Comment: America on Fire.

The murder of African American, George Floyd, by MPD officer, Derek Chauvin, has ignited protest in not only Minneapolis, Minnesota, but across the nation from LA to Brooklyn, New York. The rioting has set a new precedent in civil unrest in the US, as property damage is estimated to be in the millions.

The MPD Officer, Derek Chauvin, it has been reported, has several incidents of brutality on his record with little to no disciplinarian action.

Since the Trump regime came into power, reports of police brutality against African America's has risen in leaps and bounds, calling for hundreds of investigations across the United States.

The killing of George Floyd was indeed the spark that set the bonfire into motion, when you examine the current lock down due to Corona 19, and the lack of a stimulus money for working class Americans. While the $4 trillion stimulus for Wall street and political donors was immediate, the so-called $1200 check for citizens, was slow to come, while rents have gone unpaid, and small businesses remain closed. What the WW pandemic has revealed, is the extreme class distinction between the wealthy and the working class. And that the US government really don't care about the people, and prefer to give billions to the wealthy and billions to the war machine, and its continued bloodshed overseas.

As one African American academic/activist stated on CNN, paraphrased: ...the American social experiment has failed, and it's time to move on.

America has always been a racist country. One only has to look at its history, the genocide of the native people, slavery, Civil war and later the Civil Rights movement. What is adding salt to the national wound, is the current class war between the corporate world and its wealthy, and the working class. As said above, this class war has been underscored with the spread of Covid 19.

What I personally find hilarious and absurd, is a major news anchor on cable news, attempted to blame the protests on the Russians. This has become a go to excuse for the liberals when the system is shown to be failing. Unfortunately, however, the cable news audience will believe him, as this propaganda has been running deep since 2017. See my BLOG: https://sychronicity1.blogspot.com/2020/05/anti-war-russian-asset.html

What is even more disgusting, despite the reasons for this civil unrest and America's sorry response to Covid 19, the US president continues to blame China, and the neoliberals, Russia, when a close examination of America's on-going imperialism and a unequal capitalist system, is the root of the unrest across the country.

When you have endemic racism, an economic system that only rewards the rich, combined with a buffoon president, I'm not surprised by the protests, and believe it will only get worse, before it gets better.

Anti-War = Russian Asset?

I remember protesting the Vietnam War as young kid with my girlfriend, in my hometown of Denver, Colorado. Over our kitchen table, my father would hold court, and my friends from high school and adult neighbours, would debate the Nixon administration and the war in South east Asia. The pro-war side of the debate consisted of the evils of the spread of communism, and protecting democracy for the world. Even then, I didn't believe this, because the war was so far away. Later the Pentagon Papers was released, revealing like the Afghanistan Papers 40 years later, that we knew we could never win this war, and generally the military didn't have a clue as to what they were doing there in the first place.

After 9/11, the US government raged war across the middle east to battle against “terrorism”. We bought these lies hook line and sinker, because we later discover, that this was the 'cover story' for the corporate class, that these military excursions were in fact, resource acquiring exercises, mainly oil, and an effort to gain dominance in the area. Have we learned anything from these lies from our governments? Even after the publication of the Afghanistan Papers this year, there wasn't a peep from the MSM, and only a few left wing sites, had the courage to write about these revelations, and now months later, the papers are all but forgotten.

When Obama took office, we were involved in two wars, when he left office, we are in seven wars, across the globe. That said, we have become so efficient at war, that allied deaths are at a irreducible minimum, while foreign deaths, most of which are children, are numbered in the millions. This is simply international criminality, and wars of aggression, that defies international law. These wars also defy the US Constitution, but there is never a single protest from the people. Why?

As a people, we have been systematically desensitised from the horrors of America's military exploits over seas. If we are not out-right lied to, as is the case many times, but propagandised into believing that the countries we are invading are horrible countries run by ruthless dictators. To name a few, Qaddafi of Libya, Hussein of Iraq, and Assad of Syria. If you take the time to study these countries and their respective leader, will often discover, that these leaders may have had their terrible times of leadership, but are basically, like Qaddafi for example, did more good for his people than not. What the US does is spread propaganda about a foreign government, aided by the MSM, to justify invasion of that said country. When those who understand the situation, avoiding the propaganda, are labelled traitors, unpatriotic or Russia assets.

