Quote: "stocks and Shares arn`t the preserve of the priveleged few"..legaly no there not. But exsplain to me that statistic that the richest 1000 people on this planet have a combined wealth of DOUBLE the poorest 2.5 BILLION..almost a 1/4 of the entire planets population! ( Big Old probaby thinks that 2.5 billion are all scrounging , drug taking prosstitutes..lol) You might not care about journalistic cencorship in China..but i wonder if you care about anything other than, me, me, me.( which seems to be what coco is saying..in his rather strange style) BigOld, i have zero communist leanings, never have, never will. Re the current price of oil. It IS due to the speculation of future traders.. NOT the current supply. Generarly i find when peeps dont like my comments resorting to personal attacks on my caracter ussualy means there to lazy to do any research proper and have already fixed there view. I could fill my postings with an awfull lot of research links but it wouldnt make a jot of differance to a closed mind.
(may digress slightly)
I can and do write in whatever style chooses the moment but yes we do live in the emptiest of times yet known to man while surrounded by the greatest riches ever known which by merry coincidence is what will shortly finish us off permanently, ecxept for the chosen few who will be launched into outer space, they may have gone already.
Imagine the uproar if the Olympics had been designated for Hyde Park Corner and half a mile either side, of course it would never happen but the uproar coming from the top tier of society, by that I also mean the worst scum of the Earth, although the Earth should not have to associate with them as they arrived at their own greed based decisions of the own free greedy will. I was surrounded by communism and Spanish Civil war Veterans as a small boy and the experience was fantastic. War tends to undermine the sanity of even the toughest individuals and they did complain a lot but having the Army and the Catholic church as your enemies as well as Hitlers Stukas cant have been easy and Orwells writing on the subject cionfirms that it was a disastrous war in terms of organisation and excution.
I have never felt the need to embrace communism simply because it is more prone to abuse than almost any other political system although what we have now is actually worse although most people live in the allusive state of MEMEME and more more more.
I watched none of the Olympics over the last two weeks except a race which included a white man up against the Jamaicans and Americans and I was in the same club that he started in, thirty years ago, I had to watch even though I said for years I would have no truck with it. I will boycot the 2012 Olympics for a number of reasons, all valid for me and not relevant to most as the bandwagon is there so why not jump on board as the crumbs are enough to fool them into toeing the line while their locality is ruined in the name of regress(it is obvious that when you alter an environment totally and without the ideas and participation of the locals the end result is always dreadful. When The Chinese wake up to this they will have a bigger heroin and general drug problem than they had courtesy of the English colonists of the nineteent century and quoting the well known Chinese restaurant down Soho way , we are all Lee Ho Fook(ed)
p.s. Well done Drizzly on your re-opening of the can of gwerms.(sorry Dazzricles, I was trying to remember your name without going back to the original post.)