The Psychology of a culture is revealed and perpetuated in how they relate to and treat their children and in how they relate to and treat the most vulnerable people within their society. Heal that and we can heal everything.
Matters of criminal, legal and civic accountability must be considered in the future Judicial Public Inquiry.
Two tasks - hold those who caused harm fully accountable, and to set out the requirements to prepare the country's health and social welfare systems for future health emergencies, with the ethic of avoiding avoidable harms at the very center of all public funded provision of support, as democratic rights and human health rights demands.
We cannot allow this level of deliberate political undermining of good governance to happen, ever again.
We can do this.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
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A week of Committees and Hearings, pop-corn delights of bullies in full flow, their flawed arguments exposed, their tactics revealed, their bile discharged in one case to a patient, calm and willing witness and in the other aimed at a patient, calm and willing Committee.
If you ever need to watch something to remind yourself you are not a bully, that you'd prefer to not have to vote for bullies, the combined 1O hours of public legislative broadcast questioning under oath of the past few days might have something to offer.
To be honest, I didn't buy any pop-corn, and I watched less than three hours of both combined. Others watched it, and reviewed it so that I, lazily, languidly, did not have to.
To have watched it all, live, would have been too much for heart. Heartbreakers.
The drama.
Boris Johnson and The House of Commons Privileges Committee.
On one side of 'the pond' we had a High Official ex-Prime Minister being given a chance to speak his defence, facing an allegation he intentionally lied to Parliament.
Johnson, ex-Pm, Brexiteer Virus Spreader, ex-Mayor, of Bridge to Nowhere infamy, Press Pundit Hack blustered and obfuscated and tried to bring in the entire Civil Service as part of his defence as he dished up shared blame by association. Johnson's tactic - "If I can't blind them with brilliance, I must baffle them with bullshit."
And so he tried on the "I'm obviously an idiot." without saying "Obviously, I'm an idiot." ploy. Innocence by virtue of stupidity.
He wagged his fingers, he accused the committee of bias, he opined he would not accept their ruling if it went against him. That and so much else. Raw Sewage in the river.
Apparently expensive treatment advice, piping at 5K£ an hour, to no avail.
It was exhausting, listening to slippery eel talk - the only thing he didn't do was use a Latin allusion. I might have missed it.
Tik Tok, The US Congressional Hearings and a ban
On the other side of 'pond' we see High Officials of the Government, carrying out a version of The Salem Witch Trials, attacking a patient, composed and willing witness, denying him the chance to fully speak in his own defence, or indeed his companies defence.
TikTok is being accused, without foundation, of being an arm of the Chinese Communist Party, engaged in nefarious operations designed to undermine The American Way by influencing America's children. They are so accused as a cover for lack of legislative regulatory protection of private data.
TikTok's response is to politely spend 1.5 Billion dollars to store all data on US Soil, under US independent Third Party control, with an all American workforce. And much else that sets a new high bar for regulation of Social Media platforms industry.
Good strategy. A strategy that the likes of Facebook, Google, Instagram, Snapchat, Youtube and a myriad of social on-line interactive user content generation platforms that carry advertising would rather not be put in place.
Surplus Behavioural Data
The real meat of this matter, privacy and the collection of what is known as 'surplus behavioural data' - in short the entire inadvertent on-line activity and behaviour of each and every user - and it's analysis and utilisation is, of course, off the books. Because there's the advertisers alchemical gold - an analysis of current observed and measured human behaviour trails among users of the digital online content creation wannabes, categorised into thousands of very specific characterisations, many of them emotionally charged, easily triggered, vulnerable to manipulation, or for other purposes. A dollar sign on every bias. Advertisers will pay well for that access. Google will never sell it's trove of 'surplus behavioural data'. The other data we create as content, etc, is largely already in the open. All our financials, company info, car licence etc have long been shared, even prior to interwebs.
Personal data, most of which is already available for a fee, is not the issue at the heart of the Internet of Beef.
The Internet of Beef.
The online argument marketing community generating arguments that never resolve into coherence, based on biases, in order to increase engagement so more eyes see more adds. As have done most News papers ever. It's nothing new here.
It was discovered again via the emergence of online Forums and platforms of any and every kind where eyes are on screens and typing to each other, and it very quickly became integrated in to Capitalist dominance of the interwebs as a marketing tool. A dollar on every bias. Hey, people can even design products no one needs, out of toxic materials, that a certain variation on biases might trigger a sale, and make just enough useless stuff to saturate that market, extracting wealth from vulnerability. This is serious stuff, my readers. One cannot look away. This cannot stand unregulated, at any level.
Surplus Behavioural Data allows mass study of specific vulnerabilities, biases, emotional state, psychological state, moods, impulses, fears, triggers, and has led to a categorisation system which the tech companies hold close to their chest. They do not sell that data.
The social media companies sell the ability to target any selection of the thousands of specific categories they have generated by analysing trillions of hours of behavioural data, and send advertisers content to targets presenting with those variable attributes, thus increasing likelihood of a confirmed sales to ad placed ratio. That is their business, the provision of free tools to create content and share it - the user/consumer experience - is their draw.
So back to TikTok's faux spy trial... and the sophisticated, layered bully tactics routinely deployed de riguer when one is plainly in the wrong, in public. Unapologetically. Self righteously. Legislators?
Remember Johnson above? Exactly that.
Tactics
One tactic was for an official to cut short his or her speech, having made and allegation or attribution, so that Mr. Chew could not take time to answer the question, to explore it for better clarity. Bloody rude behaviour anywhere. Mr. Chew was stoic. I think the Congress has bitten off more than it can chew. We'll see why below.
Here's a more moderate instance, there were many more, in quick succession, that were downright repulsive and arrogant.
A staring, glowering semi-circle of angry men and women, nursing a well paid anger, implying that Mr. chew and his company might well be supporting genocidal , secretly grooming American children for the Chinese Communist Party, to undermine American culture; they accused his company of numerous other wild conspiracy theories. The same group had within it people who did not understand how WiFi works as part of the internet.
Congressman A : "If I have TikTok on my mobile phone, does TikTok have access to my Wifi?"
5 hours of this kind of behaviour, with some attempts by Mr. Chew to present a rational, evidenced case, and irrationality and conspiracy theory being presented as a righteous rebuttal of TikTok's case.
Belief and bile. Bible. Make believe, Mystical World. Fantasy and Imagination. Patience and equity. These are things I think about. A life examined and all that wisdom guff.