The most egregious campaign to justify war, and attempt to destroy a US president, was Russia-gate. As it turns out, it was all a lie, and the vast majority of people fell for it, because I guess, their hatred of Donald Trump. Indeed, in my anti-war stance, have been called “Putin's puppet” or a Russian asset. Even on the face of it, the entire Russia propaganda campaign was absurd. I mention this to illustrate that propaganda works, and the masses will fall for it in the name of patriotism, white exceptionalism or basically pro-war.

When the pro-war Hillary Clinton, essentially called vet and presidential candidate, Tulsi Gabbard, a groomed Russian asset, I knew American politics had moved into the area of the absurd. Unfortunately but true, millions of people support Clinton, despite her record, would believe this ridiculous accusation. This proved to me how propagandised people truly are, when it comes to criminal political icons, and the lies to justify war.

As an American general, Smedley Butler once said, 'war is a racket', revealing big business has been pushing war for profit since the beginning of the 20^th century, we should listen.

The propaganda supporting war appears to be losing its teeth these days.

Let's hope so, for the planet.

To wear a mask or not to wear a mask, that...

As a general rule, most people do not like being told what to do, particularly from their respective governments. When Covid 19 presented itself on the world stage, people had a hard time excepting going into lock down, social distancing, ordered not to go back to work, (understandable) and in many cases, wearing a mask. In Australia, we followed orders, once realising how hard Italy was hit with the virus. As a result, I believe, as a country, we have dodged a major bullet. However, in other countries like the US and Brazil, for example, the lack of a swift response has been devastating, as their respective death tolls are the largest on the planet.

In the US, wearing a mask while in public, was of the utmost importance, but many people seemed to ignore the rule, and carried-on as if the virus wouldn't effect them. This resulted in many people, particularly people of colour, to be violently taken down and carried away to the clink. The great irony, though, was the US president refused to wear a mask as well. Certainly a beacon of light for Trump's base, they followed the president's example. But this begs the question, why wouldn't the president and vice president wear a mask during a pandemic? Both men had their reasons, and both different ones.

For Trump, his refusal to wear a mask was purely out of vanity. The Trump administration is all about optics, and Trump, the proven narcissist that he is, thought it would be perceived as weak, and dare I say, unmanly. This is, of course, childish, and transparent, but isn't it important as a leader to set an example for their followers? Lately, Trump has been photographed wearing a mask, and sources have reported, that he became livid at the press for publishing the pictures. Many people outside of the US, find Trump to be a conceited buffoon, so not surprised at this immature behaviour.

The VP, however, I believe, wouldn't wear a mask for different reasons. As a died in the wool Christian fundamentalist, he believes solely in the power of God's Will, guiding the world toward the Rapture. Pence's thinking would be, well, if God wills me to become ill, it is certainly His Will. Therefore, I don't need to wear a mask. God aside, this is unreasonable thinking, as wearing a mask is for a particular reason.

You see, wearing a mask during a pandemic, is not only to protect the wearer from illness, but to protect others you may come in contact with if you have the virus. By wearing a mask, you are protecting people you surround yourself with or pass along the street. The mask is for others and not necessarily yourself. Wearing a medical mask goes both ways. So to see two leader's of the so-called “free world” not take basic health advice because of vanity or religious belief, is truly astonishing.

What is even more astonishing, is to see people around the US defying social distancing, and doing it in a big way. They're not only not wearing masks, but gathering like primitive tribes' people, ignoring the health warnings, despite being the country with the highest death toll of Covid 19 in the world.

To wear a mask or not wear a mask, that is the question...advice: WEAR A MASK.

George Orwell – Facing Unpleasant Facts – Review

This collection of Orwell's essays are his best, including the War-time Diary, Looking Back on the Civil War and his famous, Why I Write. Many of these essays I had read years ago, but coming back to them, only re-established the fact, that Orwell is truly the 20^th century master of the narrative essay.

I was reminded of Orwell's plainspoken style, minimalist, sparse prose, yet able to illustrate complex subjects, and combine political narrative with the immediacy and descriptive flair of a fictional piece, placing the reader in the narrative itself. To risk cliché, reading an Orwell essay is educational, informative and entertaining, all at once.

Shooting an Elephant, (1937) tells the experience of the young Eric Blair (Orwell) stationed in Burma as a British colonial policeman. In that area of the world, the elephant is the 'beast of burden', though at the same time, is a revered animal. In this piece we can perceive Orwell's growing disgust as a white, colonial representative, whose duty it is to maintain order and rule over, the indigenous people. Although he tried to relate to the Burmese as human beings, he knew they despised him and his presence there.

