Economics and Politics

 

 

There has been the European Union's financial looting of Cyprus. The EU is imposing the act of a bailout imposed on Cyprus. Some critics of this policy view this as a criminal act of financial looting (which is aimed at destroying the country's banks and reducing the working class to penury). Cyprus wants to escape bankruptcy. Yet, there are those that want the Mediterranean island of about 1 million human beings to be exposed to the shock therapy that was inflicted on Greece. The terms of the €10 billion loan have been dictated by the EU, the European Central Bank or the ECB, and the IMF. The terms deal with winding up Laiki bank (or Cyprus' second largest bank) and transferring its debts to the ECB to the Bank of Cyprus. The Bank of Cyprus needs a major restructuring. There are an additional 5.8 billion euros to be raised by imposing severe penalties of 40 percent and more (on bondholders and those with bank deposits of over €100,000). There are emergency capital controls are in place like the ban on overseas transfers, a €300 limit on cash withdrawals, and a bar on anyone leaving the country with more than €1,000 in banknotes. The British security firm G4S is on guard at the island’s banks to “ensure calm” after they finally reopened yesterday after 12 days. These measures are in sync with German Chancellor Angela Merkel's agenda. She wants Cyprus to recognize that its current business model is dead. The country's financial sector is eight times the size of its GDP, which can increase the risk of an economic collapse. They or the Cypriot government was forced to retreat on its plan to impose a 6.7 percent levy on bank deposits below  €100,000. Those supposedly saved in this instance are to be bled dry by other means. The unemployment stands at 15 percent due to the EU austerity measures that have been implemented by the previous Communist led Party led government (which even before the current crisis has led to the opening of charitable food banks in Paphos, Limassol, and Nicosia). Nicosia will face the usual conditions of an euro-zone rescue like labor market reforms, fiscal discipline, privatizations, pension, and health care reform. The EU bailouts came in Greece, Ireland, Spain, and other nations. Austerity and wage cuts failed to benefit the economy of nations. The loan sent into Cyprus has been tied to mass job losses and wages cuts. There has been the gutting of health, education, and social provisions, the privatization of major utilities, and the handing over of the island's natural and energy resources to the global energy giants. If the status quo continues, GDP is forecast to fall by 25 percent in the next 2 or 3 years and unemployment is set to double. The Eurozone is not working massively. The financial oligarchy has dictated governmental policy for a long time. This is expressed over Liborgate or the laundering of drug money by the HSBC bank and others. There has been widespread fraud by JPMorgan Chase and others. Many global financial markets are consolidated. The working class has every right to execute strong revolutionary duties in order to oppose austerity anywhere in the world. The EU grabbing money is typical of them.

 

