wurster of the Environmental Defense Fund said people are the cause of all problems, we need to get rid of some of them. Bill Clinton signed the Bio Diversity treaty that said we need to reduce the earth’s population to 1 billion.

Peter Singer, an influential Princeton professor who is teaching your children, wants to have abortions AFTER the baby’s born. You’ve got 28 days to decide if you want to keep it. He said Christianity is our enemy;

if the animal rights movement is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. Apparently, animals have more rights than humans.
Maybe that’s why the powers that be are promoting abortion parties:
And maybe that’s why the shots are causing mass deaths. But you will never hear about it on mainstream media, because they are bought and paid for by Pfizer.

And maybe that’s why they are promoting obesity, which last time anyone checked, leads to diabetes, and an early grave. The body positivity movement promotes obese bodies as healthy and is being pushed hard by the mainstream media, with new celebrities created to brainwash the children.
Maybe that’s why an insulin factory was blown up just in the nick of time to cause an insulin shortage when it is needed the most:
Of course, the mainstream has been corralled into a mass formation psychosis, and they will refuse to listen to you if you try and speak sense to them about any of these issues. According to the mainstream in 2020, obesity is healthy. The vaccines are not causing people to keel over and die. And abortion is love.

George Orwell warned us about about these times. He said they would convince us that war is peace. How right he was.