On this day, he receives reports that an elephant has gone rogue, insane, and is attacking the people and destroying property. When an elephant moves into this state of mind, the only solution is to take them down. Orwell describes his hesitancy, because when he finally catches up to the animal, it appears settled and somewhat docile. But a large crowd has gathered, all expecting him to kill the beast. He feels the pressure from the people to shoot, but at the same time, the elephant appears normal. Finally he relents to the crowds wishes, due to pride, maintaining his authority as a British policeman, in their eyes, and shoots...Orwell takes a few pages describing the slow death of this noble animal. It was heart wrenching. This could have been the deciding moment when Orwell realised his job as a colonial policeman was against his nature, and finally resigned.

After this experience Orwell returned back to England, where his fight for the working class began. It was at this time, that he wrote Down and Out in Paris and London. (1933) Later he became a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War. In the essay, Looking Back at the Spanish War, (1942?) we see Orwell's style come to life, combining first person experience with political discourse. We see Orwell's Socialist sensibilities described while fighting the fascists in Spain. This essay should be a example for all war correspondents, now and in the future, because the reader feels as though he/she is actually in the fighting, while gaining a greater understanding, politically, of what the conflict was all about.

In How the Poor Die, (1946) Orwell, terribly sick from tuberculosis, enters a hospital for the poor and forgotten. It took me a while to read through the entire text because of the conditions, the sick, and how the poor are treated as opposed to, let's say, a middle class hospital. But this was Orwell's point – we are all human beings, and deserve health care, no matter our economic status in society.

Overall, this entire collection of essays, provides the reader with many insights into war, politics, sociology, English cooking, pubs, used bookstores, tea-making, and writing.

If you have never read George Orwell, this collection would be a good starting point, because above his fiction, 1984, Animal Farm, all genius, we have his essays, that any reader will tell you, are just as relevant today as they were 70 years ago.

Healing after Bernie

As a self-declared democratic socialist and an over-seas supporter of Bernie Sanders, when he decided to drop out of the 2020 democratic primary without any fight, the disappointment was painfully visceral.

In 2016, when he dropped out and supported Hillary Clinton, personally, I didn't follow American politics until the day of the general election. After the disastrous last term of Obama, that is punishing whistle blowers, killing US citizens overseas, supporting NAFTA, and bailing out the banks during the 2008 recession, while permitting millions of U.S. citizens to lose their homes, I thought Clinton could win against Trump by a small margin. Well as they say, the rest is history. If Bernie Sanders wasn't cheated, however, would he have won by running third party?

Speculative certainly, but he had already answered this question to author and activist, Chris Hedges in 2016. When asked, Bernie responded: No, I don't want to end up like Ralph Nader. For those younger readers, Nader was a consumer advocate, and ran for president in the 70's. In fact, the activist didn't do that badly in the election, but the DC establishment turned on him, he became a pariah, ignored by the main stream press, and was exiled into obscurity. Bernie knew that same thing would happen to him. He would eventually lose his senate seat, and the establishment/media would turn against him, and he too, would become a mere footnote in American political history.

Many have asked the question as to whether this was the correct decision. For certain, the DNC is a powerful political machine, a pro-corporate-war machine, and whose resources are deep and endless. In the end, Bernie didn't want to take the chance, and desired to remain in politics as a senator, and push his social policies. All fair and good, however, since dropping out of the 2020 race, he has lost credibility in many progressive camps. We don't find him as a man of conviction anymore, but just another DC politician on the take, and brown nosing the military industrial complex.

The reality of Bernie is he began a powerful movement, and this movement is growing not only in the United States but around the planet. This is a movement for the people against corporate America, where the people are considered secondary to corporate profit. This is a movement who recognises we are in a ecocide situation with climate change, and urgently need to change our fossil fuel habits. A movement that understands the power must be returned to the people, before the oligarchy manages to destroy everything.

Our problem was/is that to put all our eggs in a single “saviour basket”; depending on one individual to save us, is at best, infantile. Bernie started a popular “left” movement, and we should continue to protest at home, be vigilant, and push these positive policies in every aspect of our lives.

Sure, many of us who believed Bernie was the man to bring these changes is disappointed. But after grappling with what American politics actually is, a corporate reality show, we simply need to organise on a grassroots level again...and never give up the fight.

Narcissism, Fools & Stoicism: 2008 BLOG.

It has been said that our modern society is much more complex than, let say, one hundred years ago. I recall as a young lad of five years of age, laying in my small cot in my grandparent’s bedroom, and waking to the sound of horse’s hooves against the paved road outside the house. This was the local milkman delivering the morning’s milk to the homes in our small suburb of Surrey Hills.