The presence of cruelty and bullying eradicates wisdom as the base of the dynamic, which is not restored in full until the cruelty and bullying is stopped, and further harm prevented, with an eye to a long term solution. Prevention is better than the cure, though in the case of FacebookGoogle vs TikTok, what they are preventing is a mature regulatory system for all social media, one that is democratic, transparent and effective.
Backstory - money cows chased.
Turns out TikTok had taken away a huge share of the US and Global advertising market. From Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.... Ooops!
A better product gains more users because it is a genuinely better product for sharing social content, in terms of it's ease of use, ability to share, algorithm designed to enable natural virality. The users inadvertently decide what is most popular, most effective. And yes, it is designed, like all social media to draw eyes to advertisements. TikTok intentionally chooses a more democratic content selection, Period.
All the social media platforms sell advertising access. That is the business model. They sell access to users who create content who, whilst viewing content, will see advertisements. Simples.
TikTok's algorithm is much more attuned to emergence, democratisation of content feed, and the deliberate restriction of content that is inciting harm in any way is part of what enables that democratisation.
TikTok has made it clear in their current operations that they are going to set new standards, beyond those in place for the social media industry, to a higher standard. Facebook et al do not want those higher standards turned into commercial legislation.
That's the service that has drawn 15O million US users in. Democratic flow of information. It's what 'the interwebs' was redeployed to do, away from the Military Industrial Complexes hegemony.
Now who is likely the most pissed off about all of this loss of advertising market share? Who might want to kill the neighbours golden goose, out of spite and malign business practice? Hmmm... Those who will lose profits, and those who will lose voters might form an alliance in such a situation.
Turns out someone spent a small fortune generating conspiracy theories about TikTok, and making them go viral.
Turns out someone spent a small fortune on a number of political lobbying firms, and donated to certain public representatives.
"Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has been paying one of the most prominent Republican consulting firms to run a nationwide campaign to sow distrust about one of the company’s top competitors, TikTok, according to a new report from The Washington Post on Wednesday.
The firm, Targeted Victory, reportedly planted op-eds and letters to the editor in major local and regional newspapers across the country. A Targeted Victory director told staff that the firm needed to “get the message out that while Meta is the current punching bag, TikTok is the real threat especially as a foreign owned app that is #1 in sharing data that young teens are using,” according to emails obtained by The Post.
“TikTok is the real threat”
News of Facebook’s decision to hire the firm comes only a few weeks after the company declared that it was losing users for the first time in its 18-year history. Meta’s recent earnings report said that Facebook’s active users dropped by almost 500,000 at the end of last year.
Several of Targeted Victory’s op-eds contained links to negative news coverage about TikTok and were often bylined by influential community figures and politicians, including Democrats. The Post reported that none of the columns disclosed their connection to the Facebook-funded firm.
Over the last few years, Facebook has been under fire by Congress for allegedly holding an illegal monopoly in the social media industry. During a 2020 hearing with tech CEOs, including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, lawmakers cited internal company documents suggesting that Zuckerberg would go “destroy mode” if Instagram, a then-nascent competitor, refused to be sold to the social media giant. "
Anyway, that's so not speculative. This is all well documented. It's an interesting story indeed. How they do it.
And of course, Meta contributed donated funding to Democrats and Republicans alike to help make their case water tight, and carefully built their political combat troops, up, to fight for their Freedom from healthy competition.
Free Market my arse!
In any setting if bullying is happening and not being stopped, Freedom has ended. Period.
So what I think about these two visual overloads of bullies in action is this - in both cases we see what bullies do when they internalise political power as if it was a part of themselves, at which point it becomes blind entitlement. The freedom to make false accusations in public, to repeat known falsehoods set out as rumours as if they are true in public as their natural, God given right. The freedom to shout down the person representing TikTok, caricaturing him as a Chinese Communist Party asset for the public gallery since there is no verifiable, reliable evidence supporting that claim at all.
The Freedom to bully, using language to bully, to incite more bullying. Without consequence. By right.
Indict Putin and Blair and Bush?
That said, the matter of Johnson is minor compared to the outstanding matter of Blair, the War Criminal. Seeing as no indication that Parliament will indict Blair exists, and certainly StarmerFriedLabour won't, Parliament and the parties involved remain as unindicted War Criminals. Make of that what you will.
It's a mess. The whole hierarchy cult of wealth, power and might is a mess, and it's causing so much harm.
Whatever you may think, the fact is that I didn't mess it up, and you probably didn't mess it up, and there are those who are messing it up, big time.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
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"We need to address the societal well-being of our nation, not just the economic well-being: our people are telling us that politics are not delivering and meeting their expectations. This is not woolly, it’s critical.” Jacinda Ardern
Amrit Lohia tweeted the following:
Giving everyone "access to water and food" requires socialism. Eradicating SARS-CoV-2 also requires a shift to a socialist model where we recognise our responsibility to protect each other. Tagging in @coreluminous who can probably explain this better than I can.
I replied: I think you have distilled it into its purest form.
"where we recognise our responsibility to protect each other."
That is the essence of the situation with regards to COVID, Climate Change, pollution, poverty, environmental degradation, Racism, Misogyny etc.
Then I wrote some more.
I would call it a pro-social model rather than ideological Socialism.
Management of the shared commons implies duty of care to all who share the commons. This demands that decisions on policy and practical implementation are grounded in equity and mutual aid and are based on evidence rather than upon ideological belief or the opinion of any one group.
Costs incurred by producers or consumers any other actors acting within the shared commons, that are not resolved, that are passed on to others who bear the burden are anti-social, profoundly so.
This is where I part with existing ideological Socialism which seeks equitable pay and conditions for all, whilst still allowing externalised costs to be accrued. Externalised costs is the root of all the problems we face, globally.
Resolution will be of that issue will be complex, that's well understood.
That said it is attachments to power and status which make it more complicated than it needs to be.
Thus a reckoning with power and status lies ahead, it cannot be avoided.
Does this reckoning have to descend into a power struggle?
Only if those who hold asymmetric power choose to make it so.
Those who hold positions of power and status could choose to share that power, and they could manage it slowly enough to empower the corrective changes required that would protect us all as we move through this phase.
That choice is real.
To recap:
Elimination of community transmission is possible.
It's really simple. Virus needs to date a new human host, or it dies out. It is a complex operation to support a population to do EoCT. Professor Gabriel Scally is a highly respected, deeply experienced public health professional and scholar. He is in no doubt whatsoever that elimination of community transmission is the best possible strategy under the current circumstances, where in the UK we are still at less than 20% population infected, and globally much less than that. There is an immense amount of harm to prevent, to avoid and it makes no sense to push the global population into harms way.