We know about Eric Harroun being arrested on Tuesday night by the FBI for fighting alongside an Al Qaeda group in Syria. Eric was an U.S. Army veteran. His own father said that his son was working for the CIA. In January, Harroun slipped into Syria to link up with the Jabhat al-Nusra or the Al Qaeda group that killed U.S. troops in Iraq. The group is now the leading front line fighting force in Syria and Jabhat al-Nusra is the leading front line fighting force in Syria that have commanded other rebel organizations. The State Department has labeled the group as a terrorist organization. Yet, 29 different U.S. backed Syrian opposition groups have pledged their allegiance to the group. Harroun was arrested by FBI agents at a hotel near Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia on charges of using a rocket propelled grenade launcher on behalf of an Al-Qaeda affiliated group in Syria. Harroun's father is Darryl Harroun. Darryl told reporters that his son was very patriotic and would never join up with Al-Qaeda. That is a strange comment since Harroun appeared in various videos with al-Nusra terrorists in which he brags about helping them take down a military helicopter. Harroun admitted to FBI agents that he had shot at least 10 people. Harroun's own father let slip what could of outlines the key to the entire story when he said, “I know he was doing some work for the CIA over there,” adding, “I know for a fact that he was passing information onto the CIA.” We know that the CIA aided, trained, and equipped rebel insurgents in Syria is no secret. The New York Times reported that the CIA worked with Turkey and other Arabic governments in the region to oversee a “secret airlift of arms and equipment for the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.” If Harroun had CIA connections, then his role fighting alongside Jabhat al-Nusra further validates the fact that the CIA is supporting including aiding the radical terrorists in Syria (who carried out suicide bombings and other attacks targeting schools, universities, and other atrocities. These atrocities include chemical weapons attacks, torture, and gruesome beheadings). We know that the rebels in Syria have ransacked Christian churches, tortured Christians as included in sectarian reprisals, and killed even Shia religious human beings. The rebels have been caught on tape burning U.S. flags, chanting anti-American slogans and praised the puppet Osama bin Laden while glorifying the 9/11 attacks. The FBI and the CIA have rivalries and are allied in several endeavors as well. Before 9/11, an FBI investigation into the bin Laden family and other terrorists that if seen through may have prevented the attacks was stymied by the CIA itself. It is hypocritical for the U.S. government including NATO to openly support rebel extremists in Syria as a means to try to accomplish regime change and then when some of these militants come home, they are arrested as terrorists. Britain has arrested other citizens when they return to the UK from Syria despite pushing to arm numerous terrorists in Syria. Ironic isn't it. Now, the Democratic Party is the Republican Party as the Sister Margaret Kimberley said. That means that the Democrats are taking the same positions that the GOP once had. For example, today numerous Democrats agree with austerity, war, drone attacks, school closures, and a health care program that Nixon agreed with (or that the ACA bailouts the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries). Both the GOP and the Democrats agree with the wicked Monsanto Corporation. Monsanto advances cancer causing GMOs and harmful MSGs.

 

There has been a large discussion about Dr. Ben Carson. Dr. Ben Carson is a great surgeon among Americans. Dr. Carson is a neurosurgeon. He claims to be non-partisan and to be above the political fray. Yet, he speaks at the establishment conservative CPAC convention. He is allied with the conference since he speaks at it. What is the truth about Dr. Carson? I have research this controversy to see the truth. The truth is apparent. Dr. Ben Carson is right to believe in the power of the individual and personal responsibility. Yet, I believe that he omits the structural imperfections in the society that influences poverty and oppression. Sometimes, we need revolutionary change with help from the public sector too not just from the private sector as privatization has harmed communities throughout the world. Wardell Connerly, Shelby Steele, and Clarence Thomas are even more extreme than Dr. Ben Carson in wanting to end affirmative action, Head Start, and other social programs that are public. Also, folks like Steele omit the huge voter suppression efforts by the reactionaries against the brothers and sisters of America (including other human beings). Dr. Ben Carson in his 2013 CPAC speech was in error to make the following words: "...Nobody is starving on the streets (of America). We have always taken care of them. We have churches which actually are much better mechanisms for taking care of the poor because they are right there with them. This is one of the reasons we give tax breaks to churches...” The truth is that folks are starving in America every single day and over 40 million Americans lack health care in the USA alone. The churches can contribute to help the less fortunate, but also the government too as a part of maintaining the general welfare of society. Dr. Ben Carson made contributions in the field of medicine. He is the first surgeon to separate conjoined twins and the youngest man to head a surgical department. Dr. Ben Carson has a great work ethic and a commitment to excellence. Dr. Ben Carson knowingly or knowingly presents words that try to give reactionaries a justification to try to destroy completely the social safety net in America. Carson believes in the falsehood that any poor person that is not middle class or rich lacks drive, initiative, is dependent on the government, or has personal failure. Some folks are poor, because of discrimination, oppression, and socioeconomic factors. These human beings still have a huge work ethic, but they are scapegoated by a corrupt society. Many even black conservatives benefited from the system or public assistance. Wardell Connerly received assistance to grow his business form the 8 (a) Program. Even Justice Thomas was a beneficiary of Affirmative action. There is still systemic oppression against Americans. Individual success means nothing if collectively my people are suffering massively. Dr. Ben Carson made the false statement that socialism was a reaction to America since Europeans wanted to redistributed wealth. Socialism was a term attributed to both Pierre Leroux and Robert Owen in ca. 1827. Socialist ideals about common and public ownership transpired all throughout human history in the thousands of years of human history. Modern socialism came in reaction to the industrial revolution. Carson is wrong to assume that people don't want to talk about God. The First Amendment allows humans to talk about God. Dr. Ben Carson refuses to talk about race or racial oppression. When Dr. Carson criticized the Affordable Care Act, Dr. Carson wanted a health savings account for newborns not a universal single payer health care system. Fox News loves him since Dr. Carson is a critic of the Barack Obama administration. Dr. Carson says that he is Independent ideologically, but he shares similar political views as Sean Hannity. The reality is that rugged individualism never worked neither does the bootstraps philosophy. What works are radical changes in society that ends cartel-capitalism. Dr. Carson ought to be respected for his legitimate achievements in medicine. He has the right to his views without ad hominem attacks and invectives. Yet, folks have the right to disagree with him on some issues as well. I don't agree with him on some economic and other political issues. He is right that black people have the right to have independent thinking and the Democratic Party and the GOP ought not to be worshipped as deities at all. Dr. Ben Carson has great character in his life and he loves his family. I just disagree with him on some issues. Also, Dr. Ben Carson needs to realize that white supremacy is an enemy that ought to be rid from the face of the Earth. The establishment conservatives are still the wolves and the establishment liberals are still the foxes. They are 2 sides of the same coin and we as human beings have the right to build our own chessboard not bowing down to the Republican/Democrat chessboard.

