HEALTH AS PERTAINS TO PEOPLE OR CAPITALISM?
The topic this morning on C-Span probably effects most people in the USA. The disappearance of so-called middle class jobs happened after chain stores had obliterated locally owned small businesses. Any politician who couldn’t connect the dots didn’t deserve to be in office due to ignorance. But that so many politicians have become wealthy during this era seems to confirm corruption. The worship of Reagan, then Obama, then Trump, seems to be the story of withering compliance and enabling by the general public.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?516865-5/washington-journal-farah-stockman-discusses-book-american-made — DECEMBER 22, 2021 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 12/22/2021
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Farah Stockman on American Made
Farah Stockman talked about her book, American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears.–end of c-span info–
Farah Stockman spoke of so many facets of offense against the American worker as being too many to choose only one. It goes without saying that globalism underpinned the discussion. Who can deny that American national security has been compromised because manufacturing of product needed by the public is controlled by foreign nations?
Globalism was sold to the public as being progress when the FACT is that it is exploitation of people (human resources) and environment (natural resources) to enrich hierarchical Establishment. The public has been scolded to avoid calling this hierarchy the American oligarchy, along with the insinuation that we are a meritocracy. This is a chilling display of sycophancy from those who, in FACT, self-promote meritoriously. This mindset avoids the deterioration of lifestyle emblematic of so many American workers. The following 2 links describe the anomaly of exploitation in which we live.
link 1–https://socialistproject.ca/2021/12/swords-into-ploughshares/#more –These progressive organizations have come to see that, absent alternatives, workers making arms are locked into survival mode and tend to ignore calls for ending arms production or even see them as a threat to their family’s livelihood. Even faced with the climate crisis, which is so much closer to home, workers will resist supporting policies that undermine their jobs – unless there is an alternative, which means both comparable jobs in terms of compensation and a transition to such jobs.Progressive organizations like Oxfam and Amnesty are right to see that this [challenge to profit priorities] is a challenge to capitalist power and capitalism itself and so can be a barrier to convincing people, particularly workers and communities where these arms are manufactured, like the LAVs in London, Ontario. But it’s the only honest – and possible – way forward. –end of socialistproject info–
link 2—https://popularresistance.org/why-poorer-nations-arent-falling-for-green-washed-imperialism/ –Some numbers are important here to understand the extent to which developing nations have contributed to the present climate crisis and to greenhouse gas emissions. The European Union plus the UK (EU-UK) produce more than twice the carbon emissions of the entire continent of Africa, with less than half of Africa’s population. With less than a quarter of India’s population, the United States emits significantly more carbon than India does—almost twice as much.It is argued that as the cost of electricity from renewables has now fallen below the cost of electricity from fossil fuels, it should be possible for all countries, rich or poor, to phase out fossil fuels completely and shift to renewable energy sources without addressing the issue of funding. It is true that the cost per unit of electricity generated with renewables is lower today than that from fossil fuels. What has, however, been overlooked here is that for poor countries to make this switch, they would need to build three or four times the capacity to generate electricity from renewables to supply the same amount of energy that they currently get from fossil fuel plants. This is because the capacity factor or the plant load factor (PLF)—how much electricity a plant produces compared to what it can produce by working continuously at full capacity—for renewable energy sources is about 20-40 percent that of fossil-fueled plants. The wind does not blow all the time; nor does the sun shine at night. That means that a country will have to build several times the capacity—and therefore invest more capital—using the renewable route to generate the same amount of electricity it would get from fossil-fueled plants.–end of popularresistance info–
The Military-Industrial Complex hasn’t been hurt by globalism. This raises several ideas—*Climate Change has been described as the national security risk of our time*The US military is awarded increasingly obscene portions of the US economy, by politicians*Imperialism by the USA is not supported in the US Constitution*Care of US residents is in FACT mentioned in the US Constitution as being a primary function of governance*How have trade agreements that shipped living-wage jobs to foreign nations helped the US public?*If renewable-energy infrastructure equipment was manufactured in the USA, money used for imperialism could instead be used to provide infrastructure for so-called poor nations*This raises a question about arms-production in former US plants. Have manufacture of military equipment also been globalized?
https://www.inboundlogistics.com/cms/article/military-and-manufacturing-outsourcing-not-all-guns-and-roses/ –Yet, embracing outsourcing is not compatible with standard military thinking that core functions such as fighting for and establishing the peace should stay in-house because turning to outside organizations could potentially harm the mission.One risk involves giving critical needs to contractors who, unlike service members, have not taken a solemn oath to carry out military missions.A second risk is that this type of outsourcing may weaken military chain of command—the hierarchical method for organizing information flow, decision making, power, and authority. It assumes that each level of the organization is subordinate to the level to which it reports. Contractors often serve under the operational control of military commanders, but are also bound by contractual terms, conditions, and allegiances that are not in sync with military hierarchy.–end of inboundlogistics info–
How rye if the foreign nations intent on harming the USA also manufacture military equipment that the USA buys?