What complicates it are matters of power, wealth and status. That much is clear.
1. there's a world of difference between eradication and elimination of community transmission.
2. New Zealand is not in complete isolation from the rest of the world. Tourism is not an essential human activity. Quarantine can manage necessary travel.
3. Proof of concept is 1.8 billion people who were not faced with multiple national level lockdowns, health care and economic harms over extended periods.
4. Proof of concept is variants from areas that rejected elimination strategy arriving and breaking through quarantine systems.
5. Australia’s official COVID-19 strategy, suppression, doesn’t have an epidemiological definition.
“Suppression isn’t a known technical term,” says epidemiologist Raina MacIntyre, head of the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute and Professor of Global Biosecurity.
6. “It’s either elimination or disease control.”
‘Disease control’ means reducing the number of cases to a locally acceptable level, but community transmission may still occur.
7. In England that successful disease control is defined by Johnson as being 1000 deaths by Covid19 per week. No mention of the acceptable number of cases of chronic disease, Long Covid.
Oxygen depletion, organ failure, death. Terror, despair and horror over the course of ten days or so. One thousand times every week. Thousands of families. Hundreds of ICU teams
Who decides these deaths are acceptable? On what metric?
10. In another context, how many terrorist bombings would be considered an acceptable level?
Is it the case that the 241,000 Afghani deaths of the past 20 years are acceptable to UK citizens, but the 404 combat deaths of troops are not?
11. Who makes these calls about policy and public health strategy, which have such immense impact the shared commons, and on what basis?
12. Is there a need now for urgent collective decision making and collective action to prevent further avoidable harm, when we are in a situation that affects us all?
I was very ill with COVID March/April 2020, so I had good reason to study what was real and what was twaddle and what was propaganda.
It was abundantly clear by mid March that New Zealand, Vietnam, Australia's State Governments, Taiwan, Finland, Norway, China and all the other Governments and countries populations that chose the strategy of stopping the spread internally, eliminating community transmission within their jurisdictions, as well as quarantining borders to prevent importing the virus, (rather than trying to control a slow spread internally aka 'mitigation' and continuing more or less unrestricted international travel) were taking the optimal public health and economy supportive approach.
Events - actions taken and outcomes that followed - have proven that to be the case. On every measure of health, economic performance, civil liberties those countries that opted to stop the transmission of the virus in their communities have done much, much better than those that allowed the virus to spread, thinking they could somehow control the virus and protect their economies.
Anyone who denies this very simple fact is being either silly or toxic.
Denial can be silly or toxic - either way it amounts to an avoidable tragedy.
Citizen denial is just silly.
Government denial is toxic. News Media Denial is toxic.
I detest the Racist Prime Minister, De Peffeil Johnson, it’s a good bet that I support this England Football Team, because of their willingness to speak to and for the community from which they have emerged.
They are everything he is not.
Emotionally mature, honest, professional, fit, determined to do their level best, hard working, dedicated, compassionate, seriously wealthy and speaking truth to Power.
The kind of people one might wish for in public service and governance, at any level.
To be honest, I am not a fan. I do not pay any regular attention to professional sports, even though I really loved running about, and being fit enough to sprint, to jump around, climb and dance for hours for most of my life - mostly because I am, even at 62, still amazed and awed by this human body, and the capabilities that go with it.
I also understand I am every lucky to be still in reasonable good health - so much of people's health is just good luck and some maintenance. I have many friends life long chronic health issues. None of them are to blame for their condition.
I do understand the physical and mental elements of a good, played for the fun, lightly competitive game. I couldn't even begin to imagine the realities of professional sports activity. That is a serious long term level of commitment. I am a singer songwriter, have been all my life and I have never pushed myself to be a top flight entertainer. I just rolled along.
Marcus Rashford's public voice intervention on school meals moved me, in that this was something new that I really liked.
A public celebrity speaking truth to power in the public domain?
Pushing the powerful to be accountable. Demanding change and actuating it. The reaction against his voicing is the old normal. Speaking truth to power is the new normal.
In my long held view, if you have a stage, and you have a voice, then you have a duty besides your entertainment, to use that voice responsibly, for the benefit of the whole wider audience - the community within which we abide.
"Our players are role models. And, beyond the confines of the pitch, we must recognise the impact they can have on society. We must give them the confidence to stand up for their teammates and the things that matter to them as people.
I have never believed that we should just stick to football.
I know my voice carries weight, not because of who I am but because of the position that I hold. At home, I’m below the kids and the dogs in the pecking order but publicly I am the England men’s football team manager. I have a responsibility to the wider community to use my voice, and so do the players.
It’s their duty to continue to interact with the public on matters such as equality, inclusivity and racial injustice, while using the power of their voices to help put debates on the table, raise awareness and educate."
He is, of course, correct.
If the Team playing 'for England' are representing England, then Johnson is not.
Johnson harms the wider community, uses his voice to lie. This video reveals the Johnson Variant of Football. Deliberate assault, then the pretence at sorrow, the false apology, in order to get away with the bullying.
Institutional Corruption England is not this England team.
Racist Johnson's Empire England is notthis England team.
Sajid Javid Bankers England is notthis England team.
Farage's England is notthis England team.
Priti Patel's Home Office England is so notthis England team.
Football is not coming to that Home Office.
WHO deputy director Mike Ryan described the current English Government’s ‘strategy’ of living with the virus (Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland are not opening up as a 4th surge of a new Variant, the so-called Johnson Variant is literally taking off on an exponential rise across the United Kingdom) as being ‘emotionally empty and epidemiological stupidity.’ He is correct. The evidence tells us that elimination strategy prevents all the harms associated with slow spread aka mitigation aka living with the virus aka herd immunity via infection.
Mike Ryan answers a question by a BBC Reporter who asks about the English Governments plan to open up, and remove legislated health advice and support on July19th.
Johnson, Hancock, Williamson, Duncan Smith, Patel. Coffey, Javid are not decent people.
The truth is that England is full of decent people, people who have done their level best to reduce spread of the virus in spite of the English Government's (undeclared, but blatantly obvious) Herd Immunity policy. The indecent in power made awful assumptions about ordinary people - they assumed we'd be as selfish as they are. We are not.
The Oligarch mouth piece News Media under-report our decency, and when they do mention it they present it as 'special' and 'extraordinary' (we all know decency and kindness are everywhere, and to us, ordinary) and they hype the divisive bullies, they big up the bigots and promote general all 'round numpties who have more money than sense.
This England Team are made of decent people.
