Starving people causes obesity when they resume eating, the body stores food for later.
Addictions cause obesity also.
Power Mongering causes obesity because they don't put in an honest days work.
Trump is the epitomizes not working and so does Elon. They delegate they don't work.
I know the difference.
Bruce Springsteen on Trump: “I couldn't care less what he thinks about me. He's the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he'd be consigned to the trash heap of history."
RETWEET if you stand with @Springsteen!
People often say that the developing world is poor because the Western world colonized them and stole their resources.
The truth, however, is that over the past century, the developing world has, for the most part, shown that they are completely incapable of harnessing their own resources. They are not poor because we stole from them. They are poor because they do not know how to run and administer their own countries, resources be damned.
Take Venezuela. The world's largest oil reserves mean nothing if you have a corrupt communist as your leader. People will actually be starving and trying to eat zoo animals while you sit on trillions of dollars in resources!
Africa is another example. Europeans left behind farmland, trains, roads, and mines in Africa. What happened to it all?
It's not that all of a sudden, the Africans started running things like anti-colonialist activists had envisioned at the time. No, no.
All the infrastructure fell into disrepair and/or was stripped down and looted. They were literally handed fully functioning, completed supply chains for resource extraction, and basically unlimited wealth, but they couldn't manage the simple upkeep.
Now, the defense for Africa might be that "The Europeans didn't teach the Africans how to manage any of this! It's not the Africans' fault they couldn't run it independently! They were never trained!"
But my brother in Christ, the Europeans DID try to train locals for management! Obviously it would have been easier to have at least some locals in administration, rather than having to import an ENTIRE workforce, but efforts to find African talent were largely unsuccessful.
Don't believe me? Just look at the different outcomes in Hong Kong and Singapore when compared to Africa. In East Asia, Europeans often did work with locals in administrative and management capacities. When colonialism ended, Hong Kong and Singapore were able to manage themselves. Not the case with Africa.
Now, none of this is to say that colonialism is good. People have the right to self-rule and seld-determination. However, the idea that colonialism and resources extraction are responsible for the developing world's ongoing poverty? That is quite simply a crock of shit.
In war many make the choice not to be slave.
In war many make the choice not to kill people.
Quakers an example.
Who is going to rescue people that make those choices ?
People who kill people ?
Not everyone makes the choice to be rescued because they made the choice not to kill people.
Quite simple really.
So let me get this straight.
Prince Harry walked away from duty, responsibility, and service.
He trashed the institution.
Monetised his grievances.
Accused his family, his country, and his people of cruelty and abuse.
Moved to California to cosplay as a persecuted celebrity.
And now, after all that, the UK taxpayer is expected to automatically fund armed police protection for his visits.
Not because he serves the country.
Not because he represents the Crown.
But because he made himself a global target by running his mouth for money.
This is not “fairness.”
This is rewarding recklessness.
Security risk is not something that magically appears.
It is created.
By interviews.
By books.
By Netflix tantrums.
By deliberately inflaming hatred while cashing the cheque.
You do not get to light the fire and then demand the public pay for the fire brigade.
And let’s address the emotional blackmail being wheeled out right on cue.
“Family visits.”
“Children’s safety.”
“Grandfather.”
Interesting how the kids only become relevant when taxpayer-funded perks are on the table.
Meghan Markle chose to leave.
They both chose to leave.
They chose distance.
They chose exposure.
They chose profit over privacy.
The UK did not exile them.
They flounced.
Calling this a “formality” is insulting.
Calling it compassion is dishonest.
Calling it necessary is absurd.
Millions of people face threats without armed police escorts.
Public servants who actually work for the country do not get this level of protection.
But a California resident who despises Britain apparently does.
If he wants state protection, he can return to state duty.
If he wants a private life, he can pay for private security.
What he does not get is all the benefits with none of the responsibility.
This is not about safety.
It is about entitlement.
And the British public should be furious.
Imagine your child is taken from school or home by a foreign army. You don’t know where they are. No phone call. No goodbye. Weeks later, you see their photo on a government-linked website — listed with a fake name, described like a product: “quiet,” “obedient,” “blue eyes.” Someone on the other side of the border is browsing, deciding whether to take them.
This isn’t a nightmare. This is the reality for thousands of Ukrainian families.
russia has created an online platform where users can “choose” Ukrainian children abducted from the occupied territories.
The so-called “catalog” allows filtering children by photo, gender, eye and hair color, and personality descriptions. Children are effectively being displayed as merchandise. This is not merely deportation — this is systematic human trafficking, bearing all the hallmarks of state-sanctioned digital slavery.
Such actions by the russian federation are a direct violation of international humanitarian law, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Rome Statute. These are war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Once again, russia proves it is not merely a terrorist state. It operates as a state of human traffickers. In the 21st century.