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If Britain is occupied, who are the occupiers?


The Zionist Colony is a Weapon.

The Israeli colony was designed by the British Empire Ruling Class as a weapon aimed at prevent pan-Arab political and economic solidarity. The subdivision of the region was designed to set up Monarchies and Dictatorships that would keep political and economic Power from the people, and act as vassal states of the European Empires, funded, trained and armed by the European Empires. 

The political movements within the new states that attempted to implement independence from the European yoke were undermined through covert and overt warfare, instigated from Europe.

The long term geo-strategic objective was and remains to prevent non-European States developing independent economies utilising the resources of their regions to build industrial modern socialist societies, because the Europeans, well aware of the exploitative nature of their own economies feared the well known collaborative and pro-social proclivities and the creativity of the global south would soon outpace the Europeans and importantly reveal to the European populations the fundamental flaws of European Capital as a hegemonic power.

The underlying element of British and European Racism as a tool of Wealth Extraction.

Palestinian-American intellectual and activist Edward Said wrote about this in his work,  Orientalism. It is an essential read.

His 1978 book of the same name explores the ways Western experts, or “Orientalists”, have come to understand and represent the Middle East, drawing on the long history of European Empires forays into Africa and Western and South Eastern Asia.. 

Said shows how Orientalist writings and ideologies actively shape the world they describe, and how they perpetuate views of Middle Eastern and the peoples of the Global South people as inferior, subservient, and in need of saving. As a result, these often racist or romanticised stereotypes create a worldview that was promoted to justify Western colonialism and imperialism.

The European Rulers and Capitalists were well aware that these views were wildly inaccurate - however they needed their populations to think otherwise in order to get away with the criminal cruelty that they knew well they intended to inflict, in order to extract wealth from those regions. 

I remember in my youth watching the movie 'Fu Man Chu' which gave me a dread of the Chinese. It was, I later understood, a work of propaganda. 

Fu Manchu is the fictional supervillain created by Sax Rohmer in 1913, acting as the ultimate personification of the "Yellow Peril". The character’s propaganda was built on racist paranoia, feeding Western anxieties about Asian influence, and framing Chinese people as a mysterious, existential threat to Western civilization.

Grooming as a political weapon.

People in power do not have to be Racist themselves to be willing to deploy Racism as a political weapon, and this makes them so much more dangerous than the ordinary street level bigot. Those who curate any form of bigotry to weaponise a population are among the most dangerous people on Earth.

The story of the invention of the category 'White People' by the oligarchy that Ruled in the British Colonies on Turtle Island is instructive. The intent was to weaponise one sector of a diverse working population, Europeans, against all others.

With regard to Orinetlaism the European Ruling Class Oligarchy who had relations with the ruling class of the global south, and understood them quite well enough to trade with and collaborate with as they expanded their colonial dominance needed the ordinary working Europeans to believe that they too were superior to 'the natives' of exotic lands, they need the ordinary Europeans to buy the sales rap of bringing civilisation, christianity and commerce to the rest of the world, and they need willing applicants to man the armies of bureaucrats, technicians, workers, police and military mercenaries they had to utilise to dominate and protect the exploitation of those exotic regions. 

The Global South vs Individualistic Capital

To this day European power limits Global South development primarily through asymmetrical economic and institutional structures. Mechanisms like unequal trade rules, restrictive intellectual property, debt burdens, and unilateral environmental policies—such as the European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)—reinforce dependency and hinder domestic industrialization.

Undermining any state that attempts to correct this imbalance is standard European Foreign Policy.

Deprivation in Britain is a weapon.

Furthermore in Britain the processes of extraction of wealth and its engineers have  consistently corrupted Government to maintain a level of poverty to drive a large swathe of the people into low wage work, because cheap labour is a major wealth extraction amplifier. 

This also generates a sector of the population who are genuinely facing deprivation, generation after generation, who see a middle class and a billionaire class gaining wealth whilst they suffer. 

In entertainment they see themselves being caricatured and castigated - Little Britain, Benefits Street, Shameless, 'Shirkers and Strivers' narratives. 

