"There is no excuse for such criminal product packaging. Anyone doing it or defending it should be burned at stake in any civilized country. The fact that it will not happen is the best statement about the times we live in."
I agree. Thank you for the clarity of your writing in this thread, much the best that I have seen on this subject.
It is hard to decide which is more criminal and disgusting, the corporate plutocracy, the political stooges who cover up for them or the narcissism of the western media.
After the "too big to fail" banks, the whole contemporary transport system, starting with cars, planes and the energy industry.
My second home is in South Africa where the power monopoly, Eskom, whose origins lie in Afrikaner state capitalism, is fighting to prevent a total blackout in the country which would shut it down for at least three weeks (remember New York?). Weakened by Zuma's kleptocracy, operating antiquated plant and now thrown into crisis by the disastrous Cyclone Idai (the Southern hemisphere's worst ever, coming hard on two consecutive years of drought) disrupting electricity supplies from Northern neighbours, Eskom is inflicting ever more frequent and erratic power cuts on us all.
Johannesburg workers have to be sent home early before they are locked in for the night by electric gates that won't open. When they get out, the traffic is grid locked anyway. The ANC government faces a general election in May.
Mass drowning has started in Beira, unsurprisingly not yet on the Northeastern seaboard.
Apocalypse now and a new twist to the Heart of Darkness story. Do you think it will get any media space with the Mueller report coming out and the denouement of Brexit?
Keith