Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, December 7, 2020
Obviously, I don't agree with several arguments he makes,
but I vigorously defends his right to express his views. I argue that
he makes two fundamental mistakes. The first, it is not Big Pharma, etc.
that is wrecking harm on this country and a number of others. It's Big
Capitalism. The capitalist system which affirms the rights of private
parties to own and control economic property portends what we have
today: the overwhelming concentration of wealth and power in a very few
hands. It is inevitable. Eventually the ruling capitalist classes must
resort to ever greater amount of fascist-like control--censorship and
manipulation of information which are the hallmarks of neofascism.
The
second mistake he makes is that he assumes--no doubt, he learned this
in schools--that we live in a democracy. It could be thought of as a
capitalists' version of democracy, but it definitely isn't any real
democracy where the people decide conflicting issues. Capitalism is the
inverse of real democracy. The system gives power in the form of
ownership and control over the economy to private individuals and their families.
- An International Message of Hope for Humanity From RFK, Jr. featuring Robert Kennedy, Jr. asking for your support for his struggle against Big Capitalism (no, it's not Big Pharma, Big Data, Big Oil, etc. (15:37m). Posted on Children's Health Defense. My reaction: Kennedy makes two fundamental errors and I've already pointed to one. The second is that capitalism is in contradiction to any real democracy. Allowing one class to privately own and control the economy is the other. Over time the system inevitably results in the concentration of power in a few hands that we see today. Thus, what we have is a fake democracy.
- Richest 1% own 43% of global wealth, while billions have no wealth at all by Michael Roberts from Climate & Capitalism. My reaction: Under capitalism, ownership means control. Thus capitalists control 43% of economic decisions. I think this understates capitalist control of the world's economy which, I think, is much larger. But this is another indication that capitalists, who merely bet on, and loan money to, competing corporations that are largely run by comfortable and highly trained upper-middle-class technical workers, have won the war against the lower working classes and small business operators. However, due to the ever increasing attacks by corporations, the engines of capitalist accumulation, on the Earth's ecosystem, their victory will be of a Pyrrhic kind which will end in the extinction of humans and most other species.
Recently this tiny group of capitalists has entertained fantasies about escaping to another planet after they have ruined Earth. However, because they ("capitalists", "oligarchs", "billionaires", etc.) are also humans which have evolved on planet Earth and there is no other planet like ours in which they can realistically access, these are just fantasies.
- Withholding Stimulus Unless Vaccinated, Doctors Paid Per Vaccination & PCR Test Further Called Out featuring Ryan Cristián commenting, in a 1 1/2 hour program, on these subjects and questioning, and objecting to, widespread proposals to ensure the success of universal vaccinations. Posted on The Last American Vagabond. My reaction: I only listened to about 36 minutes of this podcast, but Cristián raises some very important questions about various proposals advanced by government officials and "experts" many of whom are influenced by the vast wealth (and power) of Big Pharma, Bill Gates, and capitalist ruling classes via their big media corporations. If you don't have time to listen to this podcast, you might be interested in similar, but limited, material covered by Dr. Marcola in a shorter article entitled "What We Know So Far About U.S. Government’s Plan to Track COVID Vaccine Recipients".
- Infinite Spiders by John Steppling from his weblog. (Note: He gathers many of the most profound thinkers to offer insights, including his own, on the post-WWII development of our societies under capitalist ruling classes.) My reaction: I only scanned this article, but I gather from this scan that Steppling argues that advanced technology is being used by capitalist ruling classes for their own benefit (power and profits) instead of the benefit of the vast majority of people on our planet. I totally agree with him. Technology is neutral. It can be used for the benefit of people in general or it can be used by self-serving groups of people. Capitalism is a system that has used technology for the almost exclusive benefit of a tiny group of transnational capitalists located predominately in the powerful US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.