Wednesday, December 15, 2010

It's Cold Outside

It has been very cold outside. It has been this cold in SE Virginia since the 1990's and part of the early 21st century. The temperatures here have been in the 20's and Florida have even experienced similar temperatures as well.

Everyone knows that China is on the rise. Shanghai according to TIME have teens in Shanghai far outsourcing international peers in reading, math, and science. However, officials acknowledged Shanghai is a magnet for China’s best students and does not represent the entire nation.” Yet, China has a super elite that's well educate with many workers experiencing cheap labor. This system of a neo-techno feudal system has been promoted by numerous people in historyThis is what Frederick Gates, the head of Rockefeller’s General Education Board, said one hundred years ago when his “dream” was not to educate for more doctors, lawyers, etc., but to educate poor rural folk to satisfied with their lot in life. That's an elitist and evil attitude. The Nazi presence in the Middle East during and after WWII is historical. Saddam Hussein was apart of a CIA funded 6 man assassination team in the late 1950's in trying to overthrow the then Iraqi leader Qasim. Chuck Morse wrote his 2003 book called "The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism." Morse wrote that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini was put in the Nazi payroll in 1938. al-Husseini's confidant or friend was Saddam Hussein's uncle named General Kharaillah Tulfah. He would late be Saddam's guardian mentor and father in law. Hussein was trained in al-Husseini's brand of radical Islam mixed with Nazism (that is not related to real Islam). al-Husseini didn't promote true Arabic culture, but Nazism. After, WWII, al-Husseini worked in Project Odessa (or an operation that allowed war criminals to escape justice nad live into mostly Arabic and Latin American nations). One of the Nazis who fled to Cairo, Egypt was Goebbels’ aide Johannes von Leers, who would under the name Omar Amin become an official in the Egyptian Information Ministry. The Muslim Brotherhood was created in Egypt in 1928. This group was the father of other radical Islamic groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and al-Qaeda. Back in November 8, 2008, the Swiss police raided the home of Swiss Nazi Ahmad Huber on the basis of evidence that he had been a financial agent of Osama bin Laden. On November 13, 2010 The New York Times published “Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in the U.S., Report Says,” which begins “A secret history of the United States government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a ‘safe haven’ in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after WWII.” This article by Eric Lichtblau went on to say that Justice Department has tried to keep this 2006 600-page report by its Office of Special Investigations (OSI) secret for 4 years.  Even before, it was known that Arthur Rudolph and Werner von Braun were Nazis sent to America under Operation Paperclip. Rudolph was the developer of NASA's Saturn V rocket and Werner von Braun was of course the chief architect of NASA's Saturn V launch vehicle. The OSI report called “Striving for Accountability in the Aftermath of the Holocaust,” does provide new information. For example, regarding the Nazi “Butcher of Lyons” Klaus Barbie, the report states: “A former American intelligence officer asserted that the U.S. had protected Barbie and paid him $1700 a month for intelligence information after the war.” There is also information that Barbie worked for America from 1947 to 1949. The U.S. Army,  “used the services of a shady intermediary to help Barbie escape to Bolivia in 1951 under the name Klaus Altmann.” There was the associate of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann named Otto von Bolschwing. The report foudn that: "...in 1946, von Bolschwing was hired by the Gehlen Organization, a group of former Nazi intelligence operatives who came under the aegis of the U.S. Army after the war…. The CIA was sufficiently grateful to help him emigrate to the United States in 1954.” And pertaining to Nazi Robert Verbelen, the report showed he had worked for the CIC (U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, for which Henry Kissinger worked during WWII) from 1947-1956. The report then referred to an earlier (June 1988) OSI report that concluded: “Nearly all the former CIC agents interviewed in the course of this investigation acknowledged that membership in the SS for participation in questionable war-time activities did not disqualify a person from use as a CIC informant. Indeed, Verbelen’s first CIC control agent maintained that it was advantageous to use such persons….” The Nazi Verbelen called his Nazi identity in 1956 and he was dismissed without prejudice and considered suitable for intelligence re-employment. There are people who believed that Martin Bormann didn't die in the 1940's, but in the 1960's or later. The Allies overtly won the war, but the Nazis went underground and had huge sway in the economics and policies of the world. Sumner Welles' The Time for Decision from 1944 talked about the Nazi plan for harm the world in the next 2 generations. We don't need a techno-feudal world government at all. The Nazis didn't totally die off, but in the end, no Nazis will ever exist anymore on Earth.


