MonsterMonster @ MonsterMonster @lemmy.world

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If there was any shred of doubt as to which side of the Ukraine/Russia fence Trump belongs, there is now none. Trump is so far up Putin's rear.

And the real estate!

They're going to agree to carve up Ukraine between themselves to exclude Europe and share the minerals.

Most likely before being installed in the Whitehouse the first time around.

I remember these private finance initiatives being launched in the 90s and thinking that someone will be making a lot of money from the tax payers.

PFI's are sanctioned scams.

I'm amazed at how quickly the US has come close to being on the brink of becoming a rogue state.

This has been happening for years, decades even. Building on land that regularly floods and stays flooded for months every year.

If companies paid decent wages there wouldn't need to be a reliance on state welfare and charities. Companies paying low wages benefit indirectly from the benefits paid.

He's not wrong.

Take some time to watch this, then you should understand.

They've got shareholders to feed. Somebody has to pay their inflated dividends.

Actual teaching is not the main part of the job anymore. Teachers are being used as social workers, child minders, parents, filling in the gaps where others are not doing those roles. All of that is wrapped up in red tape.

I'm not a teacher but I looked into it a few years ago. After having our own kids late in life I got to see the hell that teachers go through and many leave for new careers.

All of this on top of the debt that people take on to pay for the training, on top of the debt taken on for a degree.

It shouldn't be a surprise that this is happening.

Until Christmas the last time I went to a WH Smith's was when they had a record section.

Called in this Christmas for a last minute board game and ended up buying on Amazon. The stores are tired and don't seem to have a purpose.

I'm surprised the High Street stores have remained opened for this long. They were past their usefulness well over a decade ago and have been supported by their airport and hospital shops by ripping customers off.

Outdated. Expensive.

"planning, deregulation, energy and trade." It's the combination of deregulation and energy that troubles me. Didn't the financial crisis of 2008 to now start with deregulation of the banks?

Ladies and gentlemen, the United States of America has gone rogue.

Golden showers

This just confirms that Zelenskyy has a way bigger ball count than Trump by two.

On the whole the pub chains, or breweries as they were once known, have themselves to blame. The pursuit of bigger profits through increased rents & leases and drinks prices have led to them being a luxury item. This started back in the mid nineties at the latest.

I remember small pubs being bought out, closed for a million pound refurbishment, reopened with a fanfare and new prices to match putting off customers. The supermarkets saw this and took advantage.

"Basic democratic principles and checks and balances will be largely undermined, the legislature, law enforcement and media will be robbed of their independence and misused as a political arm, Big Tech will be given co-governing power,"