The clanging crystal as he placed the bottles in the various boxes, the sound of hooves’ against the road and the voice in the dark whispering in a loud cadence:

“Common boy, we’re almost done… just a few more houses and it’s back home.”

Perhaps revealing too much, this was a touch more than forty five years ago. The one aspect of my memory of that time was the quietness; there were no freeways and there was only the occasional sound of the ‘red rattlers’, the passenger trains’ travelling to the city. Forty five years later, the noise pollution is relentlessly constant, the sound of rumbling traffic along the roads and freeways; planes, police helicopters and passenger jets flying overhead has become the norm in our day to day lives, and we put up with it, we’ve seemingly ‘adapted’.

This may be a sentimental illusion, a fantasy of the aged, but there appears to be more chaos and people around than ever before.

One’s line of work, of course, has much to do with the amount of contact you have with people. As a high school teacher, for example, my contact with people is part of the profession, dealing with young adults in the hundreds on a daily bases is part of the job. Interaction with fellow staff members also constitutes a large part of the day and learning to ‘get along’ is a necessary ingredient in order for production and harmony to sustain at an acceptable level for all concerned.

Dealings with people covers all aspects of life from the grocery clerk to the bank teller, the electrician to the landlord to the mother-in-law and particularly one’s spouse. We are required to all get along and we have set up tacit rules in society to ensure we can live together in relative harmony. However, when one meets someone who does not follow these tacit rules or seems to simply not care, thinking only of themselves, how do we respond?

I remember a particular person who could not and would not ever listen but would only contribute to a group conversation about himself. One afternoon after the students had all left the school and hopefully gone home, a few of us remained and began talking about the day. If you are not a teacher, this habit of talking about our day to our fellow teachers is part of our tacit job description, however, no Graduate Diploma of Education or an MA in Education can or will teach you this aspect – it is a necessary part of the job and has been for many, many years.

We began talking about a student with troubles at home and at school – we were all concerned.

Out of the blue, he walked into the room, hearing the subject of conversation and began telling us how to deal with this poor young lady. (Later I discovered he did not teach her). Seamlessly, he turned the topic of conversation towards his personal life, why he thought buying a mammoth four-wheel drive was justified and how stressed he had become about his next holiday in Greece. As professionals, we listened and nodded our heads, smiled and tried to look concerned about the petrol guzzling tank he was about to purchase. He whisked out of the room happy, it seemed, because all our attention had been on him and his life.

This behaviour leaked into his teaching, but somehow, some students went with his flow and managed to achieve the outcomes intended.

I guess it all came to a climax one day when, as his boss, I intervened on his Home Group to sort out a Year 7 cat fight. (Year 7 girls can be a handful)

Once he caught wind of this, he yelled and screamed at one of the SSO staff (Teachers Aids) while I had been in the room and stormed off, slamming the door to the teachers lounge. (In front of two Year 12 students).

Rather than talking with me about the problem with the children, he took my intervention as a personal attack on his “turf” or “self” and decided I was incompetent.

How do you deal with a person of such narcissist tendencies?

Well it only got worse as he attempted to turn the staff against me and visit the managers, telling little tales of my so-called failures. What he did not know was that the bosses were and are aware of this individual and did not believe a word he uttered, particularly about me.

Although stressed about this person, my main concern has always been the children.

It is hard enough working with under-privileged kids and lost souls, but to also deal with a self-absorbed fellow worker who, in fact, is trying to destroy you, only adds to the stress.

My response:

It was the Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius, probably the most famous of Stoic philosophers, who wrote the following practical advice:

"Begin each day by saying to yourself, "Today I shall meet people who are interfering, ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, and selfish." They are made this way because of their ignorance of what is good and evil...but I, who have seen the nature of good and beauty, and of evil and its ugliness, know that the inner nature of the man who does evil is the same as mine, therefore I can't be harmed by any of these men, for no one can impose on me what is degrading."

In other terms, expect the worst in people, and you'll never be disappointed, and their actions will not affect you, because their nature is the same as your own.

Enough said.

Education & Covid 19

There is an argument among certain circles, that education on line, since the pandemic, is the way of the future for education. It seems, over the last 10 years, that on-line education at the university level has been a success: listen to the lectures, on-line tutorials, and assignments can all be achieved without one-to-one-personal contact between student and teacher. This could well be true at a tertiary level. For primary-secondary levels, on-line education would be a disaster for many reasons.

