True, but I don't think that simple greed explains everything; when you have the 1%'ers possessing so much frkn $$ they could never spend it in their lifetime, there's got to be a deeper explanation.
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The Lead Partners, Not Interests by Jason Ross (EIRNS) — Oct. 28, 2026 Helga Zepp-LaRouche returned from Xiong’an and called the Global Governance Forum there “a conference which one can only describe as truly historic": more than 400 participants, half of them senior figures... https://eir.news/r/2f3edca0?m=da605cd9-9db7-42d8-9820-fce7ff9c2268
The Lead Perpetual War or Perpetual Peace? by Megan Dobrodt (EIRNS) — Oct. 27, 2026 Will humanity ever be free of war for good? The cynical assumption that conflict and war will always be part of human civilization is just that—an unproven assumption, one which has sway only over... - Mark Burns...
The Greatest Country on Earth Finishes Last in Its Class
What we lead in. What we trail in. What it would take to close the gap. For context, "we" is the United States of America, and we are all missing part of the story.... The question is intended to help us see things differently and play with each other in idea and conversation, not judge anyone or put people in camps; to generate discussion, about dreaming what we can do with abundance, seeing what we can already do without that much (most of my... this makes me think: I'm not a history buff, but a few years ago I read The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant, and it changed my mind about income inequality—I used to think, "As long as the lives of the lowest are improving, why does the gap matter?" But then the Durants... - Eric Stevens...
After 50 years of fighting the same battles, the only thing that changes are the protest signs and actors. I am of the opinion that money backing the politics is where the larger problem is..... - Serpardum...
Capatalism is designed for the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer, and so capatalism is alive and well. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.
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Climate models are statistically "unfit for purpose." In any complex system, small errors in variables (like cloud cover or humidity) don't cancel out—they compound. When you project these errors over 100 years, the margin of error becomes larger than the predicted warming....