“The final report of the Water Commission includes this calculation: “We estimate that over £85 billion has been extracted from the English water system by shareholders and affiliated parties since privatisation.” Given the parlous, creaking, under-invested condition of Britain’s…”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51