If anything this team is a sign post for global citizens rising above mere nationalism and tribalism, presenting qualities we wish those entrusted with the power to Govern had - and since we know the Rulers do not have any of these qualities, and we can see that they are at war with us and we know that they cannot help themselves, that they will try to co-opt this team's successes, it follows then that we must deny the English Ruling Class this feel good moment at every turn.
Render onto decency that which is decent.
It is ours, it is not theirs, for they had to be publicly shamed by a young footballer into feeding millions of school children from deliberately impoverished families and communities - Austerity deliberately exacerbated pre-existing inequities. It was deliberate. The Ruling Class that preside over such collective punishment deserve nothing but approbation.
Let the players claim all the kudos, the glories and let us shame the Government that tries to ride it, at every turn. Let us delight in speaking truth to Power.
Boo the English Government.
So no, I will not be cheering England, per se; I might be cheering the global youth that care so much about our people, our species, our futures - a youth who have transcended nationalism.
I might be cheering young men who stand up to racists, bigots and bullies and do so in public.
And yes I will cheer skill and finesse 'pon the field, whoever presents it. I love the feeling of fitness, skill, joy and delight that arises from playful agile mobile ability as a human, event though at 62 I experience the limitations of age. I still love running, it's an amazing capability.
It is PRECISELY because most people think of Racism as a personal flaw, a petty hatred, a weakness rather than as the social weapon system created by the Ruling Class, that Racism persists within Western Democracies.
We need to up our game.
#ToryRacism
My ideal fantasy is this.
3-3 draw, extra time takes it to 4 - 4, then penaltys, 5-5, then both teams decide the Omens have decreed a shared trophy, signifying a global youth movement as one species getting ready to kick the arse of the dividers and bullies in power.
#howfuckingexcitingisTHAT
#NextLevel
or
"Now That's What I Call Win-Win Winning!"
I can only dream. I can hold a vision.
Disco Mix
I have been busy. Two new songs, a remix and two blogs.
Here's the Remix. Of 'Wear a Mucking Fask!'
and as we're edging around the issue of knees and booing..Race is a Weapon in The Class War
Catholicism and Protestantism were both brought to Ireland as justifications for conquest and economic oppression.
The English Normans brought Catholicism in 1159, and the English Tudors brought Protestantism in 1534, both imposed their will through successive waves of violence and economic oppression. Both found willing accomplices within the Irish polity. So it goes.
Only when the entire Island is made a secular state, with no preference or high status afforded to any religion, will it's people be truly liberated and ready to meet the future as an awakened community.
"It's important to remember that the real problem was never one of religion, but political oppression of the native population of a Celtic country by the invasion of a different ethnic group, the Anglo-Saxons. Although much of the conflict through the centuries has been couched in religious terminology, it has been economic oppression that has always been the main issue."100 years of Partition.
100 years ago today, the occupying power, The British Empire, created a border where none existed before, and they partitioned Ireland into two countries. Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, each with their own political structure.
Ironically, it was the English Normans who brought Catholicism to Ireland.
Ireland was first colonised by the Norman King John, grandson of William, in 1159, with permission from the Holy Roman Pope. On his say so, the Irish were Heretics, and John could offer them conversion and integration into the Catholic fold, or send them to Hell, and take their lands to 'improve them' for Christianity.
Borders cannot be seen from Space, they do not really exist, they are artificial.
That invasion and the forced conversion to Catholicism (an historical irony given the protestant settlement on the 17th Century) set the stage for 800 years of political and social violence, and it seeded the colonial aspirations of the Norman Aristocracy that would span the Earth and in time become known as The British Empire.
Ironically enough and quite understandable ( if one studies the behaviour of Empires, and Empire Logic it all makes perfect sense) it was the English Norman Tudors who brought Protestantism to Ireland in the late 16th Century. Conquest brought both 'sides' of a socially adverse division that served the political rulers for centuries, and still serves them to this day. The creation of triggers for Lateral Violence is a constant theme of Empire.~
Here's a brief over view of how Protestantism was introduced into Ireland.
"Although much of the conflict through the centuries has been couched in religious terminology, it has been economic oppression that has always been the main issue."
Disguising the issue is a deliberate political strategy.
Partition as a political utility.
Partition in Ireland set the stage for yet another100 years of economic oppression presented as a religious sectarian struggle for newly named Northern Irish Citizens of the United Kingdom who just happened to be Protestant and Catholic, by accident of birth. For the most part, the people on all sides were caught in the cross fire of lateral violence incited by the Ruling class of England.
Partition thus assured another 100 years of division and hatred, rancour and nastiness that remains a thorn, a wound on the democracies of all four nations of these Islands off the coast of Europe. Even after 20 years of peace, that thorn remains sharp and poisonous out of all proportion to it's size, due to the DUP's alliance with the Conservative Party.
Billions for votes and slim majorities corrupts democracy.
The practice of partition by occupying powers across the Earth, in particular those of the British Empire, has created the stage for multiple wars and civilian upon civilian violence over many generations, designed to weaken any potential emergent power or alliance that might threaten the English Oligarchy, which sits smirking, behind the mask of Monarchy and a faux Democracy mired as it ever was in corruption.
Political grooming gangsters, partitioneers, dividers, war makers, widow makers, orphan makers, profit makers, bullies - the nastiest of the ruling class cult.
The story of Partition where ever it was imposed is a bloody story, gore is everywhere on the floor, communities rendered to shreds, new hatreds breeding on old while the overlord Oligarchy retains political control over divided populations.
Zero community Transmission vs anti-Lockdown vs COVID hoax claimants. More stupid, carefully inculcated divisions.
What united Kingdom?
What United these separate language groups? Violence united them, bound them under one yoke.
Inhumane bullying culture of a ruling class that has delivered slim comforts for a servant class who wave the flags of their submission for the Bullies adulation!
I detest the political structure and system that causes so much harm, I love the people, I love the lands.
I love all people, I love all lands. So what? It is easy to be an optimist, it is easy to be an egalitarian but it is very difficult to make an impact on the existing oppressive system, unless I am part of an active majority, aware of the dynamics of power, resistant to the influence of persuasive grooming, poverty and violence and knowledgeable about ways to confront corruption and resolve conflict in a healthy manner.
There is no institutional Racism in English political system, they say! That was a daring lie to issue as official propaganda. Citing experts who were never consulted, who would never, had they been consulted, have agreed to the thesis the Sewell Report proposed. How very daring. Brazen.
As brazen as the invention of Racism itself, as a tool to divide European and African indentured workers so as to prevent the oppressed labour force dislodging the oppressor owner class.
