HTF (John)

A good follow-up question would be,'Which book is your favourite?'
Saying that, I suspect her answer would be along the lines of 'they're all very good'. Sigh.

There's a great animation series on Netflix called Love, Death & Robots. Within it are a couple of sub 10 minute episodes about 3 Robots touring a post humanity earth. It's very insightful & there's a lovely Mars related twist at the end.

Ssshhh!

I've been banging this drum for as long as I can remember (& at 64, that's not long...)

We should all be more like Jane.

Many of the big businesses thought they could control Hitler in 1930s Germany - he was useful for them by suppressing the Communist threat, getting people into employment, etc. " But we all know how that went...

Not all boomers. Can't help when I was born, but I make my own decisions & 'forrins' are not the problem.

This is Putin's MO - non-linear warfare - & the best bit is, once your agents have lit the fuse, you just stand back & wait for it all to collapse.

He always was.

What was it he said?
"Vote for me & you will never have to vote again."
They were warned.
They still voted for him.
You can't fix stupid.

Wasn't that what Brexit was supposed to do?

I don't think it's just about deportations.

Next step; freeports, which will need hundreds of thousands of drones with no rights to work in them for minimal wages & ridiculous hours.

Don't like it? You're fired, no questions.

It goes much deeper.

Fortunately (financially, anyway), I get offered them every year (I'm 64).
Usually very quiet in the docs but absolutely rammed this morning. Only a 10 min wait, but some had been there for quite a bit longer.

Not only that, by taking away their rights, it would also take away ours.

Or is that part of the plan?

Immigration is a very easy lever to pull on to stir up a reaction. Particularly if you are trying to deflect from what you are really doing...

Absolutely. It goes much deeper. Check out the operators (TOCs)...

Oh yes.

There is another underlying trend in a lot of futuristic movies. They all have strongly established Asian cultures, but usually in some variation of service industries.

She made it very clear in the documentary that it was THEIR money, not hers.

I was thinking along the same lines. Some interesting deflection tactics being employed by Bojo, Hancock & Gove, to name but three with zero consequence.

I watched the documentary last week & was a bit alarmed that Mone is the only case that HMRC is actively investigating. There were some on there (many I hadn't heard of) with even bigger contracts who seem to be untouchable when genuine suppliers (e.g. ARCO) had to bypass the govt completely.

I asked someone on Friday, if they were in 1930s Germany, would they go along with the nazis?
"Yes, I'd go with the majority,"
Before I had a chance to add "if you were Jewish?" he came back with; "I'm not interested in politics."
Holy shit!!!

You've pretty much nailed it there, Dee. This isn't about us, it's about them & all those that follow.

You think you are struggling now? You don't know the half of it.

And that truly is worrying, Brian. We haven't had a real Labour government since 1979 (Blair was a tory in a red tie) & this lot care little for the working class. The 70s weren't perfect & the unions were running riot, but Thatcher just wanted to burn it all down. The swing was massive.

It says something when that feels like 2 dropped & not 1 gained.

Oh, there's plenty of giving money in Trump's world. As long as it's going to him.

The free ports then become a shoe-in.

Absolutely!

Replace 'on' with 'under'.

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