Saudi Arabia, Iraq Supporting Russia’s War on Ukraine with Oil Output Cut

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oman-says-opec-decisions-based-purely-economic-considerations-tweet-2022-10-16/

Iraq should be a US province now instead of being run by semi-warlords. What a waste of money and time and blood and sweat and tears to remove the evil dictator who ran Iraq just to turn it over to new ones. Saudi Arabia has long been an evil dictatorship, committing genocide against it’s neighbors and enslaving migrant workers via indentured servitude.… read more “Saudi Arabia, Iraq Supporting Russia’s War on Ukraine with Oil Output Cut”

Venezuelan migrants in shock and limbo after new US immigration plan | CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/15/americas/venezuelan-migrants-title-42-expansion-intl/index.html

The root problem is not that the US is no longer allowing immigration, the root problem is that the Venezuelan government under Maduro is straight evil. Even a small military intervention there would topple the dictators regime. Then the people of Venezuela would be happy to stay there. Venezuelans would need to be taught that socialism is a system that has failed everywhere and that a free market based democracy is far superior.

How Britain’s pension scheme hedge became a trillion pound gamble | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/how-britains-pension-scheme-hedge-became-trillion-pound-gamble-2022-10-15/

This is literally theft. Everyone in British finance knew exactly what was going on, but did not care as the financiers got annual bonuses in the millions or tens of millions. The financiers don’t care if it blows up, they will walk away with their money while everyone else foots the bill. These guys should be convicted of fraud and theft.

Von Clausewitz on Why America Can’t Win Wars

Carl Von Clausewitz is one of the most famous military strategists of all time. His ideas are still taught in military academies to this day. Von Clausewitz spent almost his entire life at war, from 13 years old fighting in the Rhine Campaigns through the Prussian invasion of France during the French Revolution, through the Napoleonic wars, studied at the War College in Berlin, the Jena campaign (where he became a prisoner of war with his prince), the Waterloo campaign, then he died of cholera preparing for a possible new crisis on the Prussian border with Poland.… read more “Von Clausewitz on Why America Can’t Win Wars”

Capitalism vs co-ops

Most areas don’t have co-ops because not many people are willing to do a ton of work and not get any benefits from it. This is why capitalism works so well… Entrepreneurs take a ton of risk and do a ton of work and sometimes get windfall profits from it.