Our economy isn't recovered yet. A recent CNN poll says that 3/4 of Americans believe that the recession is over. Yet, this isn't so. Unemployment hasn't been this high for this long in most Americans' lifetime. The U.S. economy isn't recovering in an efficicent way. Corporate profits has risen at its most fast pace on record in the last 18-20 months. Non-financial companies are showing the highest free cash flow in a half of century. This cahs flow are profits after dividends and capital expenditures. Profits margins at S&P 500 companies are now higher than 9%. This is uncharted territory. Joseph Lavorgna, chief U.S. economist of Deutsche Bank, stresses, “Not only are we seeing a tremendous V-shaped recovery in corporate profits, but we are in fact seeing the biggest corporate profit recovery ever.” This tells us that corporate profits are in record levels, while there is little recoverty in Main St. The greatest recovery in corporate profits and a big recessions are 2 major developments in our economic situation today. There is wage stagnation and people fighting for wages according to the Worker advocacy group Change to Win. The empolyers' bottom line is increasing while workerts are having no raise in their paychecks. Andrew Sum, professor of economics at Northeastern University, concludes that the current expansion “has seen the most lopsided gains in corporate profits relative to real wages in our history.”  The corproate executives have grew their power since they waged war on labor for over 50 years in America. Profits at the expense of wage is vice. The top 1% of the income earners have nearly 2/3s of all economic growth. Profit margins expanded in an unprecedented super-cycle while workers struggled through increasingly lopsided, jobless recoveries. The last three expansions presaged the Greatest Recovery and defined its precise shape. This situation represents an unequal distribution of income between profts and wages. There is an unequal distribution of power between business and labor in the workplace and in Washington. President Barack Obama believes that the private sector would create most of the jobs when they aren't. Obama's advisors rejected the public employment option in it healthcare reform law. Even the stimulus according to some wasn't large enough since there was a decline in demand. Larry Summers, Obama’s former chair of economic advisors, designed the stimulus to maximize GDP rather than employment—job creation, private sector included, was at best an incidental goal.  26 million Americans are presently unemployed or underemployed. According to Economic Policy Institute’s Heidi Schierholz, “If the rate of job growth were to continue at October’s rate, the economy would achieve prerecession unemployment rates (5% in 2007) in roughly 20 years.” Some have called the Obama administration's approach to the labor market was a laissez faire attitude (causing corporations to recieve subidies by default because of the problems). The White House gave direct assistance to the financial industry (in prevent prices from falling in the real estate, bond, or equity markets), but not toward labor. The administration’s economic policy regime compels workers to the free market while protecting banks from its ruinous fallout. This is a real unemployment crisis, while workers' benefits are struggling. An article in the December issue of The Economist explains, “Since the end of 2008 business-sector productivity has grown at an impressive annualized rate of 4.2% while hourly compensation has crept ahead by just 2.1%. Unit labor costs have fallen at an annualized 2% rate, the steepest cumulative decline since the 1950s. Profits owe their V-shape in great part to employment’s L-shape.” This unemployment crisis is a national emergency.


