It wasn’t.
With rare exception, colonies were unprofitable, meaning more was spent building infrastructure like roads, railways, buildings, etc. than was exported.
And look at places like Singapore and Hong Kong. Both were colonies for a long time and yet they are extremely prosperous.
🇬🇧 Bodycam footage has been released showing Henry Nowak begging for an ambulance before being handcuffed behind his back.
Nowak: "I've been stabbed"
Officer: "I don't think you have mate"
Follow: @europa
We’ve now reached the “confront random Jews and berate them about how disgusting they are, and blame them for all our problems” stage of Jew derangement syndrome.
I cannot believe this is a real video.
@summoningsalt@speedruncom Good idea, I could finally impress my friends about my WR's where the leaderboards have 3 total players! For real though, very nice idea, I believe there would have to be a cut off, such as a minimum of 100 runs or 100 total players for each WR category.
Thomas Massie: "I vote with Republicans 91% of the time. And the 9% I don't, they're taking up for pedophiles, starting another war, or bankrupting our country."
An absolute mic drop. 🎤⬇️
Sent another 64 ETH to the Animal Welfare Fund.
I encourage others to think and act more in support of our non-human cousins too! The extreme suffering we're imposing on them in the billions is not something we talk about often, but it continues to be one of the larger blights on humanity.
And I'm getting optimistic that this century we can finally end it. Farming practices are improving, synthetic alternatives are improving.
Also, in my recent experience, good old low-tech vegetarian and vegan food has improved massively worldwide over the last ten years; I encourage anyone who has tried it long before and given up to take second look; there are far more healthier and tastier options today than the "pasta and salad" you would often get ten years ago.
The Brusselian steamroller is already in motion. Our patriotic government protected Hungarian children from aggressive LGBTQ propaganda. Now the Brusselian empire strikes back. We will not give up the fight for the soul of Europe!
I lived in Hungary for several years under the Orbán dictatorship.
The funny thing was, people could and did say whatever came into their heads, protests were held in front of the parliament, there was a gay cruise bar down the road and Orbán held elections.
And yet, the country was a dictatorship.
Whereas in the UK, people tend to be distinctly guarded and if they do say the wrong thing very publicly, they get locked up.
And yet, it's a free country.
Once you understand that words can mean whatever we want them to mean, it begins to make sense.
New report says Trump changed his mind after talking to Netanyahu, and decided to exclude Lebanon from the ceasfire so Israel can keep bombing it. I don't think it's possible for one man to be this manipulated by another man. An IQ that low is near impossible. So, blackmail?
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 BREAKING: Tucker calls for a complete end to all U.S. military and economic aid to Israel:
"Not one more dollar.
Not one more fighter jet or bomb or missile defense system or ammunition of any kind.
Because Israel is aggressively acting against our interest."
He's careful to say this isn't about treating Israel as an enemy.
It's about treating them like every other country: an ally with restrictions, reservations, and red lines.
He wants a "healthy conventional relationship where Israel can pay its own bills and fund its own military."
This is the most significant statement any major right-wing media figure has made about the U.S.-Israel relationship in decades.
Source: @TCNetwork
Ceasefire's barely 24 hours old, and Israel (our greatest ally) is already blowing it up, literally. Largest coordinated strike on Lebanon since the war began.
But sure, another masterclass in negotiation from the guy who threatened to wipe out an entire civilization the day before.
Stable genius stuff.
Il governo di Netanyahu sta facendo di tutto per mettere a rischio la già fragile tregua in Iran, proseguendo nella sua furia criminale in violazione di ogni norma di diritto internazionale. Poco fa Israele ha bombardato a tappeto la capitale libanese causando centinaia tra morti e feriti: un vergognoso massacro. L’esercito di Netanyahu ha anche colpito dei mezzi italiani, un atto gravissimo. Per quanto Meloni resterà ancora ferma e silente? Quando arriveranno le sanzioni e lo stop di ogni rapporto di collaborazione commerciale e militare con il governo israeliano?
Simple question-
What’s more important to OUR nation:
Opening the Straight of Hormuz & bringing stability to the Gulf.
Or
Funding Israel’s offensive in Lebanon?
Israel is the jr partner in this relationship but won’t act like it until we restrict military aid to them.
Before the war:
1) Iran didn't control the Strait Of Hormuz, now it does
2) Iran oil was sanctioned, now it's not
3) Iran was not building a nuke, now it will
4) US bases in the Gulf were assets, now liabilities
5) Inflation was declining, now increasing
Definitely winning!
“If we don’t deal with the Israelis, then this thing will just keep going. Unless we restrain them and tell them you’re done going on the offense, and if you continue to conduct strikes without running them by us, then we’re going to start taking away parts of your defense system. That’s the only way to restrain them in my opinion. We can’t just ask nicely anymore because every time we do, they say okay and then continue striking anyway. We are doing the heavy lifting in this war while also funding their defense. The only way out of this is to restrain the Israelis and force a shift toward diplomacy.”
@joekent16jan19
Warren Buffet: "I can end the deficit in five minutes. You juts pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for reelection."