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‘The City of London is hiding the world’s stolen money’, screams a Bagel Times headline, as bogus a message as that caricature of a newspaper’s other examples of anti-white, anti-cop, anti-male and anti-Conservative platforms. (‘Bid the binary goodbye’ is another pearl.) Not that anyone any longer takes the Bagel Times seriously since it decided that whites are very bad people. Still, I found it amusing that London is responsible for the shame of the Pandora Papers, when most of the miscreants involved are Third World dictators and eastern oligarchs.
Never mind. A newspaper that consistently shades the facts to suit its agenda — even book reviews are assigned to well known haters of the subject reviewed — is not to be taken seriously, and it’s not, but as I’m travelling and feeling good, I will for the second week running defend the very rich. For starters, it’s only the very rich who are clobbered when investing in Silicon Valley start-ups that go belly-up. Those below a certain net worth are not allowed by law to invest. Mark one for the common man and woman. When a start-up implodes, as most of them do, the very rich take it with their chins up, while the media laugh like hyenas. But the working stiffs are safe by having been excluded from the start.
I am too bored to read the Pandora or Panama disclosures; suffice it to say that when a Central African nation’s leader and his sons such as the notorious Teodoro Obiang clan lord it over one of the world’s poorest nations but own yachts, private jets and mansions in Paris and Beverly Hills, something’s very wrong. The same applies to President Uhuru Kenyatta, whose name appears on many a list but is seen as a good guy by the West.
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