The Bully Cult
The latest episodes of the bully cult, as played out in this COVID19 crisis, with this weeks chatter about expensive wallpaper covering the cracks in the wall of filth, and the news media talk about home decoration as if it matters.!
Just to make this really clear. Just to clear away the distractions. What really matters is people's lives and livelihoods.
The News Media is raging about wallpaper. Those who consume the News Media are raging and joking about wallpaper. Sir Keir Starmer, who purports to represent genuine democratic dissent, who claims to lead Her Majesty's Opposition, based on well informed opinion, within Parliament, is all over the wallpaper.
Starmer is not talking about arresting Johnson and the entire Cabinet for Malfeasance in Public Office for rejecting zero community transmission strategy, a strategy chosen by countries with a population total of 1.8 billion citizens, a strategy that was known to work even in February 3rd 2020.
Misfeasance in Public Office - Mass Murder
Johnson and this Government chose a policy of death and maiming over one of life and safety for the people. They absolutely understood the meaning of that policy choice on February 3rd 2020. SAGE minutes confirm this. The policy choices of New Zealand and others confirm this. Everyone had the same information, the same data, the same science to work from at the same time.
Just this one paragraph contains the criminal intent, if you examine the language carefully.
"And in that context, we are starting to hear some bizarre autarkic rhetoric, when barriers are going up, and when there is a risk that new diseases such as coronavirus will trigger a panic and a desire for market segregation that go beyond what is medically rational to the point of doing real and unnecessary economic damage."
3. Rhetoric - Language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect, but which is often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content.
All three words are outright lies, deployed to dismiss without due consideration, the sensible policy choices made by the ZCT countries.
That they acted independently in the sense that autarkic is implied is incorrect - they acted with themselves and others in mind, to stop the spread into and out of New Zealand. It is the UK that acted unilaterally, as his language in this speech indicates.
Their articulation - that they would not permit avoidable fatalities in their tens of thousands in New Zealand was not bizarre at all. And it was not persuasive, empty rhetoric either - it was clear, adult to adult communication of the risk and the details of what was needed from government and citizens alike to achieve elimination of community transmission.
What Johnson said in that sentence was careful lies to cover over a murderous policy.
This is how Johnson and his sponsors describe Jacinda Ardern and others who adopted Zero Community Transmission Strategy, with quarantined borders as one of the elements - quarantine for travellers, not for goods.
No market segregation implied.
4. New Zealand did not panic, they acted calmly and wisely, to prevent greater harm, and they succeeded, by every measure.
5. "To go beyond what is medially rational" - looking at English Government policy in the lead up to the pandemic - cutting supplies of PPE, standing down NHS local contact tracing systems, ignoring existing providers of equipment needed and creating new contracts for cronies that were less efficient in delivery of critical supplies, keeping international travel open and importing tens of thousands of cases of virus which then spread into the community, causing more death and maiming.... all of these medially irrational.
6. "to the point of doing real and unnecessary economic harm" - here he carefully avoids mention of human harm, fatalities, disease sequelae, disruption to normal health care services - and in any event this is precisely what he and the Governments chosen policy did - Johnson and the Cabinet are 100% culpable for the death toll, the long covid toll (maiming), the economic hardships and the toll on small businesses, live entertainment and much else over the past 15 months - it was all 100% avoidable.
Deliberate policy is not an 'error of judgement'
The Johnson Government did not make any 'errors' - they made a deliberate policy choice to allow mass infection, and with it, mass fatalities and maimings and massive economic harm. They had their reasons. Who cares? I do not. Nothing they can present will balance the books, the human costs of their disastrous policy choice cannot be undone, and they are to my mind the result of criminality in Government.
The News Media, the much vaunted Free press, overtly concerned with expensive wallpaper and expensive alcohol in outdoor beer garden (the slow return to normality) on this cold May 3rd, are the groomers of a supine, subservient, crippled political intelligentsia and we are, all of us, victimised by these foul abusers of democratic power, who have repeatedly abused our trust. Ordinary folk who disagree, who adopt support or opposition, are all equally powerless and equally victimised - and we are urged to direct our ire at each other, in a orgy of lateral violence, to protect those who abuse us all.
Political Grooming Gangsters.
Byline Times, Kitty Jones, Lloyd Hardy, Bakerstreet Herald and others, including myself, have published a large number of detailed articles proving that the psychological warfare campaign of political grooming of a significant portion of the UK population is a reality.
Carole Cadwalladr's articles on Facebook and Cambridge Analytica revealed the tip of an immense ice-berg into which English Democracy had crashed, and as the Titanic of Johnson's policy sinks us ever deeper into the abyss, her work is being ignored, even by those who published her articles.
Our analysis proves that a psychologically sophisticated and adept campaign of emotional grooming that underpins political decision making that causes avoidable harms is a real and present danger to the citizens of the UK.
Be it Brexit or COVID hoaxy, or anti-Lockdown, there have been industrial scale grooming operations working with utter impunity, often integrated into the News Media - we are all being played by very nasty, very capable bullies.
Psychological, emotional and physiological abuse.
Tracking Political Grooming On line is possible.
We can trace a line of cause and effect
From the people who provide the money to hire the people who organise the teams who create, maintain, deliver and adjust online content to the real time tracking of targets responses/reactions , to the targets changing physiological, psychological and emotional states as they are tweaked by newly evolving content designed to exacerbate anger, outrage, fear and hatred with all of this leading to actions incited by that content and by on the ground organisers, actions which cause harm to the whole community.
In the same way Cigarette makers had doctors in advertisement smoking, as a way to sell more cigarettes there is a line of responsibility for the harm caused.
The actions of Cambridge Analytica (now defunct, their personnel moved onto new jobs in the same industry of persuasion) and many, many others, who form an industrial scale operation to groom targeted demographics within larger populations, often setting one group against another at the same time, amounts to psychological abuse.
So this week I am reading Brittany Kaiser's 'Targeted' and 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism' by Shoshanna Zuboff.
I recently finished my first round reading of 'Mothers and Others' by Sarah Hrdy and Paolo Friere's 'Pedagogy of Freedom'. Studies of care and studies of abuse go hand in hand, in these times.
English News Mefia, and the English Parliament are this week exercised by reports of callous language by Johnson that remain unverified - no witness has come forwards to say that he or she heard Johnson make those comments - and yet no attention has been paid to the proven statement made by Johnson back in February 2020 where he basically said it already - well not exactly... but almost..
Do you recall how Behavioural Science and Data Modelling were cited as the drivers of UK Government policy in March 2020? They did not cite epidemiology. they did not refer to virology and public health best practice was not mentioned.