 

 

Eugenics is the same evil that has influenced human history. Genetic engineering without labels is also evil too. It is not a secret that genetically modified organisms have a huge negative impact on health and the environment. Even cotton farmers in India have to deal with GMOs. The establishment knows that they cannot control a society by arms or violence alone. That is why that try to utilize education, entertainment, religion, and the political system as a way to dictate the actions of some of the masses. Louis Althusser called this plan as the ideological state apparatuses. The mainstream media and the hegemony in the world are common themes of this control. Eugenics is one of the wickedest doctrines in the Universe, because it is a philosophy whose stated goal was to reduce the reproductive capacity of other human beings who were falsely labeled as "less desired." Now, for over one century, white supremacists and their allies have used eugenics as a means to advance of population control. It is not a secret that NSM 200 and other documents want to get rid of the sections of the world populations in the Third World. We live in the age of automation and the outsourcing of jobs. Many populations will be unemployed or underemployed if no radical solutions come. Therefore, the establishment wants more population control in China, Africa, India, etc. as a means to decrease human population growth. Millionaire U.S. media baron Ted Turner wants to have a global population of two billion human beings. The billionaire Bill Gates has pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to improve access to contraception in the developing world. Bill Gates doesn't want birth control for family purposes per se. He wants to lower global population and to seek GMOs in our food supply as well. Some in the elite believe in the lie that the world is overpopulated. Gates has purchased shares in Monsanto valued at more than $23 million. So, Bill Gates wants to help Monsanto to send GMOs or genetically modified organisms into Africa on a wide scale. With fewer people, the elites are trying to get as much resources as they came and earn more concentrated wealth. It is all about power, even more vital than money. Back in 2001, Monsanto and DuPont bought a small biotech company called Epicyte that created a gene that makes the male sperm sterile and the female egg unreceptive.  In the US, GM foods are already on the market and unlabeled. The GM sector has spent millions to ensure that this remains the case. US citizens thus have no idea of what could be in their food. These foods where not independently tested for their impact on health. Many foods can damage health filled with GMOs and MSG. Bill Gates' worked with Planned Parenthood as its head. Planned Parenthood's founder was an eugenicist. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is involved in advancing GMOs in Africa via its financing of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). The Gates Foundation has given at least $264.5 million to AGRA. There is a report published by La Via Campensina or the Peasants' Way in 2010. It revealed that 70 percent of AGRA's grantees in Kenya work directly with Monsanto and early 80 percent of the Gates Foundation funding is devoted to biotechnology. The report also explains that the Gates Foundation has pledged $880 million to create the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), which is a heavy promoter of GMOs. The Gates Foundation has chosen the promotion of corporate ruled agriculture, which led to the disempowerment of farmers. This is contrary to real solutions like genuine food sovereignty and handling the economic and political issues that cause poverty. GM agents are targeting India now. We know that the seed monopolies and GMOs are detrimental to the environment. The researcher F. William Engdahl proved that U.S. power has influenced the growth of genetic engineering. With the Green Revolution in the agriculture sector of developing countries caused new markets. These markets are for petro chemical fertilizers and petroleum products as well as to expand dependency on energy products. Food has now become weaponized to secure global dominance. The deal is that our issues are caused by a system of ownership that ensures wealth flows from bottom to top not by overpopulation. The West has an obsession with oil and other natural resources. The rich elite believe that there is a carry on consuming. Turner believes that humans are using too much stuff, which is false. For instance, developing nations account for more than 80 percent of world population, but consume only about one third of the world's energy. U.S. constitutes 5 percent of the world’s population but consume 24 percent of the world’s energy. On average, one American consumes as much energy as two Japanese, six Mexicans, 13 Chinese, 31 Indians, 128 Bangladeshis, 307 Tanzanians and 370 Ethiopians. That is why the establishment is wrong to fund genetic engineering of food and to fund a gene that can caused forced sterilization. Society is changing and we should use our efforts to oppose non labeling of GMOs, forced population, and eugenics completely.

