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Wealth-as-Power - a behaviour pattern institutionalised

The problem of Wealth-as-Power.

Empathy is The Resistance.

Christmess Song - a song of empathy as The Resistance and The Solution.

It speaks to determination rather than mere hope.

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"it's getting close to christmas christ! what a mess this world is in where will it end, where will i begin the gifts for ads are everywhere still the west will not share the wealth christ! what a mess this world is in our climates disrupted, people die just so we can drive smoothly by the lights go on, hip hip hooray goodwill to all on christmas day christ what a mess this world is in where will it end, where will i begin? it will only end when i begin it will only end when you begin it will only end when we begin the change, the change ......Imagine there's no countries it isn't hard to do no flags to kill or die for........ ......Imagine there's no billionaires, it isn't hard to do no poverty or pollution... it's getting close to christmas and the best give we could give would be the committment so that all could live live in dignity! living indignity! it's already started because I've begun it's already started because you've begun it's already started because we've begun the change, the change"

~ We, the ordinary people, the decent, kind, intelligent, warm hearted people of the so-called 'civilised world' must dig deep, dig into determination, set aside hope, because hope contains the seeds of failure...

What is Wealth-as-Power?

A minority group sitting above an exploited population extract wealth and weaponise that wealth to maintain their dominance over the exploited population, causing multiple avoidable harms and because Power is the drug, impunity is a necessity for continuation of the addiction.

The solution is to prevent wealth being accumulated and deployed as a political weapon that maintains poverty in order to make low pay seem more attractive than destitution. Low pay aka cheap labour aka the devaluing of a human beings hours is the very core of wealth extraction.

Bigotry as Terrorism

Because Wealth-as-Power deploys layers of social and class terrorism to maintain that shituation, they cannot be terrorised into sharing other their extracted wealth, other than to maintain the appearance of philantrophy as a carefully calibrated concession where they cede no real power.

Every bigotry is curated by Wealth-as-Power as a means to weaponise ordinary people against each other, a crucial step in preventing solidarity emerging across the population, a solidarity that is the only viable political, economic and cultural challenge to the dominance of Wealth-as-Power.

Thus another part of the solution is grass roots education on bigotry as a weaponisation of ordinary people and how to counter that weaponisation, which is necessary for us to build effective political solidarity

Militarism is Psychopathy Institutionalised.

Philantrophy is a sign that the system of Wealth-as-Power is a human rights failure.

Charity is a sign that the system of Wealth-as-Power is a human rights failure.

The only viable pathway towards holding Wealth-as-Power Cults accountable is mass solidarity grounded in evidence and education, compassion and community. The minority cannot stand long against a united majority, even if that minority has nuclear weapons, because the majority also form part of the mercenary work force of that minority and that is a key stone. We ordinary people need to reach out to the mercenary minority of our brothers and sisters and lead them away from that exploitation.

Arrogance and Class.

The Wealthy always, always believe they are superior to the deliberately impoverished and that is a sickness that can be prevented, but once a person is exposed to the virus of wealth as superiority, there is no known cure.

Prevention is the only viable solution. Taxing Wealth is futile.   Taxing Wealth is too late. Preventing Wealth being accumulated and extracted is the only viable long term resolution. To achieve that the population must understand the nature of Wealth-as-Power as a bully cult that causes harm in order to exist, that requires impunity to continue to exist.

Wealth-as-Power. 

It is a malign, anti-evolutionary cultural behaviour pattern.

Where wealth is extracted from an exploited population, where the wealth is concentrated and then weaponised to maintain the exploitation of the population.

Capitalism, European Democratic Socialism, Monarchies, Kingdoms, War Lords, Drug Cartels, Theocracies, Mafia, Corporate Hedge Funds, The Vatican, Oligarchies, Plutocracies, TechBrocracies and others are all examples of the same behaviour pattern. 

A minority extract wealth and weaponise it to maintain their dominance over the exploited population, because Power and is the drug, impunity the necessity for continuation. 

Thus the arguments between each variation about their differences are mostly pointless verbiage, self centred waffle, useless in terms of bringing about a genuinely healthy society.

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Indoctrination : The Zionist Colony was from the very beginnings a European apartheid colony project.

When did Israel become an apartheid state?

Peace can only thrive where those who cause harm are held accountable.

It was from the very beginnings a European apartheid colony project and a business model.

"a loyal little Jewish (Zionist) Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile pan-Arabism' as one senior British Empire official put it.