We have known for a long time, since at least the 19^th century, that physical/social interaction is necessary for human development. Many recent studies have shown that home-schooled students, though academically equivalent, fall short on basic social skills, such as one to one communication, behaving in a group dynamic, and emotional maturity. Human contact, not simply “virtual” contact, is an integral aspect of the basic learning curve for human beings. At the tertiary level, it is expected that we have learned these basic human skills, therefore, specifically learning on-line can be just as worthwhile as living on campus, attending lectures, and visiting a 'bricks and mortar' library.

On the primary-secondary levels, the physical contact between teacher and student is of absolute importance for a variety of reasons. Because of under-funding for public schools particularly, the single teacher with a 100 students, for example, is forced to wear many hats beyond their basic job description. Teachers are educators, social workers, councillors, outreach workers, case managers, washers and food providers.

Back in 2005, I remember having to play all these roles throughout a single school year. In fact, because our school was so severely under-funded, as an English coordinator, teaching time dropped to 30%, while my role a social worker rose to just under 60%. One of my teachers, because she became so distraught that her students were falling asleep in her class, began a breakfast club, donations from the faculty, and after a few weeks, the students remained conscious to learn her lessons. You can ask any teacher working in a lower income school, and they will all have similar stories.

In this case, for many schools, it all comes down to funding.

With adequate funding, our school would have had a full-time social worker, councillor, and case managers to deal with the inevitable problems that arise with individual students under these circumstances. What government under-funding has achieved, is a broken system, where teachers are not only under-paid but over-worked, simply attempting to create an environment where teaching and learning can take place.

In the end, it is the individual students who suffer, but on a macro scale, it is general education that fails, where we are pumping out children without the basic educational levels to succeed in our world.

For those who propose that on-line education for the lower levels is the way of the future, are those people who are lying to themselves or have another agenda in mind.

For many, teaching is a vocation, and like nursing and many of the arts, it is a committed passion. These are the people we need to educate our young.

My advice is the western governments of the planet need to realise these facts, and ensure tax payer dollars go into public education.

To repeat: on-line education for the lower levels would be a disaster, and any person pushing this idea, doesn't have a clue, or has nefarious motives in mind.

Teacher Log – 2002

It was August, 2001, and I was fortunate to land a position in a little primary school in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. My assignment was to take over a Year 2 class of 20 students, as their regular teacher was running off to Hong Kong to get married. This gig would last the entire semester, ending a week before Christmas. I met with the home teacher, and she passed over the lesson plans for the remainder of the year.

Any teacher will tell you, as far as productive learning is concerned, the year level is key. During my career, I've taught all grades from 1-12, and have found the younger students and older one's, both ends of the spectrum, are the best. This year 2 class was a pleasure to teach. The semester really ended without a hitch. Except, of course, the morning after 9/11.

After the world witnessed the planes crash into the Twin towers, we realised our lives would never be the same. The morning after, I walked into the school depressed, and wondering how my class was going to respond. The children were devastated. We had a school assembly, and a separate one for the lower grades. I was too devastated to run the meeting, but Ms. Kirkpatrick, a smart and pretty, young teacher, handled the meeting well. Honestly, I don't remember exactly what she said, but the students seemed to be settled for the moment.

I usually started the day with a maths lesson, but thought wise to give them construction paper and pencils, and let their creative minds flow, a kind of therapy, after seeing a traumatic event. This worked, as they went straight to task, drawing air-planes crashing into buildings and dead people falling from the skies. At first recess, I had yard duty, and my students all wanted to hold my hand, as I patrolled the playground. This reveals that 7 year old children can be very kind and caring.

Do you have family in New York, Mr. Middleton?

“No, Kayla, my kid's live in California, on the other side of the country.”

“That's good.” she said. As we walked by the swings, and the children waved at us and shouted, “Hey, Mr. Middleton!”

At the end of the year, I was given a bottle of wine from the principal, thanking me for my stay at his school. Despite outside circumstances, this semester was a success. I wanted to point this out because my next assignment in 2002, was in a inner city high school, teaching year 9 and 10. A drastically different experience.

This school was the end of the line for students with behavioural and academic problems. Many wealthy private schools would send their failures to us as a last resort. And, as I said, and many teachers will tell you, year 9 and 10 can be the most difficult to teach. In this case, the teaching and learning situation is problematic – a problem on steroids.

From the beginning, in a certain year 10 class, my problems started with a particular student, who I will call, Caroline.

