Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Arnold Schwarzenegger calls leaders 'liars' over climate change - BBC News" video.

  1. “Come with me if you want to live,” has a whole new ring to it, right? He’s so right. But, he didn’t say why they’re lying: Vested interests. Fossil fuel barons and the gun lobbies account for the most influential, high spending lobbies in America. In the UK we may not have gun lobbies, but we have an arms manufacturing base that’s almost as big as America’s and disproportionately large for the size of our economy. If we could get lobbying down to even Victorian levels (which were terrible) we’d have halved it. The corporations are the real governments now. Our politicians are mere employees of private interests. Any leader who took them on would face a serious assassination threat, as well as every dirty trick to sneer their reputations in the book.
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  2. “Come with me if you want to live,” has a whole new ring to it, right? He’s so right. But, he didn’t say why they’re lying: Vested interests. Fossil fuel barons and the gun lobbies account for the most influential, high spending lobbies in America. In the UK we may not have gun lobbies, but we have an arms manufacturing base that’s almost as big as America’s and disproportionately large for the size of our economy. If we could get lobbying down to even Victorian levels (which were terrible) we’d have halved it. The corporations are the real governments now. Our politicians are mere employees of private interests. Any leader who took them on would face a serious assassination threat, as well as every dirty trick to sneer their reputations in the book.
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  3. He’s right.
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