When I got up this morning and scanned my usual founts for news, I thought it was going to be a slow day. Which wouldn’t have been so bad after all, considering it’s a Monday.
And then I saw this:

The most potent threats to life on earth - global warming, health pandemics, poverty and armed conflict - could be ended by moves that would unlock $7 trillion - $7,000,000,000,000 (£3.9trn) - of previously untapped wealth, the United Nations claims today.
The price? An admission that the nation-state is an old-fashioned concept that has no role to play in a modern globalised world where financial markets have to be harnessed rather than simply condemned.

Yes, those crooked blowhards at the UN, gathered with “influential” world business elites at Davos (that name almost sounds like a certain alien despot from Doctor Who), want us to cook our books to magically create money that shouldn’t be there to begin with, since we didn’t spend the money on the things they say we should spend them on! Of course, said 7 trillion dollars would go right to the UN’s coffers…who know better how to spend it than the rest of us (including the corporations) do.
BULL…S**T!