Thank you. I confused you with the originator of the 30% comment.
riley0
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Out of curiosity, why did you make this non sequitur public here?
I don't know what that has to do with Amazon.
Where are you getting 30%?
Turkey, India, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Costa Rica are in the mix, too.
Thanks, I didn't know. This is interesting: "...there might be something about the experience of elevated power and status that reduces our willingness to give to others." Political realism on a micro scale?
Jesus was a Hebrew insurgent living in the Roman Empire. The only time he got violent was when he threw the money changers out of the temple. (Even as an atheist, I appreciate this.)
Everybody subsidizes farming. The issue is which farming gets subsidized.
Via imperialism. Then, when their enormous military became too expensive, their empire crumpled. Or maybe it was the lead pipes.
Some work; some don't. Google Scholar is a good way to find out whether testing's been done. Here are 2 less time-consuming ways 1) https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/list-all/ 2) https://examine.com/ The other thing to watch out for is whether the bottle you're buying actually contains what it says it does. The only verifying organizations I know of are NSF and USP. Manufacturers have to pay for those lab tests, and if they do, they post NSF or USP logos on the bottles. If you just look for "natural" or "organic," you won't find anything about the presence or absence of the supposedly active ingredient. As jmp242 said, there's no regulation in the USA, so there's a lot of snake oil.
The point is war profiteering. This war has nothing to do with lofty ideals, and it was avoidable. Even once it started, it could have been stopped. The purpose of war in our age is to enrich and expand the military-industrial-surveillance complex while war is ongoing and to use rebuilding as an excuse for banks and multinational corporations to profit at the expense of locals. Ukraine will get IMF loans. IMF will demand domestic austerity so that foreign banks can be paid, i.e., productive forces will generate profit that won't benefit productive forces. That profit will leave the country. The government's privatizing everything. You can bid on state assets on their website. That means little to no central planning during during recovery. With the hryvnia worth next to nothing and post-war physical devastation, they'll have to import most of what they need at prices unaffordable to most. Zelenskyy's selling off his country to oligarchs at the expense of everyone else.
"War is a Racket," by Maj Gen Smedley Butler, is a good explanation from someone who fought in 4 wars and was highly decorated. It's available at the Internet Archive. An actor who even sounds like Butler has a nice reading of it on YouTube. It's very short.
The downsides of IMF-type rebuilding are apparent in Greece and Haiti. Michael Hudson, Yanis Varoufakis, and Naomi Klein explain clearly how this works.
Ed: We like Zelensky because he likes neoliberal capitalism.
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