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Thread #109286   Message #2288951
Posted By: GUEST,Shimrod
15-Mar-08 - 06:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: The last days of Thatcher
Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
Didn't Mrs T once say "There is no alternative" (TINA)?

TINA to the 'Free Market'!

TINA to a small group of individuals owning most of the world's wealth.

TINA to a world in which a a significant proportion of the world's population is condemned to poverty and starvation.

TINA to a world in which inconceivably huge amounts of money are devoted to the military and ever more destructive weapons.

TINA to a world in which the weapons can be sold to anyone with enough money, even though those weapons are then mainly devoted to the slaughter of defenceless women, children and poor people.

TINA to a world in which torture is seen as a regrettable, but ultimately acceptable, method of oppression.   

TINA to never ending 'economic growth' in which the world's resources are assumed to be infinite and can be used up at exponential rates.

TINA to catastrophic climate change and mass extinction.

If there is no alternative to those things, perhaps we should all give up now - THERE HAS TO BE AN ALTERNATIVE!!