A plantation of violent people with a pseudo-religious sense of entitlement to take the land and clear it of the inferior Arab savages so that democracy and civilisation could progress, as a business model.

Indoctrinated populations as weapons of a European colonial business model.

Jabotinksy, a Zionist leader and 'thinker' and hero, wrote in 1923 the following in his essay to all Zionists and Zionist supporters.

"My readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries. I suggest that they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population.

There is no such precedent.

The native populations, civilised or uncivilised, have always stubbornly resisted the colonists, irrespective of whether they were civilised or savage.

And it made no difference whatever whether the colonists behaved decently or not.

The companions of Cortez and Pizzaro or (as some people will remind us) our own ancestors under Joshua Ben Nun, behaved like brigands; but the Pilgrim Fathers, the first real pioneers of North America, were people of the highest morality, who did not want to do harm to anyone, least of all to the Red Indians, and they honestly believed that there was room enough in the prairies both for the Paleface and the Redskin.

Yet the native population fought with the same ferocity against the good colonists as against the bad.

Every native population, civilised or not, regards its lands as its national home, of which it is the sole master, and it wants to retain that mastery always; it will refuse to admit not only new masters but, even new partners or collaborators."

He then goes on to advocate for the violent removal of all Arab peoples from Palestine, and argues that because Zionism is an inherently moral cause, the violence required to chive the objective is moral, justified and rational. 1923, he wrote this to Zionists, Hitler read it, Churchill read it, Coollidge read it, MIllerand read it, they all read it. They all knew. The leaders of today all know this too.

Source:

https://en.jabotinsky.org/media/9747/the-iron-wall.pdf

Indoctrination

Indoctrination - telling children what to think with sanctions and punishments and threats applied for failure to adopt that thinking and rewards for compliance is a core driver of 'civilisation' and its business model of warfare ....

In Israeli Society, indoctrination has created a society where the majority oof the adults believe fervently that Arab people are inferior, and that the violence inflicted upon them is justified. That indoctrination is intentional, not accidental. The cruelty of the adult population is expressed through this process, and perpetuated, generation upon generation.

Circumcision as a religious identification 'medical procedure' is very much part of this. Circumcision causes a trauma to the pre-verbal male child that has profound adverse impacts on the brain of the infant and consequently the psychology of the child and adult. The same applies to Female Genital Mutilation.

The Curation of Bigotry

In America and Europe misogyny, racism and the supposed 'natural' inferiority of impoverished and broken people beneath the 'natural' superiority of the 'Wealthy' is curated and taught widely. Trump's open racism towards Somali people is an expression of this. He calls their country a hell hole, he calls their immigrants criminals and rapists. His mind is a hell hole and he is a criminal and a rapist. Projection is the dynamic he is caught up in. He projects the most vicious, venal aspects of his character onto others.

America’s militarism is a business model sustained by indoctrination.

All of the above feeds into what is known as Cognitive Warfare. The battle for the hearts and minds of a targeted population, in order to dominate and control that population, and failing that to cause enough division to prevent that population from uniting in humane solidarity to hold the Ruling Class accountable for harms caused as a path towards prevention, a path towards peace and justice.

Palestinians have long made the point that their objection is to Zionist Colonisation and Settlement, rather than to Judaism itself. Indeed, one of the great gifts of Palestine was the ways in which peoples of different Abrahamic Faiths managed to live side by side as good neighbours, even under the boots of Empire.

The problem of Wealth-as-Power.

The solution is to prevent wealth being accumulated and deployed as a political weapon that maintains poverty in order to make low pay seem more attractive than destitution, low pay aka cheap labour aka the devaluing of human hours is the very core of wealth extraction.

Because they deploy layers of social and class terrorism to maintain that shituation, they cannot be terrorised into sharing other than to maintain the appearance of philantrophy.

Philantrophy is a sing the system is a human rights failure. Charity is a sign that the system is a human rights failure.

The Wealthy always, always believe they are superior to the deliberately impoverished and that is a sickness that can be prevented, but once a person is exposed to the virus of wealth as superiority, there is no known cure.

Prevention is the only viable solution.

Taxing Wealth is futile.

Bono, Wealth-as-Power, Gaza (Give to the Rich to Help the Poor!) "The Thieves with No Shame"

Give to the Rich to Help the Poor!

As an introduction to this item, a short TikTok on the courage of the Al Jazeera reporter Anas Al-Sharif, recently slaughtered in his tent, trying to catch up on some sleep, among with four of his colleagues.