Boris Johnson delivered a speech in Greenwich on February 3rd 2020, a month before those briefings. The policy direction had been adopted already.
"And in that context, we are starting to hear some bizarre autarkic rhetoric, when barriers are going up, and when there is a
1. **** risk that new diseases such as coronavirus will trigger a panic ****
2. ****and a desire for market segregation that ****
3. **** go beyond what is medically rational ****
4. **** to the point of doing real and unnecessary economic damage, ***
then at that moment humanity needs some government somewhere that is willing at least to make the case powerfully for freedom of exchange, some country ready to take off its Clark Kent spectacles and leap into the phone booth and emerge with its cloak flowing as the supercharged champion, of
5. ****the right of the populations of the earth to buy and sell freely among each other.***
And here in Greenwich in the first week of February 2020, I can tell you in all humility that the UK is ready for that role.
6. ***We are ready for the great multi-dimensional game of chess **
in which we engage in more than one negotiation at once and we are limbering up to use nerves and muscles and instincts that this country has not had to use for half a century."
My comments on this speech, what I think it reveals, starting with my comments on Johnson's choice of words
1. The panic stage was long over, by February 3rd - the WHO and all well run Governments were preparing for local epidemics and a global pandemic, and doing so with diligence and a calm serious focus. Johnson knew Vietnam, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand were already putting zero community transmission strategies in place. He was disparaging those efforts. WHO had by this stage issued warnings just short of declaring a global pandemic. Italy was experiencing the initial surges into their hospitals, with exponential spread of the virus already evident and tens of thousands of British ski tourists in the area, unprotected.
2. The only proposed barriers were to human traffic, there was no blocks on trade or goods or finance being proposed anywhere. He lied, blatantly.
3. What was medically rational was adopting a zero community transmission strategy and resourcing it fully. Every other approach was irrational, in that it ignored the proven epidemiology. The approach of the UK Government was wholly irrational. It was a deliberate choice to allow harm rather than prevent harm. He gaslighted the audience.
4. The policy choice to allow slow spread is precisely what caused the need for multiple lockdowns, which caused more harm to people and more harm to the economy than would have happened had the UK adopted a zero community transmission strategy, by a long and wide margin. It is impossible to prevent surges if one allows slow spread within the community and has no suppression systems in place. That was already well understood by the epidemiology community, SAGE and WHO.
5. The human right to proper health care for the entire population was abrogated, it was denied, it was effectively removed by the decision which had clearly been already made by February 3rd 2020 - the subsequent decisions perpetrated a slow spread tactical battle that was bound to become a war of attrition that the vulnerable lost. 130,000+ horrific deaths, 320,00 cases of long covid, 3,000,000 small business owners excluded from financial support, delays in providing day to day health care as hospitals were swamped by covid cases. All of this was avoidable.
15 months later, the policy of UK Government remains opposed to zero community transmission and amounts to total population infection, aka 'Herd Immunity' - this leads directly into the potential for vaccine escape variants, which puts everyone at risk of back to square one again.
Johnson's words then, and every policy since then are congruent with the charge of malfeasance in public office, leading to corporate manslaughter and wilful economic harm, with cronyism thrown in as a bitter condiment.
India is now, sadly, going through a horror of a second wave because their politicians have taken the same attitude and approach as those in the UK.
6. The British Empire and the wannabe Hindu Empire, Johnson and Modi - sacrificing citizens as pawns in their great game of chess.
To recap.
I am paraphrasing his words and suggesting the intent here :
'we intend to let the bodies pile up, because we believe we can make vast profits from this situation by not doing the epidemiologically correct strategy that others are doing - we are different, better, superior super men of profit!'
How muscular! How Brexit.
I predicted in a number of blog posts this time last year that the policy direction of the UK Government was going to cause more harm, harm to people and to the people's economy. I hated making that prediction, I detest that I was correct, I would gladly be wrong, be made a fool of, be a boy who cried wolf needlessly. I would endure all that, and more, happily had it been that the 127,000 + deaths and 350,000 long covid cases had not been brought about by UK Government policy.
It was the gaslighting and lies, the cronyism which contrasted with the forthright communications of Jacinda Ardern and others in the Zero Community Transmission states that really alerted me to the situation.
The Gamble of the Privateers.
The economic futures that the likes of William and Jacob Rees-Mogg of the Sovereign Individual ideology are promoting is that of Free Ports, Enterprise Cities and Private Cities that operate free of regulation by democratic state legislatures. Easier then for these new entities to avoid regulation that is needed to deal with climate change, air pollution, water pollution and the many other externalised costs that underpin the wealth of extractive industry billionaires but put the whole of humanity at serious risk of long term harm.
Cities run as Corporate States, with citizens as captive customers. Dubai, a dubious set up with ultra wealthy management for ultra wealthy clients, underpinned with low paid immigrant labour deprived of the most basic standard of workers rights, is cited as an exemplar. This is part of the underlay of Brexit, that no English News Mefia will acknowledge. The Sovereign Individual. Privateers. Buccaneers.
The Game of Chess.
Meanwhile the British Press are falling over themselves to avoid the truth, to maintain the taboo this blog article is breaking.
Labour's leader, Sir Keir Starmer and his personal choice of front bench are largely enfeebled in Parliament, they are almost totally futile, in that they support this government and whilst trying to make it look like they are being critical, they offer no solutions, the make no assertive challenge to the policy of slow spread and are in their subservience a walking, talking health and safety violation.
Grooming gangsters operate with impunity to spread the lies that the covid19 is a hoax, that lockdowns are causing more deaths than they prevent, that we need to learn to live with the virus and keep calm and get on with it.
By not specifying schools as places where mask wearing is mandatory, schools are being indirectly pressured to stop students wearing masks, in effect to become super spreaders - the only possible reason must be that to complete Government policy total infection must be achieved sooner rather than later, rather than not at all. That is in line with the 'let the herd take it on the chin' dynamic. Right wing media are touting mask wearing as an infringement rather than a safety measure.
English Football fans are willing to take on the Oligarchs they are funding, yet unwilling to take on the Government that is killing their relatives, harming their economy, paying their furlough. What is that?
It's a mess. an awful, horrible mess and many, many innocents are suffering as a result.
Pile those bodies high, and sell them cheap!
Harm causation on an industrial scale, callous avarice disguised as Nationalism. Lies, gaslighting, cronyism. Intent.
