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England’s uncaring, fractured society is experiencing temporary meltdown this week, with kids as young as seven looting and fighting the cops, while the British leadership and right wing press is frothing at the mouth and talking maximum violence, maximum punishment and zero reflection on why their country is on fire.
Unlike the British establishment, this man [...]
Every day, we appear to be moving a little closer to a state of affairs where governments could become obsolete.
Large parts of the world have always been ruled by people who don’t really qualify as governments, but in recent years, perfectly respectable rulers have also shown signs (not for the first time) that they are [...]
One of India´s richest industrialists, Mukesh Ambani is about to move into his new home on Altamount Road, which cost him a cool 1.9 million US dollars to build. The building´s interior floor space is larger than the Palace of Versailles and it will take 600 servants to keep the family of six in gold [...]