 

 

We know of the dangerous consequences of the war on Drugs. It has been a war on human beings who use drugs. Even during the Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton yeas, the War on Drugs harmed much of the Bill of Rights. Many drug kingpins are not affected by it, but mothers, fathers, small time dealers, medical marijuana users, and even children. In Denver, Colorado, SWAT Team members raided the wrong residence. Ismael Mena was murdered by the SWAT Team members when he just said Policia. He was a father of nine and was instantly killed when he was hit by eight bullets. No drugs were found at his home. In Washington, D.C. Marsha Simmons on many times called the police to remove her crack selling grandchildren from in front of her house. The police responded by seizing her home because her grandchildren had sold crack on the property. In Pennsylvania, then 21 year old John Hirko was shot to death by police. They were dressed in ninja style uniforms. They never knocked on the door. They threw a grenade through a window. This action set fire to the house. John Hirko was completely unarmed when this incident transpired. He was suspected of dealing with small amounts of marijuana and cocaine. He tried to flee the fire and he died on his stairway. The mandatory minimum sentences have violated the Eighth Amendment. The Drug War have caused drug courts, lowering standards of probable cause for search and seizure, and restrictions on commercial speech, which are in violation of the First, Fifth, Fourth, and Sixth Amendments of the Bill of Rights. In the war on Drugs, there are huge misconceptions. Studies document that whites do significantly more drugs including crack than African Americans. Even back in the year of 2000, Tim Wise wrote that: "...According to the Department of Health and Human Services, Whites are eleven percent more likely to have used drugs than Blacks and twenty-five percent more likely to have done so than Hispanics." He further reports that a National Drug Abuse Survey from the Centers for Disease Control found that Whites in high school were “seven times more likely than Blacks to have used cocaine or heroin, and six times more likely to have used methamphetamine..." Wise shown information findings from the National Institutes on Drug Abuse, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Department of Health and Human Services, admitting the fact that contrary to popular belief, Whites were at least as likely, if not more likely, to use drugs than their black and brown Americans. There are even prescription drug addiction epidemic amongst numerous white Americans. Now, events like the Opium Wars are examples of how elites and international banking cartels exploited drug usage as a means to weaken the culture and society of other cultures The First Opium War was from 1839 to 1842. The Second Opium War was from 1856 to 1860. The dispute was basically about the British Empire trying to conquer the Qing Dynasty in China under the guise of trade including diplomatic relations. In China, opium was used for medicinal purposes. Europeans introduced mixing opium with tobacco for smoking. The British East India Company facilitated drug trafficking in China, which contributed to the opium wars. The British Empire, not sincere British human beings, never wanted negotiation. They wanted control over China. What do Empire want historically? More power. We all know the solutions to this. The get tough policy never worked. We can allow medical usage of marijuana among states to not be harmed by the federal government. We can reduce sentences for human beings who commit nonviolent drug law offenses. There can be drug treatment programs for those with drug addiction instead of lengthy prison sentences. Portugal has followed similar actions and they have drastically decreased its rates of violent crime, addiction, and disease transmission since reforming its drug laws.

 

By Timothy