They see Working Tax Credits and Universal Credit deployed to subsidise low wages, rather than improve their lives, they see corruption in politics as Wealth donates to influence politicians, they endure unequal educational provision, they suffer from the removal of stable social housing, they are well aware that wages have been kept artificially low.

And we have evidence that all of this suffering is intentionally imposed, and yet the comfortable middle class appear to be refusing to stand in solidarity with the people facing such deprivation.

An ocean of human suffering, routinely belittled.

Of course they are angry. 

And the madness that their anger is being deflected via the dynamics of deployed lateral violence, away from the Ruling Class, towards 'othered' groups of people who are visually easy to identify, is also a cruelty. Starmer's island of strangers was an act of utter cruelty. And the way their anger is being exacerbated to heighten their emotional reactivity and to weaponise them against their own interests is yet another layer of intentional cruelty.

Who occupies Britian?

If it is that Britain is occupied, it is that it is the British Ruling Class who are the descendants of the Normans, the Monarchy, the Barons and the landed aristocracy who organised the expansion of colonialism as a business model to build the wealth to create Capitalism itself. The Normans came to Britain on boats, carrying big knives.

The Two Problems of People and Power.

The problem the British people face is the majority have never ever held their Ruling Class accountable for the many avoidable harms it has caused them and so many others. And so they are Ruled over rather than governed well.

The problem the British Ruling Class face is that this is shifting - a growing majority understand that they have to dismantle the old sordid venal ruling class, in part because their wilful enabling of the Genocide of Palestinians is now blatant and unapologetic.

The Labour Party started as workers and socialists seeking to wrangle a better deal without a direct confrontation, because they did not want another Civil War where modern weapons would be deployed. There was wisdom in that slower approach.

However, after WWI, The Labour Party was infiltrated by The Establishment, who have been weakening the advocacy of ordinary working people within the Labour movement.

It no longer serves any purpose other than to maintain the dominance of the English Ruling Class.

Reform serves the English Ruling Class as a method of dividing the population against itself and its own interests.

Who then can the British people turn to other than each other, in solidarity, and who among the political movements best represents the meeting of this need?

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The argument for Stopping the Spread of Infection, as opposed to Slowing it down.


#StopTheSpread #SpreadTheLove

The lock down, keep your distance, no large crowds, stay at home, isolate the elderly and the vulnerable for 12 weeks and wash your hands approach is best described as the top down approach.  Government Advice.

It is imposed or suggested from above.

It is an umbrella policy. 

It is a very broad brush.

It has no detail.

It is partly an order,  and partly an advice, issued by the UK Government.

The policy is to slow the spread of the infection.

As things stand there is no policy in place to stop the spread of the infection.

Two entirely different policy choices, with profoundly different outcomes.

The UK Government's claim is that this slowing of the spread is necessary in order to prevent a potential overwhelm of the NHS as it stands.

Their claim is that by isolating the elderly and those in care settings we can allow the infection to spread among the general population of 'fit' people and thus protect the vulnerable and the NHS.

Sounds good.

What does slow the spread of infection really mean?

It means to allow the spread of the infection, albeit more slowly.

How is that possible?

When we all  carry on as normal, what do we need to do to make the infection spread more slowly than if we deliberately exposed ourselves to the viral infection by continuing with our everyday interactions.

Masks, physical distance, hand hygiene, limits on indoors gatherings, work from home is what is on offer.

What is not available is the resource base for rapid suppression of localised surges and outbreaks - expert effective local contact tracing,  economic support for quarantine, economic and medical support for isolation treatment, local real time data and information so that locally people can see where outbreaks are happening and take action to reduce contact or exposure to infection and then stop the spread of the infection.

What is on offer guarantees that the infection WILL spread, just slowly.

That is what slow spread means. There is a problem - slow spread cannot be controlled, it will always lead to exponential growth at some stage.

The Government ignored calls by responsible health professionals an epidemiologists to properly resource the NHS and the 15,570 care homes across the UK with PPE.