Under English law, misconductin public office is a criminal offence at common law which dates back to the 13th century.[2][3]
The offence carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. It is confined to those who are public office holders, and is committed when the office holder acts (or neglects to act) in a way that constitutes a breach of the duties of that office.[4]
The defendant must have been exercising his power as a public officer
The defendant is either exercising targeted malice or exceeding his powers
"Misconduct in public office" is often but inaccurately rendered as "misconduct in a public office", which has a different meaning.
Something needs to shift, or there will be more harms caused that could have been avoided.
The place where the shift needs to come from is both within the Houses of Parliament and among the electorate.
Who will protect the most vulnerable?
Who will indict the culpable?
I sincerely hope the vaccines will help ameliorate the situation, yet I fear they will not. I would not want to bet on them, given the nature of this government.
“How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political power to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.” ~ Aneurin Bevan
One way of understanding history is to seek out the stories of those most harmed by the attitudes, behaviour and actions of those who hold and exercise the most social material power. The lives of the most vulnerable are historically more meaningful in that they reveal so much about the attitudes of the powerful. It is often the case that those who exercise power in abusive ways seek to obscure, bury or otherwise silence the stories of those most harmed by that exercise.
Judith Herman faced that in her work as a Trauma specialist, meeting men and women exposed to extreme violence in the 1960s onwards, ranging from domestic abuse to political terrorism.
"I argued then that the study of psychological trauma
is an inherently political enterprise because it calls attention to the experience of
oppressed people.
I predicted that our field would continue to be beset by controversy,
no matter how solid its empirical foundation, because the same historical forces that in
the past have consigned major discoveries to oblivion continue to operate in the world.
I argued, finally, that only an ongoing connection with a global political movement for
human rights could ultimately sustain our ability to speak about unspeakable things." ~ Judith Herman in Trauma and Recovery
The narrative of historical celebrity is by definition and intent a serial hagiography.
Undue reverence to those who officiate the violent hierarchies rides roughshod over compassion, empathy and genuine concern for the lived experience - the lives of those who endure the worst outcomes of the decisions of the powerful who benefit most from the hierarchy systems are more footnote than headline.
I want to make it very, very clear that I do not hold either of these Queens personally liable, culpable or responsible for any of the harms caused by the English Establishment during their tenures as Queen -as the Crown in person - they are persons trapped by birth and circumstance more than anything else. The accident of birth is as it is. This is in part about the Monarchy as a device exploited by the Establishment which dates back to The Restoration.
Who are the culpable parties?
The Establishment are the Oligarchy. The descendants and inheritors of the Barons, The Merchants, the Colonists and the Industrialists. The Holders of the Assets of the Empire.
Since 1948, and the end of WWII, and the emergence of the Social Welfare State, the English Government has participated in a range of actions that have caused immense harm to entire populations, actions that were entirely avoidable and yet deliberately chosen.
The Queen ascended to the Throne in the midst of all of this, on February 6th 1952.
Aden was abandoned in 1967. One could go back earlier in the historical record and include the Colonial abuses across Africa, India and elsewhere in the 19th Century. Apartheid in South Africa from 1948 onwards was wholly supported by the English Establishment. The brutal suppression of Mau Mau political activism in Kenya in the 1950s.
"Historian Mark Curtis, who estimates that the number of deaths in the post-war world for which Britain bears ‘significant responsibility’ is at around ten million (erring on the side of caution, as he stresses).
Taking into account such atrocities as the wars in Malaya (1948-1960) and Kenya (1952-1960),Indonesian atrocities (both during the 1965 coup and in East Timor from 1975), the Shah in Iran (1953-1979), the Falklands War (1982), support for US aggression in Central America (1980s),Apartheid in South Africa, other proxy wars in Africa, Military action in Sierra Leone, the bombing of Yugoslavia (1999) and Afghanistan (2001), and the invasion of Iraq (2003) not to mention the support for the Israeli conquest and occupation of Palestinian lands.
Of these ten million deaths, Britain has ‘direct responsibility’ for between four and six million:‘ Often, the policies responsible are unknown to the public and remain unresearched by journalists and academics’ (the friendly historian Dominic Sandbrook can still claim with a straight face in 2010 that ‘Britain’s empire stands out as a beacon of tolerance, decency and the rule of law … Nor did Britain countenance anything like the dreadful tortures committed in French Algeria’).
Curtis adds in Unpeople that ‘humanitarian concerns do not figure at all in the rationale behind British foreign policy,’ and are occasionally evoked purely for ‘public-relations purposes.’"
Northern Ireland, 1968, where the oppression of civil rights marches degenerated into a faux Civil War in which the English State colluded with violent militia, that lasted for 30 years.
The destruction of the Trade Union movement, during the 1970s, and the offshoring of the bulk of English manufacturing jobs to gouge greater profits through production with cheap labour, which devastated communities in Wales, the midlands and the North, deliberately impoverishing millions of British citizens. Deprivation visited upon millions of English citizens by the English Establishment.
The Thatcher Government provided ample support to Iraq in the Iraq-Iran War, 1980 - 1988. That support certainly prolonged that war. That support is implicated in the death toll of that war.
The Gulf War, in 1991 to repel the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (itself a miscalculation by the US Ally, Hussein) and the decade of bombing with Depleted Uranium munitions, in order to maintain a 'no fly zone', which when combined with the destruction of civil infrastructure and the embargo of foods and medicines imposed by the US and UK let to the early deaths of 500,000 children.
The Invasion of Afghanistan, in 2002 and all that ensued - 157,000 violent deaths, more maimings, displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, more trauma and poverty.
The Invasion of Iraq, 2003 and all that followed as a consequence - 600,000 deaths, more maimings, displacement of millions of people, more trauma and poverty. This also increased terrorism across the Middle East, North Africa, the EU and USA.
2006 was the year that the Labour Government introduced the Work Capability Assessment, presented as a way to 'help disabled people into work'. The assessment regime was imported from USA, where it had been designed by a Health Insurance Corporation to downgrade claims for Disability, in order to make more profits. Disabled claimants subjected to that Corporation's regime had been awarded hundreds of millions of dollars by courts. Nonetheless, Labour proceeded to implement this atrocious system.
"The former DWP Chief Medical Officer, Mansel Aylward, moved from the DWP in 2005 to the then named UnumProvident Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research at Cardiff University, with funding by the American corporate giant who sponsored the new research centre with £1.6 million.
Together with Gordon Waddell, Aylward produced discredited ‘policy based’ research4in the 2005 DWP commissioned report:The Scientific and Conceptual Basis of Incapacity Benefits5which supported the DWP’s planned course of action to demolish the welfare state.