Caroline had a rough childhood and a terrible record. She came from a single parent home, and recently was busted for a small drug charge. That said, she was very popular in the school, as she looked like a woman in her early 20's; pretty, though jagged around the edges and, above all, street smart.

At first we seemed to get off on the right foot. She read the text we were studying, and was not too disruptive in class. After a few weeks, now that the students knew how far they could take me, her behaviour changed.

The boy's in class would fall all over her with adolescent acts to impress: throwing paper at her from across the room, yelling out obscenities, and passing her notes right in front of me. She enjoyed the attention. I would discipline the boy's with detention, but these actions would work for a few days, and the old behaviour would return. By the third week into the semester, Caroline's behaviour became bizarre.

Rather than sitting in the middle row desk, close to the back, Caroline decides to sit in front of the class . On that day, while writing on the board, and attempting to teach a lesson, looking back of the class, Caroline had her legs spread, no underwear, smiling at me with a grimace of insanity. I pretended not to notice, but she knew what she intended me to see. When the bell rang, I would make this class line up, and leave the classroom in a civil manner. (it would be mayhem if left to themselves) Standing in front of the door, Caroline brushed passed me, rubbing her breasts against my chest. She then laughed, and ran passed the rest of the students. This kind of thing had never happened before. Sure, of course, the occasional “teacher's crush”, but never anything like this blatant behaviour.

I walked into my office and immediately wrote a report on the incident. This type of situation, if not handled at once, could end my career, my life. I handed the report to the principal's secretary. Driving home, I blasted the radio, trying to come to grips with what occurred, going over my report in my mind, hoping it was accurate.

After a glass of wine, I told my wife, and she seemed not surprised. “You did the right thing. You have nothing to worry about.” she said.

The next morning after a few meetings with the top brass, Caroline was transferred out of my class. But the background story for me, answered my questions.

As it turns out, Caroline's mother was a heroine addict, and recently had fallen from a two year bout of being clean. Imagine walking into your house after school to see your mother back on the stuff? The girl was calling out for help as only some teenagers can. From this incident, Caroline was put into the system. Well, as a 16 year old, this wouldn't last long. She later quit school, and I never saw her again.

I could rant on about a system that is flawed, and a flawed government, who only takes care of their own. But in the end, this doesn't matter.

It's what we can do, one person at a time.

Socialism for the Rich but no, Never the Poor

It continues to be perplexing that many people still have a wrong view of what socialism actually is about. Many people, particularly Americans, equate this political and economic system with totalitarianism, where people are the slaves to their government, and their “individuality” is snubbed out by the ruling elites. Right wing pundits used to refer to Venezuela as the prime example of socialism's failings. These people have been seriously brainwashed, and refuse to look outside the propaganda bubble presented by the main stream media.

Venezuela is for the most part, a democratic socialist country. This means their taxes are used for social programs, such as universal health care, education, and the military. The reason this country is failing economically, is barbaric international sanctions, led by the U.S. preventing the country from openly trading in the world's markets.

In fact, Australia is run, generally, by a form of democratic socialism, yet since the 1990's, the right wing government has been selling off our public assets, like transportation, water supply and sectors of education.

It is ridiculous to see certain U.S. Officials, claim that Venezuela, a democratic socialist country, must be invaded, so it can be “saved” by democracy....when the U.S. people has been suffering so, from Covid 19, because their government prefers to enact socialism for the 1%; a $4.7 trillion bailout, while leaving the population to essentially starve. This is socialism for the rich, and austerity-capitalism for the poor. It's nonsense.

Socialism basically means that the people own the means of production. The company's shares are owned by it workers and not shareholders. In this system, the “free-market” continues to exist, competing in the market place, but it's workers are in charge of the profits. In this system the workers come first, as the workers are the company's central asset.

During a pandemic, for example, in a socialist system, there would be no firings, but temporary furloughs, and the workers would continue to be paid a living wage. In a capitalist system, run by corporations and their shareholders, during a crisis, the shareholders would be paid, and the workers laid off. This is exactly what is happening in the U.S... the workers are fired while the shareholders are paid.

The United States of Corporation has done basically the same thing. A socialist bail out for the corporations and Wall Street, leaving the working class to fend for itself, during a pandemic no less. This is not the way a government should treat its citizens, socialism for the wealthy and capitalism for the people. We pay taxes for a reason, and it's certainly not to see the money go to the rich.