The UK Government ignored calls to make other provisions in advance, calls that were made from early January when the genome of the new virus was sequenced, and the virus given it's name (SARSCOV2). The disease was named COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease 2019).

Because of that failure to respond to rational warnings,  the NHS frontline staff have been placed in harms way,  they are forced to deal with a multitude of cases of infection without the appropriate protection kit, and other essential supplies amidst staff and bed shortages, and they are suffering the impact of the governments choice, and we can see clearly now that the claim that they are protecting the NHS was and is obviously false.

They knew it was false the day they announced the policy to slow the spread of the infection.

Slowing the spread means infections have already hit care homes, and the entire population within care homes, carers and the cared for alike, are now at serious risk because they do not have the PPE kit and other situational practices to prevent infection spread.

Therefore the claim to be protecting the elderly and the people in care homes was a non-starter, it is demonstrably not the case.

What does slowing the infection spread mean for the 5,000,000 people in the UK with known  chronic compromised immune system conditions?

It means they are guaranteed to be imprisoned, in isolation or in shielding, for as long as the spread is allowed to progress, however slowly.  It means masses of early, painful, horrific deaths within that cohort -  a conservative estimate would be 1% of that population would be 50,000 deaths.

Slowly, over a period of a many months, or more up to a tear - what does that mean?

How many deaths a month is acceptable?

Why not adopt a stop the spread policy?

https://bylinetimes.com/2020/04/01/the-coronavirus-crisis-eight-week-suppression-strategy-could-stop-covid-19-in-its-tracks-says-ex-who-director/

"We know we can get this under control,” says Dr Anthony Costello, a former Director at the World Health Organisation (WHO), where he headed up maternal, child and adolescent health. “The problem is that Europe has been too slow to act compared with Asia; and America is now facing a huge crisis.”

Costello, who is Professor of Global Health at University College London where he previously headed up the UCL Institute for Global Health, spoke to me via telephone from Yorkshire, where he is currently isolating from his family members, many of whom are experiencing symptoms of the novel Coronavirus.

Having worked at the WHO from 2015 to 2018 before returning to UCL, Costello pulls no punches about the failures that, he says, have allowed the virus to rampage across Western countries.

He is also concerned about tepid Government messaging. “It’s not enough to just have modellers, virologists and behavioural scientists.

You need people who can translate this into action. Social scientists. Public health experts experienced in community mobilisation.

Right now, we are locked into this strange idea that the Prime Minister or President makes a speech and suddenly the entire country changes its mind. That’s just a fantasy.

Throughout my career, I’ve seen that just giving people a few of the right messages won’t necessarily change behaviour. We need a more serious, decentralised approach and to share data with local communities.”


He refers to some of China’s mass communications measures.

“The Chinese managed to suppress the virus in provinces outside Wuhan without the same sort of total lockdown by operating quickly.

They had a TV station giving out information on the virus round-the-clock on a 24-hour basis.

We had policing of supermarkets and pharmacies.

But most importantly we had a comprehensive mass testing and contact tracing programme. And proper protection for frontline health workers. And that’s how this was brought under control within seven weeks.”


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636331/ - a paper outlining how the SARS epidemic was stopped in it's tracks.

Which is to say take the proven steps to eradicate the virus from within the population in any given area, from a village to towns, to cities and entire territories.

Because we have no vaccine we have no time to waste.

There is no lee-way, no room for any margin of error. Every error will cost lives, will cause avoidable horrible deaths.

So here is the protocol to stop the spread of infection.

A) Officially declare a legal shut down, and pay all non-essential workers to stay at home, by providing a Universal Basic Income for the duration of 3 months itwho  would take to stop the spread, and eradicate the virus from the population.

To make this easier to bear, if UBI is not acceptable then consider a pause rents, mortgages, major bill payments and roll out temporary income support for the duration of the program to stop the spread of the infection.

That money will not be wasted, it will  be going back into the local economy.