DWP Ministers insisted that they were helping chronically sick and disabled people to take responsibility for their own financial future by searching for employment. In reality, various reforms to social welfare policies allowed preventable harm by the State to creep into disabled people’s lives.
The flawed Waddell and Aylward biopsychosocial (BPS) model of assessment1 was used by the DWP to justify the use of the WCA, and the excessive use of sanctions against ESA claimants are known to cause identified preventable harm, including starvation, for those least able to protest."
Estimated excess deaths in the population of disabled people during 2010 - 2020 run to 150,000. During 2020/21 60% of all COVID related deaths were deaths of disabled people. The continuing harm of this policy is a stain upon the English democratic system of Government and is a holocaust of death, distress, fear and exploitation. still under way. The English Government shows no sign of changing course. The English population appear unwilling or unable to push against this, even as disability campaigners work over time. This is tragic.
Is it that the Queen, who we are told worked every day, right up to to her passing, is the example the Establishment sets out to mask this?
Support for illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine, where we know that 263,000 Palestinian people have been displaced has been a constant, in that support for the Israeli Government by the UK Government in social material terms and in the UN remains firm, and opposes almost every politician who draws attention to these criminal actions.
Support for Israeli War actions against Gaza, causing at least 6,000 deaths of civilians, men, women and children, where due to embargos and bombing of civil infrastructure, 1 million are forced to live abject poverty, a situation that the UN deems an act of collective punishment.
Austerity, 2010 which followed on from bailing out fraudulent mortgage selling and insurance practices which caused crashes in investment banking, for which no bankers were indicted. Austerity built on lies, which led to increased poverty across England, and the excess deaths of 150,000 disabled, vulnerable and low income people. The rich were given socialism, the poor were punished.
The destruction of Libya, 2011 - 2014, a functioning Civil state, reduced to rubble, which led to it being split and controlled by competing violent militia, where the rule of Law vanished and the rule of the wat lord still thrives.
The funding of violent militia in a proxy war against the Syrian State, 2011 - 2021 which has displaced millions, destroyed cities, towns and villages, caused immense trauma and poverty, where now food shortages exacerbated by trade sanctions are creating the possibility of famine, in the midst of a global pandemic.
The military and political support for the Saudi war against Yemen, 2015 - 2021, where 5 million people are facing famine, on top of all the associated harms of war. UK sells warplanes and munitions, and the ancillary staff to operate a fleet of aircraft to bomb peasants.
And in the last year: COVID19
The deliberate mismanagement of the covid19 epidemic locally, 200,000 deaths, 1,300,000 long covid cases, massive economic damage to working folks livelihoods, massive damage to small and medium businesses, tourism, live entertainment industries.
The policy that has exacerbated the pandemic globally, via the spread of variants that emerged within the UK and were spread due to keeping borders open, airports active, for non-essential travel and the rejection of early action by a prime minister, Boris Johnson, who styled himself as the Superman, the champion on Free Trade, in a speech given in Greenwich on February 3rd 2020.
These are all actions of the English Government that have caused millions of deaths, millions of people have been forced to flee, to be 'displaced', millions of people have been traumatised and these actions by the English Government have increased poverty and inequity across all nations afflicted.
At the same time, the English Establishment has increased it's global wealth and increased it's own power.
Late Elizabethan Holocausts.
I didn't mention Brexit, because, as of this moment it is not clear that it will cause death and mayhem at anything like the scale all these other actions have caused. But there is no doubt that it will. Brexit is, among other things, a move against collective effort and evidence based climate disruption policy to protect populations, build in resilience, shift from fossil fuel usage
People cry that the Conservatives are most foul.
That is only partially true.. It's not just the Conservative and Unionist Party, the rot is much, much wider than that. Even within Labour there is a faction that opposes taking any meaningful action on the issues laid out above. Because they are culpable. Their war against Jeremy Corbyn laid bare the realities, and even still there are a sizable group of Labour voters who bought the lies, and are still, even as the Forde Report was released, holding firm to opposition to corrective action.
The English speaking global Oligarchy Establishment is dominant in all political parties in England, America, Australia and Canada - and they are a venal, brutish clan short on humanity, long on greed and focused always on fulfilling their desire for more power, and more wealth extraction and accumulation.
Brexit was their operation to 'take back control' from a humanist Europe that is starting to regulate extractive industries, off shore banking, tax evasion, air and water pollution, environmental degradation and other abusive industrial practices that are the source of the wealth of the Global English speaking Establishment.
That is a large part of why Scotland is seeking independence.
Boris Johnson's veil slipped when he claimed yesterday that “The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism, because of greed my friends.”
He is of course, totally wrong. The Vaccine success is entirely down to public funding, open and transparent sharing of information by research and academia, across borders, supported internationally as a medical necessity.
This resonates with his speech in Greenwich, February 3rd 2020 which I detail in a recent blog posting.
He posed himself as 'Superman' - he who will not flinch or panic, who will not undertake 'action that goes beyond what is medically rational' like others do, who will preserve open borders to facilitate trade. Except that was a deceit. Goods do not carry the virus, passenger travel carries the virus. He deliberately kept open borders without quarantine and therefore guaranteed spread of variants to and from the UK, even though experts warned of the dangers in this. He lied.
Crony Capitalism
The gaming of the epidemic as an exercise in profit gouging - £37 billion budget for a process to suppress transmission of the virus that is designed to fail at every turn, whilst pretending to help. £57 billion wasted on contracts for PPE and other healthcare equipment, which ignored existing suppliers within the UK and handed contracts to small companies with no prior experience - creating hundreds of newly minted millionaires who raked off commissions at average 10%. The filler accounting of the abuses of power are greater than the scope of this article.
This is Capitalism as a bullying dynamic, where the powerful exploit emerging vulnerabilities across a population and cause harm to that population whilst gaslighting that population through public briefing, news media co-ordination and online political conspiracy theory grooming dominance.
Taking Back Control
The English people need to seek independence from this Establishment, to save further lives and prevent further harms - indeed, the English people needed to do that back in 2003, when it was obvious that a War of Aggression was being initiated and prosecuted using tax payers funds. When the English grass roots failed to indict Tony Blair, a proven liar and War criminal, they opened the flood gates to where we are today.
Queen Elizabeth is on the Throne, binding the nation. She is a person trapped by birth circumstances. None of this is her fault. Her position is exploited by the English Establishment. Flags are waved, and people die.
Late Elizabethan Holocausts.
Now you know why.
God Save the Queen from this odious Establishment of NeoLiberal Robber Barons!
Arrest them all for malfeasance and corporate manslaughter.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
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