I’m gonna say my top non fiction books are:

The Narnia series, who knew that lions could be found in seemingly ordinary closets! Wow!

Harry Potter series, if I had known about hogwarts before i went to college I would definitely have applied there.

And then probably Wikipedia, man there is a lot of info on that book

I don’t understand what your ultimate point is? Is it not common knowledge that major powers spy and sabotage each other? And would that not make this news uninteresting?

And you bring up my other comments, but are you trying to argue that Americans are bad at capitalism with my first comment? Americans are undoubtedly the best at capitalism, name one other country that really takes capitalism and sticks to it like it’s the only thing they know how.

You are furious at me and all I have said is that this is not new news to anyone with common sense.

I’m no yank, and is it really news that major country spies on other major country? Allies spy on allies, why would enemies not also spy and sabotage each other?

Should they do this? Probably not. Is it surprising that they do? Not at all.

Wow, what news. US spies on China, China spies on US. I can’t wait to find out if Russia and the US spy on each other, or if North Korea and China spy on each other. Or if (country) spies on (other country).

I like your idea, but my opinion is that people hear a lot about capitalism in the news (it feels like it has been showing up more and more in mainstream discussion), and simultaneously feel like their own quality of life has been dropping recently, equate the two and reject the faux capitalism they think is ruining their lives.

It could very well be that capitalism is ruining their life, it could be that the governments in power do not do enough to regulate for their best interests. It could be that they don’t do enough physical activity and so they feel worse.

I would bet that most of those polled chose socialism because it’s not capitalism (which shares a name with an idea they think they dislike) but it’s not as “extreme” as communism (because that’s the bad evil thing!!!).

It could create potential for positive socialist change like you say, but I fear that when people don’t know what they are voting for, they won’t know if it’s being implemented effectively.

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I wonder how many of those polled actually had any idea what they were talking about. I mean if you ask the average person to define capitalism/communism/socialism you will get an incorrect answer.

It’s more of a poll of what word people like more.

Erm, not in this case though. UBS was forced by the swiss government to buy Credit Suisse. Guess which company the 3000 people getting laid off worked for before the forced purchase?

The French alcohol industry exported around $17.2bn worth of wine and spirits last year. The EU provided €160mn towards the purchase of excess wine and the French government provided the remaining €40mn. The wine industry is one of France’s biggest exports and is also one of significant national pride. For them to spend an amount that’s relatively quite small to help strengthen their prized industry by buying and repurposing excess wine is really not the unbelievable act a headline would have you believe.

Surely the reason you can’t disprove God is because you can’t leave the universe. Since it isn’t possible for us to know what is outside of our universe we can’t prove or disprove a god’s existence.

It’s unlikely to cause any kind of large black market. In the UK, energy drinks have been restricted to 16+ for a few years now. People don’t mind off brand vapes or cigarettes (for some reason), but people absolutely care about the brand of energy drink they are buying. Kids especially, I imagine most only buy them to look cool, and if no one knows you are drinking a “cool” energy drink then why bother?

This isn’t as unbelievable as the headline would make you believe really. It says the government is buying 200 million in wine stock (almost certainly lower quality wines) and repurposing the alcohol for use in other products. It’s not like they are destroying it to keep demand for wine higher, they are buying it to try and keep the french wine industry strong.

Doesn’t the article only mention the banning of disposable vapes? Did you know there is enough lithium in all the disposable vapes used in a year, to make 1200 electric car batteries. Per year. In the UK alone.

Because alcohol is generally well regulated, and even regular flavoured vapes are poorly regulated.