Support all essential workers - food production, distribution and retail, public transport, utility, health, police, fire brigades, NHS, military and civil service by ensuring they have full PPE and training adequate to their roles, and provide them and their employers with exact and accurate information on the virus, the infection, the disease and the protocols demanded by the situation.

Clear communications that  treat the citizens as rational adults.

B) Roll out fully resourced contact tracing - Trace all the contacts of every case that presents, and meet each and everyone  of those contacts with a team who can gently and firmly assess and test every one of those contacts to see if they

1) have the virus - send for treatment in isolation wards to avoid treatment at home which leads to more spread

2) have the antibody - have survived the infection, are presumed immune

3) have not yet been infected - people who could become infected - they must be protected from contracting the infection and also quarantined for two weeks to see if symptoms emerge.

Use school buildings that are empty as co-ordination centers locally. Distribute testing and organise local contact tracing through these as well.

C) Treat symptomatic people from the contact list and all who present with symptoms in isolation hospitals, rather than leaving them at home, where they can spread the infection, and where the patients condition can escalate without support to deal with that.

(This was observed in Wuhan before the contact tracing and new build isolation hospitals kicked in - in the end they had 1800 teams of 5 people each meeting all the contacts, contact tracing is resource heavy in that it needs lots of people working at it, nonetheless it works really well, and then mobile phone tech was integrated into that to monitor symptoms and spread. Potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs which puts more cash back into the local economy and build community cohesion at the same time.)

D) Quarantine all asymptomatic contacts, and as soon as they show symptoms, move them to treatment hospitals to prevent or reduce escalation to severe or critical  - this also means less pressure on the available intensive care units and general hospital admissions.

E) Everyone who is quarantined is supported financially and monitored for signs of symptoms so that earliest treatment can be given, to reduce escalation of symptoms into severe or critical.

If the Government had taken this route, back in February, or even in Early March, a method which is proven already in 5 largely urbanised states, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea and is being deployed successfully in others as I write, we would be closer to stopping the spread and then eradicating the infection spread within the UK population.

We know that it would take 8-12 weeks to stop the spread across a large populous state.

Those states that have applied this protocol are experiencing imported cases, that is to say the infection is being carried in by travellers from outside those States are bringing the virus back into those virus free territories.

F) Quarantine all incoming travellers, via Air, Land or Sea, for two weeks, and monitor them strictly.

If the Government were to move immediately to stopping the spread with an eye to eradication, we could clear the infection within three months.

https://bylinetimes.com/2020/04/01/the-coronavirus-crisis-eight-week-suppression-strategy-could-stop-covid-19-in-its-tracks-says-ex-who-director/

We have the resources, we have the people, we have the desire - but do the Government share this vision?

The aim is to find all infection routes and to chase them down to where everyone infected is known and observed, and no new infections are starting - when the virus runs out of new hosts, it vanishes in that population. Quarantine must be fully implemented upon all incoming  and returning domestic and international air, sea and land travel. Even from Northern Ireland.

We need both the shut down and the bottom out approach.

Instead the UK Government policy is encouraging the slow spread of infection, and pretty much guaranteeing importing extra new infections by way of air, sea and land travellers arriving from other countries where there are serious infection outbreaks, because, as of today, 17 April 2020 is no testing or quarantining of those arrivals.

This is insane.

Let me repeat - within the UK we could, given the fullest resourcing, eradicate the virus in 3 months.

Then a fully funded quarantine must be in place for all incoming or returning travellers to maintain that eradicated status, until a vaccine is available or we have implemented the stop and eradicate policy across the Earths states and communities...

Allowing the slow spread will play out over many,  many more months, possibly years...

In economic terms the difference is between losing three months of GDP or losing a years GDP plus the other costs as various systems reach collapse or stress beyond repair due to continued shut down, re-opening and further waves of infection outbreaks generating a cyclic pattern that persists because there is no vaccine.

It's not just about me, or you my dear reader, it is about all of us.

This situation is about all of humanity as one human family, one society of many cultures and languages, it is about unity across diversity.


Kindest regards

Corneilius

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