The right to having health is a human right. Public health is an important issue to talk about. The WHO and the World Bank have controversies with health care. Health care deals with local and international communities. People want a roadmap to transition from the health care reforms promoted by the World Bank to a more equitable system that has been poorly addressed. It must be a solution nationally and internationally. There is still gender inequality, HIV, AIDS, maternal morbi-mortality, etc. that are interrelated. You have to address these issues to improve health care. There require other complementary responses in other sectors to handle the structural and social inequalities behind health rights violations. You have to address economic issues, food sovereignity issues, and poverty to handle health care (among migrants and minorities). The people's socioeconomic conditions should be known (including legal and policy context plus cultural norms in nations) to find health care solutions too. People should be enpowered directly. People living in naitons should be makers and shapers of solutions. The neoliberal mantra is that those who can pay should pay and if you're poor, you're basically on your own. Neoliberals don't want comprehensive health care options in the public sector, but mostly in the private sector with resources sent to disease control interventiosn in the public sector (for neoliberalism). Sometimes you need more than the market to handle health care problems or diseases. In short, leaving provision of health services to the market means that the poorest people must put aside a larger share of their incomes for fees for health services thus increasing inequalities in access and in income. Many doctors use market power to induce a demand for profitable services (many services plus technologies are expensive). More inequalities in health does nothing to maintain long term economic growth. Health equity is apart of knowing social justice. You have to have equity in the distribution of health in order to build up the standard of living among all peoples. We need real economic policies, social reforms, and political engagement to have health reforms. You have to increase the disability adjusted life years or DALYs in order to benefit the disabled and other disadvantaged people health wise.
It is the overall distribution of resources that ultimately determines the state of people’s health. This addresses the fact that differences can be (and are) very large between different social classes, but can also be large between the sexes (e.g., difference in life expectancy at birth between men and women in the UK is even greater than that between social classes). Health care resources should be distributed in a way that is feasable to an equal distribution of health. It must be fair. Some want poor users to be excluded by the fees since the poor can't afford a modest co-payment in many times. Uganda have had success in their health care situation when user fees were abolished. User fees, especially among the poor, are regressive and ill advised. More user fees according to some undermines international health right laws.

People are exposing eugenics, population control, careless abortions, and like minded evils more than ever. Malthus (he and his allies wanted to end welfare, restrict immigration, and eliminate people deemed as "bad stocks"), Sanger, and other people believed in eugenics-like views and population control too. These actions damaged the Western in many ways not just morally. Eugenics is one of the many reasons why the evil Holocaust and the actions of the Nazi Empire occurred in the first place. Planned Parenthood in its early stages advanced the agenda of eugenics. Sanger's allies were H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Julius Hammer, Ernst Rudin, Leon Whitney, and Harry Laughlin. These people were either Left Gatekeepers or eugenicists themselves. Of course, the liar Sanger called people weeds, inferior, and menace to civilization (which are a part of Malthusian eugenics). Yet, God doesn't see a sincere human a weed. He sees that person as a valuable access to not only humanity (as proven by the words of the Lord conclusively in Luke 10:26), but improving the confines of human civilization in general. Sanger hated charity like the evil person that she was too. Back in 1975, only 1 percent of the black population had been aborted and now abortion affects more than 30 percent of all pregnancies in the black community. Scientific racism seeks to kill people deemed as having a defective gene pool of any race. Even former Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Faye Wattleton admitted that Margaret Sanger believed in eugenics and desired a "the advancement of a perfect race." There are no such things as dysgenic races or choking human undergrowth. All men are created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights.

 

The UK Police Chief mulls bannign protests. The police chief Sir Paul Stephenson is considering whetehr to ask the British government to ban protest marches altogether in response to last week's student riots. This move can place a new state of martial law in Britain. One person named Jody McIntryre was pulled from his wheelchair by the police. He was dragged across the street. “It is one of the tactics we will look at and something we will keep under review, and if we think it is the right thing to do then we will do it,” said the Metropolitan Police commissioner. NUS president Aaron Porter responded: “Peaceful protest is an integral part of our heritage and it is the responsibility of the police to help facilitate that.” The establishment media falsey blame the protesters for the violent scenes during the demonstrations. Yet, it was emerged later that the police acted in many provocations that caused the running street battles. Some police people assaulted the protesters on the head with batons repeatedly. Some have criticizing kettling to confine protesters that can cause more tensions. Stephenson is trying to use the Public Order Act in order to ban marches. He admits that this move can only exacerbate the situation. Other proposals deal with using water cannons to disperse demonstrators as well as snatch squads that can abduct so-called trouble makers off the streets. Some feel that proposals of the police using excessive tactics are a means to justify excessive forces. Banning protest marches can extend into existing no protest zones that encompasses the area ariound the Houses of Parliament (in Westminster) to the whole nation of the UK. The SOCPA or the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act bans the right of protest. The except is that if the protest is cleared by a commissioner 6 days in advance within a 1km radius of the UK's seat of govenrment. The area covers the House of Parliament, Downing Street, most government ministries, St Thomas’s Hospital, part of the South Bank and Lambeth Palace.

By Timothy

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