We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, October 20, 2021

There are multiple examples around the world showing that, for years, hospitals have been operating and [at] over-capacity with very limited resources.)
  • GP Bob Gill Outlines the US Corporate Takeover of the British NHS in an interview (46:41) conducted by Lowkey, a British-Iraqi hip-hop artist, academic, political campaigner, interviews a GP (general practitioner) regarding the gradual deterioration of Britain's National Health Service, and starting this century details about the gradual privatization of health services under the control of US corporations.
     
    The British National Health Service (NHS) once stood as an internationally renowned example of a tax-funded health system that delivered public-health services to millions of British citizens, lifting a huge burden from the sick. However, the rise of neoliberal policies in the United Kingdom has targeted the NHS to become the latest victim of a U.S.-U.K. economic trade deal that would put health care services in the hands of private U.S. corporations. 
     
    My reaction: What else could the British capitalist ruling class to do with a giant public health service? The same thing is happening in the USA with Medicare. This should be a lesson of how capitalism works, but the heavy indoctrination and propaganda that the people have received over many decades under our capitalist masters prevented most ordinary people from reaching this insight. 
  • Foreign Agents #10 - Covid and Mass Hypnosis w/Dr. Mattias Desmet, features another interview (a week ago, and my commentary for that interview applies to this interview) with psychologist Desmet, PhD, conducted by Max Blumenthal via Rokfin. (Note: I had a rather difficult search for this interview (1:05:40) due, no doubt, to interfering algorithms that prevented me finding it. On Rokfin, you will find the volume control in a default position of "off". Turn it on.)
In addition, I view his appearance on Rumble in which he only targets the January 6 protest at the capitol as important. It seems to me that omitting the targeting of the Covid "pandemic" campaign as directed by the Democratic Party and the media, Greenwald is attacking a much softer target.
 
I consider the Democratic Party as a recently targeted political party by right-wing capitalists, who have been aspiring to control the USA since about 1940 (and have largely succeeded), because they saw it as more useful method to fool the American public. The capitalist ruling class has always used two political parties as useful to project a democratic facade for the nation, but the Democratic Party has been used in the past by the ruling class as an acceptable and weak worker-oriented party. Now that they have taken it over, the ruling class has used the Party has a vehicle for promoting the Covid "pandemic through their media corporations in addition to other themes.
 
Plus the rivals of the transnational capitalists, which consisted of more nationally-oriented capitalists of the Trump faction, have taken control of the Republican Party in the 2016 election. Thus, the covert intelligence services, which serve our masters in the ruling class, took it over and used it as a vehicle for the Covid "pandemic". However, Greenwald refuses to recognize this, and I wonder why. Could he have become "vaccinated" against any Marxist thoughts relating to ruling classes because he has been, like most Americans, thoroughly indoctrinated and propagandized?
  • The Drivers Of Empire Want To Rule As Greek Gods by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband, Tim Foley, also reading the script (but you may miss supporting examples, illustrations, etc.)--from her weblog. My reaction: This is a good explanation of the addiction to power. The latter, in addition to wealth, is mainly what drives the self-serving policies and media propaganda of the transnational capitalist ruling class which is in control of the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire.
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