But apparently globalism stops at relying on foreign nations to manufacture war equipment for the USA, and only arms foreign nations — https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/risky-business-role-arms-sales-us-foreign-policy
Remembering the US military is set up according to socialism, perhaps the public should do the same.
Aside from using private contractors that may or may not be loyal to the USA is the use of such enterprise against Americans—-https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/rights-protesters/why-did-private-security-contractor-treat-standing-rock –TigerSwan operates worldwide and specializes in armed conflict zones. According to the new revelations, the company utilized militaristic counterterrorism tactics against anti-DAPL protests not just in North Dakota but in several other states as well, including South Dakota, Illinois, Iowa, and Texas. The documents reveal a security force whose theories are as Islamophobic as they are absurd: In just two examples, TigerSwan compares water protectors to insurgents and “jihadists” and references a “strong female Shia following.” One leaked communication notes “the presence of additional Palestinians in the camp,” and it says that “the movement’s involvement with Islamic individuals is a dynamic that requires further examination.”–end of aclu info–
https://lakotalaw.org/news/2021-07-28/hr-1374 –Ultimately, America could also be engaging in the state-sponsored, public murders of water protectors. As recently reported by Democracy Now!, water protector and land back attorney Bruce Ellison has obtained documents indicating that “lethal force” could be deployed to suppress Indigenous activists resisting pipelines.Ellison, who obtained the documents through an investigation of the now-ended KXL pipeline, said that the South Dakota National Guard was slated to be the main force to ensure KXL’s full build — including, potentially, the use of lethal force. According to Ellsion, such force can now be used in defense of both people and property in South Dakota, including if officers perceive that no other remedy could be employed when suspected offenders are leaving the scene.While this situation is outrageous and shocking, it’s just one example coming out of South Dakota. The state also passed a pair of “riot boosting” laws last year and established a “peace fund” that required TransCanada to put up to $20 million to be used for anything having to do with construction of KXL. Imagine all of this on a national scale.–end of lakotalaw info–
One questions law enforcement that have recently defended armed private citizens with minimal regulation, along with cries to “crack-down on activists”, as has been the case in the Southern Tier of NYS.
It’s okay to consider a line of thought without buying into the ideology. — https://mltoday.com/nine-into-two-the-failure-of-the-us-two-party-system/ –When the so-called “Founding Fathers”– the elites who constructed the US republic — unfolded their unique vision of republicanism and political decision-making, they went long on stability and continuity and short on broad participation and social change.Accordingly, most of them opposed political factions or parties, but very soon after the new government came into existence, major differences arose, leading to factions and swiftly into parties.–end of mltoday info–https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=15 –In his farewell Presidential address, George Washington advised American citizens to view themselves as a cohesive unit and avoid political parties and issued a special warning to be wary of attachments and entanglements with other nations.–end of ourdocuments info–Our 2-Party system is a tool of political Parties and can and surely should be challenged if democracy is to be maintained in the USA. Another perspective from an unlikely source follows—https://mltoday.com/why-isnt-there-an-anti-vaccine-movement-in-cuba/ –Increasingly, large sectors of the European population, and in the US to a lesser extent, openly express their distrust towards their government’s policies to combat COVID-19. –end of mltoday info–Rather than to point out the virtues of communist Cuba due to the offensive nature of doing so in the USA, one does point out that the distrust of the US government is a reason for the Covid-19 chaos in the USA. When profit is the foundation of policy, it is difficult to believe the barkers of information. Demands from politically-influenced-corporate-owned MSM that the authorities must be believed on topics of health care while remembering those voices have been bought into positions of power by big-money interests is surely absurd.One has no credentials in matters of the health industry or health profession. One does however wonder at the reason of ire against communism while at the same time promoting capitalism when each economic system seems to be opposite sides of the same coin. Suspicion of each ideology that is based on hierarchical supremacy seem to deserve attentionAnd to consider health care in Cuba, the FACT remains of better outcome on the topic of vaccines.
https://realdemocracymovement.org/a-war-machine-cannot-be-our-model-for-tackling-climate-change/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvevJePdNEk –“Hang On… The FDA Are Doing WHAT Now?!” This Is SHADY –Last week the FDA approved the Merck covid pill despite evidence that it is only 30% effective. Could profiteering from both Big Pharma and politicians have played any part in its approval?
https://twitter.com/RedactedTonight/status/1473702120536698880We deserve better. https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud–LEAGUE REFUSES TO “HELP PERPETRATE A FRAUD”