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  1. The #EU #omnibus chugs along, copying it's way to success from #US #PrivateEquity and #VentureCapital.

    In short; they want you to eat gruel. They want high yields, low nutrition and genetic damage for your family line.

    It's basically the new #aristocracy telling you that your standards of living has to decrease so that they can line their coffers.

    EU-approved pesticide found to have potential effects on brain development | Pesticides | The Guardian
    theguardian.com/environment/20

  2. A quotation from Twain

    The question as to whether there is such a thing as divine right of kings is not settled in this book. It was found too difficult. That the executive head of a nation should be a person of lofty character and extraordinary ability, was manifest and indisputable; that none but the Deity could select that head unerringly, was also manifest and indisputable; that the Deity ought to make that selection, then, was likewise manifest and indisputable; consequently, that He does make it, as claimed, was an unavoidable deduction. I mean, until the author of this book encountered the Pompadour, and Lady Castlemaine, and some other executive heads of that kind; these were found so difficult to work into the scheme, that it was judged better to take the other tack in this book (which must be issued this fall), and then go into training and settle the question in another book. It is, of course, a thing which ought to be settled, and I am not going to have anything particular to do next winter anyway.

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Preface

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84562/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #aconnecticutyankee #connecticutyankee #anointing #aristocracy #blessing #divinefavor #divineright #government #kings #nobility #rule #rulership #superiority #monarchy #autocracy

  3. No fvck Sherlock: "The study, called “Ruling for the Rich,” concludes that the wealthy have the wind at their backs before the justices and that a good way to guess the outcome of a case is to follow the money."
    #corruption #plutocracy #oligarchy #riggedmarkets #legal #aristocracy #greed
    nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/poli