This is possibly an over simplification of the current situation, but simply watching where the $ flows, the fact that the rich are practising socialism for themselves, and rugged capitalism for the workers, it's woefully apparent. This gangsterism must stop.

Thoughts' on Jeffrey Epstein (P.2)

One of central characters in this pathetic true story of global perversion, is a woman by the name of Ghislaine Maxwell. She is the daughter of British publisher and Mossad asset, Robert Maxwell. In UK high society, the Maxwell's were connected with the Royal family. According to the Farmer recordings with journalist, Whitney Webb, Ghislaine showed her photographs from her personal album, depicting Ghislaine as a young girl, hanging with the Royals'. She met Jeffrey Epstein sometime in the early 80's in New York. From there the dire perversions began, sex-trafficking little girls for the pleasure of the elite, and the subsequent blackmailing scheme.

Maxwell was essentially Epstein's pimp, recruiting young girls with promises of a successful modelling career. This ruse worked, because as Farmer stated, the throng of school girls in and out of Epstein's apartment, was as much as five at a time, similar to a movie agents casting office. Farmer also stated,that on one of these afternoon recruiting missions, Farmer, Maxwell and Trump's ex-wife, Ivana Trump, parked next to a girl's private school, and approached young, pretty students to recruit them. This was in the mid-90's while Ivana was still married to the Donald.

It is an open secret that Ghislaine's connections to the powerful in Washington DC runs wide and deep. On Epstein's private jet, dubbed the Lolita Express, per flight logs, Bill Clinton was on the jet upwards of 26 times, and his wife Hillary, at least twice. In Epstein's infamous “little black book”, evidently reads like a who's who of politicians, royalty, billionaires and Hollywood elites. What this reveals, horrifically, is that these upper class ass-holes are, for the most part, paedophiles and molesters. Could this be the reason Jeffrey Epstein “committed suicide”, the day before certain sealed files were about to be released by the courts?

Since Epstein's death, the courts have decided not to pursue the matter. This exposes that the conspiracy runs even into the court system, denying justice for the few victims that have come forward. In fact, Epstein's death could not have come at a better time.

Elites like Les Wexner, and Ghislaine Maxwell, who were active in this global sex trafficking ring, remain free of prosecution, and to date, no indictments have been issued, despite evidence as to their guilt. What does this say about the current justice system? It says that pursuing the powerful and the wealthy is not something the current justice system is prepared to do. These wealthy creeps, because of their status and influence, can run their large scale paedophile rings, and who knows what other illegal activities, and escape punishment.

One form of justice for the poor, and another for the wealthy.

In these last two blog entries, I have left out piles of information and certain specifics in terms of names. What I wanted to do was hit on the topic and express my contempt for our current justice system. In Australia, for example, the high courts dismissed Cardinal George Pell's findings of paedophilia without giving much of an explanation on their ruling. Fortunately now, however, they're going after him for “turning a blind eye” to hundreds of of priest allegations, by simply just moving them around from one parish to another.

The Epstein case should never be allowed to disappear. There are at least 30 women who have come forward about Epstein and Maxwell, yet it's being thwarted in the courts. MSM can not be counted on to do anything, as they are just mouthpieces for these scum. The perversion runs all the way to the top.

For many people, the reality that our government is involved in such a putrid enterprise is too much to bare. “It can't be true, because this is America.” You know, that kind of seeing the world through 'rose coloured glasses' type of thing. But this has seized to be a mere “conspiracy theory”, and the facts are sitting right in front of us.

My hat goes off to the women who have come forward, despite personal danger, and the public mocking from the media.

This is a story that should never lose the light of day.

Thoughts' on Jeffrey Epstein (P.1)

I've seriously been looking into the Epstein case since reading Whitney Webb's comprehensive series in Mint Press News. (I'll list the link below) After reading these articles, more information has come to light. This information came in the form of a phone call to Ms. Webb from a ex-Epstein/Maxwell employee, Maria Farmer, exploding the story on so many levels. (There is a recording of this call, listed below). The Farmer recording not only confirms Webb's work, but adds to the many elite connections, including Clinton, Bill Gates and Donald Trump. And it only gets worse.

If you're not familiar with Epstein, he is a convicted sex trafficker and paedophile. He was convicted in 2008 on sex trafficking charges, and given a reduced sentence, a sweetheart deal, from Trump appointee, U.S. Labour secretary, Alex Acosta, who later resigned because of criticism concerning this “sweetheart deal” in 2019, when Epstein was arrested.