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This blog essay refers back to piece of polemic about Bono and his 'charidee' efforts which was written in 2009... and I decided to update it after U2 released statements on The genocide that fell far short of being honest and viable.

Bono and Label Red, a 'well meaning' scam?

Back in 2009 I had been doing a lot of reading on the American Express and Bono founded Label Red campaign.

Label red was founded in 2006. The idea was that 1% of sales of goods using the Label Red marker would go to AIDS charities working in Africa. Young people were exercised on the issue of African impoverishment. Companies were seeking young people as evolving consumers....

In 2008 American Express joined the campaign, issuing new car scheme targeting younger consumers. The business objective of their campaign was to enrol a million new young customers, hopefully as life long users of the service.

What I found as I read more and more was quite disturbing, yet not at all surprising. More about that below.

Celebrity is a weapon of Wealth-as-Power.

Seeing pop stars who are incredibly wealthy stand next to political leaders who cause great harm makes sense.

Celebrities are not really real people - they are performance theatre, actors performing for the purpose of extracting wealth, and when they join the Wealth-as-Power Class they enter the class war, because they stay silent on the causes of impoverishment, warfare, racism, misogyny that emanate from the process of Wealth-as-Power extraction of wealth from exploited populations.

Update to 2025...

Bono and the Band U2 release public statements on The Genocide, having supported Israel and America all the way these past two years and more... their statements protect Israel, lay all the blame on Netanyahu and Hamas, evade confronting USUK and EU Governments directly, they silence the voices of Palestinians by exclusion of any mention of their voices and they amplify the bands public hand wringing escapism. Bono accepted a medal from Biden, in the midst of the Genocide - he should have rejected it publicly, if he really was going to support the Palestinian people as a public voice.

Here is just one example of the kind of false, bland, unexamined narrative Bono deploys in his 'opinion piece'. clearly he has made no effort any all to understand the details of the complexity and see what is it that complicates the Western response - what complicates the Western response is that Israel is a British Empire Weapon, since 1915 and the first insertion of European Jewish refugees...

Bono is an Honoury Knight Commander of the British Empire. Bono's words ring hollow, masked propaganda most of his fans ought to see right through.

"Yahya Sinwar didn’t mind if he lost the battle or even the war if he could destroy Israel as a moral as well as an economic force. Over the next months as Israel’s revenge for the Hamas attack appeared more and more disproportionate and disinterested in the equally innocent civilian lives in Gaza… I felt as nauseous as everyone, but reminded myself Hamas had deliberately positioned themselves under civilian targets, having tunneled their way from school to mosque to hospital."

1. Bono has no idea what Yahya Sinwar 'minded'. Furthermore Sinwar was a representative of a larger body of people than himself, and was quite clearly not driven by self interests of any kind. His last moments demonstrated the courage that the 1916 Rising fighters, including who were executed by British Military order in 1916. Yahya Sinwar's writings and public utterances, which no doubt Bono has not pored over with any great interest, and his actions throughout his life, all of which are quite well documented, support that contention. A philosophy of courage, resistance and service to his people. Bono's sentence implies Sinwar was casual about all of this. As if he could't care less. Bono's self serving attitude leaks out.

2. The 'disproportionate' quality of the Israeli response was obvious within the first month of the Military assault. Israeli leaders had already publicly committed to a genocidal war, with leading politicians in the cabinet declaring their intent and espousing their view of Palestinians in Gaza (and the West Bank) as 'human animals'. A registry of comments by leading Israeli legislators that are quite blatantly genocidal exists and can be verified. This is not a compilation of anti-Israel propaganda. It is the self incriminations of the Israeli political leadership supported by 90% of the Israeli population.

3. "I felt as nauseous as everyone" awe, didums... Bono remained silent, as we who protested immediately, aware of what was being done, were turning sleepless nights, nursing broken hearts, trying to calm our outraged minds, witnessing horrors on our media streams we did not know were possible. Our hopes dashed repeatedly as the West refused to act according to international law. And what we were experiencing was a luxury compared to what the people of Gaza and West Bank and the Palestinian diaspora were living through. Bono's claim that the complexity of the situation barred him from public commentary is banal, effete and ludicrous. His claim to being emotional afflicted is gaslighting.

There was no sign of nausea as he accepted an award from Biden, who was participating in the Genocide.

