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I entered college during the first year of the loan system in the UK. I understood what it was and also understood that I would treat it as a grant and not spend a moment worrying about paying it back. Problem solved. Debt is real until one imagines it isn't.MacCruiskeen » Thu Feb 24, 2022 10:30 pm wrote:Here's the latest evidence -- is any still needed? -- that the COUPVID scam was (and is) the blatantly fraudulent pretext for a brutal escalation of class warfare. Having already been scared shitless by liars and charlatans and dutiful careerists, your children & grandchildren will now be in debt for their entire working lives, and they will be happy. That's an order.
These sociopaths sneak this out on the same day they perform a pantomime of outrage about the fate of people in the Ukraine:
I'm trying to imagine leaving uni at the age of 21 or 22 forty-five thousand quid in debt. and also obediently fearful of any breathing humans I might meet. What would that do to your joie de vivre? What would it do to your courage? Your willingness to risk anything? To travel? To try things out? To risk making mistakes? To endure taking time to get things right? To speak up without fear? To carry on living and learning? To even think?Students to pay off loans into their 60s, plans say
By Hazel Shearing, Education correspondent
BBC, Published 3 hours ago
[...] The average debt among those who finished studying in 2020 was £45,000, government figures suggest.
And at the end of March 2021, £161bn was yet to be paid back in student loans - a figure forecast to rise to £500bn by 2043.
By requiring graduates to start paying back at £25,000, and to continue paying for an extra 10 years, the government hopes more will repay their loans in full. [...]
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-60498245
#Follow_TheScience™, kids. "Follow it right over the fucking cliff. There are too many of you anyway."



Who's driving this thing?Sajid Javid wrote:This is not a time to slow down and look in the rear view mirror. It’s a time to accelerate.
Translation: "Stop whingeing and suck it up, you selfish oiks. Be grateful we're not actually bombing you yet."@OffGuardian0 5 hrs ago
So every geopolitical event now leads to the same destination.
#COVID - 'economic chaos, inflation, fuel price hikes & shortages'
#UKRAINE CRISIS - 'economic chaos, inflation, fuel price hikes & shortages'
https://twitter.com/OffGuardian0/status ... 0838347786@BBCPolitics
Russian sanctions are going to increase the cost of living, says Foreign Secretary Liz Truss
"The pain that we will face in the United Kingdom is nothing like the pain that people in Ukraine are currently facing, they are having to take up arms"
#Raworth http://bbc.in/3thO6W5
https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/ ... 1948452867
In the run up to the election of Trump, when everyone expected Clinton to win, I overheard council officials arguing about fracking:MacCruiskeen » Sun Feb 27, 2022 6:04 pm wrote:The poison always comes coated in saccharine, another poison.

More details now on the new measures announced by the European Union.
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the bloc would, for the first time in its history, "finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and other equipment to a country that is under attack".
She also said that three new tranches of sanctions would be introduced. They are:
Banning all Russian aircraft from its airspace
"We are shutting down the EU airspace for Russians," von der Leyen said.
"We're proposing a prohibition on all Russian-owned, Russian-registered, and Russian-controlled aircraft.
"These aircraft will no more be able to land in, take off, or overfly the territory of the European Union."
She said the move would also cover the private jets of Russian oligarchs.
Banning what von der Leyen called the "Kremlin's media machine"
"The state-owned Russia Today and Sputnik, as well as their subsidiaries, will no longer be able to spread their lies to justify Putin's war," she said.
"We are developing tools to ban that toxic and harmful disinformation in Europe".
Widening its existing sanctions to target Belarus
"Lukashenko's regime is complicit in the vicious attack against Ukraine," she said.
She said the sanctions would target Belarus's "most important sectors" and export products.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60542877
ON EDIT: just published, and worth reading in full:Why the world [sic!] is waging economic war on Russia
By Faisal Islam, Economics editor
BBC Published 4 days ago
Russia's financial system is being hit from this morning with something far from a normal set of sanctions, and better seen as a form of economic war.
It is the deployment of of heavy weaponry in a financial theatre of war. And it is designed to push the whole of Russia in to as deep a recession as possible, with the added chaos of bank runs.
It could exact from Russia an immediate price in terms of its financial and social stability for the invasion and bombardment of Ukraine, and bring that home to the Russian people, and anyone in the Russian elite harbouring doubts about their President's actions.
Targeting a central bank of a G20 nation is unprecedented. In the words of the European Commission, it is intended "to paralyse" the ability of the Russian Central Bank to defend the Russian financial system from sanctions.
As the White House said explicitly: "We are planning to impose measures to ensure Russia cannot use its Central Bank to support its currency and undermine the impact of our sanctions". As the [UK's] Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said, the allies are "doing all we can to degrade the Russian economy".
Central banks normally have sovereign immunity. The targeting of the Russian Central Bank is occurring explicitly in order to disarm the Russian state's $630bn war chest of defences. On the day of invasion, interventions using these reserves helped rescue the rouble after it slumped to a record low against the dollar.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60550610
Ukraine war is economic catastrophe, warns World Bank
By Jonathan Josephs, Business reporter, BBC News
Published 1 hour ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60610537
I don't regard WEF membership as presumption of guilt in a conspiracy to burn down the world. It can be just a mark of dull-witted ambition, like joining the Masons or a country club because you think that's how you advance. Germans joined the Nazi Party for similar reasons.
The more advanced degrees, of course, the greater the guilt.
SS/Young Global Leaders
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