Russell Brand – US Trillionaires and world poverty.

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US trillionaires ($1,000,000,000) (A trillion being a thousand billion) have now accumulated wealth exceeding $50 trillion.

It is estimated that you could end world hunger for a mere $30 Billion.

What sort of morality is it that creates a system of such immortality where a tiny number of people own more than they can possibly need while billions starve?

How can that possibly be fair?

Fawzi Ibrahim says that we humans face a stark choice:

We save the planet and ditch capitalism

Or we save capitalism and ditch the planet.

I don’t think he is far wrong.

Capitalism, with its rampant selfish greed, is ripping up the planet, throwing people into war and poverty, breeding fundamentalism, and all for the sake of a tiny number of people. 80 people own half the world!

I think Russell is making me agitated! I hate the way the planet is being trashed.

Russell Brand – Revolution – On Dick Cheney and the Iraq War.

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According to Russell Brand Dick Cheney has strong ties with Halliburton.

Halliburton alone made $35 Billion from post-war contracts to rebuild Iraq.

The policy seems to be that you bomb the shit out of somewhere and then give your mates the contracts to clear the mess up.

This is called cronyism.

You get your poor people to bomb and shoot the hell out of poor people in another country so that rich people can make a killing.

The poor people doing the bombing have more in common with the poor people they are bombing than the rich people who are getting them to bomb.

This is the way capitalism works. It likes war, poverty and destruction – it feeds of it.

Russell Brand – Revolution – A few things that struck me.

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I am not a fan of Russell Brand. I find him a bit of a twat. But I was intrigued enough by what he was saying about the establishment and the need for revolution that I bought his book.

It is very readable and interesting (though good old Russ can get on your nerves a bit).

these are some of the things I picked out when I was reading a section today. They really make you think.

In the USA – 95% of all the gains in income since the recession has gone to the top 0.01%. I bet that’s the same in Britain. The top are doing very nicely out of austerity. They’ve never had it so good.

Makes a bit of a mockery of Cameron’s – ‘We’re all in it together’, doesn’t it?

In the USA the 400 richest people have as much wealth as 185,000,000 of their fellow countypeople (185 million) – 185 million make up 60% of the American population.

I don’t know about you but I find that obscene. That is capitalistic greed verging on madness.

 

Straw and Rifkin – Politicians with snouts in the trough!!

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Mr Straw – £5000 per day????  The Tories are cutting benefits so that some people don’t get that a year!!!   Where is your integrity??

Mr Rifkin – you deserve to be paid an enormous salary because of your standing??  You must be joking. Your standing is that of a public servant.  Have you no shame??

And they wonder why people are sick of the greedy, selfish, warmongering establishment!!

Maybe Russell Brand is right!!  But then that lets the Tories in and that’s the worst of two bad options!!

I’m disgusted!!! They are an arrogant bunch of self-seeking bastards!