4. There is no reliable evidence anywhere what Hamas military wing deliberately placed themselves behind, within or under civilian infrastructure. Bono was not reminding himself of anything other than his acceptance at face value of Israeli lies, as if they were the honest truth, so cross my heart... Yes, there were tunnels, no there is not one shred of evidence of them linking civilian or religious infrastructure to evade Israeli surveillance and its bunker busting bombs, or of using civilians as shields.

I could go on. If I am wrong here, please point it out in the comments.

Here's a link to their full statements on their own website - readers can read. Make up your own minds. I'm clear on where I stand.

Here follows the rest of the original blog posting...

Marina Hyde, writing in the Guardian 'comment is free' web pages outlines a fantastic new philantrophic concept designed by elites themselves, the super-duper rich.

"Give to the rich to help the poor? An idea worthy of Bono."

Satire? No - a genius really has concocted a tax proposal to put our aid budget in the hands of the super-rich"

"On Tuesday night, 100 billionaires will gather at London's sumptuous Dorchester hotel, to watch Mr Ted Turner in conversation with Ms Carol Vorderman. Ms Joss Stone will sing, and some model or other will be in attendance. Can you guess the aim of this evening, which I trust you would cross continents to avoid in the infinitely unlikely event that you had been invited? No? Then allow me to assist. The aim is to make the government give tax breaks to the super-rich, in order to tempt them to give the same percentage of income to charity as the poorest 20% of people in this country already do.

Feel free to be taken unwell.

Initially I assumed the Fortune Forum, for so it is named, was an elaborate living satire, designed to highlight practically everything that is wrong with contemporary life. Alas, The Fortune Forum is all too real. It was dreamt up by an heiress called Renu Mehta, as a kind of vaguely benevolent mini-Davos."

Marina continues to explore this fantastic fantasy escapist world ... I think she doesn't go far enough. Like George Monbiot, she holds back the full fury of common-sense empathy and outrage.

Nonetheless, 'It' has to be said. And both are saying it with some subtlety.

Read Full Article Here

The hubris of these immensely rich people, often from long lines of generations of wealth, has become, for the majority of people, an almost pathological issue, in that it is an attitude that informs many of the practices which we know are harming rather than assisting life, geared towards gathering and hoarding 'resources' and wealth, and often with great violence, and these super rich people know this, and they continue nonetheless, sitting on charitable boards, with all that is going on around the world, driven by their pride in their immense wealth and paranoia about their 'strategic interests'.

I have re-written the song 'streets with no name' as 'thieves with no shame', as a parody. I don't sing the song, as I find the melody irksome. I do sing 'I don't like geldof' and parody of 'I don't like Mondays'..... Goldloaf at least wrote some catchy tunes...

Both have done more harm than good.

http://www.corneilius.net/songpages/theives.htm Thieves With No Shame, a re-write of 'Streets With No Name' by Corneilius

The song - 'I don't like Geldof' by Corneilius

There's also background info on Geldof and Bono business dealings and investments, and an analysis of Label Red, sponsored by Bono, American Express and the large pharmaceutical companies who control aids medicine patents.

Article on Label Red - Bono and Africa, and the clever little scam. The information on AIDS assistance is horrifying.

I have sent this out before, it's not my own research, so blessings to all the various people and ways that info flows.

And it's worth repeating, it's worth all the effort to expose these fools to their own folly, and show them how they can help, if they seriously want to help, if it is to do with their experience of their common humanity, common soul, common nature and common sense!

We'll show them how by doing it ourselves, as many are already doing. Ask Jane Goddall....

Ask the lovley people, voluteers all, who facilitated The Spike community centre evicted by Southwark Council from their home in Peckham! A home the Council are selling to property developers, handing it over to the private sector for profit.... wealth is transferred, from poor to rich yet again, another drop in the constant flow.

One the one hand the rich have charidees, and on the other hand their ideology keeps shutting these grass roots initiatives down.....!

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Every Empire is on the wrong side of History.

Every Organised Warfare State is one the wrong side of History.

Vast Wealth that deploys imposed poverty is on the wrong side of History.

Patriarchy, Misogyny, Racism, White Supremacy, Hindi Supremacy, Supremacy, Xenophobia of any kind is all on the wrong side of History.

Genocide has always been a business model for Empire.

We live within a Bully Cult and at some point we all need to acknowledge that and then build the solidarity required to dismantle The Bully Cult.

Facts matter - we all work for and provide money to the Bully Cult and we do most of the tasks it needs to survive.

We could stop doing that. 

Game over.

All of us, together. 

It's known as Solidarity. 

It is possible.