"The short history of the twentieth century, I mean I'm not very good with all this stuff, but there is a point when countries, whatever country... it almost happened in Mexico beginning of the year... because of the legacy of all the money that was lent to developing countries, and then you have vast conglomerates using the labor of those countries, this is justified as the marketplace, this is justified as this is how the world economy works, this is how it works, this is how it should be. We take new countries on. We're loan-sharks. You know the West is a huge loan-shark and we're crippling these countries that could potentially develop, and have to develop. And we do it in such a way that we're basically extorting them. The banking system is going to collapse."
Thom Yorke in 1998
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Pop-stars should just shut up about political issues. Generally, they are not very bright anyways. And then they have the lefty-attitude and charge a million dollars for a performance. ****ing hypocrites.
Radiohead are the worst. First they make a big fuss about posting their previous album online, and everyone can donate according to their valuation. Then, no-one pays anything and they go back to charging money for it.
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This guy swims in shitloads of money but criticizes the system that made him rich. Typical indulgent couch-revolutionist...
The reason that these parts of the world stay behind is that they have no institutions that would support their development, and they are controlled by corrupt and violent rulers.
The politically-correct view, in this case delivered by this pinhead from Radiohead, is that this is all the fault of the rich white man from the US. But that is as stupid as their last 5 albums.
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I agree. The whole paragraph is just mindless, incoherent BS, followed by a final sentence that the guy probably overheard some of the smarter leftie friends of his saying at a dinner party. And I am a big Radiohead fan, by the way.
except for the last phrase, the whole paragraph has nothing to do with the financial crisis. I'm sure I can come up with several other people who said a bunch of shit followed by "The banking system is going to collapse."
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The reason that these parts of the world stay behind is that they have no institutions that would support their development, and they are controlled by corrupt and violent rulers.
WTF? David Cameron? This makes no sense at all. They made a shit-ton of money on In Rainbows anyway---more than all the folks who visit this shitty board combined I am sure. They wanted to try something new and decided it didn't really work out. So what? Why do you give a shit?
I paid a few bucks for In Rainbows, but stole King of Limbs off the interwebs.