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A united Europe to protect our standards!
Europe is the world’s largest market. It’s the market that offers the greatest safety for its citizens. There are standards for testing food, medicines, products, vehicles and so on. Deregulation is on Trump’s agenda at the request of billionaires like Elon Musk, the Sackler family and Peter Thiel. They are calling for a return to…
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Make fun or help the conspiracy theorists
Conspiracy theories have existed all over the world, throughout the ages. In ancient times, there were fanciful explanations, such as a Jew attracting the evil eye in Alexandria. Nazi ideologies fed on conspiracy theories. Social media is a breeding ground for conspiracy theories. There are people who think the earth is flat, that the end…
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Drugs
At the end of the 1970s, the neo-liberal idea developed that if you work hard you can succeed, but if you fail it’s because you haven’t given yourself the means. In the 1980s, under the Thatcher/Reagan era, Western countries became deindustrialised and mass unemployment emerged. In the 1990s, the “cool Britannia” left-wingers such as Tony…
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Freedom and coexistence
The philosophers of the Enlightenment and the liberals of the French Revolution wanted three things above all: bread, freedom of conscience and the abolition of privileges. The right to a decent life should not be merchandised. Having a roof over your head and bread should not be monetized. Revolutionaries marched for bread. It was the…
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Humiliated by the Republic
During the industrial revolution, people were forcibly moved from the countryside to cities or industrial estates where there were factories or mines. Karl Marx turned these displaced people into a class, the proletariat. In the 1970s, they were dispossessed of their places of work by moving their sources of income abroad. Companies seeking to increase…
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Golden Rivers and Freedom wars
American made – Iran–Contra affair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair – American made film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Made_(film) The Night Manager (novel) – The Night Manager – novel – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Manager – United States involvement in regime change – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change Air America – Air America (airline), a former civilian airline operated by the Central Intelligence Agency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_(airline) – Air America (film), a 1990 film adaptation of…