These Boots are made for walking....and that's what they're gonna do...

Nowadays these Boots are walking all over you-us....

Stroll along a reasonable size high street or shopping centre and you will find...a Boots.....a Holland and Barrett....a Julian Graves and maybe a GNC...4 different shops....nope!....4 shops owned by a strange organisation called the Carlyle Group. In my research of customers in my shop NOT 1 out of 100 knew this....The Twilight Capitalist Zone....do de do....do de doo do.....a place so weird it makes no sense!

Simon, It's The Twilight Corporatist Zone.

Beloved Gordon....

Master of the semantic shimmy....

Additionally Boots in one if those companies that has moved its hq to a tax haven - switzerland i believe - in order to avoid paying taxes thus shifting the burden onto ordinary people. See Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the Worldby Nicholas Shaxsons for an account of this phenomena.

And the former Cadbury's, should I say Krafty Foods.
"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock,".......and.... $£billions in taxes that should have gone to other countries?

British gas has to be the best, owned by centrica a FRENCH company. HA!!!

Scottish Power - Iberdrola own them (spainish)

I see that a Chinese bank has recently bought a US bank.. (Thus adding to Chinas investments in European , African and Arabian companies and financial institutions...).So it begins...The chinese will produce not only your consumer products, but the means by which you pay for them.

Some companies are owned by other companies.

Wow. Stop the presses.

SAm: yes, stop the presses. In your desire to make money, regardless of the consequences, you are selling your society to a totalitarian system with an abominable human rights record. Just as you guys tried to kiss Hitlers backside and suffered the consequences, so now your love of money is selling your nation to anyone with deep pockets and a long rach. You talk of "saving" your nation and helping future genertions by selling your country to people who have no qualms at destroying yor democratic and liberal ideology? Shame on you...I'm glad I'll either be an old fogie, or dead, by the time the consequences of your actions come to fruition...

Sam ...misses a simple point....0 out of 100 don't know it.....that's the topic son.

Over-react much?

Simon, you never have a point to miss.

"you guys tried to kiss Hitlers backside"

Oh really? All of "you guys" ?

And why leave it there? If we tried to kiss the backside of someone who died (allegedly) almost 70 years ago, we probably share the guilt passed down through generations for kissing William the Conqueror's backside, too.

Sorry Spin; I'm forgetting - it's that time of day again, isn't it? You're clearly tired and emotional.

Sam: my opinion of China can be summed up in two words: Free Tibet.

Tom: Unless I am mistaken it was "you guys" who fought a war against German Nazism? And it was your church which remained conspicuously silent as the Nazis murdered Christs killers?

Well, no; I rather think you are mistaken.

1. I wasn't around, because I wasn't born then.
2. If I had been, Mr Chamberlain would not have consulted me.
3. It was not "my church".
4. Even if it had been, it would again not have consulted me.
5. Although there were indications, the scale of the Holocaust was not evident to the general population of Britain at the time.

Offhand that's 5 factors which exclude me from the set of "you guys", who are apparently responsible for all the evils of the world. Now I suggest you attempt to revert to a calm rational mode of behaviour (which would involve not ranting about "you guys" being responsible for Eve eating the apple in the garden of Eden and all subsequent events), or - in the nicest possible way - STFU.

By the way: how far down the bottle are you?

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What does that have to do with my supposed share in responsibility for the Holocaust?

Just to repeat my earlier question: how far down the bottle are you?

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"Why do you automatically assume that anyone disagreeing with your outlook on life has his head down a bottle? "

I don't. I do, however, assume it when I read random non-sequiturs as answers to comments I didn't make, and when I'm attacked with accusations of complicity in events which happened before I was born. The evidence tends to mount up when such outbursts have a curious pattern of occurring during the late evening.

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Spin: aren't you doing what other people have done and mixing Tom C up with Tom M (your comments about the Catholic church I mean)?

Caroline

CE: Probably. But I see very little difference between the two in their attitude. The attitude of one Tom compliments that of of the other Tom. An atheist and a theist, both with a hard-line, self promoting view of life, dismissing and insulting other contributors andeach basing his view on the conflict, and occasional collaborations, between religion and empiricism rather than on actual experience. But, c'est le guerre, I guess. =)

And the fairly early evening, for that matter.

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