I guess most countries are a bundle on contradictions. Where there is money to be made it's kind of thing sadly has an inevitability to it I'm afraid. It's certainly not an industry I'd work in though.

How come selling weapons to Maduro is less bad than someone saying violence needs to cease on all sides?

How long have you been on this earth before you understood that?

The free market isn't about morality. It operates within legality....mostly.

If it was about morality then it wouldn't be free....would it.

The flip side of this is that the free market and technology development with mass production have done more for mankind than any number of politicians talking political hot air about morality ever has.

I'm not saying that the free market doesn't need to be regulated to work properly....People won't invest if they think they are going to be ripped off.....but morality?

When people start regulating against morality all they end up doing is to create a black market.
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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

And Corbyn still refuses to unambiguously criticise the socialist government in Venezuela that is engaged in what the UN Human Rights Office describes as a 'widespread and systematic use of excessive force'.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

Well, this carried on in the last Labour government so your comparison isn't accurate.

Saudi Arabia are a problem to the west but less of a problem than Iran. As we side with America, who defend us nuclear wise and they side with Israel, the only real democracy in the middle east.

So aliening Saudi Arabia because....quite rightly....they offend your moral sensibilities....well that reaction doesn't help anyone.

Apparently Corbyn is going to increase spending by 45 billion.....He obviously doesn't need any Saudi money does he? Even though in London they are very much the one percent.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

“It’s odd that the mainstream press blames ‘socialism’ for the food problems in Venezuela, when the food distributors remain in the hands of private corporations,” who are “running general sabotage” of the system.

Maria Paez Victor notes that “The opposition orchestrated economic sabotage, corporate smuggling, black market currency manipulations, full scale hoarding of food and essential products. They closed highways, burned public buildings including a packed maternity hospital, from a helicopter dropped grenades on to the Supreme Court offices, have assaulted, lynched and even burned alive [at least 21] young men of dark skin ‘who looked Chavista’. This is a violent opposition steeped in racism and classism against their own people and in the service of foreign powers and Big Oil.”

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