In a high security New York prison, where Epstein had been held, in July 2019,“committed suicide” in his cell. This was the story given by MSM, when the suicide has been highly contested by many. For certain, the convicted paedophile did not commit suicide, as he wore only a paper uniform, as the post-death findings revealed, this could not be possible. He was also under recorded video surveillance. However the recordings have been “lost”, and the guards claim they were “on-line shopping”, during the alleged death. The only people to be charged in this breach of security are the guards. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together, can see this is a major cover up. Why the cover-up?

When you read Webb's investigations, the sex trafficking ring(s) go far back as the 1940's, including the CIA, FBI, Mossad (Israeli Intelligence) and the American mob. I believe, as Webb suggests, had a many pronged purpose: blackmail, sex for the powerful, and also included political gun-running and drugs. It served as a black budget for these agencies, and leverage over the powerful. It is well known that J. Edgar Hoover had extensive files on just about anyone he could leverage. This is historical fact. So it stands to reason that these agencies would continue this practice to ensure dominance on the world stage.

Epstein and his handler, Les Wexner, billionaire and founder of Victoria's Secret, managed a vast network of young women and children, servicing the elite. Many have wondered where Epstein received his millions; well, many believe, that he was financed by Wexner and certain intelligence agencies, to service and blackmail the powerful.

What is truly disturbing, since the Maria Farmer revelations, is the collusion of the FBI and Epstein/Wexner operations. Farmer came to the FBI with proof of sexual abuse of her and her sister, and was systematically ignored. Major news organisations have been aware of the Epstein operation, and the connection to many of the powerful around the world, yet have refused to report the story. This reveals to me, at least, and to many, that MSM is owned by the powerful, and as messengers of the powerful, cannot do real news. How far does this perversion go?

End of P.1.

Webb, Whitney: https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/

Epstein Victim Maria Farmer Speaks With Whitney Webb, Full Phone Call - Part 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGtDj8drWvE&t=109s

Notes from the Bunker (P. 3 of 3)

The realities of lock-down during this pandemic has affected many people in different ways. Personally, my trip to the grocery store today, lifted my spirits, noticing that merely being around people, has become a major event. This little bright spot, however, has not decreased my cynicism about the planet in general. Governments continue to lie, and war remains good business.

When I watched the U.S Secretary of State yesterday, spouting on and on about the evils of Venezuela, demanding the U.S., invade to re-establish “democracy”, turned my stomach. Everything out of this man's mouth was a deliberate lie. President Maduro is not a drug lord, and indeed he won the presidency with 80% of the vote. As many informed people understand, Venezuela is an oil rich country, one of the richest in the world. Pompeo is a self-declared liar along with the rest of the Trump administration. This sword rattling, claiming to want “democracy” in Venezuela, is utter propaganda. To be sure, many people on social media compared this dishonest ramblings to Bush's claim of WMD's in Iraq. The invasion of Iraq was purely a economic exercise, where millions of innocents died; where many elites, made millions, including Vice President Cheney. I guess there are a few people out there who've woken up to this war propaganda, but truly not near enough.

What we see happening in the U.S. in response to Covid 19, has been revealing on many levels. It has been revealed that the government does not care for its citizens. First a denial of the virus, then chattering clap-trap that it was under control; blaming the Chinese, and a stimulus package of 4 trillion, given to the banks and corporations while the working class got basically nothing. The United States is the only developed country without universal health care. The U.S. people can literally not afford to get sick. If they do, they lose their jobs and insurance, and left flapping in the wind with no support. The world is watching this transpire, and really, it's unacceptable for the wealthiest country on the planet.

In Australia, the federal and state governments seem to have responded, in a productive manner, to Covid 19. All of us followed the lock-down and social distancing orders. We have universal health care, and have been given $ in our bank accounts to weather the storm. Like the rest of the planet, the population is biting at the bit to go back to work and the beach. The only “hiccup” is the tracing app that the government requires us to download on our smart phones. When this was introduced, there was enough of a blow-back, that the government made the app voluntary – and that's fine with me. As discussed in p2 of this blog, a tracing app is another form of control, and a flagrant breach of our privacy rights. I find it unbelievable that at least 9 million people has chosen to down load the app. That said, many people trust our government, while many of us simply do not. Too many lies, financial rorts, and parliamentary backstabbing. But maybe, that's just me.

The United States of Corporation's main economic driving force is based on War. Since WWII, at least, it has been a war-based economy. For the sake of the planet this must change. A discussion for another time.

Stay safe.