SlipperyP Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Shandön Par said: Is it Dave? What I've read Dave watches DVD's from '95, so I say Dave has got lot's of time to watch Defunked tapes. Wish I could! Still not seen ET yet (a movie of my childhood prime). Edited July 7, 2022 by SlipperyP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 8 hours ago, Shandön Par said: Is it Dave? Do you like laughing at American fruitcakes? If yes, very much so. Unless you're asking if I am an American fruitcake and/or large chiselled slab of rock, in which case, no. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 5 hours ago, SlipperyP said: What I've read Dave watches DVD's from '95, so I say Dave has got lot's of time to watch Defunked tapes. Wish I could! Still not seen ET yet (a movie of my childhood prime). DVDs didn't exist in '95, so there's a conspiracy theory in and of itself. Who gave them to me and why? I would absolutely watch a Defunked tape - I'm guessing a Parliament-style groove band? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 3 minutes ago, BFTD said: DVDs didn't exist in '95, so there's a conspiracy theory in and of itself. Who gave them to me and why? I would absolutely watch a Defunked tape - I'm guessing a Parliament-style groove band? Nobody said you were Dave. jumpin n a jakin have a great day Brian 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 49 minutes ago, SlipperyP said: Nobody said you were Dave. jumpin n a jakin have a great day Brian My birth certificate says otherwise! I swear, the pair of you are dropping the commas just to vex me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 1 hour ago, BFTD said: Do you like laughing at American fruitcakes? If yes, very much so. Unless you're asking if I am an American fruitcake and/or large chiselled slab of rock, in which case, no. I’m happy to let you watch them and report back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 (edited) The UN saying the quiet part loud. Food production is being reduced to increase the economic and political control over populations. Edited July 7, 2022 by Detournement 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 9 hours ago, Detournement said: The UN saying the quiet part loud. Food production is being reduced to increase the economic and political control over populations. Wait, I thought we wouldn't need to go hungry because of all the nutritious bugs we'll be eating. Don't deny me my locust paste sandwiches, Klaus. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 (edited) Quote “The essay was first published in the UN Chronicle in 2008, and again in 2009 when the UN Chronicle changed its format.” … “Yes, I wrote that paper. No, it is not satire. I don’t see anything funny about it. It is not about advocacy of hunger. I have not encountered anyone else who thought it might be advocacy. I don’t think the UN would have published it if they thought it was satire or advocacy. The purpose of the paper was to highlight the point that the only way to understand the persistence of hunger is to recognize is that some people with power benefit from it. This point lit up for me when I was at a conference in India about some sort of assistance program for poor people, when one person, apparently a farm owner, stood up and argued against that asistance. His explicit concern is that the assistance would reduce his supply of cheap labor. Persistent hunger is due mainly to the shortage of caring.” Kent, in a phone interview with Climate Depot, said that he now “regrets” not being clearer and said that while his article was trying to be “provocative,” he was not “advocating” for preventing an end to global hunger. https://principia-scientific.com/un-journal-touts-benefits-world-hunger-deletes-it/ The full article: The Benefits of World Hunger Quote We sometimes talk about hunger in the world as if it were a scourge that all of us want to see abolished, viewing it as comparable with the plague or aids. But that naïve view prevents us from coming to grips with what causes and sustains hunger. Hunger has great positive value to many people. Indeed, it is fundamental to the working of the world's economy. Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where there is a need for manual labour. We in developed countries sometimes see poor people by the roadside holding up signs saying "Will Work for Food". Actually, most people work for food. It is mainly because people need food to survive that they work so hard either in producing food for themselves in subsistence-level production, or by selling their services to others in exchange for money. How many of us would sell our services if it were not for the threat of hunger? More importantly, how many of us would sell our services so cheaply if it were not for the threat of hunger? When we sell our services cheaply, we enrich others, those who own the factories, the machines and the lands, and ultimately own the people who work for them. For those who depend on the availability of cheap labour, hunger is the foundation of their wealth. The conventional thinking is that hunger is caused by low-paying jobs. For example, an article reports on "Brazil's ethanol slaves: 200,000 migrant sugar cutters who prop up renewable energy boom".1 While it is true that hunger is caused by low-paying jobs, we need to understand that hunger at the same time causes low-paying jobs to be created. Who would have established massive biofuel production operations in Brazil if they did not know there were thousands of hungry people desperate enough to take the awful jobs they would offer? Who would build any sort of factory if they did not know that many people would be available to take the jobs at low-pay rates? Much of the hunger literature talks about how it is important to assure that people are well fed so that they can be more productive. That is nonsense. No one works harder than hungry people. Yes, people who are well nourished have greater capacity for productive physical activity, but well-nourished people are far less willing to do that work. The non-governmental organization Free the Slaves defines slaves as people who are not allowed to walk away from their jobs. It estimates that there are about 27 million slaves in the world,2 including those who are literally locked into workrooms and held as bonded labourers in South Asia. However, they do not include people who might be described as slaves to hunger, that is, those who are free to walk away from their jobs but have nothing better to go to. Maybe most people who work are slaves to hunger? For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who would plow the fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to produce our own food and clean our own toilets. No wonder people at the high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset. Notes 1 Tom Phillipps, "Brazil's ethanol slaves: 200,000 migrant sugar cutters who prop up renewable energy boom". The Guardian. Online, 9 March 2007. http://environment.guardian.co.uk/energy/story/0,,2030144,00.html 2 Free the Slaves. Online, 2007. http://www.freetheslaves.net/ About the author George Kent George Kent is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawaii. He works on human rights, international relations, peace, development and environmental issues, with a special focus on nutrition and children. He has written several books, the latest is Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food. Edited July 7, 2022 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 2 hours ago, Zetterlund said: Wait, I thought we wouldn't need to go hungry because of all the nutritious bugs we'll be eating. Don't deny me my locust paste sandwiches, Klaus. Bugs don't fill you up. It's like eating a regular size McDs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve55 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 On 07/07/2022 at 20:35, Zetterlund said: Wait, I thought we wouldn't need to go hungry because of all the nutritious bugs we'll be eating. Don't deny me my locust paste sandwiches, Klaus. -3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve55 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 On 07/07/2022 at 22:38, Detournement said: Bugs don't fill you up. It's like eating a regular size McDs. -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 I see that the actual Prime Minister of the UK accused the leader of the Opposition of colluding with the deep state. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 50 minutes ago, ICTChris said: I see that the actual Prime Minister of the UK accused the leader of the Opposition of colluding with the deep state. Can't be long before he joins the dots with the whole Jimmy Saville thing. Is Bojo Q? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 3 hours ago, steve55 said: They're not being very sneaky about it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Anyone upset by powdered crickets being used in their snack foods might want to stay away from hard shell candies. I was going to say M&Ms, but they're apparently an exception. Also, don't look into what's liable to end up in your sausages. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkirkthebigclub Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 The fact that Steve gets through about an ounce of weed on any given day, yet the rest of us struggle to get any, is the greatest conspiracy here. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 34 minutes ago, BFTD said: Anyone upset by powdered crickets being used in their snack foods might want to stay away from hard shell candies. I was going to say M&Ms, but they're apparently an exception. Also, don't look into what's liable to end up in your sausages. Anything with red food dye. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 7 hours ago, ICTChris said: I see that the actual Prime Minister of the UK accused the leader of the Opposition of colluding with the deep state. He also withdrew the whip from Tobias Ellwood as a clue to where to start looking. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 6 hours ago, coprolite said: Can't be long before he joins the dots with the whole Jimmy Saville thing. Is Bojo Q? He’s more likely to be a reanimated Jimmy Savile. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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