The Old Hand: dispatches

Coming from a simple farming background, I would like to think that I “call a spade a spade.” That’s an old English saying for verbally expressing something exactly as it is. Speaking the truth directly and precisely. In today’s society we have so much spin on everything that it’s hard to distinguish between it from the truth. This spin doesn’t exist without reason. It’s used all the time by corporations, and by politicians to justify their actions before they implement something that they already know isn’t justifiable or right.

From their implementation of spin, they hope that their intended audience will be pacified into acceptance of their policies without question. Even when challenged about their policies, it’s often hard for any smaller companies or individuals to advance that challenge. If it goes to court, then it will end up as a David and Goliath scenario with finance proceeding.

I have touched on this in the past and what I am referring to is Samsung pursing their policy to prevent traders importing goods from Europe to the UK for profit.

That’s a dirty word, “profit”. Unless of course you are a large corporate vendor who likes to make lots of it. But hey, so do we all. Working in a capitalist society, I wasn’t aware it was a crime to do so.